Lebanon and Kuwait ban Barbie film arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lebanon s Culture Minister, Mohammad Mortada, has banned the movie Barbie from cinemas for promoting homosexuality and contradicting religious values. Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has requested that General Security, responsible for censorship decisions, review the film and make its recommendation. Following Lebanon, Kuwait has also banned Barbie and the horror film Talk to Me to safeguard "public ethics and social traditions".
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The Hezbollah-backed minister said the film was found to "promote homosexuality and sexual transformation" and "contradicts values of faith and morality."
BEIRUT Lebanon's culture minister moved to ban the film Barbie from cinemas on Wednesday (Aug 9), saying it "promotes homosexuality" and contradicts religious values. Minister Mohammad Mortada is backed by powerful Shi'ite armed group Hezbollah, whose head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has ramped up his rhetoric against the LGBT community, referring in a recent speech to Islamic texts that call.