i stumbled upon a facebook invite to an event that i thought i’d share with you all:
Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think is based on a simple premise: skip the pundits and speak to the people. The Canadian Premiere is your only chance to watch this astonishing documentary on the big screen in Canada.
Playing one night only on Friday, Oct. 30th at the state of the art Queen Elizabeth Theater, in Toronto, this 60 minute documentary challenges some popular notions and asks some tough questions.
An impressive Q&A panel with filmmakers, researchers and Muslim leaders will follow the screening allowing you to get answers to your own questions.
Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, a new documentary film from Unity Productions Foundation, explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world’s first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization.
Gallup researchers began by asking the questions on every American’s mind. Why is there so much anti-Americanism in the Muslim world? Who are the extremists and how do Muslims feel about them? What do Muslims like and dislike about the West? What do Muslim women really want?
Crucial policy decisions hang on these questions. They continue to generate passionate disagreements in the public square. Yet for all the heat and controversy, the actual views of the world’s Muslims have been conspicuously missing from this debate.
Now, we have the missing answers and statistics, gathered, parsed, and analyzed not by pundits but by professional researchers.
As part of this groundbreaking six-year project, Gallup conducted fifty thousand interviews with residents in 35 predominantly Muslim nations, as well as smaller populations in Europe and the USA. The broad extent of the polling has delivered findings for the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims with a plus or minus accuracy of 3%.
Focused on the issues of gender, justice, terrorism and democracy, Inside Islam challenges the popular notion that Muslims and the West are on a collision course.
Experts featured include Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, John Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University, Rami Khoury, Editor of the Daily Star (Beirut) and Kenneth Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute.
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