Please make a Muslim hero character, J. J. Abrams. We need it.

Washington Post ^ | 12/23/15 | Haroon Moghul

[mad_as_he$$]

There are Muslims on ST. They are called the Borg.

[mad_as_he$$]

See post 81.

[papertyger]

Here’s a simple solution:

Convert.

[Bratch]

FYI, the first captain to make an appearance in the JJ Abrams reboot was portrayed by a Pakistani actor.

[chae]

Well, if the author were such a Star Wars fan he’d know Luke wasn’t born on Tatooine.
Also there is a Muslim super hero. The new Ms Marcel is Muslim.

[MeshugeMikey]

The Death Star.....people by raging jihadists..melted by the universe’s largest laser? now theres a plot!!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I thought they had moslem heroes in those Arabesque and Arabian Nights movies back in the 1940s ‘50s and ‘60s from Hollywood and Italy.

Rock Hudson
Tab Hunter
John Hall
John Payne
Elvis Presley
Victor Mature
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Maybe Western actors don’t want to play cutthroat desert murderers any more.

[Moonman62]

Create a Muslim hero who converts all of his fellow Muslims into Christians and I’ll watch it.

[a fool in paradise]

How about that moment in the film where they come to realize that their satanic rock is just a meteorite?

Cue themes from 2001.

[MeshugeMikey]

....the black rock was Alluh’s....Gallstone

[Bogey78O]

Muslims refuse to criticize their own theology. That tells us what we need to know about their theology.

To reference CS lewis, as Aslan is to Tash, Jesus is to Mohammed. Some of the Calormene are good decent people but they need to drop their subservient attitude to a demonic entity.

[spodefly]

1.4 billion people and they can’t manage a movie production?

Listen, Mr. Taqiyyah, if you bow to a moon rock in the Middle East 5 times a day, then you are a cult member ... you and your ilk are just Squeaky Froomes with beards. Crazy to the core, and incompatible with any civilized, modern society.

FOAD.

[HiTech RedNeck]

One could debate the applicability of an implied premise here. They’re finally getting hauled into technological modernity, even though that evolved in a Judeo-Christian context. Communication is more possible than ever.

However Christ continues to loom over the situation. His obvious question is, Why not use all that to evangelize?

[HiTech RedNeck]

In one way that attitude is like a FOAD to God. The real God, not the Allah of Islam.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh they’ll debate it, and sometimes as a result go on jihads against one another. Not wanting to leave a theology in general, however, can’t logically tell us whether it is good or bad.

[Hulka]

All valid points.

CIA recruiting heavily for females and minorities. . .for field agent positions.

Yup. . .PC rules again, like females and minorities will blend in over-seas in heavily infested areas of muslime crazies.

[BlueLancer]

There was one series of science fiction books by S.M. Stirling and David Drake called "The General" (aka "The Raj Whitehall Series") where, after the collapse of The Federation, a galaxy-wide civil government, Islamic settlers on the planet Bellevue played a major role as the principal antagonist to what was known as the "Civil Government", remnants and survivors of The Federation.

It was particularly noteworthy that "The Colony", as the Islamic government on Bellevue was called, were the first colonists to have arrived on the planet following "the Last Jihad", bearing a fragment of the Kaaba from, as the books describe, "burning Mecca."

All-in-all, a very good series of books ...

[a fool in paradise]

Al Lah had a lot of gall.

[MeshugeMikey]

and much of the rest of Europe...

oh sorry that was Mohammad...

[Crucial]

Bin Laden should have been cremated with no prayers just to send a message.