Re: Little Mosque on the Prairie
So, 9 pm tonight?
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I hope acrobi123 uploads the 2nd episode. I am one of the U.S guppies who don't get CBC.
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It's a repeat of last week's episode! I feel cheated! Waiting to see if I'm right or wrong... but it starts off exactly the same.
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Yeah! WTF! Ive been waiting all week for this an they give an encore performance?? On CBC’s website it does indicate its going to be a diff episode… http://www.cbc.ca/television/ look under 9:00 pm
technical glitch?
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Definately technical glitch. When I hit the information button on my remote, it gives the story line as being Babur setting up a partition between men nd women in the mosque.
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I'm sure someone might have called them..
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FOR Zarqa Nawaz, a hijab-wearing Muslim woman living on the Canadian prairies, life in the West has always provided certain conundrums.
For example, is a woman obliged to cover herself in the presence of a gay man?
“It always struck me as hilarious. What if that man has no interest in you sexually, does he count?” Nawaz, the show’s creator, said. “You normally can’t ask those questions out loud in your community because they think it’s too out there, so this series is almost a form of therapy for me.”
Nawaz, 39, who was born in England, raised in Toronto, and moved to Saskatchewan after her marriage, says she is constantly bemused at the issues of living as a Muslim in Western society.
Should she allow her children to dress up for Halloween, although it’s a pagan ritual? Is it OK to wear a conventional swimming costume to water aerobics if the male instructor is gay? In the show, the conflict is resolved by a woman donning a garment described as the “Haz-Mat Islamic swimsuit”, covering her from neck to ankle.
A scholar could’ve answered her questions. But, no she answered them herself, made a TV show, and now she’s trying to get everyone else to think like her. By watching the show you can tell she obviously doesn’t respect the Ulama.
They say 2million people watched the show. What I want to know is how many of them were Muslim, and what was there median age?
“You normally can’t ask those questions out loud in your community because they think it’s too out there, so this series is almost a form of therapy for me.” Zarqa Nawaz
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The creator of the show Zarqa Nawaz, is the only Muslim writer on the show. The only Muslim actor on the show is the clean shaven Imam who previously played a gay guy on another show.
Why no other Muslim writers on the show?
So no one can interfere and challenge Mrs. Nawaz's version of Islam that she wants to push to the masses.
This is a documentry she made...
Me and the Mosque, co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada, airs perhaps the dirtiest laundry in the basket—women’s prayer spaces in mosques. While her own mosque finds newer and harsher ways to isolate women (ultimately arriving at the one-sided mirror with a brick wall solution), Nawaz puts herself in front of the camera and takes a road trip to mosques across North America. The trip, she says, is meant to investigate why these instruments of segregation, or “barriers” as they are referred to in the film, are being put up in mosques.
But make no mistake, this is not investigative journalism. What Nawaz is really doing is making a case against the barrier by giving the purdah (veil) the Michael Moore treatment. She casts herself as a populist hero—an everyday, hard-working, Joe, or Joann in this case, who is a mother and lifelong Islamic activist. Then she sticks it to the man with a combination of intelligent talking heads, animation, stories of other regular sister folk, irreverent humor and a bias that lies just beneath the surface. A documentary with a bias? We can get into a discussion on the nature of documentary truth, but for now, let’s leave the faceless, fair and balanced material for the History Channel and take on something that channels passion into an articulate argument.
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^
She was well within her rights to do so. If you are going to provide a space for women, afford them just a shred of dignity...too many third worlder triablists just don't get the concept...
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:o
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Guys please, we have bigger problems at hand. Where is the 2nd episode? 
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someone needs to make torrents of this show and put it up
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May Allah guide her (zarqa)... ameen
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New episode will air on Wednesday now.. Jesus Christ!
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lol
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IMHO it is not a funny show. Those who follow traditional Islam will agree.
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^^ So according to you, muslims cant make fun of them selves?
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i thought it was pretty funny and definitely a step in the right direction
i like the premise behind the show -- that humor heals and that entertainment is a way to educate ppl about muslims and to help clear misconceptions
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it’s up.
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have you ever been to the women’s area at your local masjid? it’s deplorable! All the masjid’s that I have been to, the women’s area plainly sucks. Terrible bathrooms, dirty carpets, leaky ceilings, lack of proper light/heat/airconditioning. Ok forget air conditioning, lack of proper fans! Not to mention most of the times we are so far away that we don’t see a shred of proper light, or get fresh air. So, i say kudos to her for making that documentary. Perhaps someone out there will get a brain and make the women’s area not an after thought, but a proper area for the women to pray at.
btw, i liked the show. Kinda went slow at times, but still…hilarious! 