Merriam’s texts talked about conducting effective interviews and being a careful observer. Because I had already conducted my interviews with the Islam-informative panel members, I mainly used the first text as a checklist. Before conducting my interview, I made an interview guide and kept the paper for reference. I didn’t feel too bad on missing some ‘good’ questions because I felt they weren’t relevant to my topic anyway.  For example, sensory questions don’t have much of a place when conversing and informing a questioner on religion. Some questions I felt were natural, such as interpretive questions that rephrase an answer to observe the reaction of the interviewee.  Of the three questions to avoid, multiple, leading, and yes-or-no, I fell for the first mistake of asking multiple questions. Luckily, my interviewees usually answered the first question and asked me to remind them of the rest. I realize now that I may…