Tom Facchine – You Want Your Neighbor To Be a Muslim

			Do you want your neighbor to be a Muslim, or you should want your neighbor to be Muslim, because if
he's an actual Muslim, or she's an actual Muslim, she is going to do things, the right things when
nobody's looking.
		

			Right? You know, if somebody is in your house, if somebody breaks into your house, or somebody tries
to harm or hurt you or your property, if you have a Muslim neighbor, then that person's if they are
a decent Muslim, they're going to try to help you. You know, they are operating on an ethical code
that comes back to a perfect God that comes back to eternal consequences. Right, and that's somebody
you should want in your community. So I mean, a lot of people, you know, it's politics, a lot of
people get politicized, and everybody needs a scapegoat, and everybody needs sort of a an enemy to
rally behind. But, you know, when it comes to your day to day life, for the people who are in your
		

			neighborhood or in your community, it's like that it doesn't have to be that way. Not everybody's an
enemy. Right? Nor do you have to always have an enemy. And I think, you know, if people realize
that, that Islam is a completely legitimate faith in a long tradition, and something that requires a
strict kind of moral code, of the people who are committed to it, you know, that it is a lot of
benefit to give American society. And the other thing, and this is just off the top of my head is
that, you know, Islam has a lot of benefit America when it comes to race. And when it comes to
attitudes towards people and where they come from, because Islam, you look at our community, we have
		

			so much diversity, you know, what some churches would give, to have the diversity that we have in
the in the mosque, we have every single color, every single continent, every single, you know, we
got multiple languages. Right? If this was a university, people would be taking pictures and putting
it on their promotional material, because this is like, you know, they staged those photos, right?
Like for photo ops, we don't have to stage them. That's like normal, everyday business for us.
Right. And that says something that says something about Islam that we really do, even though
individual Muslims might or not, might not practice that. Okay.
		

			We hope that they straighten themselves out. But when it comes to the actual religion, extremely
egalitarian, right, extremely anti tribalistic, anti ethnocentric sort of stuff. And so that's
something I think that Americans also stand to benefit from