Hey everyone, I'm Ahmad Dali Akbar, and this is See Something, Say Something.

This week we're going to be talking to some reporters about the state of Islamophobia in American politics.

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

nothing at all

nothing at all

so this piece of the two reporters put together

is a question that they asked about

if we looked in every state

where would we find Islamophobia

and it turns out it's in the Republican Party of every state, except for Utah. So I brought on Hannah Alam and Thalal Ansari to help me make sense of it. Welcome, Hannah. She is a national reporter covering U.S. Muslim life. Hi there. And we're also joined by Thalal, who's a breaking news reporter here at BuzzFeed News. Hi, Talal.

Thanks for having me back.

First, before the stories, we got to give Hannah a big congratulations.

She recently won the Wilbur Award for Secular Reporting on Religion for her article series in the crosshairs, Muslims and Trump's America, which cover things like Muslim summer camps, mosque arsons,

questions of religious leadership. We're so proud of you. Thank you. Likewise,

you're too humble to mention your own Wilbur. Yes, we both. Congrats. You know, you also won.

So congratulations to you too. Yes. See something, say something. I'm happy to announce.

Did win a Wilbur Award for Excellence in Reporting in Secular Media on Religion for our Ramadan series last year.

It was really fun to go down to Atlanta and meet up with all sorts of folks doing different work.

And, you know, I just saw Hannah on stage and I'm like, yes, recognize her.

Her work is so good.

Okay.

So we're going to bring back something that we haven't done in a while, which is I'm going to ask my guests.

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