sheikh hamza will be speaking on united
we stand when destiny was sought to a
serum i know her husband very well so
don't he's a friend of mine him was
sorta to a cinema received in o Muhammad
he was happy was Adam Testament Kiera
what I heard our our in the Holly
darling a hundred the the problem with
being at the end of a long day is that
people one are tired because there's
been a lot of speechifying and talking
and so the mind begins to wander people
are thinking about dinner and other
things but this is my fate today is to
be here and I want to say a lot of
what's been said were thoughts that were
in my mind so people articulated a lot
of my own feelings certainly dr. Jackson
and thought of Carol Milan also dr.
Ramadan's points about standing up for
truth and recognizing that the
us-and-them dichotomy is what can be
referred to as a false dichotomy to put
you into these us in them categories and
say oh we have to be either you're with
us or you're against us there are other
options on the table so I was asked to
talk about where are we going which is
one of my favorite questions because
it's a Quranic question for Anna Todd
have wound it's also a Christian
question Quo Vadis where are you going
it's something we all have to think
about obviously that question can be
thought about on a lot of different
levels it can be thought about on a
metaphysical level where then are you
going as a creature that is both
spiritual and material that has a soul
but also has a body if you ask it on a
metaphysical level the Quranic the
Quranic determination the answer to that
she is very professional very conscious
that you you're either going to bliss or
you're going to dis which is actually a
nice daunting word you're going to the
other place one of the things that
Charles Dickens said about France during
the Revolution was it was the best of
times and it was the worst of times and
then he said we were all going to heaven
and we were all going to that other
place I think this time that we're
living in is the best of times it's also
the worst of times and to ask the
question where are we going
depends on the individual when people
say to me you're too liberal and then I
get other people say you're too
conservative I have to question the
question or more than his remark why are
you too liberal or why are you too
conservative I have to ask the person
why do you think I'm too conservative or
why do you think I'm too liberal because
some people tell me I'm too conservative
and other people tell me I'm too liberal
and you're gonna confuse me I'm just
trying to be true to my own
understanding and if you blame me for
that or challenge what's in my heart you
can't challenge what's in my heart
because by the grace of God only God
knows what's in the heart even the devil
doesn't know what's in your heart so
when we ask the question where are we
going we can ask it at a metaphysical
level but I want to look at where are we
going at the level of being in finite
bodies in this world not the afterlife
because none of us can answer that
question if as Muslims I know that
there's certain strains of Christianity
that will say we're definitely going to
heaven and they're all going to hell and
I've actually read in one Christian book
about Islam he said one of the worst
things about Islam is they actually
don't know whether they're going to
heaven or not ask any Muslim are you
absolutely 100% sure you're going to
heaven and they'll say
I'm not and they say but thank God
because we're Christians we know we're
going to heaven that's a different way
of looking at where you're going in
terms of this country and where we are
today in some ways we are so much better
than we have ever been as a nation let
me give you one example African
Americans most of the African Americans
in the United States today have
ancestors that were brought to this
country in Chains and this was not seen
as as something wrong or immoral except
by a very small group of British people
and American mostly Unitarians there
were pamphlets written by Jews by
Christians not only justifying that
black people were the accursed
descendants of ham and therefore this
was their fate but that the Bible
justified the conditions of slavery in
the United States that was not that long
ago people in the 1950s when Eisenhower
was president African Americans could
not drink from the same drinking
fountains as white people in many states
in this country it's hard for people
here to imagine them but there are
people here that are alive today that
don't know the history of this country
that's not old history it's recent
history that most people of color in the
United States of America fifty years ago
had the option of being a janitor a
night watchman a maid
a servant these were the options that is
no longer the case there is a man of
color in the White House that was white
for over 200 years that house was white
for over 200 years so things have
changed to deny that change in this
