I was amused to see the “quote of the day” on the BBC magazine website:

It seems that Oliver Stone wanted to make a film about the Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and asked for assistance by that government, they were not amused:The President’s media adviser says, “While it is true that Oliver Stone is considered to be among the opposition in the U.S., the opposition is still part of the Great Satan.
According to Daniel L. Byman, “The movies were an affront to God, encouraging vice and Western-style decadence. So in August 1978, four Shiite revolutionaries locked the doors of the Cinema Rex in the Iranian city of Abadan and set the theater on fire…” (see Byman).
Finally, Islamists opposed cinema for ideological or doctrinal reasons. While Shia Muslims (unlike some strict Sunni Musilms) do not forbid pictures, many strict Shia believe any motion pictures “with music, dance or any other un-Islamic portrayal is haram to view.”[1] Ever since motion pictures were first introduced into Iran at the turn of the 20th century, the clerical establishment saw the medium as not only a threat to moral righteousness, but also a direct attack on their position as authority figures. The depiction of women without proper religious attire and other blasphemous content furthered anti-Western sentiment, solidifying an ‘Us vs. Them’ mentality that in part continues to maintain clerical dominance over Iranian society. [2] Today, the fire is seen by Islamists as an event where Islam triumphed over Western corruption. [5]
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