I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.