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New Rumi movie?

Ali Eteraz is teasing about a new Rumi bio-pic, run with Qatar Foundation and Rumi Foundation. Looks really good, but some questions: Will it seriously deal with the fact that Shams-i Tabriz was most likely an Ismaili? I can’t imagine the Qataris would be too happy with that. Why do we need a non-Muslim playing the part of Rumi? Are there not enough good Muslim actors? I think the Iranians might object. Even Mel Gibson went with a no name for Jesus to make it seem more real, and that movie seems to have done OK.

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Interview with producers of #FlyingWhileMuslim

From Neem Magazine. Below is the list of interviewees: Anthony Shadid – Pulitzer Prize Awardee and Washington Post Journalist; Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! Host; Brigitte Gabriel – Author, “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” and American Congress for Truth Founder; Robert Spencer – Jihad Watch Director; Arwa and Sumia Ibrahim – Profiled at JFK; Raed Jarrar – Profiled at JFK and won a court case against Jet Blue; Talat Hamdani – Mother of Mohammed Salman Hamdani; Robert Steele – Former CIA Agent; Reginald Shuford – ACLU, Senior Legal Officer; Dalia Hashad – Amnesty International, Director…