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181: The Lady of Heaven: censored for blasphemy

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss Islamist intolerance, Boris Johnson’s flailing premiership, trans athletes and the woke meltdown at the Washington Post.

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:03.4

welcome to the spike podcast.

0:05.1

I'm Fraser and with me this week as ever we have spikes editor Tom Slater.

0:05.8

Hello.

0:06.2

And spike columnist Ella Whelan.

0:07.8

Hi.

0:08.3

Coming up on the show, Islamist censorship, Boris Johnson,

0:12.4

the Woke Washington Post, and trans athletes in women's sports.

0:17.0

Cinemas across the UK have pulled a film allegedly due to its blasphemous content.

0:26.0

Islamic protesters say that the Lady of Heaven contains blasphemous scenes depicting the Prophet

0:32.0

Mohammed in a disrespectful way as well as protest. blasphemy signatures calling for the film to be banned. Tom, what have you made of this?

0:44.0

I think this is really outrageous and the lack of response is really outrageous.

0:49.0

As you say, there's been these protests, quite menacing protests,

0:52.0

you know, a couple hundred people often at one time.

0:53.6

It's quite clearly an intimidating campaign.

0:56.1

This isn't just about people talking about their hurt feelings necessarily.

0:59.7

And also it's had an effect, you know, Sineward put out this statement saying because they cannot

1:03.6

maintain the safety for their staff and customers that they've pulled this

1:07.4

film across the country. Showcase, I think is another one, another chain,

1:10.9

smaller chain has already pulled. pulled its screening to this film.

1:15.0

View I think is hanging on.

1:17.0

And so what you've essentially got here is a group of hardline religious conservatives who have

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