Rais Bhuiyan and the Power of Forgiveness

This is a remarkable story of forgiveness and a change of heart.

It’s the kind of story that Susan Sarandon could direct, and it needs to be told and retold.

“It is due to Rais’ message of forgiveness that I am more content now than I have ever been,” Stroman said in the interview with the documentary filmmaker. “If I don’t make it I want Rais to carry on his work teaching people not to be prejudiced.”

Rais Bhuiyan and the Power of Forgiveness

This is a remarkable story of forgiveness and a change of heart.

It’s the kind of story that Susan Sarandon could direct, and it needs to be told and retold.

“It is due to Rais’ message of forgiveness that I am more content now than I have ever been,” Stroman said in the interview with the documentary filmmaker. “If I don’t make it I want Rais to carry on his work teaching people not to be prejudiced.”

Jamie DeWolf on His Great Grandfather

"Every family has their black sheep. On my mother's side, our black sheep was a shepherd who enslaved his own flock. The king of the cons, a man who made himself a messiah even though he never called himself a god. Even tonight, his words are written in steel and titanium capsules in a nuclear reinforced bunker miles underground so if our whole species goes extinct, his words will still survive."

Now that's what I call an opening. And that last part? Absolutely true. (so far as I know)

"I never met the man who gave me my red hair, the manic depression still twisted in the strands of my DNA and the first time I saw a psychiatrist when he asked me if mental illness runs in my family, all I could say was "yes, yes, yes it does." When I told him my great grandfather was a cult leader that enslaved the minds of millions, he accused me of having delusions of grandeur. What can I say? It runs in my veins."