Haitham al-Haddad – UK Riots – Answers Your Questions Empowered #23

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The conversation discusses the challenges faced by the Muslim community in government, including the need for empowerment and peace and security. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding ways to eliminate or eliminate policies that are too close to Islam and finding ways to eliminate or eliminate policies that are too close to Islam. They also emphasize the need for transparency and engagement in publicity, community, and leadership, while avoiding victimization and not showing weakness. The importance of strong community, engagement, and transparency is emphasized.

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			We need to be honest, because really, what
		
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			light is very embarrassing. You know, some of
		
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			the messages I received, do white British people
		
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			behave like this all the time? I this
		
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			is a message to our imams and our
		
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			leaders. We should always display that we are
		
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			strong.
		
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			Even if someone were to interpret those verses
		
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			like this, we say, look at the overall
		
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			message of the Quran. The overall message of
		
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			the Quran is a message of empowerment.
		
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			It is a message of strength. White people
		
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			are not like this.
		
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			Let us not think of the We've got,
		
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			you know, these riots, these lootings, shops
		
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			being smashed. We've got these riots, these lootings,
		
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			shops being smashed.
		
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			How do you read the situation?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I am sure that you are referring to
		
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			the recent riots that
		
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			we are witnessing
		
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			Muharram,
		
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			by the way,
		
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			and beginning of Safar 1446.
		
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			To be honest with you, it, for so
		
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			many people,
		
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			it was a shock for so many, and
		
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			for some others, it was
		
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			expected.
		
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			Now,
		
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			we can
		
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			combine between both. Why it was a shock?
		
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			Because so many people, especially people from abroad,
		
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			they contacted me, and they were at a
		
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			shock,
		
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			for what they have seen,
		
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			you know, looting the stores and
		
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			behaving in a very,
		
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			savage way,
		
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			barbaric way,
		
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			as if they were coming from,
		
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			jungle
		
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			or jungles and
		
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			behaving in this way. And
		
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			the the many people were asking,
		
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			do
		
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			white British people behave like this
		
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			all the time?
		
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			Because, remember, when media
		
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			is presenting certain,
		
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			you know, images, video clips
		
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			about something that is happening in a country,
		
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			people think that this is happening everywhere in
		
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			every single corner of the country. That is
		
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			the
		
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			the
		
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			natural natural
		
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			perception and reaction.
		
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			So I was telling people, no,
		
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			this is not the case.
		
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			These riots are taking place in
		
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			certain
		
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			places. They are not everywhere.
		
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			White people are not like this.
		
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			Non Muslims are not like this. We have
		
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			seen so many,
		
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			although I don't like to use this term,
		
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			white indigenous
		
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			people
		
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			marching, supporting
		
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			our causes as Muslims. In fact, there were
		
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			reports
		
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			of so many white people who are
		
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			defending the mosques,
		
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			yeah,
		
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			these days, during these riots.
		
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			And someone told me that some of them
		
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			even were making
		
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			some money to fix, you know, the shops
		
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			and and
		
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			the mosques. So
		
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			this doesn't give
		
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			a correct
		
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			accurate image about the white non Muslim
		
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			community.
		
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			Now from the other side, was this expected?
		
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			If someone were to analyze the situation
		
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			carefully,
		
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			he would expect something
		
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			like this to take place. Why? How? Yes.
		
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			How is that? If you look at
		
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			the media rhetoric and
		
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			key politicians'
		
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			language
		
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			that has been used. In fact, to be
		
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			honest with you, the whole atmosphere,
		
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			since
		
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			the the war on terror. Yeah. Yeah. The
		
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			2000 Muslims using Muslims as a political football.
		
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			Exactly.
		
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			And, you know, stereotyping,
		
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			okay, of Muslims,
		
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			accusations of Muslims. And even even, you know,
		
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			when they talk about,
		
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			for example,
		
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			the the the
		
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			quote, unquote Pakistani
		
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			Muslim gang
		
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			that was grooming girls in Bradford,
		
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			etcetera. They were focusing on their what their
		
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			ethnic background.
		
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			They were focusing on their religious or Islamic
		
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			identity, Pakistanis
		
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			or Muslims
		
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			who are, you know, forming these,
		
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			these gangs to groom our girls, etcetera.
		
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			So this language
		
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			by some politicians
		
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			and as well
		
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			by,
		
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			many media outlets. Yeah. This language
		
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			charged
		
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			some people.
		
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			Yeah?
		
