Oh, ffs, the desert people are heavily based on Bedouin culture, and for a VERY good reason - it's well-adapted to super-dry desert conditions, for good or ill (raiding culture would be a side effect of living in a resource-scarce environment.) To use their language is just to reinforce the likely genetic and cultural origins of the human coloninist descendants themselves, and give the work its flavour. I mean, hell, the names Atreides and Harkonnen suggest right away a Greek vs Turkish/Ottoman metaphor right there.
And the Crusades were seen by Christians as being a WAR OF LIBERATION, whereas a Jihad is a war against the infidel. If I remember the books correctly, Crusade might actually be a more accurate word, though, now that I think of it. The Bedouin type people didn't want to be slaves to the spice cartel or something. Haven't read it since I was a teenager.
Not defending the change, but it did occur that the change might not have the psychological effect the art-rapists want it to have.
The Butlerian Jihad was literally the salvation of humanity and the direct avoidance of extinction, so now they've gone and replaced a good jihad with a good crusade.
Then, Paul's jihad is a looming horror he's desparate to avoid or mitigate though he knows it can't be stopped, so by making it a crusade, they're making those noble fremen into dirty colonialist crusaders.
Can we get Maree Stoermer Coleman screaming deus vult in the next trailer maybe...?
Oh, ffs, the desert people are heavily based on Bedouin culture, and for a VERY good reason - it's well-adapted to super-dry desert conditions, for good or ill (raiding culture would be a side effect of living in a resource-scarce environment.) To use their language is just to reinforce the likely genetic and cultural origins of the human coloninist descendants themselves, and give the work its flavour. I mean, hell, the names Atreides and Harkonnen suggest right away a Greek vs Turkish/Ottoman metaphor right there.
And the Crusades were seen by Christians as being a WAR OF LIBERATION, whereas a Jihad is a war against the infidel. If I remember the books correctly, Crusade might actually be a more accurate word, though, now that I think of it. The Bedouin type people didn't want to be slaves to the spice cartel or something. Haven't read it since I was a teenager.
Not defending the change, but it did occur that the change might not have the psychological effect the art-rapists want it to have.
That was the first thing that struck me...
The Butlerian Jihad was literally the salvation of humanity and the direct avoidance of extinction, so now they've gone and replaced a good jihad with a good crusade.
Then, Paul's jihad is a looming horror he's desparate to avoid or mitigate though he knows it can't be stopped, so by making it a crusade, they're making those noble fremen into dirty colonialist crusaders.
Can we get Maree Stoermer Coleman screaming deus vult in the next trailer maybe...?