Mohammad, Messenger of God/Trivia

• Moustapha Akkad (Arabic: مصطفى العقاد‎; July 1, 1930 ? November 11, 2005) was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Akkad Monla in 2005 in Amman, Jordan by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber.
• Author Appeal: Akkad, noticing there's a huge cultural gap between the western and muslim worlds, wanted to make a movie to help bridge the gap as a duty as a muslim.
• Banned in China: The film was banned in quite a few Middle-Eastern countries.