Yasir Qadhi – The Sources of Islamophobia and How To Deal With It

Yasir Qadhi

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi analyses the goals of Islamophobia in America and the need for Muslims to comprehend the tricks game being adopted for the same. He advises a spiritual and pragmatic approach to be adopted.

Shaykh Yasir goes on to examine the reason for this xenophobia and Islamophobia that is widely prevalent around us. The unprecedented hatred against the Muslims in this land, the rise of anti Islamophobic crimes and much more can be attributed largely to ignorance of the people and also due to genuine worry and fear for their own kith and kin.

The hatred, animosity and misinterpretation that we see around us is actually the result of the people being terrified and scared due to the thought of having to part with his freedom and being jeopardised. At some level, they want to protect their civilization and this hatred is coming from this aspect.

The oppositions are of two kinds :

  • Genuinely deluded, scared and yet sincere people who we can hope to change for the better.
  • Bonafide bigots and racists whom we should leave to Allah to deal with.

 

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The speakers discuss the need for a legal stance to prevent false accusations and a moral stance to avoid false accusations. They emphasize the importance of finding ways to identify those who are not of their skin color and finding ways to be more aware of political agendas. The speakers also discuss the potential threat of terrorist attacks on Muslims, including those who believe their religious affiliation is Islamic. They stress the importance of protecting oneself and not returning to negative behavior. The segment also touches on the history of Islam and its implementation by the Prophet system, as well as the importance of educating people about the Prophet system and its use in political and political environments.

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in the law, how can I de como la Kiba dear brothers and sisters in Islam, typically my hope is, as
you know are about spiritual issues to make us feel closer to Allah subhana wa tada and to the
		
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			religion of Islam. But occasionally we have to veer away from spirituality, and talk about an issue
of a pragmatic nature, an issue that affects all of us. And I felt that in light of the
unprecedented hatred that is arising around us in this land, and of course, some of us have been
born and raised here, some of us has come here recently, but all of us realize that the type of
rhetoric and the type of language that is being used, and in fact, the rise of anti, if you like
Islamophobic crimes across the country, has reached unprecedented levels, even the offices of care,
they were sent a suspicious package, and a number of our messages have been vandalized. Hundreds of
		
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			minor incidents of harassment of our sisters in the job of being intimidated have been pointed out
and reported across the country. And Allah knows best it looks like the situation is getting from
bad to worse. So in light of this reality, I felt that it is necessary for all of us to take a step
back and not just from a spiritual perspective, but also from a pragmatic from a realistic
perspective, what is to be done. And as for a spiritual perspective, I gave that hold about last
week, and as well I remind myself and all of you that in fact, this is the reality of being tested
in this world. Allah says in the Quran, I'm hesitant to mentor the whole gender. Do you really think
		
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			that you're going to enter gender? What am I the millah? hidden agenda, human animal? sorbitan Allah
does not yet know who has struggled and who is patient. Allah says in the Quran that did you think
you would not be tested and tried when those before you Zulu Zulu, they were shaken to the core must
set tamale but Sal Bharat. They were afflicted with one calamity after another until they said Where
is the help of a law? And before I move on to the practical one spiritual Hadith, that when our
predecessors, the Sahaba, were being persecuted in Makkah, and will lie our persecution cannot even
be called persecution, in light of what they went through. It is even insulting to say we are being
		
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			persecuted. No, this is in the grand scale, a minor nuisance compared to what they underwent. When
they were being persecuted. They went to the Prophet system complaining they said yes to the law.
Why don't you make dua to Allah that this stop? Why don't you make dua to Allah that this finishes
and our Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam was sitting with his back against the Kaaba, he was
relaxing. And when they said this, he stood upwards, he move forward, to show them how serious this
was. And he says, You are asking for help. Now, do you not know what happened to those before you,
one of them would be taken, and a Saul would be used to cut this person in half. And he would be
		
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			told to give up worship of Allah subhana wa Tada. And he refused to do so until he is literally cut
into half. This is nothing What is going to happen is even more than this. And of course, the Sahaba
were persecuted even more and more, until finally, of course, they won in the Battle of the conquest
of Mecca, and so on and so forth. The point being that we're lucky if we compare to early Islam, if
we compare to what happened to those who struggle before us, this cannot even be called a genuine
struggle. This is but a minor irritation and nuisance, but today's football is not really meant for
the spiritual aspect is meant for a little bit more practical and pragmatic and historical reality.
		
