{"id":1996995,"date":"2023-08-10T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barbie-banned-in-kuwait-and-lebanon-could-be-next-as-govt-official-says-it-promotes-homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T17:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:47:30","slug":"barbie-banned-in-kuwait-and-lebanon-could-be-next-as-govt-official-says-it-promotes-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barbie-banned-in-kuwait-and-lebanon-could-be-next-as-govt-official-says-it-promotes-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Barbie&#8217; banned in Kuwait, possible ban in Lebanon due to alleged promotion of homosexuality."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarbie-banned-in-kuwait-and-lebanon-could-be-next-as-govt-official-says-it-promotes-homosexuality%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Controversial Barbie Movie: Banned in Kuwait and Facing Potential Bans in the Middle East<\/h2>\n<p>The highly anticipated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/barbie-is-the-worst-film-ive-never-seen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbie<\/a>\u201d movie\u2064 has stirred up\u200b controversy in the\u2063 Middle East, leading to its ban in Kuwait and the possibility of being\u2062 forbidden in other parts of the region. Government officials claim that the film \u201cpromotes homosexuality\u201d and carries \u201cideas \u200cthat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barbie-banned-in-kuwait-and-lebanon-could-be-next-as-govt-official-says-it-promotes-homosexuality\/\" title=\"'Barbie' banned in Kuwait, possible ban in Lebanon due to alleged promotion of homosexuality.\">encourage unacceptable behavior<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Greta \u2063Gerwig, the film has been labeled as \u201cpreachy\u201d and \u201cman-hating\u201d by critics like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-destroys-preachy-man-hating-barbie-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Maher<\/a>. As a result, it will not be screened in theaters in Kuwait and \u2062may also face \u2062a ban in Lebanon, according to The\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/barbie-banned-kuwait-homosexuality-1235560252\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to ban \u201cBarbie\u201d in Kuwait was made to protect \u201cpublic ethics and social traditions,\u201d as stated\u2063 by officials, while the chairman of Kuwait\u2019s film \u200dcensorship committee, Lafi Al-Subaie, accused the film of promoting unacceptable behavior and distorting society\u2019s values.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Barbie\u2019 Banned in\u2063 Kuwait, Accused of \u201cPromoting Homosexuality\u201d in\u200c Lebanon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NbDWywd6fH\">https:\/\/t.co\/NbDWywd6fH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1689384891454996480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u20639,\u200b 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Lebanon, cultural minister Mohammad Mortada also took \u200csteps to ban the film, citing its promotion of \u201chomosexuality and sexual transformation\u201d and its contradiction of \u2063values related\u200c to\u200b faith and\u2064 morality. Mortada&#8217;s \u200bactions prompted \u200dInterior Minister Bassam Mawlawi to request a review of the film by General \u2062Security\u2019s censorship committee, with expectations that it will also be banned.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to\u200b earlier reports, the movie will \u2063still be released in larger markets \u200blike Saudi Arabia and the\u200b United Arab Emirates on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Vietnam has already banned \u2062the film due to its depiction of a South China Sea map,\u200d which has been a contentious issue between Vietnam and\u2062 China.\u200b The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-step-beyond-richard-pryor-friends-remember-bob-sagets-unexpectedly-dirty-sense-of-humor\/\" title=\"\u2018One Step Beyond Richard Pryor\u2019: Friends Remember Bob Saget\u2019s Unexpectedly Dirty Sense Of Humor\">movie includes<\/a> a U-shaped \u201cnine-dash line\u201d in the South China Sea, which Vietnamese officials found offensive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ben-shapiro-shreds-barbie-in-epic-full-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shapiro Shreds \u2018Barbie\u2019 In Epic Full Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie &#8220;Barbie&#8221; is facing a ban in Kuwait and potentially other parts of the Middle East for allegedly promoting homosexuality and encouraging unacceptable behavior, as stated by government officials. Directed by Greta Gerwig, the film, described as preachy and man-hating by Bill Maher, will not be screened in Kuwait and may face similar restrictions elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1996996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}