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			And add to this the social political
		
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			situation and maybe the deprivation
		
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			of certain segments of the wider society
		
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			and maybe other elements such as the educational
		
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			system
		
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			that might not help
		
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			in, in
		
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			in in,
		
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			fostering
		
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			a culture of tolerance, a true culture of
		
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			tolerance.
		
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			Yeah, and accepting
		
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			others,
		
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			etcetera. So there were number of factors that
		
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			contributed
		
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			in building
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			This,
		
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			this attitude. Some of them are not saying
		
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			this attitude and charging people,
		
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			and people were waiting for something to ignite,
		
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			their,
		
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			this reaction.
		
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			And this
		
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			is exactly what has happened.
		
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			It's like some of those these are ancient.
		
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			There's an author called Jonathan Lyons. He's written
		
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			a book called Islam Through Western Eyes, something
		
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			like this, and he charts the same discourse,
		
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			the same kind of recurring motifs
		
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			from the Crusades all the way to the
		
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			war on terror.
		
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			You know, that this is almost, as though,
		
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			you know, many people have written that
		
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			when when Western Europe came to start to
		
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			define itself, it was in contradiction to Islam.
		
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			Yeah. To using Islam as the other to
		
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			define itself. Yeah. And there are certain recurring
		
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			things like the invaders, the the taking over,
		
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			the taking of women, this kind of stuff.
		
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			And it's it's repeated throughout history. And in
		
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			in recent history, like you were the Trojan
		
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			hoax Yeah. Kind of scandal Yeah. You know,
		
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			falsified documents and and just Yeah. People like,
		
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			Michael Gove kind of
		
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			piggybacking and hijacking these these kind of touch
		
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			points
		
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			that are already kind of latent in the
		
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			imagination. Yes. Yes. And just kind of using
		
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			them as a as a quick kind of
		
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			political football for Yeah. Or whatever thing. I
		
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			mean, I mean, because lots of people
		
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			are disillusioned. They have rubbish lives. They have
		
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			no meaning in their life. They have, you
		
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			know, even financially financial issues or communal issues,
		
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			family breakdown, and stuff like that. Yeah. And
		
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			here you have politicians
		
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			Yeah. For
		
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			years, instead of doing something about it or
		
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			actually coming clean, like, you know what? These
		
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			are political decisions we made, austerity Yeah. Liberalism,
		
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			neoliberalism, whatever. They'll just say, oh, actually, it's
		
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			the it's the it's the immigrants' fault. It's
		
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			the Muslims' fault. It's the Yeah. Those are
		
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			your Actually, Yani, if I may summarize what
		
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			you have mentioned, because this is quite important
		
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			and deep. Two points you mentioned.
		
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			The first point, which is, you know,
		
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			which is an identity
		
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			crisis.
		
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			Mhmm. Yeah? And
		
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			this crisis is manifested when you, as you
		
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			said, in,
		
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			and, you summarize the book of Jonathan
		
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			that when you
		
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			identify
		
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			yourself,
		
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			yeah, in comparison to others Mhmm. Whether it
		
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			is a positive comparison or negative comparison, it
		
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			means that
		
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			your existence
		
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			is,
		
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			dependent on others, positivity or negativity. This is
		
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			an identity
		
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			crisis,
		
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			and this is what we have been saying
		
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			that
		
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			Europe is
		
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			suffering from this identity crisis for a long
		
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			time.
		
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			What is Europe? And that's why when we
		
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			say European Muslims, is it geography that is
		
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			identifying
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			or is it history,
		
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			or is it religion? Is it culture?
		
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			Religion? Of course, it is not because
		
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			there is now a shift to transformation.
		
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			I remember the Czech Republic, I think, a
		
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			few years ago, they identified themselves as,
		
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			as a non Christian country. They used to
		
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			identify themselves as Christian country, but with the
		
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			rise of atheism, etcetera. So they they removed
		
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			that from their constitution.
		
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			Something like this. This is according to some
		
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			brothers from them. So is it religion that
		
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			identifies Europe? Is it what is it? A
		
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			culture? Is it Europe? Is it white, a
		
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			white continent?
		
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			No. So when you have this crisis, you
		
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			start
		
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			attacking others to what? To build an identity
		
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			for yourself, which means that you are unable
		
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			to
		
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			have your own
		
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			identity with your, you know, own ideology. And
		
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			this is a a big crisis
		
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			Europe is facing. This is one thing.
		
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			The the the second thing is
		
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			when you start,
		
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			you know,
		
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			labeling others and attacking others, yeah, in order
		
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			to claim,
		
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			exclusively,
		
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			goodness
		
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			to yourself.
		
