Cineworld cancels The Lady of Heaven film screenings after protests
And so they should. Those protestors talking about "depictions" are not interesting. These people behind the movie are interesting. My first thought had been that it was about depictions and I am all for busting that taboo - f*ck prophets and their followers - but since it is in fact a learned but violent appeal from one particular sect, there is no way this should be treated as mainstream cinema.
"Figures deemed holy in Sunni Islam but not Shi'ism were portrayed by darker skinned actors." Free speech isn't dying on that hill. Haseeb Rizvi is right.
