Thursday, June 01, 2006

DERVISHES’ DANCE ON THE CHRIST’S IMAGE

This tourism video has been out for years, it is interesting that it is becoming controversial now. I wonder if this is a reflex to all of the Muhammad cariacture hubbub:

"The shots from the Turkish video clip have been “walking” by the World Network three days and have already been titled “Dervishes’ Dance on the Christ’s Image”. According to the Yerkramas newspaper of the Russian Armenians, in St. Petersburg the Armenian activists are going to institute legal proceedings against a Turkish agency circulating cadres, which are offensive for Christians: the Christian cultural monuments on the territory of modern Turkey are presented as cities that have sunk, where only mermaids swim, while the image of Jesus Christ has turned into a dance hall.
Such provocative video clips can hardly be considered just a commercial subterfuge. Too little time has elapsed since a scandal caused by Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad, so one is inclined to believe in obvious premeditation of the step undertaken by Turks to artificially foment interreligious passions. Turkey, which is doing its best to position itself as a secular state that observes ethnical minorities’ rights, evidently cannot be considered a civilized country, for even commercial interests are unable to conceal political and expansionist ones. The Christian cultural monuments, on which the heirs of nomads perform ritual dances, testify to the fact that the very nomads that have arrogated to themselves the invaluable monuments of the world history pretending to be the region’s autochthon population are unworthy of such legacy and can just spoil and destroy it. It is quite symbolic that Armenians have been the first to make those who committed sacrilege responsible via litigation – without mentioning other factors, the wound and pain of the deprivation of thousands of the Jugha khachkars destroyed by Turkish vandals is still with us. And yet, if political interests hampered the Christian world’s consolidation in the issue referring to khachkars, perhaps, this time the blasphemous cadres will make Christians rebuff the provocateurs stirring up interreligious rows and setting the representatives of various confessions against each other?"
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