Mr. Bush's Neighborhood

By placing ads in the mass media, the government of the United States is trying to win the hearts of Muslims around the world. Is anyone listening?

December 10, 2002

It was not only Aa Gym's sermons that appeared in newspaper pages and on television screens this Ramadan. A series of ads, entitled "A Tale of Muslim Life in America", suddenly appeared on a number of television stations as well as in newspapers and magazines.

One such story is about the experience of Devianti Faridz, a Muslim college student from Indonesia who is studying for her master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri.

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