Canadians call on Cineplex to withdraw Indian Islamophobic film, Kerala Story
TORONTO, Canada – Thousands of Canadians have signed an appeal calling on Cineplex, the country’s largest cinema chain, to withdraw the Indian film, Kerala Story.
Canadian journalist Shenaz Kermalli says the film, marketed as non-fiction, is ‘disgusting’ and should be banned like anti-Semitic films.
The film claims that 32,000 women from the southern Indian state of Kerala forcibly converted to Islam before joining militant groups in Syria and Yemen.
Indian fact checkers have already rejected this claim.
The U.S. State Department had documented that 66 Indian-origin fighters were found in Daesh ranks. BBC quotes Indian police officials as saying that since 2016, no more than 10 to 15 Indian women have left the Kerala coast to join Daesh.
In India, opposition-ruled states such as Tamil Nadu and West Bengal refused to allow the screening of the film.
The Canadian chapter of the Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad distributed free tickets to people in Mississauga last month.
The film shows Muslim men recruited by Daesh luring and converting defenseless Hindu college girls in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
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