A few seats away, tattooed and pierced, sits Shadia, Suehaila's sister. She likes tailgating at country music concerts and calls herself "a hillbilly at heart."
"I have an extremely strong relationship with God," she says. "My looks may not convey that. But that doesn't change what's in my heart."
A portion of the cast has been on a quick-march promotional tour in New York. Sitting next to her husband, Jeff McDermott, who converted from Catholicism to Islam to marry her, Shadia is unwinding after appearances on Today and Anderson.
"I wore a scarf for 13 years," she says. "I took it off because if I'm going to represent my religion, I want people to get the right image."
The portrait of Muslim Americans depicted on the show is a purposefully diverse one, from the strictly observant to the seamlessly assimilated.
The gratifying part of All-American Muslim is that no matter where on the religious spectrum these families fall, as soon as the cameras go inside their living rooms, they quickly feel like neighbors.
"All-American Muslim is a much needed counter-narrative to negative images of Muslims that seem to saturate the news," says Rugiatu Conteh, outreach and communications director for the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The religion could certainly use an image upgrade. A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center indicates that 24 percent of the general public believes American Muslim support for Islamic extremism is on the rise.
Only 4 percent of American Muslims agree.
Ready or not, Americans will have to learn to accommodate this growing sect.
