Junoon's BB2 Documentary To Air on March 15th

Spock · Last edited by Spock on Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:49 am; edited 1 time in total

Lead Guitarist from Pakistan's Biggest Rock Band Junoon is back with another documentary entitled 'It's my country too'. Directed by the award winning Ruhi Haq from the BBC, Salman talks to various Arab Muslims based out of Dearborn Michigan, about how their lives were affected by 9/11 and the discrimination they faced. Dearborn has one of the largest Arab-Muslim concentrations in the US.

The documentary will air on BBC 2 at 9 PM on March 15th.

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Spock · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:30 am Post subject:

This World
Tue 15 Mar, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins

Comics, taxi drivers, law reform campaigners, students, and a formidable aunt who runs President Bush's website are some of the American Muslims encountered by Salman Ahmed, the leader of the Muslim world's biggest rock group, Junoon, as he tours the country he's made his home.

Salman meets a Muslim America full of verve, humour and unexpected political allegiances. They had retreated from political life after 9/11, but now they're back with a vengeance, ready to claim back what they believe is their's.

Before 9/11 Junoon played New York's Central Park. Now they're touring a changed country which seems hostile to Muslim Americans.

Stereo Widescreen

Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/thisworld/

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rameez00724 · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:49 am Post subject:

Hey Spock could you please upload this later? I am at my work now and I cannot watch or listen here..
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yousuf · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

beta.. Spock is in USA.
I am recording this. Will upload it
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Spock · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:

avril · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject:

thanx man
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Spock · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject:

I have very high hopes from this documentary. Salman and Ruhi couldnt have chosen a better spot than Dearborn Michigan to interview prominent Muslims living in the US. One of the interviews in this documentary is really emotional, and very sad.
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pak time and date kia ho ghi yaar ???
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junoonist · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:08 am Post subject:

I think Spock ne Pak timmings hi bati hoon gi !
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yousuf · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:47 am Post subject:

Pak timings on BBC2:
Wed 16 Mar, 2:00 am - 3:00 am

If u can catch BBC2 from there....
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zerocool · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

This World: My Country Too(w/t)

15th March 2005

BBC 2 21:00

The events of September 11 left many asking how such atrocities could be perpetrated in the name of religion: specifically, the religion of Islam. As U.S. opinion polls reflected a collective sense of mistrust toward a religion few Americans know much about, the State Department was rounding up Muslim immigrants as if they all shared a collective responsibility for the destruction of the WTC and the loss of 3000 lives.

Following the success of 'The RockStar & the Mullahs', a film in which musician Salman Ahmad challenged the Islamic authorities in his native Pakistan on their attitudes to music, now comes a different journey: on the road across the USA in the run up to the presidential elections. From New York via Virginia and Detroit to Denver, Colorado, Ahmad challenges the idea of being a Muslim in America. For the first time an assembled cast of ordinary people from different origins describe their struggle to be accepted first and foremost as proud Americans who happen to have a particular faith - Islam.

Among the people he meets are New York cabbie of Pakistani origin Syed Shah, who recognizes Salman immediately, comedian Azhar Usman who performs his 'Allah Made Me Funny' show in Chicago and lawyer Shareef Akeel, who specialises in discrimination and false arrest cases against Muslims and is now bringing a class action against the American contractors employed by the American Army at the Abu Ghraib prison on behalf of the Iraqi prisoners.

On his journey through America in the weeks before the presidential elections, Ahmad meets Palestinian Dr Abdelhaleem Al-Ashgar who has been under house arrest and electronically tagged for over a year for refusing to testify against his fellow Palestinians in front of a grand jury, Mrs Talat Hamdani, a teacher from Queens, whose son died on 9/11 and has become a political activist since, and the parents of Capt Humayun Khan's, a US army soldier killed in Iraq.

Others, like Mrs Seeme Hasan and her son Ali, have a somewhat different view: they are busy campaigning as 'Muslims for Bush'. Her family is one of the biggest donors to the Bush campaign; she is convinced that Bush is good for Muslims.

Salman Ahmad finds an intelligent, dignified and patriotic people who after 9/11 have inched closer to Islam yet are still very loyal to their American cultural roots. In fact it's within an American cultural context that they are developing a modern-Muslim identity. It's a rare silver lining to the turmoil that 9/11 has brought to the Muslim world and American Muslims.

Director: Clifford Bestall

Producer: Ruhi Hamid

October Films production for the BBC
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H A L E E M A · Junoon Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 7

omigosh cooooooooooool dude!

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watz dis BBC 2 ???????
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zerocool · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject:

BBC channel 2 i think :S
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