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			Realize My dear brothers and sisters that at some level, what is happening around us this type of
hatred, this type of animosity, this type of misrepresentation and negativity at some level, we need
to understand
		
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			That the people expressing this hatred to us, they mean good for their own system. They're actually
believe it or not genuinely feeling threatened. And unless and until we can, I know this sounds
bizarre, we can actually stand in their shoes for a second, we will never be able to reach out to
them. Right? Believe it or not, I am telling you that, in fact, we need to to some level sympathize
before we correct. put yourselves in their shoes. The average person who feels this way, is not
somebody who has been to university is not somebody who has seen other cultures is not somebody who
has traveled outside of America, do you know the average American does not have a passport, they
		
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			don't go outside this country. They're living in a land in an area in a small village or town where
pretty much everybody around them is of a similar background, church going and believing in certain
things that are religious in nature, cultural in nature. And then they are presented a false
narrative, Fox News narrative. And all they see constantly is brown skinned Muslims doing their
terrorist attacks and violence and this and that, put yourself in this person's shoes. genuinely
believe it or not, this person feels threatened, he feels terrified. And then he is spoon fed an
agenda of paranoia that other people in this land are going to take away your civilizations and
		
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			freedoms. And they might already be have certain racial tendencies. He's already looking down
towards Barack Obama and others of this nature. So put together Believe it or not, they genuinely
feel that their culture is under threat. Now we need to understand therefore, that at some level,
they want to protect their family. At some level, they want to protect their civilization. And
unless and until we can understand that there is no hope, again, don't misquote me, I know that
they're wrong, right. But what is this stemming from? The base element might not be hatred, it might
be fear of losing your own civilization, it might be under a desire to protect what is sacred and
		
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			special to you. And imagine, if you will, that will lie, it's very easy to imagine that if in one of
our lands,
		
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			non Muslims came and began to increase in quantity, and their ways became well known, and we saw on
TV, wild misrepresentations of their culture, imagine seeing maybe some of the talk shows that take
place in America as being symbolic of all of America, that this is how all Americans are. Imagine
seeing the violence in movies, the gun statistics, and then thinking that oh, this is how all
Americans are, then you see some Americans or Christians coming into your land, and then you start
feeling worried about your way of life. It's easy to imagine the opposite as well. That's the point
that I'm trying to say. And yes, of course, there's no denying that there are people that are
		
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			outright bigots outright racist as well. There's no denying that. And we, as the people who are the
target of this attack need to differentiate between those who are scared but sincere. And in between
those who are genuine bona fide card carrying racists, the two cannot be treated equally. Even
though what they say might sound the same.
		
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			The two cannot be dealt with the same, even if what they say to us sounds the same. Because the
first category actually is sincerely diluted. So there's a chance to get to him or her, there's a
chance to clear up the air. And the second category, the bigot, the racist, that is a miracle from a
law you cannot do anything. That's a miracle from Allah to correct this person. The person has made
up his mind and he fears anybody who's not of his skin color his background, he already hates people
of another race and civilization that in l'amour ravera book, you have to leave to Allah subhanho wa
Taala. But we need to differentiate. And the only way to do that is by dialogue is by seeing where
		
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			this person is coming from. And let me tell you my own experiences that as you all know, I'm a
college professor teaching at a predominantly Christian university, almost all of my students 95 97%
of my students are basically have a Caucasian background, and they are coming. Some of them they
tell me that you're the first Muslim that I have met. This is because they're coming from the
surrounding states. They're from the elite families of those states. You know, the college that I
teach in and they go to this university, and they have never seen a brown skinned person in their
lives, never. And they enter my class knowing nothing. I have taught six years at this university.
		
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			Every semester mice every course is sold out every course is packed to capacity after turn people
away because of the topic not because of me. The topic is so exciting. Everybody wants to come and
take it every semester after turn people learn from my personal experiences six
		
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			Here's as a professor while law Hilda de la Ilaha, Illa, who every student that has come in, by the
time the class leaves, I have not had a single bigot or racist leave the class. By the time it's
over. By the time they spent the whole semester, I have had racists enter into the class. Yes, well,
lucky. Yes, I have had people the first day they come up, and they say things that are very bigoted,
straight to my face.
		
