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On TUESDAY, APRIL 27 at 7PM in the GJERDE CENTER, CBC Reads will host a showing and panel discussion of the documentary film Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think.
Read a letter to the Editor of the Tri-city Herald by Tom Roach recommending this event.
Original post 4/8/10
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Update by Meg. Woods:
There were 248 people at last night’s event. I introduced our community collaborator, Sabiha Khan, by giving some background about Three Cups of Tea and how the committee wanted to have a film event and how Daniel Vickoren (ASCBC Education Programmer) contacted Mrs. Khan after reading the story in the Herald when it was shown in January.
The film highlights the results of the most extensive Gallup poll ever done in the Muslim world—20,000 people everywhere in the world sat for one hour interviews. As one of the panelists pointed out, there is a book that goes along with the film that explains all of the results, not just those that can be put into a 55 minute film.
After the film, John Roach, who moderated, introduced the panelists—a man and a woman from Syria, a doctor from Lebanon, a pharmacist, a nuclear engineer, a former Catholic nun from Venezuela who is married to an Egyptian, and Sabiha’s daughter who is a teacher. The questions included what Muslim dating was like, how Malcolm X is viewed, what the similarities and differences are between Christianity and Islam, and the final question was what is one thing that can be done to bridge the gap between Americans and Muslims. One woman said changing foreign policy so the US doesn’t support dictatorship in the Muslim world while advocating democracy everywhere else. Another said the only change any person can do is at the community level and by promoting tolerance in the community, promoting education in the community, and being aware and voting.
The event was wrapped up shortly after 9. Several people expressed their appreciation of the event and I talked with Sabiha about the possibility of more collaboration in the future.
4/28/2010
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Additional Resources:
The title of the book related to the film is Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think.
Information about the book on Amazon.com
6 book reviews on EBSCOhost
5 book reviews on ProQuest
Information about the poll from Gallup
5 film reviews on ProQuest
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Inside Islam
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"Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think" scheduled to show at Columbia Basin College April 27, is produced by Unity Productions Foundation a Muslim propaganda effort founded by Michael Wolfe and Alex Kronemer. Like Muhammad, Legacy of a Prophet and their other films it presents an hour long spin on Mohammed and Muslim history which is overwhelming to those who have never read the Quran. It paints a picture of Muslims, Christians and Jews worshipping the same God in perfect harmony in one breath, while admitting that Constantinople was taken by the sword in another. It fails to mention that Spain and Portugal were also invaded by Muslim armies. Thus the reason for Charles Martel’s retaliation which stopped them at the Battle of Tours in 732. Nor do they mention that on the walls of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem verses of the Quran challenge cardinal doctrines of Christianity (so much for harmony). Credit is obviously due to the Arabs for Algebra etc., but this film suggests that if it were not for Muslim scholars all ancient manuscripts would have been lost. Never mind the Vatican library, Irish Latin scribes, or the manuscripts that were carried to Russia for safe keeping when Muslims sacked Constantinople. We could also point to the non-Muslim dragomans, hired by the Ottomans to translate western literature so they could keep up with the west. The film even uses a deceptive photo of the Qumran caves where ancient Jewish manuscripts were found, as though it was Muslims that hide them there. One could write a book on the obvious deception of UPF films. Daniel Pipes has documented some of this on his website.
Attorney Tom Roach’s endorsement of the movie in his letter to the Tri-City Forum appears he is rather naïve.
Let us not forget, in Islam there are only two worlds, Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam) and Dar al-Harb (House of War).
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