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Article: Switching to Muslim TV: a group of American entrepreneurs unhappy with some of the television images they and their children are exposed to have taken matters into their own hands by attempting to launch a new Muslim network. Dalia Fahmy reports from the United States.(Mosaic)
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- The Middle East
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- October 1, 2003
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Osama Hamdan, a Microsoft computer engineer from Seattle, doesn't like what he sees on television. "There are so many things on TV these days that make people stray," says the 34-year old practising Muslim and father of two. "They make light of issues that are against most religious beliefs, like sex and drugs and violence. They treat it all as entertainment."
Seven million Muslims live in the United States, and as American television becomes more explicitly sexual, violent and in some cases hostile toward their faith, Muslims complain it is getting difficult to find programmes they feel comfortable with.
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