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In the light hearted, pop video, Perry plays a campy Egyptian queen who rejects suitors by zapping them with lightning and turning them into sand.
Muslims accused Perry of blasphemy and insulting Islam because at one point in her music video a man wearing a pendant with the word ‘Allah’ written in Arabic is zapped by Perry, and disintegrates. In the censored version the religious symbol is edited out.
Offended Muslims began a petition at change.org demanding YouTube remove the video. The petition received over 65,000 signatures. After the video was edited to remove the supposedly “blasphemous” scene, the originator of the petition declared victory, issuing the following post:
Guys I’m thrilled to let you all know the name of Allah has been removed from the ‘Dark Horse’ video we couldn’t have done it without everyone’s support so I thank each and every one of you deeply, our voices have been heard! God bless you all
On the surface, the whole thing is rather silly. In the big scheme of things, a brief moment in a Katy Perry video is of little import. However, this kind of censorship does point to a dark and sinister problem facing the West. The fragile religious feelings of some Muslim extremists threaten our freedom, and that is not right. To allow a few religious extremists to impose their religious sensibilities upon the rest of us is morally and intellectually repugnant.
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
a reply to: lonesomerimbaud
Please stop idolizing other humans.
The Entertainment Industrial Complex is evil incarnate.
originally posted by: zazzafrazz
I feel pride that this freedom of expression exists.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: stosh64
I blame Islamaphobia on why making fun of Muslim culture isn't more widespread. If the Western media didn't spend so much time hyping up the "threat" that Muslims pose to the western world, people would be more apt to criticize it. Instead they either don't or don't approve of it because of fear of retaliation. This is one of the reasons I stand behind Charlie Hebdo going through with their actions. Freedom of expression applies to everything, sensibilities be damned.
originally posted by: Eunuchorn
a reply to: lonesomerimbaud
Nope, Elvis was a byproduct of the Entertainment Industrial Complex. He is just another head of the beast that is long term conditioning.
I'm not trying to antagonize you directly, it's the existence of the materialist system as a whole over the long term which has led to the worship & idolization of other humans, & it is, at the risk of being redundant, evil incarnate.
I could go on and on with examples of the hypocrisy, but I hope you get my point.
originally posted by: Peeple
Peace
Steve
Your post totaly inspired me to cake-satan is my motor.
I hear you. Peace? You sound like you want to make fun of someone or something and can't? Am i getting this right?
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