Posted on 09/27/2006 2:01:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BERLIN -- One of Germany's foremost opera houses has abruptly canceled a modern production of Mozart's ``Idomeneo" because of fears of a violent reaction to a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet Mohammed.
The cancellation, at the urging of security officials, triggered a furious debate over freedom of expression. Muslim groups in Germany voiced satisfaction with the decision, while leading politicians and artists called it a cowardly surrender to religious extremists.
``This is crazy," Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told reporters yesterday during an official visit to Washington. ``This is unacceptable."
The cancellation comes three weeks after Pope Benedict XVI ignited anger across the Islamic world by quoting from a medieval text that branded certain teachings of Mohammed as ``evil and inhuman." The pontiff's remarks were made during a lecture at a university in his native Germany
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I was just about to post this from Hot Air;
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/27/photos-mohammed-gets-the-danny-pearl-treatment/
Doesn't anyone understand that crap like this simply emboldens them all the more. It seems to me that everyone in power to make a decision has been castrated by the "politically correct" knife.
Man, I'm tired of this...
That will only upset those wimpy Christians.
The pendulum sure has swung from 70 years ago.
This reminds me of the way the L.A. County Supervisors caved in to the ACLU and voted to remove the cross from the County seal, under threat of a lawsuit.
Europe: They'll cut your ignoble heads off, and it'll be because you're a bunch of vagina-friendly fools.
Bet a movie about the assassination of President Bush won't be stopped out of fear of rampaging Americans...
And somehow Americans are the greatest threat to world peace. /sarc
I think there were decapitated Buddha and decapitated Jesus in this opera presentation but it was only decapitated Mohammed that made them rethink the production.
At least this guy's no dhimmi, here in the UK goverment ministers would have been falling over themselves to condemn the opera.
Let's hope this opera now goes ahead, we can't allow any more acts of surrender to these vermin, the sitution is getting too dangerous not to stand up to them this time. How long before they start ordering shops what kind of clothes they can sell to women???
People think this could never happen but every tyranny starts off slowly and before you know anything it's crept up on you and your surrounded and unarmed!!.....
It is almost like Muslims never grow out of being 9 or 10 years old.
They have to have it their way or they throw a hissy fit, or in the case of these 6' tall 9 year olds, go out and kill someone.
Not surprised.
Write Europe off. They are gonners fur sure. In fifty years ethnic German women won't be able to leave their homes unless veiled. Get used to it.
Immediately following the opera, there will be the mandatory book burning.
Headline: Germany in mortal fear of muslim immigrants!
I am vagina friendly as often as possible...lol
You just described every Liberal I know, from Clinton to the twit running the local movie house.
Liberals are malformed adults - a child's emotional intelligence trapped in a grown-up's body.
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