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			This is again
		
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			a problem because it means that you are
		
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			unable
		
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			to
		
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			coexist
		
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			with others in a in a peaceful way,
		
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			not just only in a peaceful way, in
		
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			a fruitful way that will benefit
		
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			the the society at large.
		
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			So the
		
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			the, and that's why even when multiculturalism
		
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			was attacked,
		
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			there was no alternative.
		
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			Yeah. In fact, you know, when they were
		
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			attacking multiculturalism,
		
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			they are telling
		
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			people like the far right, those who are
		
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			committing this, you know, the the making these
		
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			riots and committing these crimes that,
		
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			see,
		
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			you have to force others
		
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			to be
		
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			the way you want
		
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			to be like you. And this leads me
		
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			to another crucial point,
		
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			which is, you know, in any society,
		
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			if there is
		
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			polarization,
		
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			yeah, that,
		
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			that will be, that paves the way to
		
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			the destruction of the society.
		
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			Yeah. Because
		
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			hegemony
		
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			and,
		
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			and and and,
		
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			fruitful
		
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			coexistence
		
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			despite
		
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			diversity
		
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			cannot
		
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			exist.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			There will be polarization,
		
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			us
		
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			versus others,
		
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			the others. Mhmm. And that
		
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			will be like,
		
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			the fuel
		
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			that will
		
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			provide
		
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			sectarianism,
		
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			racism Yeah.
		
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			Civil by powers. Exactly. Civil
		
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			disruption,
		
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			and it might lead actually
		
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			to civil wars. If you look at civil
		
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			wars with the in Arab countries, in Lebanon,
		
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			long time ago in in the eighties or
		
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			before the eighties, or some other civil wars
		
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			in some other,
		
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			African countries,
		
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			it was mainly
		
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			there was
		
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			a level of polarization.
		
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			And when they
		
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			the moment came for,
		
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			the exploitation
		
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			took place, then there was a civil war
		
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			between,
		
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			others,
		
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			between,
		
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			between them. Now
		
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			we have to be careful.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			And this is a message for all,
		
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			the authorities, the wise people from
		
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			all communities, including Muslims.
		
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			We need to be careful,
		
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			yeah,
		
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			not to this not to allow this polarization
		
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			to take place in our country,
		
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			because it will destroy us all. It will
		
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			not destroy just
		
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			a particular segment from,
		
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			of the society.
		
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			And we should
		
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			the government in particular,
		
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			the people in authority and empowered, the decision
		
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			makers,
		
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			they should find a formula
		
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			to use this diversity
		
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			in favor
		
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			of the flourishment of other country, not to
		
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			exploit
		
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			on this
		
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			diversity.
		
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			Otherwise,
		
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			the country
		
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			wouldn't suffer. But, I mean, unfortunately,
		
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			divide and rule
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Yeah. You know, the
		
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			divide and conquer. And these are, like, staples
		
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			of power. Yeah. Yeah. And at the time,
		
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			something about the genius of of Islam, the
		
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			sharia, I've noticed,
		
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			was that,
		
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			you know,
		
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			normally,
		
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			powerful
		
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			rulers or whatever, they want to separate people.
		
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			Yeah. But the the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, when he entered Medina, the first thing
		
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			he said is the first address. The part
		
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			of it was Yes. Afshul Salaam.
		
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			Are you Hanat?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Exactly.
		
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			Join the ties of kinship of your tribe,
		
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			of your family, extended family. Yes. This is
		
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			like the opposite of what
		
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			emperors and even modern states try to do.
		
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			They try to fragment society. Yes. They try
		
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			to atomize. Yes. Hannah Arend, the political theorist
		
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			family, she said
		
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			atomization is a precursor for totalitarianism.
		
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			Yes. You break up the bonds within the
		
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			thing. But the prophet is
		
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			going out of his way Yep.
		
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			To
		
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			say, no. Build those things. Almost as though
		
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			you're building something that's gonna be a potential
		
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			threat to the ruler himself. Power up to
		
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			the power. Yeah. He's saying he knows
		
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			that I might be the the just ruler
		
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			today, but you need to build your society
		
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			from the ground up so that tomorrow in
		
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			a 100 is a 1000 years, someone who's
		
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			not
		
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			so merciful
		
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			might be in charge, then what you're gonna
		
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			do? You you won't have your
		
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			You you know this hadith is so deep.
		
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			Mhmm. Okay. Maybe No. You wrote a paper.
		
