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I kind of feel that same anger.

Being from the Detroit area and from the city with the highest Middle Eastern population outside of the Middle East, I find it very interesting that there is such a distrust of "regular" Islam in this area, even in the inner city area because most of the party stores & whatnot are owned by Middle Eastern people, and

Aaliyah's outright racism made me extremely uncomfortable in this episode.

Everyone is mad at someone for one reason or another, or feels they are misunderstood or misrepresented. We're all hating one another based on perceived notions and portrayals
of certain groups. We're all conditioned to fear the black guy walking
down the street, the woman in a burqa in the airport, the kid with the
ho

Yes. I'm from an area that has a huge Muslim population and they don't sit in pews and speak from a pulpit. It's definitely not a temple either. The way the pastor was preaching in the opening of the episode was very Christian-like; I'm not sure Imams do that. I also noticed that Aaliyah referred to the lawyer as

I find it ironic that this religion is preaching acceptance of all yet a race is excluded. I realize that Aaliyah's exact Muslim sect on the show is ambiguous at this point (Muslims typically worship in a mosque, not a temple) and it could be that the NOI is used because of the nature of the show, but, I just can't