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Muslim Group Offended by Mercury Party
SFGATE.COM ^
| 8/31/06
| ALI SULTAN
Posted on 08/31/2006 8:41:24 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
A huge beach party to honor late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury must be stopped because the Zanzibar-born rock star was gay, a Muslim leader said Thursday.
Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, violated Islam with his flamboyant lifestyle, said Azan Khalid of Zanzibar's Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation.
"That's why he was branded a Queen," Khalid said, adding that anything linking Mercury with Zanzibar's Muslim population would be offensive.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 70srockgods; brianmay; britishtwit; freddiemercury; freddymercury; queen; rogertaylor; twit; zanzibar
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I guess if Freddy was into little boys, goats, or any other farm animal the beach party could proceed.
To: DogBarkTree
I love the song Fat Bottom Girls. How bout Fat Burka Girls?
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:43:58 AM PDT
by
JackDanielsOldNo7
(On guard until the seal is broken)
To: DogBarkTree
"Our main idea is to promote tourism and Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. It's part of our history," Mohammed said. "We are all Muslims and it's not our intention to offend any religion."
Evidently, there's a rule there that you have to be Muslim...?
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:44:00 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: DogBarkTree
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: DogBarkTree
It would be easier to post a list of does not offend muslims.
To: ironpuppy
To: ironpuppy
Boy...who do you root for in this story?Dead gay guy vs. living Muslim?
No contest!
To: ironpuppy
To: JackDanielsOldNo7
Can't someone write and perform a song called
"Islama-Mama"?
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:48:54 AM PDT
by
zook
(McCain/Giuliani/Rice--2 of the 3 in 08!)
To: DogBarkTree
My kids and I love Queen music. He really was a genious in that respect. We have a game. Best Gay Singer, he wins.
At the end of his life it was his ex-wife that cared for him and inherited his estate. I think it was an ending full
of regrets, but music fans know that he was a musically
both performer and writer.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:48:58 AM PDT
by
Tessarie
(Europe's brains immigrated to America 100 years ago.)
To: DogBarkTree
Freddy wasn't Muslim, his family were Zorastorans of Farsi origin who had lived in Zanzibar for years.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:49:39 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: Tessarie
Freddy never married. Gay, bisexual, or whatever, he was a great guy according to all accounts.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:51:18 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: Blue Jays
Hi All- Queen was definitely a supergroup of the 1970's. Chord changes, fantastic vocals, stunning guitar...who could ask for anything more. Anything that offends an annoying Muslim is a good thing to me.
~ Blue Jays ~
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:52:09 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Tessarie
One of the best voices of all time, regardless of sexuality.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(No autopsy, no foul.)
To: DogBarkTree
I have become a real fan of Queen's music lately (thanks to XM radio).
My understanding was not that Freddie was so much "gay", but that he was EVERYTHING (omnisexual). (Of course, it wasn't schtupping the teenyboppers that killed him.)
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:52:29 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: DogBarkTree
Hey, "The Show Must Go On" ;)
RIP Freddy.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:53:32 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: DogBarkTree
"That's why he was branded a Queen,"
This falls into the same category as "by the way, which one's Pink?"
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:54:13 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: DogBarkTree
Wayne : I'll think we'll go for a bit of Bohemian Rhapsody, gentlemen?
Garth : Good Call.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:54:57 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
To: DogBarkTree
I can't wait for a few gay beheadings by Muslims to wake up some (but by not means all) liberals about who they are cheering for.
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