Tom Facchine – Born Muslim Converts

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			somebody said that they wished that Muslims had as much patience for each other than they do for new
converts or people who are considering becoming Muslims. And that's, that's really true. That's
really a great point. We can't assume much of anything anymore just because your name is Mohammed or
I should, just because your family comes from a part of the world that's considered part of the
Muslim world. We've had people that have lived under communism for decades who have had their
religion completely stamped out. They don't know anything about their religion, right. And I've
talked with people from, you know, the stands in Central Asia, from the Balkans, different places
		

			across the world. And they'd be like, I feel like a convert. Some people will tell you, I feel
closer to conference than I feel to people of my own ethnicity, right? Because they've gone through
that same process. And that's humbling, you know, for every kind of practicing Masjid going Muslim
to hold off judgment a little bit, because you don't know where people are coming from. These are
complicated days, probably n times, right? And so you know, you see somebody and you might assume
that they have a certain level of knowledge and familiarity with the religion but in reality, you
find that they don't that some people genuinely are starting over from zero, those things the
		

			scholars said in the books were literally right, the things that everybody knows, some of those
things are not known by necessity anymore, and that needs to color sort of the way that we're
reading people and inform how we're going to treat and respond to people when they come to us and we
interact with them.