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March 30, 2012 islamoyankee

Are Muslims Treated As Outsiders In Their Own Country? : NPR.

I think, you know, it’s funny to me. Whenever somebody says that President Obama is a Muslim, I feel like Jerry Seinfeld should pop out with his jazz hands and say, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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