Probably because this is normal with movies

They're not the result of an author in a room diddling their own imagination

They’re complex logistics projects and getting everything aligned materially requires short cuts

Visual art conveys a lot of the narrative to ...visually. Shock I know. The audience is to assume the relationship to the real world it any is implied

Tale as old as time when it comes to movie adaptations. See the 1990s Mario movie

Has nothing to do with a goal of erase Islam.

Take heart in the fact you are a literate, in an apparently materially comfortable, stable lived experience since you have the time to complain about the world at large not validating your personal inner mind palace

Go sew a couple shirts with this time to take pressure of kids in sweatshops ensuring the local mall is stocked for you

First world problems, bro; millions of your Muslim brothers and sisters running from bombs and gunman could use someone like you, soooo concerned with the erasure of the culture, leading a movement to get them out of their predicament

Log off and touch grass

That's because it was only a quote, I think.

Hi Yousef,

What do you have to say to the typical response that Villeneuve erased Islam from the Dune films - and I agree he did! - to avoid defaming Islam? Paul Atreides, after all, is a villain protagonist or tragic antihero, not a hero. While Herbert wrote Muad'dib's Jihad as historically analogous to the early rise of Islam under Muhammad and the Rightly Guided Caliphs, that's quite an unflattering impression of Islam to give people in our day and age, even given that the historical analogy does hold and that people in Amazigh, Arab, and Muslim societies see themselves in the Fremen and in Dune broadly.

I haven't watched the video (not my preferred medium), but I assume the point is that while the Dune (fictional) movie erases Islam, the Dune (fictional) book very much does not.

So is Islam.