Moroccan Salafists Push to Ban ’Lightyear’ Film, Citing Religious Concerns

After having weighed heavily to obtain the ban on the broadcast of the film The Lady of Paradise in Morocco, a feature film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, the Salafists are calling for the ban of the animated film "Lightyear" without having seen it. A film whose scheduled release on Sunday, June 19 in cinemas has been banned in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. According to the Salafists, this film encourages homosexuality, harms Islam and society, and would even threaten the future of young people, reports the Arabic-language daily Assabah.

In about ten posts on his Facebook page that sound like "fatwas" and warnings addressed to parents, the Salafist Hassan Kettani stressed that the disciples of Satan are taking advantage of a certain laxity in Morocco to try to spread their works contrary to morals, on the one hand, and to put an end to the "purity" of the life of Muslims, on the other hand. He and his colleagues hope for only one thing: the ban on the broadcast of the animated film "Lightyear".