Mustafa Khattab – Misconceptions about Islam & Muslims

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The importance of worshipping God alone in Islam is emphasized, along with the need to be mindful of words and actions in Islam. The Bible is the source of guidance and light, while the current media suggests Jesus is not seen as a Christ. The segment discusses the history of Islam, including the use of words like "will" and "will" in context to actions and actions of the Prophet, the importance of readiness for war, and the need to be prepared for the worst events. The segment also touches on the differences between men and women, including the need for more women to lead, the use of scarves in the western culture, and the importance of testimony for cases related to women.

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			In these countries
		
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			is probably not acceptable in in the most
		
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			of these countries.
		
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			I've been to California
		
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			before I came to South Carolina.
		
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			And although those states are in one country,
		
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			for me,
		
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			they seem like
		
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			2 different countries in 2 different continents.
		
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			We are talking about the same country.
		
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			So can you imagine 50
		
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			countries and making generalizations
		
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			about all of them because
		
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			of the culture
		
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			of 1 country?
		
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			The word Islamic worshiply
		
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			means surrender,
		
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			purity, and peace.
		
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			And
		
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			technically,
		
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			the word Islam is the message conveyed by
		
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			all the prophets
		
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			of God from Adam
		
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			all the way to Muhammad passing by Abraham,
		
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			David, Solomon, Isaac,
		
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			Moses, Jesus,
		
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			and upon all of them be peace.
		
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			And the essence of this message has always
		
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			been, serve one God,
		
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			and be good to fellow humans, and by
		
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			the same extension
		
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			to the rest of the creation of God.
		
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			If you look at the Ten Commandments, for
		
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			example, the first
		
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			four commandments talk about
		
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			serving God alone and worshiping Him alone.
		
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			From 5 to 10, they talk about being
		
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			good to fellow humans.
		
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			So on and so forth, which basically means
		
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			be good to the people.
		
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			And this is what I mentioned earlier about
		
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			the essence of the messages that
		
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			serve God alone and be good to fill
		
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			humans.
		
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			The Muslim tikka magnets
		
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			exist in chapter 17 and chapter 6 of
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			So what is 5 +6
		
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			equals n?
		
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			For someone to be Muslim,
		
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			they need to do 5 things,
		
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			and they need to have 6 beliefs.
		
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			So the 5 deeds are, number 1, the
		
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			testimony of faith, to bear witness that there's
		
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			only one God, and Muhammad is a prophet
		
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			like all those who came before him.
		
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			And number 2, to establish the prayers, 5
		
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			times a day.
		
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			And number 3, to give charity to the
		
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			poor.
		
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			If you keep
		
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			money in your savings account
		
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			for for a year without touching the money,
		
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			and you keep over $22100
		
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			in your account, you need to give 2.5%
		
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			of it to the
		
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			poor. Number 4, fasting in the month of
		
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			Ramadan from dawn to sunset.
		
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			No food,
		
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			no drink, no intimate relationships with one spouse
		
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			during the day. Number 5, the pilgrimage to
		
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			the whole city of Mecca if the person
		
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			is physically and financially
		
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			able to.
		
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			The 6 beliefs are
		
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			to believe in the Almighty God.
		
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			Number 2, to believe in His angels.
		
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			Number 3, to believe in His scriptures.
		
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			To believe in His messengers and prophets.
		
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			To believe in the day of resurrection,
		
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			that all humans
		
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			who have existed from the beginning of time
		
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			to the end of time
		
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			will be resurrected.
		
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			And every person will be questioned about his
		
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			or her actions in this life.
		
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			If they have done good, they will be
		
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			rewarded. If they have done evil, they will
		
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			be punished.
		
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			Nothing happens in this world without the knowledge,
		
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			the prior knowledge of God. It doesn't force
		
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			anyone to do anything,
		
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			and everyone is accountable for his or her
		
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			actions on the day of judgment.
		
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			So this is the belief in the divine
		
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			discipline.
		
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			Any
		
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			act that that is done with a good
		
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			intention in Islam is considered an act of
		
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			worship.
		
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			So if you go to school to be
		
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			a doctor,
		
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			to save humans,
		
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			or if you go exercise, do sports, play
		
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			soccer like me all the time,
		
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			if you support the tigers
		
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			with a good intention, then this is also
		
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			an act of worship in Islam like prayers
		
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			and fasting and charity.
		
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			1 of the
		
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			main misconceptions about Islam is Muslims worship a
		
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			different God
		
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			by the name Allah,
		
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			and this God is different from Jehovah,
		
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			the God of the Bible.
		
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			But this is not true.
		
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			In every language, there is a different word
		
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			for God. In Christianity
		
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			I mean, in English, the word God
		
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			is used. In French, there is the word
		
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			you. In Russian, the word
		
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			is used for God.
		
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			Can you tell me what language did Jesus,
		
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			speak?
		
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			Jesus Christ?
		
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			No. It's not Hebrew.
		
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			He spoke Aramaic.
		
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			And what was the word he used to
		
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			refer to God?
		
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			Not Jehovah.
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So the the word that Jesus used his
		
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			entire life to refer to God was Allah,
		
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			not God, not Jehovah.
		
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			And what was the word used by Moses
		
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			to refer to
		
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			God? Eloh.
		
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			And there is the word elohim, which is
		
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			the plural of eloh in Hebrew.
		
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			And the word used by Arabs
		
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			is Allah. So you have Allah,
		
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			Eloh,
		
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			and Allah.
		
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			The 3 languages,
		
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			Aramites,
		
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			Hebrew, and Arabic, are Semitic languages. So you
		
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			see the similarities.
		
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			One more thing.
		
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			All Arabs,
		
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			Muslim Arabs, Christian Arabs, and Jewish Arabs use
		
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			the word Allah to refer to God, so
		
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			it's not only Muslims.
		
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			This is the only word we use in
		
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			Arabic, regardless of our faith, to refer to
		
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			God.
		
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			If you take a look at the first
		
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			passage
		
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			of the book of Genesis,
		
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			the Christian
		
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			Arabic Bible, you see the word Allah highlighted,
		
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			used 6 times in the first three lines.
		
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			And throughout the Arabic Christian Bible, the word
		
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			Allah is used thousands of times.
		
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			You always hear about Sunnis and and Shias,
		
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			and there are different sects in Islam.
		
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			If you study history, you will know that
		
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			the difference between Sunnis and Shias is political
		
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			in nature,
		
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			and not
		
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			based on religion.
		
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			Right after the death of prophet Muhammad in
		
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			the year 632,
		
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			there was a major conflict between different groups
		
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			of Muslims. One group, the majority of them,
		
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			said that
		
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			the most qualified, most knowledgeable Muslims would be
		
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			the successor of Prophet Muhammad to lead the
		
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			Muslim community.
		
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			And this group is called Sunni Muslims.
		
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			The second group was a group of people
		
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			who said, no.
		
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			A person from the prophet's family should leave
		
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			the Muslim community.
		
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			And this group,
		
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			till today, are called the Shia Muslims, and
		
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			they make out less than 10%.
		
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			Percent. However,
		
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			Sunnis and Shias go to the same mosque,
		
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			and they pray to be a we have
		
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			our mosque here in.
		
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			The majority of our membership is Sunni, but
		
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			we also have some Shia brothers and sisters,
		
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			and they come. They pray with us at
		
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			the same place. So the difference between Sunnis
		
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			and Shi'is is not like the difference between
		
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			Protestants and Catholics.
		
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			We fasted in the same month. We have
		
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			the same version of the Quran. Only one.
		
