Greece: Play tackles social taboos

by Iason Athanasiadis
Christian Science Monitor
June 16, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1814/greece-play-tackles-social-taboos

Excerpt:

As head-scarfed Muslim women proliferate on the streets of fiercely Orthodox Christian Greece, a daring play staged in Athens is breaking some deep-rooted social taboos about Islam.

"Can you be a Greek Muslim or a Greek Bahai? Are you Greek if you're atheist? Should there be a mosque in Athens? What to do with Muslim kids during religion class? [These] are some questions the play raises," said Cassie Moghan, a British multimedia artist involved in the show.

An all-female cast of Greek and expatriate women perform "Hijab Frappe," a play irreverently examining the issues stirred up when a homogeneous, immigrant-exporting country becomes Europe's southeastern gateway.

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