Morocco announced Saturday it had banned a British film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which Muslims in a number of countries have denounced as blasphemous.
"The Lady of Heaven" will not receive a license to be shown in the country, the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre (CCM) said in a statement issued late Saturday.
The CCM ruling bans the film, directed by Eli King, from being screened on either a commercial or cultural basis in the country.
The drama is billed as the first film on the life of Prophet Muhammad`s (PBUH) daughter Fatimah, and draws links between ISIS in the 21st century and historical figures in Sunni Islam.
The CCM`s ruling comes hours after Morocco`s Supreme Ulema Council, the kingdom`s highest religious authority, firmly condemned the film in a statement Saturday.
In the statement, they said the film was a "flagrant falsification of the established facts of the history of Islam."
The film was released in Britain on June 3 but after protests outside cinemas, the world`s second-largest cinema chain, Cineworld, cancelled all screenings.
Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq are among the countries to have denounced the film as blasphemous.
