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The Kerala Story is being screened in theaters in Maryland and Virginia, as well as elsewhere nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement,&nbsp;<strong>CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell<\/strong>&nbsp;said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis film is yet another example of the hateful anti-Muslim propaganda that has been spread by India\u2019s far-right Hindutva movement and used to justify real-world discrimination and violence against Indian Muslims. Just as mainstream American theaters should not and would not screen a blatantly racist film, they should not screen this blatantly anti-Muslim propaganda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that last year, CAIR and its Houston chapter defended an Indian Muslim journalist subjected to threats for his criticism of a similar film,&nbsp;<em>The Kashmir Files<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IAMC called the movie \u2018fabricated hate-filled\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another completely fabricated hate-filled story to peddle Islamophobia after \u2018The Kashmir Files\u2019 fiction that disrupted social cohesion both in India and in our neighborhoods in the United States,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Rasheed Ahmed, executive director of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C&nbsp;\u2013 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, joined the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) in condemning the screening of&nbsp;The&nbsp;Kerala&nbsp;Story, an anti-Muslim Indian film, in American theatres.&nbsp; The film has been widely criticized for its reportedly bigoted depiction of Islam and Muslims and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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