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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

Believe Hate War

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Differences Reducing Stereotype

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

Bars Mosques Said

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

Community Culture Indian Culture

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Doe Past Racism

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

Believe Levels Prophet Muhammad

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

Brown Doctors Roles

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

Home Kids School

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

Mom Peanut Butter Sandwiches

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

Character Children People

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

Going Away Trying Worry

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

Interesting Two Years

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

Artist Jobs Mirrors

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

Children Hot Making Love

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

Guy Kids White

If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.

Home Long People

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

Artist Impact Thinking

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

America New York Thinking

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

Acting Done Stuff

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

England Pubs Today