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More traditional american way of life or is it just how theyre living their life? >> when im forced to hear your call of prayer in my house on a sunday when im reading a book, i have a problem with that because my life isnt coming four blocks into your house. >> you have the call to prayer on your phone. you want to play it for me so i can hear it? >> you want the one thats pitch black at 6:00 something in the morning? >> sure, sure, sure. >> now that the church bells are going. >> thats the iro...

Things like that. >> its so divorced from reality. theres no push toward sharia law. you know? even if it were allowable. people ask us about that all the time and hamtramckans roll their eyes. were not afraid of our muslim neighbors. >> youre painting a rosy picture. is there really -- i mean, all cities have tension. even if everybodys the same race and same religion. >> absolutely, absolutely, there are tensions. call to prayer becomes an issue occasionally. people in the summer people have t...

Life without fearing whatevers happening in the middle east. >> talk about where you are in your practice of your religion. are you all actively practicing your faith? >> yes. >> yeah. i mean, main thing, the five pillars of islam, is praying five times a day. donating to the poor. going to hajj, or going to mecca. >> its a pilgrimage. >> yeah. fasting and telling our other peers about the religion. those are the five pillars of islam. we -- >> see, thats the call of prayer. >> is that the call ...

[ chanting ]. >> hes saying, god is great, god is great. you can just stand right here. [ singing ♪ ♪ [ singing ]. >> man, islam prayer is beautiful. but its also hard on the knees. next time ill stretch before i pray. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> that was it. >> that was it? >> that was it, man.

Armed militia groups, but white supremacy is centering whiteness indeed valuing that which is not white. >> historically, white men have been the biggest terrorists in the united states of america. >> see, those are looked at as anomalies. the assumption is theyre mentally sick. every excuse in the book is made. when its muslims, we want to flip the script and reframe things. >> what makes you want to live here? of all the places you could live in this country. >> this is home and this is very c...

>> ive heard the call to prayer many times since ive been here. but i keep sending it to voice mail. today, though, im at the muslim unity center, to finally answer the call. >> well, this is our prayer room. this is where muslims come five times a day to connect to god. as you see, ill ask you to take off your shoes, because part of their prayer is prostration, so they put their foreheads on the floor. so to keep the carpet clean, we ask people to take off their shoes. especially in the winter....

Feel like were in a very solemn place. >> we have to stay really quiet. >> need to go to the library, close it down so we can have this conversation. lets talk about what were here to talk about. how was it to grow up in the muslim faith and at the same time be gay? >> to me it was scary i might be so religious and at the same time be something thats damned by god. i would say an arabic prayer and i would say, please god, do not let me be gay. it was kind of suicidal in a sense. i got depressed,...

To give you a sample, this is what we will be reciting tonight. thats the translation of it. >> the translation. for a second, i thought, oh, my god, i can read arabic. [ laughter ] its working already. >> before a formal prayer theres a traditional cleanse. you can tell im committed because i dont just wet my afro for anybody. >> this is where we come and perform an act of worship called wudu. this is a cleansing part where you are preparing to stand in the presence of god. so were going to sta...

>> ive heard the call to prayer many times since ive been here. but i keep sending it to voice mail. today, though, im at the muslim unity center, to finally answer the call. >> well, this is our prayer room. this is where muslims come five times a day to connect to god. as you see, ill ask you to take off your shoes, because part of their prayer is posteration, so they put their foreheads on the floor. so to keep the carpet clean, we ask people to take off their shoes. >> an imam is like a past...

Ask him to accept us. thats what we do. [ chanting ]. >> hes saying, god is great, god is great. you can just stand right here. [ singing ♪ [ singing ]. >> man, islam prayer is beautiful. but its also hard on the knees. next time ill stretch before i