Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world

Not often I get to blog any good news in the world of Islam....

Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world
Telegraph
02/11/2005

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.

No comments: