Your Character as Pigs is Showing

ted, Cursed, and Hated Muhammad.

A couple of choice scenes: first, Jews laugh gleefully as a sorcerer sticks pins into a clay model of Muhammed.

Kinana: Here is the comb with Muhammad’s lock of hair. We kept it safe. This box contains the statue [made of dough] in the shape of Muhammad.

Labid: Well done. Well done, Jews. Now you’ve fallen into our hands, Muhammad. Now that you are in the hands of the Jews, we shall see whether there’s a god protecting you.

Kinana: What are you going to do, holy man?

Labid: What will I do? You will see what I’ll do. Muhammad will regret the day his mother gave birth to him.

Huyay: Can a Muslim fall into the hands of Jews and survive?!

Kinana: You don’t have to teach us who we are, uncle.

Labid: This is what I have in store for him. These are eleven needles. This needle goes into his heart.

Huyay: Ouch! You hurt me in the heart!

Labid: This one goes in his right eye. This one goes into his left eye. This one goes into his liver. And this one goes into his leg. Kinana, bring me the comb and the lock of hair. We should thread each hair through a needle and then tie them in a knot with this string here. Now we have eleven knots.

Kinana: Could you explain what you did, so we can understand?

Labid: I’ve appointed a demon to protect each knot. I have gathered them from all corners of the earth […]

Kinana: Anything else, Labid?

Labid: The most important thing – the dinars. The dinars for my work, Jews.

Then there’s the scene where Jewish leaders explain to Ibn Salam, a former Jewish convert to Islam, that although they know that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, they won’t accept him because if they do they’ll lose the revenues they collect from their people.

Old Jew: Then it is settled, Jews. We will not follow Muhammad.

Shas: How did you get us into this mess, Ibn Salam?

Ibn Salam: Shame on you. Your character as pigs is showing.

Old Jew: Ibn Salam, we know he is indeed the messenger of Allah, but if we believe him this quickly, we will lose the respect of our people, and we will lose the money we collect from them.

Shas: This means that the common people will stop paying us our share of the gold and silver, and we will become poor.