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Barbie Screening Cancelled After Muslim Youths Complain of ‘Homosexuality’
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One week after the cancellation of the open-air screening of the Barbie film in the Londeau district, in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), Mayor Olivier Sarrabeyrouse announces that it will be reprogrammed in September, this time in a municipal hall, reports Le Parisien this Friday, August 15, 2025. "In view of what it has unleashed, there will be a debate at the end," he said, claiming to want to "show that we don't give up."On August 8, "youth…
France Is Being Held Hostage by Islamism
Move over, Salman Rushdie, Michel Houellebecq, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Islamists have a new bête noire—Barbie. In a Paris suburb, a gang of Muslim youths managed to shut down a screening of Barbie, the PG-rated 2023 movie, because it apparently endorses homosexuality. The incident took place in Noisy-le-Sec, located in the immigrant-heavy Seine-Saint-Denis département. On Saturday, the local council had planned to show Barbie as part of an outdoor…
Barbie screening cancelled in Paris after anti-LGBTQ+ backlash
An outdoor screening of Greta Gerwig’s hit movie Barbie has been cancelled in a Paris suburb over threats from opponents who believe the blockbuster “advocates homosexuality”. The free-to-enter screening in the Parisian suburb of Noisy-le-Sec of the comedy movie, which stars Margot Robbie in the titular role and Ryan Gosling as Ken, was cancelled just before the scheduled launch last Friday (8 August), as per local outlet Le Parisien. While Bar…
The pressure of fundamentalists and extremists prevented the screening of the film "Barbie" in a French open-air cinema, because it would exalt a wrong image of women and promote homosexuality. A group of Islamics managed to cancel the screening of Greta Gerwi's film Barbie...
The city of Paris suburbs cancelled the broadcast, Friday, August 8 on a giant screen, of the American blockbuster to 6 million admissions to France. The cause: threats made by a small group of young people. Thursday, August 14, at a press conference, the mayor of the commune of Seine-Saint-Denis called the facts "unacceptable" but also outraged himself of the "political recovery" that followed.
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