Movie or Mini-series about First Fitna

[Noncommunist]

Quite apart from the danger of fatwa, wouldn't it be morally irresponsible to stir up contraversy? Like the Middle East isn't stirred up enough already?

The producers, the film company, the actors, and everyone involved would need guards for the rest of their lives, short or long.

Even if you tried to make it sympathetic to both sides some cleric is going to get upset.

It is a no win proposition.

Besides, if you want history you want both sides portrayed as they were, and likely both sides were bad-guys.

You may as well remake a Sinbad the Sailor movie if you are just making pretty stories.

Certainly, Muslims have reacted poorly to some things in the past. However, those things usually were directly insulting. Such as showing a picture of Muhammed with a bomb for a hat, or showing women that suffer under Islam.

And certainly, both sides could be shown to be sympathetic as both sides did have understandable goals. While it's likely that some cleric would get angry, it doesn't seem that large scale violence would break out if efforts were taken not to offend.