(European Conservative) The latest political scandal in France is just as absurd as it seems: residents of Muslim background had a free public screening of Barbie shut down for being offensive to their cultural sensibilities, and anyone who thinks this is problematic is labeled an Islamophobic far-right extremist.
The incident happened in the “ethnically-diverse” Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec, where the local council had the idea of providing free film screenings to poorer neighborhoods during the summer. The program would have been successful were it not for the apparently “poor” movie choice for last weekend, featuring Greta Gerwig’s 2023 Oscar-winning feminist comedy Barbie.
After a group of around 15 Muslim youth threatened council workers and reportedly moved to destroy the equipment, local mayor Olivier Sarrabeyrouse ordered organizers to pull the plug and cancel the event.
