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Nov 2020
1h 33m

E2: Drinking, Smoking, and Difficult Fam...

Mahmoud Ansari
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On this episode Mahmoud Elansary, and his friends, Bilal and Shaber discuss their Muslim American experience with drugs, alcohol, friendships, and trying to fit in throughout high school. They go onto discuss terrorist groups like ISIS, and Americas roll in the Middle East. They ponder over who God is, what he may look like, and how merciful he is.  And they look back on being embarrassed to be Muslim when they were teenagers and what their strengths and weaknesses are looking forward.  

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