Kareem Abdul-Jabaar | 'The Big Sick' and Hollywood's Muslim-American Renaissance



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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (photo: Austin Hargrave/August) 
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, The Hollywood Reporter 
Abdul-Jabaar writes: "Muslims have had a great run being portrayed as rabid, merciless terrorists. That's what Americans saw in movies and television shows from True Lies to 24 to Homeland." 
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