Posted on 11/25/2004 8:40:04 AM PST by RepCath
No matter that the bard was white, Christian and has been dead for nearly 400 years -- this week he is at the center of Muslim Awareness Week, a bid to highlight the contribution Britain's 1.8 million Muslims have made to society.
As part of the campaign, colorful images of Islamic culture are being projected on to the outer walls of The Globe, the open air Shakespearean theatre on the banks of the River Thames.
The theatre, a replica of an Elizabethan playhouse, will host an Arabic souk and a reading of a rare version of "Othello," Shakespeare's great tragedy about a Moorish nobleman who fights for Christian Venice.
"Shakespeare's plays are not about good versus evil, not about a world in which you are either 'with us or against us,"' said Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, a Muslim scholar who is lecturing on Shakespeare and Islam at The Globe this week.
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"Shakespeare's plays are not about good versus evil, not about a world in which you are either 'with us or against us,"' said Shaykh Hamza Yusuf...
What is he saying? Sounds to me like he's admitting his side is evil.
Next week: Tall People Awareness Week to highlight the contributions tall people have made to society.
The corpse still looks lively but England really is dead.
It's been years since I saw the play performed, but I seem to recall Othello's final lines describing how he killed a Muslim who was abusing another Christian.
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