"The presentation was excellent! Qasim connected with our audience right from the start. The students were impacted by his perspective. Many saw Islam in a very different way…The timing couldn’t have been more opportune.”
— David E. Cabrera, professor, Laredo Community College, Laredo TX
“Qasim is a creative force that I feel blessed to know on both personal and professional levels. He is also truly an inspiration to so many young people who have encountered obstacles in their lives. After overcoming life-threatening challenges, he became determined to become a dynamic and influential filmmaker spreading powerful and inspirational stories. To fulfill his dream, he had to overcome the fact that he is in an industry in which his identity as a Black American Muslim is almost completely absent. His perseverance inspires all he encounters including the major Hollywood stars he works with on his films.”
— Amer F. Ahmed, Director of Intercultural Teaching and Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“It was one of the best events I’ve gone to in a really long time. I think the students did a great job in not only picking the movie, but bringing the director here who left the audience in awe by speaking in a way that was open, honest, real, and relatable.”
— Rogelio Encizo, UCG and Student Support Advisor, Madison Area Technical College, Madison WI
“Mooz-lum deserves a broad audience. It addition to being just simply a good film, with enough power to be emotionally both crushing and uplifting, it offers some much needed building blocks for American society today to develop mutual understanding across lines of faith... In Basir’s discussion of his Muslim faith and its role in his life today, I was struck by a sense of honesty and deep conviction...Basir has tackled a topic all too often treated as politically taboo by governments that manipulate religious institutions for political gain, and as religiously taboo by some religious leaders who in other contexts may have subjected Basir to exile or worse for his telling of almost unbearably ugly truths.”
— Jennifer S. Bryson, Director of Operations and Development, Center for Islam and Religious Freedom(CIRF), Washington, DC