country those positive changes
is to deny an aspect of America that is
very important so from that perspective
things are much better that's just one
example and I could give many other
examples but from other aspects of the
United States there are very troubling
signs going on in this country right now
let me give you an example in the FBI
they issue certain guidelines for
determining extremists one of the recent
guidelines was if they talk too much
about restoring the US Constitution
that's considered extremism or a sign of
extremism because there are certain
people's in this country that are very
troubled by a lot of the rights in the
Constitution and aspects of the
Constitution that have been trampled
upon they're very troubled the right to
be free of illegal search and seizure
without probable cause the fact that
people can now be patted down I was in
an airport and my six-year-old Todd I
almost went to blows because I've got a
lot of Irish blood and I was in an
airport and this guy wanted to Pat my
six-year-old child down and I told him
you're not laying your hand on that boy
and if you do you'd better get your
Taser out I'm telling you the truth and
he got very offended I said look I
actually wrote a paper on pornography in
this country and I know the statistics
of pedophilia and I'm not accusing you
but I don't know you you are a stranger
and when I was a kid my mother told me
watch out for strangers so I don't want
you touching my child now if you want to
bring a lady out here if she has to
check a six-year-old boy then I'll let
you because statistics show women don't
molest little kids they might aid and
abet a molester but they don't do it
because that humanity is still
tact for me that is a complete gross and
egregious trampling of my right as a
parent to protect my child what kind of
a world are we in when a six-year-old
has to be patted down what kind of
experience is that for a six-year-old
child people don't think about these
things but this is the world they're
growing up in when I was a young boy the
whole family went to the gate in the
airport you remember that Iman Kassam
imam zain imam sera that was the America
we grew up in you went to the gate to
see her family off there was no you
didn't have to stand in front of a
machine that was going to basically
undress you for some stranger to look at
you now let me give you an example of
the problem of wealth in this country I
was with a group of very wealthy Saudi
Arabians and we went to a private
Airport in the United States of America
not that long ago this a few years ago
we got onto a private jet our baggage
had no cheque we didn't have to put them
through any machines or anything we just
got on the plane and I'm thinking here's
Saudi Arabians because they have a lot
of money they can hire private jets and
they don't have to go through any of
this security what does that say about
our country what does that say about our
country we have so many contradictions
in the United States and until we as a
people start dealing with the
contradictions of this country the
disparities between the powerful and the
powerless between the enfranchise and
the disenfranchised between the rich and
the poor until we start really looking
at who we are as a people we are not
dealing with reality we're living in
bubbles and those bubbles will
eventually burst like they've bursted in
places like Syria Gaddafi now he's
watching television and
saying who are these people ripping up
my my picture they loved me my people
love me cuz every time he went out sound
gazonga every time he went out they
would all clap Gaddafi Gaddafi got and
he's just eating it up
they loved me and then he had around him
all these people saying well I have you
to become an uncle of cotton your hip
book shop your hip bucha you see this is
the delusional State Bashar I said is in
this delusional State they don't
understand what happened
krishna mubarak was surrounded by people
wallahi bucha Shabana sorry ow he didn't
in your hip book and this is what he's
and then he shocked he doesn't and then
he gets up my beeble my people opening
his arms thinking that that they're
gonna all go home this is the delusional
state that these people are in we have
people in power today that are in
delusional states when Barack Obama says
that arugula the price of arugula has
gone way up you see this is a man who's
he's living in a different world from
somebody in East Oakland or South
Central LA he hasn't even visited any of
these places he's living in a different
world and he's surrounded by people
living in different worlds this sets up
a situation that leads to revolution if
you read history this this denial of the
suffering of common people when you have
bailouts in this country of hundreds of
billions of dollars for private bankers
and individuals losing their houses
because those private bankers tricked
them now you look at this because this
is completely Haram and Sharia but let