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			Yeah. I wrote a paper about it. It
		
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			is so deep. Even the first statement, Apsu
		
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			Salam. Apsu Salam spread salaam
		
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			for everyone.
		
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			Okay? For everyone. So this The basic need
		
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			of, exactly. Which is peace. Not only just
		
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			peace.
		
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			Yeah. Because this is you know, when they
		
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			talk about Abraham Maslow in 1960 something, when
		
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			he came up with the hierarchy of needs
		
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			and everywhere was celebrating that, we came up
		
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			with
		
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			the true hierarchy of needs,
		
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			more than 1,400
		
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			years ago, and, and which is, first of
		
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			all, peace,
		
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			security within the society. But the prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam
		
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			added
		
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			one more dimension, which is what? Which is,
		
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			not only peace, but also
		
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			knowing each other. Because the salaam, spreading salaam
		
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			helps each other
		
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			helps
		
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			ourselves to know each others. Okay? Yeah. And
		
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			along with
		
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			means feed.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Feed. Provide food for everyone.
		
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			Yeah. This also builds
		
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			a very strong
		
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			society, not just community, but society. Because the
		
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			prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			and he knows that the people in Medina
		
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			Medina is a multi faith, multicultural
		
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			society multicultural society at that time. So the
		
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			prophet want
		
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			or wanted
		
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			everyone to practice this, Muslims,
		
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			Jewish people,
		
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			Christians, and there were atheists as well in
		
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			in in, in Medina. So, this is this
		
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			is so significant, and that's why we, Muslims,
		
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			we need to
		
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			find a way. Maybe there are
		
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			some elements within the government decision makers,
		
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			the authority.
		
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			They are in favor of divide and rule.
		
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			We, as Muslims, are facing this bigger challenge
		
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			not to allow this to be a policy
		
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			that governs our country.
		
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			We should find
		
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			and think out of the box of finding
		
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			some ways
		
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			to to stop this or to eliminate it
		
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			if it is there, yeah, and to replace
		
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			it with another formula
		
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			that is as close as to Islam. And
		
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			here, by the way, you know, I know
		
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			this is a big
		
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			it is a big challenge because,
		
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			you know, fighting racism,
		
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			you know, and the, you know, the problem
		
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			of minorities in any country is a big
		
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			problem. And in social politics, they consider this
		
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			as one of the big challenges that is
		
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			facing any any system,
		
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			minorities, and how to deal with minor minorities.
		
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			Because minorities, by nature, they like to be
		
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			clustered. They like to, you know, be insular
		
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			to a certain degree in order to protect
		
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			themselves.
		
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			Yeah. And this is an example. You know,
		
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			these riots,
		
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			okay, we we don't want to go through
		
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			the conspiracy
		
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			road
		
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			by saying that they want to be they
		
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			want us to be ancillary. They want us
		
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			to,
		
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			be
		
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			isolated.
		
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			I don't think so. Yeah. And even if
		
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			that was an agenda, we should not allow
		
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			this to happen.
		
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			Yeah. So what I was saying is that,
		
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			the treating minorities
		
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			in any society is a challenge for the
		
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			society, for the system.
		
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			And
		
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			most countries, you know, when they talk about
		
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			secularism, secularism
		
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			in many countries failed in India, which is
		
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			the big secular slash democratic
		
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			country failed miserably in many situations and many
		
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			other.
		
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			And in America even, you know, sometimes
		
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			we see looting and we see riots. Here
		
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			in Britain, we see segments of the society
		
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			are doing that. Yeah. So,
		
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			the absence of the Islamic
		
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			system, the absence
		
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			of the Islamic even spirit Or ethos. Or
		
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			ethos,
		
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			yeah, or adopting some Islamic solutions,
		
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			is not there. The adaptation of Islamic solutions,
		
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			is not there. So that's why we, as
		
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			Muslims, should expect this to happen. And this
		
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			is my other point, that we as Muslims
		
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			should expect this to happen,
		
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			regularly,
		
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			frequently,
		
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			and we should,
		
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			put we should really think about solutions
		
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			for dealing with this problem. No. And at
		
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			the end of the the the during the
		
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			election time, I was thinking, you know,
		
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			maybe this hadith, hadith of salam Yeah. Could
		
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			be, like, the the the basis for, a
		
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			political theory for Muslims in in the in
		
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			the west. It it is. It is. It
		
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			is. It is. Yeah. It is it is
		
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			a foundation of our political philosophy.
		
