Fred Tupper is very smart.

He is right to be concerned when a foreign element comes into his community and tries to take over.

Look at what happened in Antelope, Oregon, USA during the 1980s.

Yeah, first it was all about tolerance and diversity and all of that. But pretty soon they took over, changed the name of the town and most of the original inhabitants were forced out.

Fred Tupper knows that Mercistan is a real possibility (or is it Merciabad). Especially with She Mayor in the the corner of the Muslims with the hope that she can count on them as a solid voting block for her. In the end though, when the Muslims do gain overwhelming numbers in the community, she might just find herself pushed aside as they are going to want one of their own as mayor. But then again, when it reaches that point She Mayor would probably convert to Islam though I believe the Muslims would see her conversion to Islam for what it is - a lame political ploy.

I love this show.

White people living in Saskatchewan are SO STUPID!

I love watching them being made fun of.

“Little Mosque” depends of offensive stereotypes for its humour.

Also, while at times funny, I do wonder about how “real” the situation is.  I once saw a show about how the Nazis made two propaganda films about the conflict between the British and the Irish. The films, at least according to those who were interviewed who had seen them were quite good. The only problem was that the people in the movies were not Irish. What I mean by that was that the culture of the Irish portrayed in the films in no way reflected actual Irish culture as I guess the Germans who wrote, produced, and acted in the movies never took the time to get to understand the traditions and feel of the Irish people.  It just wasn’t important to them because in the end it had nothing to do with the Irish. It was as one commentator of the movies said “Germans talking to Germans”.

And that is kind of what I am getting with the “Little Mosque” show. In the end it isn’t really about small town Saskatchewan or Muslim communities living within small town Saskatchewan.  In the end what it comes down to is just Liberal Urbanite Canadians talking to Liberal Urbanite Canadians, with their political message being far more important to them than whether or not the situation portrayed reflects a real situation in the country accurately enough.

By the way, why does “The She Mayor” remind me so much of the mayor on South Park?

The point isn’t to change people’s opinions, I don’t believe. Just to open up their perspective.

I think it’s very daring to take problems like racial profiling and deal with them in a sitcom. To laugh at the people who are so ready to believe that any brown person they meet is a terrorist.

They try to steal our culture and now attempt to normalize the notion that there should be Mosques sharing space with our grain elevators. If we were to move into their countries would we receive the same treatment as we extend to them. Would they stop Eid traditions because we might feel excluded. We need to wake up to this invasion. Wake up West!

Asalamua’alaykum US Muslim! *applauds* or wait… *makes takbeer instead* =D Great comment!

Not funny.

This show is not going to change people’s attitudes toward Muslims.  Not when there are bombings everyday in the Middle East and Muslims plotting the destruction of Western civilization.

In spite of some great funny dialogue, I found it hard to laugh when I watched the show’s premier airing. That’s not because of the show ... that’s because of what’s happening all around me!

Thanks to stupid blind hatred, racial and religious prejudice, a government that wants us to live in fear and what passes for entertainment here on US TV, we need to re-learn how to laugh spontaneously.
Or maybe it was just because they didn’t have canned laughter.

  We are so programmed ...

Cant wait to see the show again (Little Mosque returns January 31) http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque/ 

Serious! Everyone needs to watch this show!

I sincerely hope Little Mosque stays on the air for a long, long time, becomes super popular and enjoys years of re-runs.

Archie Bunker a generation ago,  helped people see the absurdity of blind hate and prejudice, how stupid it is to mouth off without knowing what you’re talking about and how really funny that can be. Little Mosque On The Prarie holds out the same promise.

I am almost reluctant to say I enjoyed this clip. I don’t like to see Islam trivialized. Then I realized this was really an affectionate play about Muslims, not Islam. I found a certain sweetness to the script here; perhaps that’s because I sympathize with the intentions behind the writer’s choices of characters and plot. This episode presented a well-meaning group of Muslims, representative of Western Muslims in their diversity, trying to practice their faith in the middle of the supposedly incongruous Canadian prairie. The obligatory jokes about “terrorists” were the low-point for me. What I enjoyed most was the device of having each character represent a familiar “type” of Muslim found in the West: the educated Muslim man’s Western wife who is very sincere but who doesn’t really know much about Islam, the modern daughter who can’t abide the traditionalist imam’s small-minded yet mostly harmless ways, the African immigrant whose “traditions” are such an important part of her faith. Individuals make up part of a whole and none of the parts is without value. I know from experience that all this diversity can get along and thrive in a community of faith, but not without a love and compassion for humanity and their differences that is essential to Islam, and which is missing in virtually all accounts of Islam seen or heard in the West. This is what comes through from the writers of this show.