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Meaningful Movies Project Partners with Interfaith Works to screen “American Muslim”

by Anne Miller August 17, 2021 0

On Wednesday, August 18th. Meaningful Movies is co-presenting “American Muslim,” along with Interfaith Works, Muslim Association of Puget Sound, Faith Action Network and others. Several Meaningful Movies groups were started by social justice committees at faith institutions and we deeply appreciate any groups that are working to try and love better and support peace and justice for all people. “American Muslim” is a film that talks about the affect that the ‘muslim ban’ instituted by Donald Trump had on communities around the United States.

Film Description: On January 27, 2017, less than a week after taking office, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States. The action was a strike against religious freedom unprecedented in this country’s history. Protesters rushed to airports where passengers were being detained while legal proceedings against the ban began.

For the next year and a half Muslim Americans and their many allies protested a string of executive orders declaring a travel ban. With a series of setbacks in the courts, the Administration continued to fine-tune the edicts in attempt to pass legal scrutiny. As the lives of American Muslims were upended and family members remained separated by borders, the Muslim ban slowly made its way to the Supreme Court. The trajectory of the ban provides the film’s backbone.

The August 18th event has an online panel with American Muslims from faith communities in Washington State, discussing their reaction to the film and life as a Muslim in our part of the world. To find out more, go to https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/american-muslim/