my teacher chef a fellow in Veda argue
been walking to the iptr Venus at the
White House and Brookings Institute was
he said that in logic were taught to ask
questions in a certain order one of the
things that ill-trained minds do is they
ask questions in the wrong order and
then this results in the wrong answers
so for instance he said you should
always ask what before why so for
instance Newsweek has an article that
says why do they hate us instead of
asking do they hate us because when the
Gallup went out and actually pulled the
Muslims all over the world they found
that they did not hate us and so by
asking why before asking what we come up
with wrong answer so I want to look a
little bit at Islamophobia in the United
States and you see a lot of cartoons and
cartoons ok this homophobia is an
irrational fear of Islamist terrorism
interesting so what would you call the
rational fear of Islamist terrorism
sanity so then this is framing the
already is homophobia is being framed
here so they're telling you what it is
this is not what it's not focus but
cartoonists are actually very very
influential
if you
as many people read the funnies that
don't read any other part of the
newspaper and I've seen that on many
occasions so it's our phobia attorney
according to word net source of many
people's definitions was all phobias
prejudice against Muslims from the idea
prejudging Collins English dictionary
Tucson phobias hatred or fear of Muslims
or of their politics or culture and then
care is some focus in using carrier
Islam hope your person I'm found in fear
up in hostility towards Islam because
phobia according to the psychiatric use
phobia is an irrational fear because not
all fears are irrational like I think
it's it's valid to fear a terrorist
attack as as a possibility for people
that are involved in them but for the
average people you are more likely to
get struck by lightning or diving on a
dog bite in the United States the die
from the terrorist attacks with this
idea of having this fear of terrorists I
mean I always kind of base it at the
airports they say please report any
suspicious behavior everybody's
suspicious at the airport I mean just
start looking around their home
telephoning oh my god you know and they
there because they're going to lose or
they left something think you've got
people with backpacks that could have
bombs in them you know it's a type of
insanity when you create this
environment where people begin to fear
other people because if all of us have a
weapon of mass destruction we drove
you're in it there are millions of
weapons of mass destruction the United
States but people aren't driving their
cars into places some guy did it in
Scotland now those six billion people on
the planet that's not bad right
one guy drove remember that in the
airport crises there
and so there is an irrational fear but
if you want to look at the roots of this
and I think dr. earlier and he said you
know we failed to look at the sources a
lot of these things and I said like the
Crusades and he said even before that
and I would agree because if you I don't
know if they still use it anymore but
when I was in school we had to study a
book called Norton Anthology of
literature and and the first entry in
Norton's book is the Song of Roland
so Western literature begins with a
storm that celebrates the defeat of the
Muslims and this is very interesting and
if you look in if you look at the when
the Pope spoke in Germany he mentioned
men well ii men well ii was an emperor
who went around europe about fifty years
before the fall actually about thirty
years before the fall of constantinople
which is now istanbul and he argued that
the christians needed to help him defend
constantinople from this turkish
onslaught and he failed but if you think
about European identity Europe Europe
has two fundamental identities
historically one of them is a Christian
identity which is a positive identity
but they also have a negative identity
which is that they're not Muslims and
this is very important historically in
the Christian consciousness of Europe is
that they really saw the Muslims for
centuries as a serious threat to to the
European civilization so it's it's it's
important that we remember that the
Crusades are a major turning point in
your leading civilization one because of
a massive influx of Muslim culture into
the West the rise in colleges is a
to read from George magazine also we
forget st. Francis Assisi and the
Franciscans have a wonderful narrative
in their tradition state Francis Assisi
is actually according to Franciscans
ended the Crusades because he got a
papal dispensation to allow Crusaders to
get their explanation by making a
pilgrimage to Assisi in Italy where
where he had a monastery and and that's
part of their tradition there's actually
a book about saint francis the saint of
the sultan which narrates that story
it's a wonderful story now if you look
in the consciousness of America 9/11 now
has emerged like probably for my father
and mother's generation the the turning
point for them was Pearl Harbor and my
mother was actually at the University of
Berkeley when Pearl Harbor was bombed
this was an eternal one my father was
he's younger than my mother but my
father was 17 at the time he literally
got a dispensation from from his mother
he got permission to join at the airport
and so at 17 he did not finish his lives
here at high school but he actually went
into the Air Force as a young man from a
very very wealthy family but that was
the type of fervor that that event
created in the United States where