me give you an example they now the FBI
had recognized this long before 2008
because the FBI does good work as well
they do they do good work in certain
things and in other things they you know
they have problems they're a human
institution but in something um Muslims
you know there's all these you know
horrible government and isn't that but
when the house gets robbed nine-one-one
can you send some police over as quick
as possible I've just been robbed
you see people this is human nature
these banksters what they did was they
they would have somebody go and they
would say oh this house is worth
$800,000 and it wasn't it was worth
maybe four hundred thousand dollars and
then they would loan a person the loan
they would loan them the money eight
hundred thousand dollars and then they
would take several of these loans and
they would put them in a package
securitized debt and then they would
sell this debt to the farmers to the
retirement of teachers funds to the
fireman's funds they as triple-a loans
even though they knew that these were
subprime loans and that they were very
very susceptible to collapsing but they
that's why
who cares if if the same rating
institution that downgraded the United
States
those were the same rating institutions
that were giving triple-a loans to
subprime securitized a the same
institutions you think I trust them
triple a double a single a C B D F
they've all failed us they say too big
to fail but the reality of it is they
were too big to jail because they're too
powerful this is the reality but the
average American is suffering and
they're being told you're the problem
you're the problem
move from far the problem Oh the
boogeyman over here there though it's
all their fault you see this is what's
going on on this planet this is what's
going on people are being hoodwinked
they're being fooled and if you look he
says you know what is relevant for both
Muslims and Americans in terms of where
we're going
Muslims and Americans
assumes already that there's some
difference between Muslims and Americans
know what is relevant for Muslims living
in America as well as the population at
large because I'm an American I'm as
American as apple pie I'm serious
I'm sweet too but I am as American as
apple pie I my ancestor on my mother's
side 1764 my Irish great-great-great
grandfather came here fought in the
Continental Army with Washington as a
lieutenant and this is all I can prove
this I can be a son of the American
Revolution if I wanted I just George
Bush is also a member of that
institution so I haven't applied because
you know it used to be a patriotic
institution but I'm as American as apple
pie
18:38 my grandfather migrated to
Philadelphia up the up the river coming
into New York going up my group my
grandfather on my mother's side from her
paternal side 1896 Ellis Island so the
whole spectrum of experience is there
the only one I didn't come as as I
embraced Islam so I can relate to the
post 1965 immigration because I joined I
didn't know it at the time that I was
joining an oppressed American minority
but now I know that I'm part of an
oppressed American minority so I have
the whole American experience except the
African American experience but I have a
connection with that experience because
my mother was an imam zain knows this
because he knows my mother my mother was
very very involved in the civil rights
movement when I was a little kid I was
marching in marches with my mother in
the civil rights movement my mother is
in the 1964 encyclopedia Britannica's
yearbook there's a picture of her
holding up a a placard at the the when
the Republican
convention was happening in San
Francisco and she was there everybody in
the crowd is african-american except my
mother and my older sister and she's
holding up a placard that says civil
rights is the issue so that's the that's
the stock that I come from I come my
mother was involved she followed the
program civil rights anti-war Vietnam
feminist rights and then the
environmental that she was in
environmentalism in in the late 60s we
were recycling in my house in the late
60s so it's not new to me going green my
mother was Green before people had a
term for that
so that's that's that's the that's the
America that I come from it's an America
of struggle it's an America that
acknowledges that this thing began in
order to form a more perfect union
people don't like that they say it's not
grammatical how can something be more
perfect but the point of that
rhetorically is that this is a work in
progress and and dr. American Jackson
talks about this a lot which is
important and that is the the fact that
America is being negotiated constantly
we are in negotiations
it is a give-and-take let me give you an
example right now you see and my part of
my problem is because I'm you know I was
told my mother taught us as kids that a
mind is like a parachute it only works
when it's open so I was taught to be
open-minded and that's probably one of
