Among the Believers

This is a film which shows one side of the Islam faith to be the one we hear about every day. Is it a peaceful religion? Not if you watch this and follow their version of Islam. We are all sucked into the extreme Islam and believe they are all evil but would we be happy to sit a 90 min film about the peaceful version and hear about the peaceful side? Nope, this is why most westerners are convinced all muslin are evil and want to kill us.

I'm English and I hear and read about our country killing targets with drones, America do it and Israel are at it as well as Russia. It just makes common sense to explain to my children just accept All religions have at least a nice side and a evil side , good and bad.

I gave up on religion so you. An say, I sit on the fence.... which I do with this film. It is put together to do one thing, make evil look more evil. But they are correct these people are psychology weird and obviously deluded. Maybe they are doing us all a favour and living in a country that is happy to protect terrorists at the same time pretending to be a friend of ours. Keep them in Pakistan where they can keep living in their deluded world and keep thinking they are important.

I was there, in Islamabad, when the incident of the Red Mosque took place. As a fresh / young Govt officer in the Ministry of Defence, I witnessed it all!

Red Mosque had started to show the signs of aggression in the very beginning of year 2007. Mosque formed two armies / two vigilante groups: a women-only army and a men-only army. In January, women army captured Children Library by force. In the following months, all set, they began the process of islamicizing Pakistan. General warnings were issued to the people who were involved in un-Islamic activities. In March, women army abducted three women and a six-month-old girl. For many days they were kept in custody because they were thought as prostitutes. When Police came to rescue them, they were also taken into custody and their vehicles were impounded. CD shops were shut down. CDs and films were burnt. Around May, Quaid-e-Azam University was attacked. Around June, abduction became a routine and women army abducted 9 more people, including 6 Chinese women who were masseur by profession. Islamabad, first time ever, felt the dread of extremism. Everybody was scared. It was like we were breathing fear. The impact of the threats from Laal Masjid was so great that I received a letter from Ministry of Defence that I should not use Military number plates on my department vehicles and that no vehicles of Ministry should be travel in the area where Laal Masjid was located. My bank branch, UBL, was situated in that area, I could not visit my bank even. People stopped coming out at night. Shops got closed. Restaurants shut down. Foreigners left Islamabad. More and more extremists were joining Laal Masjid every day. Every activity related to Art and Culture vanished. You could see strange-faced roaming Islamabad. Islamabadians weren't used to that. The city literally succumbed. As I was living with other young officers at F-11, we used to show our resentment at the breakfast table, arguing why Musharraf had not taken any action yet. We were all, unanimously , in agreement that Govt should clamp down on Laal Masjid and put an end to their aggression.

This documentary failed to show the magnitude of fear we Islamabadians experienced or the fear Laal Masjid successfully used to manipulate the behaviour of an ordinary citizen. However, the documentary is not short on facts. Its unbiased and well balanced. We need more documentaries like this.

Just another proof showing USA as a country of blooming hypocrisy. Throwing money and ammunition to fuel Islamic terrorist in hope they will fight the Russians....Reagan giving medals to terrorists and calling them hero. No doubts USA played a big role in creating middle eastern terrorism. With lack of education and poverty at this scale it probably wasn't difficult. They should rather have invested in educating these orphans.