Mustafa Khattab – Dawa Training 1 B The Art of Dawa
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The transcript discusses the stereotypes of Muslims and their negative impact on society. The speakers emphasize that these stereotypes are not true and that they are not supported by big organizations. They also discuss the impact of media portrayals on Muslims and their perception of the world. The conversation ends with a call for action to change the image of the group.
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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.