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