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I mean, but obviously, in people’s eyes, it still – it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they’re white?

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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you’re a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn’t matter where you come from.
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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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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you’re reaching people.
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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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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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I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
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Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the “Daily Show”, she was like no – there is no – the only way you’ll learn this job is by doing this job.
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North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state’s new voting restrictions are just fine.
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I said we are Ghodratis and there’s nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.
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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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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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If you don’t acknowledge differences, it’s as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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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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Of course the law’s not racist.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad
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I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.
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