Suhaib Webb – Confronting Islamophobia- Understanding its Impact and Challenges
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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.