Reflections on the movie, My Name Is Khan; (“From the epiglottis”)

I’ve gotta say right off the bat that I’m writing this commentary being compelled by some kind of sense of duty to speak up. When my wife rented this video, neither she or anyone else in the family had an idea just what it was really about. By the movie’s end, I think the feeling that I had was one of a sort of pleased incredulity. I was happily shocked!
Since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,  I have come to feel,  as I think many Americans do, that a BIG PROBLEM, if you will,  had been created and dropped into our laps here in the U.S.  And I’m not speaking of being in a never ending war with Muslim Jihadi extremists. No – THAT problem, with its own set of causes and solutions, has created this other one.
This newer problem is about living together within the domestic domicile, the civil societies of the planet, and these, our own New American borders. What I refer to is striving to live peacefully alongside millions of non-extreme Muslim families, many of them resident here before 9/11, along with all of the other numerous foreign immigrants that make up our own country, of course. How do we know the Jihadi when we see him/her? If we are looking, are we being profilers?
Should we even care, and concern ourselves with wondering if we need to be ready to physically defend ourselves or others from dangerous strangers in our midst? Should we be ready to say, “Let’s roll”, and proceed to “get ‘er done” as the Cable Guy would say? Or instead, should we just leave it up to the officials, our Homeland Security and the police and hope for the best?
There may be a solution to this troubling wrinkle in the fabric of our society – and it doesn’t come from the non-Muslim citizenry, and it’s one I myself have voiced and heard addressed on more than one occasion in recent years. It is also this very same potential answer I speak of that is addressed in this movie, whether by design or by accident. I really don’t think it is an accident, and that is what is so exciting.
This solution that I’m talking about is actually depicted in the movie, and I say ‘HOORAH’ and it’s about time! What we see in this film is ‘moderate’ Muslims standing up and saying without fear or guilt that, “I am NOT a terrorist, even as I AM a Muslim”! And I believe it is their further duty to then stand up and say to these extremists, “YOU need to give this up! Just give up on these ancient and pagan parts of our Q’uran, and leave it in the past! This is OUR Old Testament! It is time to embrace Yaweh’s gift of the New Testament and the message of Love and Salvation”!
No one else is going to speak to these seventh-century pagan warriors as effectively as their own faithful. It is truly time for the free Muslims of the modern world, as depicted in the film by a major American TV news anchorman, who also happens to be Muslim, to wake up to their duty and help make this evil in our time go away!
Islam according to many religious scholars is not really a religion in the true sense of the word. It is much, much more than that, as was the cumbersome assemblage of Jewish Mosaic laws in the time of ancient Israel, meted out by the Pharisee Priests controlling every aspect of political and civil life, right down to what and how one eats, the clothes one wears, and how men treat women. Eve, by the by, was created to Adam’s side, not of the dust from below, even as Adam was. She came from his heart region and center, to his side to be sheltered beneath his arm and stand next to him, giving counsel as an equal – even if subordinated to him in the structure of the family. But, really, what can be more important than being the one that spawns new life?
But I digress just a bit. Islam can exist in our world if that is the chosen and desired path to God, and can lead to true belief in a desire to love one another as ones self. These timeless beliefs, deep-rooted in Moses’ Law and the Doctrine of The Christ, are the indisputable basis of our civil law in modern society, regardless of the ‘New Age’ beliefs that it is all about Man. It is not.
When the followers of Islam can stand up and bring their faith into the twenty-first century, our world may truly have the chance to follow a path that can daily lead us from our fallen selves, as it strives to become a better place.
I’d like to urge anyone who is concerned that the West is now engaged in a war for its very existence, to go out and get a copy of this movie. It’s not a violent war movie, and is actually very warm and funny and moving in a family oriented sort of way. It seemed to me that this is a movie that contributes and is way entertaining all in one package. Enjoy. Mriter.

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