Episode 43: 2/2 Mullahs Agree

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We're back for season 4! First amendment queen Nabiha Syed and gloom and doom DJ Sara Yasin join us for a good ol' round of Halal or Not. Later, we talk about how the FBI meme is appropriating Muslim culture, Hoda Katebi's legendary local news clapback and the way white media folks try to 'support immigrant' voices, and inevitably otherize them.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Amadal Yuckber and welcome to season four of See Something Say Something.
0:10.0	Woo!
0:11.0	If you see something, you see something, you better, you better say something.
0:21.6	Nothing at all, nothing at all.
0:26.6	So on this episode, we're going to be talking about a few different things, mass surveillance, memes, of course, and also maybe talk through a few stories where white media folk tried to support immigrant voices, but really just totally otherize them.
0:46.3	So I've asked on news curation editor Sarah Yassin. Hi, Sarah.
0:52.1	Hello.
0:52.8	And our favorite legal counsel, Navi Ha Seid.
0:56.6	Yay!
0:58.4	We're going to start with halal or not, even though we haven't done that in a long time.
1:02.6	Yay.
1:03.4	Because old is good and new is old.
1:06.3	No, it's 2018.
1:07.5	2018, everything is haram.
1:09.0	Got to.
1:09.8	Got to adapt for the times. Yeah, you know, got to Got it. Got to adapt for the times.
1:10.9	Yeah, you know, got to keep up.
1:12.3	These two Mullahs agree.
1:26.0	Two out of two Mullahs. Yeah. Isn't that, am I not a Mullah? No. I'm being excluded from Mullahdom. Do you want to opt in to MullahDem? Because I have an online course you could take. Actually, Nabeha and I vet them all.
1:26.6	Yep.
1:29.9	We are the Master Council of Mullah Online Courses.
1:29.8	Marshall. online course you could take. Actually, Nabiha and I vet them all. Yep. We are the master council of Mullah online courses.
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