Muslims want to stop Freddie Mercury party...
Now, they are going too far....
A huge beach party to honor late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury must be stopped because the Zanzibar-born rock star was gay, a Muslim leader said Thursday.
Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, violated Islam with his flamboyant lifestyle, said Azan Khalid of Zanzibar's Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation.
"That's why he was branded a Queen," Khalid said, adding that anything linking Mercury with Zanzibar's Muslim population would be offensive.
He said that a waterfront restaurant's plans for a September 2 party honoring Mercury's birthday would be stopped.
Mercury restaurant, which was named for the singer, will go ahead with the party, manager Simai Mohammed said.
Mercury, who acknowledged being gay, was born in Zanzibar when the country was still a British protectorate. He was educated in India and moved with his family to Britain in 1964, after a bloody revolution that drove out many immigrants of Indian or Arab descent.
"Our main idea is to promote tourism and Freddie Mercury was from Zanzibar. It's part of our history," Mohammed said. "We are all Muslims and it's not our intention to offend any religion."
posted by GayandRight @ 4:37 PM
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Freddy Mercury is the greatest musician who ever lived. They should pick on ABBA and Bee Gees, then I'd get behind the cause.
Freddie Mercury was very special and completely different from others. Montserrat Caballe once had been quoted: "The difference between Freddie and almost all the other rock stars was that he was selling the voice." Here I've tried to collect all notable tributes paid to Freddie Mercury by peers:
http://www.tributespaid.com/category/f/freddie-mercury
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