August 31, 2006
From Independent Online:
In a strongly worded letter to the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago's culture ministry, a group of conservative Muslims said plans to honour the lead singer of the supergroup Queen at a gala bash next month must be stopped.I would speculate that any rock star, not just homosexual ones, would offend Islam. The tolerance exhibited by followers of the religion of peace pretty much stops when an electric guitar is plugged into an amplifier."There are people claiming that Freddie Mercury is a Zanzibari but he grew up outside Zanzibar and then changed his name," the islands' association for Islamic Mobilisation and Propagation (UAMSHO) said in the letter.
"Associating Mercury with Zanzibar degrades our island as a place of Islam," UAMSHO chief Abdallah Said Ali wrote, adding that the singer was known to have been gay, died of AIDS and had lived a wild life many Muslims would condemn.
"Allowing such a function for a person known outside Zanzibar as a homosexual tarnishes the name of Zanzibar," he said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. "Let us protect our good culture."
Companion post at Interested-Participant.
UPDATE by Rusty: You know what this blog needs? More music by ex-Muslim gay apostates! We are the Champions and We will rock you. I think Freddy Mercury actually wrote these songs to mock the loser Islamists in Zanzibar......
Finally, some bad gay I can support!
UPDATE: Jeff tells us that Freddy Mercury was of Indian/Parsis Zoroastarin descent. But still.....he does rock and he pisses off the Islamists. And in the end, isn't pissing off Islamists all that really matters?
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Posted by: Jester at August 31, 2006 03:41 PM (TuAMG)
Jester, since we're in a mood to compare the virtues of rock to the sounds produced by Muslims, have a look at this comparison of languages. Warning "politically incorrect" and terribly insensitive. Just the way I like it.
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Posted by: Jester at August 31, 2006 04:27 PM (TuAMG)
Funny, I've been a fan of Queen since the 70s and don't remember them ever discussing their religion, let alone saying anything bad about Islam. Yet those Zanzibar tardos seem to feel the need to denigrate the memory of a tremendously talented singer simply because he made choices they wouldn't have? Simple, just don't use any Queen music on their next pro-Muslim ad campaign.
Posted by: reverse_vampyr at August 31, 2006 04:56 PM (Ns5kk)
Pissing off muslims is easy. I like pissing on them.
Posted by: greyrooster at August 31, 2006 05:49 PM (wDEFg)
BTW, the first lines of Bohemian Rhapsody, are they jewish or arabic?
Posted by: SeeMonk at August 31, 2006 06:04 PM (n4VvM)
"Bismallah! We will not let you go
- let him go!"
Bismallah means In the name of Allah.
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