"Kuwait Bans 'Fahrenheit 9/11'"

[GreenPartyVoter]

KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Kuwait, a major U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, has banned Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" because it deems the movie insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family and critical of America's invasion of Iraq, an official said Sunday.

"We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly nations, and ties between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are special," Abdul-Aziz Bou Dastour, cinema and production supervisor at the Information Ministry, told The Associated Press.

He said the film "insulted the Saudi royal family by saying they had common interests with the Bush family and that those interests contradicted with the interests of the American people."

The ministry made the decision to bar "Fahrenheit 9/11" in mid-July after the state-owned Kuwait National Cinema Co. asked for the license to show the movie. The company monopolizes cinemas in Kuwait, but all movies must first be sanctioned by government censors.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040801/D846HOC00.html

[2Design]

1. they will just get it from the internet.....or rip off copies

Governments think people are stupid and they are not

[Bluebear]

2. " "We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly family friends"

[dArKeR]

3. Kuwait Bans 'Fahrenheit 9/11' - CBWHORE

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/26/world/main631770.shtml