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			I would say the average student that is coming to my own classes, has no exposure other than Fox
News. And this, they themselves have told me that all day long, that's all my family watches. So
when they take the class, this is their perception. But what is the purpose of telling you this
anecdote that there is hope, there is hope people do change. And now of course, the demographics I'm
teaching are college students, they're open minded anyway, they want to know the truth. But the
point is that in my own experiences, being with a person for a semester, teaching them, showing them
demonstrating for them Alhamdulillah 100% of the students I can say, that have come and taken my
		
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			class, they have left with a different mindset about Islam, that they know that they need to cut
through a lot of the media, they know that there are good Muslims and and bad Muslims, etc, etc. In
other words they humanize. And the purpose for quoting you this anecdote is to tell you, you know
what, even a person who has an incorrect idea, don't give up hope. Realize that deep down inside, if
they're sincere, you can reach out to them. And also realize brothers and sisters, and all of us
know this, but I need to emphasize so that we are even more aware that the campaign to misinform our
country about our faith is an orchestrated campaign. It's not just random that people are bigots.
		
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			No. This is an orchestrated campaign that actually has a political agenda. The sad reality is, this
campaign isn't even primarily meant to be anti muslim. It's meant to be anti democratic, that the
Democrats, it's meant to be something that certain segments of the Republican Party are using us as
a scapegoat. The reality is, which is so painful, because in fact, they don't even intend us. They
intend higher politics, we are the pawn, we are the scapegoat that is being used for something far
more sinister, far more political, not religious in nature. And this hamdulillah has now been
brought to light. Unfortunately, it's not common knowledge amongst the masses. But anybody can read
		
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			this. And I asked all of you to Google this after the hood, but you go home, Google, a report called
fear incorporated fear Incorporated, that was done by a policy of for research, and education and
science. And a group of people came together some of the Muslims, some of the non Muslims, and they
and they followed the money trail, they figured out who's paying these people. And they discovered
that at last account around $85 million, at a bare minimum, this is what is publicly recorded. What
is not an off the record probably doubled this about probably around $150 million, but around $85
million has been spent intentionally to finance a campaign of fear about our religion. Why? Because
		
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			there is an underlying narrative that the person in the White House and his party hasn't done enough
to stop us. So the other party says, vote us in, we will get rid of this problem. And we'll law he
we see this yellow line, we see it exactly with the latest presidential candidate.
		
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			I think everybody with a positive IQ understands that he doesn't mean what he is saying, How can he
win half of his business partners or rich billionaire Muslim Arabs? How can he he knows that Islam
itself is not a problem. But he needs to boost his finer his campaign, he needs to boost his
ratings. And he knows the more provocative he gets. He's going to appeal to a certain segment of
this country. So we as Muslims need to realize that, in fact, sadly, we are not even the target. We
are not even the primary thing. It's just the pond, the sacrificial pond that is being used in a far
bigger game of chess, that this is just an incidental thing. And the sad reality is we are the pond,
		
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			we will suffer. We are the ones harassment, maybe even death is happening already in this country of
violence and whatnot. But we need to understand and be aware and cognizant that this is not about
Christianity versus Islam. Not at all. Yes, it's being used at that level. Yes, some people are
being sucked in because of that. But the people that are financing, the people that are the brains,
the people that are the spokespersons? No, it's not even religious, it is 100% a political reality
and
		
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			What this fear incorporated report has done and there's also a movie that has been released a
documentary about this whole issue is that there are in fact a series of, if you like pseudo
intellectuals, semi educated people that are being used to spout forth these lines that are going to
be used against Islam, people like Daniel pipes and frank gaffney, David yerushalmi, Robert Spencer,
Steven Emerson, these are all some of the big names that are being used to basically propagate
misinformation and lies. And of course, each one of these names By the way, they're so easy to
discredit. So for example, Donald Trump right now he is using frank gaffney for most of his lines,
		
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			right? He because these people don't know, Trump doesn't know what Islam says he can't say anything.
So he goes to these myths, experts or pseudo experts, and he's using frank gaffney. And he's the
main person and bush before him used Spencer and others. So the point being that it's very easy to
discredit these names, frank gaffney, for example, all you have to do is listen to him online. These
are non known unknown people, he barely has a few 1000 followers on Twitter and Facebook. And these
are not people that are that are accredited by any university or any prestigious institution, each
one of them, runs his own Think Tank goes to show, you know, intelligence think tank will employ
		