people literally went just to sign up so
that's important to remember that this
mice my son my 17 year old is as an
artist and he's been drawing pictures of
buildings on fire since he was about 12
so this is in the consciousness of a
generation of Americans now and all of
us you know for people that are I think
over 50 to have when they all know where
they were when Kennedy
assassinated for Americans today they
know so there's a lot of forms of media
that are not being used cartoons and
departments again have this is a cartoon
from the type of the Greeks were
fighting the Turks and Lord Byron
actually went to fight with the Greek so
this was a very popular war for the
romantics to go and fight there's a
wonderful picture of him in in a turban
because the Greeks actually were lived
under Muslim rule for several hundred
years and they actually adopted a lot of
Greek clothing actually come from Turkey
and the Greeks have worried beatings and
also to call them think of the Greeks
problem worry I guess they were wearing
here we have hope anything and for the
Catholics excuse because I violence is
incompatible with the nature of God the
nature of soul are you calling us by the
look on your back that's right I think
wonderful caricature is there if you
look at Jewish that cartoons from the
Germans that very similar it's really
interesting jihad the devil's behind in
Islam I love this one is not a part of
America so that's Barack Obama the
official version but here's the Muslim
how to build a bomb right so this is the
Muslim top they do for Pope's words /
cartoons over the modern world Miami
dyspeptic / car bombing - the headings
dum-dum bodies and then I love this one
the West
I mean disagree with what you say but I
will defend to death your right to her
death right radical
and then here we see my hero zu infidel
kids are finally apologizing Danish
cartoon tank maja I was in therapy
because every day in the United States
people are reading this stuff outraged
by the cartoon husband and then books
written by Ron Wilson so this is is an
incredible industry that's emerging this
is and it's important because you play
all care as American don't be well talk
show radio goes read and then they in
turn you know this
I used to monitor this stuff the first
book that I bought was in 1994 I think
it was called that was just amazing
industry I'm actually in the Muslim up
here with you are you know I'm not a
Muslim mafia done according to Muslim
Brotherhood series and you know what
their evidence is I just want a cool
thing set and they actually caught in an
FBI agent who said mommy doesn't prefer
to live on cooked a sex because it's
harder to do drive-bys and it's harder
for the FBI to monitor them so that
doctor Bassin is on a cook they said
Iman's a typical taste all these moles
of Omar from care bazaar including I
suppose whistles how I have five kids so
that's what I was thinking about like
your car price low but this is
in another book Islamic infiltration I
was a stealth jihadist that infiltrated
the White House so the another one
actually said that I had information
because I said in a speech
two days before September 9th that
America has a Great Tribulation coming
to it so I had insider information and
this was put into a call here I grow so
water and he said well you're a public
defender cockblock
because we don't have good libel laws in
this country but my word means to reject
these dueling because when the freedom
of speech freedom of slaves was a law in
America when they wrote the Bill of
Rights right
they had Julian it wasn't a lot of 1830
so somebody said something nasty about
you you could actually send your ii like
i could send them out to business and
satisfaction jeweled it out but now you
just say whatever you want and since
Sullivan verses of the New York Times
which was a complete liberal
unfortunately it was a complete liberal
disaster because Sullivan was some races
and he was libeled
in the New York Times and he sued them
and because it was during Earl Warren
it was very liberal court system they
actually said because he was a public
figure that they have higher standard so
it's harder to prove like so now we have
two laws in the United States for public
figures and private figures so you can
say whatever you want about a public
figure and they have no recourse to law
to redress that but right so my wife has
protection under the Constitution for
being libel or slander but I don't have
protection and it's just not right but
this is what we're dealing with you know
these people can say with everything one
and they're here doing what is called
swift voting now these are the the
people that are writing moves now
from within Islam 30 degrees Palestinian
given what rock Pakistani leaving Islam
apostate speak out the God who behaves
worthless ohon voices behind the veil
why I'm not a Muslim under this law
origins of the Quran is showing that
it's all made up
why not that jihad and then I am her she
she's the poster child she's attractive
Ethiopia lady
so they love her and then why do so not
be sorry why do we want to kill you yeah
Ethiopians by the way I know a secret
about them they kill because you will
never see something I think they must do
something why do you want to kill you
look at that child and that we have
Muslim performance so you see these are
the ones that want to reform this all
from within changes troubles on today
and this my favorite one learn tolerance
from mr. Collins discussion between
committing adultery Lord show respect
your culture and sensitivity to your
religious values many that's mr.
