Hey guys, I'm Amid al-Yy Akbar.

This is See Something, Say Something, the BuzzFeed show where we drink jai tell stories and talk about being Muslim America.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about the mosque and the challenges around building community.

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

So we talk about the mosque pretty often on this podcast, because I think for a lot of Muslims, it's important and it's a central part of their experience.

But there's, as we've mentioned, there's a huge amount of people who, that's not true.

But I think the other thing is because this is like a podcast about Muslims in America.

And in America, mosques are community centers.

For most people, there are places where you go to meet people, you go to build community.

And I think the thing about it that I always think about is, like, what are the ways in which they are successful and meaningful?

And what are the ways in which they are a failure and don't actually include people?

And I think it's always a constant battle in every mosque.

Like every mosque is going to exclude some people and be really good at including other people,

whether it's racial, whether it's ethnic, whether it's gendered.

So for this episode, I've invited on a couple of different people who can sort of, you know, show that problem through their work.

First, we're going to talk to Hindmaki and Margari Aziza, who do work on gender and race inclusion in mosques and the Muslim community at large.

And then we're going to talk to El Farukaki, who is a co-founder and a mom of a gender and sexuality-inclusive mosque in Toronto.

So I'm joined by Hind Maki.

She's an interfaith educator and creator of side entrance, a project that uses photos from mosques to show women's spaces in relationship to men.

She's been on the show before.

Welcome, Hind.

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