And we call Muslim world close minded and oppressive

Submitted by A Humble Muslim (United States), Dec 21, 2002 at 02:15

Very interesting, we in the west are always critical of biased, close minded, backward, anti-western media in Islamic world - and look at ourselves - one movie and we are all up in arms - we are very sincere (?) when we ask and expect Muslim countries to show western views (which by the way they do in the form of our Movies, TV sitcoms, CNN, BBC, Fox etc. etc.) but gee don't expect us (or our public) to hear their side of the story. After all, how can we accept or 'tolerate' that a Muslim can be educated, firefighter, doctor, teacher, nurse, mother, and for heavens sake a 'human' - no not at all, we cannot accept that no matter even if that is the truth. Please for God sake, we must abandon this misguded hate for each other and look for goodness ...because I think we got plenty of hate and misunderstaning as is, and likes of Osama are already spreading more hate then this planet can handle.

As for some Christians and Jews, stating (in some comments) that some Quranic teaching are same as those in Bible and Talmud, no surprise and I think that was stated in the program in question as well - Quran tells Muslims that they must believe in and respect all Prophets (including Prophet Jesus, Prophet Moses, Prophet Abraham, Adam, Eve, Prophet Jacob, Prophet David as well as Prophet Muhammad ... Peace Be Upon Them All), and must believe in all Books sent by God. Sorry but we Muslims cannot say or even think of anything (may Allah forgive me) dregatory about any of the Prophets of Islam. I hope our fellow brothers and sisters will watch this movie with the same devotion with which I watched "Ten Commandments", "King David" and "Jesus to Christ" and seek same inspiration - (Allah Knoweth All).

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