Culture and Lifestyle — April 28, 2014

Muslim in Best Buy Commercial Prompts Twitter Flurry

Original article by Omar Sacirbey published in the Religion News Service on 01/24/2014

Does a Best Buy TV commercial featuring a Muslim computer salesman imply a normalizing trend in the US media? After sparking a flurry of Twitter chatter during a Broncos/Patriots championship game, PBS’s Religion & News Service explores what it means.

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