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See Something Say Something

Episode 5: Parents

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Stories about the secrets we keep from our parents, featuring comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh, and Ahmed's dad, Dr. Waheed Akbar. Plus: a plea for white people to talk to other white people about Trump.

Listeners: We want to hear from young people and college students about how it feels to be Muslim right now, in the wake of the election. Send a voice memo to saysomething@buzzfeed.com, or leave a voicemail at (929) 265-2758.

Follow Zahra Noorbakhsh at @zahracomedy. She is the host of the podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim.

Read "Coming Out as Bi When You're Muslim and Married." You can find Zahra's essay "The Birds, the Bees, and My Hole" in the book Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women.

Follow Ahmed at @radbrowndads.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, I'm Amadal Yuckper, and this is See Something Say Something, the BuzzFeed podcast where we drink Jai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslims in America.

0:09.4

This week, we'll be talking about parents.

0:14.9

If you see something, you better, you better say something nothing nothing at all nothing at all

0:26.3

first I'll speak to comedian Zara Nurbukh about coming out as bye and having that

0:34.4

conversation with their parents and then I'm going to be calling up my dad in Michigan.

0:39.5

I know Donald Trump was elected last week,

0:42.0

and there's a lot of expectation that we'll be talking about that.

0:45.2

Don't worry.

0:46.3

We definitely will be thinking about that in the weeks to come.

0:49.3

But for this week, we wanted to do some storytelling

0:51.9

and ask some Muslims about their lives and their life story.

0:56.5

So, you know, stay tuned.

0:58.3

It'll definitely be a topic we're thinking about as the show goes forward.

1:02.2

But for now, we're just going to be having some conversations like we always plan to do.

1:07.6

And as a side note, this was recorded before the election, so we won't really be

1:11.8

talking about Trump.

1:15.5

So before we get into the episode, we do want to hear from you guys, actually, about Trump's

1:21.2

victory. Specifically, where we want to talk to college students. I put out a post last week

1:27.3

where I collected 10 stories that

1:29.5

different young Muslims in America sent me about their feelings the days after Trump was elected.

1:35.6

It's titled, Here's What 10 Young Muslims Are Thinking Right Now. You can find that on my page.

1:40.6

But I have emails and emails from young Muslims talking about the fear and anxiety and hope

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