(piano music playing) - [Narrator] What comes to your mind when you think of Muslims? Do you put them in a box
based on biases heard from the media, your peers,
or just unknown sources? As you play along this
episode of "Odd Man Out", think of how you pick them up. (upbeat music playing) - [Narrator 2] We brought
together seven Muslims. - I'm Muslim. - I'm Muslim. - I'm Muslim. - I'm Muslim. - I'm Muslim. - I'm Muslim. - I'm Muslim. - [Narrator 2] One is a liar. If the group discovers who the liar is, they'll split a cash prize. If the liar survives,
they win the entire prize. - [Editor] Also, there's
a surprise this episode. Not that the cast is all moles, but for the first time the
prize money will decrease for each round the players
continue past round two. - We're like the families from Pakistan. - Same, same
- Wow. - Yeah. What part? - Karachi
- Oh, Karachi? Islamabad. - Wow. - Yeah, I'm also Pakistani too, but I'm from Karachi as well. - I mean my family,
we're just from New York, but I know that my grandfather
had converted to Muslim. - I'm Palestinian.
- Oh, yeah. - Parents born, raised
there, first generation. - I'm Jordanian, which is next to Palestine. - Oh, yeah.
- Yeah. - I lived in Amman for two years when I was younger.
- Oh really? - Yeah.
- Yeah. - I just came from Amman like
two years and a half ago. - Mm hm.
- Cool, cool. - So, I'm new here in the States. - Yeah, I'm from Bangladesh.
- Oh, okay. - So, my parents are from
first generation as well. - How did your family
implement Islam growing up? - Al-Baab was asking a lot
of questions and she was kind of trying to get
information out of the others. So, I suspected that. - My community growing up
wasn't, there was a lot of, you know, white people, Latino people. And I always felt like
I was the only Muslim. - Nah, I relate to that too, because like, I mean like I'm
African American, you know? So like, I think it's like
not expected of me to be but growing up, like, that's
just what I was taught. Like from my father, from my grandfather. You know, after my father had passed away, you know, like it made me like look at everything he taught, - Yeah.
- you know? So I got right back into it. - Yeah,
- You know what I mean? I mean, growing up Muslim, my mom's white, so it was kind of like a half culture, you know?
- Yeah. - But I did the Sunday school thing and I like finished the Quran twice. - Oh, yeah.
- So it wasn't as like strict Muslim. - I come from a Muslim family, My mom is not strict, however, she wears hijab, but
she never enforced it on us. Like she always, they tell
us, "When it's the right time for you and you feel it within your heart that you wanna wear hijab, then you're gonna wear hijab."
- Yeah. - I was looking for like little clues and I know with like Zaina,
she wore an evil eye. And like, my mom taught me that in Islam, like the evil eye like you are not supposed to wear that. - What's it like being Muslim for us and what's we found like the hardest thing
- Right. - Yeah.
- being Muslim, - Right.
- at least maybe here. - Being Muslim for me, it's funny 'cuz you know, I'm very
liberal, I guess in a way. It's hard because some
people again just put you in a box and they're like, "Wait, but you're not wearing hijab and you know, you wear tank tops." - My mom wears the hijab. I've always kind of envied that like she can wear her
Islam like publicly outside. - True.
- Cause like, sometimes I'll see another lady walking down the street wearing a hijab and I wanna say
(speaks in foreign language) but I don't want it - Yeah.
- just to be like some random guy who she might like be afraid of on the street. - Yeah.
- Just trying to talk to her. For high school, I went to
a Catholic all guy school. So, that was very different. - Oh.
- Interesting. - When he mentioned that he
went to a Catholic school, I was a bit thrown off
because you would assume that they would go to a school
based off of their religion. - It was like, it was a
school that was close by and my mom like wanted
me to like all boys, I don't want like you with girls around, - Yeah, yeah.
- kind of thing. - Okay. And for her it was just,
it's still like it's another religious institution that's gonna be teaching
like similar values and just like morals kind of stuff. (clock ticks)
- Oh, no. Okay. I guess, sorry.
(group chuckle) (upbeat music) - You know, she didn't
get to really talk a lot. And again, she said she was
like, you know, half white and so it seemed very obvious. (upbeat music) (buzzer buzzes) - We love you so much. (group chuckle)
We'll miss you so much. (Al-Baab speaks in foreign language) - Because I'm half white, I think it definitely made
people suspicious of me because I don't look Pakistani at all. So they'd probably think that I was lying when I told them that. - Okay. I think we should ask like more factual- - Yeah.
