Other books are copied by Averroes's students and supporters and smuggled to Egypt by the Caliph's son. Whether Christian or Muslim, fundamentalism uses all means to block the spread of progressive ideas. Intellectual oppression is not, then, different from physical annihilation. Freedom of expression is the key term within this context. More ironic is the fact that the same fundamentalists tried to stop Destiny from being produced.
Destiny is therefore consciously anachronistic in different ways.
It is history repeating itself, but as a farce. In the case of Mahfouz and Fouda, the young assassins confessed to never having read any of their works. Similarly, in Marwan's case the assassin has never heard him sing. Assassins in both cases, in the movie as in life, merely obey orders from a higher authority. Consequently, he is murdered brutally.