Like the fun-hating lunatic who wants to make a violent video games to show that making violent video games is bad, Egyptian Muslims killed one and injured dozens in protests over art that depicted Muslims as violent:
One Muslim protestor was killed and dozens more wounded in violent clashes with police in Alexandria amid mounting tensions in the Egyptian Mediterranean city over a Christian video, the interior ministry said. Following an earlier demonstration that had gathered at least 5,000 people, Muslims angered by release of a DVD by the Saint Girgis Church grouped outside the building again in the evening after breaking their Ramadan fast…
The protests came three days after a man lightly wounded a nun with a knife at the entrance to the same church, and a man who came to her aid was stabbed in the back. The play, performed by amateur actors, tells the story of a young Christian who converts to Islam and is exhorted by a sheikh to kill priests and destroy churches, according to the independent Al-Dustur paper. Performances of the play had to be abandoned after it sparked a public outcry.
Nothing like a little violence to put the brakes on art. Hey, at least this kind of thing isn’t happening in Western Europe.
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