tolerance for having respect for my
religious values you are indeed an
amazing infidel
so say okay examples may not be high but
commentators read these books and
amplify the effects so you have people
like Michael Savage is this one religion
values so many in America sent an arrest
center themselves when it comes to
evaluating fun is it just beer yeah
absolutely absolutely forget their about
that because they threaten us
that's the cellmate
Meredith decided that the suicide
bombers were Methodists market slices
Massacre types included the problem is
is long and but let me play get back
that water naturally relevant once
between art to mind the middle each in
any any you know that a folder we can't
heal so we have in some of the moment
this quote and the fact that in Mohammed
in law every woman that must belong to
some man as his absolute property either
as a child a wife or a concubine must
delay the final extinction of slavery
until the faith of Islam has ceased to
be a great power among men pretty
outrageous stuff yeah you didn't say
that though I didn't say that Winston
Churchill said that yeah Winston
Churchill as a matter of fact in the
book and the 50s also Mena comparisons
like public in Italy with also Winston
Churchill the comparison between might
come and the Koran one of the reasons
that I'm being prosecuted I don't
remember with intuitive over a Nobel
price for this circle and we would have
been persecuted and I have nothing
against people I have nothing against
Muslims with my point is that Islam is a
totalitarian ideology that should be
compared not so much the power religions
but the power of the determinant
ideologies like communism or fascism
well if we don't stop covering up what
Islam is Islam is a violent no
cigarettes if I start with admissible
as a political system bet on the
overthrow of the governments of the
world at the end and world domination
now see what you have to realize from
this this is going on constantly
I have watched in my lifetime the 700
club I think five times every single
time there was anti-muslim statements so
I have to assume they must do that all
the time and these people reach large
numbers of people you can say Oh only
20% of Americans hate Muslims right well
it's actually compute polls are showing
it's more than 47 percent
but you're dealing with millions of
people in a country that is is rooted in
civil society and if anything should
threaten the stability of that society
because of my personal view is after
9/11 my estimation of the American
people went up considerably
I remember the meanest because I was
convinced that there was going to be a
tax on mosque there was going to be
costing the Muslim women I really
thought it was going to get very bad
that was my initial feeling I was
overwhelmed by the amount of goodwill
that came out of average people we got
for everyone I hate you call we got to
the mosque we got a hundred people
saying we're really troubled by what
we're hearing people
attacks against your religion flowers
were actually set to several of the moms
do you notice a look you're part of
America and and many many people came
out in real solidarity and support with
the American Muslim community despite
the fact that that you know they thought
that Muslims did this horrible thing and
so that to me is a testimony to the one
they make goodness of a lot of people in
this that society but also to the fact
that many of the ideals of this country
that may be at the founding of the
country were not fully realized or even
partially realized that a lot of these
haven't really been imbibed by people
because Jefferson was a philosopher and
Jefferson wanted to see America as a
neutral religious ground a safe place
and he actually says for Christians Jews
muhammadans Hindus and atheists of every
stripe so that was his vision the vision
of the founding fathers was to see a
pluralistic society in IR tunes in the
debates the constitutional debates in
North Carolina that she debated whether
if they didn't have religious tests
there there could be a possibility of a
Muslim president this is 230 years ago
they're debating the idea of a Muslim
president and the debate was worn by
those who did not want religious tests
and one of the things they argued was if
there ever was and Muslim elected to
highest office in this country it would
be one or two reasons it would be
because that people found in the best
and most virtuous candidate or because
the majority of people had become Muslim
in either case that is their prerogative
so this was the argument of the founding
fathers which is quite extraordinary so
I think it's really important for us not
to underestimate that impact one of the
things my father told me in 1940 he saw
a very big impact on a young young boy
and he saw as a cartoon in which but in
the first friend had Hitler saying the
world is flat and everybody the audience
says that's crazy and then in the next
frame he's saying the world is flat and
then somebody is saying to one of them
well what's the evidence that it's
actually round and then in the next
friend he says the world is flat and
then they say you know he's got a point
there and then in the final frame he
says the world is flat and everybody is
saying the world is flat that one of the
things that our marketing masters in
this country know is that repetitive
messages have an impact if you keep said
something over and over again it
eventually takes whole in people which
is why you'll find yourself buying Chris
now just asking quantity Islam is the
first and the American and Western