the reasons I was able to accept Islam
because I wasn't taught to be
prejudicial towards other face I was
taught that other faiths are good they
have truth in them that's the way my
mother raised us but my mother told us
always be open-minded always listen to
another's argument before you condemn it
or judges that's what I was taught so I
read I read Noam Chomsky and I read Pat
Buchanan and I agree with Pat Buchanan
sometimes I disagree with him other time
I agree with Chomsky sometimes I
disagree with others right because I'm
in dialogue with the books I read if you
if you see my library there's markings
on the side what is he talking about
couldn't agree more because I'm in dire
with the books I read that that's how I
was raised that you have to think and
you have to process and sometimes if
something bothers you you have to ask
yourself why is it bothering me why is
it bothering me because sometimes
something bothers you because it's
something you haven't dealt with inside
yourself you see you don't like to hear
it because it might be too true now in
the United States of America we have a
major problem in this country with how
Americans are looking at terrorism just
a few examples when a man who was
rational by all accounts all of his
friends said he was rational he had a
engineering degree he was very
intelligent
high IQ had made a lot of money when he
flew his private plane into an IRS
building and left a note as a political
protest this was an act of political
protest they said this is a madman but
when Colonel when lieutenant or captain
Hassan kills the people down in this is
obviously a conspiracy he was in contact
with somebody in Yemen he wasn't a
madman you see this this this
psychiatrist who was in the Army when a
man in northern Europe plans for two
years to bomb a building in Oslo and
then kill all of these multiculturalists
and he does it with a political screed
that he writes justifying this and
quoting many many Islamophobes from
around the world including the major
ones that are here when when he does
that it's he's a madman that's all he's
just a madman so why is it that when
these hijackers hijack these planes and
drove them into why weren't they mad
what's the rationale
behind that reasoning it either there to
all terrorists or they're all madmen but
let's have a standard that is based on
some kind of rational criterion because
from my perspective it's madness we're
living in a time one of the arab poets
said enough is eminently forty should do
the heat malaysia hew general philosophy
aqua de we're living in a time that's so
extreme that if it doesn't drive you mad
you're not saying if it doesn't drive
you mad you're not saying when
palestinian if you if you look at
palestine a hundred years ago you Mark
Twain wrote a book about his travels he
went to Palestine he had some racist
remarks it was par for his day but
basically he wasn't afraid of
Palestinians he felt very comfortable
going to the Holy Lands you read
Gertrude Bell and her experiences when
Gertrude Bell went to visit the Ottoman
Bay in Baghdad she talked about the fact
how she marveled that she could just
walk in and sit down with the ruler what
happened what has happened to our world
it wasn't that long ago that you could
go into the modulus of the kings of
Saudi Arabia anybody you could go into
the modulus of the rulers in the Muslim
world just go in and sit down with them
you could bring your complaints to them
this was the world that people lived in
not that long ago in the United States
of America when Andrew Jackson won the
presidency he opened up the White House
anybody could come in they completely
trashed the place it was the last time
they did it but but that was that was
America because Andrew Jackson was the
people's president he was a true
Democrat he was also a
terrible killed a lot of Native
Americans and he's got some blemishes
but he's he was a human living at a time
when it's hard to judge people based on
the time they live in I mean it's easy
for us to condemn people now for things
that they did in the past but those were
the norms of their societies thank God
were beyond those norms we have a
problem in this country one of the major
problems in the United States of America
today is that the economy that's what
they say it's the economy stupid what
they talk about is the problem is
entitlements it's all this welfare no
there's only one problem with the
American economy it is a war based
economy it is spending almost all of our
budget in Washington is going to the
military industrial complex and until
that stops nothing is going to change in
this country they don't want to deal
with the fact that the budgets that the
Pentagon gets could completely rebuild
the entire planet we could have in in
mauritania the main street in mauritania
is John F Kennedy Boulevard
you know why the more tenían say John F
Kennedy Boulevard because he used to
send wheat to the more Italians if you
