{"id":11855,"date":"2017-06-21T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=11855"},"modified":"2017-06-27T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T02:29:19","slug":"the-muslims-i-know-at-the-dharma-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/06\/21\/the-muslims-i-know-at-the-dharma-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muslims I Know at the Dharma Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I led a discussion after the screening of The Muslims I Know at the Dharma Refuge. It was one of the most effortless post-screening Q&#038;As I&#8217;ve ever done: 1) because I felt accepted and the questions were more a way to engage rather than confront and challenge, and 2) because it was a surprisingly woke audience that understood the mechanics of racism and American foreign policy. This was the first screening I did since a 17-year old, beautiful Muslim kid was beaten to death with a metal bat in VA. I couldn&#8217;t discuss it in any detail &#8211; it makes me too emotional. But it was lovely to be embraced by people who were as shocked, heartbroken and angered as I. Thank u Sue Gaile for organizing everything and for the gorgeous flowers and thx to my friend Milo Lomi for being there &#8211; wish we had taken this picture earlier, before you left!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11856\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"849\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0272.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0272-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0272-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0272-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mara Ahmed at the Dharma Refuge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I led a discussion after the screening of The Muslims I Know at the Dharma Refuge. It was one of the most effortless post-screening Q&#038;As I&#8217;ve ever done: 1) because I felt accepted and the questions were more a way to engage rather than confront and challenge, and 2) because it was a surprisingly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/06\/21\/the-muslims-i-know-at-the-dharma-refuge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Muslims I Know at the Dharma Refuge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,7,14,10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11855\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}