BBC shows clips of banned theatrical Mohammad decapitation - No reaction from Muslim groups yet

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Source: http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/...vered-head.html

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Give them time. It took months after the cartoon was published in Denmark.

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Give them time. It took months after the cartoon was published in Denmark.

And they'd actually published them in an Egyptian Daily during Ramzan WITHOUT reaction!

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The problem with the opera being pulled - is that now it has achieved this controversial status few people can speak on it with any authority, except for the relatively few people who are familiar with the Mozart original. So this won't make things any better - because now the only seen that will be floating around will be of the decaptitation scene, regardless of its actual context.

In any case, seeing as opera is too "high culture" for Jihadists - they would likely respond directly to the imagery rather than the actual opera, so its probably a moot point.

Still I have to wonder... if the added scene does not form part of the original drama as written by Mozart, I'm not sure how that is particularly defensible. In other words the production company threw it in there simply for some sort of political point-scoring. The article from the other day already mentioned that the scene was booed when it appeared on stage. Clearly that's an indication...

Edited September 28, 2006 by erekose