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| Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| Little mosque on the prairie Youtube video: My reaction to a reaction! |
This is something you should watch. I order you.
You get an exception if you are on a dial up connection. Then you cannot watch this, as it is going to take you a full month to load. If you have a decent (by Indian standards) connection, I suggest you click on the link below, wait till it starts playing, click Play, then click Pause in a second, and then wait for 20-30 minutes for it to load fully.
Little Mosque on the Prairie Youtube video
Little mosque on the prairie is a canadian sitcom that makes gentle fun at the way the entire hoo-ha about Muslims in the western world work, the problems, the insecurities, and all going nuts.
After watching the video on Youtube, I scrolled down to watch this reaction by someone with a username called 'amuslimsister'
This below is what amuslimsister says about the video.
I really dont like this show because it doesnt represent what really goes on in the Muslim world. All they did was put some kaffirs in hijab and call them"Muslim", and teach them some of our rituals. The part i hate the most was when they were praying, and someone in the bacround made noise so they all got to look. Its ridiculos and an insult. And I wanted to react so badly. For some strange reason, Youtube was not posting my comments, and so here I am with them on this blog:
1. I really dont like this show because it doesnt represent what really goes on in the Muslim world.
The show is about a mosque on the prairie, not in the muslim world. I thought that was obvious.
Its about the Muslim world in Canada interacts with the world around it.
3. All they did was put some kaffirs
Yes. That is called acting. Sometimes, christians act as Hindus, Hindus act as christians, muslims act as jews (yes, that also happens. nothing new.)
5. The part i hate the most ....
It is built into the human nature by God / allah / whoever to look when startled. That quality helps humans to sense danger and avoid it. It is entirely divine.
So there.
Here is the link to Little Mosque on the Prairie again:
Little Mosque on the Prairie Youtube videoLabels: Islam and Muslims |
| posted by a correspondent @ 8:56 AM |
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| 4 Comments: |
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i liked the show too and posted it on me blog isshine.blogspot.com
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"Little Mosque" depends of offensive stereotypes for its humour.
Also, while at times funny, I do wonder about how "real" the situation is. I once saw a show about how the Nazis made two propaganda films about the conflict between the British and the Irish. The films, at least according to those who were interviewed who had seen them were quite good. The only problem was that the people in the movies were not Irish. What I mean by that was that the culture of the Irish portrayed in the films in no way reflected actual Irish culture as I guess the Germans who wrote, produced, and acted in the movies never took the time to get to understand the traditions and feel of the Irish people. It just wasn't important to them because in the end it had nothing to do with the Irish. It was as one commentator of the movies said "Germans talking to Germans".
And that is kind of what I am getting with the "Little Mosque" show. In the end it isn't really about small town Saskatchewan or Muslim communities living within small town Saskatchewan. In the end what it comes down to is just Liberal Urbanite Canadians talking to Liberal Urbanite Canadians, with their political message being far more important to them than whether or not the situation portrayed reflects a real situation in the country accurately enough.
By the way, why does "The She Mayor" remind me so much of the mayor on South Park?
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The comment regarding September 11th in the third episode was extremely offensive.
To compare an electrical fire (caused by a member of the mosque albeit accidentally) where no one was even injuried and the damage to the mosque amounted to a few rugs and other minor property to an act that caused the deaths of 2996 people was beyond the pale.
Can you imagine having to make the decision between either jumping to your death or being burned alive? Yet by that comment the show tries to trivalize this. That the CBC would allow that comment shows it to be lacking of any decency and conscience.
It is even more concerning when you realize that the vast majority of the people in the Muslim world and even one third of Westerners believe that September 11th was caused by the Americans and/or the Israelis. Was that the idea that was trying to be promoted? Just like that Muslim was blaming the infidels in the town for the fire that was really caused by another member of the mosque, the Muslims are being blamed for something that was caused by members of the West and therefore the electrical fire was indeed their September 11th.
I am quite offended that the CBC would go into encouraging that kind of thinking.
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I love this show.
White people who live in Saskatchewan are so stupid.
It is so fun to laugh at them They are such sub-humans. I would say they are too stupid to deserve to live but if they were gone they wouldn't be around to laugh at.
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i liked the show too and posted it on me blog isshine.blogspot.com