Some of my compatiots are somewhat excited nearly a scandal inward the globe of culture. The National (meaning Moravian) Theater inward Brno, Czechia's 2nd largest city, has sanctioned a play titled "Our Violence together with Your Violence" ["Naše násilí a vaše násilí"] yesteryear a smaller "Goose On a Rope" ["Husa na provázku"] theater.
The play was directed yesteryear the Croation cinema manager Oliver Frljić together with the actors are Slovenian. Some sources country that most of these Slovene actors are really Muslims – together with thence it's natural for them to defend Islam together with railroad train on Christianity together with Muslims run across cipher incorrect if the lies are the key weapons to do so. Clearly, the message of the play is that nosotros shouldn't ever criticize Muslims together with violence they brand – because we're doing the same thing. Well, non really. And they claim that nosotros are ultimately responsible for the Islamic violence inward Europe. But what form of "arts" is used to convey this untrue point?
In the theatre play, Jesus Christ is raping a Muslim woman. (There's no argue to recollect that Jesus has ever raped somebody together with organized Christian soldiers weren't allowed to rape anybody for rattling many centuries.) Also, an actress extracted the total Czech flag out of her genitalia. You may imagine, it's a yummy play that is total of nudity. See some screenshots here.
The plot includes the hanging of Pope John Paul II, too.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 shocking aspect of this play – 1 that makes the populace dissatisfaction to a greater extent than justified – is that this "cool arts" is really subsidized yesteryear the taxpayer (from Brno's municipal budget, CZK 280,000 i.e. nearly €11,000). Fine. So what are the reactions of the people?
There are lots of people – politicians from Christian together with non together with thence Christian parties – who are extremely angry. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 grouping "Decent Folks" ("Slušní lidé") has been organizing protests together with tried to forbid the performance. Nationalist leaders Mr Sládek (the pinnacle 1 or together with thence 1990) together with peculiarly Mr Okamura (the electrical flow one) take away maintain made speeches nearly the play that sound... presidential, I would say.
As you lot tin imagine, I am much to a greater extent than liberal than the typical critics are. I do recollect that fifty-fifty such plays must hold out allowed – non alone inward theory but also inward exercise – inward our theaters when they operate yesteryear some lineament checks yesteryear the experts. And I run across some similarity betwixt the Czech critics of the play together with those who attacked Charlie Hebdo for those Mohammed cartoons – although our Christian side is substantially less emotional together with trigger-happy nearly it, of course.
But such a play wouldn't hold out OK according to my judgement. I recollect it is a inexpensive slice trying to larn all the points from its beingness scandalous.
Four years ago, Dr Tomáš Halík, a theologian, Catholic priest, together with left-wing intellectual, won the Templeton prize, GBP 1.1 million, from the Templeton Foundation. In the mid 1990s, I must take away maintain liked or admired this guy inward some agency – inward fact, Miss Dora K. – a Catholic friend of mine from the educatee hostels – made me attend a volume inward his St Salvator Academic Church close the Charles Bridge.
Well, he looked to a greater extent than rational to me than the Evangelical priests I was also exposed to – I idea that the Catholics were less fanatical together with to a greater extent than compatible with the modern globe than the Evangelicals. OK, at that time, I likely didn't sentiment him as a left-wing intellectual. At least, it seems impossible. These days, Mr Halík is exactly an arrogant pile of stupid trash inward my eyes.
Someone asked him to country something nearly the play. He said that he had to picket it. And he must take away maintain loved the play – together with thence he has seen it twice! When he was finished, he has praised it as a "cool" play inward the postmodern genre of arts that is making us think. The rape of the Muslim adult woman yesteryear Jesus isn't the point, he said. Instead, the quest is that we're living inward a crazy globe inward which religious symbols tin make hatred alongside the peoples, nosotros were told.
Now, give me a break. Religious symbols take away maintain e'er produced hatred alongside the peoples. It has e'er been the instance exactly because believers tending nearly God (and also the fundamental moral rules etc.) – together with staunch disbelievers tending nearly their non-God – which is why they uncovering it of import when other people disagree nearly these fundamental matters. After all, the answers to these questions create upward one's hear nearly the rattling wide administration inward which the mankind culturally, morally, together with socially evolves. Nothing essential could take away maintain changed nearly these matters. Mr Halík exactly shows a consummate misunderstanding of the human nature, psychology, together with history if he says that religious differences alone create passions today.
And he has also praised the play because it conveys the quest that all the religions together with their believers do the same thing. The fact that Jesus hasn't really raped anybody – instead, He was supposed to choose us the novel contract that ended the violence of the New Testament – also doesn't seem to hold out known to this Catholic priest. Or it doesn't print him much.
In fact, Mr Halík has attacked the Czech Christians (starting from the re-appointed, 75-year-old archbishop of Prague, Mr Dominik Duka – although Duka wasn't named) who dared to criticize the play. According to Halík, they're exactly "simple believers" or "simpletons" together with he's concerned nearly their criticism. On the other hand, he's much to a greater extent than than that. He isn't a simpleton, he is a Templeton winner. ;-)
Morons such as the regular Christians shouldn't become to the modern theater, the Catholic priest has pointed out, because they're exactly also stupid filth that doesn't take away maintain the mental capacity to empathise how non bad it is when a nude histrion representing Jesus Christ rapes a Muslim woman. Needless to say, lots of other people - starting from politicians across the political spectrum – take away maintain denounced Mr Halík's attitude.
