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>Dune as a universe is heavily inspired by Islam especially Sunni Islam and Sufism which is the more mystical side. There are influences of others in it such as Buddhism but Islam is the largest one.
>The author saw Islam as the future of Earth and no religion or movement could stop it despite his personal views.
>Spice=Petroleum btw.
>The 2020's movies replaces the Islamic side and calls the Jihads "Crusades" instead.
>It removes the ethno centric aspect of multiple different groups.
>The main religion in the books is a diverged Islam
>The Arabic names and Islamic inspired European names are changed or altered slightly with more focus on the Anglo saxon,dutch,hebrew and greek inspirations.
>It changed the Sardauker(literally Ottoman Jannissaries in space) call to prayer with a Mongolian throat singing segment and gave them Christian vibes.
>It removes all historic references to Arabic as the primary source of the language they now speak or the references to a Eurabia that dominated the Earth and replaces it with politically correct stuff completely destroying the authors vision.
>It removes the Islamic Caucasian resistance to Imperialist Russian aggression allegory which was the direct inspiration for the Fremen(In lore Fremen are all blue eyed,tanned and Euro-Arab looking btw) vs the Corrino Empire and makes it generic story and the Fremen are shown as "diverse"
>It removes some important women, changes some males to females and makes others completely different from the books
>The saviour looks more Jewish Messiah(with wailing wall) inspired.
>In the books the Mahdi prophecy(Islamic saviour) with Paul is where....
BOOK SPOILERS: Becomes Muad'dib who leads the Fremen Jihad that kills 61bn people. burns 90 worlds and wipes out 40 religions solely because he can no longer control his followers.