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			We don't have,
		
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			different versions. It's only 1 in the Arabic
		
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			language,
		
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			and it has always been the same for
		
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			about 1500
		
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			years. However,
		
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			in some places where there is a political
		
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			tension, like in Iraq, for example,
		
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			Sunnis
		
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			have their own mosques, and Shias have their
		
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			own mosques because of the conflict,
		
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			for power.
		
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			But, overall,
		
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			in the great majority of Muslim countries, they
		
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			bring together and they worship together.
		
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			Do Muslims hate Christians and Jews?
		
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			To start with,
		
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			Muslims don't hate nobody.
		
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			If you read in the Quran, if you
		
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			read in the, teachings of Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			all humans are called brothers
		
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			in the Quran, in the teachings of Prophet
		
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			Muhammad.
		
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			Muhammad. Prophet Muhammad said in and this is
		
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			his last speech that he gave a few
		
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			weeks before his death. He says, oh my
		
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			kind, your Lord is 1,
		
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			and your father, your ancestry is 1. All
		
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			of you are from Adam, and Adam is
		
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			from dust. There's neither privilege for an Arab
		
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			over an Arab, nor for a white over
		
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			a black, except in account of his or
		
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			her righteousness.
		
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			There are 3 different types of brotherhood in
		
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			Islam. There's
		
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			the brotherhood in humanity,
		
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			and this includes everyone in the universe.
		
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			There's brotherhood in faith, and this includes Muslims.
		
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			And there's blood
		
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			brotherhood.
		
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			Your own brother. Biological
		
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			brother.
		
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			Moses and the children of Israel are often
		
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			type mentioned in the Quran, many many chapters.
		
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			And as a matter of fact, the story
		
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			of Moses and the children of Israel, and
		
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			his miracles, and life are mentioned in 50
		
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			chapters of the Quran out of 114.
		
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			The Torah
		
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			is said in the Quran, chapter 5, to
		
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			be revealed as a source of guidance and
		
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			light.
		
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			Jesus is mentioned in many places in the
		
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			Quran. Many Christians don't know that Jesus is
		
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			mentioned by name in the Quran.
		
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			He is mentioned by name 27
		
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			times,
		
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			whereas prophet Muhammad of Islam is mentioned only
		
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			4 times by name.
		
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			The life of Jesus and his miracles are
		
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			mentioned in detail in many chapters, like
		
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			359, and there
		
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			are 5
		
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			actually, 3 miracles of Jesus
		
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			are in the Quran that are not in
		
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			the Bible. If you read if you read
		
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			the last couple of pages of chapter 5,
		
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			you will see all the miracles, including
		
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			these 3.
		
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			Chapter 5 says, the gospel of Jesus was
		
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			revealed as a source of guidance and light.
		
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			Mary, the mother of Jesus,
		
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			is the only woman mentioned by name in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			And there's a chapter in the Quran named
		
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			after her. Chapter
		
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			Mary,
		
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			chapter number 19,
		
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			and she is mentioned by name in the
		
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			Quran more than she is in life.
		
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			There are, however, some differences between
		
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			what Muslims believe about Jesus and what Christians
		
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			believe.
		
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			I'm not saying this to offend anyone, but
		
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			just to let you know what Muslims
		
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			think of Jesus.
		
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			He is the Christ. He's called in the
		
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			Quran the Christ, the Messiah, the Word of
		
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			God, and the Spirit from God. And we
		
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			believe that he was born of a virgin.
		
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			We believe in his teachings and miracles,
		
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			that he gave life to the dead, cured
		
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			with life, and so on and so forth.
		
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			And we believe that he ascended to heaven.
		
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			We believe in his second coming,
		
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			but
		
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			we believe he was a prophet just like
		
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			Moses and Abraham and David and Muhammad and
		
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			all the prophets of old.
		
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			And we believe he was sent exclusively
		
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			to the Jews, and Jesus himself said this
		
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			repeatedly in the Bible.
		
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			It's written in the book of Matthew. He
		
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			said, I have been sent only to the
		
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			lost sheep of the children of Israel.
		
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			Also, in the book of Matthew, he
		
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			instructed his disciples to teach and preach only
		
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			to
		
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			the lost sheep of Israel. And he told
		
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			them, don't go to the Gentiles and the
		
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			Samaritans.
		
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			We don't believe that he died on the
		
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			cross. However, there was a crucifixion.
		
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			If you read in the Quran in chapter
		
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			5, it says that Jesus was neither crucified
		
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			nor was he killed, but it was made
		
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			to appear to the people like this.
		
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			So this is the Muslim narrative of the
		
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			crucifixion.
		
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			Julius Iscariot,
		
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			just like in the Bible,
		
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			sold out Jesus for silver coins.
		
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			When it was time to for Jesus to
		
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			get busted by the Romans,
		
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			God made Julius Iscariot look like Jesus, so
		
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			they took
		
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			like Jesus, so they took Judas Iscariot, put
		
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			him on the cross, he died. And Jesus
		
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			was ascended safe and silent to him, in
		
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			one piece. Muslims quote the Bible, book of
		
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			Mark 15, as a support of this
		
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			narrative,
		
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			where the person on the cross
		
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			cried, God, God, why have you forsaken me?
		
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			Or why have you let let me down?
		
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			So I'm listening to say, to what Jesus,
		
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			he would never say something like this.
		
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			And the way Jesus speaks about himself on
		
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			is very similar to what Jesus speaks about
		
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			himself in the bible. If you have the
		
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			King James
		
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			version of the bible, and you read the
		
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			passages written in red, the words of Jesus
		
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			in his own words, they pretty much agree
		
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			with everything that Jesus said about himself in
		
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			the Quran. That he has limitations.
		
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			He's a human
		
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			being. If we say,
		
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			for example, in the book of John, I,
		
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			or myself, can do nothing. What I do
		
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			is
		
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			to please God and not to please myself.
		
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			When he was asked in the book of
		
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			Mark about his second coming and the final
		
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			hour, he said, I don't know.
		
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			The angels don't know. Only God knows.
		
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			In one place,
		
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			in the book of Mark, when he invited
		
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			the disciples to eat from a fig you
		
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			know, from the orchard,
		
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			fig fruit,
		
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			and when they went there, there were no
		
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			figs. They're asking him, you know, what's going
		
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			on? He said, I didn't know that it
		
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			wasn't the season for the fig trees to
		
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			bear fruit.
		
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			He was called the prophet by the people
		
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			around himself,
		
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			and he said that he came to preach
		
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			the belief in 1 God.
		
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			Why do Muslims make images of God or
		
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			prophet Muhammad?
		
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			To start with, we have we haven't seen
		
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			any of them. We haven't seen God. We
		
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			haven't seen prophet Muhammad. So how could we
		
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			make images of them if we haven't seen
		
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			them? Number 2,
		
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			this is the most commonly
		
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			used and adopted
		
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			picture of Jesus to the left.
		
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			Blue eyes,
		
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			blond hair, Caucasian, handsome fellas.
		
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			But if you read the description of Jesus
		
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			in the bible, he is described
		
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			as his skin color is burned brass
		
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			and curled curly hair,
		
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			which are features of
		
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			people from the Middle East and Africa.
		
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			So, technically, I look more American than Jesus
		
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			because I have blue eyes.
		
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			But although
		
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			at the JFK airport, when I came to
		
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			this country 3 years ago,
		
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			they called me alien,
		
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			as if I looked green or something.
		
