Les femmes, depuis deux décennies, sont les premières victimes de la radicalisation de l’islam. En donnant la parole à de nombreux spécialistes, hommes et femmes, ce documentaire montre combien la situation actuelle constitue un paradoxe, pour une religion qui, dans ses fondements, célèbre l’amour et la sexualité, et fait de la femme, en maints domaines, l’égale de l’homme. Le prophète, très loin des clichés des fondamentalistes, apparaît, ici, comme un homme ouvert et tolérant pour son époque, traversé par le doute, la crainte et le désir. Et, à l’aune de l’Arabie du VIIe siècle, comme un véritable féministe...

 

The women, for two decades, are the first victims of the toughening of the Islam. Lila Salmi, by giving the floor to numerous specialists, men and women, in particular to the anthropologist Malek Chebel, show how much the current situation constitutes a paradox, for a religion which, in its foundations, celebrates the love and the sexuality, and fact of the woman, in many domains, the equal of the man.

To paint better this " Islam of the lights ", the director and her interlocutors chose to tell, with a visible pleasure, the life of Mahomet by the women. This history begins with Khadija, the rich fifteen-year-old widow  who, by proposing him the marriage, makes of him a respected man. For her, he chooses to remain monogame, and Khadija will be the first one to recognize in him a prophet.

  Mahomet, very far from the clichés of the fundamentalists, appears here as an opened and tolerant man for his time, crossed by the doubt, the fear and the desire and as a real feminist...

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