'Shoot On Sight' released in 2007.
The movie showcases the conflict between muslim and non-muslim in London after a subway station bombing. In the end, the ambitious british muslim police officer shoots the terror suspect, his nephew, pushing the former into emotional and later professional grief.
This movie didn't recieve much fan fair. Mainstream media did not push it into the public arena, nor did it recieve any accolades or recognition for discussing a difficult topic with clarity and sensitivity; such a shame as inter-faith conflict has heightened the meaning and significance of difference.
Guns and violence will not resolve inter-faith discord. To the contrary, it continues to propel extremism and literalist interpretation of religious texts. Inter-faith dialogue cannot be resolved using violence. Rather, ideological differences will begin to soften when conflicting parties sit across a table and engage in meaningful discussion regarding the similarities and differences they share as believers of faith and as members of the same humane community.
In the end we are more simiar than different. What medium will further this message?
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