Comedian Hasan Minhaj has admitted that he embellished details in his stand-up specials, saying the stories were rooted in 'emotional truth': 'The punchline is worth the fictionalized premise.'
, Minhaj told a story about a white FBI informant named Brother Eric who infiltrated his family's mosque in the Sacramento area in 2002, when he was a junior in high school. He recounted that when Brother Eric tried to get some members of the congregation to talk about jihad, he began messing with him, informing Brother Eric that he intended to get a pilot's license, which later led to police arriving on the scene and slamming Minhaj onto the hood of a car.
Minhaj conceded that his daughter was never exposed to the powder. He did, however, receive an envelope addressed to his apartment filled with a powdery substance and joked to his wife, "Holy shit. What if this was anthrax?"
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