[Sans-Culotte]

Yeah-something is not right here. When Mustaffa Akhad, the film-maker who had made the stirring epic Lion of the Desert with Anthony Quinn as desert chieftain Omar Mukhtar, started work on a proposed film on the Prophet, he had to re-write it so that Muhammed did not physically appear in the film at all. The film was to be titled Muhammed: Messenger of God, but was changed to The Message and concentrated on the impact of Muhammed without portraying any events of his life, as orthadox Islam apparently forbids the representation of Muhammed. Apparently, he would have gotten the Salman Rushdie treatment had he made the film he had intended to make.

[syriacus]

Apparently, he would have gotten the Salman Rushdie treatment had he made the film he had intended to make.

I'll bet!

Some movie patrons might have been blown up, too, if the film had gotten finished the way Akkad wanted.