The caption to the photo accompanying the article is even funnier: "This is what happens when a middle-aged Muslim man suddenly discovers that he is actually Jewish."
Here is part of the Internet Movie Database synopsis on The Infidel:
[A]fter his mothers death a discovery turns Mahmuds world upside down. He finds his birth certificate which reveals that not only was he adopted at birth but he's Jewish, and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz!Yes, a Muslim man realizes he is Jewish by ancestry, and thus begins his anguish. Unlike Christians, who can be converts from any race or ethnicity, Judaism (at least the Orthodox position), as I understand it, is hereditary. So, in a sense, once a Jew, always a Jew. Still the twist on this story is that the man never "converted" to Islam, so both technically and through heredity, he is still Jewish.
As Mahmud tumbles headlong into a full scale identity crisis, the only person he can turn to is LENNY (Richard Schiff), a drunken Jewish cabbie who agrees to give him lessons in Jewishness, which start with how to dance like Topol. Oy vey.
Islam is also supposed to be hereditary. This is a religion which has pulled together a large number of Judaic (that religion which it purports to hate so much) and Christian elements in order to produce its own separate stance. According to Daniel Pipes, "In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child." This is only a slight variation on the Orthodox Judaism's mandates, where "A person born of a Jewish mother to be Jewish, even if they convert to another religion." Strange how successful Islam has become. Yet, on closer inspection, it is so autocratic, unbending and aggressive, that without these intrusive safeguards, it wouldn't have any authentic legs to stand on.