discovered by a Swiss pharmaceutical
company and hundreds of millions of
dollars went in to funding the idea of
eradicating the malaria bug with
chemicals
unfortunately they found out later what
DDT was doing to the environment this is
always the problem of looking at the
world without holistic eyes looking at
the world without understanding the deep
intricacies of the world that the world
is bound up with each other you can't
separate this from that you have to
address problems ecologically the
says exactly and I'll use a political
metaphor here this is exactly the the
plan of the bush government in
eradicating terrorism just like they
want to eradicate malaria just send
bombs drop bombs on people eradicate
these evildoers and suddenly it's just
all going to go away well life doesn't
work like that life doesn't work like
that you have to address the causes of
malaria malaria is directly related to
poverty
malaria is directly if you look now on
the map of countries that are suffering
from malaria these have some of the
highest rates of conflict in the world
they're like maps for places where
there's large conflicts why because war
and malaria go together we have a
history of war and malaria and that's
why when you sell these countries
weapons when you sell these countries
weapons you are depriving them of health
care programs you're depriving them of
sanitary water you're depriving them of
education that will elevate their
populations that's what you're depriving
them up and you're giving them malaria
you're giving them yellow fever you're
giving them hiv/aids that's what you're
doing there's a direct correlation to
Commerce and what's happening in the
worst parts of the country and in the
best parts of the country there is a
direct correlation you cannot separate
economics from morality Adam Smith who's
called the father of capitalism and if
he was alive today he would spit on the
men that are calling him the father of
capitalism because the capitalism that
Adam Smith believed in and the
capitalism that exists today has nothing
to do with each other out of Smith
before he wrote The Wealth of Nations
wrote a book on Moral Sentiments saying
that the basis of Commerce was morality
that every transaction is a moral
transaction because it gives each of the
people in the transaction a chance to
honor the other and not cheat them and
this leads to a win-win situation which
is necessary
for civil society that is a different
type of capitalism than the type of
capitalism we see when it's a
dog-eat-dog world the high price of low
cost when Walmart comes in and destroys
whole communities we have to see the
relationship our religion is an economic
religion it is the last religion that is
addressing the economic problems of
humanity the Jews have abandoned their
economic injunctions the Christians have
abandoned their economic injunctions
it's in the Old Testament they know
usury is prohibited ly in the Old
Testament but nobody talks about it more
of Imam Malik two-thirds of that book
deal with economic matters Medina was a
place of transactions until we begin to
address these problems and the
fundamental core issues of these
problems we need societies that are
committed to law and order but you can't
have societies that are committed to law
and order when there are people above
the law if you have people above the law
that people below the law see no reason
to obey the law if they can get away
with it when George W Bush got away with
murder and he did get away with murder
and I encourage all of you to read
Vincent Bugliosi book on the prosecution
of george w bush for murder Vincent
Bugliosi argues in that book that George
W Bush is guilty of murder in the first
degree because in our legal system you
have a principle called felony murder
felony murder is a type of murder that
that occurs during the committee the
commitment of a felony crime if you fire
a gun in the air during a robbery and it
ricochets and kills somebody in that
room you are guilty of first-degree
murder in our legal system lying to the
American people to send them to war is a
felony lying to the American people to
send them war is a felony it's a felony
Vincent Bugliosi who was the District
Attorney of Los Angeles
said we cannot have a legal system a
system of law and order when there are
people above the law this is hakama
Julia
is what the Prophet came to eradicate
not malaria he came to eradicate
injustice and when you eradicate
injustice you eradicate things like
malaria because they're inextricably
bound that's what we should be working
to do we should be working towards more
just societies more just distribution of
wealth this is what we have to be doing
as a community the Muslims have lost
their moral compass we have the most
corrupt countries in the world we have
no moral capital to speak from as a
Ummah but we still have individuals the
Oulu bhatia people that abide by the
truth of the Quran and there are many
people like that in this country there
are many good Muslims in this country
these are the people that need to rise
up and OMA in this country to become a
role model to come in come on ma let
there be amongst you I grew minute
separate most of the elements say this
is a positive proposition that this
means some of you there should be
amongst you those young Moroni been
mauve they called to good wayan hona and
in Mongkok and they forbid evil these
are the people that we want to be from
that's what I see in this country a
thriving Muslim community that is
dealing with root problems not with
mosquito nets and that's good and I'm
not in any way detracting from that
because I used a mosquito net when I was
in West Africa that's fine but that's
still looking at the symptomatic
problems until the root problems are
addressed and that's why we need malaria
lodges we need scientists we need social
commentators we need people that are
going to write papers on how to do with
these issues we need our community to
rise to the challenge not to be obsessed
with the pursuit of wealth which is a
false pursuit all of these people who've
had the equity of their homes wiped out
all of that pursuit it's gone all of the
wealth there are hundreds of thousands
that they thought they had in their in
their homes they'd spent their whole
lives paying off their mortgages and
they got wiped out in a yuzuriha system
that they don't even understand they
don't even understand fractional reserve
banking or how printing up false money I
I was at a store yet
two days ago and I gave him a
hundred-dollar bill and he was looking
like that I said man you're never gonna
spot the counterfeit on that because the
one that counterfeited that is so good
at it it looks exactly like a real
dollar he said he looked at me like I
was crazy I said the US Treasury
counterfeited that man that's right that