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			them because these people can't think they're not qualified to actually be in a legitimate Think
Tank. So what have they done? They founded their own think tanks, every one of them without
exception. They have their own think tanks. And of course, who is the person thinking one person,
that one person so it's basically a corporation that they can get money and pay themselves salaries,
as we'll talk about in a little while this person frank gaffney, for example, he has so many
outrageous, outlandish claims, claiming that Barack Obama might be the illegitimate love child of a
rock star of the 60s, claiming that the Oklahoma bombing the Oklahoma one, right was engineered by
		
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			Saddam Hussein. This is frank gaffney. Okay, and I can go on and on a complete lie, but just a
buffoon. No, no, no. This is the person that Donald Trump is using to get his statistics and nobody
of intelligence takes them seriously, unfortunately, who does take them seriously, people who want
to hear this type of stuff, and therefore these people, they give the the media, the media, these
talking lines, and these talking lines are then amplified. So these small voices, each one of them
is unknown, but who knows. But what happens is these ideas, these bullet points are fed into
amplifying machines. What are these amplifying machines? fox news is one example. Washington Times
		
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			is another example. You have these radio personalities, rush limbaugh, you have these individuals
like Sean Hannity, you have Mike savage and other radio personality used to be Glenn Beck, he was of
course led off, but he has his own channel, but these are the voices that then take these talking
points mainstream. They make the average person of that demographics. Be aware of what these people
are saying. And there's also another category of people. They are called the validators. So once the
the host of any program will say anything, they'll invite a validator. And the validator will
basically say yes, you're right. Yes, you're right. Yes, you're right. Yes, men, and these
		
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			validators, some of them are claiming to be Muslim. Okay, so the D Jocelyn is the most infamous
amongst them, and others basically have left Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for example, right. And yet
others have never been Muslim, but they are spouting as if they're experts, Brigitte Gabriel, who's
Arab, Christian and others. Pamela Geller is another one of these types of individuals. And these
people are typically brought in after the host says whatever outlandish things then they're brought
in as an expert. And of course, none of them is an actual expert. And they have this list small list
of people and these are then brought in so the average person hears fact x and then corroborated by
		
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			the expert. He says, Yes, fact x is right. And then the person is psychology. The person says, oh,
it must be right. Okay. And we have seen already how ludicrous This is. One of them came on fox news
and said, there are so many places in England that are no go zones, right? All non Muslims are
scared to walk in. Recently, Donald Trump himself said that in London, there are places that the
police are too scared to go into because they're run by the Muslim community. And I have been to
London over 50 times and some of us have lived there. Pure ludicrousness. But still, this is the
reality now. Why are these people doing this? We know that the main people who finance it are from
		
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			the far right from the Republicans, we understand that. How about these people? How about these
validators? Why are they doing it? Well, some of them sheer hatred, because you have people that are
bigots right Pamela Geller. Brigitte Gabriel mean Christian Arabs, she is coming from a background
we all understand. These are bigots, they hate us anyway. They didn't they don't need any other
		
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			incentive, some of them, they like taking the spotlight. Some of them, they want to scapegoat and
remove, if you like far bigger issues. So for example, a far bigger issue that we as Americans need
to talk about is gun violence. A far bigger issue we need to talk about is police violence, shooting
people for the for absolutely no reason, you know, Black Lives Matter movement, but what happens?
You talk about Muslim terrorism, and these more important issues gets pushed away. So we need to
understand that there is also an agenda here. And let us not forget, and this has to be said, each
one of these individuals is making quite a lot of money.
		
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			Do you know that Horowitz one of these big names in the think tanks, his public because he has a
corporation, nonprofit. So you can see all of this is public news. Last year or two years ago, I
forgot what year you know what his salary was? This is just salary. By the way, you understand he
gets more for speaking fees. You understand that travel expenses, all just the take home salary?
Half a million dollars?
		
