Lebanon Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality
Lebanon’s culture minister Mohammad Mortada said on Wednesday that the Warner Bros. film was found to “promote homosexuality and sexual transformation” and “contradicts values of faith and morality” by diminishing the importance of the family unit.
“Based on Mortada’s move, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi in turn asked General Security’s censorship committee, which falls under the interior ministry and is traditionally responsible for censorship decisions, to review the film and give its recommendation,” the Reuters news agency reported.The film was originally scheduled to debut in the Middle East on July 19, two days before landing in the rest of the world’s multiplexes. It nowat the end of August.
“Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has already generated $1.03 billion at the global box office, including $468 million in North America. Malawi, who is backed by the Shi’ite armed group Hezbollah, and Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah have both spoken recently onmatters. Mawlawi last year banned events “promoting sexual perversion.” Nasrallah has said that homosexuality poses an “imminent danger” to Lebanon and should be “confronted.” People engaged in homosexual acts should be “killed,” he said.
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