RN Documentary: Misunderstanding Islam
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
Length: 29:27
The Netherlands now has one million Muslims – in an overall population of 16 million. Issues like the banning of the veil for women in schools, debates on female circumcision and the recent killing of the controversial writer and film maker Theo van Gogh all center around an uneasy relationship between Muslims and non Muslims in The Netherlands. This is the topic of discussion in this program where three people who have spent their lives at the point where Islam meets the West talk of the misunderstandings and misperceptions westerners have of Islam. Speakers are: jurist and specialist on the Sharia Maurists Berger, Abdul Wahid van Bommel, sometimes known as the Dutch imam and Persian singer and writer Shusha Guppy.
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The Netherlands now has one million Muslims – in an overall population of 16 million. Issues like the banning of the veil for women in schools, debates on female circumcision and the recent killing of the controversial writer and film maker Theo van Gogh all center around an uneasy relationship between Muslims and non Muslims in The Netherlands. This is the topic of discussion in this program where three people who have spent their lives at the point where Islam meets the West talk of the misunderstandings and misperceptions westerners have of Islam. Speakers are: jurist and specialist on the Sharia Maurists Berger, Abdul Wahid van Bommel, sometimes known as the Dutch imam and Persian singer and writer Shusha Guppy.
Transcript
MUSIC –Carrier Title Bukra. Tr: 5 “Nayla”
Perf + Comp: Rabih Abou- Khalil 2’00
You’re listening to Radio Netherlands, I’m Dheera Sujan and this is Vox Humana.
In the Netherlands, one of the most shocking events in recent weeks was the killing of Dutch film maker and journalist Theo van Gogh. He had recently made a very controversial film that had as its central theme, the subjugation and oppression of Muslim women. Theo van Gogh was shot and stabbed and his killer, wounded and captured in a subsequent police chase, was a young man with joint Moroccan and Dutch citizenship.
The killing of van Gogh has added more fuel to the flames of an ongoing discussion in Holland. The debate has many branches, but the main one – if I may be allowed to paraphrase it rather crudely – goes something along the lines of “what are we going to do about these Muslims?”
So today on VH, I...
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Carrier Title Bukra. Tr: 5 “Nayla” Perf + Comp: Rabih Abou- Khalil 2’00
Persian Love Songs. Perf: Shusha Guppy. Comp: Trad.TGSMC 108. ‘30
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Review of RN Documentary: Misunderstanding Islam
This documentary should be heard by everyone in America. We don't understand Islam. We have many ideas of what we think it is but more often than not we are relying on stereotyes and misconceptions. Radio Netherlands has created another outstanding documentary with "Misunderstanding Islam" and though it deals with Muslims in Holland, there is much we can learn here about. Producer and narrator Dheera Sujan brings a personal approach to this discussion with experts and thinkers. I highly recommend this doc paired with another Radio Netherlands doc for a complete one-hour special.