Thread: Muslim Anger targets Mozart

All I can say is this stupidity has to stop.

CNN.com - Muslim anger fear halts opera - Sep 27, 2006

Excert:

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- A leading opera house called off a production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" that features the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed, setting off a furious debate Tuesday over Islam, freedom of speech and the role of art.


The furor is the latest in Europe over religious sensitivities -- following cartoons of the prophet first published in a Danish newspaper and recent remarks by Pope Benedict XVI decrying holy war.


Kirsten Harms, director of Berlin's Deutsche Oper, announced "with great regret" that she had decided to cancel the three year old production after state security officials warned it could provoke dangerous reactions in the current politically charged climate.

/sarcasim on
How dare you Mozart!
/sarcasim off

If we start canceling Opera because of fear of Muslims, what's next? What other part of life are people going to cancel because obviously, terrorists and their fear are starting to win?

Damn that man!! DAMN HIM!!!!!!!!!!

The leader of Germany's Islamic Council welcomed the move, saying a depiction of Mohammed with a severed head "could certainly offend Muslims."

Same folks said this:

It was a general statement, but cited specific incidents -- namely, the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States and the 11 March Madrid train bombings.

The statement reads in part: "Whoever perpetrates such bloody acts will find no justification in Islam. Islam forbids murder, hostage taking, anarchy, and terror."

Sometimes, Hoffman said, the public complaints are that Muslim leaders are slow to denounce terror. "You know, whenever something happens in the world in the name of Islam, the Western public always urges Muslims to condemn it," he said. "And ever since Rushdie, the Islamic associations in Germany have done it. And sometimes they didn't do it right away because they thought that everybody knew that they condemn terrorism."

Ahh but just in case you werent sure about their opinion of a violent opera they send cronies out to the press a. s. a. fuckin p.

This is nuts. The same opera has the heads of many historical leaders, and it is artistic expression that is centuries old.

They are taking it too far. It's really a shame.

How dare Osama
Ugly and scrawny
Reject the author of
Don Giovanni
One wonders
How big a row
They'd create over
Figaro?

And the more we bend over for them, the more they'll demand.