Popular British musician Elton John has been banned from performing a private concert in Egypt, DPA reported on Monday. Posted on 05/04/2010 12:55:01 PM PDT by mlizzy
Popular British musician Elton John has been banned from performing a private concert in Egypt, DPA reported on Monday.
According to the report, the 63-year-old openly homosexual performer was prohibited from playing in the Arab country because of anti-religious sentiments that he had purportedly expressed.
The news agency quoted Mounir al-Wasimi, the head of Egypt’s Musician Union, as saying that his country could not allow “a homosexual who wants to ban religions, claimed that the prophet Issa (Jesus) was gay and calls for Middle Eastern countries to allow gays to have sexual freedom” to perform there.
John drew controversy earlier this year when he intimated in an interview with the American Parade magazine that there was no tolerance for homosexuals in Arab countries. "I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East - you're as good as dead," he told the magazine.
Also in the February interview, the performer stated that Jesus had been a “super-intelligent gay man,” a conclusion he reached after reading about the Christian savior’s compassionate and understanding nature.
Now I don’t know whether to move to Phoenix or Cairo!!
It just cracks me up whenever I hear Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s (alright for fighting) on the radio... for obvious reasons...
Elton must have confused Sphinx with Sphincter
Christ was not a man. He took human form, but he was divine.
Then again, who cares what Elton thinks, anyway?
Egypt suddenly got less gay.....
Send Lemmy instead.
Don’t Let Your Son Go Down On me...................
Egypt ,,,,, that’s a start .
Perhaps you should reconsider your statement.
Wanna try again?
Will liberals call for a boycott of Egypt like they are doing for Arizonia?
This reminds me of the Iran-Iraq War when ya wanted both sides to lose.
Whoa, does Sir Elton look like an old lesbian or what??
I know many can separate the artist from the music and sometimes I can do that. I can listen to a Boy George song but when an Elton song comes on the radio I just turn it off. He is just so nasty.
outstanding!
He was and is both God and man. This was settled a long time ago.
Perhaps England should arrest Egypt.
And thus were shattered his dream of becoming the next Nile Queen.
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