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| Sitcom: "Little Mosque on the Prairies" |
| 2007-01-05 |
| When I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke. Did you hear what the Paleo mom said about her 10 year old boy? She said, "They blow up so fast these days." I'm sure we won't hear jokes like that. Every once in a while a unique project crops up that needs to be recognized for both its current relevance and ambition. A Muslim Canadian sitcom aptly titled “Little Mosque on the Prairie” is one such effort. It is a bold new television series that has recently gone into production after being commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). This “Little House” is the brainchild of Liverpool-born and Toronto-raised Zarqa Nawaz. The series, if not too restrained, is well positioned to search for and expose the hidden humor produced when the Muslim experience encounters Canadian rural society in the prairie town of Mercy. Let's not forget that Muslims are persecuting minorities in each and every Muslim homeland. And most of our own Mohammadingdongs support that persecution. Taqiyah permits hypocrisy. One may argue that there is nothing funny about the Muslim-local relationship within the North American landscape after the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001. But the fact of the matter is that Muslim people have been living in the prairies, towns, cities and yes, ghettos of this continent for over a century now (and longer, since the time of slavery). Let us also not forget that the architects of that horrific 9/11 episode do not represent the millions of followers of the Islamic faith who reside either in Canada or the United States. They may have claimed to speak for many but they incorrectly invoke any relationship to the divine. |
| Posted by:Sneaze Shaiting3550 |
| #1 “Little Mosque on the Prairie” will search for humor" alas, a search that will end in vain |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2007-01-05 16:38 |