Little Mosque on the Prairie is not a good show, it's just really stupid and predictable stories with some of the worst acting I have ever seen.The worst are the leads and the worst one of all is the guy who plays the head of the Mosque, I think his name is Amaar and every line he delivers is painfully bad. He murders jokes the way someone who works at a chicken killing factory kills chickens. That is to say he is not funny at all.Not sure what else there is to say but this show was really just awfully bad.

Little Mosque on the Prairie was one of the worst TV shows I ever was unlucky enough to force myself to sit through. The actors are all the worst I have ever seen in my life except for maybe 1 or 2 of them. I liked the first reverend because he was pretty cool and very likable and I remember him from other shows. Carlo Rota is a decent actor so I didn't hate him but his character was very one dimensional and weak just like every other character in the show. I hated his idiot wife who was a drooling moron idiot. The imam and his romantic interest (Rota's daughter) were pitifully bad actors who had no business ever being on TV at all let alone nationally broadcast CBC they could not even deliver their lines in a convincing way! The radio host, the blubbering ultra right wing Muslim Baber, all of them were terrible. The mayor was OK. But almost every one of them made me want to smash my TV they were so awful. Plus the stories were insanely boring and out of touch, pretty much just stolen jokes and lame story lines from the 1960s. Who are these people and how do they all work on TV? It's shameful and I mean that literally CBC should be ashamed that they flushed our money on this show and not only did they do that they kept it on the air for like 6 years, why?!? I bet the head of CBC was sleeping with one of the actresses or one of the actors had naked pictures and blackmailed the head of CBC with them it's the only way I can see this show actually being put on TV and staying there. Shame on everyone involved in this awful show.

I don't see why this series has gotten so many bad reviews. It just came to the US market on Pivot and I think it's pretty entertaining. It's not trying to be high drama or acerbic satire-- It's just a cute little show. It can be a little predictable and the jokes sometimes fall flat, but it's funny inoffensive and emphasizes the similarities between Christians and Mulisms rather than exploiting the differences. Deconstructing and over analyzing programs like this one is a waste of time. You don't go to a picnic expecting surf and turf, and you don't watch shows like Little Mosque for the brilliant writing and heartfelt acting.

LMOTP is very much in the vein of earlier comedies about a new ethnic group integrating into the new world. OK, Muslims are not AN ethnic group and the Muslims of Mercy are am ethnic mosaic unto themselves. Admittedly the show started off pleasant, but less than brilliant and has been sliding on its charm - a bit thin and predictable. Still it's no worse than a lot of sitcoms. A bit gentle and old-fashioned for some tastes, but is that so bad? Even though I'm a Muslim I enjoy the sex-and-violence appeal of something like "True Blood" -- totally absent here -- but as a Muslim I find it very relaxing, even therapeutic, to see something about Muslims on TV that is gentle and bloodless. Some of these reviews complain that it's not controversial. Why should everything about Muslims have to be controversial? I'm tired of nearly everything on the tube about my religion and my community dripping with snark or going for the adrenaline. If this is a bit quaint and soporific, even if it is simple and clichéd it shows Muslims with a sense of humor, Muslims as ordinary people who might be your neighbors, and you'd be OK with that. That alone makes this show unique and very welcome.Arguably we all deserve better on a lot of counts, but like it or not, for humanizing Muslims on TV this is the best we have so far, and on that count it's far better than anything in the USA. Flawed as it is, LMOTP is a welcome first step in the right direction.