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			They some
		
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			black Christians
		
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			put the image of Jesus as a black
		
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			Jesus. And if you read about Marcus Garvey,
		
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			the black nationalist movement back in the 19
		
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			thirties and forties,
		
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			he propagated the belief in a black Jesus,
		
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			and he didn't accept the belief in a
		
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			white Jesus.
		
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			The picture at the bottom
		
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			right
		
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			is the closest rendition
		
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			of the way Jesus looked based on the
		
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			analysis
		
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			communal analysis of the,
		
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			the Shroud of Turin,
		
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			which is believed by many to be the
		
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			shroud in which Jesus was covered when he
		
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			was crucified.
		
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			So this is the closest rendition according to
		
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			the History Channel.
		
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			Why does
		
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			it eat pork will drink alcohol?
		
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			To start with pork,
		
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			firstly, it shouldn't shouldn't shouldn't eat it either,
		
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			nor should the Jews. The Jews don't eat
		
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			it anyway. But the Christians
		
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			Jesus says in the bible that he he
		
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			came to uphold the laws of Moses and
		
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			not to abolish them.
		
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			And Moses said that the law testament
		
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			that the poor the pig is filthy, and
		
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			he shouldn't even touch it.
		
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			So why do Jews not eat
		
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			pork?
		
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			Some Christians don't eat it. Muslims don't eat
		
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			it.
		
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			Those who eat it find an excuse in
		
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			the words of Paul,
		
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			who says and taught
		
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			that Jesus, by his ascension, he abolished
		
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			the laws of Moses. So that's why it's
		
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			permissible
		
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			for people to eat.
		
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			I don't need
		
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			to talk much about alcohol and the harm
		
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			that alcohol causes.
		
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			Statistically,
		
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			over a 100,000
		
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			people died in this country because of things
		
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			and accidents and crimes related to alcohol.
		
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			People who died of diseases because of alcohol,
		
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			people who made accidents under the influence and
		
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			died.
		
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			And
		
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			you have lost some of your failed,
		
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			some police and failed students because of alcohol
		
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			in the past years. At first, some stories
		
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			about some accidents.
		
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			Islam.
		
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			To start with, this is the one of
		
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			the last verses to be revealed of the
		
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			Quran talking about
		
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			how Muslims should treat non Muslims.
		
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			But before we go through the,
		
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			translation again, I'm scared with your eyes very
		
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			quick. Does the Quran say, kill non Muslims?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Does the Quran kill
		
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			non Muslims?
		
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			No.
		
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			Does the Quran say kill Muslims? Yes.
		
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			Does the Quran say kill non Muslims? Yes.
		
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			It's very confusing.
		
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			Here's the thing.
		
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			And this is what all countries and what
		
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			all constitutions in the world do. They do
		
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			the same thing that the Quran says.
		
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			The Quran says, if anyone attacks you,
		
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			you have the right to fight them and
		
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			kick them out of your country or your
		
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			home. If people are at peace with you,
		
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			you don't have the right to attack them,
		
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			regardless of their faith.
		
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			So for example,
		
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			when
		
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			Iraqis invaded Kuwait in 1990,
		
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			did Iraqis have the right to fight them?
		
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			To fight did Kuwaitis have the right to
		
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			fight and kick out of the Iraqis?
		
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			Yes. But there were Muslims,
		
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			and many of them were killed. 1000 of
		
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			them were killed. But they invaded somebody else's
		
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			country. And
		
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			Americans would do the same thing if their
		
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			country was attacked or sacked
		
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			by Mexicans, for example.
		
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			Anyone would do the same thing.
		
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			I'm not saying that Mexicans are bad people.
		
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			I'm just giving an example.
		
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			So the verse
		
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			says, in chapter 60 verse
		
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			8 and 9,
		
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			says that Allah does not forbid you to
		
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			deal panning and equitably
		
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			with non Muslims who have neither fought not
		
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			like who have neither fought against you on
		
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			account of your faith,
		
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			nor drove you out of your homes. Indeed,
		
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			Allah loves those who act iniquity.
		
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			It is only against those who have fought
		
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			against you and have driven you out of
		
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			your bones that you should take them as
		
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			friends and protectors.
		
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			And God does not like the wrong tools.
		
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			So said, fighting is only allowed against invaders,
		
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			regardless of their faith. And fighting against peaceful
		
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			people is prohibited
		
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			in the Quran, regardless
		
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			of the person's faith.
		
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			All the verses that talk about violence in
		
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			the Quran, there are some verses that talk
		
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			about violence, and you can find them in
		
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			chapter 2,
		
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			chapter 9, chapter 8, chapter 47,
		
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			and chapter 48.
		
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			If you read any of these chapters,
		
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			and read any of the verses that talk
		
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			about violence, they talk about one of these
		
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			things.
		
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			Fighting
		
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			against an invader,
		
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			or fighting if the peace treaty was violated.
		
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			If the enemy asks for peace, you give
		
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			them peace.
		
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			So these are the 3 themes that the
		
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			chapters and verses that talk about
		
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			violence in the Quran
		
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			handling one of these phrases.
		
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			Fighting a self defense to make peace if
		
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			the enemy asks for peace, or you have
		
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			the right to fight if the peace treaty
		
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			or the peace truth, truce has been violated
		
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			or terminated.
		
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			All the passages that talk about violence in
		
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			the Quran talk exclusively
		
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			about the people of Mecca, the pagans of
		
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			Mecca,
		
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			who were persecuting Muslims
		
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			for 13 years
		
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			before Muslims were allowed to
		
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			fight back the self defense.
		
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			If anyone gives you a verse in the
		
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			Quran, most of the time, when they talk
		
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			about, violence in the Quran
		
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			or passages
		
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			that talk about war,
		
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			or other
		
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			networks,
		
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			most of the time,
		
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			they tell you, for example, that the Quran
		
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			says kill the infidels.
		
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			By but most of the time, they don't
		
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			give you a chapter number or a verse
		
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			number.
		
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			If
		
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			they give you a chapter number or a
		
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			verse number, you need to go and read
		
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			the verse
		
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			and read a couple of verses before and
		
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			a couple of verses after. And it doesn't
		
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			say
		
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			what they make
		
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			you say. It says something different, but it
		
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			is taken out of context and will give
		
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			a few examples.
		
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			So the verses should be read within their
		
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			contextual and historical
		
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			background to give them meaning, not out of
		
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			context.
		
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			This part of the verse
		
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			in chapter 2 is the most frequently quoted
		
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			verse from the Quran. Kill them wherever you
		
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			find
		
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			them. Kill Americans wherever you find them, at
		
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			Walmart or buy them.
		
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			So this is what they say. But if
		
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			you read the
		
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			verse from
		
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			190
		
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			to 19292,
		
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			it doesn't say this. So read from the
		
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			beginning. Fighting the cause of God. Only against
		
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			those who fight
		
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			you, but don't exceed the limits. And we'll
		
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			talk about the limits in a minute. For
		
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			God has a life transgressors.
		
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			Kill them wherever you find them,
		
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			and by reading the context and this is
		
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			what it says in other chapters. Kill them
		
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			wherever you find them in the battlefield.
		
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			And drive them out of the places from
		
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			which they have driven you out. He's talking
		
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			about your home, your country.
		
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			For spreading this chimp is worse than killing,
		
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			and don't fight them within the precincts of
		
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			the sacred mosque unless we attack you therein.
		
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			But if you fight you, then fight them.
		
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			That is the punishment for the disbelievers.
		
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			If they cease, then surely God is the
		
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			most forgiving,
		
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			most merciful.
		