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			What do what do we want
		
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			for ourselves, for society? Because also people because
		
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			of the
		
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			the the lens of suspicion,
		
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			the,
		
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			the problem at the pathologization
		
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			of the Muslim mind with things like prevent
		
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			and counterterrorism and extremism and
		
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			Islamophobia and racism and stuff. Yeah. There's lots
		
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			of people who are kind of uneasy about
		
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			Muslims. What do they want? Yeah. They're growing.
		
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			They have so many kids there. The Muslim
		
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			vote campaign, all this fear mongering and stuff
		
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			Yeah. Which obviously, it it feeds into these
		
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			the the the these eruptions of violence. I
		
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			agree. So that could be one of the
		
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			things that we say, hey, we present here.
		
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			Here is our
		
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			manifestos,
		
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			so to speak. This is what we want.
		
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			We want
		
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			security, safety,
		
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			economic prosperity
		
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			across For everyone. People. For everyone.
		
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			We want to,
		
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			you know,
		
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			join ties of kinship Yeah. Join ties
		
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			of community Yeah. And provide a space for
		
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			Yeah. For and for. Exactly. This is this
		
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			is actually these are the elements,
		
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			on which,
		
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			the Islamic
		
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			civilization
		
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			is built on.
		
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			These are the main requirements for, quote unquote,
		
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			Islamic state. Yeah. And by the way, I
		
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			mentioned, anyway, we don't want to be, you
		
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			know, that rest here. I mentioned that the
		
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			brothers, you know,
		
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			you know, the young brothers when we're they
		
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			were chanting, Sharia, Sharia, Sharia. I said to
		
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			them, brothers, you need to understand what does
		
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			Sharia mean. Look at the hadith of the
		
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			prophet
		
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			and what were the first requirements,
		
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			his manifesto to establish
		
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			the first Islamic state of Medina. He did
		
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			not say, and I
		
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			I will apply
		
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			the hudood and, you know, the the prohibition
		
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			of reba, etcetera,
		
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			just from the beginning
		
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			because
		
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			Sharia is wider than this. This is actually
		
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			Sharia. Yeah? And these elements, we are not
		
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			denying them that they are part of Sharia,
		
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			but they are maybe a small segment of
		
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			Sharia, and they have their own place. Anyway
		
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			but back to,
		
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			you know, what
		
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			you are saying. I would like also to,
		
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			you know,
		
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			present or forward an advice for the Muslim
		
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			community.
		
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			Never ever, even if we are targeted,
		
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			don't feel victimized.
		
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			Yeah. Don't feel victimized.
		
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			If you live with this mentality that you
		
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			are
		
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			victims,
		
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			you are targeted,
		
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			you are weak, you are
		
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			a minority,
		
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			etcetera,
		
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			you will never flourish.
		
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			And look That goes to one of the
		
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			questions that came in. We were we were
		
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			asking for one of the questions that you
		
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			wanna put to Sheikh Islam the Masha'ik about
		
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			what's happening. Yeah. And one is, should we
		
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			hide our Muslimness in public? Should we stay
		
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			at home? Should we Yeah. Yeah. We should
		
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			do not,
		
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			you know, under any circumstance, behave like this.
		
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			Maybe
		
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			individual cases maybe can have different rulings,
		
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			okay, but that should not be As a
		
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			general policy. Exactly. Yeah. That should not be
		
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			the rule
		
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			or the norm.
		
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			And look, even Muslims when they were prosecuted
		
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			in Mecca, they did not behave like this.
		
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			Even when
		
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			Khabab, Ibn al Arab came to the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam, the very famous hadith in
		
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			Sayyid Abu Khali, and he said, yeah, Rasulullah,
		
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			look at what they are doing to us.
		
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			You know, they are prosecuting us. They are
		
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			torturing us, etcetera, etcetera. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam
		
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			did
		
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			not sympathize
		
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			with the companions
		
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			despite,
		
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			you know, he knows that,
		
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			Somalia was killed and
		
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			Khabab al Munawla Arak is tortured, and he
		
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			witnessed,
		
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			Bilal when he was tortured. He tried to
		
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			defend them of solutions,
		
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			but he did not use this as a
		
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			basis
		
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			for the mindset or building the mindset of
		
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			the Muslim community.
		
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			In fact, the prophet
		
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			showed them the vision
		
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			that Gave them a victorious
		
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			Mindset.
		
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			Mindset.
		
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			Yeah. Victorious narrative that will build the right
		
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			9
		
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			mindset. And that's why the Quran
		
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			yeah. The Quran never
		
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			spoke about Muslims
		
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			when they are in a situation
		
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			of
		
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			weakness
		
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			in a way to accept that.
		
