The British cinema network Cineworld decided to cancel the show of the film “Queen of Heaven” (The Lady of Heaven) dedicated to the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad Fatima, reports The Guardian.
The reason for the abolition was the pickets of Muslim activists, who stated that in the film a religious story is presented in a distorted form, and the images of Muhammad, his wife Aisha and associates are reflected in a negative light.
Cineworld said she decided to cancel all the shows of the Queen of Heaven in order to “ensure the security of our employees and customers.” The YouTube channel of the Muslim portal 5pillars published reports from protests in Birmingham and Bradford, on one of the video it was recorded as a crowd of people with posters stands near the shopping center in which the cinema of the network is located. The portal notes that the protests were peaceful, the police did not interfere in any of them.
According to the newspaper, the Vue Cinema network, competing with Cineworld, shot the film from the show in “Selected Cinemas”, but still planned to show him in London and the southeast of the country. “Vue will show the film after the BBFC (independent British film classification commission) appreciated it.” Heavenly Lady “was accredited by BBFC and demonstrated in a number of our cinemas,” the network said. They noted that they consider it important to provide content on the platform that meets the interests of different layers of society.
The producer of the picture Malik Shlibak on his Twitter expressed regret in connection with the abolition of the film and said that “there are many like-minded Muslims in the UK, but, unfortunately, the most loud voice of marginal radical groups of minorities”.