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See Something Say Something

The Mosque in America, A National Portrait (with Dr. Ihsan Bagby)

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We're back from hiatus and to our regularly scheduled programming with an interview with Dr. Ihsan Bagby on his work polling American mosques for two decades.

Find the mosque survey from Dr. Bagby here: https://www.ispu.org/public-policy/mosque-survey/

Also: our big new announcement is that we're now on YouTube thanks to a grant from the Google News Intiative! Look forward to some YouTube exclusive content covering halal food in America. 

Like and subscribe below. Video podcasts will be coming soon.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn2EbFxKx-a9Bee3UqKWIwg

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. I'm Amadale Yusper, and this is See Something Say Something, back from hiatus.

0:19.2

Now, if you're listening to us on your podcast feed,

0:22.2

that's probably a very familiar intro to you, but we're adding something new to the See

0:27.7

Something Say Something family, a YouTube channel. And this is our very first video thanks to a grant

0:33.2

from the Google News Initiative, create a program for independent journalists. Now, if you've never tuned in before,

0:39.3

see something, say something as a podcast

0:40.8

is celebrating almost five years of being on the air.

0:44.0

We came to be around the time of Trump's election,

0:47.6

and we've been reporting on American Muslims

0:50.4

as an independent show for a couple of years now.

0:53.2

We've won a Wilbur Award for our reporting on religion in a secular medium.

0:57.3

We've been to The New York Times.

0:58.3

We've spoken in cab drivers.

0:59.7

We've spoken to Rob Yousif.

1:01.3

We've spoken to Olympians like Ibn Hajj Muhammad.

1:06.1

It's been an amazing journey, and I'm really excited to add some new elements to the show.

1:18.4

Now, I actually have some other announcements after coming back from hiatus.

1:23.0

The other reason why the hiatus was a little longer than expected, I'm going to be a dad pretty soon.

1:29.5

My Twitter handle is Rad Brown Dads, and after many years, I am finally actually going to have

1:35.9

a daughter, which I'm very excited about. So, you know, that bear with the show, if there's

1:42.9

like crying in the background sometime soon,

1:44.7

and, you know, make doa and all that stuff. And the second, I want to talk a little bit about

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