- Questions. Like. (Al-Baab clicks fingers)
Yeah. - Can we talk about like Ramadan for everyone?
- Yeah! - And just like, what it's like fasting, what it feels like for
you, what your family does. - It's like being around people
who are not like doing it. You know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. - And it's like- - Your friends wanna hang out,
- Yeah, like, - like, "Let's go get food"
- "Bro, let's go get food." - And you're like, "I'll
watch you guys eat." - I'm like, "Yeah."
- Yeah! - It's like sometimes
when watching people eat for me, it like helps. - Yeah.
- Like I don't know why I used to-
- Watching "Food Networks" in Ramadan.
- Yes! Oh, my God! - I don't know what it is.
(Al-Baab laughs) Yeah. It's like a torture
kind of thing for ourselves. - I've heard from like
my family back home too, at least like it is this case in Karachi but like what's nice
is is that in Ramadan, - Uh huh.
- they close the restaurants and stuff,
- Yeah. - until Iftar, so it makes it even easier for you to like, go
ahead and still practice because you know, sometimes you're out like go out with your
friends and eat, like not eat but like just watch them. - Yeah.
- And they'll be like, "I don't want eat in front
of you, are you okay?" - Yeah!
- And I'm like, "Don't start." - It's like, bro, it's cool. - This is a test for us. - For the recent Ramadan, like it was a time when
I was a bit younger and I was in high school and I was going through like a very like rebellious time. - Yeah.
- It was during Ramadan where I just like, I had
this like realization like I'm not doing the
right thing right now. - Hm hm.
- Yeah. - And it was that time where
I really like transformed. - The reason I was suspicious of Aayan, I feel like anytime when I'd peek around, I just saw him like scanning everybody kind of looking a little fidgety. Someone would say something and then he'd be, "Oh, yeah, me too." - I try to fast at least
like three to four days out of the week, just to kind of give myself
that opportunity to do it. There was one month I did it every day. It was like the best month. (group vocalize) - Yeah, that's-
- Yeah, it really is, but- - Once you get used to it,
you would, you would get it. Like, it was hard for me when I was younger to fast all the days. - No alcohol or like no pork. Do you guys like, feel
strong about one thing about Islam but like not about the others? - I mean, I feel very strongly about like, not eating pork.
- Mm hm. - I just remember, you know, that's like something - Yeah.
- that my father really like told me, you know,
like, "Pork is swine", you know, so.
- Yeah. - Like I stay like completely
away from it, you know? - Yeah.
- I like, I've even had conversations with my mom where we'd be like, "If like a law came down right now
(group laugh) and said 'It's okay', like I still don't think
I really would eat it." To me, just like I see it as gross. Like that's just, I don't eat pork. - Yeah. Exactly.
- It just comes like that. - For me I also think the no
alcohol thing is pretty big for me also because I learned in middle school it's like
the mother of all sins. (bell rings) - Yeah, yeah.
- So, I stayed away from it. (upbeat music) (buzzer buzzes) - Sorry.
- Bye, guys. Good luck!
- Bye! - [Producer] If you
continue past this round, the prize money will be reduced by half. - I was like, "Dang!" - It felt like there was more pressure to just find the mole quicker, and I feel like I wanted to get into some deeper questions. - [Producer] Raise your
hand if you're certain that the mole is still in the box and you'd like to continue the game. - Okay. - If you all will.
- I will. - [Producer] All right. - Like how on a scale one to 10, how developed do you guys think you are? - Okay, for me around six years ago, I had a very bad car accident
and I was almost dead. Like I stayed in the hospital for three months and I
have a scar in my face now, if you can see it. It was a very bad experience, however, it got me closer to a lot. A car hit us and I had to
go through the front window. I thank God I'm alive, that I'm healthy, that there's nothing wrong. - I'd say like, I'm like a five because I don't really have anyone, like, that's like, you know, it's not like within like my family big
like that, you know, so. - Yeah.
