mosque200.jpgA good friend of mine recently posted a far more detailed and visually rich blog post about the latest installment of Canada’s biggest hit show, so I thought this an apt time to point out the importance of this show to Western Muslims.

While definitely a great show in my books, and not by any single standard either, Little Mosque on the Prairie is the TV show that has managed to acheive something that Muslims in the West have been striving after for decades: straight-laced representation.

I’m talking about the very same issue that Sheikh Humza and Sheikh Umar Faruq Abdullah have been harping on for at least the past 3 years, I’m talking about the need for a Muslim-North American culture.

The simple reality is, as long as the only exposure people have to Islam is through the eyes of Bill O’Reilly and Robert Spencer, Muslim people and the faith they practice will be forever misunderstood. Not only have the aforementioned individuals and the camps they sit in suceeded in alienating Muslims and Islam, they’ve done so through the most vicious and callous of means, by inciting others towards unconditional hatred.ohreallyLG.jpg

I tune in to Fox News whenever I need a sure jolt of comedic relief. But beneath my laughter has always been an outpouring of concern for the milllions of people who aren’t tuning in for their daily laughs, or even for some difference of opinion, but simply to get the news. After an hour of watching Fox, even I sometimes leave convinced that no moderate Muslims–a term I will blog about in a later post–are out there.

So what for the frequent inconsistencies on our new emblem of identity? And what for Muslim-feminism and shariah orthodoxy? Well, I don’t know enough to take a scholarly stance on the issues, and I’m certainly no social scientist. But I do know we live on a continent that has probably done more to damage the Muslim identity than any war in history ever did.

Little Mosque on the Prairie is set to change all that. And it’s making big waves. And their headed straight for Fox.

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