Danish Politician Contacts Police Over Art Exhibition Presenting Terrorists as Martyrs

An art exhibition scheduled to open in Copenhagen at the end of the month has come under fire for associating suicide bombers with the likes of Joan of Arc and Socrates, reports Le Figaro.
The exhibition, whose theme is martyrs throughout history, will feature images of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, one of the assailants at Paris's Bataclan concert hall. His inclusion, along with brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Barkraoui, who blew themselves up as part of the attacks in Belguim earlier this year, raised alarm with a local politician who decried the exhibition as “encouraging terrorism.” Contacting the police, Diego Gugliotta—a member of the ruling Venter party—also took his concern to Facebook writing, “Representing suicide bombers as heroes could encourage others to take the same path and join a terrorist organization.”
The exhibition's organizer, Ida Grarup Nielsen, a member of the artist collective The Other Eye of The Tiger, said the stories of these men would be told from their point of view. Each man is “the hero of his own story,” she told the press.
The Copenhagen theater where the exhibition is to be held is no stranger to controversy. In 2012 a troupe of local actors performed a play about the 2011 massacre at an Oslo youth camp carried out by Norwegian terrorist, Anders Breivik. The new exhibition is scheduled to open on May 26.