British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed has expressed his views on the way Muslims are portrayed on screen internationally. “The game right now is messed up. The game right now is rigged,” Ahmed said in a new interview with news outlet Muslim . “Muslims are either not on screen or they are [and] they’re the bad guys. They’re perpetrators or victims of violence. We’re either invisible or we’re villainized, cause the stories we tell about our community affect the laws that get passed, the people that get attacked, the people that get invaded.” Read more – Riz Ahmed is the first Muslim to bag ‘Best Actor’ nomination at Oscars Watching a clip form the 2014, Clint Eastwood-directed blockbuster film American Sniper , in which star Bradley Cooper shoots a Muslim child during the Iraq War, Ahmed shook his head. “”It’s actually hard to watch this and not get angry, It’s crazy to think that, like, how many people had to say this was OK for this to be made. It’s just super racist.” ...