Video Assignment.

The movie I chose to talk about is called The Message. Its about how Islam was established. It talks about the whole entire history of Islam and all the hardships Muslims had to go through in order to have their own freedom of religion. This movie talks about how some people from other countries were willing to accept them and others wanted nothing to do with them all. The director even covers how many people were skeptic about the religion and what made many of the most religious people convert. Some of the most religious Muslims in those days were some of the most skeptic people. They were some of those people who wanted to kill off all of the Muslims before Islam spread any faster. This movie also shows that even more than 1400 years ago people wanted some sort of proof, something that is a strong enough argument that will make them convert. There once was a nonbeliever who came to Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) and told him slit the moon in half and then join it back together and then said he would believe that truly he was the messenger of God. And all the Prophet (pbuh) did was took his index finger and pointed at the moon and cut it in half, and then he also joined in back together in front of all of those people. Now recent studies show that there is a crack in the moon as if it was cut in half and then put back together. But when the people saw that they accused him of being some sort of magician. This tells us that our culture at this moment and even 14oo years ago needs reasoning, some type of proof, that what the other person is telling them is the truth, they just need a reason to believe us. This movie covers about all five of Marion Youngs five faces of oppresion. There is violence, marginalization, exploitation, cultural imperialism and most of all powerlessness. I think this movie explains the beginning of Islam very well. It also explains alot of other things, I think that if you watch this movie you will understand Islam alot better. I know I did. Even though I went to an Islamic school 9 years of my life, when i saw this movie alot of what I was taught there made alot more sense. I am attaching two youtube links, one is a link to the whole movie, its about 3 hours long but its in English and its very interesting. I guarantee you it will keep your attention throughout the whole movie. The other link is of the moon and where it was slit. You can just skip to like 1 minute into the video. ENJOY!

The Message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gsJv6Kus6A
The moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uSckNalT7k&feature=related

P.S. I think I'm going to go watch it again myself. :D