All-American Muslim will not be back for a second season, The Detroit Free Press first reported yesterday and its network, …
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JC Penney and Ellen, Lowe’s and All-American Muslim: A Tale of Two Bigotries
JC Penney did the right thing this week, standing by its celebrity spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres despite a conservative activist group’s demand that it drop association with her because she’s gay. The group, One Million Moms, asked Penney to “remain neutral in the culture war” by firing a gay celebrity. (“Neutrality” must mean not …
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All-American Muslim Meets an Un-American Advertising Pullout
The TLC reality show All-American Muslim, which follows five families in Dearborn, Michigan, has a lot of points to make about the lives of average Muslim citizens in America, among them the lingering discrimination they face …
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TV Weekend: Islam, for Real, on All-American Muslim
In last week’s TIME, I took an early look at TLC’s new reality series, All-American Muslim, debuting Sunday night; I also blogged about it earlier here at Tuned In. Here’s one more reminder to catch this deeply intriguing, …
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Dead Tree Alert: Mideast Meets Midwest in All-American Muslim
One reasonable definition of a good TV show is one that makes you see something familiar in a new way. That was particularly the case for me with All-American Muslim, a reality show debuting on TLC Nov. 13 and the subject of my …
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The Real Muslims of Dearborn: TLC Announces Islam Reality Show
For a while now, people have batted around the idea of whether and when TV would give us a Muslim Cosby Show: that is, a TV series that would take a mass audience inside the family life of this cultural group for the first time, the way that the Huxtables were the first black family that millions of white viewers tuned to on a regular …