Row as \'blasphemous\' play cancelled - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Comments

belfastboyo

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:11:39 +0000

Its time someone called on Jamie to step in and reverse this decision!

murdockp

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:09:48 +0000

All I can say to the DUP is this. Don't go to London and see the book or Mormon. Some of you will never come home so severe will be the hart attacks you will have with the shock and offence caused.

belfastboyo

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:06:47 +0000

The local Taliban (DUP/UUP) have been issuing fatwas against everyone who challenges their religious fundamentalism for decades. This is just the latest victim.

colmoni

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:59:28 +0000

What ever happened to turning the other cheek? Here's a checklist of things you can do to complain about this blatant theocratic censorship: https://m.facebook.com/groups/263351503764526?vie...

driversoft

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:49:21 +0000

I've started the petition "Alderman William Ball: Acknowledge that your personal and vociferous demands for censorship of the Arts fall outside of any public authority that you have been afforded." and need your help to get it off the ground. Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/alderman-wi...

K1L4BT

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:09:52 +0000

This is what we have had to put up with for years. Now maybe the DUP can be exposed as the fundamentalist regime that they are and voters will start saying no to them.

BelfastUnionist

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:59:54 +0000

I have criticized the DUP many times on these columns and I have been a member of Amnesty International for over 10 years. However I am very surprised to see Amnesty International getting involved in protesting about this play being banned (not from the country, but just from council premises). No-one seriously doubts that this play is blasphemous, but in a world where most of us do not believe in God this is not taken seriously. However, those who do believe in God have a right to take it seriously. Would Amnesty protest as strongly about a play being blocked if that play mocked Muslims and the prophet, Mohamed? Come to think of it, did Amnesty speak out in support of freedom of speech and defence of artistic expression when cartoonists were threatened with death for poking fun at Mohamed in Denmark back in 2006?.

Gamadu1000

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:51:14 +0000

"In 1993, rock group ELO Part II were banned from playing in council property in Ballymena, Co Antrim, as DUP councillors said that rock music would attract “the four Ds”: ‘Drink, Drugs, Devil and Debauchery’." INSIDE IRELAND.IE You couldn't make it up!!!!!

GeoffMcArty

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:43:44 +0000

The DUP have fooled us all, they are in cahoots with the Shakespeare Company, and are taking 10% of the takings for all the publicity.

superjam1

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:35:54 +0000

It's even made the National News at 6. Well done the 'progressive and forward thinking DUP' for showing us to be a backwater. Jolly well done!

IrishRepublican

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:31:00 +0000

“Wadder youzuns all slabberin’ abeut? Them eul’ foreign actors jus’ kiam over here d’ mack ahr Holy Beible, so th’ did! An’ thad eul’ Amnesty International’s just a bunch o’ Provie lovers, so thee are! Ahr Pradizan pallyticians tuck the democradic decision d’ stap Gawd-fearin’ Pradizan folk from bein’ offended bey a show th’ wuddeniv wannit d’ see anyway cuz thur Gawd-fearin’ Pradizans! Nigh, ei’m headin’ eut d’ git blacked, so ee am, cuz thurs nathin’ else d’ do reun’ here for a biddiv intertianment, so thur isn't! Maybe yiz shud be askin’ whey thad is, insteadee pickin’ awn the Pradizan pallyticians! Heul’ awn a minute…”

njmcc

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:19:34 +0000

Its the final acts of a dying breed. Thankfully as we progress into a more secular society these type of actions will soon be resigned to the history books. We can speed it up too by not voting for these bigots again

cestqui8

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:14:46 +0000

Anything these idiots do denies human rights. Why can't we play irish league games on a Sunday? Because these idiots claim we should be reading our bible by candlelight. It's not ok for us to watch a comedy sketch but it's ok for the party leader's wife to have an affair with some wee fella and 'finance' his business. We need to oust these bigoted hypocrites from this country. It's 2014 folks not 1690

LITTLE LIPS

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:10:20 +0000

Just how far people of close minds go? Are they infallible and have the right to control your mind? Open minded people are a asset to society.

coilsandco

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:06:10 +0000

Since when did the DUP give a toss about human rights? They are Anti-Catholic, Anti-Gay, Anti-Science and Anti-Democracy. They make the Taliban look enlightened. #DUPOUT

8billion

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:53:08 +0000

Consider yourselves lucky they don't have any real power.

deleted8642786

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:36:49 +0000

Where is Jamie?

kpj402

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:34:00 +0000

DUP banning plays? How can that possibly be considered "news" in Northern Ireland?

Yahoe_Yahboyee

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:17:33 +0000

[youtube JXdM8fkup4Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXdM8fkup4Q youtube]

glengormlian

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:12:32 +0000

They're denying people's human rights! Let's start protesting!