Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr...
by DanBC on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:09AM
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> Every other faith (and other large group of people) seems to have accepted it however.
This is obviously false. In England the film "Life of Brian" faced multiple bans from local councils on being shown at cinemas. Glasgow had a 30 year ban that ended in 2009. The comedian Stewart Lee faced legal action and a vicious campaign after his opera "Jerry Springer: the musical"; Jewish groups (rightly) decry Holocaust denying cartoons or cartoons comparing treatment of Palestinians to anything that happened in Nazi Germany; Sikhs in Birmingham (UK) violently protested a play, causing it to be stopped.
This is obviously false. In England the film "Life of Brian" faced multiple bans from local councils on being shown at cinemas. Glasgow had a 30 year ban that ended in 2009. The comedian Stewart Lee faced legal action and a vicious campaign after his opera "Jerry Springer: the musical"; Jewish groups (rightly) decry Holocaust denying cartoons or cartoons comparing treatment of Palestinians to anything that happened in Nazi Germany; Sikhs in Birmingham (UK) violently protested a play, causing it to be stopped.
Life of Brian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west...
Stewart Lee: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N9EUe8jNr6o
Sikh protest stops play: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/20/arts.religion1