Why is it patently OK to disrespect religious people?
Yediot Aharonot reports:
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJC) said Madonna's stage performances were amoral and urged all religious-minded people to abstain from attending her Moscow concert due on September 11, the Interfax news agency reported.[...]
In her show, Madonna uses Jewish and Muslim religious symbols and this for "me as a Jew, is shocking," Gorin said, adding that the fact that she uses in her songs Jewish terminology was "rather illiterate and inconsiderate."
This comes after Pope Benedict and the entire Vatican slammed her for her use of crucifixion during a show in Rome.
The Russian Orthodox church also voiced their discontent with Madonna's performance:
The statement reports an intention to hold a broad action in protest against Madonna’s ‘blasphemous and anti-Christian’ show and urges the authorities ‘at least to postpone the planned concert from September 11 to another date and to ban her scene with the blasphemous crucifixion’.
Now, granted, the Orthodox patiarchate has not been friendly to Jews, now or ever.
And, as RIA noted, perhaps expectedly, the protests on behalf of literally every Christian denomination, the Council of Muftis and Federation of Jewish Communities fell on deaf ears as the deafening sound of printing tickets drowned them out -- 4,000 tickets flew in a couple hours.
This is not what concerns me. I wouldn't expect there to be a mass rush of teshuva in Eastern Europe, that all teens should burn their Madonna CDs instantly. However, the bravado is almost summed up perfectly in the words of Benedetta Mori of Rome, who attended Madonna's show there:
“If they allowed her to stage the show here they must also play by her rules.”
Unfortunately that attitude usually provokes the offended party to make their own rules.
According to the report, Gorin stressed that the organizers of such concerts in Moscow, which he said is "the capital of Orthodoxy," ought to "be more tactful toward the innermost in human moral; that is faith."Gorin reminded the audience about the reaction of the Muslim world to the publication in the Western media of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the report said.
And, as usual, such a violent outburst would be unjustified, wrong, illegal, immoral, inconscienable -- and totally expect-able.


