Suhaib Webb – Confronting Islamophobia- Understanding its Impact and Challenges

			Okay, so here we are. This is one
of the oldest souks. It's been
		

			here since the time of the early
days. Right next to us, you see
		

			I'm walking is the original, what
was the original Grand Mosque of
		

			Granada where people come and
pray. And it was destroyed,
		

			completely obliterated. And it's
something that we need to
		

			appreciate, and I feel that we
sleep on it. Islamophobia has been
		

			around for a long time. And it has
different iterations. Just
		

			recently in the United States,
there was the Iftar. And the
		

			Muslims were invited to the Deaf
door. And one of the brothers he
		

			showed up, he was a mayor. He used
to be a mayor Palestinian, I
		

			believe from New Jersey, they
wouldn't let him in the White
		

			House. Have you heard that happen
into any other religious group?
		

			There are structural Islamophobia.
There's political Islamophobia.
		

			There's cultural Islamophobia and
a lot of that is rooted in this
		

			kind of stuff. We need to be on
guard as a community, we need to
		

			take this stuff seriously that
Muslims all across the globe, even
		

			now in India, Palestine, Kashmir,
in the West, laws in France are
		

			being passed, which are steeped in
the Islamophobia, specifically of
		

			Europe, the Euro centrist ism. So
this massive, massive, huge
		

			structure was built on MSG.