Angry Sikhs storm theatre and halt play in England
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Hundreds of Sikhs tried to storm a theatre in the central English city of Birmingham, halting a play they say mocks their religion and slightly injuring five police officers in the melee, police said.
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Tara Arts unequivocally condemns the circumstances which forced Birmingham Rep to close its production of &#39;Behzti&#39; by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#39;s Buddhist clergy yesterday called off a protest against a Bollywood concert being staged on the first anniversary of the death of a popular monk, but their followers later clashed with police, officials and witness said.
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Leading figures from the arts world are among more than 700 signatories of an open letter supporting the Sikh playwright who has been forced into hiding by death threats.
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A second Birmingham theatre company could stage a controversial play that was dropped following protests by members of the Sikh community. Send us your reaction.
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Hundreds of Sikhs protest outside a theatre against  a play depicting sex abuse and murder in a temple.
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Anger mounted in the Muslim world over Britain&#39;s knighthood for novelist Salman Rushdie, with protests spreading to Malaysia for the first time and fresh demonstrations in Pakistan.
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British author Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding for years after Iran's leader ordered him killed, assailed Britain on Sunday for allowing angry Sikh groups to force the cancellation of a Sikh play last week.
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A leading opera house canceled a 3-year-old production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a furious debate over free speech.
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Islamic hardliners in Pakistan burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth as senators Tuesday joined mounting calls for London to withdraw Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood.
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LONDON: In an unprecedented and unexpected showdown between Britain&#39;s powerful and networked artistic communty, a leading British theatre company has told TOI it blames sections of the country&#39;s unruly and violent Sikh community for &quot;opening the door&quot; to
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Buddhist monks protesting against the staging of a Bollywood concert in the Sri Lankan capital camped outside the venue in a desperate bid to block the Indian artists.
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Sikh officials in northern India condemn the stoning by students of an important shrine in Pakistan.
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The author of a play that triggered violent protests by Sikhs in Birmingham, central England, has gone into hiding amid threats against her life, friends were quoted as saying.
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A play that led to violent protests among the Sikh community is dropped by a Birmingham theatre.
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Playwrights may censor themselves more after violent protests forced a British theater to cancel a Sikh play and drove its author into hiding, actors and directors believe.
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Muslim anger flared Thursday after Britain defended Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood, with fresh protests against the novelist and Pakistani traders offering a big reward for his beheading.