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Movie Info

Radical Islamic school Red Mosque trains thousands of children to devote their lives to holy war, beginning at a very young age.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

Urdu
Director:

Mohammed Naqvi, Hemal Trivedi
Writer:

Jonathan Goodman Levitt
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 30, 2016 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 18, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA):

$1.9K
Runtime:

1h 24m
Production Co:

Changeworx, Manjusha Films

Cast & Crew

Mohammed Naqvi
Director

Hemal Trivedi
Director

Jonathan Goodman Levitt
Writer

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Critic Reviews for Among the Believers

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (1)

There's little that's not dispiriting about "Among the Believers" and its measured, direct entre into a closed world of hopeless boys and girls memorizing the Koran, but forbidden from learning its meanings.

October 6, 2016 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
While it is maddening to see the aversion to open-minded education by Mr. Aziz ("'Progressive thought' is dying," he declares, pleased), we also see the stark poverty that leaves others with few choices but to follow him.

September 29, 2016 | Full Review…

Ken Jaworowski
New York Times
It insists on seeing its subjects' humanity - something rare in the Western press, particularly when reporting on Islam, and especially fundamentalism.

September 29, 2016 | Full Review…

Diana Clarke
Village Voice
The filmmakers skillfully orchestrate the various levels of their exploration, from the intimate details of Talha and Zarina's lives to the workings of the big national picture.

September 2, 2016 | Full Review…

Ronnie Scheib
Variety
An eye-opening exploration of secular/religious conflict in Pakistan.

September 2, 2016 | Full Review…

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi's Among the Believers takes viewers to the frontlines of an ideological battle playing out in the Islamic world that receives little coverage in the Western media.

September 2, 2016 | Full Review…

Oleg Ivanov
Slant Magazine
This isn't Friday night viewing, and there's certainly nothing groundbreaking here, but if you're interested in gaining insight into the rationale of Jihadism, this should certainly be a pitstop.

April 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Naomi Soanes
One Room With A View
A chilling documentary that examines Maulana Aziz's Red Mosque network and the roots of Muslim extremism.

December 28, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Nathanael Hood
Screen Comment
Aziz is shown to be at once strong, authentic, charismatic, vulnerable, boring, and a charlatan. He is not the kind of person you can easily demonize or humanize.

August 23, 2018 | Full Review…

Charles Mudede
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
The film contains many chilling scenes of radicalized children, led by poverty and circumstance into a life of militancy. Many castoff children, are fed, indoctrinated, and turned into weapons in an unholy war

January 17, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
An unvarnished inside look at a society uprooted by religious warfare and the lives of the children caught in the crossfire.

October 11, 2016 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Ron Wilkinson
It's Just Movies
Surprise-surprise. Young boys and girls become Islamic fundamentalists in order to get a meal and a roof over their head. The answer is not Predator drones but ending inequality.

September 30, 2016 | Full Review…

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Audience Reviews for Among the Believers

May 25, 2017

Using a seemingly detached approach that doesn't preach to the audience and understands that what it shows speaks for itself, this is an important documentary that offers a devastating look at religious fundamentalism brainwashing kids and turning them into terrorists.

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