BBC shows Mo's severed head!

I'm sure most visitors to this blog are already aware of this story (thanks to all who emailed me):

THE bloodstained King of Crete stumbles onstage and holds aloft the decapitated heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and the Prophet Muhammad. “The gods are dead!” he calls out to the audience.

German operagoers will not be seeing that scene or, indeed, any scene from one of Mozart’s most powerful works. For fear of Muslim anger, the bosses of the world-renowned Deutsche Oper in Berlin have cancelled performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo. The decision has unleashed a storm of disapproval from politicians and writers, who claim that Germany has fatally compromised the freedom of expression...

Suprisingly, the BBC actually showed the scene (very briefly) in its report. Watch here (RealPlayer). Screencap:


That's Mo's head on the right. Amazingly enough, there's been no reaction from any of the alphabet soup of Muslim representative groups in Britain (yet).

Here's a before picture from Berliner Morgenpost:



Michelle Malkin has a round-up of reaction.