Episode 28: #BlackMuslimRamadan

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For the third episode in our Ramadan series, we focus on a community that isn't often centered during Ramadan — black Muslims. First up, Ahmed talks with Sarah Hagi, who writes for Vice, about the glory of #BlackMuslimRamadan and #BlackoutEid. Then, a longer conversation with Ikhlas Saleem, who co-hosts the Identity Politics podcast, about moving away from, and back to, the black Muslim community she grew up in. Plus — why she joined the international students association in college despite being 100% American. Finally, Ikhlas calls her mom to ask her a few questions about her first Ramadan.

Follow Ahmed at @radbrowndads,
Follow Sarah at @geekylonglegs,
Follow Ikhlas at @i_saleem, and check out her podcast Identity Politics,
Read Ikhlas's essay here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ikhlassaleem/the-hybrid?utm_term=.uyegP0K3Dg#.yew067vR30
Follow all our Ramadan posts here: buzzfeed.com/ramadan
Watch the video "Why I Converted To Islam" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCVlytKoMLE,
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0:00.0	Hey guys, I'm Amadal Yuckber.
0:08.9	And this is See Something Say Something.
0:11.2	Again, I can't do the intros when I'm fasting.
0:14.0	I'm sorry.
0:15.1	It's the show where we drink Jaya tell stories and talk about being Muslim in America.
0:20.0	This is the third episode in our Ramadan series.
0:22.9	We're going to be focusing on black Muslim stories
0:25.6	and the ways in which they are often not put at the center of the conversation.
0:31.5	If you see something, you better, you better say something
0:38.3	Nothing at all, nothing at all
0:43.3	So in this episode first we're going to talk about the hashtag Black Muslim Ramadan and Blackout Eid
0:50.3	and why they're so important at recent-centering the narrative around black Muslims.
0:54.6	And then we're going to make a call to Iqlas Saleem
0:57.8	and ask her about her experience growing up in an all-black Muslim community
1:03.1	and leaving that community.
1:04.9	And then Iqlas made a call to her mom
1:07.5	and had a really lovely conversation which we were going to play.
1:14.9	Thank you. called to her mom and had a really lovely conversation, which we were going to play. Well, my guest today is Sarah Hagi, who is a staff writer at Vice Canada.
1:22.6	Hi, Sarah.
1:23.4	Welcome to the show.
1:25.0	Hey.
1:26.7	Also, I did not have Sahur today.
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