religions the first as acquitted me that
the American left and the rules like our
caller stand up for his long because it
is an Academy of American everyone
committed and they not better by the
minute
and then this is a whole other field
which is very important 20 million
people got that in the face of evil 21
hours of munich muslim terrorist islam
what the West needs to know Delta Force
all these have Muslim terrorists among
us at the siege Aladdin right because a
lot of Indian there he says you know in
my kids they don't like your face they
cut off your nose it's barbaric I know
but it's home and then he's got a scene
where all that who steals an apple and
the guy's going to cut
handle so it's an associate little
children associating with now this is
another amazing because see now these
terms like Tapia is a rarefied term as
long as well but most Muslims don't even
know but but and this is something in
the Shan tradition it's more emphasized
but it is also permissible in descending
tradition if you are under the threat of
death you can actually deny your Islam
so somebody's going to kill you because
I'm not a Muslim
that's called to me but there are you
know when hums Yousef comes and tells
you as long as a peaceful religion he's
practicing Tapia because he's a stealth
jihadist and he doesn't really believe
any of this you see so it's very
insidious the way that they're using
these terms and then you know bomb is to
do move America these are burden one of
the interesting things about some of
these you have run times with the the
armaments Lobby is funding some of these
it's very interesting raise the arm you
know General Electric mean good things
to death
and then conservative dialysis moving
liberal waste from the American blood
stream from hate to love and this is I
think one of the worst because it's all
from original sources and one thing I'll
say about the reason sources and this is
a problem pre-modern text I can take st.
Thomas Aquinas which I've read enough
Aquinas to know that and sister Marian
dinner PhD I think we can ask a
Christian advice on this also but I
could take Aquinas and make Christianity
look like a completely insane religion
by just quoting him in certain
environments I mean Aquinas argues for
apostate laws capital offense you can do
all this and Aquinas is is an incredible
brilliant emphasis spiritual master I
mean so many things but I didn't take
the pre-modern tradition from the Jewish
tradition the town moon that a
six-year-old child and I asked the chief
rabbi of Israel because the baby who's
the chief rabbi but I asked one of the
chief rabbis of Israel about this
because we were talking about Aisha and
marriage laws in the town would six
years old a American be consummated with
a six-year-old you can take any
pre-modern religion and in modern with
the modern sensitivities you can show
the insane
tradition really I mean this is we do
this with Christianity with Judaism with
Islam any of these religions but how has
the normative practice over time to find
itself this is what is not painful so
it's taking these things and if you
notice this this is more from the right
within progenitor the Jewish tradition
to be fair to the Jewish version I've
seen very little from the Jewish
community about this because if you live
in glass houses don't throw stones what
you can do with the Islamic preponderant
revision you can do with the Jewish
tradition as well and so that that's an
important aspect it's the gates of
Vienna City USA the real story
jihad watch again I mean any son really
well they're very well funded so when
you do searches you'll often come up
with these websites I'm going to pass
through this one people probably saw
this and then unfortunately and this is
the ugly truth because I want to be fair
we have not choices we have 1.3 billion
Muslims you will always have a
percentage of people in any religious
tradition that are insane it's just it's
just statistic because you have the same
people here like for instance people
talk about all the cow blood in Pakistan
is that what they kill you know ten
people yesterday twenty people were
probably murdered in the United States
yesterday violence is a human problem
when it's done in the name of religion
it's particularly odious but people are
violent we've got a problem
religion the major common religion is
that you can get normally good people to
do really evil things
pointed out and I have argued that in
some ways the metaphor that I like to
use is in some ways religion if a
metaphor for religion could be atomic
energy atomic energy is a lousy
including energy but it has toxic waste
and that toxic waste can be very very
harmful as we're finding out from Japan
if religion in store has had ways to
mitigate that and it hasn't always been
successful but we do have a problem and
this form British lady first of all you
know we can say in Islam I mean I
studied theology that's one of the areas
that I spent a lot of time on is
studying with real really great teachers
it is prohibited in Islam to say
anybody's going to help the Quran talks
about what the hell and condemn a
certain people help that's true but I
cannot point to anybody and say you're
annoyed at that it's it's not it's not
our prophet of to do that and so you
know this is just a lot of even
dismantled wonderful for the tabloids
because he actually had a hook as a hand
on eyepatch and used to go on about
jihad for the UK I mean if you ask these
people what is showing that they
couldn't define it I guarantee they
couldn't no none of them are scholars
