RABAT —
Morocco announced Saturday it had
banned a British film about the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims
in a number of countries have denounced as blasphemous.
اضافة اعلان
“The Lady of Heaven” will not receive a license to
be shown in the country, the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre (CCM) said in a
statement issued late Saturday.
The CCM ruling bans the film, directed by Eli King,
from being screened on either a commercial or cultural basis in the country.
The drama is
billed as the first film on the life of the Prophet Mohammed’s daughter Fatimah
and draws links between
Daesh in the 21st century and historical figures in
Sunni Islam.
The CCM’s ruling comes hours after Morocco’s Supreme
Ulema Council, the kingdom’s highest religious authority, firmly condemned the
film in a statement Saturday.
In the statement, they said the film was a “flagrant
falsification of the established facts of the history of Islam”.
The film was released in Britain on June 3 but after
protests outside cinemas, the world’s second-largest cinema chain,
Cineworld,
canceled all screenings.
Egypt,
Pakistan,
Iran, and Iraq are among the countries to
have denounced the film as blasphemous.
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