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“I’m all about unity. I’m all about love. And I want my people to be good.”
Kumail Nanjiani, Silicon Valley actor and comedian
“People don't really have the image of a lax Muslim,” he told Fresh Air. “When people think of Islam they see certain images in their head, they see fanaticism… You can think of a non-religious Jewish person, you can think of a lapsed Christian person, but there's really no image of a non-strict Muslim person.”
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Dr. Mehmet Öz
“I’ve struggled a lot with my muslim identity,” Dr. Oz told PBS. “As a Turk, growing up in America with one parent from one side of the religious wall and one parent from the other side, and of course America clearly supporting the secular background, I found myself tugged more and more towards the spiritual side of the religion, rather than the legal side of the religion.”
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Aasif Mandvi, comedian and Daily Show correspondent
“If you can get people afraid of Muslims, you don’t have to talk about real issues,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “70% of Americans are killed by other Americans with guns, not by foreign terrorists. And we’re not keeping white men with guns out of the country. We’re keeping Syrian refugees out of the country. It’s easy to say, well, it’s the Muslims, it’s their religion and we don’t understand it. Whenever violence occurs and it’s a brown guy or a Muslim guy, it becomes about terrorism, but when it’s a white guy, it’s just a crazy guy who had bad parenting.”
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Zayn Malik, musician
“There may be a time where I feel like I have something to say about a certain topic and I’m educated enough and armed with the exact information I need before I make a statement that doesn’t offend anybody,” he told Complex magazine of his faith. “But in today’s day and age, it’s very hard to make any sort of statement that doesn’t offend somebody. I don’t want to throw stones out of a river that’s already raging. You know what I’m saying? It’s doing its thing by itself. I don’t need to put any input in there. I’ll just leave everything to itself.”
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