Free Speech is for Groups of 10,000 or More 21 December 2004 Violent protests by Sikhs in Birmingham, England ended the run of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play, drama Behzti, or Dishonour, which contains murder and rape scenes taking place in a Sikh temple. Audience members were evacuated from the theatre Saturday night as protesters fought with riot police and caused thousands of pounds of damage. Following the destruction, a representative from a local Sikh temple, Mohan Singh, chastised the theatre for not heeding the warnings of Sikh leaders, and denied that free speech was at issue here, as: "'Free speech can go so far. Maybe 5,000 people would have seen this play over the run. Are you going to upset 600,000 thousands Sikhs in Britain and maybe 20 million outside the UK for that?'" Sounds like Singh has a friend.
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