Egypt vows to ban Da Vinci Code film and book

Egypt’s culture minister vowed to ban the film The Da Vinci Code for insulting religion and said in comments published today that he would pull the Arabic translation of the novel from store shelves.

Farouk Hosni told parliament he had told the movie censorship board not to allow copies of the Hollywood hit into the country “because it insults religions, and what is blasphemous to Jesus Christ is considered insulting to Islam as well.”