ask an old more Italian who lived at
that time who was John Kennedy man
Kennedy Kennedy he'll say Roger solid
minute American can you convert a foot
per hour my second a good man from the
Americans used to feed poor people when
Hillary Clinton as sheikh abdullah bin
vania in papa what can we do to improve
America's are are how people view us
abroad Shanna blow the says feed people
up Animal Farm
don't drop bombs on them it won't make
you any friends and they won't even be
frenemies
really
don't drop bombs on people Afghanistan
is one of the poorest countries in the
world today if you read Roland me show
this extraordinary French photographer
and his wife in the 1960s they lived in
Afghanistan it was one of the most
beautiful places in the world they fell
in love with it and its people and you
can look at the pictures of beauty
Afghanis used to plant gardens they
loved flowers every half honey had a
flower garden in his house many pictures
of Afghani as he picked showing them
smelling flowers they used to fly kites
there they loved kites of many people
they would go and fly kites
they had picnics in this country they
say these are terrorists how did they
become terrorists those who among them
who are terrorizing how did they become
terrorists over a decade of war Russia
killed at least 1.5 million Afghan Eze
Russians lost about 13,000 people we
don't know how many we've killed but
today we're mourning the dead of New
York and it was said earlier we have to
remind the American people of the dead
of bedad of the dead of Kabul and also
of the danger of the imminent death of
people in Tehran of people in poem of
people in Tabriz for being nothing other
than simple people who are trying to
live their lives in peace and security
and because of the failure of political
people their lives are endangered and
threatened this is the reality we cannot
allow the incompetence of these
political leaders to get you and Isaiah
Narmer John and Abdullah killing each
other this has to stop as a project in
the human condition because the only
people
benefit by this you know Karen Armstrong
was saying the fact that the people that
support her this program to create more
peace in the world are the businessmen
because business men don't like war
businessmen don't like war unless
they're in the business of war then they
love war then they love war there are
people here that love war because it's
an exciting time for them they make a
lot of money off the blood of people
share Abdullah bin VII said the Arab
Spring was watered with blood this is
what's going on innocent people being
killed whether it's in New York but dad
wherever it is Washington DC it's
unacceptable and as a human community if
we don't begin to recognize that we have
to re-establish and reassert ourselves
as individuals that have rights to have
good governance to have people that are
looking out for our best interest
because these people in power today are
not looking out for our best interests
and let me give you one example it in an
extraordinary study called the China
study of nutrition 20 years with top
experts from Princeton from Oxford that
determined that most of the diseases
that are happening in the United States
of America are directly related to the
diets of the American people and yet
Americans are lied to that they need
milk that they need meat that they need
all these things fat and sugar if you
give it to rats they will die because
they can't stop consuming it all motor
banana Bob in the warmth of imam attic
said yeah krome allow the Anela holder
our captor a little calmer
beware of meat because it has the
addiction of wine you can become
addicted to meat it's harmful for you if
you consume too much meat this is all
proven but when Oprah Winfrey after
reading about this announces it on
national television that she doesn't
want to eat beef anymore the
Hado Lobby sues her the Pyramid of food
that you see this pyramid that you see
of food was actually restructured after
the dairy and meat Lobby said no no
you're going to harm our economy and so
science is subjugated to greed you see
this is the problem when we have most of
our scientists in this country working
in defense industries instead of trying
to find cures for cancer they're trying
to find better ways to kill people and
when they you see they had a problem
when they were thinking about Saudi
Arabia and if we have to ever use
nuclear weapons on these places we're
going to destroy all the oil
infrastructure and so they had American
scientists good people that go to church
on Sunday most likely PhDs from the best
universities so they developed the
neutron bomb that kills all the people
and leaves the infrastructure standing
this is the type of madness that we're
living in
this is unacceptable as a human
condition when the number one industry
on this planet is tobacco alcohol and
narcotics and number two a close rival
is weapons something is wrong with the
human project something is seriously
