Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher is a Colombian-American filmmaker and member of
National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP).
Fletcher was born in Colombia and moved to
Houston, Texas
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at the age of 8, graduating in Multimedia and Film Honors at the
Art Institute of Houston.
A former
Roman Catholic
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, Fletcher studied Christianity,
Hinduism
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,
Buddhism
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and
Islam
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, and converted to the latter at a Muslim convention in Florida.
He is a youth advocate and founder of the Andalucia Media Arts Center. As a public speaker, he has covered topics about
Latinos
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, youth, Islam, film and media at many institutions. Fletcher is the founder of
IslamInSpanish, a non-profit organization dedicated to producing Spanish multimedia to "educate Latinos about Islam worldwide".
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- He has worked as media analyst on
Univision
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,
Telemundo
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and
CNN in Spanish, among others.
He is the owner and CEO of an advertising agency, FocusPoint Studios.
See also
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Latino Muslims
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Black Muslims
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Islam in the United States
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States, religion in the United States (1.34%) after Christianity in the United States, Christianity (67%) and Judaism in the United States, Judaism (2.4%). The 2020 United States Religion Cens ...
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Latin American Muslims
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History
The 1492 discovery of Latin America by Columbus ...
References
Living people
American chief executives
Converts to Sunni Islam from Roman Catholicism
American Sunni Muslims
American former Christians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Colombian emigrants to the United States
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