is well that doesn't exist it's not
backed by anything it's not backed by
gold it's not backed by silver it's not
even backed by debt anymore they're just
printing it up churning it out trillions
of dollars bailing out all of these fat
cats
I mean Jesse James and Frank James had
nothing on the bank robbers today they
used to go in with their faces covered
these guys are on the board of the banks
seriously they don't need to cover their
faces they're on the boards of the banks
they've got the congressman facilitating
the robbery like John Dillinger who used
to go in and pretend they were having a
movie and and the people would watch him
rob the bank thinking they were part of
a movie scene that's what we've got
today Americans watching their
children's wealth and their children's
children's wealth being robbed from them
blind and they think that this is part
of the recovery package people have no
idea what's going on there and Muslims
should find out if they don't know and
begin to educate our own community how
can we address real problems not
artificial real problems the real
problems of this world and I'll finish
Ghandi said there was seven things that
were going to destroy us wealth without
work people that want to invest in a
hedge fund do nothing but put their
money there no risk if it fails they get
bailed out by taxpayer
this has to end and the only way it can
end is by a populace that's vigilant a
citizenry that actually reads and knows
what's going on and that's why
entertainment and dumbing people down
and keeping them from thinking about
these things as long as that continues
on as long as people are more concerned
about what's going on on the reality
television show they're obsessed with or
who won this that or the other game as
long as they're entertained by those
things and the Wolves out there are
going to keep eating the Sheep
wealth without work pleasure without
conscience we live in a society where
sexuality now has become a technique you
buy a book to learn how to become a good
lover there's websites now that that for
cheaters.com
where married couples can find other
married couples that want to commit
adultery what's happened to our society
people you can't sit around and just
think these things are normal these are
terrible signs pleasure without
conscience without thinking of the
repercussions of what happens when you
pursue pleasure without any moral
compunction knowledge without character
going to Yale Harvard getting these
degrees and then robbing people blind
and laughing about it and Ron the
smartest men in the room that's what
happened in Enron they were laughing
about the money they were robbing from
old people there's transcripts of their
phone calls laughing about grandmas that
were losing their shirts paying for the
high cost of energy in California
because they were being completely
robbed blind by immoral people commerce
without morality is an extension of
business with a of character knowledge
without character Commerce without
morality the foundation of Islam is is
character innama bu'ithtu leo tell me
mom Academy a flop I was only sent to
perfect character that's the foundation
of our religion inculcating character
that comes from examples that
from living in communities where
character is practiced on a daily basis
generosity courage modesty chastity love
of knowledge science without humanity
we've got studies here on dogs seriously
on dogs and cats and I'm all for taking
care of dogs and cats when when the
Muslims had thriving civilizations they
had off for dogs and cats we know that
they had al-kahf even even in infest
they had a look for stray dogs to feed
them but when you're taking care of dogs
and cats and you've got baby human
babies dying something is seriously
wrong with your priorities because in a
hospital you have what's called triaging
every emergency doctor knows and nurse
knows about triaging if a patient comes
in and their limbs often they're
bleeding out you don't sit next to that
patient talking to the guy with the
headache and asking them is it sharp or
is it cutting what type of headache do
you have you take care of the man who's
hemorrhaging to death triaging
priorities science we've got all of our
talented scientists developing weapons
of mass destruction for enemies that are
created out of thin air enemies that are
more like characters out of a James Bond
film living in caves somewhere boogie
men that are conjured up to scare people
are you scared yet that was a headline
on Time magazine we need our scientists
to actually be in the pursuit of
excellence not for profit not for the
Nobel Peace Prize visa bv lab FISA
beating that it's a completely different
set religion without sacrifice Imams day
was talking about can you have submit
motive is salamy katha enter into Islam
totally and completely don't be
half-hearted half-baked you can't have
half
mission it's called me that's what
half submissions called in our religion
is called NEFA laya full moon a la ku
Sala
they just get up they're lazy they do it
half-heartedly
and finally politics without principal
politics without principal Barack
Obama's from from ancestry his father
was from Kenya malaria is a major
problem in Kenya it's a personal problem
for him but when you're in a political
machine that eats it principal when you
can't speak the truth because you're so
afraid of what the spin doctors are
gonna do Fox News will turn everything
upside down and so on ABC and CBS CBC
and NBC and all of the other ones they
just have different degrees of it but
I'll give you an example of politics
without principal when you don't deal
with tort reform in malpractice cases
that's politics without principal
because the tort lawyers in this country
are so powerful they don't want caps on
malpractice suits which raises up the
cost of everything it forces doctors to
do unnecessary procedures which elevates
the cost of health care but they don't
want to talk about that because it's
politics without principle instead of
looking at the principle and we have
caps in Islam the Prophet put caps on a
human life no life can be judged by
wealth and that's the point the higher
you go doesn't make it any less or more
but the cap is a cap because people
can't afford if you if you make things
so exorbitant everything goes up with it
we have caps every a finger has a
certain amount a tooth has a certain
amount a ear has a certain amount
it's already done Allah did it the
Shetty I did it
we don't need tort reform in Islam but
they needed in this country politics
without principle Socrates said in the
apology to the people of Athens if you
stop worrying about the interests of the
state and start worrying about the
interests of your souls the state will
take care of itself said I'm a newcomer
I'm to live
you