Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Little Mosque on the Prairie

You'd think that, as a Norwegian, I'd take myself much less seriously. We make fun of ourselves. A lot. Perhaps this originated on those cold, snowy mountains of the homeland, when it was too cold or steep to go outside. Too isolated to see others doing stupid things, my people were fixated upon the stupid things those of their own kind did.

Anyway, it's nice to see that other people groups have caught on. With that, I bring you...Little Mosque on the Prairie...

A blurb:
The show follows a small group of Muslims in, of all places, a prairie town
in Saskatchewan where, in the first episode, the group was trying to establish a
mosque in the parish hall of a town church. A passer-by, seeing the group
praying, rushes to call a "terrorist hot line" to report Muslims praying "just
like on CNN", which touches off a local firestorm.

Another:
Later, a leader of the Muslim group is seen defending to a local person the
plan to turn the church parish hall to a mosque. "It's a pilot project," he
says, leading the man to exclaim wide-eyed, "You're training pilots?!"

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