Mustafa Khattab – Dawa Training 1 B The Art of Dawa

Learn more and she said, aren't you supposed

to provide for me?

Shouldn't you give me mom and dad? And

I said, you are ignorant. You don't know

nothing about Islam.

She called me about 2 months ago.

She said,

he convinced my family to borrow

$25,000 from the bank so he can start

a project of his own, and he took

the money and disappeared.

They don't know where he is. And her

family is in debt big time they gonna

say about Muslims? There are thieves and liars

just because of this guy. And if this

lady leaves this man, I'm not gonna be

surprised because of all the damage and all

the harm that he caused for this lady

and her

family. And of course, as I said before,

some people like to do that, but they

don't have the ability. They don't have the

knowledge. They don't have the English or the

style. Or they have the the ability,

but they don't have the desire. They don't

want to work in the field of and

whatever.

They don't want to, work in the field

of and

whatever.

Is an individual effort as I said.

Are not supported by big organizations.

Impact of 911

that push

like 200 years back.

Media portrayals, they always portray Muslims as bad

bad people. This is what they see in

the media all the time,

and the stereotypes.

Back in the 19 fifties sixties, we have

about 3 minutes to show up.

Back in the 19 fifties, if you watch

the movies back then, Muslims are what I

like to call the Alibaba Muslims or the

Al Ad Al Adil Al Adil Muslims.

So all they saw back then, in the

19 fifties sixties,

flying carpets, magic lamps,

billy dancers,

genies, all that stuff. So this is what

they knew about Muslims back then.

From the 19 sixties till today, the dominant

image is the terrorist,

the badmisms.

Okay? Especially, Palestinians.

100

of movies show Palestinians as terrorists

all the time.

Yeah.

Some people who live in the west by

watching the media

all the time. So this is what their

perception about Islam.

So they they got a shoe in their

head.

So every time they think about Muslims, they

think about something bad.

This is the last slide for tonight.

Muslims are not the only people who have

been stereotyped.

African Americans have been stereotypes

for so many years.

100 of years. The Jews.

Insult. Okay. This shows you that the Jew

is also suffering from media portrayals around World

War 2 and after.

Jail.

Why? Because they got together, they are united.

They have some

laws

legislations in the United Nations. If you criticize

the

truth or if you say that the number

of people who were killed in the law

cost is not 6,000,000,000,

no. There are,

5,000,000,000

and

9,199,990,990.

So you say that, no, there's 1 guy

that you added to the list, you're going

to

jail. Of course, the Chinese,

and so on and so forth. Of course,

they call Barack Obama.

He's a Muslim. Why? Because

his middle name is.

Okay. It's like,

Saddam Hussein.

Barack is like Mubarak.

And

it has a bomb in it. Bomb. Bomb.

So if he has to be a Muslim

okay?

So the good news is

that these

yeah. These stereotypes about muslims are not going

to be the bad people forever.

So every

15, 20 years, someone assumes the role of

the bad person.

In the 19 forties

around World War 2, the bad people were

the Nazis and the fascists in Germany, Japan,

and Italy.

20 years later, the Vietnamese.

20 years later, the communist and the Russians.

20 years later, the Muslims. Maybe 20 years

later, the Chinese or the Canadians. It has

to be someone else all the time.

So this is a good news that the

image will change one day.

The bad news is, we don't know when.

So how to get there? How to change

the image? It's a collective effort and individual

t o t. All of us have to

work together. We need to train some of

you to work in the field of dawah

to help us in the masjid and outside,

and we'll see you inshaAllah next Monday. JazakAllah.