Inside islam

analysis of inside Islam documentary

1. REVIEW BY: NABEEL RAZA
ROLL NO 01
MSC FILM & TV
INSIDE ISLAM
BY: MARK HUFNAIL

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1: TITLE: INSIDE ISLAM
DIRECTED BY: Mark Hufnail
Written and produced By: Mitch Lodwick
Narrated by: Keith David
Locations: there are different locations used in this documentary specially
those places and countries which were conquered by Muslims and where
Muslims were rulers in past and also those places where Islam was
considered as a threat so it showed places from Philistine to EU India to
Arab
The subject of this documentary is the birth of Islam and then it’s different
times of rise and fall in different eras and it is all about Islam it also
emphasizes that you have to make a distinguishing between one of the great
religion and the fanatics it tells the history and believes of Islam its former
empire and how it evolve to become a religion as it is today
2: Purpose of Film
The purpose of this documentary is just to declare that Islam is not religion
of terror fight fear or war it’s religion of peace love and humanity service
This documentary not only tells the about the history of evolution of Islam
but also tells us that how the Islam is similar to other religions and how we
can differentiate Terrorists from this religion of peace it also explore the
challenges facing Islam today, including a crisis of authority and deep
divisions among many sects Illuminating, important and objective, INSIDE
ISLAM exposes the heart of a faith mired in controversy .it also find out
what the Quran says about war, violence and suicide, and how these words
have been co-opted by extremists
3: Message of Film
The message of the film is just to clear the dust from mirrors of hearts that
what west think today about Islam is not right Islamic values and history
never teaches terrorism and it also depicts that Islam is one of the greatest
religion of the World and it is as important and graceful as Christianity or

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Judaism. it also tells that terrorism dictatorship and so called jihad has
nothing to do with Islam
4: Film Content in 3 lines
This film tells about Birth of a child Muhammad S.A.W.W in Arab Tribe
Banu Quresh who became Prophet of God and how his nation and followers
spread and conquered different parts of the world and what is the true spirit
of Islam it tells that God gave life and only he can take life it is Islam
5: Background knowledge
Any particular background knowledge I don’t think so will be required to
understand or appreciate this film because whether you are a Muslim or a
non-Muslim if you want to know what basically Islam is and how it evolves
it is the best documentary to know this. it is completely up to you whether
your purpose is to know the teachings or to know the history of Islam or to
clear your concepts so if you are interested in history and you are enough
mature to understand keeping away all the biasness it is complete package
of history of Islam
6: what I learnt
Although I am a Muslim but because there are a lot of things in the world
which have no importance but we keep on spending time our time on all
those things and pay no attention towards our religion and it’s teachings and
how world look this and how we can handle all those objections by
knowing and preaching the true and real teachings of Islam and presenting
the real face of Islam Even in warfare it was and it is Islam which taught us
that do not harm any children any woman any aged person do not put fire on
houses on green fields because enmity is not bigger than humanity I really
felt pride that how glorious our history was and also came to know that how
we became the target of every bullet and who is responsible of all this what
is going around the world with Muslims
7: Specific Aspect
This film is really brilliant from every aspect visuals, information,
background music, history analysis, point of views of every type of

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ideological thinkers and Muslims, awareness about teachings of Islam , short
but detailed view of history but the part which I liked most is the portion
of the film in which the film maker discussed the scientific history of
Muslims It really depicts that’s It was Muslim Scientists who showed new
ways of knowledge to this world from physics to maths and chemistry to
surgery and how Muslims pay respect to education and teachings of others
forgetting their personal disputes with them in fact they translated those
things in different languages instead of abolishing like old conquers and
another inserting part was when film makers told that the concept that Islam
gives no right to woman is completely wrong it was Islam who granted a
dignified position to woman 1400years ago which EU is just trying to grant
in recent years
8: How Does Film Grab Attention
Although history is in itself a boring subject but it comes towards a thing
which is controversial and the thing which is blamed as reasons of all the
unrest around or when someone claims that no no you all are wrong it is not
right what you are saying it is not reality lets come I’ll tell you what actually
truth is then no one can turn his face away from that thig so this film is
actually so much interesting because in every minute it describes what west
think it is this or this is that for example once it declares that what actually
Hijab is and then in next moment it tells what Jihad is also all this is fear
able or objection able but if you want to know what actually it is then it will
become interesting automatically so the way it discussed and Cleared all the
misconceptions it is interesting and it grabs attention due to this
9: Viewers view Challenged or Expanded
Because this film is dealing with the history of Islam from the Birth of
Prophet Muhammad SAWW to the present day so it is challenging those
viewers point of view’s which think that all the unrest all the terrorism,
extremism , fear killings bloodshed disputes blasts are just because of
Muslims and their religion and it is also expanding those views which are
raising their voices in all the difficult times that no extremism terrorism has
nothing to do with any religion because it is inhuman and no religion teaches
inhuman behave in fact it also portrays that In Islam a murder of a human

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being is equal to kill whole humanity so it also expands the point of view
of Islam an real Muslims

10: narrator and narration
The way Mitch Lodwick wrote this and the way Keith David narrate this it is
completely flawless reality is a thing which can not be minimized or
maximized it remains what it is so from day 1 to completion of 1400 years a
brief history is presented in a very impressive way
11: noteworthy scenes and which are not add to overall quality of the film
It is difficult to define that what actually noteworthy scenes in this film and
what is not because whole film revolves around all those things places
personalities events which are noteworthy for every Muslim but the most
important among all those all scenes of Haj and Tawaf-e-Kaaba they are
really heart touching and evoke and promote emotions to go to the House of
Allah
12: Quote worthy lines
“Like Judaism and Christianity and any other religion Islam has many
dimensions and has been interpreted in many different ways it can’t turn
violent, many Muslims believes that if Islam is to continue to grow religion
of future it only be in sha ALLAH”
13: Why is it Memorable?
So many things have been already written and mention above which all are
enough to make it memorable because it not only deals with declaration of
Islam as a religion of peace but it also increased my knowledge about history
of Islam this is the reason to me which make it memorable for me
14: which issues are exposed by this?
Yes whether there is matter regarding human rights their lives, believes,
values, epics, woman rights in Islam who was the pioneer of phy or chem or
math or bio it also that what are the teachings of Islam regarding killing

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someone or regarding harming anyone it also dealt with hijab, jihad, sect
issues and distinguish between Islam and fanatics it also dealt with the
conquers of Muslims and the way they spread their religion so political
religious educational warfare issues all are exposed by this film
15: context of issue? What viewers should know to understand the context?
Context of all issues is just to clear the misconceptions and present the real
teachings of Islam that Muslims establish their empire on the basis of
teachings of Islam which are greater in any form than any other religion and
all the rumors around the world about Islam Muslims and its concepts all are
totally misleading. Islam is not what biased thinkers portrays it is religion of
peace love and harmony
16: who should see and who should not?
If you are interested in history and you want to know the basics of Islam and
its teachings and whether it supports all the terrorism or not and how much it
payed importance to human being and rights and if you are interested in state
matters or political issue even then it is also see able film because it is a
complete history of an empire which started from MADEENA AND
MAKKA and spread even ¾ of the world and if you are a religious person
then it is also informational for you to see how a religion started from a cave
and now one of the greatest religion of the world so it provides inside of
Islam and it enlighten inform educate and clear all the misunderstandings so
if u want to clear your concepts then it is a complete package to clear that
but if you are fond of entertainment you are not interested in history and
don’t want to know political aspects then you should just move forward and
watch something else because
Everything is not for Every one

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