DiCaprio's Body of Lies: A Muslim Thanks!

I can't get over it. I just can't get over it. How did a movie like this come into light? When the Arab terrorist quotes a Quranic verse claiming it urges true Muslims to kill "infidels" and the American CIA agent tells him he got the meaning of the verse all wrong, I was absolutely incredulous and...overjoyed!

I mean this is the number one problem with the image of Islam now. People everywhere think Muslims are actually encouraged to slaughter and kill and do all sorts of barbaric acts in the name of spreading the light. It's a fact that nothing is farther from the truth. It's also a fact that very few people know this fact. Many Muslims even mistakenly believe Islam promotes violence and slaughtering of "infidels" and similar falsehoods not related to Islam at all.

Of course the Middle East depicted in the movie is nowhere near the real Middle East. Crowe's character asks DiCaprio's sarcastically, smugly, about how it feels to be in civilization again, and jokes about ordering him something, I forget, a food item he presumes is nonexistent in the Middle East. This with Starbucks opening not just in the rich Dubai but in barely-getting-by Egypt. The best Middle East footage is, again, nowhere near the actual civilization in Jordan and Dubai. Especially Dubai. I personally know Europeans and Americans who were blown away upon arriving in Dubai, but the very short scene where the camera pans some high-rises hardly does the actual Dubai any justice. I know, having been raised in the UAE, and that was back in the eighties to mid-nineties, way before the breathtaking architecural developments.

Still, the movie does us a gigantic lot of justice in my opinion. The key problem we're facing especially in the West and after 9/11 is that we're a bloodthirsty, narrowminded, steadfastly ignorant fundamentalists who would rather blow themselves up to destroy the so-called infidels than practice tolerance and democracy, two true virtues of the real Islam. Having an American non-Muslim character say so is enough for me, at least for now, amidst all the slamming we're getting even in our own countries.