Nov 21 2008
Articles of Faith: Little Mosque on the Prairie
Art from the Outskirts in a tag team effort with Waxing Poetically’s Friday Articles of Faith series presents a look at a critically acclaimed, Canadian comedy-drama called Little Mosque on the Prairie. Developed and written by Zarqa Nawaz, . The show deals with many issues of social acceptance, politics, race, religious debate and the many on-going battles for Muslims to be accepted as normal in largely non-Islamic cultures. It currently airs on CBC Television Canada at 8 p.m. Eastern time. (Visit the show’s webpage).
Summary from IMDb.com
The location is Mercy Saskatchewan, a small town in the Canadian prairies. A small but devout community of Muslims has settled there, headed by community leader Yasir Hamoudi, a local building contractor. He is married to Sarah, a Caucasian ex-Christian who has converted to Islam for her husband. Their adult daughter, Rayyan, is a feminist Muslim doctor. The religious leader of the Muslim community - the Imam - is Amaar Rashid, a young, Canadian-born ex-lawyer from Toronto, who came to Mercy to replace Baber Siddiqui, who was deemed too extreme by many in the Mercy Muslim community. The local diner is run by Fatima Dinssa, a Nigerian Muslim who is strict about her religion but more liberal in her cultural values. The Muslims in Mercy are co-existing with their Christian neighbors, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes not. Reverend Duncan Magee welcomes his Muslim neighbors, especially if they enhance the social and economic fabric of the community and his parish. Likewise, Mayor Ann Popowicz welcomes the Muslim population especially if they vote for her. However, local radio host, Fred Tupper, is suspect of the Muslims and their supposed terrorist ways. But he and many of the townsfolk, Muslim or Christian, are equally as suspect of someone like Amaar since he is from the big bad city of Toronto, a city which has shaped his views and which is contrary to the outlook of a town like Mercy. (More)
Little Mosque on the Prairie- Episode 1 - Season 1
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This is great! Really… i love it and Thank you! ~k
Ditto with kh! Need more like this on TV. My uncle from small town BC had more problem accepting people from Alberta than he had people from different ethnicities! Never heard him say a word about anyone who was a ethnic minority, but man sit beside him when he was behind a truck with Alberta plates and whoa!