"What's your job?"

"Just doing some small business"

"What kind of business?"

"Anything that makes money"

"Like selling drugs?"

"I'm not. Maybe that’s your thing"

"Where do you work here?"

"In my garage"

"I wanna see your garage"

"It’s not open to outsiders"

"You Muslim?"

"Yeah"

"Shia?"

"I got things to do. Have a nice day"

"Don’t bomb us, okay?"

"Excuse me?"

"You’re Muslim. Terrorist. You go to the mosque"

"In my culture, men don’t gossip or pry into others’ lives. Mind your own business"

January, 2025

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"Who are those two little girls?"

"My kids"

"Oh, I thought they were your wives. Muhammad married a toddler. He was a pedophile"

"In our religion, if you don’t have something good to say, it’s better to stay quiet"

"I read Muhammad was a pedophile"

"Where did you read that? Can you show me?"

"It’s all over the internet"

"But you said you read it. Reading usually means a book"

"Alright, genius"

"It wasn’t only Prophet Muhammad who married someone young. The age of Saidatina Aisyah is still debated among Islamic scholars. Gisela of France married the Viking Rollo when she was 5, and he was around 40. That’s European history, by the way. Civilizations across the world did similar things. It’s called zeitgeist—every era had its own moral code, different from how we see things today"

April, 2025

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"Oh, are they jihadists?"

"What do you want?"

"I'm just trying to be nice"

"My kids are playing mini military games. Is that a problem?"

"Should I call the cops? Maybe launch a full investigation? Who knows, they might be armed... with water guns"

"Are you done?"

"Maybe. Or maybe I'm just getting started"

May, 2025