France - For fear of Reprisals, Projections banned from "The Apostle". (Christianophobia).
Unless I am mistaken - and I thank in advance, readers who might report me other examples - the only French politician matter who denounced the "administrative" prohibitions (see here) projections of movie The Apostle "because of the circumstances" is Senator Bruneau Retailleau . The President of the Vendée General Council expressed its disapproval in a tweet yesterday as follows:
The screening was organized by the Family Associations Loire-Atlantique Catholics.
The director of the film The Apostle, Cheyenne Carron, received the Federation of Catholic Family Associations of Loire-Atlantique a letter explaining the reasons for the deprogramming of his film: "ISB [Branch of Homeland Security] us strongly advised to cancel our discussion evening of January 23 around the film "The Apostle", to the risk of attacks, this projection can be seen as a provocation by the Muslim community.
Before this force majeure, we are forced to cancel this evening. We do not know yet what date it will be possible to reprogram the evening. »
In Nantes, the Federation of Family Associations Loire-Atlantique Catholics had plans to hold a private screening debate around the film for its members, set on January 23 in Brittany room. The information is published on the website of the Federation in the form of a brief note: "for reasons beyond our control lead us to deprogram the film Apostle scheduled Jan. 23 room Britain to refer to a date later. "
"The Apostle", released in October 2014, is the work of a devout Catholic, Cheyenne Carron.
It tells the story of Akim, an aspiring imam who decides to turn to Catholicism after the murder of the sister of a priest by a neighbor. The priest decides not to move away from the family of the murderer. Akim regularly attends the mosque with his brother, and is preparing to take over from his imam uncle, but he is troubled by the Gospel message and the mysterious kindness of the priest, who chose to continue to live next to the parents of murderer "because it helps them to live." Gradually, his inner path leads in the footsteps of Christ.
"If my film echoes the persecution of Christians around the world, said the director at Life in October 2014, it's great if it can arouse debate. "
This conversion story that did not receive funding for the National Film Center, Cheyenne Carron turned to private sponsorship. Hmmmm.......France is scared to screen a movie about an Apostate of ISLAM.....freedom of speech was 'defended' for SEVEN Days. Another example of French Courage under fire.
L'annulation du film l'Apôtre à Nantes est un renoncement dangereux. Moins d'une semaine après la marche pour la Liberté! #terrorisme
— Bruno Retailleau ن (@BrunoRetailleau) January 17, 2015
