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Watch: Among the Believers 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – Controversial Pakistani cleric Maulana Aziz, linked to the Taliban, declares jihad against the government to impose sharia law. The government retaliates by destroying his seminary, killing his mother, brother, his only son and 150 students. The film follows charming yet menacing Maulana Aziz on his personal quest to create an Islamic utopia, which causes the country to implode. The Red Mosque has students allied with ISIL, and strong ties to the Taliban. We meet two Red Mosque students whose paths diverge: Talha, 12, leaves his moderate Muslim family to study to be a jihadi preacher. Zarina, also 12, escapes her madrassa and joins a normal school. Her education is threatened by frequent Taliban attacks on schools like her own. In December, 2014, the Taliban massacred 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, outraging Pakistan’s moderate majority. Aziz’s longtime opponent, education reformer Pervez Hoodbhoy joins the re-energized anti-extremist movement. Throughout the film, he passionately opposes Aziz on television and public forums. With the tide turning against the cleric, Pervez is determined to see Aziz put in jail. Intimate and brutally honest, AMONG THE BELIEVERS offers rare insight into the ideological battle shaping Pakistan and the Muslim world..
Plot: An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age. With incredible access and chilling footage, Among the Believers is a timely and relevant look into the causes that have led to the growth of radical Islam in Pakistan and around the world.
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Some Memories!
I was there, in Islamabad, when the incident of the Red Mosque took place. As a fresh / young Govt officer in the Ministry of Defence, I witnessed it all!

Red Mosque had started to show the signs of aggression in the very beginning of year 2007. Mosque formed two armies / two vigilante groups: a women-only army and a men-only army. In January, women army captured Children Library by force. In the following months, all set, they began the process of islamicizing Pakistan. General warnings were issued to the people who were involved in un-Islamic activities. In March, women army abducted three women and a six-month-old girl. For many days they were kept in custody because they were thought as prostitutes. When Police came to rescue them, they were also taken into custody and their vehicles were impounded. CD shops were shut down. CDs and films were burnt. Around May, Quaid-e-Azam University was attacked. Around June, abduction became a routine and women army abducted 9 more people, including 6 Chinese women who were masseur by profession. Islamabad, first time ever, felt the dread of extremism. Everybody was scared. It was like we were breathing fear. The impact of the threats from Laal Masjid was so great that I received a letter from Ministry of Defence that I should not use Military number plates on my department vehicles and that no vehicles of Ministry should be travel in the area where Laal Masjid was located. My bank branch, UBL, was situated in that area, I could not visit my bank even. People stopped coming out at night. Shops got closed. Restaurants shut down. Foreigners left Islamabad. More and more extremists were joining Laal Masjid every day. Every activity related to Art and Culture vanished. You could see strange-faced roaming Islamabad. Islamabadians weren’t used to that. The city literally succumbed. As I was living with other young officers at F-11, we used to show our resentment at the breakfast table, arguing why Musharraf had not taken any action yet. We were all, unanimously , in agreement that Govt should clamp down on Laal Masjid and put an end to their aggression.

This documentary failed to show the magnitude of fear we Islamabadians experienced or the fear Laal Masjid successfully used to manipulate the behaviour of an ordinary citizen. However, the documentary is not short on facts. Its unbiased and well balanced. We need more documentaries like this.

Brilliant, fascinating exposé of radical Islamic seminaries in Pakistan
We read about the trouble Pakistan has had over the years dealing with extremist elements in its population. Now because of the phenomenal documentary, “Among the Believers,” one can really get a behind-the-scenes understanding of what really has been going on there.

The documentary truly represents an international collaboration. Co-director Hemal Trivedi, an Indian filmmaker, tried to make sense of a friend’s death in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. She channeled her anger by hooking up with Pakistani co-director Mohammed Naqvi who was able to obtain unprecedented access to Maulana Aziz, the controversial Pakistani cleric who is head of the fundamentalist Red Mosque in the capital city of Islamabad.

The Red Mosque has thousands of Madrassas, Islamic seminaries, spread throughout Pakistan. There they take young children and brainwash them with their radical jihadist philosophy along with the emphasis on complete devotion to Sharia law. The boys spend the entire day memorizing verses from the Koran but without any understanding as to their meaning. In one very disturbing scene at the beginning of the documentary, a very young boy, angrily chants a refrain that is inculcated into these young minds over and over again: “death to the infidels.” The boys of course would rather be outside playing soccer or cricket and a few express their disappointment in not pursuing the normal activities that young boys should be pursuing. But typical of many of the madrassa students is Talha, who maintains a radical stance despite proving to be a poor student (at one point he fails a Koran recital examination and buries his head in his hands).

One of the reasons the Red Mosque is so successful in their recruitment efforts is because they are able to fill the void in providing basic services to an overwhelmingly impoverished population. In contrast, the filmmakers also focus on a private, progressive Pakistani school which is temporarily closed down during filming, due to threats from extremists. In a telling scene, the owner of the private school is unable to convince village elders to send their children to his school—they point out that the madrassas are free and with his school, they simply don’t have the money to pay the fees.

Perhaps the most interesting character is the Red Mosque leader, Maulana Aziz. Despite the fundamentalists’ disdain for western culture, they are not adverse in utilizing the internet to recruit potential converts into the fold. Aziz, the narcissist he is, appears on television to debate nuclear physicist, Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani spokesman against religious extremism. Aziz ignores Hoodbhoy’s protestations that he encourages violence by having goons posted at the madrassas carrying huge machine guns. The clever Aziz curries favor with the local populace by doling out small amounts of cash to indigent supplicants who are ignored by the regular government.

“Among the Believers” also covers some of the recent history of the conflict between the government and the Red Mosque movement. In 2007, President Musharraf attempted to shut down the madrassas but was unsuccessful after Red Mosque followers engaged in violent protests including book and DVD burnings in prominent public places. The more recent massacre of over 150 students in Peshawar by the Taliban (who are affiliated with the Red Mosque) appears to have galvanized the nation, resulting in protests amongst thousands of freedom seeking Pakistanis.

The fate of women at the hands of the extremists is explored. Of the young girls who attend the madrassas, they’re always covered in burkas from head to toe. It appears they’re not fed as well as the boys and are unhappy at being confined in such a punitive atmosphere. The documentarians focus on one particular girl, Zarina, who escaped from a madrassa and hoped to pursue a professional career. But after the private school we saw earlier was closed down, her family had no choice to marry her off to a local man. Despite her disappointment in not pursuing her education, she ended up having children and appeared to be coping decently at film’s end.

“Among the Believers” is one of those rare documentaries that provides the perfect well balanced perspective on the problem of religious extremism. Without proper education, children will continue to be brainwashed in the Islamic world by dangerous radicals who seek to enslave others with an intolerant, scary Weltanschauung.

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Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
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Genre Documentary, Biography, News
Director Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Hemal Trivedi
Writer Jonathan Goodman Levitt
Actors Abdul Aziz Ghazi, Pervez Hoodbhoy
Country Pakistan, United States
Awards 20 wins & 7 nominations
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