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The merchants are unfriendly, they're mischievous and brutal. One merchant tries to chop the hand of the princess because she takes an apple.
Which goes against lslam. In Islam, you are obliged to feed someone when they are hungry, over and over again. And that's what devout Muslims do.
And that's what devout good merchants do. And only in Saudi Arabia, if you are a thief, a real thief, and after 3 warnings and 3 convictions, if you steal something, is the hand removed.
In one country, with a population of a few million. And yet they opted to use that scene. It took us six months to get a meeting, just to talk about the film.
When Arab Americans protested against the derogatory stereotypes in Aladdin, their concerns were first met with silence. Disney responded after the issue had received widespread negative press coverage.
So we go to the corporate office in Burbank. And we sit maybe there and fifteen minutes into the meeting, won't mention the gentleman's name, but he accused us, the three of us, of drumming up negative publicity against the film.
And it was only months after that meeting that they changed part of the lyrics.
But Disney still kept the line "lt's barbaric but hey it's home" which prompted the New York Times to write an op-ed piece saying, "It's Racist but Hey, it's Disney."