December 16, 2017

Quotes & Mentions

Industry Panel Suggests Ways to Better Represent Muslims in Film and TV (The Hollywood Reporter)

MPAC event profiled, Sue Obeidi & Salam Al-Marayati quoted: An industry panel discussed ways to avoid Muslim stereotypes in film and TV while also offering suggestions to ensure more authentic representations of Islam and Muslims in Hollywood at a recent event presented by the Writers Guild of America Foundation and the Hollywood Bureau of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

Supreme Court’s Wedding Cake Case Isn’t About Faith, Religious Leaders Warn (HuffPost)

MPAC's Hadi Khatib quoted: “If the Supreme Court enshrines into law the proactive right for people to use religious exemption to deny services to somebody based on their sexual orientation, then people will feel emboldened, I think, to start denying services to other people based on a variety of other currently protected classes,” Khatib said.