Beheaded prophet opera dropped by posers

A Berlin opera company recently cancelled a Mozart production over security fears because it features the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad. Robert Miller argues that these artists are posers. They theoretically subscribe to 'transgression,' the idea that liberation to a better form of life is obtained by trangressing the norms of a power structure. But the Berlin company feared that showing Muhammad's severed heard in their show would anger some Jihadists, perhaps resulting in their own heads being severed. Instead of standing up for a moral principle of resisting a power structure, they folded immediately, "thus demonstrating to the world what we knew all along, that postmodern artists are courageous only when in no real danger."