EFL - maybe a venue in Gaza is available
A Russian's plans for a September 11 anniversary "terror concert", starring a female singer dressed as a suicide bomber, were thwarted on Thursday when outrage in the wake of the Beslan school massacre led to its cancellation. | No, really? Why would anyone make that connection? |
A fierce-looking girl clad in a burqa-style black dress - dubbed the "Stupid Slut" "Little Suicide Bomber" by the media - was to sing about Muslim hardships on Saturday, three years since the plane attacks on US cities that killed around 3,000 people. Tickets to the show were made to look like plane tickets, the Izvestia daily said. "The concert has been cancelled... Who in his right mind would agree to stage it after all that has happened in Russia?" said a spokesperson for the venue, the House of Unions Hall. | Someone not in their right mind, of course. |
Ivan Shapovalov, the impresario behind the pop duo Tatu whose lesbian schoolgirl image courted controversy, said he cared little about what Russians might think about his show which he called the "terror concert". "If people are scared by a woman wearing a black headscarf, that means they are sick themselves," he told Izvestia. | I dunno, I just bet Ivan would be a tad concerned if cornered by a Black Widow. |
Shapovalov did not confirm the concert had been cancelled. "The venue organisers have not told us about the cancellation. We don't know what's going on. They didn't even let us rehearse," an aide said. |