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Was there any one particular incident that motivated you to make this film?

No there wasn’t any one specific incident. After September 11th it became difficult for me to watch the news, because a lot of information that was being presented was inaccurate, or distorted or incomplete. When I tried to write about it, for example I [...]

The film was screened for middle school students from School Without Walls. This is the assignment that students were given after the screening of the documentary and a Q&A with director Mara Ahmed:

An analogy to today’s radical Muslims would be the Ku Klux Klan. The only thing that could stop the KKK was when white Christians thought that it was enough. Do you think that moderate Muslims will take that stand against radical Islam first in the United States and then around the world?

Mara Ahmed: I think [...]

How has the film changed you? 
 
Mara Ahmed: I think that since 9/11 Muslims have been forced to delve more into their own religion and identity. Talking from personal experience, although I grew up in a Muslim family and have prayed and fasted and celebrated Eid all my life, I never really studied Islam apart from [...]

Watch YouTube videos of the post screening discussion at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in this post.

The hour long screening of the film was followed by a robust discussion with a panel comprising director/producer Mara Ahmed, cinematographer Thom Marini, Dr Aitezaz Ahmed, Ibrahim Tariq, Dr Bilal Ahmed, Farah Ahmed and Dr Carl Davila.

 
“The Muslims I Know” opened on June 8, 2008 at the Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY. The event was co-sponsored by Women in Film and Television Rochester. About 300 people attended the screening. The response to the film was enthusiastic and the screening was followed by a robust, hour-long discussion.
 
June Foster, Executive Director, Rochester/Finger [...]