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vanfanel
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The folks at the church I attended in Tokyo this morning might disagree... ...but as hyperbole, that's generally the case. More than once, I've followed a steeple looking for a place to worship and ended up at a wedding chapel instead. I've attended two weddings in Japan; both were Western-style and had Caucasian "priests" (whom I am 99.999% certain were not real priests) speaking in alternating Japanese and English. Even the English was window-dressing; it wasn't for my benefit, and I was the only foreigner present. |
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Bango
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Considering how foreign nationality and religion get represented in anime I'd expect Islam wouldn't be portrayed any more accurately. Not that that's bad, mind you. I love our gun-toting magic-slinging smokin' hot nuns and badass priests. But I'm not holding out for any accuracy, or at least not when it's the focus of a story.
I'd like to see it done accurately because I find it interesting. But accuracy isn't exactly on the menu with anime. |
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Agent355
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Volume 5 of Bride's Story contains the double wedding of twins Laila and Leyli to brothers Sarmaan and Farsami, and in Kaoru Mori's beautiful, detailed and respectful style Islamic traditions are depicted in the preparation and ceremony of the wedding. The parts that stood out to me were the ritual slaughter of the animals to prepare meat for the wedding, and the actual ceremony for the couple, held by an Imam. I can't speak for its accuracy, but it is exquisitly drawn! |
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Bango
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What culture is the girl on Bride's Story's cover from? From everything I'm reading it gives me an area that covers over 6000km and dozens (hundreds?) of cultures. I haven't found anything to pin it down closer.
I only ask because I absolutely LOVE those clothes. |
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nobahn
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Somewhere in the series, is a map -- unfortunately, I don't have access to the books at the moment; so I cannot give you the chapter number.
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Meemoo
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You have forgotten Magi. Actually Magi is full of Islamic themes such as the design of dungeons as it has Allah in Arabic on it. It has many Islamic words on it too. There is also another thing which is Djinn. We actually believe in Djinn but not this type of Djinn. The anime changed what we actually believe Djinn do, but still left some true things about it. Of course, Djinn are in Quran too. I think the author of Magi is very smart because she actually used things that other cultures believed in, and twisted them into a smart idea. The names are all Islamic names, or at least most of them. There are many Islamic themes in this anime but I can't seem to recall any of them.
Also, there is another anime called Hanasakeru Seishounen. Rumaty's cloths is a lot like Muslims cloths in the past. Even his country has Manarate, and we can see many designs of Islamic themes in their too. Also in Skip Beat, we get to see the president wearing the Saudi Thob and Omama once, and it was very funny. The list goes on and on but these are all I can think of. 
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SynergyMan
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Setsuna was a former Shia Muslim, but he became an apostate. Ali Al Saachez(why does he have that name if he's an Iranian person?) is an Islamist terrorist, who commits martyrdom operations. That girl from Azadistan was a Sufi-Shia Muslim(based on her personality and moderation).
Other than that? No, not really. Besides, it's a known fact that Muslims(not all, but most) are quite crybabish and take offense to any minor criticism/depiction of Islam or their prophet. The thing is, I'm a Christian and people in this country, as well as the countries in post-Christian Europe(bar the microstates and Poland of course) are so negative towards out religion and people have mocked, abused and criticized our prophets far more than any western critic of Islam. That's a reality, but you don't see us calling for death to anti-Christian countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, North Korea, you don't see us rioting on the streets killing innocent people and we don't tear down flags and replace them with Christian flags, because we've learnt not to take offense to criticism. In short, no and there shouldn't be for the safety of Japan and those who are caught up in riots, etc. |
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vanfanel
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Well, that and because employing violence in the name of Christianity violates Jesus' own teachings. |
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