Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world

T_i_B

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Wed Nov-02-05 07:30 AM
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Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/02/wram02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/02/ixportal.html

A blockbuster Ramadan television drama broadcast across the Arab world has broken new ground by daring to question the motives of terrorism committed in the name of Allah.

The plotline of al-Hur al-Ayn (Beautiful Maidens), has proved enormously controversial with its makers denounced by an angry fundamentalist minority.

But it has also been hugely popular with an Arabic-speaking public fed up with the cliched portrayal of all Muslims as gun-toting fanatics.

By highlighting the way innocent Muslims can also become victims of religious extremism, the drama is challenging the stereotypes that bedevil the Arab world.

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xultar

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Wed Nov-02-05 08:12 AM
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1. WOW that is pretty fuckin kewl. Now to change the view of Christians

from white crazy-ass radical power hungry victim-minded greedy control freaks.

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Wed Nov-02-05 08:29 AM
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2. You just crack me up! n/t

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DeepModem Mom

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Wed Nov-02-05 09:00 AM
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3. Thanks for posting! I was struck by the similarity of a fundamentalist...

Edited on Wed Nov-02-05 09:08 AM by DeepModem Mom

minority being able to set the tone for an entire society. Their zeal seems to overcome others, here and elsewhere, who just want to get on with their lives.

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Earth_First

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Wed Nov-02-05 03:21 PM
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4. Do we know specifically which countries this film as shown...

just curious...

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