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			Before prophet Muhammad sent out his army
		
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			to fight against the people, Mecca would tell
		
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			his army,
		
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			don't kill an old man, don't kill a
		
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			woman or a child, and don't mutilate their
		
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			bodies.
		
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			But be courteous.
		
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			I'm not saying that violations have been committed
		
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			throughout
		
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			history.
		
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			I've heard of what the Ottomans did to
		
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			the people of Armenia.
		
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			1000 or 100 of 1000 of people have
		
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			been killed because of persecution.
		
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			So the Ottomans were Muslims,
		
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			and the Armenians were Christians most likely.
		
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			So violations have been committed,
		
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			and non Muslims have been oppressed and persecuted
		
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			by some Muslims.
		
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			All I'm saying is there's no
		
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			you will never find
		
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			a verse in the Quran that justifies
		
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			what they did,
		
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			But they manipulated the verses, took them out
		
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			of context
		
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			to justify the evil they did.
		
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			Speaking of taking things out of context,
		
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			just look at the word some of the
		
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			words that prophet Mohammed says in the Quran.
		
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			Don't think
		
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			I came to bring peace on the earth.
		
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			I didn't come to bring peace
		
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			on a sword.
		
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			Actually, I made a mistake. These are not
		
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			the words of Mohammed. These are the words
		
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			of Jesus in the Bible, in the book
		
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			of Matthew 1034.
		
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			Let's look at another example
		
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			by Muhammad in the Quran.
		
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			As for those enemies of mine who didn't
		
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			want me to be king over them, bring
		
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			them under my feet and slaughter them.
		
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			Uh-oh. This is not said by Muhammad, but
		
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			it was says said by Jesus in the
		
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			book of Luke.
		
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			Jehovah is a man of war. Jehovah is
		
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			his name.
		
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			Not Muhammad, but Moses.
		
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			What I'm saying is you can't take anything
		
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			out of context.
		
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			If you go back to these verses in
		
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			the bible to put them in context,
		
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			it doesn't say but people make
		
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			them safe.
		
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			If you go back, these are just parables,
		
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			and they didn't mean to go and kill
		
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			people and to slaughter them.
		
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			So you should read things in context.
		
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			What about Islam being spread by the sword?
		
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			I mentioned at the beginning that
		
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			Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
		
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			West, in America,
		
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			and in the world in general.
		
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			And
		
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			I don't think Muslims are in a position
		
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			to have a sword and force people to
		
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			accept Islam.
		
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			Indonesia
		
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			of Muslims that our country has,
		
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			and
		
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			not a single Muslim army
		
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			has ever been sent to Indonesia. But still,
		
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			it has more Muslims than all our countries.
		
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			There are at least 20,000,000
		
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			Christians who live in the Arab world.
		
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			Islam was gripped by the sword.
		
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			Why these people have not been converted in
		
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			the past 1500 years?
		
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			From falsehood. And the reason this verse was
		
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			revealed
		
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			was because
		
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			some of the people of Madinah, which is
		
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			called 250 miles to the north of Mecca,
		
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			where Prophet Mohammed migrated,
		
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			some of the local people wanted to force
		
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			the Christian and Jewish children to accept Islam
		
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			just like
		
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			people wanted to
		
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			As I said,
		
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			some Muslims throughout history have forced other people
		
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			to accept Islam.
		
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			And if someone is forced to accept Islam
		
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			Islamically,
		
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			he is not a Muslim. He's not required
		
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			to pray or fast because
		
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			if Islam does not come from the heart,
		
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			you
		
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			are not Muslim.
		
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			Some other faiths have also forced some other
		
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			people to accept their own faith.
		
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			Catholics have forced many Protestants to convert to
		
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			Catholicism,
		
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			and there have been so many wars, especially
		
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			the the Middle Ages, between Catholics and Protestants.
		
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			European Christians also forced some Jews and Christians
		
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			some Jews and Muslims and some Christians of
		
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			other denominations to convert by force.
		
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			The Jews of Spain,
		
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			if you heard of the court of the
		
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			inquisition
		
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			14/92,
		
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			the Jews were also found and were forced
		
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			by the Spanish,
		
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			inquisition to either convert or die, just like
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			And you probably heard of African Americans,
		
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			the millions of them who
		
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			were transported to this continent,
		
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			30, at least 30 of them, 30% of
		
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			them were Muslim,
		
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			and
		
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			historically,
		
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			that they were forced to accept Christianity in
		
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			the faith of the slave master.
		
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			If
		
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			someone
		
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			leaves Islam, should he be killed?
		
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			There is this disagreement
		
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			among the scholars of Islam
		
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			as to
		
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			if this person should be killed or not.
		
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			The first opinion is this person should be
		
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			killed after 3 days.
		
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			The second opinion is
		
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			as long as the person who left this
		
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			land does not join the enemies
		
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			and fight against Muslims, he or she should
		
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			be left free.
		
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			And the second opinion is supported by the
		
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			sayings and the actions of Prophet Muhammad. He
		
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			never killed anyone who left Islam in Islam.
		
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			He only killed those who joined
		
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			the army of Mecca and fought against Muslims.
		
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			So the person was killed for treason
		
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			and not for apostasy.
		
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			All the verses in the Quran that talk
		
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			about apostasy, like, for example, 2 2 17
		
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			said that the punishment in this world for
		
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			someone who leaves Islam
		
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			is
		
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			he or she would give and more for
		
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			his or her good deeds
		
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			invalidating.
		
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			But the punishment is in the hereafter
		
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			growing religion. If I know that Islam
		
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			if I, for some reason,
		
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			after conversion,
		
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			like to leave the religion, and the people
		
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			will kill me if I leave it, I'm
		
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			not gonna accept this faith.
		
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			So many people accept the religion, this means
		
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			that this is not true.
		
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			Jihad. The word Jihad means
		
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			to strive or to exert your effort.
		
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			And technically,
		
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			Jihad means to strive to overcome your desires
		
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			and do worse
		
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			If you move to a given charity,
		
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			and your body, the shaitan, the devil comes
		
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			to you and says, you're gonna go broke
		
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			if you give in charity.
		
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			If you go ahead and you give in
		
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			charity, this is all you have in Islam.
		
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			If the shaitan is telling you to go
		
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			and do something bad, or to drink, or
		
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			do this, or do this,
		
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			and you stop, this is jihad.
		
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			So to stop doing something evil or to
		
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			go ahead and do something good, this is
		
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			called jihad in Islam.
		
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			The second type is to fight in self
		
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			defense. And there are 2 types of jihad
		
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			as far as violence is concerned.
		
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			The obligatory is
		
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			jihad is when your country is under attack
		
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			by an enemy. And the second type is
		
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			the optional one is for a group of
		
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			people to watch over the borders of their
		
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			country at the time of
		
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			peace.
		
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			We hear all the talk about Sharia, and
		
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			Muslims
		
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			wanna
		
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			talk over take over the country and
		
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			and,
		
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			imposed Sharia on the people.
		
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			So Bill Riley and Glimpic have to grow
		
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			their beards and Barbara Walters have to wear
		
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			the hijab or the head cover, and all
		
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			that nonsense.
		
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			The Sharia is the Islamic law,
		
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			and the Sharia
		
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			governs the Muslim theology,
		
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			rulings related to acts of worship, human interactions,
		
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			you know, between Muslims and non Muslims, and
		
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			between humans in general,
		
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			business transactions, family relations, marriage, divorce, and hurtless,
		
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			and life in this world and in the
		
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			nest.
		
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			The Sharia is mostly
		
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			based on the teachings of the Quran,
		
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			and the sayings, and the actions of Prophet
		
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			Muhammad.
		