they're you know they're just these are
slogans great thanks with friends like
that enemies right those who say
for the soldiers burn in hell
massacre those consultants all this
awful dominate the world and then we've
got now I just want to look a little bit
in the past you know does anybody know
where the Ku Klux Klan got their fashion
design from Morocco no does anybody know
seriously do you know probably from the
Inquisition this is the Spanish
Inquisition and that is exactly where
they got them from this is one of the
early terrorist organizations in the
United States and they were Christian in
their understanding and they model
themselves after the inquisitors in
Spain and so there's a lot of
transference of racism against Blacks
and Jews and other communities now on to
the Muslim community because Muslims by
and large in the United States are brown
they're people of color and so there is
a lot of it in fact you know if you join
us wrong you will join an oppressed
minority and learn how it feels to be
african-american or I have an old white
lady in Canada who became Muslim put on
at a job that she said I really felt
first hand that I got to know what it
was like to be in an oppressed minority
because she said I didn't realize that I
had this white my the Mexican wife is
not here
those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it the demonization
of of Native Americans right there it is
right and we don't show what we did to
them right in this country but this was
and that's what it leads to
Wounded Knee we're unarmed maybe this
was the last really battle in the
American Indian Wars unless include the
aim battles the later ones like Alcatraz
and things like that
I like this home a security this wasn't
the original home and ship fighting
terrorism since 1492 demonization of
african-americans this is something that
our culture was very good at also one
people she had she you know she tried to
commit suicide that poor girl I mean she
people read her history Elizabeth
Beckman I think her handler but even
death all raised mixers with there's a
hidden genocide of this country that
nobody talks about in the south whole
black populations after the Civil War
disappeared in Captains literally
disappeared because they just killed
them all and this has been documented by
historians in this country so we have a
very dark history we forget apartheid
when I was a born that was still
apartheid in this country so it wasn't
that long ago you know and people
struggled to get these rights many of
them Jewish Americans a lot of these
people that were the early civil rights
movement were out of the Jewish
community because they understood they
sided with them and there's wonderful
book called when the Irish became white
which because the Irish Catholics were
I'm going to get to that in a second so
the evil Chinese right same thing fruit
doctor - Manchu exclusion laws there
were exclusion laws in this country
excluding Chinese immigration and we
forget also the problems of the Chinese
that happen even in San Francisco we
have a horrible history of brutal
attacks on the Chinese community right
world dictatorship sounds familiar right
cruelly insidious treacherous Doctor Who
Manchu Malins dr. al Belva in his
ruthless mad scheme to rule the world so
and this is one of the beautiful
Japanese also we forget the demonization
of the Japanese community jab keep on
moving white knight saber this is your
enemies again
and then this is what it ended up it
right so japanese-americans were
interned in California we forget because
a lot of the best farming property in
Santa Cruz
Monterey Southern California were owned
by Japanese so there was a move to get
japanese-americans in turn here
confiscated their letters it didn't
happen in the Midwest Japanese fought
they were actually interpreters enemies
many of them were decorated soldiers
it's still there and by the way this has
never been overturned constitutionally
internment a collective group of people
in the United States it has to actually
happen again to go to Supreme Court but
but there was an official apology in the
70s but it has never been constitutional
and FEMA has actually they have
internment camps this is one of the 25
most
censored stories Sonoma State the School
of Journalism has shown that they're
actually internally camps if that was
ever called illegal immigrants becoming
rebellious so that they actually have
camps to internment we sort of won no
Spanish or max
but this for some people Mexican this is
called a slap you know Texas was stolen
from Mexico when I said to my wife once
you guys are taking over she said no
we're not we're taking back so the
demonization of Jews I mean happens
without how it's like they are upset say
whatever you want
so that look just like Arabs - that's
what's so interesting you know is that
the cartoons of the Jews look very
similar but this is this all has impact
on people there's the Jew body is ghetto
and so this is how the anti-defamation
league and other organizations were
started because of the lynching of a
Jewish man and then obviously the Jewish
financier is controlling the world the
Jews of Tears and subversive 1907 USSR
humanization of high regard this is my
favorite one because my family suffered
from this you know any cover or Catholic
country except Irish like you know Help
Wanted no one ever to need apply not in
that and then look they're
african-american Jewish and the Irish
death so they were all the equal
opportunity to prejudice the they were
seen as drunkards they were actually by