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			The the Quran doesn't want,
		
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			Muslims to accept that they are a minority
		
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			and weak.
		
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			That's why So it does does mention stories
		
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			of minorities of Muslims that were killed or
		
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			tortured. No? Yeah.
		
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			Those who cannot, they don't have any other
		
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			evidence. Or like the the people of the
		
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			the ditch
		
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			or.
		
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			Yeah. But
		
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			but yeah. So the way the Quran spoke
		
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			about them is not that the, Quran accepting
		
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			their weaknesses, and they have to live with
		
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			it.
		
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			Live. Okay. This is my point. To live
		
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			as a minority, to live as a a
		
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			subjugated
		
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			community. The Quran never accepted that. Yeah. In
		
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			fact,
		
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			even if someone were to interpret
		
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			those verses like this, we say look at
		
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			the overall message of the Quran.
		
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			The overall message of the Quran is a
		
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			message of empowerment.
		
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			It is a message of strength.
		
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			Don't be saddened. Don't show weaknesses
		
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			because you are superior as far as you
		
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			are Muslim.
		
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			And
		
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			my point here, the Muslim community and the
		
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			imams
		
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			should make sure that this is the message
		
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			that we have.
		
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			This leads me to another point, which is,
		
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			you know, just because of time. You know?
		
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			We should always display that we are strong.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			However, we need to
		
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			act in a civilized way.
		
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			So there is now we need to maintain
		
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			that balance.
		
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			We are strong. We are not coward. We
		
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			are not subjugated. We don't accept to be
		
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			subjugated.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			On
		
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			the mean in the in the mean in
		
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			the meantime,
		
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			we
		
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			are
		
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			behaving in a civilized way.
		
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			We don't want to break the law because
		
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			breaking the law has many consequences.
		
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			You know, in the riots during the Bradford
		
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			riots and in 2001,
		
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			2, 3,
		
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			many brothers, innocent brothers, they were done for
		
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			10, 15 years in prison.
		
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			Yeah, which is which was a disaster. This
		
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			is this is a disaster, but the other
		
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			thing is we are so keen to maintain
		
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			peace in any society
		
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			we live in, in any country we live
		
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			in. Yeah? Because this is just the basic
		
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			requirement, as we said, for all human beings.
		
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			So we should strike that balance.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			And we say to our brothers, masha'Allah, those
		
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			who came to defend themselves and displaying kind
		
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			of strength,
		
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			do it, but in a civilized way. And
		
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			don't do it
		
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			in a way that people will,
		
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			use this to label you as savage people,
		
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			barbaric people, and maybe,
		
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			like some newspapers,
		
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			they put some of the images of those
		
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			brothers when they were wearing mask and chanting
		
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			Allahu Akbar with some of the ISIS images.
		
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			Yeah. We don't want this false association. We
		
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			don't want the word Allahu Akbar to be
		
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			misused
		
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			and to be a slogan for
		
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			for So that was another one of the
		
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			questions came in. Should Muslims defend themselves
		
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			and their communities and So, yeah. What's your
		
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			advice? First of all, we need, as I
		
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			said, we need to display strength and power
		
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			and resilience, and we are not coward.
		
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			We need to be smart how to display
		
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			this.
		
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			And in the meantime, we need to show
		
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			our
		
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			superiority
		
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			in akhlaq.
		
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			Yeah. This is so important that we are,
		
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			okay, ethical people. We behave in a very
		
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			civilized way. This is stereotyping about Muslims,
		
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			the negative stereotyping
		
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			about Muslims, that they behave in this reckless
		
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			way, etcetera etcetera.
		
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			We should,
		
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			replace it with the opposite
		
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			image, which is the true image. Now in
		
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			some circumstances,
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			when they were, if they are attacked, they
		
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			should defend themselves, and I think the law
		
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			even allows
		
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			this. But they, again, they should be smart
		
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			the way they defend themselves.
		
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			And
		
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			I want to add one point, which is,
		
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			let us
		
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			not
		
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			think
		
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			of,
		
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			the defensive mode all the time.
		
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			Okay. Let us come
		
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			with initiatives.
		
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			Yeah. That,
		
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			that do not put us in the defensive
		
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			box.
		
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			Initiatives
		
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			maybe in engaging with so many of those
		
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			people. Yeah.
		
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			The the far right or other people,
		
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			Because remember,
		
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			some of them, they are sincere. They want
		
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			to defend them, their children, and they were
		
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			maybe brainwashed by some media outlet, social media,
		
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			wrong,
		
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			you know, wrong information, etcetera.
		
