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		<div class="excerpt"><p>&#8220;I really believe that if people were in my shoes, they would have done the same thing,&#8221; megachurch pastor says of handling evacuees</p>
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					<p>Save your wrath for someone else, social-media haters, because it&#8217;s just rolling off of Joel Osteen&#8217;s back.</p>
<p>Megachurch pastor Osteen, who was widely criticized this week for initially not opening his 16,000-seat Lakewood Church to victims of Hurricane Harvey, spoke to <a href="https://www.etonline.com/exclusive-joel-osteen-talks-hurricane-harvey-backlash-i-feel-peace-because-we-did-right-thing-86416">ET</a> on Thursday, telling the outlet that he&#8217;s &#8220;not really concerned&#8221; about the criticism he has faced over the handling of the situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, I&#8217;m not really concerned about the Twitter critics,&#8221; Osteen said. &#8220;We&#8217;re concerned with these people [victims now at the church] and how they move forward. And there were safety issues that people don&#8217;t understand. But, I really believe that if people were in my shoes, they would have done the same thing. When the building is clear, when it&#8217;s safe, we can start taking people. That&#8217;s what we have done for 60 years. We love helping people and that&#8217;s what our message is all about.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Osteen was crucified on social media amid reports that he hadn&#8217;t opened his Houston facility to evacuees affected by the storm.</p>
<p>On Sunday ,as Lakewood remained closed over the weekend, the congregation&#8217;s Facebook page said that the church was &#8220;inaccessible due to severe flooding,&#8221; though the message didn&#8217;t clarify whether the church itself was flooded.</p><script async='async' src='https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js'></script>
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<p>In his ET interview, Osteen allowed that church staff could have been better prepared to shelter the hurricane victims. (The church eventually opened to evacuees, with Osteen <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/joel-osteen-regrets-hurricane-harvey-response-do-things-differently/">saying on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221;</a> that the church was &#8220;taking people as soon as the floodwaters receded.&#8221;)</p>
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<p>According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/sep/28/filmcensorship.news">The Guardian</a>, Ben Stiller's movie was banned in Malaysia because of its plot to assassinate the country's prime minister. The Malaysian Home Affairs Ministry Film Censorship Board said the film was "definitely unsuitable." </p></div>
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<p>The film about two gay cowboys starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger was banned in most Middle Eastern countries where same-sex love is criminalized and considered taboo. </p></div>
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<p>According to <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/17-banned-films-and-what-they-tell-us-about-the-power-of-cinema-23740/2/">IndieWire</a>, the Holy See condemned the film starring Tom Hanks as offensive and historically inaccurate. Protestors were seen outside of movie theaters, and soon, the film was banned in China, Egypt, parts of India, Jordan, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and more. </p></div>
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<p>In 2006, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/01/filmcensorship">The Guardian </a>reported that "Borat" was banned from every Arab country except Lebanon. It was banned in Kazakhstan because Borat spoofs the country's culture and national anthem.  </p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134025/Glorious-nation-Kazakhstan-salute-Borat-After-banning-film-country-ridiculed-comic-THANK-tourist-boom.html">Daily Mail</a> then reported the foreign minister later thanked Sacha Baron Cohen for the film because it helped "attract tourists" and the "number of visas issues by Kazakhstan grew tenfold."</p></div>
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<p>According to <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/300_fact_or_fiction.html">RealClearPolitics,</a> Iran banned the film because they believed it was "hurtful American propaganda." <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/17-banned-films-and-what-they-tell-us-about-the-power-of-cinema-23740/3/">IndieWire</a> also reported that Tehran submitted a complaint citing that it misrepresented and hurt the country's national identity and history. </p></div>
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<p>According to Reuters, China banned "The Departed" because the filmmakers declined to change a plot line where the movie points out how Beijing wanted to buy advanced military computer hardware. </p>
<p>“The regulators just cannot understand why the movie wanted to involve China. They can talk about Iran or Iraq or whatever, but there’s no reason to get China in," <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/54190/china-whacks-the-departed">a source said</a>. </p></div>
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<p>Ukraine banned the film starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Austrian man <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090716175951/http://www.kyivpost.com/guide/guidenews/45221">because the film contained "obscene l</a>anguage, homosexual scenes, and other scenes of offensive nature never shown in Ukraine." The film also offended many members of the LGBTQ community.  </p></div>
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<p>North Korea banned the disaster film and vowed to prosecute anyone caught in possession of the film because it was considered "a grave provocation against the development of the state," according to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7526951/North-Korea-fears-2012-disaster-film-will-thwart-rise-as-superpower.html">the Telegraph. </a>In 2010, Kim Jong-il had said that 2012 will be the year that North Korea will "open the grand gates to becoming a rising superpower." </p></div>
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<p>According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/movies-banned-in-foreign-countries-2013-7#the-hunger-games-2">Business Insider</a>, the dystopian film starring Jennifer Lawrence was banned in Vietnam because kids battling it out till their death was considered too extreme for local audiences.</p></div>
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<p>Darron Aronofsky's biblical epic starring Russell Crowe was banned in several countries including Bahrain, Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China because they felt it violated Islamic law prohibiting the artistic portrayal of a prophet.</p></div>
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<p>The comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen was banned in North Korea because the duo in the movie plans to assassinate the supreme leader. The country's UN ambassador called the film "an act of war." The impending release caused the "Guardians of Peace" to hack into Sony's computers and also threaten terrorist attacks against cinemas that showed the movie. Sony then only released the movie online. </p></div>
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<p><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-denied-release-china-910563">China declined</a> to screen Sony's female-led reboot of the comedy, with commentators noting a long-standing objection by Chinse censors to depictions of ghosts and other supernatural phenomena.</p></div>
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<p>Warner Bros.' R-rated superhero movie also <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/suicide-squad-may-never-play-in-china/">failed to win clearance in China</a> due to its dark tone and extreme violence. (The country also passed on the R-rated "Deadpool" as well.)</p></div>
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<p>The live-action "Beauty and the Beast" was banned in several countries including Malaysia and Kuwait (and received an age restriction in Russia) because of a "gay moment" in the movie. </p></div>
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<p>"Wonder Woman" was banned in Lebanon because its lead actress, Gal Gadot, is an Israeli and was a soldier in the Israeli Army. </p>
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