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			Of course, he's founded his Think Tank, how else is he going to get rich? Brigitte Gabriel, Pamela
Hart, all of them are making a killing, what like they would not be making making minimum wage at
McDonald's or something because they get fired the next day, they wouldn't even get that. But
pretend you're an expert on Islam, say the most disgusting profane things, and you will get paid
mega bucks, another of them $200,000 a year, another on and on. I mean, I can although this test is
statistics are here, but time is limited. You get my point here, right? for appearing once every few
weeks, your salary is 200,000. That is your take home salary, on top of this speaking engagements
		
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			and campuses and organizations. So in reality, these people are rolling in money. Why would they not
continue their complete falsehood. And of course, we all know that if you want to make a buck, just
criticize Islam, you'll get to the New York Times bestseller list, you will be on every single show.
If you really want to sell your religion for money. Allah will give you your money in this world,
and your humiliation and your job in the next these people have chosen that path. These people have
chosen that path. They prefer the money along with the humiliation and the other. So they will get
it unless Allah wills that they repent. So realize that there are many incentives here. And of them
		
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			indeed, his fame and fortune and money. And every one of them has what they had wanted in this
regard. Now, brothers and sisters quickly now the question comes that when somebody comes to you and
brings up these issues, brings up these issues that Oh, I can't be Islamophobic Islam isn't even an
ethnicity. I'm not racist. Islam isn't even a race. As long as an even a religion, they will say
Islam is a political system. So it doesn't have first amendment rights. Some of them say this. And
of course, they say that, Oh,
		
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			your religion is a religion of violence and terrorism, that and this is a common thing. Not every
Muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim. Okay? These are common things that they say,
how do we respond to all of this, and again, time is limited, and I don't have time to go over each
and every one of these things. But very simplistically, brothers and sisters, very simplistically,
you need to become more knowledgeable of your religion, and of the modern culture and our
statistics. Brothers and sisters, you cannot call a share or another more, or a person, when you're
talking with your colleague, I'm sorry to tell you, each one of you will have to do your homework,
		
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			each one of you will have to learn. Because in the end of the day, when somebody says something to
you, you can call me. But you don't have that. What is that hotline that the shows have that I want
to have my phone call, you can do that. You have to do your own research. And know these facts
before somebody says something. Know your statistics, brothers know your own definition. Somebody
says, Oh, you guys aren't a religion, because you follow a system of law? Well, you need to say,
look, tell me, what does the constitution say? Do I have the freedom to practice my religion? In my
private life? He'll have to say yes, you say to me, this is the idea. I get to define my religion,
		
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			not you. I have to define my god. I'm not imposing my will on you. He will say, doesn't your
religion have legal laws as well? You say, how about Christians and abortion and gay rights? Haven't
they taken their religion and translate it into politics? What's problematic is not where the
motivation of change comes from is how you want to change. How do you want to change you if you want
to use the system, the First Amendment guarantees you the right to do that. If you don't want to use
this system that's illegal, and therefore we are against anybody that is doing anything illegal. As
for this issue of that all terrorists or Muslims will lie this
		
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			is a blatant lie. And again, I have a whole page of statistics, but time does not allow me to do
this. But you should realize brothers and sisters that that's your responsibility. Look up, there's
a website, www shooting tracker.com. It tracks shooters shooting tracker.com look at the statistics.
Up until today, around 350 mass shootings have taken place, how many Muslims one or maybe there's
another case somewhere else, maybe to one this whole year. Right? One person of a Muslim or one
shooting incident. The famous magazine Mother Jones compiled a detailed analysis of every single
mass shooting that has taken place in the last 35 years. And this is I read the article that habits
		
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			online as well. And they said the almost exclusively the profile of a mass shooter is a white
Caucasian male. This is the standard profile. So white Caucasian, if you like male have a generally
a middle class background, not even lower clustrixdb rate generally, that in terms of socio economic
as for the notion that every terrorist group is a Muslim group, the FBI itself and I logged on today
morning to make sure that this is still the case list that the terrorist threats from far right
militia groups is actually a far more realistic threat than from Muslim groups as well. We need to
point out every single terrorist attack from a Muslim for because I say this because it wasn't a
		
