01
Mar
2007
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Jihad
This is a short 5:20min film which kind of makes a few interesting points depending on your interpretations.
Watch:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laRMYO4gYTg[/youtube]
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Esra’a — thank you for sharing this! For me, the movie, which I thought was great, brought up many questions. Is someone who is moved to Jihad likely to be swayed by winning the lottery (or even likely to PLAY the lottery!)? Are they saying that young, hopeful people are recruited to do these monstrous thing when it is not really in their nature (e.g., he felt hopeful enough to buy a lottery ticket, and wanted to choose earthly riches over martyrdom)? Money/ a way out can change a hopeless persons mindset from terrorism to capitalism? I don’t know the answers to any of these questions, but love the exploration of them in this movie. What did others see?
“What did others see?”
An alternative to eternity?
In Islam it’s forbidden to bet, so I think by the time an evil indoctrine misusing Islam ends up with a ‘winner’ there wouldn’t be any lotery tickets because this life ‘is not worth living, it’s all about the hereafter’ anyway.
It’s not so ‘reality’ linked this clip, I think….