Opera Canceled Over A Depiction of Muhammad

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Berlin opera drops Mohamed's severed head
A production of a Mozart opera in which the severed head of the Muslim prophet Mohamed is shown on stage was dropped by one of Berlin's main opera houses yesterday, because of fears that the work might provoke a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists.

In the opera house's production of the Mozart work that was first shown in 1871, the Cretan king, Idomeneo, holds up the severed heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddah and Mohamed. When the production by the director Hans Neuenfels was first shown in 2003, several religious groups said that they were offended.

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Opera canceled for fear of Muslim ire

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Beheaded prophet opera dropped

A Berlin opera company cancelled a Mozart production over security fears because it features the severed heads of the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus.

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