Four films
scheduled to screen at the Singapore Film Festival have been
banned by the country's censor board, according to Agence
France-Presse.
The four films
include Arabs and Terrorism, David the Tolhildan, A
Jihad for Love, and the Japanese documentary Bakushi.
Arabs and Terrorism and David the Tolhildan
were banned because of their "sympathetic portrayals
or organizations deemed terrorist organizations by
many countries," reports Agence France-Presse.
According to a statement made by Board of Film Censors
chairman Amy Chua, A Jihad for Love, about the gay
experience of living in a Muslim community, was banned
because of "the sensitive nature of the subject."
Bakushi, which was about bondage, was not
allowed to be screened because "it normalizes unnatural
fetishes and behavior," according to Chua's statement.
No one from the
festival agreed to comment on the banning of any of the
four films. (The Advocate)
