19/03/2026
I remember watching this film in the studio about three years ago. At one point, the protagonist killed his elder brother for always stopping him from doing evil. The brother was a believer, constantly holding a Bible. The actors were speaking a foreign language.
One idiot, sitting beside me quickly said, “That’s why I hate Muslims.” I asked why. He replied that the man was killed for always reading the Bible. I then asked if he actually understood what they were saying or even followed the subtitles. He said they were speaking Arabic, so he didn’t bother. In reality, it sounded more like Russian or something similar. I think Georgian.
He didn’t understand what they were saying, yet he concluded the character was a Muslim—just because the other man held a Bible. Meanwhile, both characters were Christians, born of the same father and mother, and of course they were both criminals too, and so are their parents.
That moment stayed with me. It shows how quickly people attach Islam or Muslims to anything negative or unclear. Yet when a Muslim does something good, people question how such a person can even belong to Islam.
When asked why they think this way, they say, “Muslims kill.” But don’t Christians kill too? They say the Quran supports violence, but many of them haven’t even read the Bible deeply. If they did, they might first remove the logs in their own eyes before pointing at the specks in others’.
My message to Muslims: don’t let anyone gaslight you. Some will try to flatter you—saying you’re too intelligent or too refined to be Muslim. Some others might say you’re guilty by association. But who isn’t?
Stay grounded.