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islam view about this movie
shareFrom a Muslim's perspective, I don't mind the movie but the "lovemaking" scene could be quite a taboo especially if they're unmarried. True, it's an expression of love but still, come on!
shareI agree, from the clip he seems like a very devout Muslim and then we suddenly see him making love to Kate Hudson. I could understand it if there was some sort internal conflict involved, like if he was torn between religion and love, but it doesn't seem to play out that way, that sorta breaks the movie for me. If he was raised in the US it wouldn't be a problem, but from the trailer it seemed like he was raised in Pakistan and this totally breaks the realism of it because a devout muslim would have an internal conflict to some degree before having sex out of wedlock.
shareit's been a few years since I read the book, but if I remember correctly, he and his family are not particularly devout. And once he comes to the U.S., he is trying very hard to become American. I don't remember how the love affair begins in the book -- he may have had more ambivalence than the movie shows.
shareI agree, from the clip he seems like a very devout Muslim and then we suddenly see him making love to Kate Hudson.
I knew of some muslims when I was in college who people thought were devout because they gave that impression, yet they slept around...with western women. Some people think that muslim men have permission from Allah to do that - critics who say "muslim men can have any women the right hand posesses" others say it's debatable.
Changez didn't seem devout, he was middle-class and western educated and only went into a mosque on a visit to Turkey. If he was devout he'd have a longer beard and would be reading the koran daily. He was certainly more nationalistic as a Pakistani and more political, but not overtly devout. The scene where he said part of him was excited when the twin towers were attacked I don't think was to do with his beliefs in Islam, since he wasn't devout at that time, but certainly political and his mind would be thinking "the great America that bullies and bombs smaller countries has been hit hard where it hurts - it's financial capital". Changez did say that he wasn't celebrating the thousands who died in the twin towers. The film wasn't about Changez becoming a devout muslim, it's to do with his identity as a Pakistani and choosing sides (his side was already chosen for him). Though he loved America, it wasn't who he was inside. His friends were all political, none were Taliban-Mujahideen-jihadi-types.
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Well-said...I completely agree.
shareReally? I've known a lot of Muslims and they are into everything - drugs, alcohol, crime, women. One I know (and he was off to the mosque every Friday) had sex with a different woman every day for a year. He was quite proud of it, certainly there was no conflict. He grew up in Dubai and was having sex with hookers when he was 14. Where he drew the line was bacon. I knew Muslims who had no problems orchestrating scams and picking up bar girls in Thailand, but drew the line at pork products.
shareWouldn't really matter unless it was in "strict" muslim countries, I live in Egypt and I've seen Egyptian movies that had love scenes between unmarried couples.
shareExactly. It's all about the social culture of each countries.
Take for example, at the Oscars when Michelle Obama announced Best Picture. I saw a news coverage that made changes to what she wore that night in an Iranian TV. They actually "covered" her top when in actual fact Obama was wearing a spaghetti strap. But in other moderate Muslim countries like in Southeast Asia particular Malaysia and Indonesia they did not edit the video at all.
So it all boils down to the cultures of each individual countries.
1st of all let me tell you I am a muslim and a pakistani. I never wanted to be the both but my luck was not with me when i was born and is still not with me as I am still the both.
I am not saying that I dont want to be a muslim. but a pakistani is altogether a different matter. Anyways dont want to deviate from the point. We Pakistani muslims are not extremist yeah we do pray 5 times a day most of us do and we fast for a month but it doesnt makes us cruel that we would laugh or feel being happy on such a tragic events of 9\11 or bombing on Afghanistan or Iraq.
I remember these events and i assure you I did felt really sorry when it did happened. I felt sorry for those humans who had passed away in these incidents.
While kyzasoze2003 said that "Some people think that muslim men have permission from Allah to do that - critics who say "muslim men can have any women the right hand posesses" others say it's debatable."
Thats purely wrong concept. the concept is Halal(Right) and Haraam(Wrong) In Islam a Man can marry 4 times at a time and maximum 7 while a woman can marry as much times as long as she is not currently married only once at a time. The Halal way of bedding a woman is only by marriage. While without marriage its Zina(Sin).
Once a woman is married to a man she is Halal to that man. In movie there was another concept of Idat. Idat is not exactly for mourning purpose but its for confirmation of pregnancy. You see Islam says offsprings are of Man who sow the seed in the woman. While Men is of his wives.
I hope you might understand us. We have no ill will towards any non-muslims. the terrorists and extremists are someone else we are not them. In fact the terrorist or a murderer or a mass murderer cannot be a muslim in any case at all. Believe me they are doing us more wrong then anybody else because now everywhere in the world we are seen as terrorists. We are falling head first on the ground we do not deserve that we are also as noble and kindhearted as anyother noble and kindhearted person in the world.
sumsunny26 you are the only right islam view here thanks and totally agree .
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