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An examination of Islam, violence, and the fate of the non-Muslim world.
Leave your thoughts about Islam: What the West Needs to Know.
| Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsWhat viewers need to know -- if provoked by this film -- is there's far more nuance in Mary Habeck's book Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror and Paul Berman's Terror and Liberalism. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsHas one point to make: Islam is a bad, baaaaaaaaad religion, and it's a miracle you're even alive and reading this, so intent most Muslims are on your destruction. |
| User ReviewSusan MThis film is a MUST see for all Americans. Those "reviewers" who panned this film obviously have not seen it. This film is based on historical events and Islamic scholarship, as well as commentary provided by a former PLO Fatah Brigade member. Look up the event that took place on September 11, 1683 - hint - it's called the Battle or Siege of Vienna. Don't know it? don't care? Well, Osama bin Laden knows and cares. You ought to as well. |
| User ReviewZach CThe real difference between Mohamed and Jesus. |
| User ReviewMrqu1cky MI just want people to notice that the "official" reviews from this site fail to effectively refute even the claims that they poke fun at. For instance, a gentleman from Chicago references a quote from the movie that declares Islam to be the only religion that mandates violence against unbelievers. The reviewer reaches vaguely back in to the past to point out that other, awful things have been done by the adherents of other faiths and thusly, this documentary is rubbish. Is it true that people in the past have perpetrated great evil under the banner of other faiths besides Islam? Absolutely. Do those faiths, in their source texts - their most revered written traditions, mandate that violence? No. The reviewer has missed the mark out of ignorance, willful or otherwise. What impressed (and disturbed) me the most out of this documentary are these two things: 1) There's not a lot of dramatic, multi-sensory tricks played on the viewer. No over abundance of ominous or moody background music, no gloomy or washed out color palette when depicting a villain, etc. The material is trusted to do the job of a documentary - educating and persuading. 2) The source material says it all and it's not as one-sided as you might expect. The contributors readily acknowledge that there are "peaceful" verses in the Quran and these verses are read aloud with the same voice-over as the violent verses. The rub comes in the way that orthodox Islam sees the seeming contradiction between peace and violence. It is a "seeming contradiction" because it is not really a contradiction at all to a Muslim. Readers here will pardon my forgetfulness of the exact term in arabic, but there is a clear precedent in reading Islamic texts wherein the verse that comes later chronologically is the authority if there is a conflict between verses. The violent verses (so-called verse of the sword, etc.)? They were written in the later stages of Muhammad's life. Those verses have authority over any verse you may read or be shown that portrays Islam as a peaceful and tolerant religion. This by itself should be alarming enough for the entire "West" to take notice, but the rabbit hole goes deeper and instead of recapping the entire documentary, I'll just recommend that anyone interested in a serious look at Islam, it's roots, and it's relevance today, watch this. Don't accept the opinion of someone who's content to make fun of a single claim and utterly fail to deal with the rest of the information presented. Don't even take my word for it! Watch it and decide for yourself if it's just a bunch of biggoted hate-speech or if it has some real merit. Better yet, google this movie. Has it been effectively refuted? Are there a lot of articles out there taking on each claim of the documentarians and providing source material of their own to overturn or disprove them? OR, has this movie been swept under the rug, like any other movie that Hollywood doesn't like but can't find enough fault to publicly embarrass? |
| User ReviewDon JAccurate facts, Also needs similar criticism of islams consanguine religions Judaism and Christianity. |
| User ReviewSteve WAn excellent documentary well worth putting into your understanding of islam. Whether you agree with this or not it should be an essential part of every westerner's education about the "religion of peace". |
| User ReviewTom Bmichael phillips of the chicago tribune should actually watch the film before reviewing it, if only to correct his ignorant historical assertion. |
| User ReviewDonegal HI see a lot of comments saying that this film is all lies, but what in this film is false? They are presenting facts right out of the Koran! Muslims are encouraged to lie outright about their beliefs to protect themselves when they are in the minority. FACT. Islam is not just a religion but a social and political dogma. FACT. Muslims are commanded to make war against unbelievers and to convert, enslave, or kill them. FACT. I can and do believe that there are Muslims who DO want peace and want nothing to do with terrorism and imperialism, but these are not the majority! |
| User ReviewErik WDobar edukacijski film o Islamu, o njegovoj pravoj biti i ciljevima. Ovo bih uveo kao obvezatan materiijal u svim srednjim skolama... |