Banned Together — Part 3
See Something Say Something
Ahmed Ali Akbar
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
They talk about the history of the Asian Exclusion Act, the Quebec mosque shooting, and family abroad.
Plus: Moustafa does a dramatic reading of the powerful/woke/badass/brilliant NY Taxi Worker Alliance statement on the #MuslimBan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, I'm Ahmadol Yukber, and this is the third mini episode of See Something Say Something that we're putting out this week. |
| 0:08.4 | For the last couple mini releases of See Something Say Something, we've been talking to lawyers to make sense of what's happening from a legal perspective, what's happening on the ground with the movements and protests. |
| 0:18.2 | But I also think it's worth our time to do some processing about what it feels |
| 0:21.6 | like to be a Muslim in America. This is a show about storytelling. And if we're going to deal |
| 0:26.4 | with this, we have to also talk about the human element, what it feels like to hold a passport |
| 0:30.7 | from one of the targeted countries, or what it feels like to fear that maybe it'll affect |
| 0:35.1 | your family or your friends. |
| 0:43.1 | And, you know, what it means to be in a country where, like, hate crimes are becoming more and more common. |
| 0:46.1 | And more of a reality for so many people. |
| 0:55.0 | If you see something, you better, you better say something. Nothing at all. |
| 0:57.0 | Nothing at all. |
| 0:59.0 | So I've invited on Mustafa Biyumi. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome again to the show. |
| 1:05.0 | You were just on the live show. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.0 | We're so happy to have you back. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:10.0 | He's an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University in New York. |
| 1:13.3 | That's CUNY, an author of This Muslim American Life, Dispatches from the War on Terror. That's his most recent book. And also, how does it feel to be a problem, which I'm a big fan of. And also we're joined by Elamine Abdul Mahmoud, who is an editor on the news |
| 1:29.1 | curation team here at BuzzFeed in Canada, and he's calling us from Canada. Welcome to the show, |
| 1:34.6 | Alamein. Thanks very much for having me. |
| 1:43.8 | So one of the things that happened, you know, when the band was announced is everybody |
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