Beheaded prophet opera dropped
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A Mozart opera featuring a beheaded Prophet Muhammad and other religious figures is scrapped over security fears.
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A Berlin opera house condemned for  canceling performances of a Mozart work because of concern it  could provoke violence by Muslims said on Thursday it might  consider staging the production if it had security assurances.
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Patrons of Berlin's Deutsche Oper were greeted by metal detectors, police and the media on Monday at an opera previously canceled over fears Muslims may be offended by a scene featuring Prophet Mohammad's severed head.
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A theater on Monday abandoned further performances of a play that caused a riot by Sikhs who said it demeaned their religion. Executive director Stuart Rogers said the Birmingham Repertory Theatre had been left with no alternative but to end its run of "Behzti," a play by Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti that depicts sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple.
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The Italian tenor who helped bring opera into the mainstream is mourned by fans and critics alike
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BAGHDADâA video posted yesterday on a website showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong.
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Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri loses his appeal against  convictions for incitement to murder and race-hate crimes.
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A production of Mozart's opera 'Idomeneo,' dropped for fear of a Muslim backlash over a scene with the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad, returned to the stage under heavy security Monday at Berlin's ...Comment
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A production of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo," dropped for fear of a Muslim backlash over a scene with the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad, returned to the stage under heavy security Monday at Berlin's ...Comment
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San Francisco, CA - Music publisher Ludlow Music, Inc., has officially backed down on its threats against web animation studio JibJab Media Inc.
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'Beaten, denied a fair trial, sentenced to death' Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution by beheading of a "witch" who in 2006 was convicted of "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings], and slaughter of animals".â¦
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The longtime conductor of the Crystal Cathedral Orchestra &#151; a composer and arranger who worked with Celine Dion and John Tesh &#151; shot himself to death at the soaring glass-and-steel church Friday after a nine-hour standoff that started just before a Christmas pageant was to begin.
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Iraq. Al Jazeera: decapitati un ostaggio turco e il suo interprete. Autobomba a Mosul: 3 morti. Due ostaggi, un cittadino turco ed il suo traduttore, un curdo iracheno, sono stati decapitati da un gruppo militante islamico, l&#39;Esercito Ansar al Sunna.
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The Berlin opera house widely criticized for withdrawing a production amid fears it might provoke violence from Muslims may consider re-staging the opera if it receives security assurances.
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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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Four canceled performances of a Mozart  opera have reignited an anxious and heated debate in Europe  over free speech, self-censorship and Islam.
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Wednesday quashed a death-by-stoning sentence against a pregnant 18-year-old girl who had been condemned for adultery.