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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
LGF highlights a French Socialist mayor who got it right: ...he play, “Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet,” uses the founder of Islam to lampoon all forms of religious frenzy and intolerance.
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...[Muslim activists] demanded the performance be cancelled.
Instead, Mayor Hubert Bertrand called in police reinforcements to protect the theater. France has centuries of experience of the hell that comes when politics and religion intertwine. There are those who think appeasing the Muslims is fine. There were those who thought playing along with the Vatican wasn't too much to ask, too. It's good to see that at least some French folks of the variety who know the danger of letting the Pope run their country are likewise sensitive to the danger of turning it over to the imams.
Ecrasez l'infâme!
posted by gbarto at 4:45 PM
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