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Berlino teme (l’Islam)
La frase del regista Hans Neuenfels
«poiché milioni di morti sono da mettere sul conto dei conflitti di religione, abolirle tutte può essere una misura propedeutica alla pace»
è esemplificativa. In nome della loro abolizione, ha inscenato l’apparizione del Re Idomeneo con in mano delle teste mozzate: Poseidone, Gesù, Buddha e Maometto. L’hanno presa malissimo alla Deutsche Oper di Berlino e hanno deciso che era troppo pericoloso mettere in scena l’Idomeneo di Mozart.
Qui abbiamo: un violento dissacratore delle religioni, poco opportuno e un po’ fanatico come certi religiosi, ma per la ragione contraria; pure un po’ ignorante, visto che il buddismo tutto è fuorché una religione. E poi abbiamo un’Europa schiacciata su posizioni di appeasement, anche nel campo dell’arte, ormai.
In questa vicenda, infatti, la Deutsche Oper ci rappresenta bene; era un caso che non sarebbe mai salito alla ribalta delle cronache e invece così l’abbiamo fatto salire noi, nel peggiore dei modi. Ancora una volta: cosa raccontiamo adesso ai nostri alleati musulmani moderati? E, soprattutto, cosa raccontiamo a chi si vede abolita, giorno per giorno, la sua libertà di esprimersi o di andare a teatro a vedere l’opera di uno dei più grandi geni dell’umanità?
Almeno Angela Merkel ha protestato, definendo la decisione assurda:
«Dobbiamo fare attenzione a non indietreggiare per la paura degli integralisti violenti…dobbiamo dibattere questi problemi e dare priorità alla libertà di stampa e di coscienza».
Anche altri esponenti politici della “Grosse Coalition”, fra i quali ministri del partito dei Verdi (…), si sono espressi in questo senso. Meno male.
Josh in Berlin ha scritto:
Most people and newspapers in Germany criticize the cancellation of this Mozart opera, incl. representatives Muslim organization.
It seems that the cancellation will be revoked and this opera will be shown after all. What a great and shrewd publicity stunt the opera house made by first announcing the cancellation. Usually hardly anybody would be interested in that opera, but now it is the talk of the town.
I think I am in a very small minority who approved of the cancellation. That opera is an insult to other religions (since it shows the severed heads of Jesus and Buddha as well) and to Mozart, the composer, himself.
What benefit would we get if we had this opera? It seems the only reason to defend this stupid opera is to avoid giving the impression of appeasement to the Islamofascists. That’s not enough for me.
I think this opera would only strengthen Islamofasicsm since it would help their propaganda. To win the war on terrorism, we need to have moderate Muslims on our side, so that they don’t support the terrorists, but give us information about them. And we want the moderate Muslims to win over their autocratic governments and fundamentalist groups in the Arab world. This opera, however, alienates the moderate Muslims and helps the fundamentalists.
Let’s not forget that theater plays critical of Christians and Israel also get canceled:
Earlier this year:
“A New York theatre company has put off plans to stage a play about an American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza because of the current “political climate” - a decision the play’s British director, Alan Rickman, denounced as “censorship”.”
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/theatre-gets-stagefright-over-play-on-israeli-death-of-activist/2006/02/28/1141095740986.html
And then there is this from Oct 23, 1998: “Last May, William Donohue, the ever-vigilant president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, raised quite a ruckus about the fact that Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally’s play-in-progress, featured a gay, Christ-like protagonist who has sex, off-stage, with his male disciples. Donohue, who has a gift for strained analogies that rivals McNally’s own, has called the play “hate speech,” “bigotry,” and of course “blasphemy.” He has argued that a similar depiction of a black or Jewish religious figure would be roundly condemned. Only Catholics and their beliefs, Donohue insists, are held up to such ridicule.”
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n18_v125/ai_21273530
Yeah, yeah, this only happens to Catholics…. Right! And some Jews say these kind of attacks only happen to Jews. And some Muslims say those things only happen to Muslims.
Pubblicato il 28-Set-06 alle ore 14:45 | Permalink