especially since 9/11 to stoke what I
find to be a very frightening
Islamophobia that includes within
mainstream discourse of demonization of
Muslims right well you know because I
think of all people you probably know
more than anybody in this country what
happens when you demonize people because
it's always the the predecessor to to
great violence against those people and
and I think you've seen that in many
places around the world and so it is
deeply troubling I'm I have some
optimism because I'm always struck by
the fact that there is a profound
goodness that resides in the hearts of a
lot of people in this country and and
and what I saw after 9/11 because I
actually predicted all of this I thought
it was going to happen within one or two
years after 9/11 the fact that it took
over ten years of an incredibly massive
machine about the kind of
- hey Todd it took a long time to
transform it in Nazi Germany as well
I know towards the Jew that's true and
it took Hitler all between 1933 and 1938
he mentioned the Jews three times
according to Cory radicans yeah but
don't I I know but I I think also the
Jews there was a deep problem and Mark
Twain addresses that in concerning the
Jews there was a deep anti-semitism in
the German psyche prior to Hitler but
not a lethal anti cemetry that's true
mean anti-semitism came with Lutheran's
me I'm deeply disturbed by it and I
sometimes I sit around with some Muslim
friends and say do you think we're like
Jews in 1933 like how bad can it get you
know I mean I really do every once and
I'll say that and and we have a
tradition of our prophet that said you
are most like the Jews and you will
follow them hand span by hands ban well
I don't want to see Muslims end up in
these internment camps but the Japanese
internment happened and if there was a
bad strike here a dirty bomb or
something it's I think don't you think
rhetorically we've laid the ground for
that oh absolutely yeah I I'm convinced
that if a 9/11 event happened today we
would not see the type of responses that
we saw there won't be any flowers at the
mosques yeah
I as you know sued President Obama over
section 1021 of the National Defense
Authorization Act which overturns the
nine 1878 Posse Comitatus Act
prohibiting the military from carrying
out domestic policing and judge we won
in the Southern District Court of New
York the Obama administration appealed
in the Second Circuit they refused to
accept my standing didn't hear the case
because it is patently unconstitutional
but Judge Catherine before us two ruled
in our favor when she wrote her opinion
which is worth reading on the internet
said that this opens the way for the
government to criminalize an entire
category of people and she brought up
110,000 japanese-americans
who were interned stripped of their
rights u.s. citizens in World War two so
legally we've already created but
rhetorically we've created the
Editions and legally we've created the
condition race yeah and and and
apparently in order for that to be
overturned it has to happen again so
because that's never really been dealt
with the Japanese internment well it now
is the government can in essence if you
read section 1021 carry out
extraordinary rendition on the streets
of American cities hold people in
military facilities and strip them of
due process ie they I don't see what
people don't realize what's happened I
mean the type of changes that happen I
think one of the things that we as
believers certainly you know we believe
that there's another force working in
the world greater than their force and
certainty of faith and well maybe selves
a leap of faith but but I I do believe
that that we we worship a just God who
tempers his justin's with great
benevolence and and that that these
things do have a reckoning they do have
a reckoning that civilizations cannot
justice even if it's the the type of
relative justice of the world justice is
what enables and empowers civilizations
and as they lose that that's striving
for the truth you know one of the things
the quran says we don't destroy a people
as long as there is amongst them people
fighting for the truth and and so a
society can be unjust but if you have
within it people that are fighting
against that injustice that's one of the
reasons God will sustain that people and
I think there are still a lot of people
in this country and you're certainly one
of them that that is speaking that truth
and as long as we have those people I
think that that we have some hope and
optimism that that there's there there
is that divine force that will sustain
us in secular terms that's
Vaslav hobbles the power of the
powerless and which he quite he uses
that I realize live my the prayer of the
oppressed that that the the oppressed
have a power that they don't realize
that and the numbers are on our side
despite the fact that the military might
is on the other
but that military might until they get
there robotics in place which is a
terrifying that is and you know CS Lewis
predicted but transhumanism predicted
the abolition of man I think is one of
the most important books for people to
read because another one is Lewis
Mumford which nobody reads anymore you
know Pentagon of power
I mean Mumford saw this stuff coming you
know we talked about Kierkegaard's the
creeping villainy yes
you know Vice is is a monster of
frightful mean as to be hated needs but
to be seen but seen to all familiar with
her face we first pity then endure then
embrace thank you
that was Islamic scholar and president
of Zaytuna College Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
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revenge is the psychological engine of
all campaigns of terror victims are the
blood currency their corpses are used to
sanctify acts of indiscriminate
slaughter those defined as the enemy are
rendered inhuman they are not worthy of
empathy or justice pity and grief are
felt exclusively for our own we vowed to
eradicate a dehumanized mass that
embodies absolute evil Christian
fanatics embrace the concept of holy war
as fervently as Islamic fanatics our
Crusades are matched by the concept of
jihad once religion is used to sanctify
murder there are no rules it is a battle
between light and dark
good and evil Satan and God rational
discourse is banished and the sleep of
reason as Gore said always brings forth
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