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I was surprised at the lack of critical content around the obvious Muslim / Arabic origins of the Fremen in Dune

They're both in the movies and the books, but whereas the latter makes no excuse for using terms like hajj and jihad, the movies are oddly sterilised

I was surprised at the lack of critical content around the obvious Muslim / Arabic origins of the Fremen in Dune

They're both in the movies and the books, but whereas the latter makes no excuse for using terms like hajj and jihad, the movies are oddly sterilised 

https://inkstickmedia.com/erasing-arabs-from-dune/

Herbert spent something like 7 years world building before he even started writing Dune. If you extend humanity forward by 10k years, you may end up with some essence of religion, but something that still looks different to today. 

Plus it’s a new planet, far out in the galaxy. Telephone gave for religion over many many generations and space. Plausible…

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That’s “telephone game”.

And fwiw, if Herbert incorporated an imagined variant of Islam in Dune, I reckon he respected it quite a lot…

Ah I see what you’re saying. Probably a safer choice for the movie *and* they focused more on mood/environment than anything else…

Oh yeah the books are different, totally with you on that. The "islam extrapolation" is pretty cool actually

The movies are problematic

But what was really weird to me was the lack of discourse around it - like am I the only one who noticed it?