MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE SIGN PETITION TO BAN KATY PERRY VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE

Bradford, 26 Rabi’ul Akhir 1435/26 Februari 2014 (MINA) – Muslim worldwide sign petition aimed at banning a new music video from Katy Perry is beginning to gain steam, according to petition report published in change.org monitored by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).

The petition which has over 52,700 signatures so far, rails at Perry over the video for her new song, “Dark Horse,” in which a man wearing a pendant which features the word “God” in Arabic is vaporized by Perry.

The video, set in ancient Egypt, features a queen-like Perry zapping a man wearing the “God” pendant who eventually disintegrates into a pile of sand.

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The petitioner, Shazad Iqbal, said in the petition statement that the blasphemy is clearly conveyed in the video, since Katy Perry (who appears to be representing an opposition of God) engulfs the believer and the word God in flames.

At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse; a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant (also burned) forming the word ‘Allah’, which is the arabic word for God.

The statement added, this is the reason for lodging the petition so that people from different walks of life, different religions and from different parts of the world, agree that the video promotes blasphemy, using the name of God in an irrelevant and distasteful manner would be considered inappropriate by any religion

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“We hope that the video itself depicting such images is removed. Such acts are not condoned nor tolerated, we hope YouTube will remove the video,” it said.(T/P03/E01)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)