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June 14, 2022

UK Theaters Pull a Shiite Film because Sunnis Deem It Heretical

A lesson for the illiberal left and the illiberal right.

Last week, the British company Cineworld announced that it would cease screening The Lady of Heaven, a movie written by a Kuwaiti Shiite cleric that tells the story of Mohammad’s daughter. The film sparked protests from Sunni Muslims, in whose eyes its plot is heretical. Stephen Daisley examines the implications of such successful sectarian censorship for the UK, and for the West more generally:

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