greetings of Peace how you guys doing
guess where we're going we're going
downtown and I got this sign what's the
sign Eddie well you can see right here
it says why don't you ask me about Islam
why you going to all the islamophobes
the haters that getting paid to bash
Islam why don't you come to the Muslims
let me ask my friend brother how you
feeling my friend
yeah I fine so what kind what kind of
questions do you expect people to ask
you basically with all the media going
doing the rounds with islamophobic
matter and content a lot of people they
fear Islam they think Islam is a
religion of hate mongers it's uh the
Muslim Community that is responsible for
the problems so the best way is
wipe out Islam and the world will be in
peace and this is something very
dangerous people ask about Jihad about
terrorism so these are the things that
really need to be addressed that's so
important and and what it says on the
science is Sci say why don't you ask me
yeah that's true why I me talk about
that how important is it that you you
come to the Muslims the Learned Muslim
the scholar and have a healthy dialogue
come to the mass make the human
connection true very true I mean when
you're going to ask some somebody who is
already not believing in Islam hating
Islam the information you're going to
get is a wrong information and these
hate mongers against Islam I call them
the hate moggers against Islam these
people they are actually delivering
stuff that is creating more problems on
Earth it's not Islam it's not the common
Muslim who is doing the problems it's
these people who are doing all the
problems yes I agree there may be some
Muslims who are not tried and they need
to be corrected we are there to correct
them we need your support and you need
our support to correct these people and
these people are not just in the Muslim
Community they are there in every
community and every Community needs to
correct their wrong people and people
who are the mainstream communities they
need to coordinate with each other
cooperate with each other and correct
these people so stay tuned we're going
to be asking the common folk their
questions ask us ask us what you want to
know and we're happy to answer stay
tuned Salam alikum how you guys
doing so we're here
here and we encourage people to come to
us and ask that's why we have the sign
here
with why don't you ask me about Islam we
love for people to engage with us there
so many
misconceptions and to get through
that we got our first huh it means we
got our first uh to the questioner how
you doing doing my friend this said f
Islam all right so he just says some
Arabic alhamdulillah means all praise to
God to the Creator many people think we
worship a different God but the same God
that Jesus worshiped Abraham Moses they
all submitted to the Creator not the
creation and many people don't know that
we love Jesus and we're here to ask
answer those questions that you might
have and it's lovely it's lovely to have
this car in an era of Donald Trump let
the people know that Trump is not
Pharaoh may Allah give him hi you know
when we were watching him on the
television we saw that when the Quran
was being recited he was losing
concentration hi sister how are
you than you for doing this would you
like to ask any any questions that you
like to ask go ahead please uh how do
you feel about the refugee ban yes sir
what's your question how do you feel
about the ban on refugees from to be
very honest I think if refugees need
help then they truly need to be given
the help and among them if there are
some Culp rates they need to be filtered
out but it should not be a total ban
because it would be against humanity yep
and we all know that the refugee problem
has come not because they wanted to
leave their home but because they were
forced to leave their home yeah exactly
and humanitarian we need to support them
and I'm very sure the Americans will
stand together to support them and I'm
also sure that Trump will not make it a
complete ban he will change it someday I
hope so I mean if he I'm very sure he's
doing for the good of America and the
best of America remains where they are
human and humanitarian fathers inah I
hope you're
right good name Vicky Vicky thank you
thank you so much good luck have a great
day guys you too thank you very
much people asking questions why don't
you ask a Muslim and if you don't get to
ask us here today you can call us at
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the people are you
ready I mean I would say it's such a big
difference
when people would you say when they come
actually there's a lot of
self-proclaimed Scholars people who are
getting paid to bash Islam why would you
go many people are learning Islam you
mentioned before there were 60,000
books in the past what over 100 years so
people are getting the wrong information
I mean this just makees sense true you
know to come to the Muslim ask the
Muslims about Islam does that make sense
what do you think yeah 100% that's very
true because if I want to learn America
I'm not going to go to China or ask a
Chinese about what is America or Russian
about what is America when I know they
are going to speak against America so
I'm going to come to America to ask an
American what is America so I expect the
non-muslims to come to the Muslims and
ask them what is Islam don't go to the
