Roger Waters Brings 'The Wall' To Muslim Countries

Roger Waters takes 'The Wall' Concerts to 57 Islamic Countries to Protest against Sharia Law and Execution of Homosexuals by having Walls Fall on Them

Having supported every wall-related cause and courageously stared down the free world over hundreds of minor injustices involving walls, co-founder and former lead singer of Pink Floyd Roger Waters has announced that he will take 'The Wall' performances to the Muslim world to protest the practice of crushing homosexuals with walls.

"I've already dragged my Wall concerts around the world to protest against walls, fences, and miscellaneous types of enclosures," explains Waters. "There's no reason I should exclude Muslim countries just because the cause would be real and the album's message would actually apply."

Indeed, it won't be the first time the singer braves the Middle East. In 2006 he defiantly protested the border wall in Israel that keeps gays escaping Gaza and the West Bank from having walls fall on them, including those that may topple onto them at Israeli night clubs because of suicide bombers.

"It fills me with horror," Mr. Waters said at the time. "The thought of being constrained by something like this - it's like living in a giant prison." He adapted the lyrics of the famous song to: "We don't need no occupation. We don't need no racist wall." Before performing, Waters spray-painted graffiti across part of the wall near Bethlehem, reading "No thought control," and urged Israel to tear down the wall, since preventing anyone from killing Jews is by definition racist.

"After my Israel trip I have received many letters from fans in Muslim countries," says Waters. "Most of them happened to be homosexuals who pleaded with me to come and perform The Wall in their area, as a way to raise awareness about the walls of death that are being dropped on gays there in accordance with the Hadith."

As an artist and therefore not a hypocrite, not a coward, and not one to measure Muslims by different standards from the rest of humanity, Waters decided to rise to the challenge of speaking to a part of the world where "thought control" is the understatement of the 7th century.

"If I did it in Israel and Berlin, I should be able to take The Wall to Islamic countries to benefit gay rights there," says Waters. "If all cultures are equal, what worked in Israel should also work in Saudi Arabia. I honestly believe that Muslim cultures are just as mentally and morally equipped as the Western cultures, if not more so. Besides, a gesture like this would add a nice new touch to my image as an artist with a message who brings meaning to his lyrics, one who has always defended progress against irony and sarcasm."