Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
The MOST Story Bank is a live archive of stories on the most current events, people and cultural perspectives of Muslims in America and around the world. With writers in mind, MOST carefully selects story-driven news from the most reputable published sources.
88-year old Yuka Fujikura says that it is wrong “to judge someone by ethnicity or their religion.” Ms. Fujikura knows a little something about this as she was a Japanese-American teenager during World … [Read more...]
“Douma [Syria] was heaven. I wish those days would come back… the war wiped it all away,” says nineteen-year old Omar Wawieh. Omar and his family are considered one of the lucky ones -- after 18 … [Read more...]
“To me it is very ignorant, and there is more need to educate these candidates about the religion,” comments Sgt. Muhammad Ashraf, a Muslim NYPD officer, speaking about the derogatory remarks made by … [Read more...]
Last week twenty-two year old Marwa Balkar received half a million “likes” on a Facebook post she wrote which was shared over 150,000 times and garnered a thousand positive comments. As one of these … [Read more...]
On November 14th, a firebomb was set under a window in the Masjid al-Salaam mosque in Ontario, Canada, part of a wave of local hate crimes following the Paris attacks. Fortunately no-one was hurt … [Read more...]
During his tour of the war-ridden Central African Republic, Pope Francis stopped by a Muslim neighborhood where people greeted the religious leader with hand-made signs declaring “Yes to … [Read more...]
In the wake of the tragic attacks in Paris and Beirut, Islamophobic rhetoric and hate crimes have already begun to surge. Across the country, we have politicians making calls to suspend refugee … [Read more...]
According to just released data from Pew Research Center, eleven countries with significant Muslim populations overwhelmingly expressed negative views of ISIS. Per the survey, “In Lebanon, a victim … [Read more...]
As the recent Pew Survey reports, Muslims truly detest ISIS. And commentator Dean Obeidallah more than agrees and writes about the matter in this op-ed for the Daily Beast -- “True, ISIS is … [Read more...]
The victims were “people like us; they think like us, live like us and talk like us. We feel really targeted,” says 29 year old Amandine Barras, talking about her neighborhood which was the … [Read more...]
