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An American Mosque (2012)

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Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This documentary recounts the 1994 arson of a newly built mosque in rural California. It focuses on the Islamic community affected and how they rebuilt with help from people of other faiths.

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What happens

An American Mosque is a 2012 documentary produced by filmmaker David Washburn which first aired nationwide in the United States on July 11, 2015 on PBS. It tells the story of the destruction by arson of a just-completed mosque, the Islamic Center of Yuba City, in rural California in 1994. And it tells of its community and of its eventual rebuilding by Muslims joined by Sikhs, Mormons, other Christians and others of different faiths. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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