Johari Abdul-Malik – In God We Trust United We Stand

Johari Abdul-Malik
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The speaker discusses the guidance of Islam, including affirming the word of God and setting boundaries, as well as the impact of Islam on society, including the dean's duty to hold every man to his creed. They also address accusations of bias and discrimination against Muslims, citing the success of Islam in America and the need for transparency in politics. The history and impact of Islam on American public, including pressure on the government and the use of language and police in protests against racism and bigotry, and the use of drugs and helping people to lead the fight against racism and bigotry, are also discussed. upcoming events and events like an organized Interfaith Community Engagement meeting and a community meeting are also mentioned.

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			Jumah praising Allah,
		
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			someone's cell phone is ringing.
		
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			And seeking Allah's guidance and Allah's mercy and
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			Acknowledging that
		
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			whom ever Allah has guided is guided aright.
		
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			That Allah has never failed to send
		
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			prophets, guides, and messengers
		
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			to humanity with without any
		
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			doubt throughout the millennia.
		
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			Culminating with
		
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			the last of Allah's
		
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			prophets,
		
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			Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			has sent us
		
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			this guidance
		
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			in a way
		
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			that we can be assured
		
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			that the Quran says to us.
		
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			This is the book and it is guidance.
		
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			There's no doubt in it.
		
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			For the people who have a connection
		
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			with Allah, we call it Taqwa.
		
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			And that this word
		
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			from Allah
		
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			is unchanging.
		
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			That Allah's guidance
		
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			never change.
		
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			And so for us,
		
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			we should, as believers,
		
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			in the first instance, say that whatever is
		
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			happening in the world,
		
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			know that the
		
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			word of God will never be lost from
		
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			us.
		
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			And in it,
		
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			there are injunctions and guidance. There is law
		
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			and order, justice
		
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			contained
		
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			within
		
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			this book.
		
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			And no matter what happens,
		
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			it
		
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			will never change.
		
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			This divine guidance, this divine
		
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			guidance,
		
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			we call it Arabic Sharia,
		
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			the way to the water,
		
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			the way to the sustenance, the way to
		
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			purity.
		
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			And
		
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			well, alhamdulillah,
		
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			if we were to look
		
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			through the last 14 centuries
		
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			of Islam,
		
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			under the guidance of the prophet Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you will discover.
		
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			That
		
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			what Allah has ordered
		
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			for us,
		
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			no matter
		
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			who is
		
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			the the governor,
		
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			no matter who is the rais, no matter
		
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			who is the king or the monarch,
		
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			that the obligations of a Muslim
		
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			remain the same.
		
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			They asked the prophet
		
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			give us some background. What is Islam?
		
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			He said,
		
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			It's based on 5 things.
		
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			We believe in Allah and we believe in
		
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			his messenger, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			We establish
		
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			prayer wherever we are.
		
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			Is the same.
		
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			Now many of you
		
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			I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, so
		
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			my my reality, my background is different.
		
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			But I know there was I know there's
		
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			some people here, They grew up in countries
		
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			where they had dictators.
		
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			If there's any hope for you,
		
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			people have remained Muslim under dictators.
		
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			People living under oppression
		
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			pray 5 times a day. We had a
		
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			woman here the other week.
		
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			She said, imam, I grew up in Albania
		
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			where they outlawed
		
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			practicing
		
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			Islam. There was no freedom of religion under
		
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			the communist.
		
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			We used to go in our houses
		
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			and hide
		
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			so
		
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			we could pray. Even with that,
		
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			Islam
		
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			has survived.
		
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			And so for any of us who feel
		
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			any anxiety about
		
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			the current political crisis
		
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			and the the the speech you might hear
		
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			in the public discourse,
		
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			I am completely
		
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			confident.
		
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			Not only will Islam survive,
		
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			but it will thrive.
		
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			If
		
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			we were to look
		
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			and to see one of the fundamental elements
		
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			that
		
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			have maintained this,
		
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			it is at the
		
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			heart of the
		
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			dean of Islam,
		
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			justice, law,
		
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			equality.
		
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			This
		
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			This is why in some places in the
		
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			world,
		
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			the only people who will stand up against
		
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			the dictator
		
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			are the religious people.
		
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			It was true
		
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			even in America.
		
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			I
		
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			remind you all sometime because I think you
		
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			forget.
		
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			I'm a descendant
		
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			of
		
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			enslaved Africans in this country.
		
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			My
		
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			grandparents
		
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			can talk about
		
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			when their parents were enslaved.
		
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			And they used to pick cotton and all
		
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			that all that stuff you hear about.
		
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			That's not something I I saw in a
		
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			movie.
		
