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Katy Perry is in the middle of some controversy for her new music video for her hit single "Dark Horse."




Although the Egyptian themed video is receiving praise for the historical accuracy, accusations are spreading the the video promotes blasphemy.




The "Dark Horse" video captures a suitor of Perry, who plays an evil Egyptian queen in the video, getting burnt while wearing a pendant that had "Allah" inscribed in Arabic script.




As a result, an online petition was launched on Change.org demanding that YouTube ban the music video.

The petition was created by 22-year-old Shazad Iqbal and it reads like this:




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.

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. We hope that the video itself depicting such images is removed. Such acts are not condoned nor tolerated, we hope YouTube will remove the video.




According to TIME , 57,000 people have already added their names to this petition.




Perry has yest to respond.