This seemed very strict. Almost Taliban-esque.
I know that many Muslims around the world dance. Are there many Muslims in the US who are so strict that they don't dance?
Or was it only a problem in this case because they were couple dancing with girls?
How you gonna keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
Probably because the dancing involved close contact with girls, I imagine...
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I felt bad that they weren't given a different project instead of sitting there watching everyone else dance. They should've taken extra band lessons or something.........it was such a waste of time for those two kids.
shareI rhought Mohammed was Muslim and the white kid was Baptist---just my assumption here....
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I don't think the other kid was white. Wasn't his name Tariq? I assumed he was also from a Muslim country.
How you gonna keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
the Mouhammed kid was muslim and the other kid was probably jewish
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Jews can't dance?!?!?!
What about the fiddler on the roof?
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How you gonna keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
Just so you know, Jewish people dance, and dance a lot. Obviously you've never been to a Jewish wedding or Bar Mitzvah :-P
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his name is "Taha".
i don´t know where that beautiful name comes from, but i also thought that he´s a white kid. and i also thought that he´s a baptist, a mormone, a "seventh- day- adventist" or something else christian fundamentalistic.
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not all muslims have dark skin. Countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq are culturally diverse in ethnicity and skin color. People who have blonde hair and blue eyes can still be found in those countries. My mother is a teacher and many of her students come from countries in the middle east. There is a girl i know named Pouneh who has black hair, blue eyes, and very pale skin and her family is from Iran. Don't think just because the kid was white that he wasn't muslim. That's wha the film made it out to be, that both kids sitting out were.
shareyes - i know that not all muslims are coloured, as well as not all christians are whites.
i like the thought that both boys belong to different religions . and it´s a fact that there are much christians which are not allowed to dance or do some other nice things.
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some days later: they ARE from different religions!
i watched it again and taha says "my religion..." and "also his religion" (or "his religion, too?").
and in the beginning of swing- training, without partners, both boys do with the others.
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Baptist?! Haha, since when can Baptists not dance?
Just a few examples:
http://www.baptiststandard.com/2000/3_8/pages/matters.html
http://deepintheheart.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/a-dancing-baptist-2/
How well do you know the Baptists (I would assume not well but that's just assuming on my part)
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an aunt + uncle were baptists and they were very straitlaced; i always pitied my cousins - they were not allowed ANYthing, everything, and dancing one of the most, was sin.
later (few years ago) i was in contact with an old "reborn" christian (former baptist, then he changed to a free church), visited him 2 times/week because he was lonely. i made the mistake to tell him that i´ll join a dancelesson for some hours (free dance, and i was over 50!) and he became (? got?) out of himself, prayed for me + my soul, phoned me again + again + again trying to keep me away from that sinful thing.
i think that there are catholics too, which demonize dancing.
in both religions, christian and islam (and judaism, too), are harsh people without pleasure, full with thoughts about sex + obedience + sin, trying to take away the pleasure from others and putting their arguments from bible + koran. it´s hard to explain in a strange language, i hope you can see what i try to say.
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They couldn't dance ballroom because they can't dance with girls
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Both Taha and Muhammad were Muslim. Taha said "We can't dance because of our religion."
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It is because dancing is traditionally symbolic of sexual acts, so that's a no no.
shareI thought that because they saw how the other kids were having so much fun dancing, and how none of them were struck by a bolt of lightning from god, that when they grew up a little more, they would reject this ridiculous restriction that their religion put on them, and be more liberal in what they chose to do or not do.
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