{"id":7847,"date":"2011-09-21T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2011-09-21T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:17:08","slug":"pa-school-cancels-play-about-muslim-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/21\/pa-school-cancels-play-about-muslim-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. school cancels play about Muslim poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story Pa. school cancels play about Muslim poet<\/strong><\/a> appears in The Boston Globe<\/em>. The start of this story from AP follows:<\/p>\n

A Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a musical about a Muslim street poet after community members complained about the timing so soon after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t even imagine what is going through your mind.\u00a0 What kind of story is their about a Muslim Poet?\u00a0 Is there a punch line to this blog post?<\/p>\n

Wait, for it.\u00a0 The play about a Muslim poet is the musical “Kismet”.<\/p>\n

In the version about this story titled, Western Pennsylvania School Cancels Kismet in Wake of 9\/11 Anniversary<\/strong><\/a>, they add the commentary:<\/p>\n

Musicals like Rent<\/em> and Godspell<\/em> have encountered resistance on the school and community levels after their acclaimed Broadway runs, and now the 1953 Tony Award-winning musical Kismet<\/em> faces a similar destiny in western Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it is that “Kismet”.\u00a0 The very musical my parents were thrilled to see on Broadway before we knew we were supposed to be afraid of musicals about Muslim poets.<\/p>\n

I don’t know who thought up the headline\u00a0 for the story as it appeared in The Boston Globe<\/em>.\u00a0 Maybe it was purposely chosen to give you a good shock when you found out what play they were talking about.<\/p>\n

According to the AP story:<\/p>\n

\u201cKismet\u2019\u2019 is an Aladdin-style love story set in Baghdad more than 1,000 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose that movie theaters must now refrain from showing Disney’s “Aladdin” at any time near 9\/11.<\/p>\n

The irony for me is that I can imagine that many people reading this blog post (including some of my relatives) will be mystified at why I am making such a big deal of this.\u00a0 To me, it is such a big deal because such blatant racism will seem so totally reasonable to people who claim to abhor racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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