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2022-06-11 Britain
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UK Cinema Chain Pulls ‘Blasphemous’ Film over ‘Safety Concerns’ After Muslim Backlash
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[Breitbart] Bowing to pressure from protests from Moslem groups, a British cinema chain has pulled all screenings of a supposedly "blasphemous" film that uses CGI to depict the prophet Mohammed and presents contested historical events.
On Tuesday, Cineworld announced that it would cancel all screenings of The Lady of Heaven, which had sparked protests from mostly Sunni Moslem groups, who have objected to the historical accuracy of the events during the life of Mohammed’s daughter Fatimah, a key point of contention between the two main sects of Islam.
The film has also drawn the ire of Moslem activists for its digital representation of the face of Mohammed with computer-generated images of many different faces to depict the Islamic prophet, which some have claimed is blasphemous.
Responding to a petition demanding the removal of the film from all British cinemas, Cineworld said: "Due to the recent incidents regarding screenings of ’The Lady of Heaven,’ we have made the decision to cancel upcoming screenings of the film nationwide to ensure the safety of our staff and customers."
This week several protests were held outside of cinemas by what appeared to be Sunni Moslem activists, chanting slogans such as "Allah hu Akbar"(Allah is greater [than your god]).
In footage posted on social media, one protester at the Cinemaworld theatre in Bradford can be heard proclaiming: "We have a right not to be insulted".
Another said: "Birmingham will not tolerate the disrespect of our prophet and there will outcomes from your actions. You will have repercussions for your actions. We have been trained from birth that we must defend the honour of our prophet and we will lay our life on the line."
Amid chants of "Allah hu Akbar", another video appeared to show the manager of Sheffield Cineworld bending to the crowd’s demands and cancelling the screening of the film.
Other protesters were heard shouting "Kafir Kafir Shia Kafir", an Arabic slogan describing Shia Moslems as non-believers.
Journalist and Associate Fellow at the neo-conservative Henry Jackson Society think tank, Wasiq Wasiq claimed that the use of the phrase Kafir against Shia Moslems represented a form of Islamophobia
 ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
, writing that it "is more than just sectarianism, it is anti-Moslem sectarianism and therefore anti-Moslem hatred."
Wasiq also noted that the use of the phrase has been widely adopted by radical Sunni terrorist groups, including the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
to target "not only minority sects of Moslems in Iraq and Syria but also their fellow Moslems in the Sunni strand of Islam."
Free speech advocate and Baroness of the House of Lords, Claire Fox described the decision to pull the film as the "creep of extra-parliamentary blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
law".
"Same ’I Find that Offensive’ cancel culture arguments now being used far beyond campus activism. Disastrous for the arts, dangerous for free speech, a lesson to those who argue identity politics are no threat to democracy," Fox wrote.
In an article on Spiked Online, GB News host and political commentator Inaya Folarin Iman laid the blame for the film’s cancellation on the "self-flagellation and cowardice" of cultural elites in Britannia whom she argued are "so beholden to the politics of identity and victimhood that they actually think the Moslem protesters have a point."
"This is a deeply troubling moment for freedom of speech and tolerance in Britannia. If our cultural and politicians cannot be bothered to stand up for these fundamental values, then it is all too likely they will wither away. We can’t let this happen," she urged.
Folarin Iman said that the same cultural rot had been responsible for "empowering" the protests against a British teacher last year who had shown his students a caricature of the Moslem prophet during a lesson on blasphemy, resulting in outrage within the local Islamic community in Batley and Spen.
The grammar school teacher and his family were forced into hiding after local activists leaked his identity, sparking fears that he could fall victim to a Dire Revenge attack, as befell Samuel Paty, a French teacher who was beheaded last year for showing his class a similar caricature of Mohammed.
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