Logrolling Muhammad
For those who want to know more about the Muhammad animated film mentioned in my post on the current protests, check out the overview here and imdb.com. A couple items of note:
- The director, Richard Rich, who previously helmed The Black Cauldron while at Disney, is a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (commonly known as "Mormons"). Part of the recent surge in mainstream LDS filmmakers, he has made a number of other animated films at his own studio, including several on important religious and morally uplifting individuals.
- One of professors who advised the filmmakers, Khaled Abou el Fadl, is one of the most pre-eminent scholars of Islamic Law in the U.S. He teaches at UCLA, but he has also taught at the Yale Law School--and it was in his class around threescore and ten years ago (at least for me), that your humble Heavenly Host first studied Islamic Law!
