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Well, my mother's Jewish.
I was raised Jewish.
My dad never told me anything about the religion.
But then I found the Koran in the house when I was 15.
And I'm like, oh, I guess so.
Are you a Muslim, Dad?
And he said, yeah.
Yes.
They're not together anymore.
But they separated when I was 25.
Yeah, like 30.
Well, you know, the Soviet Union, it wasn't very a religious state, you know, so religion didn't play a factor back then.
You were just all communist, I guess.
I suppose so.
I mean, I'm happy with it, you know, because it gives me an open-minded perspective on faith, you know, whether it's Christianity or anything, and that's it.
You know, I mean, my sister, I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it anyway because it bothered me.
My sister's like, don't say you're half Muslim because, you know, because she's an Orthodox Jewish.
And the people in her area, you know, Muslim is like a terrorist.
I'm like, I don't give a shit what they think.
You know what I'm saying?