Theater Director Stabbed to Death
posted by on September 7 at 10:43 AM
Mark Weil, a prominent Uzbek theater director and part-time Seattle resident was stabbed to death in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, presumably by “two young men in baseball caps waiting for the director in front of his building.”
He was not robbed.
From the AP:
The Ilkhom Theater, which Weil founded in 1976, was the first independent theater in the Soviet Union. Long before perestroika was introduced in the late 1980s, Ilkhom gained popularity for staging uncensored productions that combined elements of Uzbek folk theater, Italian commedia dell’arte, absurdist plays and pantomime.
Some of Ilkhom’s productions have discussed themes of homosexual love, a taboo topic in Uzbekistan, a predominantly Muslim country in Central Asia where gays still face ostracism and persecution. Homosexuality is punishable by up to two years in jail.
Weil was about to open to open a production of The Oresteia.
“I’m opening the season tomorrow, whatever happens,” were Weil’s last words, according to [spokeswoman Oksana] Khripun.
I think of a martyr as a person who was killed for acting in accordance with their beliefs, while the moslem fundies think of it as someone who kills for their beliefs (as long as they die in the process). The artists and liberals slaughtered by these cro-magnon fucks are the truest martyrs in the world today. I'd light a candle for this dude if I had one. RIP.
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Where is the outrage from all those "moderate Muslims" here in the US of A? Come one guys!!! You keep telling us (along with moderate Christians) that this sort of extreme interpetation of your master's teachings are wrong when you are put into a corner. How about stepping up and showing some outrage over this?
Huh, what is that? Oh, you quietly agree with the guys death. THAT is why. Just like how the "moderate" and "Liberal" Christians are okay with various forms of discrimination.
Religious people make me sick.
Judaism has no extreme elements that would stab someone for being gay. Only toxic Christianity and Islamo-Fascists are against gay marriage.
In Israel there are never any gay bashings and the goi are allowed to marry anything they want, man woman or in between.
And there goes another scrap of my faith in humanity, Space Invaders style. Maybe we /should/ make all organized religion illegal. Shit, there's a frightening thought: maybe that maniac Mao was right!
Issur, you're full of shit. In Israel (which was so fascist that they were one of the few countries willing to be allied with Apartheid-era South Africa), Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an EXTREMIST JEW! Not a Muslim! Extremists on /both/ sides (all sides) are insecure psychos who need to smash the world into a form that matches their beliefs. It's not the religion's fault -- it's the morons committing the acts of violence (or trolling, as in your case). You're completely wrong about both Judaism and Islam, and you should fuck off and die now. Thanks. Or, alternately, you could open your eyes to the world even if it doesn't match your beliefs. But I'm not that much of an optimist. Fuck off.
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