Among the Believers (Urdu; 2015) Pakistan is one living example how a country should not be ruled. Any country must have a clear demarcation between political and religious affairs of the state. The supreme law of the country must be kept secular. This, the foresighted founding fathers of America were clear on this. Many European countries, having endured bloodbaths at a time when the Church had a tight rein on the monarchs and the running of the country, have come to realise that these two branches need to be separated. Unfortunately, most of the Islamic faith cannot accept this demarcation as they believe the religion is all-encompassing and has the best set of rules to rule a family, a country or the whole world! On top of that, everyone has their own version of which is the correct one, theirs! Scenes of the film remind me of a VHS tape I watched back in the late 80s. It was a grainy on-the-site recording of the violence at Kampung Memali. The same look in the...
It is all Mimesis