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			real Muslim during this, but every single terrorist attack coming from an Islamic background has
been what we call lone wolf individual radicalized by themselves. There's not a single actual cell
that has been uncovered. Not a single network. Every one is just somebody internet goes crazy does
something in contrast, look at the far right militias. Look at the hate groups. Look at the KKK.
These are organized militias. They have a hierarchy. They have a network, they have clouds. If la
casa de la any one of them wanted to get military wanted to get militia, they would have 10s of
1000s of people across the country. They're publicly training, they have literature that's very anti
		
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			government, anti this and that they pose pose a far more radical threat, which is why the FBI lists
them as being far more radical since 911. Since 911, a grand total of 45 people have been killed in
attacks that have been called Islamic radicalism. Do you know more than this have been killed by
hate groups who thought they're killing Muslims fraud because sometimes they kill the Hindu, a Sikh,
they attacked the Hindu temple. The point is that more than this almost double have been killed by
people thinking they're fighting Muslims here in America. So let's contextualize 45 people in 15
years since 911 14, and a half years since 911. Compare that and of course, there are so many
		
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			surveys done, you are 5000 times more likely to die of a misdiagnosis in the hospital, sorry,
doctors over here but of a misdiagnosis in the hospital, then you are from a terrorist attack, you
are hundreds of times more likely to be killed by police violence, gun violence than by a terrorist
attack. In fact, and this is the joke here that it was made into a meme, you are five times more
likely to die because of your furniture, you tripped over it, or it falls on you, then because of a
terrorist attack. put things into perspective, that this is paranoia, people are intentionally,
literally being brainwashed for political reasons. And we need to explain this to the people that
		
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			are falling prey to this, there are at least 8 million Muslims in America, if Islam were a violent
religion, we would have seen hundreds and 1000s go crazy. 8 million, and in the last 15 years,
barely barely 10 such attacks, which have resulted in 45 deaths 10 even less than this, to be
honest, but I'm just being simple for you to remember, less than 10 in 15 years, from 8 million, do
the statistics that calculate and I did it 0.00001 to 5%. This is a violent religion. So we need to
know our statistics. We need to know how to defend ourselves. And one final point and again, I have
much more but unfortunately, time is up that when they bring up anything from anywhere else. Why do
		
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			Muslims in Pakistan do that? Why do Saudi Arabian ladies can't drive brothers and sisters? You don't
have to defend anything happening anywhere else?
		
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			It's none of your business. You say I don't know. Go ask somebody else. That's not me. My wife
drives they quote you something about another line. I don't know what you're talking about. This is
my religion in my country. See, this is some of our problems. We don't understand what to say when
to say it. Do not there's no need to talk about foreign policy. No need to talk about anything. You
have to defend the constitutional right to be a Muslim. This is your ultimate goal right now.
Another time another place. Yes. Bring in
		
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			More detailed conversations. But the average person when you begin a conversation, you don't care
about his sympathy he can he can say whatever he wants about Islamic Christianity. You want just one
thing from him? Do I have the right to practice my religion in this country? That's what I want to
ask you. That's you, you you will have to win this argument. But the minute you open your mouth
about philosophy in and Pakistan and Timbuktu, this is an irrelevant conversation, because we are
asking for our freedoms to be American under the Constitution and worship in accordance with our
religious teachings. That's the conversation keep focused on that point. And the final point,
		
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			brothers and sisters is that of course, you only open this conversation, if and when you feel that
your life is not threatened. The number one priority is to protect yourself. And if you feel that
there's any chance of anything happening, then walk away, walk away. If you have your phone handy,
try to start recording because that's going to be used as evidence. If you have to call the police
we want to go to a more public area. There are also certain apps if you have a smartphone of them is
be safe and there are other apps inshallah, we'll email you our email group, we're going to send out
to all of our MSE mailing lists. These are very helpful apps, especially for our sisters in a job
		
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			they need to be monitoring because as we said, in the last few days, hundreds of minor incidents
have been reported across the country, especially targeting our HIV sisters. Firstly, because these
people are cowards, and they target women instead of men. And secondly, because our sisters who wear
the hijab are visibly more Muslim. They're identifiably Muslim more so than a person who might be
brown skinned or whatnot. So they know that this is a Muslim. So sisters as well be a little bit
more cautious. Maybe not go out alone at night. And frankly, the problem comes even in daytime
things have happened. So it's not just about night, but be conscious, be aware and do not be
		
