Monday, October 02, 2006

What's The World Coming To When You Can't.....

MADRID, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Spanish villages are toning down traditional fiestas in which revellers blow up dummies representing the Prophet Mohammed for fear of offending Muslims, the newspaper El Pais reported on Monday. One eastern Spanish village, Bocairent, decided to abandon the custom of packing the head of a dummy representing Mohammed with fireworks after seeing the angry response by Muslims to a Danish newspaper's publication last year of cartoons of him... The village may not have blown up the wood-and-cardboard Mohammed dummy this year -- but it still threw it off a castle wall at the fiesta's climax in February... Villages all over Spain hold annual festivals to commemorate the "Reconquista", the reconquest of Spain by Christians from the Moors, which was completed in 1492 after more than 700 years of Muslim rule in much of the country.
But there is good news. They still aren't afraid to burn George Bush in effigy

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