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Hat tip, Michelle Malkin , who has lots of background on this storyYes, that Motzart. German politicians condemned on Tuesday a decision by a Berlin opera house to cancel performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo over concerns they could enrage Muslims and

Now another assault on western art by Islamic extremists has claimed another victim, none other than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A German Opera company has cancelled its showing of the Mozart Opera Idomeneo because it depicts the severed head of Muhamma…

The Deutsche Opera Berlin just decided to remove Mozart’s “Idomeneo” from it’s play-bill because of a scene which “may” considered offensive to Muzlims. Hmmm. Wonder why they would do that?

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The painting of the disembodied head of President George W Bush vowed on Wednesday to save “the long, proud tradition of unfettered free speech and racial harmony” in Germany. The Bush- head picture, realized in vibrant tempura- on- cardboard, will ste…

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The truth of the matter is that Christ, and Christians, are completely and totally fair game when it comes to satire, representation, mis-representation, and just plain ol’ blasphemy.  And, that’s alright.  As a Christian, I don’t l…

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It’s worth noting, but it’s hard to be impressed:
German intellectuals angry after opera called off
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This quote on the Dhimmi opera house:

Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble also criticized the decision. “We tend to become crazy if we start to forbid Mozart operas b…

I hadn’t focused much on the brouhaha in Germany over the yanking of an opera production at the behest of offended Muslims, so I didn’t realize until this morning that the opera in question was Mozart’s Idomeneo and that the…

More on a subject I blogged about two days ago. Via MyWay News: BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against “self-censorship out of fear” on Wednesday, a day after a leading Berlin opera house decided not stage a…

Der Spiegel’s post Berlin Opera ‘On its knees before terrorism’ reports on Germans outrage over the capitulation of the Deutsche Oper’s director Kristen Harms’ to terror threats by cancelling its production of Idomeneo that features the beheading of th…

“Authorities” of western countries are letting their citizens know that they aren’t even going to try to protect the public from Muslim violence. Their suggestion; give up your rights and “cancel” anything that might R…