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The Muslims Are Coming!

The Muslims Are Coming!
Directed by Negin Farsad
Dean Obeidallah
Starring Negin Farsad
Dean Obeidallah
Production
company
Distributed by Filmbuff
Release date
  • September 12, 2013 (2013-09-12) (United States)
Running time
81 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Muslims Are Coming! is a 2013 American comedy documentary film co-directed and co-starring Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah. It follows a team of Muslim-American comedians as they tour the American South and Southwest performing free stand-up comedy shows, and engaging in community activities, with an aim to "reach out to Middle America" and counter Islamophobia.

The film opens with a montage of television and radio clips of comments from figures such as Frank Gaffney, Herman Cain, Ann Coulter, Bryan Fischer, Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Maher, and Donald Trump expressing fear of Islam, or mistrust of Muslims.

Farsad and Obeidallah explain what motivated them to attempt to change the negative perception of Muslims in America: for Farsad it was claims that Obama was a secret Muslim (with its implication that being Muslim was in itself something negative); and for Obeidallah it was the virulence of the opposition to the "Ground Zero Mosque".

In Columbus, Georgia, they visit a gun show and perform in a bar. They perform in Gainesville, Florida.


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