The life of Muhammed on the BBC!

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Re: The life of Muhammed on the BBC!

There were inaccuracies from a Muslim’s point of view but it was still a pretty good effort and very refreshing to see something positive about Islam, I like that they brought up Salman Rushdie and also the rebuttal against it and I liked that they clarified that Islam does not by any means condone violence, so overall it was pretty good. At least it attempts to give the Islamic perspective, we’ll have to see the rest of it to see if it succeeds to do so

@BarbieCue

I like how they separate Islam from the muslim societies. For example, when they’re talking about Hazrat Khadeeja ra, they make a point that many modern muslim societies today fail to give their women the rights that Khadeeja had centuries ago. When they talk about the Danish cartoons and the Salman Rushdie’s book incidents, they differentiate between the reaction of the modern muslims to this hatred and the reaction of the Prophet saw and his followers to not only the hatred but torture and persecution back in the day. They were tolerant, quiet and peaceful, we aren’t.

This episode didn’t focus too much on the actual message. I think they should have talked about what Prophet Mohammad saw actually preached i.e. equality, justice, peace etc because people today don’t have a freakin clue about who he was and what his basic message was. They talked more about how his message was received, the difficulties that muslims had to face, the violence that has broken out between muslims and non-muslims over the years.

Agreed, that was by far the best part of it, it wasn’t about the behaviour of Muslims rather what Islam teaches, I liked that about it.