radicals because when I come to America
I don't go to the druggist and the
rapist to ask what is America I go to
the knowledgeable people to ask what is
America
um tell me about Islam yeah I me it's
the way of life where it demands that a
man or a woman should submit their will
to the will of the Creator smart you
like that
yes and a Muslim is defined as a person
who willfully submits himself to the god
smart how do you feel about uh the whole
uh murdering infidels thing hard pass on
that that's that Old Testament
just passing B basically what I feel is
what's happening in the name of religion
yeah when it is violence in the name of
religion yeah when unauthorized people
take up religion in their own hands it's
like a common man taking up the law in
their own hand right and that's very
wrong it shouldn't be done religions do
talk about war and Islam also as a
political system talks about war but it
does not authorize a common man on the
road to pick up arms and kill infidels
or disbelievers absolutely not if I'm
yeah if I if I kill everybody whom am I
going to convey the God but where where
where does this you mention this word
infidel do we I mean where did this
originate from there's no cuz a lot of
people uh yeah yeah basically if you see
this Infidel word is more often used in
the Old Testament but in the Quran it is
about those enemies of God who fight
even if those enemies of God are Muslims
themselves the Quran says fight them
back fight them back that's because like
Muhammad and his fathers were getting
slaughtered yeah at the time Prophet
Muhammad is he was forced to migrate
from Makkah to Madina and you will be
very surprised see you you know a bit of
Islam because you already are quoting
that when Prophet Muhammad he conquered
back Makkah he did not kill a single
person
there when he recaptured Makkah he did
not kill anybody and he in fact said
it's a day of giving forgiveness and
mercy to the people I mean we what I
always tell Jesus Christ will peace be
upon him for the pris peace and when he
was put yeah I mean when he was put on
the cross he said I forgive the people
who on the cross according to the Bible
though we believe that but then when
Prophet Muhammad with all the power
entered Makkah and his disciples wanted
to take revenge for the people who made
them migrate he said no we are not going
to kill any one of them we are going to
give them General forgiveness so that is
what hidden
unfortunately it's all media that is
playing the game mostly not all the
media some sections of the media oh tons
of media Fox News is just just turning
into hate absolutely absolutely right
and people like you are needed to come
up and defend Humanity well I like uh I
like the way that you are interpreting
Islam it's very peaceful and loving it's
good I mean I I agree that I would not
be a hypocrite to say that Islam doesn't
talk about wars Islam of course talks
about wars but it talks for example when
you read Surah number 60 ayat number 8
of the Quran Allah says those who do not
fight with you then be good to them be
kind to them and Allah does not prevent
you from being kind towards those
non-muslims who don't fight you it's
about those people who are fighting you
if suppose somebody attacks America then
America has all the right to take the
riv if somebody attacks you we have all
the right to self-defend and that is
what Islam says but unfortunately if
somebody is doing something wrong it's
his problem for example Mercedes is one
of the best cars BMW is one of the best
cars but if they make accident then we
are going to verify whether the person
behind the steering had a license or not
if he was driving without a license then
the problem is not with the car but it's
with the driver so it's like these
Muslims who are doing something without
the license to do it oh they're they're
extremists yeah and I relig just
extremist Christian or Islam absolutely
you had the Klux Clan here yeah that in
the name of Christianity David Duke is
is behind her president now God it's
disgusting okay what's your good name
brother uh I can't oh okay you have a
good thank you so much thank you thank
you so ni we're with our friends we're
showing them our sign this is a sign we
had why don't you ask me about is about
Islam instead of going to people outside
of Islam come to the Muslims to learn
about Islam does it make sense Gregory
what do you think got a good point
that's a good point huh mhm cuz there's
so many people talking about Islam you
got some people who do things opposite
to Islam what we say is radicals it's a
very uh Fringe small element but you got
these people going to them as if they
represent Islam now that's crazy but
they forgetting about American hero
Muhammad Ali yeah he was inspired by
Islam yeah and you see all the good he
was doing right yeah so if you guys had
to ask any question since you got a
couple Muslim what would you guys ask
anything
anything any questions I don't have any
questions no I've already my own yeah
and basically
uh
Christians have to respect Muslims and
vice
versa respect is very important we
respect each other you respect uh one's
faith and one respect your faith and uh
did you know that Islam was actually the
only non-Christian Faith which makes it
an Article of Faith to believe and love
Jesus that you can get a one-way ticket
to the Hellfire If you deny Jesus if you
