Muslims angered at depiction in German carnival
cologne, Germany • An estimated two million people took to the streets of Germany's Rhine region for the climax of the carnival season yesterday but Muslim representatives criticised the celebrations.
The carnival floats in parades through the region's cities traditionally take an irreverent look at world events, but the Central Council of Muslims in Germany condemned one float in Duesseldorf which featured fibreglass models of two bearded men wearing turbans and explosives belts and brandishing guns.
The word "Cliche" was printed on one of the men, while the other bore the word "Reality."
The depiction of Islam was "barefaced lies" and the float was "using negative images to seek attention," the Central Council's Secretary-General Aiman Mazyek told today's edition of the Westdeutsche Zeitung daily.
Organisers of the festivities in the carnival centres of Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz had promised a return to satirical themes this year after a relatively restrained showing in 2006 in the wake of the controversy over the publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him).
Cologne played host to the main parade, with 99 floats edging through the city, cheered on by hundreds of thousands of revellers in costume and wearing wigs.
One float in Cologne showed US President George W Bush being spanked by the Statue of Liberty while another depicted French presidential candidates Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy as boxing cockerels.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Muslims angered at depiction in German carnival
Previous stories concerning the Carnival:
2) Moslem Satire in German, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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