K'naan developing a series for HBO based on Jihadi recruitment in Minnesota's Somali community

[LittleNileRiver]

If Academy Awarding winning Kathryn Bigelow is producing this show, its going to be a huge hit.

 

[Bahal]

Lol @ cultural Muslim @Bahal

What's so funny

 

[Apollo]

Let's just hope the leading actor doesn't look like Barkhad and perpetuate the bucktooth stereotype of Somalis.

 

[Inactive]

There was a TV show here where a Somali girl was really claiming Jamaican because she was embarrassed of her Somali heritage.

But the actor in real life was some Carribean. Drake was on that TV show too

 

[Inactive]

The characters name was Hazel Ali Hashi Aden

 

[LittleNileRiver]

There was a TV show here where a Somali girl was really claiming Jamaican because she was embarrassed of her Somali heritage.

But the actor in real life was some Carribean. Drake was on that TV show too

Degrassi!

 

[Inactive]

Hazel was born in Somalia. During the civil war in the early 1990s, she and her mother fled the country. Her father, who was a soldier in the war, came shortly afterwards. The three of them live together in Toronto.

In Don't Believe the Hype, Hazel pretended to be Jamaican to hide her Muslim heritage during an 'International Day' school event. She went so far as to bully Fareeza, another Muslim girl, to hide her secret. Hazel was devastated when students destroyed Fareeza's presentation on Iraq with spray paint, because it brought back painful memories of being harassed at her old school after 9/11 based on her culture.

After making peace with Fareeza and revealing previous abuse, Hazel revealed in a class presentation that she was born in Mogadishu, Somalia to Muslim parents who immigrated to Canada and explained about her faith.

She even revealed her qabiil in one episode. I remember her saying, "We were not the natives of Mogadishu". But that could be anyone not Abgal or Cad Cad

 

[Inactive]

She was one of the biggest stars on the show. It was embarrassing.

 

[LittleNileRiver]

Woah! The Hollywood Reporter posted an article about this show.

DECEMBER 11, 2015 2:55pm PT by Lesley Goldberg
Kathryn Bigelow Prepping Jihadi Recruitment Drama for HBO (Exclusive)

Rapper/poet K'naan Warsame will pen the script, exec produce and direct the potential series.
HBO is going back into business with Kathryn Bigelow.

The premium cable network is teaming with the Oscar-winning director behind The Hurt Locker to develop the drama The Recruiters, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The drama, based on an original idea, looks to unveil what is considered a world that's hidden in plain sight. Set in Minnesota, the drama "will draw open an iron curtain behind which viewers will see the highly impenetrable world of Jihadi recruitment."

Somali Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, poet K'naan Warsame will pen the script, executive produce and direct the project, should it move to the pilot stage. Bigelow and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss also will exec produce.
Warsame recounted his return after 20 years to his native Somalia in a 2011 essay for The New York Times in which he detailed the loss of three childhood friends at the age of 12 after a machine gun attack. He also penned an essay about censorship in the music industry as it pertained to his lyrics drawn from his childhood in Somalia ahead of his third album in 2012. He's a multiple Juno Award winner and was nominated in 2012 for an MTV VMA for best video with a message.

For Bigelow, The Recruiters brings her back to HBO, where she previously directed the 2010 drama pilot The Miraculous Year, which did not move forward. She's repped by CAA.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kathryn-bigelow-prepping-jihadi-recruitment-848170

 

[Bahal]

Despicable

 

[LittleNileRiver]

@menace I know the Captain Phillips audition didn't work out, but are you going to try out for The Recruiter?

 

[menace]

@menace I know the Captain Phillips audition didn't work out, but are you going to try out for The Recruiter?

Dude i can't believ you remember that

They ain't having it in columbus tho

 

[LittleNileRiver]

Dude i can't believ you remember that

They ain't having it in columbus tho

lol
According to audition flyer Knaan posted on his twitter, you can send an audition tape by email.
You can be the next Barkhad lol

 

[Duchess]

@menace, do it. We will be rooting for you. obamadatazz

 

[Phillip]

This is one of the worst things you can do to an already marginalized community.

No Arab, Afghani/Pakistani/South Asian muslim community group in a western country would ever condone or take part in something like this. Hell, their own secular/non-religious/atheist among them wouldn't want this.

 

[SomaliSteel]

I would have auditioned if i had known it was going down.

@Phillip. Plenty of arabs etc play terrorists on the regular since 9/11. look at any movie and tv show since for proof.

 

[Phillip]

I would have auditioned if i had known it was going down.

@Phillip. Plenty of arabs etc play terrorists on the regular since 9/11. look at any movie and tv show since for proof.

I hear you bro.

 

[Khathead]

I will laugh loud af if a Habesha gets the main role of the series