The Arab Boycott Over the "Noah" Movie is Because Noah Was a Muslim

RELIGION DISPATCHES
By Haroon Moghul

Miniature from Hafiz-i Abru’s Majma al-tawarikh. “Noah’s Ark” Iran (1452)

HOLLYWOOD---The best way to write an article about a movie you haven’t seen is to approach it obliquely. The movie would be Noah, starring Russell Crowe; the approach would be iconoclasm. Unsurprisingly, the film’s been banned in several Muslim-majority countries, though not as many as you’d think. But why was it banned? Commonly, we hear Islam described, like Christianity, as a descendant of Judaism. However, in the Muslim opinion, that’s the other way around: Christianity and Judaism are descendants of Islam. On this view, Noah and those who believed in him were Muslims; the same goes for the Children of Israel and for Jesus and for John the Baptist and for the Apostles. Muslims. [link]