sp if you speak ill of him did you know
that you didn't you learned
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by Allah's permission he healed those
who were born blind and lepers but by
Allah's permission we believe that he
was born miraculously to Mother Mary
without any male intervention
unfortunately a lot of Christians do not
believe this today but we Muslims we
believe that so I think you know
important thing there's even a chapter
named after his Blessed Mother in the
Quran yeah so when people you know
because there's a lot of this hate
rhetoric and people are you know
dividing us Americans dividing Humanity
with this spew and this hate you follow
me so we try to bridge this Gap to show
the commonalities to show the Deep you
know love and respect we have for Jesus
and try to clear up many of these
misconceptions false Notions that people
have so we invite them to ask the
Muslims so I have one question go ahead
please please why do certain Muslims
fight in the name of jihad beautiful
question did you hear that why do
certain Muslims fight beautiful now
we're talking good question repeat the
question so our viewers can can uh hear
what he said yeah
he said that why do Muslims fight in the
name of
jihad so basically uh there are three
different aspects to get uh
understanding for this question I forgot
your name brother what's your name is
sorry part yeah okay but there are three
basic aspects to this question put it
this way a country has got a government
and a system and that system has a legal
way to fight a war
or wage a war against its enemies am I
right yes so Jihad in Islam is actually
a concept that is to be held by the
Muslim government not by individuals or
groups like for example India hand India
has got about 29 States today and us has
got about 50 states
tomor a state cannot decide that we are
going to wage war with Canada or Mexico
or Brazil it's an entire system that
will decide that the central government
will decide it so back in India Gujarat
cannot decide we are going to w a war
with Pakistan or China or Telangana
cannot decide that it's the Indian
government that will decide that so
similarly the Islamic aspect of jihad is
that the Muslim government will decide
if they have to fight a war which should
be a just War to defend the Muslim
Community to defend the practices which
are the fundamentals of the religion of
Islam the second aspect to it is suppose
you are attacked then every law gives
you the right to self-defend yourself so
that when we do to self-defend myself to
self-defend my property my family that
is also doing Jihad in the way of Allah
and the third one
unfortunately which today you find a lot
of people discussing about is a few
Fringe elements who have taken up the
law in their own hands and in the name
of religion they have taken up to
violence and extremism just like every
other religion has these elements like
back in India we have some groups which
in the name of Hinduism they do things
which Hinduism doesn't preach back in
Myanmar Buddhism was considered to be a
religion of peace and tolerance but look
at what the Buddhists in Myanmar did but
for what the Buddhist in Myanmar did to
the Muslims there you cannot blame the
whole of Bud budhism or the teachings of
Buddhism similarly when you come to
Crusades of Christianity they killed
millions of people they killed millions
of Jews there so you can't believe blame
Christianity as a whole you see if you
are a Hindu or the KKK for instance yeah
the K the uh the K klak clan of USA in
the name of Christianity what it does
the IRA the Irish Republican Army it's a
Christian organization the same way like
uh back in India we have Mythology by
the name Mahabharat am I right brother
po yes so you see Mahabharat was a fight
in the name of religion against the
enemies of God so similarly when you
read the Bible also Jesus says in Gospel
of Matthew chap number 10 verse number
34 think not that I have come uh he says
think not that I have come to spread
peace on Earth I have not come to spread
peace but a sword so that does not
testify that Jesus is a terrorist or he
has come to wage Wars but it means if
time comes then we have to be ready to
fight the enemies of the god so in that
sense Islam commands Jad unfortunately
some people have mispriced it and the
mainstream media like the Fox News they
pick up these Fringe elements as if to
represent them as the whole of the
Muslim Community you'll be shocked that
the FBI statistic for the USA it says
after September 11 till date Muslims
were in involved only in 5% of the
terrorist attacks on the American soil
whereas Jews were involved in
6% and you had more than 42 or 43% of
the white supremacists involved in the
attacks and the Latinos attacks were
more than the Muslims doing it on the
American
soil if you check the Euro pole Muslims
were hardly involved in one or two
attacks in entire Europe between 2013 to
2015 but the media has always been
wrongly projecting and they have been
purchasing a lot of good by exploiting
the wrong information amongst the masses
who are either ignorant about Islam or
who are innocent and they do not have
the right knowledge about Islam so
that's the biggest problem actually I
think you you understood it getting it
correlated with bhagwat Gita and all
this yeah so it's not just Islam that
has a concept of War it's all religions
