Tom Facchine – The Problem Facing The Muslim Community

			If we're not thinking as an OMA, we're not thinking about it as a Muslim community. We don't make
our own food. We don't educate our own children. We don't actually own as much as we think we do
after credit and mortgage is taking into account. We can't make things for ourselves. Therefore, we
are not self sufficient. Remember when the oil embargo happened in the 70s? What are the King of
Saudi Arabia say threateningly, he said, we'll go back to dates and water if we have to. That's
power, right? To have the ability to produce for yourself is to not be able to be messed with by
anybody else. We can't satisfy all of our needs as a community. Again, we've got the Holy Trinity.
		

			We've got tons of doctors on lock engineers, no problem. But who's going to write poetry? Who's
going to write curriculum? Who's going to We saw this with the LGBTQ phenomenon, all the sudden
Muslims are on the backfoot backpedaling, who's going to write the curriculums who in this clip,
raise your hand if you're an education major? I hope there's one in the room. Is there one in the
room education? Anybody know? Nobody in this room? Does education I one person, yes, my man. But the
idea is, this is not collective thinking. This is not collective thinking. We're being fed
individualism, okay, like you and you, and you and you, what are you going to do for your life,
		

			we're not thinking as an OMA, we're not thinking about it as a Muslim community. If we're going to
have all of our bases covered, we need diversity, we need everybody to have all the skills covered.
Is it viable? Is it viable to have a community in this way? Last night, we had somebody say that
their first encounter with someone in Canada at a gas station was that your third generation belongs
to us, or your third generation will be ours. If this is how assimilation happens. All the things
that I've been pointing out how the you know, the fracturing of the family and the breaking up and
the feeding of dreams and the dreams that you imagined for yourself that aren't your own dreams.
		

			They're not your own dreams, they were fed to you. Okay, this is how assimilation happens. It's not
sustainable. It's not viable in three generations. If these are our dreams, we will not be Muslims
or maybe your children, your grandchildren will not be Muslims.