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Thread #76702   Message #1362671
Posted By: Little Hawk
21-Dec-04 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: Birmingham play closed by mob
Subject: RE: Birmingham play closed by mob
People who object to the content in a play have one simple and obvious course of action...don't attend said play! If they think they have the right to stop other people from attending it, they are wrong, and they are encouraging a form of fascism, in my opinion.

The play was apparently written by a Sikh woman. She has a right to present her view of reality about her community. Others do not have a right to suppress her view, but they have a perfect right to criticize it (peacefully), to demonstrate against it (peacefully), to write articles criticizing it, and to choose not to see the play.

I detest thought police, and I don't care what religion they pretend to be espousing when they attempt to violently force their views on others. Thought police are people who are scared. They must have very little real faith in what they stand for if they imagine it is so vulnerable to any alternative presentation of viewpoint! Thought police are the very expression of a mind crippled by fear.