Slog - Comments on Director Stabbed to Death http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death 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... Copyright 2008 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:43:07 -0800 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:41:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by christopher 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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]]> christopher http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c798644 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c798644 Theater Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:14:23 -0800 Comment by Just Me 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.

]]> Just Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c798651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c798651 Theater Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:18:47 -0800 Comment by Issur 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.

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c798705 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c798705 Theater Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:57:04 -0800 Comment by Donovan 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!

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c799148 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c799148 Theater Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:29:29 -0800 Comment by Donovan 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.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c799150 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/director_stabbed_to_death#c799150 Theater Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:41:11 -0800