Guardian: Katy Perry accused of ‘portraying blasphemy’ with Dark Horse video
An online petition demanding Katy Perry’s Dark Horse video be taken off YouTube has attracted more than 50,000 signatures. According to the petitioners at Change.org, the video is guilty of “portraying blasphemy”, because of the video’s use of a pendant reportedly inscribed with the word Allah.
Katy Perry’s Dark Horse clip, which premiered on 20 February, has already attracted more than 30 million views. A phantasmagorical riff on Egyptian mythology, it features Perry as a magical queen who transforms suitors into sand. One of these suitors, shown at the beginning of the video, appears to be wearing an Arabic pendant when he is turned into dust.
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