This movie is implying this Messiah, played by Belgian actor Mehdi Dehbi plays the titular character, and Mission: Impossible - Fallout’s Michelle Monaghan plays CIA agent Eve Gellar and the movie is also implying the Messiah will be a Muslims.
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“Who do you think he is?” Netflix tweeted alongside a trailer for the series in early December. Muslim viewers were quick to decry the platform’s flippant approach to the series’ religious focus and scoffed that the answer to the question was already made obvious in the series’ marketing materials. “al-Masih,” it turns out, doesn’t just mean Jesus Christ in Islam. It is also the name with which Dajjal, or the Antichrist, announces himself in the Islamic religion — meaning that Dehbi’s character is already outed as a con artist from the get-go.
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“Who do you think he is?” Netflix tweeted alongside a trailer for the series in early December. Muslim viewers were quick to decry the platform’s flippant approach to the series’ religious focus and scoffed that the answer to the question was already made obvious in the series’ marketing materials. “al-Masih,” it turns out, doesn’t just mean Jesus Christ in Islam. It is also the name with which Dajjal, or the Antichrist, announces himself in the Islamic religion — meaning that Dehbi’s character is already outed as a con artist from the get-go.