Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

