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Muslims Hope New Show Breaks Cultural Barriers


RNS' Omar Sacirbey looks at a new television show, "Aliens in America," which features a Pakistini Muslim exchange student living with a spiritiually adrift Wisconsin family, in this week's full text article, linked above.

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To many Muslim Americans who say film and television depictions of Muslims are almost uniformly negative, the idea that a mainstream television network is introducing an empathetic follower of Islam -- as well as exploring Americans' own prejudices towards their faith -- is welcome news.