Pastor Terry Jones and an alleged Muslim
apostate have collaborated to produce a new film
on the Muslim Prophet, Muhammad [peace be
upon him]. The film was uploaded to popular
video sharing website, Youtube, earlier on the
15th of December. Pastor Terry Jones and FFI’s
Ali Sina have been promoting this film as a ‘must
see’, where it is allegedly supposed to have
‘exposed Islam and its Prophet’. I sat and
watched the “movie ” earlier today and this is my
review.
Terry Jones in the Movie's
Introduction
It must be noted that I watched the English
version as uploaded on Terry Jones’ Youtube
account. This is not a movie, it’s a bad
cartoon. If you were expecting something of
better quality than the failed Coptic movie which
caused vast and violent riots worldwide earlier
this year, then by all means, lower your hopes.
The ‘film’ is marginally better and can best be
described as a badly narrated picture slideshow of
Arab men with the name Muhammad [peace be
upon him] cut and pasted unto the images. The
video quality seems very low and poorly done,
and I am very certain that the editing was done
by an amateur. The slides and images seem to
have been taken from Google Images and are
repeated throughout the slideshow to the extent
that you’ll probably end up spending 1 hour and
12 minutes seeing the same images about 20
times each.
If the imagery doesn’t throw you off, then the
narration definitely would. When news first broke
of this new ‘film’, I expected a higher quality,
robust, well produced movie, yet, what I got in the
English version is the exact opposite. This ‘film’ is
so bad, the English narrator struggles to speak…
English! His accent, intonation and tone, definitely
indicates that his first language is not English. I
really have to ask Terry Jones, if you are doing a
movie in English, why not use someone whose
first language is English? Instead, the person
narrating the ‘ slideshow‘, struggles throughout,
which creates an off putting sensation as you can
literally feel the person forcing himself to cope
with his manoeuvring of the English language. In
addition to this, there is some music in the
background, and it’s bad. It’s as if they stole
everything they used in this ‘ slideshow‘, from the
internet. The music is a gimped version of
Hollywood styled Arabian jingles and it is
repeated so often, it conjures a great resemblance
to the annoying task of having to wait on the
phone to speak to an insurance agent or
customer care service representative, while that
horrible background music is played. I couldn’t
get past the first 10 minutes without struggling to
watch it, and I spent the first 5 minutes trying not
to have a headache from the deplorable narration
and music.
The information presented is not historical and
borders on fiction. It was during the first 10
minutes, that I recalled the producer of the film,
i.e. the alleged apostate, posted on FFI indicating
he was a long time fan of Ali Sina. From this,
based on my reading of FFI’s Ali Sina’s book,
“Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography
of Allah’s Prophet “, it hit me that the ‘ producer‘
basically summarized Ali Sina’s book and was
narrating it. That literary work in itself is highly
flawed and not based on proper study. Ali Sina’s
work simply takes from Ibn Ishaq’s Seerah and
focuses on the violent passages within (which due
to proper literary criticism are found to be highly
doubtful), and from this, he concludes that the
Muslim Prophet had numerous illnesses and
diseases etc, essentially it’s a book meant to
insult the Prophet of Islam, not an academic
work. What’s worse is that Ali Sina actually
invents stories and tries to develop it into a
narrative. The book is so bad and the author was
so desperate to insult the Islamic Prophet, that
Ali Sina who is not a psychologist, labelled it a
‘ psychobiography ‘, I prefer to refer to it as fiction.
The video’s very source for its information is
therefore very flawed, inconsistent and has no
regard for academic integrity. Thus far, the video
quality consists of:
1. Google Images of Arab Cartoon Men.
2. Google Images of an Arabian Map.
3. Pictures of Muhammad [peace be upon him]
are the name Muhammad cut and paste on
the Arab cartoon men.
4. Arab themed jingle music most likely stolen
from the internet.
5. An English narrator whose first language is
not English.
6. An ahistorical and non-academic source for
the slideshow’s content.
Do I think this movie will cause riots? To be quite
honest, I think it’d cause suicides based on how
bad it is. Thank God I had pain killers to numb
the effects of the narrators voice, bad music, poor
cut and paste images and especially from the
ridiculous use of a non-academic source. Should
Muslims watch it? It clearly is supposed to be
about the Muslim Prophet, but the images, nor
the history would have you think that much. The
only thing that would indicate it was about the
Islamic faith is Pastor Terry Jones’ introduction
before the movie, along with a few passages of
the Qur’an at the beginning of the ‘slideshow’. I
certainly don’t think that this ‘ movie ‘ – I insist on
calling it a slideshow, is going to change the
world, make any Muslim apostate, or convince
anyone of anything, but it will serve to reinforce
the notion that Islamophobes have a long way to
go before anyone would be willing to accept their
works as anything more than amateur-like and
polemical.
Pros & Cons:
+ I reviewed it to save you wasting 1 hour and 12
minutes of your life.
– It’s on Youtube (this was a pro, until I
remembered how awful the new layout is).
– Features Terry Jones.
– Horrible imagery.
– Bad editing and videography.
– Lacks academic sources and study.
– Horrible audio.
– Horrible narrator.
Please consider purchasing pain killers before
watching this video, it will make you sick from
how bad it is. In closing, I would like to mention
how ironic it is, that the very man they try to
insult and use disparaging images of, they have
no clue of how he looked or what he sounded
like, therefore their representations of him are not
of the actual Islamic Prophet, but of a created
man who has the name Muhammad, a production
based on their imaginations, not of the real man
himself. That reminds me of a pertinent
hadith. The Quraysh out of their great hatred for
the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to refer to
him as “Mudhammam”, which means “the
condemned/defamed one” instead of his name
“Muhammad”, which means “the praised one”.
In response the Prophet (peace be upon him)
said:
ﺃﻻ ﺗﻌﺠﺒﻮﻥ ﻛﻴﻒ ﻳﺼﺮﻑ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻋﻨﻲ ﺷﺘﻢ ﻗﺮﻳﺶ ﻭﻟﻌﻨﻬﻢ
ﻳﺸﺘﻤﻮﻥ ﻣﺬﻣﻤﺎ ﻭﻳﻠﻌﻨﻮﻥ ﻣﺬﻣﻤﺎ ﻭﺃﻧﺎ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ
“Doesn’t it astonish you how Allah protects me
from the Quraish’s abusing and cursing? They
abuse Mudhammam and curse Mudhammam
while I am Muhammad (and not
Mudhammam)” [Saheeh Bukhari, Volume 4, Book
56, Number 733].
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just saw the video. I do not want to comment because I do not want innocent people to be killed.