Opera boss censors Mozart over stage beheading of

[tecumseh]

...Muhammad


THE bloodstained King of Crete stumbles onstage and holds aloft the decapitated heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and the Prophet Muhammad. “The gods are dead!” he calls out to the audience.

"For fear of Muslim anger, the bosses of the world-renowned Deutsche Oper in Berlin have cancelled performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo. The decision has unleashed a storm of disapproval from politicians and writers, who claim that Germany has fatally compromised the freedom of expression."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2376967,00.html

[Keyser]

Yet another sad day for those (like myself) who yearn to see all religions and their 'prophets' confined to the dustbin of history.

I hope another opera house shows it, regardless of what the clerical fascists that make up the Islamist movement think.

After all, why should any sane and rational person listen to what they have to say, given they can only speak superstitous crap and wish to take us back to the middle ages, like any other religion would want to do.

[Zero]

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That is all.

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Anarchism [email protected] 3 2006, 02:33 AM
Yet another sad day for those (like myself) who yearn to see all religions and their 'prophets' confined to the dustbin of history.
TROT!

As for the issue at hand, when I first read about this I thought pretty much along AN's line. Only I swore a lot more.

[Dean]

Despite the divisive comments of others, I agree it should be shown. I'd love to see it, from what I've read. All this bullshit about being afraid of muslim anger is just xenophobic and it's making everything worse.