Muslims Protest ‘Provocative’ Film Depicting Mohammed’s Daughter

“Provocative film” promptly cancelled thanks to rallying shiities.

“If politeness and ceremony be observed toward Mohammedans, they imagine they are feared and become arrogant; but in showing severity and rudeness, they are impressed with fear and respect, and they are supple and manageable.” –North China Herald,1867

Muslims in Britain have protested the release of what they called a “provocative” film, which depicts the daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

Around 25 mainly Muslim protesters turned out for a silent protest in front of the Vue Cinema in Blackburn on Friday to demonstrate against the newly released “The Lady of Heaven”, a film which centres around Fatimah, the daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

With the British-made film already being banned in the Islamic Republic of Iran, critics more locally have denounced the movie as being “provocative”, with some fearing that it could inflame “Shia and Sunni tensions”.

Didn’t take long to take it down:

UK: Muslims scream ‘Allahu akbar’ after theater chain pulls ‘blasphemous’ $15,000,000 film on Muhammad’s daughter

The ‘hardline’ Islamic cleric behind The Lady of Heaven film: Firebrand Shia advocate who is exiled in UK due to outspoken views on fellow Muslims raised funds for movie at the centre of angry protests outside British cinemas

Yasser al-Habib, who born in Kuwait and a script writer for the film, claims on his website that his involvement in The Lady of Heaven is an attempt to ‘enlighten the world’
  • Yasser al-Habib, who was born in Kuwait, is a script writer for The Lady of Heaven
  • The film has been pulled by Cineworld and Showcase following protests
  • Mr al-Habib has regularly taken to social media to rail against Islamic figures
  • His website claims his involvement in film is an attempt to ‘enlighten the world’
The film was pulled by Cineworld yesterday after hundreds of people gathered outside its branches in Bolton, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bradford and urged for screenings to be axed +6 View gallery The film was pulled by Cineworld yesterday after hundreds of people gathered outside its branches in Bolton, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bradford and urged for screenings to be axed

Sahih Bukhari 7:62:64
Narrated ‘Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old.

Shame on Cineworld for cancelling The Lady of Heaven

‘Cineworld has cancelled all screenings of The Lady of Heaven, saying it did so to ‘ensure the safety of our staff and customers’. Shame on them. These are meant to be arenas of culture, spaces for audiences to watch all kinds of movies,’ writes Brendan O’Neill.
‘It isn’t The Lady of Heaven that is shocking (and anyway, moviemakers should be perfectly at liberty to shock as much as they please). No, it’s the fact that in modern Britain, small numbers of Islamic activists can compel an entire cinema chain to dump a movie that they don’t like. This suggests our culture is being held hostage to intolerant minorities. And people say cancel culture is a myth.’