Tom Facchine – Feeding The Ego or Defending The Sunnah

			Everybody needs to check themselves to make sure that they're not just surrounding themselves with
people that already agree with everything that they have to say, right? We're really bad about this,
I think in the Muslim community, we say that we expect to disagree. And then we fly off the handle,
we actually disagree. And we try to punish people, right? Whether that is like disinviting them from
an event, or not showing up with MSG, or starting a new message, or all this sort of drama. And in
reality, you know, that's just that's not what Unity looks like, that's not what it looks like to be
an OMA, we have to expect that we're going to have disagreements, okay? That's like, very, very base
		

			level. But more than that, we need to actively go out of our way to collaborate people to the extent
to which we are okay with collaborating with them. Okay, so if you know, you're invited to a certain
event, and maybe you don't believe in all of the things that all of the panelists speak about, but
the thing that you're invited to speak about, or the theme of the conference, or the event is
something that everybody agrees upon, and it's not problematic, well, then what's wrong, right, you
really think that you're endorsing such a person just by showing up and being there, you think that
you're going to lead people astray? You know, people are going to get exposed to somebody and then,
		

			you know, get more involved with them until they kind of are, you know, led astray and misguided.
Okay, maybe I mean, that's, that's that might happen. How likely is it right, first of all, and
second of all, are there other concerns that are more important, such as bringing unity to the
Muslim, right? If you have a town or a city in which you have, you know, a Sufi masjid and we're
talking about a Sufi master, the files are shitty, and you have a Salafi masjid and you have a I
don't know, like some other sort of maybe like a cultural message. Okay? How much interaction is
there between those messages? Okay, are the Imams going back and forth and visiting each other? Do
		

			they have joint programming once, once a month, right? once a quarter, like whatever these that is a
help a healthy symbol of, of unity, right? And if everybody's just making silos is that, well, this
is our thing, and we're doing it this way. And we're convinced that we're right. And we're going to
pat ourselves on the back and be content with the intellectual wages feeling superior that we're the
right ones, and never give an olive branch to the other guys and collaborate, you know, even about
helping feed people and the things that everybody can agree about, then I'm convinced that that's
your ego. I'm sorry. I'm convinced that that has to do with your ego and it's not about defending
		

			the Sunnah. And it's not about defending the religion even if that's the language that you use to
justify it because that is not the requisite amount of fidelity and loyalty that we have to have to
other Muslims even if you disagree with some of their things or even if you think that they have
some issues, right, put your money where your mouth is right show me that you're actually believe in
the Brotherhood, show me that you believe in the OMA show me that you believe in unity, right? I
think that that's where we have to direct our attention.