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			When they ask in the media,
		
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			are Muslims trying to impose the Sharia
		
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			on Americans?
		
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			You should ask them back.
		
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			Does the Sharia
		
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			apply to non Muslims who lived in Muslim
		
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			lands?
		
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			So here, first, the question.
		
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			Is it possible for less than 1% of
		
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			the population to impose
		
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			the Sharia
		
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			on 99%?
		
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			Ask them,
		
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			is the Sharia applied to the 7% of
		
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			Christians in Egypt, for example? And the answer
		
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			is
		
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			no. Non Muslims in Muslim countries
		
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			have their own
		
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			laws and their own courts.
		
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			Especially, most of the Muslim countries have secular
		
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			regimes. They are not,
		
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			theocratic regimes, except for a few countries like
		
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			the Taliban, Afghanistan,
		
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			in Iran, mostly in Saudi Arabia. But the
		
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			rest of the Muslim country
		
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			is secular.
		
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			A Muslim, for example, a Muslim woman in
		
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			Tunisia is not allowed to wear the scarf
		
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			because they're the secular government.
		
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			A Muslim woman is not allowed to go
		
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			to college with a scarf in Turkey because
		
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			it's a secular society.
		
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			Does the Sharia apply to Muslims who live
		
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			in the Muslim lands? Yes and no.
		
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			Yes when it comes to personal
		
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			things, like, if you want to pray, if
		
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			you want to fast,
		
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			if you want to you know, personal things.
		
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			It is permissible.
		
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			But things related to payment laws, the punishments,
		
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			the government,
		
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			the Sharia is not applied.
		
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			Islam teaches if you live in a non
		
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			Muslim country, then the laws and the constitution
		
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			of this country
		
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			becomes your own sharia.
		
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			As long as
		
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			this law does not force you to do
		
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			something that is not permissible in in your
		
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			shari'a.
		
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			For example, if they force me to eat
		
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			pork in this country,
		
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			I ain't gonna eat it because
		
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			it is against the teachings of my faith.
		
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			But
		
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			if the American Constitution
		
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			tell tells me to respect the traffic lights,
		
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			I have to respect
		
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			the Islamic, because it is not against
		
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			the teachings of Islam.
		
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			Some people think that
		
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			the Sharia does not overlap
		
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			with secular
		
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			laws of many countries.
		
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			And, actually, there's a lot of overlapping. You
		
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			cannot separate Islam
		
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			from any government system or any practices in
		
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			any country, because
		
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			you are basically saying that
		
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			Sharia is black,
		
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			that the law of this country is white,
		
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			and they don't
		
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			overlap. There are so many rulings in the
		
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			Sharia that they utter agreement
		
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			with the secular secular
		
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			laws in some countries.
		
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			Was the Quran plagiarized from the Bible?
		
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			To answer this question, you need to break
		
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			up the different verses in the Quran. There
		
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			are more than 6,300
		
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			verses in the in the Quran, and in
		
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			a verse, we'll fall under one of these
		
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			categories.
		
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			The first one, stories of the best,
		
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			and there are 25
		
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			prophets that are mentioned by naming the Quran,
		
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			and most of them are from the by
		
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			by Moses and David and Solomon.
		
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			The second theme
		
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			is the Muslim ideology.
		
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			The least in one God, the acts of
		
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			worship, rights and obligations,
		
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			inheritance, and so on and so forth. And
		
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			number afraid,
		
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			the belief in the unseen, the belief in
		
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			God, the angels, prophets,
		
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			the day of judgement.
		
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			It is because of the first theme
		
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			that
		
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			Islam was called throughout of history, or the
		
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			Quran was called to be plagiarized
		
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			from the Bible.
		
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			But if you get a Quran today
		
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			and read, for example, the verses that talk
		
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			about Jesus or Moses or Adam, there are
		
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			so
		
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			many differences between the Quran narrative and the
		
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			biblical
		
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			narrative.
		
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			One example.
		
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			In the Bible, it says
		
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			that Eve
		
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			was the one who was tempted to eat
		
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			from the tree. So she ate, and she
		
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			gave Adam to eat.
		
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			In the Quran, in chapter 20, it says
		
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			that
		
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			Adam was the one who was tempted, and
		
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			he ate from the tree, and therefore, he
		
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			is to blame.
		
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			And I always say
		
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			that
		
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			women are to blame for many things, but
		
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			not for this one.
		
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			At least, from a Quran perspective.
		
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			Is the Quran against
		
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			science? To start with, the Quran is not
		
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			a book of science.
		
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			It's a book of science.
		
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			There are so many verses in the Quran
		
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			that talk about science. If you got the
		
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			chance to get a copy of the book,
		
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			Greek illustrated guide
		
00:38:13 --> 00:38:13
			of,
		
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			Islam, there are so many scientific facts that
		
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			are mentioned in the Quran. They have been
		
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			there for 1500 years,
		
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			and some of these facts have been discovered
		
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			in the past history
		
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			or so.
		
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			Like the different stages of the develop development
		
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			of the embryo
		
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			in the womb of the mother. It is
		
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			described
		
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			precisely
		
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			in the Quran. Prophet Muhammad couldn't read, and
		
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			he couldn't write.
		
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			And there are so many verses that talk
		
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			about the creation, the big bang theory, the
		
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			fact that the Earth is fear and not
		
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			is is is spear and not fled, and
		
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			so on and so forth.
		
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			The Quran and Islam
		
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			prompted
		
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			a lot of scientific breakthroughs, especially in what
		
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			they call the Islamic Golden Age.
		
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			There are so many Muslim scholars who lived
		
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			back then.
		
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			They invented Al Jibra,
		
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			and
		
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			they invented many science, like chemistry.
		
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			And
		
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			one of his books, the canon of medicine,
		
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			was taught at European history, the European universities
		
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			for over 500 years.
		
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			The father of modern surgery. And most of
		
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			his,
		
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			most of these surgical tools are still in
		
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			use today
		
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			in modern hospitals.
		
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			So it's safe to say that the Islamic
		
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			civilization
		
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			that existed
		
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			in the golden age was the link between
		
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			the Greek and Roman civilizations
		
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			and the modern western civilization.
		
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			Is Islam offensive to women?
		
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			This is my favorite topic.
		
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			So put on your seed pills.
		
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			In Islam,
		
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			men and women are
		
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			equal but different.
		
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			Equal but different. In the same manner, I'm
		
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			equal to my younger brother, but we're different.
		
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			He's much taller, he's more handsome, and he
		
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			has
		
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			more beautiful eyes than I am.
		
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			We are equal, but we are different.
		
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			And
		
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			if you are 25 years old, and if
		
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			you haven't figured out
		
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			that males are different,
		
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			at least physically,
		
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			from females,
		
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			then,
		
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			by accident,
		
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			go to the females who are male, go
		
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			to the female restrooms, have bylaws,
		
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			and you will know the difference
		
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			after you hear all these green municipalities,
		
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			not in line with they are different.
		
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			There are so many
		
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			violations committed against
		
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			some Muslim women
		
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			in some countries.
		
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			But these violations
		
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			are not because of Islam or the Quran.
		
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			They are because of the local cultures and
		
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			tribal habits and traditions.
		
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			For example,
		
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			if Afghan women were not allowed to get
		
00:41:25 --> 00:41:27
			an education, this is not because of Islam,
		
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			this is because of the tribal traditions.
		
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			The problem, Muhammad, says, seeking knowledge is an
		
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			obligation on every Muslim, male or female.
		
