Lovin' the Little Mosque

For some reason, I just watched an entire episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie on CBC. (I changed the channel when that low-income-single-mother-with-a-mixed-racial-child-but-it's-okay-because-she's-still-fabulous show came on.) Gosh, Little Mosque is ridiculous. Let's take a look at the characters:

-Young, hip, open-minded Imam
-Unintelligient, dorky old priest
-Religious muslim man
-His suspiciously non-religious, smart-alecky muslim teenage daughter
-Moderately religious muslim man named Yasser
-His dumb, ditzy white wife
-Their devout-by-personal-choice muslim daughter who is smarter than both of them

So we've got some muslim men and muslim women. The women are all presented as smarter than the men, and they all talk to the men like they're stupid. The men get moderately angry but never react in any way that isn't light and comical and loving. Actually wait, there's one unintelligent woman: the white girl who married into a muslim family and is only friends with muslims. She tapdanced in this episode and was, to everyones' surprise, quite good at it. Aw, good for her!

There is much dialogue between the priest and the Imam, and the priest seems stuck in his ways, while the Imam is very accepting of everyone and everything (even if it goes against Islam), and is young, hip and indecisive. Based entirely on this show, Islam seems WAY cooler than Christianity. Everybody's doing it.

Perhaps there are progressive mosques with hip, young, universally-accepting imams. Perhaps there are neighbourhoods in which all of the white people are stupid and annoying and all of the muslims are smart and witty, with no exceptions. Perhaps there are muslim families where the daughters are rude to their fathers and everyone in the family is however religious they want to be, individually. Perhaps all of this EXISTS, but it all seems a tad slanted in perspective to me...

Ah, CBC. Always good for some fun.