After the unfortunate incident of the Christchurch shooting , Rizwan Wadan , a camera technician , produced a short four-minute film called '' The Martyrs '' , which showcased three Islamophobic crimes that happened to Muslims in the past . This included a pregnant woman being kicked in the stomach , a stabbing and an acid attack . The film was made with the intention of showing what Muslims and Arabs go through at times . However , the film received a lot of controversy not only from non-Arabs and non-Muslims , but also by Muslims , mosques and the Tell MAMA organization , which monitors the anti-Muslim hate crimes . Tell MAMA , mosques and the people from the Muslim community were asking for the film to be removed from all platforms and all film festivals , since the film would create a greater fear within the Muslim community . It would make the Muslim community too afraid to go out , in fear of being put in the same situations that the short film had shown . Fiyaz Mughal , the founder of Tell MAMA , criticized the film and asked that it be taken down since it might encourage violence against Muslims if the wrong person watches it . Rizwan Wadan replies to all these controversies by stating that Muslims are always complaining about how they are being portrayed in a negative manner in films . His vision was for Muslims to start telling their own stories , so that is what he did . His aim of making this film was not to have people like it , but instead to make an impact and tell the stories of Muslims from the Muslim perspective , not from the Western perspective
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