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			If women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed
		
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			to get a driver's license, it's not because
		
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			of Islam, it is because of the culture.
		
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			If women in Egypt, like my mother, couldn't
		
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			get a share of inheritance from their parents,
		
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			this is not because of Islam.
		
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			If you read chapter 4, it gives you
		
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			different shares of inheritance for women, but it
		
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			is because of the culture
		
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			in Egypt, and so on and so forth.
		
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			Islamically,
		
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			men and women are equal before god and
		
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			the law. It's repeated
		
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			many times in the Quran. They are equal
		
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			in their rights.
		
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			They have equal obligations.
		
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			If they do good deeds, they get the
		
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			same reward. If they do something evil, they
		
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			get the same punishment.
		
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			But they have different roles and different responsibilities
		
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			because of their,
		
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			physical and psychological
		
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			makeup.
		
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			And
		
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			if you are 25 years old, if you
		
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			haven't figured out again
		
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			that men are different from women,
		
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			after you get married,
		
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			you are there in the kitchen,
		
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			cooking with your wife,
		
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			your favorite dish, and all of a sudden,
		
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			there's a mouse or a roach in the
		
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			kitchen.
		
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			The lady would jump out of the window,
		
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			and the man would lay down his life
		
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			in defense of the house.
		
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			Now
		
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			there's a difference.
		
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			To better appreciate what Islam has done to
		
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			women, you need to think of pre Islamic
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:11
			cultures.
		
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			Before Islam, women didn't get a share of
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:14
			inheritance.
		
00:43:14 --> 00:43:15
			Islam gave them a share.
		
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			Women didn't own their property. Islam
		
00:43:19 --> 00:43:20
			made them own their property.
		
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			They didn't have a say in marriage, and
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:23
			Islam
		
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			gave them this right.
		
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			Muslim women
		
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			keep their name at marriage, so they don't
		
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			drop their last name and give their husband's
		
00:43:36 --> 00:43:38
			message. However, if they choose to, it's up
		
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			to them, but there's no obligation
		
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			Islamically
		
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			to do this.
		
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			In Egypt, for example, the United Arab Emirates,
		
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			more females go to college than males.
		
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			And the percentage
		
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			in some Arab countries is higher than the
		
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			percentage of males who go to college in,
		
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			Europe.
		
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			All I'm saying is what is true for
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:09
			women in one country in the Muslim world
		
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			is not true for the rest of Muslim
		
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			women.
		
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			Let's think about the United States.
		
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			If you go back in history a century
		
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			ago, things have not always been
		
00:44:22 --> 00:44:23
			the way they are today.
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:28
			You probably heard of the Suffragette Movement back
		
00:44:28 --> 00:44:29
			in the 19 twenties
		
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			thirties. Women in this country
		
00:44:32 --> 00:44:34
			were trying to get the right to vote
		
00:44:35 --> 00:44:36
			in this country,
		
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			90 years ago.
		
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			And at that time, in Egypt, there were
		
00:44:42 --> 00:44:43
			female members of parliament.
		
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			The recent studies show that for every dollar
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:52
			a man makes in this country, a woman,
		
00:44:52 --> 00:44:53
			a white woman,
		
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			makes 77¢.
		
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			African American women make much less, and Spanish
		
00:45:00 --> 00:45:02
			and Latino women make much, much less.
		
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			So,
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:07
			you know, there's always this talk about men
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			and women being equal, but in actuality,
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:11
			there are some differences, and
		
00:45:12 --> 00:45:14
			women still need to go,
		
00:45:14 --> 00:45:15
			you know,
		
00:45:16 --> 00:45:16
			you know,
		
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			more
		
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			there's a long way for them to go
		
00:45:19 --> 00:45:21
			to be equal with men.
		
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			I'm not trying to say that they are
		
00:45:23 --> 00:45:24
			not equal, but
		
00:45:25 --> 00:45:26
			in actuality, in reality,
		
00:45:27 --> 00:45:28
			they are not treated the same in this
		
00:45:28 --> 00:45:30
			country. I'll give more examples.
		
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			Back in the 19 twenties, in places like
		
00:45:34 --> 00:45:35
			South Carolina,
		
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			a woman, regardless of her age, was not
		
00:45:38 --> 00:45:40
			allowed to buy a house or take a
		
00:45:40 --> 00:45:43
			loan from the bank without the signature of
		
00:45:43 --> 00:45:44
			her father or her husband.
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:49
			Who am I looking at?
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:52
			Where are those guys?
		
00:45:53 --> 00:45:55
			What is very special about this,
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:59
			election of Wrong man. Tickets.
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:03
			Who are these people anyway?
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:07
			They are the presidents of the United States,
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:10
			and there's not a single woman in there.
		
00:46:11 --> 00:46:14
			For 2 almost 200 50 years, not a
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:17
			single woman was ever elected president or vice
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:18
			president.
		
00:46:19 --> 00:46:21
			But if you look at the Muslim world
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:23
			in the past 10 or 15 years,
		
00:46:25 --> 00:46:27
			there have been several women who have been
		
00:46:27 --> 00:46:30
			elected either president or vice president
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32
			or the head of state.
		
00:46:32 --> 00:46:33
			In Indonesia,
		
00:46:35 --> 00:46:36
			was
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:38
			elected president in the past
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:40
			10 years. In Pakistan, 2 women
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			were elected
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:45
			or have been elected vice president of state.
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:46
			In Bangladesh,
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:51
			you have, in Turkey, a vice president. And
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:54
			many, throughout Muslim history, have been chosen to
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:54
			lead
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:55
			their countries.
		
00:46:57 --> 00:46:57
			So
		
00:46:57 --> 00:47:00
			Americans need some more time to be ready
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:00
			to accept,
		
00:47:02 --> 00:47:03
			female to lead them.
		
00:47:05 --> 00:47:08
			Here, all the talk about the scarf, and
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:10
			the scarf is a sign of oppression.
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:13
			To start with, there are several
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:15
			styles of scarf,
		
00:47:16 --> 00:47:18
			and there are so many
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:21
			women in the Muslim world who don't
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:23
			dress in this scarf. The majority of Muslim
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:25
			women dress in this car, or there are
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:27
			some who choose not to,
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:29
			or they are not ready yet
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:31
			for this step.
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:34
			This car is not an Islamic monopoly. Muslims
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:37
			don't didn't invent it, so don't give us
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:37
			the credit.
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:41
			If you look at all movies, Jane Austen,
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:45
			if, if you see movies depicting Jesus and
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:46
			Mary,
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:48
			you will see women in this car.
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:50
			So
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:53
			this scarf comes from the Jewish and the
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:54
			Christian traditions.
		
00:47:56 --> 00:47:58
			If you read in the book of Corinthians,
		
00:47:58 --> 00:48:01
			where Paul says, if a woman doesn't cover
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:03
			her hair, she should shave it off, because
		
00:48:03 --> 00:48:04
			it is disgraceful
		
00:48:05 --> 00:48:06
			for a woman to uncover
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			her hair.
		
00:48:08 --> 00:48:10
			So when people ask me why should Muslim
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13
			women dress like this, I ask them why
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:16
			Christian and Jewish women are not dressed like
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:16
			this.
		
00:48:17 --> 00:48:18
			This should be the question.
		
00:48:19 --> 00:48:22
			This scarf is seen as a sign of
		
00:48:22 --> 00:48:24
			modesty in Islam, and this scarf is not
		
00:48:24 --> 00:48:25
			the only sign of modesty.
		
00:48:26 --> 00:48:28
			Both men and women are required to be
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:29
			decent in the way they speak, the way
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:32
			they talk, the way they behave. So it's
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:34
			not only about this car.
		