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			But I can tell you in this country,
		
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			what has led as the vanguard
		
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			against
		
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			slavery and oppression
		
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			was calling people to the fundamental
		
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			elements of morality and justice.
		
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			As an American,
		
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			I can tell you something.
		
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			There is a concept
		
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			we take, I think, as Muslims for granted
		
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			to live in a country where they say
		
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			that
		
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			our nation is 1 nation
		
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			Now the reality is that in America,
		
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			that hasn't always been
		
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			how America
		
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			functioned,
		
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			but it has always been
		
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			creed of America.
		
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			Now some people might ask, well, where did
		
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			where would they get such a creed from?
		
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			I want to remind you
		
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			all that Thomas Jefferson
		
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			and James Madison
		
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			were the 2 main
		
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			authors
		
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			of the constitution of the United States.
		
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			And I know that they were influenced
		
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			by Islam.
		
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			By Islam?
		
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			How do I know?
		
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			Because
		
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			Keith Ellison,
		
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			the congressman from the 5th
		
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			congressional district in Minnesota,
		
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			took his oath of office
		
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			on the Quran of Thomas Jefferson.
		
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			And they would put into the document of
		
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			the constitution
		
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			something that no other document at that time
		
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			had.
		
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			The Magna Carta didn't have it.
		
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			If they would have looked back into the
		
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			records of the Greeks and the Romans, they
		
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			wouldn't find it.
		
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			They found something in the Quran,
		
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			in the Arabic language, Allah says,
		
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			let there be no
		
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			compulsion
		
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			in religion.
		
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			The
		
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			framers of the constitution
		
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			in America put in the law
		
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			something that you only found then in the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			That this would be a nation where people
		
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			are free to choose their religion
		
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			as the Quran described.
		
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			And by the way, if you don't believe
		
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			me, there is,
		
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			Doctor. Aziza Al Hibri.
		
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			You can find her article
		
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			in the law journal
		
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			of the University of Pennsylvania.
		
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			Because I know when you go to when
		
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			you go tell your neighbor that, they're gonna
		
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			say, what proof do you have about the
		
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			the Quran
		
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			and Islam influence on the constitution?
		
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			So you you have to send them to
		
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			the library. And
		
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			if they wanna see the Quran of Thomas
		
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			Jefferson, they can go to the Library of
		
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			Congress.
		
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			Because
		
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			even though we were here before
		
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			Columbus as Muslims,
		
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			our influence on the nature of the society
		
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			is well documented.
		
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			And I don't want it to be a
		
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			secret from you.
		
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			You should know.
		
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			Well hamdulillah,
		
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			the impact that Islam Islam and Muslims have
		
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			had on this country.
		
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			Well, I say that
		
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			you and I know right now that America
		
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			is not perfect.
		
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			It'll never be perfect.
		
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			This kind of society is a work in
		
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			progress.
		
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			The birthday of Martin Luther King.
		
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			Doctor. King
		
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			said that
		
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			America has to be held accountable
		
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			to
		
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			her creed.
		
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			That we as a people who live here,
		
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			according to the constitution,
		
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			if the government does not
		
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			provide
		
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			for us as citizens what we should receive,
		
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			then we should challenge the government
		
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			peacefully.
		
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			I forgot that's in the constitution.
		
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			Peacefully.
		
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			And that the moral
		
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			arc of the universe is long.
		
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			Maybe we'll go through something right now,
		
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			some discrimination,
		
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			but it bends toward justice.
		
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			Right here in Virginia,
		
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			it's parallel.
		
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			Right here in Virginia
		
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			in the 19 seventies, I came here to
		
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			go to college
		
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			in Virginia
		
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			that has segregated schools.
		
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			You try to you try to think about
		
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			I mean, at my age, I'm thinking the
		
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			19 seventies, I was like, you know, everything
		
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			was cool.
		
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			People
		
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			fought. And in their fighting,
		
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			marching and demonstrating,
		
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			registering people to vote,
		
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			holding their elected officials accountable,
		
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			they made America better.
		
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			Doctor King reminds us that
		
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			justice is not going to roll in on
		
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			the wings of inevitability.
		
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			People will get as much justice as they're
		
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			willing to fight for.
		
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			And
		
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			this, must should be in the forefront.
		
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			You know, I was in a in a
		
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			organizing meeting one night. I think I might
		
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			have
		
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			And
		
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			accountable. The Washington Post and others, they covered
		
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			it.
		
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			And from the pressure that came from the
		
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			community,
		
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			well, alhamdulillah,
		
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			they said, okay,
		
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			we were wrong. We backed down. We're gonna
		
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			pay 1,000,000 of dollars to help poor people
		
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			get back in their homes.
		
