What “The Passion” depicted in chilling imagery is but one narrative among several about Christ. The irony here is that Muslims are perfectly poised to offer a view that no one seems to be talking about. We, the American public, are given the impression that the discussion about the movie and its main character is a discourse between folks on both sides of a curious hyphen in the Judeo-Christian ambit, with Rabbis and Jewish intelligentsia expressing their fears that the movie will inspire anti-Semitism and with Christians denying that. In a broad sense, “The Passion”, as well as the controversy that stalks it, is an extension of the very long struggle for narrative control over the life and mission of Jesus (P). Instead, he called upon the Creator using a name that is very close to what I and other Muslims often evoke, namely, the word “Allah” (the Aramaic word for God is transliterated as “alaha”). One unexpected thing I got out of watching “The Passion of the Christ” is its affirmation that Jesus never uttered the word “God”.

But the bit about the English subscripts must have slipped my mind.

Like everyone else, I was warned about the blood and violence, and braced for it.

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