wrong with the human project there are
two questions to ask why do we need all
these weapons when most of us I don't
have any problem with you you don't have
any problem with me if you want to know
why people get aggressive against you
disrespect them in the ghettos in in
Washington DC there's people that carry
around guns you know what they really
want they won't respect because if you
pull out a gun you suddenly have an
incredible amount of respect coming from
the person on the other end he respects
you and that's the that's the level that
these people have fallen to because they
feel so disrespected that they have to
carry around that they have to look at
you like what you looking at what are
you looking at because they think you're
looking at them with contempt they think
you're looking at them without any
respect that's what the african-american
in
inner cities in the United States feels
he wants respect she wants respect and
it's not offered and now because Obama
is president suddenly it's all over
races a hey man were beyond that
tell the Tea Party that you know tell
tell the white supremists that tell the
N let me talk about the G Party because
I read the tea party's manifesto and I
agreed with probably about 80% of that
book I'm not exaggerating I read there
man people just say Oh tea party Tea
Party see they never read what they
actually have to say you should actually
read what they have to say a lot of
their complaints are very justified but
the tea party is even though there's
some african-americans in the tea party
undeniably the tea party is largely a
Norman Rockwell America that doesn't
exist anymore these people have seen a
change and the demographics of this
country they've seen a Kenya Luo
tribesman become the President of the
United States of America he could not
get elected in Kenya because Luo people
can't get elected to high political
offices his father was a failure because
he got some of the highest degrees in
this country when he got back to Kenya
because of the tribalism in his country
he was not able to advance and yet his
son could become president of the United
States you see this this these aspects
of America are very troubling to certain
Americans they're troubling to them but
as somebody who has Irish American entra
ancestry welcome to America it's part of
the negotiating process because my
grandfather changed his name from Oh
handsome to Hanson
because H ENS Owen is also an
anglo-saxon name and it's a Swedish name
and John Hanson was the first president
of the Continental Congress so he
changed his name my great-grandfather
you do Chiappa let's change his name to
George he was light-skinned he used to
tell people he was French I see it's not
that long ago I these are the stories
that I grew up with but Greeks now they
have Greek day kiss me on Greek the Big
Fat Greek Wedding
everybody loves Greeks in America now
it wasn't always like that they were
greasers seriously they were greasers
John Esposito could go on all night
telling you about the Italian Americans
and they're still struggling with The
Sopranos they're still struggling with
that stereotype I mean when I listen to
John I love John he's he's brilliant
he's great but I keep hearing the Mafia
Don make him an offer he can't refuse
and to end on the Mafia Don America is
in danger of becoming a Mafia Don this
is not the America that I grew up in
when Dick Cheney can go around this
country selling his book and people
aren't literally spitting on him for
what he did to this country I'm serious
and I'm gonna make a distinction for all
of you right now if people say I'm
anti-government that's a lie because
I've studied the American system of
government in America we differentiate
between government and administration
the government is the Constitution of
the United States
it's the Congress it's the Senate it's a
judiciary system we have checks and
balances that are made to protect we the
people but administration's can
manipulate can abuse can do things that
are wrong and the only way that we can
change that in this system of civil
government's is by voting in different
people and I'm hoping that that's still
a possibility to see a real change in
this country but this country is
polarized it's in a very precarious
situation and the economy is incredibly
fragile it is incredibly fragile many of
the jobs that are gone will never come
back again Americans are gonna have to
think of new ways of making livelihoods
they're gonna have to go back to the
creativity of the 19th century it's a
new America
and Muslims are part of that America
we've been here from the beginning we're
not going anywhere we're here to stay
and Americans Americans in this country
and and and I really mean this we're
part of the family we're part of the
intellectual family of European and
American intellectual tradition they use
Arabic numerals when they learn their
mathematics just to remind them if they
don't know where those numerals came
