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What's the most weirdest thing you've been asked about being Muslim?
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Do I worship a moon God?
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Are you allowed to have sex...during Ramadan?
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I bet you like to hump goats...
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like...like.......(laugh)
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....I don't even know what to say to that.
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What's a mosque?
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What do you guys really do in there?
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The weirdest question is if I'm planning to blow anything up.
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Why are you guys like that?
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Why don't Muslims denounce terrorism?
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Aren't you hot?
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Are you circumcised?
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I do denounce terrorism.
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Really? You guys can laugh? You guys can smile?
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Awww...
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A Muslim is a great many things, depending on your perspective.
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Mulsim is the word we use label people that follow the Islamic religion.
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And believes in the oneness of God.
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And that Muhammad is his messanger.
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That's really all that it is.
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There's no secret handshake. You don't have to run through a gauntlet.
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Things like not cheating, not stealing, not killing, not hurting folks...
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are principles to the faith.
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We can't eat pork. There's no pork on my fork, no swine on my mind.
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A practicing Muslim prays five times a day.
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I'm not jiggy with the piggy. I'm not achin' for the bacon.
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Every chapter in Quran except one starts with God is merciful, God is compassionate.
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Compassion, mercy, these were the two concepts.
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I'm not hostage to the sausage...there's a lot of these phrases.
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I think the question of what is a Muslim 100% cannot be answered.
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We are talking about over than 1 billion people.
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People think that a Muslim is traditionally, basically someone looks like me with a beard.
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Maybe not as much swage because that's unique to me.
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But Muslims come from all different walks of life.
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A Muslim, is anyone who says he's a Muslim.
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There's all levels of Muslims.
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That includes, you know, the secular Muslim who eats BLT's and washes it down with a glass of Pinot.
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There are some that are very devout in practicing, there are some that are not, just like with every other faith.
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Nobody in Islam gets to say who is and who is not a Muslim.
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God is the one who determines that.
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We don't have a Muslim pope, although it'd be cool if we did.
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And I think it should be me.
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If you really want to break down the Arabic world, it literally means the "one who submits"
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to God,
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to peace.
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According to my father, a Muslim is any person who surrenders to a force greater than himself.
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When I introduced my atheist whitey-white infidel boyfriend to my dad,
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my dad goes, " Listen listen Zahra, the word Muslim just means one who surrenders to a force greater than himself, that's it!
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Does he believe in gravity? So, he surrenders to the gravity, it's a force greater than himself, he's a Muslim. So, welcome."
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A great majority of us are just ordinary boring people.
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You know, shmucks like us.
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But what do I know? I'm just one Muslim, out of 1.7 billion Muslims.