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			confrontational because the ultimate priority is our physical safety. If you feel that is just some
rudeness and you can dialogue. Then you open the door and have a polite conversation and always be
polite. Do not return nastiness with nastiness with nastiness. Do not return evil with evil. This is
the time to be extra polite, extra sweet. indefatigability here as San Jose, respond to evil with
goodness and kindness, smile, don't smile and frown smile, say you misunderstood who we are. And we
are just as opposed to terrorism as you are. Try your best to be as polite because at the end of the
day if this person is sincere, if this person has just been misguided your politeness will win this
		
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			person over not your facts as much as the fact that you are a good human being a good Muslim that's
what we need to do. And we ask Allah Subhana sins to protect all of us in this in this Masjid and
and all over this world and country in a shallow tada and the second hood but I'll give some more
spiritual advice vertical a vertical focus on all the wonderful anyway y'all come be my feet in it
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			Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah wa had an aha the summit la de la mirada, Mula Bandha, Hakuna had
Roberto, of course this is a hot button and it is essential that I do mention some spiritual advice
as well, along with the practical and historical stuff that I mentioned in the first part. And I
want to conclude this football with one of my favorite verses of the Quran or series of verses of
the Quran. And it is a middle mccunn verse, it was revealed one, the persecution, the first
Islamophobia raised his evil head and our Prophet Mohammed system was facing that Islamophobia. What
did Allah subhana wa tada tell him? What are Kadena mo Anika yo de casa de Luca yaku. We know you're
		
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			a pseudo law, that your heart is in pain because of what they're saying. You know, it's completely
fine to feel hurt. It's human to feel pain. Well law he is human brothers sisters, if anybody comes
and says something about you, if you didn't feel pain, then something's wrong with you. If you
didn't feel hurt, if you didn't feel the type of embarrassment and awkwardness it's something
natural. Somebody is going to make a slur about you say something about your skin color say
something about your background, go home terrorist this and that. All of us have had that
experience. I to all of us have had that experience. People come home and they say nasty things to
		
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			us to our face or behind our backs. So Allah is telling our Prophet semirara Sula, we know it hurts
will lie that is so overwhelmingly peaceful to know even Rasulullah system was in pain. And Allah
azza wa jal said, We know you're a solo it hurts. So what what should you do? what are called an
Alamo and naka de Lune for some Arabic akumina sagittis. Why Buddha robata hetalia to karate when
you feel that
		
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			distress. Always praise Allah subhana wa tada and fall down in such the meaning when you are able to
pray to Allah subhana wa tada and continue to worship Allah until the inevitable meaning the death
comes to you. Meaning that you know this pain and suffering, one of the ways to alleviate it. In
fact, the number one way to alleviate it is to open up a channel of communication with the law is to
praise the law make dua to Allah fall down in such depth and continue to worship Allah. When the
world seems to hate you know that Allah Georgia loves you, when everybody else has cut off from you
know that Allah azza wa jal will never cut off from the one who turns to him. So our Prophet system
		
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			is being told that as the animosity increases, you should increase your child of your relationship
with me. And this is an explicit verse that as Islamophobia goes up. So should our connection with
Allah subhana wa Tada, this will calm us down. This will bring us the the the courage, the
fortitude, the patience, it will bring us the stamina to withstand all that is happening around us.
If we don't have a law, we have nothing. And if we have a law, we don't need anything else. So this
verse is directing our Prophet system that when they speak, and they hurt you physically, verbally,
never forget, continue to praise me continue to worship me continue to fall down in frustration, and
		
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			it's as if quite literally ignore their hatred, ignore it, you're in your bubble of worship, just
keep on going, and eventually a lost command will come. What is that ls command some people said the
victory and the conquest of Mecca. And that's true. Eventually the religion of Allah azza wa jal
will prevail over the darkness around and some have said even if you don't see the victory, your
death will come and you are worshipping Allah. And that is really the ultimate goal. We might not
achieve ultimate happiness in this world. But if we're able to achieve it in the era, that is the
ultimate success. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us the amount and taqwa that is needed in the
		
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			dying for a mineral Allahu Allah Tada. And then if you had to meet him and he loved Manila falter,
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			hailed as a become a minimum gender he were in se four called azim calling idema in the law, how
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consider Kuru Kuru Kuru. Kuru.
		
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			Kuru la tada Akbar okay Masada