Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5385058.stm
On September 27, 2006 BBC News reported, "The German government has met Muslim community leaders in Berlin amid a row over the cancellation of a Mozart opera deemed offensive to Muslims. The Islam conference was a landmark initiative to improve the integration of Germany's three million Muslims. It was overshadowed by the row over the opera Idomeneo. In one scene it was to show the severed heads of the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ and Buddha. Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned 'self-censorship out of fear'. 'We must take care that we do not retreat out of a fear of potentially violent radicals,' she said. She was speaking after the Deutsche Oper in Berlin decided to call off November's production of Idomeneo, citing 'incalculable' security risks."