Senior Imam Qari Asim caught up in free speech row as he said “The Lady of Heaven” could “potentially fuel hatred” and that he had been working with “brothers and Imams” across the country to protest the film and cancel its showings.
Asim is an independent adviser to the British government on Islamophobia and a senior Imam who has urged Muslims to protest the film that is accused of “blasphemy.”
Asim wrote on Facebook on June 6 that “The Lady of Heaven Movie [is] Condemned,” and that it was a “disparaging” movie that has caused much “pain and hurt to Muslims.”
The $15 million film was written by the Muslim Sheikh Yasser al-Habib that depicts a tale of the “heart-wrenching journey of Lady Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad,” according to the film’s website. “Separated by 1400 years, an Iraqi child, in the midst of a war-torn country, learns the importance and power of patience.”…