re: Omer Asik "wins" the Shawn Bradley Award

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Also, you "found out"?

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Yeah. I googled it b/c I was curious about Turkey - assumed that most were Muslim but didn't realize it was 97%. I was thinking "well, he has a hot GF and he seems European / Americanized, surely he's not a practicing Muslim" but then I saw this...

I met Omer Asik last night

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Omer Asik goes to the same mosque that I go to. I saw him a month ago and haven't seen him since. He gave me the "I speak no english" bit until he realized I was Muslim. He opened up to me and we chatted about religious stuff. He basically misses all of the Friday prayers because of practice or road trips.

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i am! i ran into him at the masjid over a month ago. he's freakishly tall so he stands out. i had just interviewed him a few weeks before. he did not remember me. he was polite at the time. he was with a bunch of little guys. i know everyone is little next to him but they all looked like they were 5 feet tall. young guys.

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Then later in that same thread the Muslim fanbois start to get in an argument b/c one is shia and one is sunni and they talked about not revealing the mosque that Omer goes to incase the other dude is crazy and has a bomb