Bomb Hoax and DUP Boycott in Belfast
September 07, 2007

At the start of its Autumn Tour of Ireland Jesus: The Guantanamo Years was the target of a bomb scare in Belfast. PSNI Officers arrived to search the Black Box Theatre but apparently it was a pretty obvious hoax. I had no idea there was anything wrong until I came off stage after the show, an hour later.

The incident underlines what I'm saying on stage: that Christianity has been hijacked by people who completely misunderstand the teachings of Jesus. If you phone in a bomb warning, regardless of whether it's real or fake, you're breaking one of the 10 Commandments. Fortunately, on this occasion, the idiot in question was only guilty of bearing false witness, so I forgive him.

Earlier that week, DUP Councillor Christopher Stalford stated that the show was "in fairly bad tasteā€ and encouraged people to boycott it. We had several frank exchanges of opinions on the airwaves, one of which you can listen to here...