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			There's no change that's going to happen unless
		
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			there's some pressure.
		
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			Verily,
		
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			with difficulty
		
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			comes ease.
		
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			And so, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			for us,
		
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			I'm challenging
		
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			each and every one of us
		
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			to be part of the change.
		
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			I know
		
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			I heard a lot of crazy stuff in
		
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			the news,
		
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			but in the last few months, we've had
		
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			many of our friends.
		
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			We had the attorney general here,
		
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			highest ranking law official in Virginia, come to
		
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			affirm that Muslims have the right
		
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			to practice their religion and the government has
		
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			an obligation to protect them.
		
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			That attorney general today, he's down at the
		
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			Adam Center,
		
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			Not only saying it, but we'll hold him
		
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			accountable.
		
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			And so I'm going to invite you, subhanAllah,
		
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			to hold fast to the rope of Allah
		
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			altogether
		
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			and be not divided.
		
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			That, alhamdulillah,
		
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			if we are steadfast
		
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			in this deen,
		
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			Allah will make us successful
		
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			in this life
		
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			and in the hereafter.
		
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			You know,
		
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			I
		
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			I've been thinking lately about
		
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			how crazy
		
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			the politics in America
		
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			is.
		
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			And
		
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			as an American,
		
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			I'm not used to it. And I'm not
		
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			used to it. And I'm not used to
		
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			it. But then I talked to some
		
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			it, but then I talked to some of
		
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			my friends who are from other countries.
		
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			They said, brother, we're used to. We're used
		
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			to it.
		
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			You name the country.
		
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			We're used to it.
		
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			Right. You could pick your own country
		
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			where Muslims are the majority.
		
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			You look back 10, 20, 30, 40 years.
		
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			You say, wow.
		
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			All the kind of
		
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			strange leaders,
		
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			corrupt,
		
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			dictators,
		
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			tyrants,
		
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			people still practice in Islam.
		
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			Amazing.
		
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			Even people who lived under
		
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			communism.
		
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			So I have no doubt that
		
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			as Muslims we'll be fine.
		
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			Nothing more powerful than Allah.
		
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			And if I am on Allah's side,
		
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			I don't have anything to worry about.
		
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			You know, while we're having a little history
		
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			lesson,
		
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			when Abraham Lincoln was at Gettysburg,
		
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			they were fighting the civil war that would
		
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			ultimately end slavery in America.
		
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			Some were saying, we pray
		
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			that God is on our side.
		
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			Mhmm.
		
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			Abraham Lincoln said, we pray that we're on
		
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			God's side.
		
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			That we're on
		
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			on a lost side, we're all right.
		
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			Right now, brothers and sisters,
		
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			there's a spike in
		
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			Islam ophobia,
		
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			anti Muslim bigotry.
		
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			Colin Christopher, we've been organizing
		
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			in schools, talking to parents and children about
		
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			what our children are So
		
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			we
		
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			got
		
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			to
		
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			fix
		
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			the
		
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			public
		
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			school.
		
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			In
		
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			the
		
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			public
		
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			school,
		
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			So we gotta fix the public school. In
		
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			the public school,
		
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			children are learning from their parents and from
		
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			whatever to say something Islamophobic,
		
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			to pull the little girl's hijab at school,
		
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			to call her ISIS.
		
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			But guess
		
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			what?
		
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			My friend and rabbi Bruce Lustick in in
		
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			Washington, he said,
		
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			Imam,
		
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			I'm not gonna say the word because that's
		
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			the only thing they'll show on TV if
		
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			if I say the word. But there's a
		
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			bad word they call Jewish people.
		
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			He said Jewish children are now
		
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			being called that in the public school, like
		
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			it's
		
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			okay. Black lives matters is talking about how
		
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			the life of of African American youth, not
		
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			as valuable as the lives of others. There
		
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			seems to be a trend
		
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			where people can take
		
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			the law into their own hands.
		
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			But I'm confident, well, hamdulillah.
		
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			Many of you may not know this.
		
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			Many years ago, Doctor King
		
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			was marching
		
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			in Selma, Alabama.
		
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			And I have some of my friends from
		
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			law enforcement here. The local police department
		
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			there,
		
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			most notably a man called Bull Connor,
		
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			was abusing
		
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			black people who were demonstrating.
		
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			And
		
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			Doctor. King
		
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			put pressure on
		
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			Lyndon Johnson who was president then,
		
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			and Robert F Kennedy, the brother of John
		
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			F Kennedy,
		
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			to send federal troops
		
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			to protect
		
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			the civil rights and civil liberties
		
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			of those marchers.
		
