Muslim Education Society president has said the film, Vishwaroopam, is not anti-Muslim.
Muslim Education Society (MES) president Fazal Ghafoor has said that Tamil Nadu government’s ban on the Kamal Haasan movie ‘Vishwaroopam’ is unwarranted.
Dr. Ghafoor told The Hindu that the film was not anti-Muslim, though certain scenes appeared to link Islam to terrorism. “I don’t think the film consciously tried to project the Islamophobic agenda of equating Islam with terrorism,” he said. But, the film was pro-imperialist and it projected the skewed American view of ‘war on terrorism’. He also said certain scenes in the film were problematic. For example, the terrorists performing namaz (Muslim prayer) before going on an attacking spree and the scenes where Quranic verses emerge from the background while terrorists plot their attacks leaves an impression on audience that Islam and Quran supported terrorism.
Dr. Ghafoor said there was no need for banning the movie and that the violent protests against it were wrong. Muslim organisations should have ignored the film or even protested peacefully, rather than seeking a ban on it.
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If there is a group that is wanting to Ban a film based on real terrorist outfits then that group is trying to defend those terrorist outfits.
Is TNTJ another wing of Al Qaeda?
true,Its a Patriotic movie. In fact should improve the images of Muslims
as a patriotic Muslim. Unless anyone having direct/indirect links to
terrorism thoughts/information they should NOT be asking for ban. Else
its hints of encouragement of terrorism. There is no two ways, terrorism
is enemy to any life human/non-human (need less to say including
Muslims).
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