Riz Ahmed has announced a new initiative to combat the “problem of Muslim misrepresentation” on screen, saying: “The Islamophobia industry is one that measures its cost in blood.”
The study also analysed elements of the portrayal of Muslim characters, finding that 39% of Muslim characters in the sample films were the perpetrators of violence and 53% were the targets.
He also said he was “gutted” over the depiction of Muslim characters in the Amazon series The Boys, “a show which I loved”.
In a statement on the Pillars website Ahmed added: “The representation of Muslims on screen feeds the policies that get enacted, the people that get killed, the countries that get invaded.