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			And,
		
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			it
		
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			was the federal government that came in
		
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			defended the rights
		
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			of people to protest
		
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			against racism and bigotry.
		
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			In Virginia,
		
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			the Ku Klux
		
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			Klan was dismantled
		
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			by the FBI.
		
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			So now you have one group, you have
		
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			Bull Connor on one hand and the FBI
		
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			on the other.
		
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			But
		
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			the arc of justice is long, but it
		
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			been towards what's right. I
		
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			am
		
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			thoroughly
		
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			convinced
		
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			that if you and I will, hamdulillah,
		
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			do what Allah wants us to do. We're
		
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			not in America by accident.
		
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			Some of you grew up in other countries.
		
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			And I know you had friends and relatives
		
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			who wanted to come to America.
		
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			Some of them will lie. Maybe you
		
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			they they weren't they weren't they weren't smarter,
		
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			but Allah chose you
		
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			that you're here for a reason.
		
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			It's not a vacation.
		
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			And you're here and you're practicing
		
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			Islam in America,
		
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			which for some people is unthinkable.
		
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			You would come to America, they have alcohol
		
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			everywhere. They got gambling everywhere. They got,
		
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			everything is free.
		
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			You wanna do it,
		
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			but because of your commitment to the Sharia
		
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			of Allah,
		
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			you say I'm gonna follow the laws of
		
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			Allah
		
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			because I'm free to do so in America,
		
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			to pray and to fast and to to
		
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			to give my Zakat.
		
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			And I'm gonna do it.
		
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			The 32nd ayah.
		
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			They will unsuccessfully
		
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			try to extinguish the
		
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			how much they dislike it.
		
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			For you and I now,
		
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			when I see that, I know it's happening.
		
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			Tim Munoz, Allah is gonna increase his light.
		
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			It's happening. I
		
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			ask Allah to help you, alhamdulillah,
		
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			to be part of the change.
		
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			We have, meetings. I'm closing now, but
		
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			Colin Christopher is begging everybody, help us with
		
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			Virginia's Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement.
		
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			Because people are coming to us,
		
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			asking us
		
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			to help them lead the fight in America
		
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			to make it better.
		
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			We had a meeting. Fazio organized a meeting
		
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			last weekend.
		
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			Neighbors
		
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			come in different faiths. One of them now
		
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			is teaching ESL to men
		
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			how to speak English.
		
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			He came because he heard about the the,
		
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			negative
		
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			speech
		
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			about Muslims.
		
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			It's not what you think.
		
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			You you think that is when you hear
		
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			this is bad, but you know Allah's gonna
		
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			increase his light.
		
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			No carry on caffeine on.
		
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			So we ask Allah to make us among
		
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			the Sabikun.
		
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			Oh, Allah, guide us among those whom you
		
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			have guided. You Allah, protect us among those
		
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			whom you have protected.
		
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			Oh, Allah, take us as a friend as
		
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			you took Ibrahim alayhis salaam as a friend.
		
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			You Allah, we ask to
		
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			increase our iman, you Allah. Oh Allah, increase
		
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			our connection with you, subhanAllah.
		
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			Oh Allah, remove the fear from our hearts
		
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			of anything except you, you Allah. Oh Allah,
		
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			strengthen our children, you Allah. Ola, that they
		
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			would know
		
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			that they have the right to practice their
		
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			faith. We
		
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			ask you Allah, you grant us
		
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			You Allah. Some people be laid off from
		
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			their job you Allah. We ask that you
		
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			give them a righteous sustenance you Allah. Ola,
		
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			we ask
		
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			that you might strengthen our community, you Allah.
		
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			Allah, help and strengthen our relationship with our
		
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			neighbors, you Allah. Allah, help us that we
		
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			might be among those who would establish
		
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			justice, you Allah. Allah, we ask for your
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			Allah, your mercy on those who are suffering
		
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			with difficulties.
		
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			You Allah, we have a sister, we're asking
		
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			you Allah, she's asked for a dua,
		
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			a prayer for her healing, you Allah. Allah,
		
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			we ask that you grant her your shifa.
		
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			All we ask, well, that you forgive us
		
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			of our sins.
		
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			All we ask, well, you have mercy on
		
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			those who are suffering around the corner and
		
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			around the world, you Allah.
		
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			All
		
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			Oh, lord. We know you are peace and
		
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			the source of peace. We ask for your
		
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			peace and your mercy, you Allah, on the
		
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			prophet,
		
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			and on his family and on his companions.
		
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			And all of the MBI Guides, prophets and
		
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			messengers, you Allah, and those who follow the
		
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			way of your until the day of judgment.