Posted on 04/19/2023 8:00:56 PM PDT by Cronos
An Egyptian lawyer has filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to close the Netflix platform after the trailer of “Queen Cleopatra" was released, which depicts the Greek historical figure as a black-skinned woman.
According to Egypt Independent, Mahmoud al-Semary demanded that all legal measures be taken against those responsible for the documentary and the management of the streaming platform for its participation in “this crime.” He also called for an investigation and for Netflix to be blocked in Egypt.
The complaint submitted against the streaming platform said that "most of what Netflix platform displays contradicts Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones."
It added that the platform displayed advertisements that attracted millions of people in the world to watch the documentary Queen Cleopatra, who was of Greek origin depicting her as black woman, unlike Egyptian history and civilization.
The case said that the documentary promotes Afrocentrism that is widely spread on social media, which have slogans and writings aimed at distorting and obliterating the Egyptian identity.
The complaint continued addressing Public Prosecution: "In order to preserve the Egyptian national and cultural identity among Egyptians all over the world and take pride in it, and to consolidate the spirit of belonging to the homeland, and accordingly we ask and seek you to take the necessary legal measures against this platform."
It demanded stopping broadcasts showing all works aimed at obliterating and distorting the Egyptian identity, through films aimed at falsifying and distorting history in Egypt.
The complaint accused makers of the documentary and platform management of forgery.
People suing because they don’t like how a movie was made? The plaintiff should be tossed in the Nile. It’s a friggin’ movie.
She was a Macedonian Greek, as even the weakest student of European history knows.
Africans don’t have much history that shows them as the wise, noble, honorable people the left loves to portray them as, so they just make some up.
It’s so utterly ridiculous at this point.
I stand with the Egyptians against the degenerates at Netflix and elsewhere in America.
I wonder why he’s alleging ‘anti-Islamism’.
Cleopatra and her forbears were Greek long before Islam ever even existed.
This is kind of funny.
Jada Smith strikes again. She SLAP’s history upside the head.
hey Mahmoud al-Semarym havent ya heard? Whitewashing/Blackwashing and distorting history is all the rage these days- get with the program
And not all Egyptians, today, are Muslims.
Yay! Good move!
So many BBC dramas now have blacks as historical British figures. I wish people could successfully sue the BBC for "distorting and obliterating" English identity. And I'm not even English.
I once met a black woman (an aspiring screenwriter) who insisted that Cleopatra was black. I'm sure many blacks think so.
Some blacks even think Shakespeare, King James I, and Beethoven were black.
Do they think that H!tler was black, too?
Dark skin, black hair...
...and Elvis Presley.
Hamilton wasn’t black...Ahhhh...NYC...the city where everything goes.
This Cleopatra kerfuffle is saying the quiet part out loud.
While American/European culture has, over time, come to not only accept but to celebrate people of African descent, most other people are irredeemably racist towards them.
Egyptians are mortified to be represented as black.
Cleopatra had no connection whatsoever with Islam. Julius Caesar put a statue of her in a temple of Venus in Rome, associating her with that goddess. Her subjects would have been Zeusists, Platonists, a small Jewish community, and worshippers of Egyptian deities.
Yet another rancid, steaming log drop into the white porcelain bowl of wokeness.
Was black Cleo allies with Wakanda? What is the current truth this week anyways?
I guess most of us are all ‘mixed-up and turned-around’, if you go back far enough.
(Meghan Markle is about 1/4 ‘Black’, if that; but she’s making a crusade out of that...)
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