An American Mosque / producer & director, editor & cinematographer, David Washburn.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Washburn, David, director, producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosques--California--Yuba City--History.

Mosques.

Arson--California--Yuba City--History.

Arson.

Farmers--California--Yuba City--History.

Farmers.

Muslims--California--Yuba City--History.

Muslims.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2013.

Language Note:

English and partial Punjabi, with partial subtitles in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

An American Mosque is a film about Islam in America, religious intolerance, and the interfaith response to an historic hate-crime. When the Islamic Center of Yuba City, California, was burned to the ground in 1994, it was the first arson to destroy a mosque in US history. At the time, this incident was largely ignored. Now, decades later, this symbolically important story is revisited. Late one night, arsonists broke into the newly-constructed mosque, doused prayer rugs with gasoline, then lit the building ablaze. The mosque was reduced to ashes and an investigation ensued.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed April 14, 2017).

OCLC:

961872652