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Kado Mills is a one-horse town on Route 66.

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It's got one gas station, one grocery store, six churches, and one white Muslim, David.

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Islam emphasizes a lot of the same ideals that this country was actually founded on.

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Ideals of individual rights for all people, equality under the law.

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I would say that being a Muslim has helped me to better appreciate the values on which the country was founded.

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And I think to a certain extent, the country has forgotten.

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At this point, I couldn't actually even conceive of not being Muslim.

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I think it would, it's kind of like the idea of thinking about, you know, not breathing.

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There's a lot of pressure to not convert to Islam.

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But on the other hand, there's always been an undercurrent in American popular culture

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of supporting the underdog or, you know, not going with the herd.

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There's plenty of people still in this country that are willing to say,

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well, I believe this is true and I'm going to go with that, you know,

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and if anybody doesn't like it, well, nuts to them.

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Like the other white converts, David actually thinks being Muslim makes him a better American.

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With his wife Najma and their two daughters, he's living his version of the American dream.

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But is it tough being the only Muslim family in town?

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Do people look at us? Yeah, they do.

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It's so common now that I really hardly even notice it.

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We actually get stared at by, on all sides.

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When we're in the larger non-Muslim society,

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people stare at my wife or my daughter because they're wearing the hijab

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and then they realize they're with that, hey, they're with that blonde white American guy.

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Well, what's up with that?

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So they, you know, they, after, then they're, instead of staring at them,

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they start staring at me and then they start staring at all of us.

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And it kind of goes the other way in the Muslim community, you know,

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here's this blonde white guy and, you know, well, who's he?

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He's with her.

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What's going on there?

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So we kind of get stared at from all sides.

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But most people are pretty polite about it.

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You know, they try not to stare.

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People out here, if anything, are more tolerant than the people in the city.

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The stereotype of the, you know, the southern bigot is really pretty unfair.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So have a good day.

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Thank you, too.

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And then in the back.

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In the back, yeah.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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David spent eight years serving his country in the air force.

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He's proud to be an American.

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I think in a lot of ways that Islam could save Americans from themselves.