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			So we need to be to engage
		
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			with them, and,
		
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			you know, engaging
		
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			with them in this
		
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			shows,
		
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			bravery,
		
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			shows
		
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			confidence.
		
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			Yeah? And, it in fact, it empowers us.
		
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			And that's why we need to change the
		
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			a bit of,
		
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			strength and confidence to do, though, because otherwise,
		
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			people will see that. And if they don't
		
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			have that that comfort in their skin as
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			they will feel why why are you, you
		
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			know, letting them
		
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			to the masjid? Why are you selling out?
		
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			Why are you, you know, inviting them in?
		
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			And they'll feel like, you know, you've taken
		
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			a weak position. Yeah. I I agree. That's
		
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			why we need to do it in a
		
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			clever way not to be seen like
		
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			this, either by Muslims or non Muslims. Mhmm.
		
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			Yep. Mhmm. Yeah. So what what else is
		
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			your advice to the the Muslim community then?
		
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			Yeah. So so we need,
		
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			to defend themselves. Defending themselves within the law.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Don't don't hide your Muslimness. Don't be less
		
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			visible as Muslim apart from, obviously, if there's
		
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			a specific case here there. Yeah. Generally speaking
		
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			as a policy Yeah. Don't try and don't
		
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			be less visible to try and Exactly. Try
		
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			and use this opportunity to give.
		
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			Mhmm. Yeah? To the wider society by our
		
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			behavior, by your behavior as a Muslim that
		
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			you are not
		
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			acting in this reckless,
		
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			you know,
		
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			savage way.
		
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			Yeah. So use this opportunity
		
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			to give dawah. And maybe
		
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			maybe in some other areas, Muslims can
		
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			display
		
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			themselves,
		
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			okay, in a civilized way, and maybe they
		
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			can,
		
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			help the situation.
		
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			And that's why I always say that wherever
		
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			whenever or wherever we reside as Muslims,
		
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			we should provide some activities for the whole
		
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			society.
		
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			From, you know, I was talking to a
		
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			brother
		
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			just today after Fajr about the cleanliness of
		
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			our area, that we need to do something
		
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			to clean
		
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			our area and to provide some other services.
		
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			We need to come out.
		
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			We should not
		
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			live in a comfort zone or a bubble.
		
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			That
		
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			is not conducive for our flourishment
		
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			as,
		
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			as a Muslim community. Hashem, all of these
		
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			things, don't they
		
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			require
		
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			Muslims to be
		
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			more organized and have some strategic direction from
		
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			imagine a young person listening.
		
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			He wants to be he wants to defend
		
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			his community. He wants to defend his street,
		
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			whatever. Yeah. Some far right thugs or whatever
		
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			are burning down a library or Yeah. A
		
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			police station. He wants to do something. Yeah.
		
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			But
		
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			where are the Muslim leaders giving authority? This
		
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			is true. This is true. So that's why
		
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			this is a message to our imams and
		
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			our leaders to maybe
		
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			use this content, and I know that some
		
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			other,
		
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			some other statements were produced
		
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			by, you know, different imams and and different,
		
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			you know, groups of imams and organizations.
		
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			And although
		
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			many of them, they did not focus on
		
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			the proactive
		
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			measures. They
		
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			focused on very active measures. Okay. But let
		
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			us focus on the proactive measures. And
		
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			as imams, we should give our community
		
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			some ideas
		
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			of what they can
		
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			do. Yeah. Instead of focusing
		
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			the the language in,
		
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			I prayed in 2 mosques or 3 mosques.
		
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			The language that has been fostered
		
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			so far is, okay, sisters, be vigilant.
		
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			Okay. Scaremongering.
		
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			Mhmm. You know, messages.
		
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			Sisters. Okay? And lots of people are sending
		
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			around messages. Be careful of the this area,
		
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			that area. They're coming here. They're coming here.
		
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			We we we I I don't think we
		
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			should, you know,
		
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			circulate those messages. I'm going for a walk
		
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			the other day, and my wife was saying,
		
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			you know, take my take your son with
		
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			you, take your son, you know. So he
		
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			has few people. Yeah. I was like, what
		
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			are you talking about? I'm just going to
		
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			a park. She's like, no. No. Take care
		
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			of them.
		
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			And then I saw, like, just
		
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			like, hijabi sisters walking around pushing their push
		
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			chairs in the back. Yes. Yeah. You know?
		
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			I don't know if they didn't see the
		
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			deal. So we we should not We sometimes
		
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			we kind of all Internalize.
		