00:48:37 --> 00:48:40
			People say that the Islamic person is women
		
00:48:40 --> 00:48:42
			because they get half of the share of
		
00:48:42 --> 00:48:43
			males in the family,
		
00:48:43 --> 00:48:45
			and this is one of the misconceptions.
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:48
			If you read in chapter 4 of the
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:50
			Quran, women get
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			3 different shares of inheritance.
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:55
			And the share of inheritance
		
00:48:56 --> 00:48:59
			is decided according to the relationship with the
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			deceased, not on the * of the person.
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:04
			The closer you are to the deceased, the
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:05
			more you will give.
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:08
			So in some cases, a woman,
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:12
			depending on her position in the family, a
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:14
			mother or wife, a daughter, a sister,
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:17
			might get half of her brother's share,
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:21
			twice the share, or equal share of inheritance
		
00:49:21 --> 00:49:22
			depending on the case.
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:29
			And these are some examples where you see
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:32
			females getting half of the share of men,
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:36
			equal the share of the second example, or
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:39
			twice or more than the share of the
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:41
			male in the family. Like, in the last
		
00:49:41 --> 00:49:42
			case, for example,
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:44
			if I die, I leave $24,000
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:48
			and I have my mother, my wife,
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:51
			4 sons to daughters, and my brother,
		
00:49:51 --> 00:49:53
			my mother would give 4,000, my wife would
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:54
			give,
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:57
			3,000, my son would give 2,800,
		
00:49:58 --> 00:49:59
			my daughter would give 1,600,
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:02
			and my brother, who is a male, will
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:03
			get 0.
		
00:50:07 --> 00:50:09
			They say that De Bruyne says that a
		
00:50:09 --> 00:50:12
			woman's testimony is half that of the bank.
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:15
			And this is true in only one case.
		
00:50:15 --> 00:50:18
			At the signing of a loan, if someone
		
00:50:18 --> 00:50:20
			is giving another person a loan,
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:23
			then if there are not 2 men, then
		
00:50:23 --> 00:50:25
			we give 1 man and 2 women.
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:27
			And 1 of the 2 women would bear
		
00:50:27 --> 00:50:29
			witness, the other one would be a backup.
		
00:50:30 --> 00:50:32
			But if there's a conflict and somebody needs
		
00:50:32 --> 00:50:33
			to go to the court to witness,
		
00:50:34 --> 00:50:37
			we accept the testimony of a single person.
		
00:50:37 --> 00:50:40
			So the second woman is only a backup
		
00:50:40 --> 00:50:40
			because
		
00:50:41 --> 00:50:41
			back then,
		
00:50:42 --> 00:50:45
			women didn't actually get involved with business and
		
00:50:45 --> 00:50:45
			traveling
		
00:50:46 --> 00:50:47
			for business
		
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			all the time, so 2 women were required
		
00:50:50 --> 00:50:51
			for this.
		
00:50:53 --> 00:50:56
			But in the risk of religious rulings, the
		
00:50:56 --> 00:50:59
			testimony of a woman equals the testimony of
		
00:50:59 --> 00:51:01
			a man. Say for example,
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:03
			at the beginning of Ramadan,
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:05
			there's the sighting of the new moon, the
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:06
			present.
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:07
			So
		
00:51:07 --> 00:51:08
			it is required
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:10
			to have one witness
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			to say that I've seen the moon, and
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:13
			therefore, all Muslims
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:15
			should fast. 1,600,000,000
		
00:51:16 --> 00:51:19
			Muslims should fast based on the sighting of
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:20
			1 person.
		
00:51:20 --> 00:51:22
			Regardless if this person is a man or
		
00:51:22 --> 00:51:23
			a woman,
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:25
			both witnesses are accepted.
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:27
			In some cases,
		
00:51:29 --> 00:51:32
			in or just prudence, the testimony of women
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35
			are to be accepted, and the testimony of
		
00:51:36 --> 00:51:38
			men is to be rejected. We accept only
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:41
			the testimony of women in cases related to
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:42
			women like pregnancy
		
00:51:42 --> 00:51:45
			and virginity and so on and so forth.
		
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			Polygamy.
		
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			Yeah. We're almost done.
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:55
			Why a Muslim man is
		
00:51:55 --> 00:51:58
			allowed or obligated to have 4 wives
		
00:51:58 --> 00:52:00
			and a Muslim woman is not allowed to
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:02
			have 4 husbands? It is not paid.
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:06
			To start with, getting more than one wife
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:08
			is only permissible, it's not obligatory.
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13
			And you should have two conditions to
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:15
			give more than one wife. Number 1,
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:21
			if you are physically and financially able to
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:23
			provide for a second wife,
		
00:52:24 --> 00:52:24
			and
		
00:52:24 --> 00:52:26
			if you treat them equally,
		
00:52:28 --> 00:52:29
			it should be just to both of them.
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:31
			Otherwise, it is not permissible to have a
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:32
			second
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:33
			white Islamic.
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:38
			Muslims are not the only people who practice,
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:40
			polygamy,
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:42
			so don't give us the credit for it.
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:43
			David,
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:47
			according to the Bible, had many, many wives.
		
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			And as a matter of fact,
		
00:52:49 --> 00:52:50
			all the biblical prophets,
		
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			with the exception of Jesus Christ and John
		
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			the Baptist,
		
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			had more than one wife.
		
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			So let me say it again, so the
		
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			people with PHDs in the room can understand.
		
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			All the biblical prophets, with the exception of
		
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			Jesus Christ and John the Baptist, had more
		
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			than one wife. David
		
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			had many wives. Solomon broke records. He had
		
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			7,000
		
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			wives.
		
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			And so on and so forth, Abraham and
		
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			all of them.
		
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			In Islam,
		
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			well, look at these are committed for humanitarian
		
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			purposes,
		
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			especially after wars, most of the time,
		
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			may go to battle,
		
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			lay down their lives to protect their countries
		
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			and their homes,
		
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			and women stay in the house, chanting on
		
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			Facebook.
		
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			So
		
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			so many men lose their lives,
		
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			and you have more women, so
		
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			Islamically is recommended
		
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			for someone
		
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			to marry another woman, especially widows who care
		
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			for her and her family.
		
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			Islam
		
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			is the only religion that puts limit
		
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			on marriage.
		
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			In the Quran, in chapter 4,
		
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			it says,
		
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			marry only 1 after 4. So Islam is
		
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			the only religion that says
		
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			1 after 4. Another phase,
		
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			there's no limit.
		
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			And you can go to chapter 4 verse
		
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			3, and it gives the conditions for marrying
		
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			the second wife.
		
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			Marrying women of your choice, 2 or 3
		
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			or 4. But if you fear that you
		
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			should not be able to deal justly with
		
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			them, then marry only 1. This is closer
		
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			to justice.
		
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			These days, polygamy is only practiced in the
		
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			Gulf States, in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait, in
		
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			Bahrain.
		
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			But in the majority of the Muslim world,
		
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			especially in the, Southeast Asia, North Africa,
		
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			if you tell your wife that you're going
		
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			to marry a second wife, this is gonna
		
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			be last day of your life.
		
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			Seriously.
		
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			Muslims are probably the most monogamous
		
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			people in the world, because I would say
		
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			99%
		
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			of Muslim men
		
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			know only one woman in their lives, and
		
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			this is their
		
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			wife.
		
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			And 99%
		
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			of Muslim women know only one man in
		
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			their lives, and this is their husbands.
		
