American Muslim - Freedom, Faith and Fear

A tater of a 1 hour documentary looking at what it means to be a Muslim in Obama's America after 9/11. A Lebanese journalist and an Iranian born reporter take a road trip from New York to California via Mid West Hicksville, industrial Michigan and stetson wearing Texas to see if US Muslim's are living the American Dream or running the gauntlet of hate and bigotry.

The whole film can be seen in 3 parts here:
http://youtu.be/WMP5CG-H84A

Ten years after 9/11 and a year before what are likely to prove deeply divisive Presidential elections, BBC Global News sent a combined team from BBC Persian and BBC Arabic TV on an epic road trip across the USA to find out what it is like to be a Muslim in America today. America's complicated relationship with Islam is examined through the eyes of two reporters - Karen Zarindast who grew up in Iran and Samir Farah who grew up in Lebanon.

In a country where Freedom of Worship is guaranteed by the Constitution, the team travelled from New York to Texas to California and points in between. They met American Muslims from all walks of life: from a High class fashion designer in Manhattan, to a Muslim rapper in California, from a Pakistani born Texan "cowboy" to the Imam of the country's largest mosque in the city of Dearborn -- serving a Muslim population of some 30,000.

To a man and woman, all were grateful for the opportunities and freedoms provided by the USA and many were intensely patriotic. Yet set against a backdrop of politically motivated Islamophobia, stoked by some partisan media outlets, many in the American Muslim community now feel under more scrutiny than ever before: they are constantly having to justify their faith and prove their loyalty to their homeland."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Muslim
• Obama
• 9/11
• Faith
• Peace
• America
• USA
• Islam