Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests

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Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests

The Lady of Heaven film has been criticised by some Muslim groups as blasphemous.

www.bbc.co.uk

A spokesperson for Cineworld said: "Due to recent incidents related to 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."

Are Cineworld saying that Muslims would be violent towards their staff and customers if they showed a film that they didn't like?

Sounds a bit racist to me.

 

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I don't really like this form of censorship. But I understand cineworlds approach.

Personally I think religion should be fair game. And no religion should get special treatment.

And when the religion gets special treatment due to basically threats its a bad precedent.


I do now want to see the film.

I would understand if they did it because of not wanting to offend, that's par for the course these days.

I'm trying to point out that they're basically saying Muslims will get violent if they don't pander to them.

 

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Yes let's generalise a billion people over 100 people protesting a film made by one of those billion people

Yet that's exactly what they've done.

 

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No it is not racist.
And no Cineworld are not insinuating anything.

If their staff and customers had already received threats of violence then yeah, they're not insinuating anything.

I was under the impression that they were just holding a silent protest. It doesn't seem they were.

 

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I wish they had an issue with all the Marvel films and got them pulled!

Blasphemer!

 

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What would the punishment for that be?

Probably being made to watch the DC movies.