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			Because
		
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			dating and premarital, and extra
		
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			marital relationships are not permissible in this land.
		
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			Just think about it.
		
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			At least from a woman's
		
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			a wife's perspective, it is more honorable
		
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			for a husband to have a second wife
		
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			than to have,
		
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			a mistress or a girlfriend.
		
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			At least, your wife is gonna be
		
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			more merciful
		
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			head, she's gonna put only 3.
		
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			There are some countries
		
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			that have more women, more females than males.
		
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			In the 2000 census in the US,
		
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			there were
		
00:56:13 --> 00:56:14
			5,000,000
		
00:56:15 --> 00:56:15
			500,000
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:19
			more women than men in this country. And
		
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			the same is also true
		
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			for many countries. I'm not saying this is
		
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			true for all countries,
		
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			but there are several countries or many countries
		
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			that have more females than males.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Men tend to be more polygamous
		
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			than women.
		
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			Statistically,
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:42
			according to the American Chronicle,
		
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			50 to 60 married men
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:48
			in America cheat on their wives, and the
		
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			percentage of women
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:52
			wives who cheat on their husbands is much
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:52
			less.
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:55
			According to the Justice Department,
		
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			a woman is raped in America every 2
		
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			minutes.
		
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			And I personally haven't heard of a man
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:05
			who has been raped by a woman.
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:09
			According to the 2,2004
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:11
			ABC News poll,
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:15
			the women who were surveyed say they have,
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:17
			average of 6,
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:20
			partners in their lifetime,
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:23
			whereas being reported to have 20
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:26
			partners
		
00:57:27 --> 00:57:28
			in their adult life.
		
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			Yes.
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:37
			You probably heard of someone who is married,
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:38
			and he's got busted
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			sneaking around, cheating on his wife.
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:43
			Politicians,
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:46
			Bill Clinton, Spitzer,
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:48
			John Edwards, he actually made a video of
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:49
			his relationship.
		
00:57:50 --> 00:57:51
			And he left it with the, with the
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:52
			house,
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:54
			and his secretary blacked
		
00:57:55 --> 00:57:57
			female. Rudy Giuliani,
		
00:57:57 --> 00:57:58
			clergy,
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:00
			Jimis Margaret, Jim Bakker,
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:01
			Ted Hacker,
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:02
			and
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:05
			you probably heard of Catholic priests who have
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			sexually abused children.
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:09
			David Letterman,
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:10
			who confessed
		
00:58:11 --> 00:58:13
			that he had relationships
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:15
			with female producers in his program,
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:16
			the directors,
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:19
			and most of the female audience in the
		
00:58:19 --> 00:58:19
			studio.
		
00:58:21 --> 00:58:22
			Tiger Woods.
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:25
			So I have learned a lot
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:27
			of celebrity
		
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			women who get busted cheating on their husbands.
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32
			They exist, but there are not as many
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34
			as men because, as I said,
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:36
			statistically,
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:38
			men tend to be
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:39
			more polygamous
		
00:58:40 --> 00:58:41
			than women.
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:44
			Why do the misconceptions persist?
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:47
			Number 1, because of the meaning.
		
00:58:48 --> 00:58:49
			They don't invite
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:51
			scholars to speak.
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:53
			If they want to speak about
		
00:58:54 --> 00:58:54
			pharmacology,
		
00:58:55 --> 00:58:57
			they invite a plumber to speak about pharmacology.
		
00:58:58 --> 00:58:59
			And this is what happens with Islam. They
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:00
			invite,
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:02
			some
		
00:59:03 --> 00:59:06
			anti Islam bigots to speak about Islam, or
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:09
			former Muslims to speak about Islam. So imagine
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:10
			inviting
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:13
			a former Christian to speak about Christianity, and
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:15
			they're not gonna say good stuff.
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:17
			So all you need to do is read
		
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			for yourself.
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:22
			Don't take anybody's word for any religion. Christianity,
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:23
			Judaism,
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:25
			You're intelligent
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:28
			enough to read and think for yourself.
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:34
			Number 2, when people generalize about whole ethnicity
		
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			or religion just because of the actions
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:38
			of a foolish, irresponsible
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:39
			few.
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			I don't think it is fair to generalize
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:46
			about all Americans because of the action of
		
00:59:46 --> 00:59:47
			Timothy McVeigh
		
00:59:48 --> 00:59:51
			or to generalize about Christianity because of the
		
00:59:51 --> 00:59:54
			actions of the Ku Klux Klan. If you
		
00:59:54 --> 00:59:55
			read about
		
00:59:55 --> 00:59:57
			what they did back in the 19 fifties
		
00:59:57 --> 00:59:59
			sixties to black people.
		
00:59:59 --> 01:00:01
			Or to generalize about all Jews because of
		
01:00:01 --> 01:00:02
			the
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:07
			crime that a guy named in 1995
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:08
			when he assassinated
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:10
			Israeli Prime Minister
		
01:00:11 --> 01:00:12
			Yitzhak Rabin.
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:15
			So why should we do the same thing
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:16
			about Muslims?
		
01:00:19 --> 01:00:20
			Ignorance.
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:24
			Most of us don't know much about other
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:26
			people. And as a matter of fact,
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:28
			one of the most recent surveys in some
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:29
			polls by,
		
01:00:32 --> 01:00:33
			I'm gonna remember,
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:36
			Pew Research Center says that most Americans
		
01:00:37 --> 01:00:39
			don't know much about their own faith.
		
01:00:40 --> 01:00:42
			Forget about other people's faith.
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:46
			Like most Protestants, for example, did it.
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:47
			56%
		
01:00:47 --> 01:00:48
			of Protestants
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:51
			didn't know who Martin Luther was. They didn't
		
01:00:51 --> 01:00:53
			know that he was the founder of the
		
01:00:53 --> 01:00:54
			Protestant church.
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:56
			And there are so many
		
01:00:56 --> 01:00:57
			examples.
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01
			We have so many Indians in the Muslim
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:02
			world
		
01:01:03 --> 01:01:05
			who don't know much about the West, who
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:06
			don't know much about America,
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:09
			and they think that all Americans are violent
		
01:01:09 --> 01:01:11
			or drunkards or
		
01:01:11 --> 01:01:12
			criminals,
		
01:01:12 --> 01:01:15
			and they think that make most American women
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:15
			are loose.
		
01:01:16 --> 01:01:17
			And this is because
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:20
			what they see in Hollywood movies.
		
01:01:20 --> 01:01:22
			This is what they see all the time.
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:25
			So all you need to do is
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:27
			grieve for yourself
		
01:01:28 --> 01:01:31
			and not to prejudge people because of the
		
01:01:31 --> 01:01:32
			actions
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:34
			of a few. And I conclude
		
01:01:36 --> 01:01:39
			yes. I conclude with this quotation
		
01:01:39 --> 01:01:39
			from,
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:42
			John Kennedy.
		
01:01:42 --> 01:01:44
			He said it in 1961
		
01:01:44 --> 01:01:45
			in his inauguration.
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:47
			And I still remember as if as if
		
01:01:47 --> 01:01:50
			he said it this morning. He said,
		
01:01:50 --> 01:01:51
			ask not
		
01:01:52 --> 01:01:54
			and some of my fellow Americans ask not
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:57
			what Fox News can teach you about Islam
		
01:01:57 --> 01:02:00
			and what you yourself can teach or can
		
01:02:00 --> 01:02:01
			learn about this religion.
		
01:02:02 --> 01:02:04
			And he said, I don't know. I don't
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:04
			know what you mean.
		
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			Thank you.