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Dupont Circle - Washington, D.C. “All-American Muslim’s” Mike Jaafar watches a football game in Dearbon, Mich.
established Muslim communities in the nation. Even there it seems as though marginalization and assimilation are constant forces with which these families reckon. Compared with typical reality fare, “All-American Muslim” is fairly straightforward and careful. In fact, most of the show’s stars seem to have been cast for their exemplary civic and cultural pride. In the Jaafar family, for example,
husband and father Mike is a deputy sheriff; wife and mother Angela is a consultant. They juggle a busy life raising four young kids. Within five minutes of meeting them, you want to be them. “A ll-A merican Muslim” is informative, occasionally engaging and almost adorable, but that’s not what we’ve come to think of as a reality show. H A N K S T U E V E R (THE WASHINGTON POST )
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TLC’s highly anticipated '&0&& yet oddly restrained new reality series, “All-American Muslim,” approaches its subjects from a starting point of total naivete. That’s because it assumes viewers know absolutely nothing about modern Muslims. Unfortunately, that’s probably still the best place to begin. A decade after 9/11, our society remains widely uninformed about the everyday, non-terrorist Muslims around us. A woman in a hijab at Costco still attracts far too many glances, to say nothing of what happens to her in an airport security line. In that way, “All-American Muslim” is a much-needed primer, focused on the lives a dozen or so residents of Dearborn, Mich., which has one of the largest and most IKD
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