Stereotypes In The Film 'Muslims Are Coming'

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The movie “Muslims Are Coming” is about a group of American Muslim comedians that travel around in small towns to large cities to counter Islamophobia. My thoughts on the attitudes presented in the film was that there are people who still discriminate Muslims after the incident with 9/11. There are some who truly hate Muslims, but those people are considered a racist. Throughout the film, I learned that as people get to know Muslims, the bad misconception with them will no longer be visible. Some people do not understand that not all Muslims are the same. Some approaches that the comedians took to minimize Muslim Islamophobia was by making an advertisement sign that said “Free Hugs”, setting up an “Ask a Muslim” and “Name that Religion” booth,

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