A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women come

Associated Press ^ | May 3, 2008 | DONNA ABU-NASR

[proxy_user]

I am not touching that headline with a ten-foot keyboard!

[decimon]

I am not touching that headline with a ten-foot keyboard!

Another editor loses his job and possibly his head.

[proxy_user]

Well, Mozart’s music was considered very exciting at the time.

[Othniel]

Baby steps, pal. Baby Steps. The sooner these bastards see that men and women can be under the same roof, at the same time, doing the same thing, and not have the men go berserk ("Duuuh.....Hay, itsa WOMAN!") and attack anything in a dress (since that's what's been pounded into their heads since day one), the sooner people will see that their government, shaira law, and all that other stuff is a sham.

[RichInOC]

A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women come

Maybe for the Saudis, but almost certainly not for the Austrians.

[cue Tom Hulce doing that maniacal laugh]

[tsmith130]

I’m glad you said it. I sat here with a blank posting screen for a while, then decided “nah...don’t do it.”

[Ann Archy]

Music soothes the savage beast (breast).

Way to go, Saudis!! They are now up to the 19th century.

[stravinskyrules]

Mozart?!

The next thing you know they'll be fornicating and eating Pop Tarts.

[VOA]

The sooner these bastards see that men and women can be under the
same roof, at the same time, doing the same thing, and not have
the men go berserk ("Duuuh.....Hay, its a WOMAN!") and attack anything
in a dress

Recently I attended a gymnastics meet that my young niece was
participating in.
During a lull in the competitions, it hit me "This could never
happen in an Islamic country..."

Too bad her school teachers don't have the wits (guts) to point
out to her and her schoolmates what else they'll lose if we
end up settling for dhimmitude.

[purpleraine]

I used to prefer Sade or Anita Baker.

[dfwgator]

Too bad Falco isn't still alive.

[Enchante]

your dirty mind....... :^)

We’re talking Mozart, not Elvis or the Beatles (did you ever hear the volume of female shrieking for the Beatles?)

[lesser_satan]

Mozart performed publicly and women come

I guess I'll be downloading some Mozart to play in the bedroom.

[uglybiker]

The next thing you know they'll be fornicating and eating Pop Tarts.

At the same time!

Oh, the horror!

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[mountainbunny]

A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women come

Rock Me Amadeus?

[vladimir998]

“...held on the sidelines of Riyadh’s book fair.”

Even the book fair is huge news since the entire Arab speaking world has translated fewer books in 1400 years than Spain translates each and every year!

“The number of books translated in the Arab world is one fifth of the number translated in Greece. The aggregate total of translated books from the Al-Ma’moonera to the present day amounts to 10,000 books - equivalent to what Spain translates in a single year. This disparity was revealed in the first half of the 1980s when the average number of books translated per 1 million people in the Arab world during the 5-year period was 4.4(less than one book for every million Arabs), while in Hungary it was 519, and in Spain 920.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/byrne2.pdf

No wonder these people are clueless and backward.

[Misterioso]

"The concert is a sign that things are changing rapidly here," said German Ambassador Juergen Krieghoff, whose embassy sponsored the concert as part of the first-ever German Cultural Weeks in Saudi Arabia.

When things are changing rapidly you don't need a "sign." AP propaganda written by a reporter with a curious name.