I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
AASIF MANDVIIn 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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The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. … I hadn’t been to the mosque in like 10 years.
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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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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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Of course the law’s not racist.
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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.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
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You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.
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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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I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.
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I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked… and comedians are always talking about politics.
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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
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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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I was born in India – but never really lived there.
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