https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61729392
Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests
Cineworld has cancelled all UK screenings of a film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, after it prompted protests outside some cinemas.
The cinema chain said it made the decision "to ensure the safety of our staff and customers".
More than 120,000 people have signed a petition for The Lady of Heaven film to be pulled from UK cinemas.
The Bolton Council of Mosques called the film "blasphemous" and sectarian.
But a House of Lords peer called the decision "disastrous for the arts [and] dangerous for free speech".
In an email to Cineworld, reported by the Bolton News, chairman Asif Patel said the film was "underpinned with a sectarian ideology" and "misrepresents orthodox historical narratives and disrespects the most esteemed individuals of Islamic history".
It came after more than 100 people protested against the film outside the cinema earlier this week, the newspaper reported.
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Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests
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More than 100 people? Yawn.
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These are the sort who explode on being offended. A hundred is lot when any one of them might be offended beyond their bodily limits.
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They can all get stuffed...
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The funny thing is from what I can tell from the reviews this is a bad movie. A muddled mess apparently. It probably would've been quickly forgotten but instead a lot of people will now seek this movie to watch out of spite and will sit through a bad movie to make a point.
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As long as we keep pandering to these medieval assholes they'll never stop. Tell them to shove it up the Prophet's Holy Ass.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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I'll gladly sfuff their young women for them.
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