Islamic Extremists Try to Break Up Freddie Mercury Birthday Bash

[catbert836]

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania -- A Muslim leader has criticized plans to honor late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury with a huge beach party this weekend.

Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, violated Islam with his flamboyant lifestyle, said Azan Khalid of Zanzibar's Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation.

Khalid said anything linking Mercury with Zanzibar's Muslim population would be offensive and that a waterfront restaurant's plans for a party Saturday honoring Mercury's birthday must be stopped.

Simai Mohammed, manager of the Mercury restaurant, which was named for the singer, said the party would go on as scheduled. Mercury would have been 60 on Sept. 5.

Mercury, who acknowledged being gay, was born in Zanzibar when the country was still a British protectorate. He was educated in India and moved with his family to Britain in the early 1960s, after a bloody revolution that drove out many immigrants of Indian or Arab descent.

"Our main idea is to promote tourism and Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. It's part of our history," Mohammed said. "We are all Muslims and it's not our intention to offend any religion."

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101135.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/entertainmentnews

Update- apparently it WAS cancelled.

[patrice]

1. :-(

That's just sad, very sad.

[MnFats]

2. now watch as Limbaugh, Hannity become defenders of Freddie Mercury...

....whatch ';em strike a blow for artistic freedom and 'expose' the tyrany of anti-freddie forces.

[tocqueville]

5. Rush would give radio ga ga a whole new meaning

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new ?
Someone still loves you

Radio ga ga (ga ga)
Radio ga ga (ga ga)
Radio ga ga (ga ga)

[iamahaingttta]

3. Jesus H. Mohammed, don't these people...

...have anything better to do? It's a freaking birthday party for a dead man, what's the big deal?

[xchrom]

4. it's the same logic that propelled falwell to blame 9-11

on women and gays and lesbians.

[patrice]

6. Exactly!! They are the same.

"Daddy-God is watching. And HIS requirements are multitudinous and excruciatingly precise. And we, the annointed, Must read HIS infinite mind for you, because ONLY we can get it exactly right at exactly the right moment.

You are to concentrate on getting what the righteous reveal to you right in all of its complex detail. And if you get even the smallest thing wrong, by mistake, willfuly, or otherwise, God has delegated us to deliver his exquisite and lusciously painful punishment on you and yours severely and forever."

[xchrom]

7. this requires that the uber-faithful think about your naughty bits

and what you do with your naughty bits -- a lot.

and i WISH i was kidding.

[kellenburger]

8. "Our main idea is to promote tourism".....

Most people there are probably peace loving people,
why does the vocal minority of asshats always win ?


Oh and Freddie Mercury was one of the greats!:party:

[Ready4Change]

9. Someone explain to me...

Why extreme Islamists and Christians are fighting each other? It seems they have so much in common.