Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests

There us nothing wrong with peaceful protest. Being there to show your dissatisfaction. There is nothing right about intimidation of people going about their legal activities, leisure or work.
 
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Shame on Cineworld for cancelling The Lady of Heaven

Why do some radical Muslims believe they should have the right to crush culture and cancel a film about the Prophet Muhammed's daughter?
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Bradford was chosen last week as the UK’s City of Culture for 2025. This week, Bradford Cineworld – as well as a number of other cinemas around the country – announced that a new movie called The Lady of Heaven was being pulled from schedules following protests by angry Muslims. So is this what we can expect from a City of Culture in 21st-century Britain – the creation of all kinds of culture, except for anything that might offend some adherents to the Islamic faith?
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What a joke.


This is chilling. Call me an old-fashioned secular democrat, but isn’t it completely wrong, and morally perverse, to allow small numbers of religious hotheads to determine what the rest of us can see and watch? This grants a veto to fundamentalists, allowing them to shape public culture to their own tastes and prejudices. It is profoundly illiberal.
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Hagar said:
There us nothing wrong with peaceful protest. Being there to show your dissatisfaction. There is nothing right about intimidation of people going about their legal activities, leisure or work.
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I mean, isn't that partly what a picket is designed to do? Where do you draw the picket line?
 
explicit4u said:
I mean, isn't that partly what a picket is designed to do? Where do you draw the picket line?
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Even pickets are supposed not to intimidate except by peaceable persuasion of the verbal variety. Unfortunately not too many are skilled in the arts of debate and non verbal scuffles do occur.

As this is not a labour dispute, pickets are not a tactic. This is just a crowd whipped up to a frenzy nearby a local mosque no doubt to go and close down the cinema.
 
Imagine actually being so indoctrinated from birth that your entire waking day was ruled by talking multiple times a day to something that is invisible and doesn't actually exist.
Then being offended on the behalf of a dead person that possibly lived 1500 years ago...
So offended that you would kill/die to defend made up rules that are now hundreds of years out of date and utterly irrelevant.



I laugh at religions
 
Efour said:
Imagine actually being so indoctrinated from birth that your entire waking day was ruled by talking multiple times a day to something that is invisible and doesn't actually exist.
Then being offended on the behalf of a dead person that possibly lived 1500 years ago...
So offended that you would kill/die to defend made up rules that are now hundreds of years out of date and utterly irrelevant.



I laugh at religions
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I mean imagine not being indoctrinated since birth and defending their right to enforce their own beliefs on others, that's literally 10x worse
 
Religion serves no purpose in civilized society, something that has continued from a long past time when people wanted an explanation for how things work/why things are a certain way (ofc the magic sky fairy did it) and didn't have the tools or knowledge to know any better. Along with the whole controlling the masses stuff/war etc

Personality, do whatever and believe whatever makes you happy. But when that spills into the real world, no. Some like the above are far worse than others however.
 
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MatsyLR said:
Religion serves no purpose in civilized society, something that has continued from a long past time when people wanted an explanation for how things work/why things are a certain way (ofc the magic sky fairy did it) and didn't have the tools of knowledge to know any better. Along with the whole controlling the masses stuff/war etc
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Yup, pretty much what James Randi says in this video, its easy to explain things with some "all powerful authority" in charge.

 
Gerard said:
Yup, pretty much what James Randi says in this video, its easy to explain things with some "all powerful authority" in charge.

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James Randi is great, he has a nice way of putting things. Indoctrination is a powerful thing tho. I do tend to doubt the intelligence of any adults who still believe in any religion (like Santa clause) among the many things kids grow out of after they develop reasoning skills.
 
Efour said:
Imagine actually being so indoctrinated from birth that your entire waking day was ruled by talking multiple times a day to something that is invisible and doesn't actually exist.
Then being offended on the behalf of a dead person that possibly lived 1500 years ago...
So offended that you would kill/die to defend made up rules that are now hundreds of years out of date and utterly irrelevant.



I laugh at religions
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Yeh but this forum is bad for it too, try the Ramadan threads for example! Post ANYTHING other than complete love for it and the admins/mods clamp down in fear
 
JUMPURS said:
As I said, a protest can appear intimidating if you’re on the receiving end. There is nothing to suggest that the protesters threatened people, the reports say they were shouting. That happens during a protest.

As I said, as much as the tories are in the works of banning it, there is still a right to protest in this county. I’d have thought that would be a welcome thing amongst the ‘my grandfather didn’t fight the Germans for us to not have a voice’ brigade. You’d think the right to protest would be applauded.
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Except that’s not what happens. Everyone knows if they don’t get their way they start burning cars and intimidating individuals with the threat of physical violence. It’s the same tactics that have proved very fruitful and reliable to this particular religion for hundreds of years.
 
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