ALGERIA JOINS KUWAIT, LEBANON IN BANNING BARBIE FOR PROMOTING ‘WESTERN DEVIANCES’

Thu 17 August 2023:

Algeria has banned the movie “Barbie,” which had been showing at some cinemas in the country for several weeks, an official source and the local 24H Algerie news site said on Monday.

The official source said the film “promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances” and that it “does not comply with Algeria’s religious and cultural beliefs.”

Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, the movie sends Mattel Inc’s doll on an adventure into the real world. The film has topped $1 billion in box office ticket sales worldwide since its July 21 debut.

Algeria’s Culture Ministry supervises the contents of films projected in cinemas and can stop them being shown.

Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, Barbie currently has massed $1.18 billion (€1 billion) in box office ticket sales worldwide since its 21 July debut.

Lebanon and Kuwait have both also banned the film on similar grounds last week.

KUWAIT BANS BARBIE MOVIE TO PROTECT “PUBLIC ETHICS AND SOCIAL TRADITIONS”

Kuwait announced a ban in a bid to protect “public ethics and social traditions”, shortly after a Lebanese minister asked authorities in his country to bar the movie from cinemas for “promoting homosexuality and transsexuality … supports rejecting a father’s guardianship, undermines and ridicules the role of the mother, and questions the necessity of marriage and having a family.”

A spokesman for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information said that the film, “promulgates ideas and beliefs that are alien to Kuwaiti society and public order”.

The ministry also banned the Australian horror film Talk to Me – which also features the appearance of a transsexual actor.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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