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If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

Aasif Mandvi

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Believe Levels Prophet Muhammad
It’s an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
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Analyze Away Going Try Trying Worry
If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.
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Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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Anyone Bashing Beat General Kind Subcontinent Used
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food… they’ve never even tasted it!
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America Chicago Country Exotic New York Outside People Thinking
For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.
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End Like Logic Something Used Violence
In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
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America Essential Idea Ideas Individual Kind Own West
When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like – America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
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America Decide Family Land Like Opportunity Seem Sort
Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.
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Chicken Dish Food National Reverse Today
From my parent’s generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It’s about creating family. It’s about creating offspring.
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Creating Generation Idea Ideas Marriage Parent Romantic Love
This was in the ’70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.
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Asian Bullying Hazing Racism South Toward Way
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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Court Doe Fraud Past Racism Supreme Voter
Of course the law’s not racist.
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Course Law Racist Result
I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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Allowing Beauty Exist Hijack Islam People Spiritual Think
I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.
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America Culture Dort Fantasized Grew Moving
I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
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