09 May 2005

Kingdom of Heaven -whoops!

Apparently the film gets it wrong when showing Muslims at prayer: "Muslims stand in tightly packed files when performing the salat. ... Well, in this film shows the congregation spread out so much that there is a few meters of free space around each participant."
Sounds like they may have imported bad habits from Western Christians! I'm also wondering why no one picked this up in filming ... surely there must have been Muslims there? Perhaps they did but didn't say anything for fear of not being heard? Or perhaps they spoke up and were not heard?
Muslim WakeUp! Blog Hollywood Salat revisited:

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