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Petition to ban Katy Perry's "blasphemous" 'Dark Horse' video attracts over 30,000 signatures

Pop superstar Katy Perry's new music video for 'Dark Horse' has angered members of the muslim community because of the blasphemous act it features. 

A petition on Change.org asks "YouTube to remove Katy Perry's video 'Dark Horse' from their website" and so far, it has attracted over 37,000 signatures. The offending part of the video is when a man wearing a pendant that says 'God' in Arabic, or 'Allah', is burned and so is the pendant. 

The statement that accompanies the petition reads: "The video is considered as highly controversial to its viewers as a result of its portrayal of blasphemy. At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse; a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant (also burned) forming the word 'Allah', which is the arabic word for God."

"Such goes to show, that blasphemy is clearly conveyed in the video, since Katy Perry (who appears to be representing an opposition of God) engulfs the believer and the word God in flames."

It concludes: "This is the reason for lodging the petition so that people from different walks of life, different religions and from different parts of the world, agree that the video promotes blasphemy, using the name of God in an irrelevant and distasteful manner would be considered inappropriate by any religion."

Watch the full music video below: