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Um, I'd like to ask, how do you feeI

about women working?

After marriage, I mean.

To be honest, it's better

for women to stay at home.

So you believe that women are born

to raise children and to be wives,

but not to find their own work?

Salwah, what Sabir tried to say here,

to have a strong family

is very important for a mother...

Okay, okay, let me ask Sabir directly,

if I may.

If we were to be married,

would you expect me

to give up my salon and quit nursing?

I don't think it will be an issue.

I'd prefer to stay in Egypt.

I don't think America

is a good place to raise a family.

Excuse me, please.

Salwah, it is always hard at first.

You guys just met.

Oh.

So I should wait and move back

to Egypt when it's less hard.

He will change his mind

when he gets to know you.

I don't know how to say this,

but you're almost 30.

That's nice. That's very nice.

Just let me finish.

You are a Muslim woman

living in America.

So I don't have a lot of options, you mean?

Because I am a Muslim,

I have to marry a Muslim?

That's not for you to decide.

I want you to have your own kids,

your own home.

- I want you to be happy.

- You want me to be happy

or this will make you happy?

This is what our father always wanted.

Listen, get to know him.

Just give him a chance.

You heard how he referred

to me at the cafe today?

"I have business with Mustafa. "

That's how he thinks of me, business.

In Los Angeles,

Homeland Security officials

have made severaI arrests

in connection with the recent terror threat

that has raised the alert leveI to code red

No names have been released,

but one officiaI said

that more arrests were forthcoming

and that, quote,

"A far larger Islamist network has been

uncovered than originally suspected "

I can't believe this sh*t, M.

What's wrong with you, Murad?

Palestinian this, Palestinian that.

F*** them! I'm tired of their bullshit.

They are ruining our lives, those bastards.

And now, Arab dictators are controlling us

in the name of the Palestinian cause.

Why don't we just hand the land over

to those motherfuckers,

because they're just going to take it.

Come on, man,

you can't say that about the Palestinians.

- Why not?

- 'Cause it's unfair.

And it's politically stupid, especially now.

They've been kicked out of Lebanon,

they've been kicked out of Jordan.

If they lost their land,

where would they go?

I'll tell you where. Florida.

Take all the Jews,

because there's a lot of them in Florida,

move them to IsraeI,

and take the Palestinians

and let them live in Florida,

or maybe Cuba.

No, I tell you what,

I have the perfect solution

to the problem in the Middle East.

All the Palestinians should convert

to Judaism and become Israeli.

He's melting.

You've gone out of your goddamn mind.

No, all the Arabs

should become Jewish, man.

That'll solve the problem once and for all.

Why would anyone want

to be Arab these days?

But to be Jewish, that's cooI, man.

You get the support of everyone.

You guys still going on about that?

Oppression's still going on,

Sephardic Sam.

Why shouldn't we be going on?

Murad, the truth is, the fact is,

you Jordanians kill more Palestinians

than anybody else.

Bullshit. Bullshit.

You know what? You bageI munchers,

you steaI their land,

you destroy their homes,

you shoot missiles from the sky

into streets full of innocent people...

You prefer to blow up buses

and airplanes full of innocent people.

- Jesus, enough.

- Murad, calm down.

- Look at him.

- Sit down.

I'm sorry.

I just came by to apologize

for walking out yesterday.

- Mustafa.

- Just sit down.

- Not now, Abdulla.

- Mustafa.

But it's this...

This inflammatory sh*t,

which I guess you watch 24 hours a day.

You're goddamn right I do.

I watch it 24 hours a day

because I like to stay informed,

accurately informed.

Misinformed.

American propaganda!

- No more TV. That's it.

- That's all I'm saying.

That's all I'm saying. No more TV.

- Does Al Jazeera have parentaI controls?

- What?

I try what you say,

but they pray inside, the Mohammed.

He's a Mohammed,

I told you, don't disturb them.

You want peace, but the ignorant

are brainwashed by the crap.

There's no peace

'cause there's no f***ing justice.

Occupation and oppression

is why there's no peace!

What kind of peace

do you get from the great Arab tradition

of sending suicide bombers

into hoteI lobbies

and coffee shops full of innocent children?

You're killing the innocent children!

Enough! Enough!

You guys want to fight? Outside!

Don't touch him. Outside!

Mustafa.

Go around them.

They don't let me in.

I told you, don't bother them.

I tried. I tried two times.

This is Habibi Cafe, man, not Hebrew Cafe.

Mohammed, what are you doing here?

It's Friday.

I thought we were meeting at the mosque.

I don't want to go to the mosque anymore.

Mustafa.

What?

Mustafa, Mohammeds won't let me in.

They pray inside and I can't get in.

Okay, have a seat. Have a seat.

Come. Give it to me.

I have to do

everything by myself.

- I tried three times. You try now.

- Okay.

Listen to this. Listen to this.

"Buy a Christmas tree from IsraeI,

where Christ was born.

"We ship to your door. "

They're selling Palestine off

piece by piece, these motherfuckers.

- Dad, are you okay?

- Yes, Mohammed. Yes, I'm okay.

What's the story about you

not going to the mosque?

I told you,

I don't want to be a Muslim anymore.

Why, Mohammed?

And Murad said we can get

a Christmas tree by maiI.

Mohammed, for God's sake!

You are Muslim. We are Muslim.

We don't celebrate Christmas.

We celebrate our own holiday.

- We celebrate Ramadan.

- But Ramadan doesn't have a tree.

And Murad said we can get one

from those motherfuckers in IsraeI.

You tell me what's happening.

Murad, what did you say

in front of my son?

Yo, chill, M. What? I'll show you.

Read for yourself, a baby Christmas tree.

Only the Jews can make money off

the Christians by stealing from the Arabs.

Stop with the Jew thing. I'm sick of it!

Mohammed, when Christmas

comes around, I'll buy you a tree.

Fikry, nobody's buying a tree

for Mohammed.

Yeah, buy it from Jerusalem for $29.99,

get it blessed by a f***ing rabbi.

That's it. Murad, outside.

Oh!

Fikry, Fikry, stay away.

I'm talking to you as a friend, Murad.

You have to stop spreading all this hatred.

And no more swearing,

especially in front of Mohammed.

I didn't swear.

You swear all the time!

You don't hear yourself?

You're too angry.

Nobody listens to you when you're angry.

You're goddamn right I'm angry.

I am swole up.

Aren't you?

Look at what's happening to our people.

That's it.

I'm warning you, if you don't stop,

I don't want to see you here.

What?

You're on their side now?

Fine. But I'm gonna

tell you something, Mustafa,

you are too accommodating.

You forget who you are.

You want to fit in maybe.

You, the Jew. The Jew, you.

You can't have it both ways.

Come on, come on.

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