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The Theater Scene

While the world's eyebeams are focused on the Geert Wilders film, Fitna: the Movie, a premiere on the Potsdam theater scene has escaped notice:

Muslim leader advises calm over Satanic Verses stage play
March 28th, 2008 - 9:38 pm

Potsdam (Germany), March 28 (DPA) A Muslim leader in Germany called Friday for calm ahead of the premiere near Berlin of a stage play based on The Satanic Verses, the controversial novel by Indian-born author Salman Rushdie. Though Rushdie?s content was ?insulting? to Islam, ?despite the common misconception, the majority of the world?s Muslims have rejected censorship,? said Aiman Mazyek, general secretary of the Central Council of Muslims.

The whole report lives here, of all places. Ticket information can be found at the theater's web site, located here, for people who can read German.
We tried to read Sir Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, back in 1988. We remember going out to the levee with a Public Library copy and the sun was shining, and the wind was blowing up from the south, and the leaves were rustling in the trees, and--well, we just sort of nodded off at about the part where the guy wakes up in the hospital after falling out of the airplane, and kind of never got back to it.
That didn't seem like any reason to kill him, though.
As for where anybody could have gotten that "common misconception" thing, we have no idea where that came from. Nope. Not us.

Full post as published by West Neanderthal Drive on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).