from they came from Spain
via Morocco via Egypt via Iraq via India
that's how they came when they look up
at the night sky they see Betelgeuse
epple Joseph they see devar on a divan
they see Altair a paya they see the
remnants of Muslim discoveries when they
study astronomy in American universities
they learn Arabic names to think about
those stars because we are part of the
intellectual tradition when they study
my son is studying algebra right now
algebra when ma vana it's it's forced
upon them the words are there to remind
those who know and so that we can show
others who don't know we're part of the
family we're part of the intellectual
spiritual emotional physical
psychological fabric of human existence
we are one-fourth of this planet and
we're not going anywhere it's a big new
Brzezinski said it's easier to kill a
million people today than to control a
million people in the past it was easier
to control a million people than to kill
a million people if having to kill a
million people is the only way we should
end the human project right now drink
the kool-aid get it over with
this is totally completely unacceptable
stop thinking about controlling people
that's the problem
learn how to work with one another
Alwyn we're a little bit early we'll
talk while come together that verse was
about all of us coming to there that
verse was revealed about the people of
Mecca who weren't Muslims work together
in what's good to Allen or a liability
with Dhokla work together this is what
we have to do as a people we have
incredible challenges incredible
challenges but this country is a
creative country it has risen to the
occasion many times before and I'm
hoping because hope springs eternal hope
is a bird with feathers that perches in
the soul I'm a hopeful person I've got
five kids to make me extremely hopeful
this is my country I love this country
it's my home
I love the hills around the Bay Area
that I grew up with I love muir woods
I love the redwood forests I love the
Sierra Madre that I went to as a child
and camped with my family these are the
places that I grew up with when the
prophet sallallaahu them left Mecca and
he met when he got to Medina there was a
man who came sailin high fari
and he said to the Prophet SAW I said
I'm said kafir I hit Tameka - how did
you find Mecca and he said oh the valley
has been filled with flowers through
Maha and he said and all of the cedar
trees were blossoming and I left the the
water was flowing and he began to
describe the physical he didn't say the
Kaaba or masha'Allah dr. Kutner he
described the physicality of the place
that the Prophet SAW lies who grew up
with as a child and the Prophet began to
weep and he said qu franca has
polka-dotted shalwick Tony don't please
stop it's enough you have made me yearn
from my home
he was yearning for the flowers of Mecca
not just for the Kaaba
he was yearning for the trees of Mecca
that he shaded under as a child
everybody loves the place they grew up
in her but what a minute
amen it's part of human condition it's
not a hadith but it's a basic fitness
statement so this is our country all of
you are here with every right unless
there's some illegal immigrants in the
hall now report yourself immediately to
Homeland Security and for those people
who came here who are going to report
back to your whoever that you report
back to because there's private
enterprise as well as public I would
just say this Imams Aid
I've known Imam David for many years now
Imams aide the lies that they tell about
this man just really bothered me
you know these right-wing people they
just recently wrote an article about him
Imams aides what grew up in very
difficult conditions but like many
honorable African Americans he joined
the United States Air Force to get out
of a certain situation he served
honorably unlike all these chickenhawks
Dick Cheney got six referrals right
seriously unlike these chicken Hawks
to talk about all patriotism in this
they've never served this country
they've served themselves they've served
themselves and he spearheaded this event
because he wants to see the best for
Humanity he's a universal man and he
loves humanity and that's what this was
about coming together to commune with
one another to share thoughts to be
together on a day before a very sad day
in American history but I want all of us
to remember the evil that came out of
the evil that occurred on September 11th
as well remember all the dead Iraqis
remember all the dead civilians in
Afghanistan remember those people
because they're nameless people we've
got now a memorial with all the names of
the people that died in New York
and in Washington their names are known
but we'll never know the names when I
read the New York Times it said six
civilians were killed yesterday in
Afghanistan they don't say Zana Hunnam
or BB Majid daddy or they don't give the
names they're just nameless people
nameless people they're not nameless
with God
so don't mind it come