NEW MUSLIM COOL

NEW MUSLIM COOL
Producer: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Genre: Documentary
Length: 1 Episode/60 Minutes
Available on PBS Summer 2009

Hamza Pérez left life as a drug dealer and found Islam twelve years ago. Now, after a devastating break-up with his first wife, he moves to Pittsburgh's tough North Side.

In a rundown building surrounded by crack and crime, he helps start a new community for African American and Latino Muslims. Like Hamza, many are ex-gang members who are using hip-hop culture to take their religious message to the streets, slums, and jail cells of urban America.

Raising his two kids as a single dad and longing for companionship, Hamza finds love on a Muslim networking website and seizes the chance for happiness in a second marriage. But when the FBI raids their mosque, Hamza and his community come face to face with a whole new set of challenges, and have to choose how they respond.

While he continues his MySpace.com-fueled rise as part of the provocative rap group Mujahideen Team, Hamza starts reaching for a deeper understanding of his own faith --- leading him to some surprising new relationships with Christian and Jewish allies.

Setting Hamza's story in the context of young American Muslims' emergence among the deep dividing lines of the post-9/11 world, New Muslim Cool gives audiences an authentic, intimate, and fresh view of life in one of the world's most rapidly growing and least-understood communities.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• PBS
• Jennifer
• Maytorena
• Taylor
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[hypergurl2020]

Where can I watch this documentary??? I really want to watch it>

[LPBMedia]

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[ProudBlackMuslim22]

Alhumdullilah:

Just a quick note on the music, in my humble opinion Allah banned music that could lead to negative feelings or sinful thoughts, but not the sound in general. I really don't see why "music" singing the praises of Allah and uniting Muslims, talking about our struggle, can be seen as anything but positive. Our social rules are constructed to guide/protect us, I think this is positive. Just my opinion.

Asalaam Alakium

[bachaka61]

Oh really? Then how come most Muslim empires always let Jews & Christians live peacefully along with them without forcing them to convert? For example, Spain. As a muslim, you can't force someone to convert, the person HAS to do it with entire free will.

[janansparlai]

RESPECT FOR PEOPLE THAT CONVERT TO ISLAM.JUST RESPECT

[ImperfectSister]

The music spoils the whole thing for me.

[choyyadamroad]

islam not your enemy islam true and peace

[choyyadamroad]

muslim no hidden face . only real face real bilieve real love. islam not yout enemy islam is true and peace for humankind

[MsIkbenik]

Women dancing in headscarfes. Muslims working in the music!

This is not good, this isn't the Islam

[zbvvc]

2:18 looks like dmx

[phengbud]

@Hkhan23 where did you watch it

[Hkhan23]

Absolutely amazing documentary, i only watched half of it and have it recorded on my PVR, if you haven't seen this you must watch it... it will change your mindset, i seriously felt proud watching this documentary, it really opens your eyes