{"id":1389,"date":"2009-02-18T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/to-tame-the-warring-soul\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:33:15","slug":"to-tame-the-warring-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/18\/to-tame-the-warring-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"To Tame The Warring Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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A New Role for Iraqi Militants: Patrons of the Arts<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Stephen Farrell\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

An art exhibition in Baghdad was sponsored by the movement of an anti-American cleric.<\/span><\/p>\n

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by\u00a0STEVEN LEE MYERS<\/a><\/p>\n

Published: February 13, 2009<\/p>\n

BAGHDAD \u2014 Two years ago the American authorities arrested Sheik Mazin al-Saedi, a senior aide to the anti-American cleric\u00a0Moktada al-Sadr<\/a>, accusing him of organizing kidnappings and killings.<\/p>\n

This week in Baghdad, the city once terrorized by those killings, Sheik Mazin mingled in a white-walled art gallery as the patron of an exhibition of paintings and sculptures that would not, exactly, be out of place in Chelsea or SoHo: abstract art, expressionist paintings and conceptual works larded with symbols of Iraq\u2019s ancient history and today\u2019s reality.<\/p>\n

The goal was \u201cto show the entire world that we are not as the media portrays us, a movement that believes only in bearing arms and knows no culture other than that of violence,\u201d Sheik Mazin said of Mr. Sadr\u2019s movement, which is widely blamed for its part in the violence that followed the American invasion in 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sadr movement,\u201d he said, \u201cis also one that believes in ideas and encourages and patronizes the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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