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The Bad Muslim Discount QUOTES

1 " There is no us, Abu Fahd. There is no them.
We're all the same. "

― Syed M. Masood, , The Bad Muslim Discount

2 " Maybe. But you are different. You don’t fight others. You fight the Great Jihad. The Prophet said that the fight inside a man, the fight for his soul, is the greatest struggle of all, yes? The fight between the white brown man and the brown white man. The fight between the good bad man and the bad good man. I see it in you all the time. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

3 " I suppose we have to change the national anthem then.”
“You want to take out ‘the land of the brave’?”
“No,” he protested. “The whole thing has to be replaced.”
“With what?”
“With Britney. Remember ‘Oops!…I Did It Again’? "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

4 " There was no culture shock—though I may have gawked a little at the first short skirt I saw…and maybe the second one too—because even though I’d never stepped foot on U.S. soil, I knew this place. I’d seen it on screens my entire life. "

― Syed M. Masood, , The Bad Muslim Discount

5 " ...being with someone is an acquired skill. There is an art to it. Basically, you have to watch your partner take a chisel - or a war hammer, depending on the day - and chip away at the ideal version of them that you've created in your mind. The person you fall in love with is always slightly different from the person you need to stay in love with. More real and more flawed, but also more complex and better defined. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

6 " All men are created equal. Except not really, because some men are created American. Other men are created rich. Some men are created American and rich and are still not content with the world they inherit, so they try to change it. They try to make it more to their liking by painting it with blood and flame. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

7 " I am saying that you should read everyone else's story with the same respect as you do your own. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

8 " How you begin things is important. This is true in checkers and in life, because at the beginning of things you are freer than you will ever be again. Once the game starts, every move you make is influenced by what someone else has done. The longer the game goes, the messier the board becomes, the more that influence grows. But the opening, Anvar, belongs to you. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

9 " My point,” she said, “is that all your heroes were wanderers upon this earth. Moses, Jesus, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Ishmael, Muhammad…The history of the world is the history of people who went places. People who walked to the horizon. "

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10 " Clocks cannot measure time. They can count seconds, minutes and hours, but those are not accurate measures of our experience of time. A day of hunger is longer than a day when you've eaten. How quickly time passes isn't constant. An hour can stretch out and seem unending. A year can pass you by before you know it. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

11 " I’m just saying, look for the truth. Look past the slogans and the spin and what people say their motivations are. Look at what they are actually trying to do, at the world they really want to create, and once you know the truth about them, if you still want to stand with them, to vote for them, go ahead. "

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12 " You know, Anvar, people don’t understand these days,” he told me, “the real sacrifice. They think their offering is the money they spend on the animal. Or they think it is the life of the animal. But it isn’t. You are the sacrifice. What you are feeling now? That is your sacrifice. The lives of other creatures are not yours to take. Life is precious and to end one is final. Remember to never take more from the world than you can give back to it. "

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13 " Azza said something that's been bothering me. She told me that there is no beauty left in this world. She's not wrong, you know. Sometimes that is how life feels. It's like there is nothing good, nothing noble, nothing precious left. Everywhere I look there is only pain and struggle and just a shadow over everything. You should know that I never feel that way when I am with you. You're the light of my world. You make the universe beautiful. "

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14 " ...we should be honest about who we are and what we do. We should tell the truth about things, even when it doesn't sound good or feel good or sell well. It's not enhanced interrogation, it's torture. It's not an extrajudicial killing, it's murder. We should call things by their real names. I'm just saying, look for the truth. Look past the slogans and the spin and what people say their motivations are. Look at what they are actually trying to do, at the world they really want to create, and once you know the truth about them, if you still want to stand with them... go ahead. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

15 " Yet you are not modest like a Muslim woman. Your dress betrays what is in your heart.”
Zuha was wearing a simple long-sleeved shirt with dress pants. No one, except for Abu and his friends, could have had any objections. I was certain, however, that he thought her pants highlighted her legs too much, and her shirt emphasized her waist more than necessary.
I was still thinking about what to say when Zuha answered him. She spoke sweetly, but her words had the edge of a knife. “And your gaze betrays what is in yours "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

16 " For Abu too,” I said. “The more guns, the better. We are Americans now. "

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17 " That radical Islamists and “America First” nationalists had essentially the same worldview and the same desire to recapture a nostalgia-gilded past glory was proof, in my opinion, that God’s sense of irony was simply divine. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount

18 " Checkers is the game of life,” she said. “Idiots will tell you that chess is, but it isn’t. That’s a game of war. Real life is like checkers. You try to make your way to where you need to go and to do it you’ve got to jump over people while they’re trying to jump over you and everyone is in each other’s way. "

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19 " Anyone who didn’t look back, I realized then, was stone already. "

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20 " Every kid from the subcontinent knows that there are three acceptable career paths you can walk down. You can become a doctor, you can become an engineer or, if you are painfully slow, you can study economics or finance. "

― , The Bad Muslim Discount