God On Trial: A Television Play about Holocaust

God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is if God has broken his covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Nazis to commit genocide?

The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comments

Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the silver lining that blossomed out of the mind boggling tragedies of WWII.

Suffering through the process of evolution, over the last 4 billion years, has created the 9 million life forms in our planet earth, by survival of the fittest and natural selection. Is suffering still the creative tool for the progress of the human race?

This interesting movie offers several good insights into the question of suffering.

We have saved the above movie in the Muslim Times as well:

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