One of the exhibits in the Royal Scottish Academy’s student exhibition in Edinburgh is this obscenity: Mickey’s Taliban Adventures. (Hat tip: Bull.)

The Twin Towers work — based on the attack on New York by al-Qaeda hijackers on September 11, 2001 in which 2,752 people died — was made by Alan Bennie of the Edinburgh College of Art.

It shows the Disney figurehead flying a toy plane into cartoon-like foam models of the World Trade Centre, which have been given eyes to give them a surprised expression, as well as flames made of felt.

“I don’t think it’s a particularly shocking piece,” said Colin Greenslade, exhibitions co-ordinator for the Royal Scottish Academy.

“The Twin Towers have become an icon and everyone has their own feelings about it, whether they knew people who were involved or can just remember where they were when it happened,” he said.

“This is about making you think.”

Oh, it makes me think, all right. Right now I’m thinking about taking a baseball bat to this latest example of European “sophistication.”