Riz Ahmed talks Muslim stereotypes in movies — and why something needs to change
Riz Ahmed still shakes his head at the way Muslims are portrayed onscreen. "The game right now is messed up. The game right now is rigged," Ahmed said in a new interview with news outlet Muslim. "Muslims are either not on screen or they are [and] they're the bad guys. They're perpetrators or victims of violence. We're either invisible or we’re villainized, cause the stories we tell about our community affect the laws that get passed, the people that get attacked, the people that get invaded."
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