UK Muslims use Shakespeare to boost image [ULTRA-BARFOLA]

CNNI ^ | November 25, 2004

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LONDON, England -- British Muslims have recruited William Shakespeare to give them an image makeover. 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.

"Shakespeare is part of our heritage," said Shafeeq Sadiq, national coordinator of Islamic Awareness Week. "His plays remind us of the global communities that we live in and the need for respect and goodwill."

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Images of Mulsim culture are being projected onto the Globe Theatre.

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Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

[KJC1]

[i]"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.

"Shakespeare refuses to indulge in those cartoon caricatures of right and wrong. His plays are too complex for that."[/i]

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Yusuf, flying planes into buildings, beheading people, and engaging in other murderous acts IS wrong. Nothing cartoonish about it. This not so subtle attempt to muddy the waters and bamboozle people into being more open-minded about evil acts is really quite repulsive, but not surprising.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble
--William Shakespeare Witches in Macbeth

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[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Coriolanus

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

--From Hamlet (I, iv, 90)

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"And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

--From King Richard III (I, iii, 336-338)

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"Off with his head!"

--From King Richard III (III, iv, 76)

[AF68]

Shakespeare fan club president Yasooq Madiq.

[CMOTB]

Muslim Shakespeare... Usama Bin Antony:
'I come to saw off a Christians head, not to praise him'.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Isn't that the star of "Osama and Juliet?"

[Kerfuffle]

Get back to us after you see a production of Othello.

[VOA]

"Shakespeare is part of our heritage," said Shafeeq Sadiq, national coordinator
of Islamic Awareness Week.

The Islamics are truly the new Nazis.
(The Nazi-era Germans thought they were the real Shakespeare nuts.
IIRC, the fat Gestapo officer in "Pimpernel Smith" made this sort of mad assertion.)

[VOA]

What light through yon window breaks...
Hey, it's Atta's 757 comin' through!

[Amish with an attitude]

What light through yonder World Trade Center window break.

Leopards don't change their spots, remember 911.

[vampire hunter]

"Shakespeare's plays are not about good versus evil," said Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, a Muslim scholar who is lecturing on Shakespeare and Islam at The Globe this week.

i don't have much to say about this, except: "bull shit". Just by reading his works, you can tell that William Shakespeare was a great man, a genius, and a Christian.
If his plays aren't about good versus evil, i don't know what is.
You could as soon say that Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and the even the Bible, aren't about "good versus evil".