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UK delays release of anti-terror cartoon
Britain has stopped distributing an animated movie meant to stop young Muslims from becoming extremists, said its maker on Tuesday.The short film, "Wish You Waziristan", is a cautionary tale about two British brothers who travel to the Af-Pak border region in order to become jihadis after seeing a racist beating.
Martin Orton, managing director of Bold Creative, the production house behind the film, said "The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has decided not to release it. We think it's a brilliant piece of work and we think that if it had a chance it would work brilliantly in what it is supposed to do. But quite sadly we haven't had the chance to do that." The movie had been commissioned by the previous Labour government in 2009 and no decision on its fate had been taken by the current coalition. British Muslims questioned how persuasive it would have been. Mohammad Shahid Raza, an imam at Leicester Central Mosque, said, "The film sounds naive and simplistic."
Posted by: 2011-06-02 |
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