result #102776 - SPAIN AFRAID TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL WILL OFFEND MUSLIMS?

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political : SPAIN AFRAID TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL WILL OFFEND MUSLIMS?

[+] serious ballot by xxxxxxxx
created Mon Oct 02, 06

"Spaniards tone down exploding Mohammed at fiestas
Reuters
Monday, October 2, 2006; 6:26 AM

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish villages are toning down traditional fiestas in which revelers blow up dummies representing the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending Muslims, the newspaper El Pais reported on Monday.

One eastern Spanish village, Bocairent, decided to abandon the custom of packing the head of a dummy representing Mohammed with fireworks after seeing the angry response by Muslims to a Danish newspaper's publication last year of cartoons of him.
El Pais found that several other villages in the Valencia region had also modified similar fiestas this year. It carried out the investigation after a Berlin opera house decided last week to cancel performances of Mozart's "Idomeneo" because the production included a scene depicting Mohammed's severed head.

Bocairent's mayor, Antonio Valdes, said blowing up the Mohammed dummy was offensive.

"It just wasn't necessary, and, as it could hurt some people's feelings, we decided not to do it," he said.

The village may not have blown up the wood-and-cardboard Mohammed dummy this year -- but it still threw it off a castle wall at the fiesta's climax in February.

Villages all over Spain hold annual festivals to commemorate the "Reconquista," the reconquest of Spain by Christians from the Moors, which was completed in 1492 after more than 700 years of Muslim rule in much of the country.

Spain is now once again home to a growing number of Muslims, mainly Moroccan immigrants, who villagers feel might be offended by some of their traditional celebrations."

(Source: Washington Post)

Do you think the Spanish authorities should force the tradition to be changed so it doesn't offend Muslims?

No	86%
Yes	13%

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COMMENTS:
No, especially when this sort of thing has already been going on for years. This sort of thing increases islamophobia

by aya on Mon Oct 02, 06 8:01am [+]

Voted : No
No.

Perhaps they should change it if muslims first promise to stop blowing up non-muslims (actual ones, not pinatas).

by herzog on Mon Oct 02, 06 10:26am [+]

Engaging in public rituals that inspire bigotry and hatred are always inappropriate, even if they do appeal to rightwing bigots and other types of anti-social losers.

Engaging in primitive behavior because it's "tradition" is the excuse used by conservative Muslims to justify an array of nasty, dark ages behavior. It's no better if conservative Christians are doing it.

by cranky on Mon Oct 02, 06 12:19pm [+]

Voted : No
The authorities shouldn't, but the people should on their own.

by himself809 on Mon Oct 02, 06 1:21pm [+]

Voted : No
Please refer to my comments in ballot #102775.

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Oct 02, 06 2:47pm [+]

Sorry, 102777. All that math, and I still can't count...

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Oct 02, 06 2:48pm [+]

Voted : No
maybe they (terrorst muslims) can learn a thing or two about blowing up a dummy instead of real people

by Guyvega on Mon Oct 02, 06 6:21pm [+]

Voted : No
There is a MAJOR difference between conservative Christians and Conservative Muslims. And.. no they shouldn't change it.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Oct 02, 06 6:54pm [+]

close their eyes if they dont like it.

by hurricane on Tue Oct 03, 06 5:45am [+]

^And when people are burning the U.S. flag, do rightwingers just close their eyes?

by cranky on Tue Oct 03, 06 6:54am [+]

yes we do... Do you see us throwing a fit and blowing things up because someone burns a flag or burns a picture of our President.

by hurricane on Tue Oct 03, 06 7:36am [+]

Plus Cranky no one invited them to come to Spain. They came at their own free will. So if they dont like it too bad.

by hurricane on Tue Oct 03, 06 7:37am [+]

hurricane- What about the ones that were born there?

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Oct 03, 06 9:28am [+]

Then their parents should have thought of that...

by Guyvega on Mon Oct 09, 06 4:01am [+]

Voted : No
No, the Moro occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and the subsequent Reconquista are major events in Spanish history, and this festival celebrates the Spanish people's love of their freedom and assertion of their culture. The socialists in Madrid should shut the f___ up.

Hurricane's right: no one invited the Arabs to RETURN to Spain, after the Moriscos were tossed out in the 1500's. I wish I were there in Bocairent to help stuff some of the explosives in the effigy as a protest.

by Felix on Thu Dec 07, 06 2:21pm [+]

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