Hanan Tork, a popular actress in the Middle
East of Egyptian origins, who recently took to the hijab and retired
from acting, has returned to the silver screen—to much criticism and
threats from the same Muslims who formerly praised her for donning the
veil. According to
Al Sawt,
the actress is under "vicious attack" for accepting to play the role of
Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who, for 45 years, dedicated her life
to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying.
Hanan Tork as a Catholic nun: wearing a cross, praying, and enraging Islamists.
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The problem, however, is that Mother Teresa was a Christian; and
playing her role required the Muslim actress to wear the crucifix around
her neck and read some Biblical verses, thereby incensing Islamists, to
the point that they proclaimed her an apostate infidel, through
takfir—just as they have done to many other artists, most recently, Adel Emam.
Earlier Tork had
said
that she does not "consider playing such a role as risky, due to the
fact that she will be playing the role of a woman who is very religious
and lives her life based on religious principals and ethics."
She is now discovering that such "ecumenism" is primarily a Western
construct, and that, for many in the Islamic world, a Muslim merely
acting the life of a Christian, wearing the cross or quoting the Bible,
is a great crime—regardless of the saintly life led by the Christian.
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