Discussing Islam Through Film

Prince Among Slaves is a film that instructs the adult and the child, the Muslim and the non-Muslim. It is the well-researched documentary about a Muslim prince enslaved and brought to Mississippi in the 19th century.  His journey is a history lesson and a lesson about patience, submission and acceptance to the will of Allah.  The film is a project of the Unity Productions Foundation  (UPF).

Another UPF film, Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, is a documentary about the effort of Gallop to poll Muslims internationally.  The poll is an effort to identify Muslims concerns and, perhaps, to affect American policy decisions.  The most important thing about the film is that it differentiates  Muslim from terrorist and connects terrorist with revolutionary, thereby separating religion from politics in a way that merits further discourse.  The film, only an hour long, is a good place to begin a dialog in schools and workplaces interested in such a dialog.