- The lessons that we're taught, you
know what I'm saying? I embody those, maybe
not all the, you know, the other things that
come with it, you know? - True. - Shall we talk about an experience where you encountered someone that was speaking down on you or not? - For me, it was maybe I
think my sophomore year of high school. I got this one sweatshirt that like had an Arabic written, (Amr speaks in foreign language) and under in English,
"This too shall pass". And some random kid who, I
didn't know, like skates up to me and says like, "Oh, so
you're a terrorist." I was just like taken it back. I was like, "Excuse me?" I think I was like 15, but
that was like the first time for me that I really like experienced it and was just a little like, "Whoa", like, "Where does this come from?" This kid looked like he was 12. He would look younger than me, but he already has these ideas of like, "Oh, you're a terrorist", just because you have like,
maybe some Arabic written on your sweatshirt. Almost every time I've gone
to the airport, whether it was with my family or by myself, any of us would be pulled to the side for a little random search. There is definite kind
of prejudice involved in that, I believe. - I can go. It was basically in like, it was in middle school and we were in PE class and a kid goes up to me and 'cuz he heard my last name. - Just go quickly.
- Yeah. - He just like, he called me a terrorist and I completely lost myself
and started cursing at him. But then afterwards I had
this whole realization (bell rings)
- like, that's not what you do. (upbeat music) - [Producer] All right, so this has happened for the first time. There is a five-way tie. (group chuckle)
- Oh, my gosh. - [Producer] So each person
will be asked one question by any other participant. - Why were you put into a Catholic school? - Honestly, it was three
minutes from our house. My parents wanted a school that
would teach similar values. - Are you a Muslim? (group chuckle) (Maira speaks in foreign language) - I'm Muslim. - Like what's the biggest thing to you that means that you're Muslim? - So I wear hijab in high school but then when I entered like
UCLA, I took off my scarf. But I think that because of this, I actually grew closer to Islam. Would you mind listing all
five prayers and like when in the day that they happen? - Dang. I don't know why
I'm on the spot right now. - Sounds suspicious.
- But you know, it's- Crap. It's like morning, I watched my dad do it a lot.
- Oh, yeah. - What was like the point that really like that turned you to, you know, find a law, a bit more, I guess. - Oh, yeah. I mean like I was just like, partying a lot.
- Oh, yeah. - Doing a lot of like just bad things like and my whole family's really religious. So I'm from Bangladesh, like
you won't meet a Bengali that's not Muslim, you know.
- Yeah. - How can you be exempt from fasting? Do you know? - Yes, of course.
- Yeah. Okay, if you are very sick and you are under medication
and stretching your life, you should not fast,
especially for elder people. (upbeat music) (buzzer buzzes) - Oh, man. Good luck. - We love you, bro. - [Producer] Raise your
hand if you're certain that the mole is still in the box and you'd like to continue the game. Majority wins. If the lights turn red,
then the mole is still in the box and you lose. If the lights turn green, that means you eliminated the mole. (suspenseful music) - Oh, no way.
- Bro. - [Producer] Will the
mole please step forward? (group vocalize)
- I knew it, I knew it. - [Zaina] I'm sorry. - Like my gut instinct was Zaina and so I wish I would have said, "If fits too well, it's gotta be her." - She fit the character very well but the reason why I didn't go further with it was because I had met
Muslims who were like her. - No, but I really want
to tell you the truth. I know a lot of Quran I've studied Quran. - Were you raised up in another religion? Are you ex-Muslim or? - No, no, no, no. I'm Christian. - Oh, my.
- That's what I thought - cause it was like-
- But, we are only 2% out of the population in Jordan. We're very, very like few. (upbeat music)
Wow! I want this every day. (group chuckle)
I'm sorry, guys. I did it. It was kind of, I felt bad because they're all nice because I know I'm a liar
and they're all super sweet. - You know, I'm not as knowledgeable and I have tattoos, you know, I don't follow necessarily the guidelines. I'm not strict with it. You know, I just know that
it's a personal relationship. - We all have our own
like ways we practice and we understand that just because somebody practices
it a little bit less or a little bit more,
doesn't make them any more of a Muslim than the other person. - Hi, my name is Ragini Bhasin and I directed this
episode of "Odd Man Out". And if you'd like to play
along in the next episode, you can go to our Instagram page and vote for who you think the mole is. Until next time. - There's one myth that I don't, it didn't come from my teacher, it came from a lot of seventh
graders for some reason. And they're like, "Oh,
people get in trouble for kissing in the halls." I'm like, "Geez." - I am a middle schooler. - I'm a middle schooler. - I am a middle schooler. - I'm a middle schooler. - I'm a middle schooler. - I am a middle schooler. - I'm a middle schooler. - [Narrator 2] One is a fifth grader. (upbeat music fades out)
I guessed it, lol. The amulet, like the Pakistani girl said, was a dead giveaway.
Really enjoyed it!