the african-americans shown to be a
blight and then this is what it resulted
in the Kensington riots this happened in
Philadelphia in 1840s they actually
there was a rumor spread that the Irish
were going to get the Catholic Bible to
replace the Protestant Bibles in the
public schools and they saw this as the
Protestants offices kind of atheism and
so they went and they burnt two huge
cathedrals that were built by the Irish
Americans might very great my
great-great-grandfather
Michael Oh Hanson what was in
Philadelphia at this time he migrated
Philadelphia
thirty-eight so he was there these riots
and scores of Irish were killed it
actually changed the consciousness in
this country because people became
ashamed after work but the Irish were
bribed into enfranchisement Daniel
O'Connell the great Irish forager as the
Irish Catholics to stand by the
african-americans in their fight for
liberty in this country and
unfortunately I would be much prouder of
my heritage
have they done the right thing but they
didn't they they went into the political
process and they actually sided with the
oppressor in that case here's
citizenship there's the Irish just like
now the Muslim is the guide to campus
simulate and he's got is 90 because the
Irish are violent anyway the final thing
is just about models of possibility I
think it's important to remember that in
this country that people people have
overcome immense difficulties and you
know I these are the great Chiefs
meeting at the White House with Coolidge
now we have many many great Native
Americans that are recognized by the
dominant community African American
model is also an extraordinary model but
it was done with a lot of hard work and
effort you do not in enfranchisement in
this country easily it's never been
given to any group of people outside of
the anglo-saxons that came to be short
it's never been given to any group of
people without a struggle and that is a
part of the history of this country and
it's possible so I think the Muslims how
the Chinese also por favor
during this the Muslims food is one of
the things look now they're learning
Thai chilies be shooting people
acupuncture we've got governors now from
the Chinese community Japanese also have
the Mexicans also and please the Irish I
mean to tuning precedent the first
language president that was Anton
Jackson people don't know but he was an
Ulster hi she was Protestant and that
wasn't more considered either the FBI
Kennedy's considered the first the
Mexican please excuse the next slide
not the Jewish model is an extraordinary
model my point is now that you can just
look at the vote the Jewish vote and how
much it impacts politics in this country
so the Muslims have possibly but but the
Muslim gain has to fight it in Chinese
there's a debate about this but the
ideogram were crises is also the in the
Video Grabber opportunity in any crises
there's always immense opportunities the
Muslims have an opportunity and people
there are people generally interested
I'm courting if you go to a bookstore
today if you go to the width up section
and you how I embrace the movie office
and found inner peace you go to Satanism
how I came to know Satan and found inner
peace I mean it's just amazing every
religion you go to the Muslim section
why I'm not a Muslim
the trouble with Islam you know anything
is wrong it's just amazing that the
people who hate Islam are defining Islam
and that's why blue Boyce's really are
absolutely essential but I would also
challenge those people good people my
sister Mary Ann Farina she always get
embarrassed but I love that woman
because she to me represents the best of
the Christian tradition she is somebody
that takes very serious and I know she
doesn't view Muslims as enemies but she
takes very serious things like turn the
other cheek and love my enemy these are
these are very difficult things to do
but the real Christians have to step up
to the plate the real Jews have to step
up to the plate people are recognized
that an attack on any religion is an
attack on all religions that is just a
simple fact of the matter because that
the essence of religion is a commitment
to something that transcends the set it
all religious people that are part of
this incredible tapestry of religions
that we have in the world are people
that are saying there is more to life
than just this physical world that were
into we share in met commonalities in
our ethics Islamic ethics as sister Mary
had knows is identical to Christian
ethics in so many areas virtue ethics of
Kazami is the virtue
ethics of Aquinas these are the
commonalities and the bridges that don't
need to be built they need to be pointed
out everybody talks about building
bridges there are so many bridges that
are already there
we just need to recognize them through
the fall and then make that effort to
cross them and meet somewhere in the
middle and just enjoy the incredible
view I was once with a group of Muslims
my Bibles with us was amongst Indian
some other people and we were walking
across a bridge just after 9/11 it was a
very narrow bridge and there was some
two two people coming on to the bridge
and we got to the middle and I just made
a joke this bridge isn't big big enough
for the both of us and he looked and he
said you're Muslims aren't men I said
yes and he said the bridge is big enough
for all of us
we're very disturbed at what they've
done to your community there are people
out there that that need to believe the
Muslims need to reach out but we also
need to hear from those people thank you
very much