Six states of the Arabian Gulf have warned Netflix over promoting contents that violate Islamic values. The States – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Oman, Kuwait and the UAE threatened legal action against the American company and said their contents are threatening the values Islam projects and also dangerous to trot children.
While the gulf states didn’t explicitly state what the particular contents are, they’ve written to Netflix to drop the offending material.
The contents were alleged to “contradict Islamic and societal values and principles”,
There are contents on the digital movie streaming platform which are believed to be bad for children and this has generated heated debates in the Arabia.
“In the event of continued broadcasting of infringing content, the necessary legal measures will be taken,” a statement from the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) disclosed on Tuesday.
The United Arab Emirates had in June banned the Disney animated film Lightyear for containing a Lesbian kiss.
The Saudi government which only opened its cinemas in 2017 has also written in the past to Disney over its LGBTQ pictures in Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.