Social Media Response Regarding Anti-Islam Protest

posted on: Apr 20, 2011

Dearborn and the community of southeast Michigan have found their own ways to respond to Florida pastor Terry Jones and his planned visit to the area for an anti-Islam protest on Friday.

One response has been with a touch of humor, as two videos from the Arab American community of Dearborn have premiered on the internet from the “Ed and Moe Show” and the Arab American Comedy Show.

Today Al Jazeera’s new show The Stream will be interviewing Moose Scheib, a Dearborn-based lawyer and founder of the Arab American Comedy Show, about his YouTube parody of Terry Jones.

The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television programme on Al Jazeera English. On television and online The Stream taps into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news. The Stream is an aggregator of online sources and discussion, seeking out unheard voices, new perspectives from people on the ground and untold angles related to the most compelling stories of the day.

The Stream will be broadcast <a href=”http://stream.aljazeera.com”>here</a> at 3:30PM EST from Monday-Thursday, and will be on Al-Jazeera’s TV channel starting May 2nd.

Watch the videos here:
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