Originally posted by: hindu4lyf
So Katy Perry's got herself in to trouble with the controversy surrounding her new video. Question - are people being too over-sensitive or are these celebs ignoring cultural and religious sensitivities? I would genuinely not be surprised if she's bombarded with hate mail or death threats and is forced to pull down the video.
LMAO! At first I was like how many ancient Egyptians live today to be offended. đ
Then I googled and found out it is over some Allah pendant.
Here is the full text of the petition against her. (From Time.com)
"At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant (also burned) forming the word Allah', which is the arabic word for God. Such goes to show, that blasphemy is clearly conveyed in the video, since Katy Perry (who appears to be representing an opposition of God) engulfs the believer and the word God in flames.
This is the reason for lodging the petition so that people from different walks of life, different religions and from different parts of the world, agree that the video promotes blasphemy, using the name of God in an irrelevant and distasteful manner would be considered inappropriate by any religion. We hope that the video itself depicting such images is removed. Such acts are not condoned nor tolerated, we hope YouTube will remove the video."
The pendant is barely noticeable. I don't think Katy even knew about all the iconography her suitors wear in the video. She isn't representing any opposition to God. She is just being a hard to please Katypatra. đ
Its both. Celebrities are too dumb to think off what they are doing. (I found the entire video comical). People just get their panties in a bunch over dump things.
But thanks to the petition and controversy, Dark Horse will race to a million views.