A Road to Mecca -The Journey of Muhammad Asad (2008) At the offset, I thought it would be another West-bashing documentary Muslim documentary. It started with the introduction of another attack by the Israelites on the Palestinians in 2006 and how pork was fed to the refugees with the ulterior intention of starving the Muslim refugees. The credits started with the caption - for people who think. So I thought, since I think a lot, it was only wise for me to watch. In essence, the story tracks the life and times of a Jew who became a Muslim and changed his name from Leopold Weiss to Muhammad Asad. (Asad and Leopold both mean Lion). He is credited for the formation of Pakistan, the English translation of the Koran, the author of the book 'Road to Mecca and was a critical modern thinker who dared to question the age-old practice of doing things based on what a small group of intellectuals decided. The documentary starts from Asad's birthplace, Lviv, present-day Ukraine, in the ...
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