MOST WEEKLY RECAP
We here at Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) have crafted an 'in case you missed it' #ICYMI list of this past week's most timely and relevant stories from across the web: 1) Muslims and … [Read more...]
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We here at Muslims on Screen and Television (MOST) have crafted an 'in case you missed it' #ICYMI list of this past week's most timely and relevant stories from across the web: 1) Muslims and … [Read more...]
World —
This Times article suggests that Jordanian terrorism experts know quite enough about extremism to deter it from their own frontiers. … [Read more...]
Last week, beloved Reverend Jacques Hamel was viciously murdered in an ISIS-related attack in St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a small countryside village in Normandy France which, according to local historian … [Read more...]
Over the weekend, tech journalist (and non-Muslim) Xeni Jardin sent out the following tweet before she went to bed: “Dude, ISIS is bombing Muslim people in Muslim communities during the Muslim holy … [Read more...]
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In this Op-Ed piece for Al Jazeera America, scholar Mohamed Ghilan talks about the factors contributing to the rise of ISIS and the recruitment of young Muslim men “lured by religious rhetoric and … [Read more...]
Like the Holocaust film “The Pianist” where the lead character plays the piano in the midst of horror, Karim Wasfi, conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, took to the streets to play his … [Read more...]
National —
In this op-ed for the New York Daily News, New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton responds to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s call for police to “patrol and secure Muslim … [Read more...]
The Muslim community has been saying for years that their faith has nothing to do with extremist terrorism, and here's some direct proof. … [Read more...]
World —
A new Pew Research study finds that “concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations.” Muslims in the region have extremely negative opinions of extremist … [Read more...]
Faith —
It all started when nineteen-year old college student Heraa Hashmi was studying the crusades in history class at the University of Colorado and the discussion turned to terrorism. One student … [Read more...]