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			Internal yeah. We kind of, Yeah. Yeah. And
		
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			and and and, you know, creating
		
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			by ourselves
		
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			an an utmost
		
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			fear of fear.
		
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			We we really need to be careful about
		
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			that.
		
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			Yeah. So Muslims should come out and should
		
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			use this opportunity
		
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			to give dawah.
		
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			They
		
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			should which is a key point, which we
		
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			should use this opportunity
		
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			to present some intellectual
		
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			solutions for
		
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			the problems we are facing in the UK.
		
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			Okay? Whether the the racism problem, whether the
		
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			multi multiculturalism,
		
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			issue or question
		
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			poverty,
		
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			and education,
		
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			etcetera etcetera. And
		
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			we should present that. We should also take
		
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			this as an opportunity
		
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			to say that,
		
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			look, whenever
		
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			we are,
		
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			whenever some Muslims commit a crime,
		
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			immediately we condemn.
		
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			And then you start or the government,
		
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			they start attacking our madrassas, the Islamic educational
		
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			system, the masajid,
		
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			that these are the places that foster
		
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			and that radicalize
		
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			those people. We didn't see,
		
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			I was following the news,
		
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			and there was no
		
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			as far as I have read, there was
		
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			no question of,
		
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			who radicalized
		
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			those people.
		
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			Yeah? Because the people are would that would
		
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			answer the question would be pointing at themselves.
		
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			Exactly. Yes. Okay. It is the system
		
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			or maybe elements of the system or fact
		
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			of a fractions of their system.
		
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			Who radicalized
		
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			those people? What are their we need to
		
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			be honest.
		
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			Okay. Because really, well, it is very embarrassing.
		
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			You know, some of the messages I received
		
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			from my brothers abroad and and some other
		
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			friends.
		
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			They they were, you know, sending me some
		
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			video clips,
		
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			and, well, why it's very embarrassing to say
		
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			that this is our, you know, country,
		
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			and this is our, you know, people are
		
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			doing this. Yeah? And even some of them,
		
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			they said, I was considering coming to the
		
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			UK
		
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			for a holiday. I'm not coming to that.
		
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			Look at these people. I cannot
		
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			trust. Maybe I will walk next to a
		
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			white person. I don't know how what kind
		
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			of hatred he has for me. I was
		
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			saying, no. Calm down. Calm down. We have
		
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			seen so many, you know, white indigenous, as
		
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			they say, okay, marching for Muslims, etcetera.
		
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			But it is
		
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			the the
		
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			the people in power and decision
		
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			makers,
		
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			they really need to look at this deeply,
		
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			and they need to be honest with themselves
		
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			because this is
		
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			And this will be held to account?
		
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			Yes. But I mean,
		
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			let us this held to account is one
		
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			thing, but also
		
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			they should be sincere
		
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			in analyzing the situation,
		
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			okay, and finding solutions
		
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			for, you know if they were
		
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			really worried about interested in solutions. Exactly. If
		
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			they are interested in solutions, if they have
		
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			interest for the welfare of
		
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			our country, their country, as they always say
		
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			that this is our country. Okay? So what
		
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			kind of solutions you are presenting
		
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			to preserve
		
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			the country, because even it is affecting
		
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			economy.
		
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			Imagine if these civil, you know,
		
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			riots
		
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			were to expand.
		
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			Mhmm. Yeah? Of course, this will affect
		
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			tourism because it is, you know, summer time.
		
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			Yeah. It will affect even business. People will
		
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			not be interested in doing business,
		
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			open shops, etcetera, etcetera. Mhmm. Yeah.
		
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			So,
		
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			I mean, I would like to carry on
		
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			talking, but it was just a a quick
		
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			short, you know, thing we wanted to do
		
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			to get some of the questions people have
		
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			been asking.
		
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			If they just finish this question,
		
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			if there's one thing people should remember from
		
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			this podcast, it should be
		
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			Yep.
		
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			Have to work, Al Allah. Mhmm. Yeah.
		
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			Be with Allah all the time. As a
		
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			Muslim,
		
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			display your Islam.
		
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			Take any challenge as an opportunity
		
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			for
		
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			Dahua in its wider
		
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			perspective.
		
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			Yeah. Not just a narrow perspective.
		
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			We need to be more
		
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			engaged
		
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			on different
		
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			levels.
		
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			Yeah?
		
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			And don't,
		
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			think don't accept to be
		
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			victimized.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			For joining.
		
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			To you, for watching. If you like this
		
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