I am providing the left-wing TRF readers with this moving-picture exhibit of Mr Halík because he may plow out to hold out a helpful mirror. If you're an arrogant leftist, the illustration of Mr Halík could assist you lot to empathise why most of your compatriots desire you lot to conk as before long as possible. I recollect that fifty-fifty if you're left-wing, you lot volition terminate upward hating Mr Halík if you lot pass one-half an hr with this giant aßhole.
Dominik Duka, the dear caput of the Czech Catholics, was happy nearly the petition against the play together with the Czechs' dissatisfaction with the premiere (that has taken place, anyway). He said that non fifty-fifty Nazis together with communists take away maintain ever attacked Christianity inward this way. Duka has rightfully complained that our (and Western) elites are much less goodness than the mutual people when it comes to their mightiness to distinguish the goodness together with evil.
Michael Žantovský, an aide to the belatedly ex-president Václav Havel, has also attacked Mr Halík together with his hypocrisy. Žantovský reminded us that Halík has really criticized the Mohammed cartoons inward Charlie Hebdo! I haven't realized that – or I forgot nearly it. It's rather incredible. This "Catholic priest" manifestly wants the Islam to hold out allowed much to a greater extent than inward our social club than the faith that he pretends to hold out his own. What makes this comparing fifty-fifty to a greater extent than insane is that the unflattering stories from Mohammed's life are truthful piece Jesus' rape is not.
We're a tolerant acre together with thence the play was premiered on May 26th, during the "World of Theaters inward Brno" festival, later all. The Slovenian, mostly Muslim actors were unhappy nearly the petition together with protests, anyway, they contacted the ambassador and/or Slovene ministers, together with they desire Slovenia to kickstart a diplomatic conflict with Czech Republic because they weren't sufficiently encouraged inward their raping of Muslim women yesteryear Jesus' key limb. Holy cow. What is the Slovene populace thinking nearly it? Given the arrogance of these scumbags, it's pretty clear that the political atmosphere inward Slovenia is far to a greater extent than politically right together with treacherous than the atmosphere inward Czechia. Slovenia is the wealthiest together with most Westernized post-Yugoslav solid set down – together with lots of the typically Western deterioration comes with it. Well, instantly I run across that Slovenia has 2.4% of Muslims; nosotros alone take away maintain 0.1%.
If you lot take away maintain rigid nerves, you lot may picket a 5-minute Templeton-sponsored monologue inward Halík's Czenglish answering the enquiry whether Christians should encompass atheists. He ended upward maxim that atheists are ameliorate than agnostics because yesteryear struggling against the non-existent God, they exhibit that they tending nearly Him. Lots of extra arbitrary junk was added to that, however.
P.S.: I establish a web page of the play. It says it's funded yesteryear the German linguistic communication Federal Cultural Foundation – that's what you lot should take away maintain expected inward the get-go place. The ticket costs CZK 250, or together with thence €10.
Here is the abstract:
The play questions non alone the province of affairs inward the world, it also challenges Europe as a whole, its exclusivity, together with its isolation at the same moment. It asks lots of unpleasant questions to the viewers: Do nosotros know that our wealth depends on thousands of dead inward the Middle East? Do nosotros mourn victims of terror attacks inward Paris together with Brussels every bit as the dead inward Baghdad together with Kabul? When was the exact instant when nosotros decided that we're right together with our God is to a greater extent than powerful than the others' Gods? What theatre is needed at the instant of the self-evident provide of fascism? Director Oliver Frljić who is famous for his provocative production is bringing a play to Brno, 1 that has ignited abrupt voices inward the world. In Slovene with subtitles. SOLD OUT. The play volition hold out recorded yesteryear the Czech Television.OK, together with thence let's react 1 yesteryear one. First, alone savages enquiry the European civilization as a whole. The questions are non alone unpleasant. They are deceitful. The contention that the wealth of the West depends on thousands of dead inward the Middle East is exactly a consummate lie. It is a fundamental prevarication nearly a rather serious topic together with I exactly despise individuals who spread lies nearly such points. We don't fifty-fifty demand the fossil fuels from the Middle East these days.
Yes, nosotros mourn European victims to a greater extent than than those inward the Muslim globe because Europe is our globe – piece the Middle East is not. So the events inward the Middle East are somewhere inward betwixt events inward our civilization together with those that comport on the extraterrestrial aliens. Another argue is that the human life is much to a greater extent than valuable inward the Western countries than inward the Muslim countries. That's why non alone nosotros but perhaps fifty-fifty them tending nearly the casualties inward Europe to a greater extent than than they tending nearly casualties inward the Muslim world.
Jesus said that you lot tin gauge the trees according to their fruits. Our God or inwardness beliefs underlying the Western civilization are to a greater extent than powerful than the Islamic ones because nosotros got further. We tin make to a greater extent than food, alive longer lives with a greater amount of smile, larn farther inward investigating string theory, our theory of everything. The Western civilization is a superior 1 together with I personally started to run across this fact as a kid, as before long as I became familiar with the existence of other civilizations.
None of these facts has anything to do with fascism. More generally, fascism has cipher to do with whatever facts. On the other hand, Islam is an ideology that has a lot to do with fascism – which is why the to a greater extent than full general ideology using Islam to dictate the societal norms is also called the Islamofascism.