Sunday, January 14, 2007
"SWING YOUR PARTNER BY THE..." UH, IMAM? (Via M. Ali Choudhury)
We haven’t seen it yet, but as Diversely We Sail has flexible research standards, we’ll take this opportunity to recommend you try out the new CBC sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, the first episode of which aired last week and which you can link to from here. Apparently it is pretty good and is getting quite a few inter-denominational laughs. From all accounts it is a quintessentially Canadian take on how religious and ethnic conflicts are never so intractable they can’t be resolved by a little humourous cultural deconstruction and a shared understanding that fighting is for less enlightened folk in faraway places. This is the CBC, so be prepared for the bad guys to be right-wing talk show hosts and anal-retentive customs officials, but Canadian bad guys always seem to raise badness to new levels of innocent charm and we’re told the digs go both ways. We normally aren’t big on multi-cultural treacle around here, but anything that helps undercut the widespread bigotry that lumps some pretty fine Canadians with frothing bomb throwers gets our nod.
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This show is about the kind of Moslems I knew as a kid growing up in NYC. Normal people who have slightly different religious observances than the Christians and Jews who were our other neighbors.
The dialogue and situations were amusing and the characters interesting enough that we may grow to care about them. I hope they steer away from Archie Bunkerism and telegraphing their message, i.e., these folk are just like the rest of us.
Good potential for entertainment as well as elucidation.
I sent the video to a Kiwi friend who absolutely hates what the militant Moslems are doing to NZ. Her take will be interesting.
I'm looking forward to Al Jazerra's "Little Church in the Desert."
Is it as funny as "The Red Green Show"?
Sounds more like "Kids in the Hall." I never liked that show.
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