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.