Posted on 02/25/2014 4:44:26 PM PST by rickmichaels
Singer Katy Perry has upset members of the Muslim community by featuring "blasphemous" imagery in the music video for her new hit Dark Horse.
In the promo, the Roar hitmaker plays an Egyptian queen who has the power to zap her subjects with lightning and turn them into sand, and she has offended Muslims by killing one male subject, wearing a pendant reading God (Allah) in Arabic. The jewellery item is also zapped.
Members of the Muslim community have criticized the video, calling it blasphemous and demanding for it be removed from YouTube.com.
One of those offended by the imagery has launched a petition on Change.org, which reads, "This petition is lodged In (sic) regards to Katy Perry's music video Dark Horse... The video is considered as highly controversial to its viewers as a result of its portrayal of blasphemy.
"At 01:15 (minutes) 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 (sic) word for God. Such goes to show, that 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.
"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 (sic). Using the name of God in an irrelevant and distasteful manner would be considered inappropriate by any religion."
Gosh since you posted the video only had 500,000 views? Now the video has over 32 million views. Perry is the winner in this big time.
Still doesn’t make it the name of God.
Okay. So the Freeper world’s collective mind is blown by this.
Tell me. Is she:
-A Godless heathen who perpetuates leftist social ideology.
OR
-A victim of rampant Political Correctness and Islamization.
Clock is ticking.
(Freeper minds are blowing right now.)
Yeah, I just watched it. I'm sure I'm not the demographic it is intended for. I still thought it was funny - the spicy food and no water, the low-rider bouncing chariot, the fuzzy dice... Plus, if it offends Muslims, all the better. They have got to learn to not be so {expletive} stiff-necked about every imagined slight.
You’re right. It’s a referent for God, just like “God” is.
From the religion that would kill every one who does not convert, just amazing.
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I guess that at one time I would have been amazed, but now I just see it as how these subhumans roll.
She should have had Mary Steyn being beheaded in the video.
These same people would have been fine with that.
Dear Muslim community,
F*** off.Love,
Laz
Offended persons can go to hell or Saudi Arabia, whichever is quicker.
She whimped out and changed it.
Well, this should be interesting. I thought fundamentalist islam and the moral sewer had some sort of understanding with each other?
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