A Best Buy commercial aired during the American Football Conference championship game is being praised for its portrayal of a Muslim American, reports Religious News Service.
The ad shows a clean shaven salesman named Mustafa interacting with customers and watching football on his big screen TV at home with friends.
“He has all the right stuff,” said Timothy de Waal Malefyt,an advertising executive and professor at New York’s Fordham University. “He has a girlfriend. He has Anglo friends. And he’s watching ‘Despicable Me’ and football. It’s very American.”
Mustafa is actually Best Buy employee Mustafa Hakami.
You can read reaction to the ad on social media and what makes this Best Buy commercial different from other commercials with Muslims on the Religious News Service.