that have a concept of War it's some
people misusing it in the name of
religion mhm have you heard about Dr uh
Robert Pape no okay he is from uh USA
and he is an expert on studying suicide
bombing and he wrote a book dying to win
and it's the central research work for
all the government agencies today
whether it's American Army Indian army
or whoever on suicide bombing and in
that book he comes out with a very uh
amazing uh Discovery he says that more
than 50% of the suicide bombings were
committed by non-muslims not by Muslims
and the maximum number of suicide
bombings committed in the world were
committed by
ltte you heard that group no I haven't
actually ltte is a group of uh Tamil uh
Liberation Tamil Tigers Elum that's the
name of the group that was fighting in
Sri Lanka and most of the people who
were a part of that group or rather
99.99% of the people involved in that
group were those who would call
themselves as Hindus okay and dying to
win the book it says more than 50% of
the attacks by non-muslims maximum by
ltte so unfortunately many people do not
know that and he says that he studied
why people take to Suicide bombing and
it says more than 90% of the cases of
suicide bombing were not in the name of
religion but it were a reaction to
foreign occupation on their
lands that is his research and it's the
central uh research Book for a lot of
agencies
today so the question is the purpose of
life so one is to to live to live life
is that right Gregor to live
life path well I think that to live life
is trueth for everything that's alive on
this Earth yeah is to survive and
live now other things can fall into that
up under that you know that umbrella but
I mean you know you can't get past the
fact
that we have to live we have to survive
you know and
uh you know sometimes that encompasses a
lot of different things I often make
this example when I ask people to
observe the different things around us
for instance the watch if someone's
wearing on their hand the iPhone or iPad
that they use the keys in their pocket I
usually challenge people to observe and
look around them and to find anything
that they can see touch feel that
doesn't have a purpose that they're the
keys that they use
daily has a purpose the jacket they wear
has a purpose the shoelaces on their
shoes have a purpose then I usually ask
people to also look at the person who's
utilizing these things and to ask
themselves for what because every
everything is serving has been made to
serve us in one way or another is it
right someone you you make those things
material things to serve us right true
but what about the human being for what
purpose has he or she been ultimately
created for if if we come to the
realization that design indicates a
designer and behind this whole Mass
Universe and everything in it it's been
precisely tuned it has all the elements
everything we need to function to
survive but now the human being who's
the most intricate from all these things
what is he created for right what are we
what is our main purpose in life to
reflect
above and what is your what is your
response to your own question sir well
the the response from the Islamic View
and Islam is simply Arabic word which
means submission to the will of God but
in the definition of the word comes the
answer is that just like human beings
create things to serve God Almighty the
Creator the same Creator who created
Jesus Moses Abraham the Creator who
created the Sun and the Moon and
everything in this universe he created
the human being to serve and to worship
him now that means everything that God
loves God loves that you help those who
are oppressed God loves that you feed
the poor God Lov these are a means to
the ultimate goal Under the Umbrella of
worship so everything that God loves and
you do it cuz a lot of times people will
confuse the means with the ultimate goal
so everything you
do that God loves is an act of worship
right and everything you you stay away
from that God has prohibited out of his
ultimate knowledge and wisdom that's an
act of worship so that is what we
believe the ultimate purpose of life is
is to serve God and to obey him and by
doing everything that God loves that's
an act of worship and staying away from
everything and then everything is laid
out we have in Islam we have the
verbatim word of God we believe the
Quran and it talks about
you know all of the basics of worshiping
God alone that's the first and primary
thing not to set up partners with God to
only worship the crater and this this
you'll see like what's beautiful your
will be is that when you when you when
you look at throughout time you see God
out of his love he sent Messengers he
didn't leave us in the dark and all of
these Messengers they didn't come with
different religions they all came with
the same religion the same way of life
which was submit yourself to the
Creator and don't worship the creation
that has always been the same same me
Jesus brought it Abraham brought it Noah
brought it and all the other Messengers
they all called human beings to to to
Def to to direct their worship to the
one Creator and not to worship a stick a
stone a human being a man a woman a
saint a messenger right and then they
came with guidance you know how how to
that's right nice meeting you my friend
got the card check out check out the
program yeah y all right bye have a good
day how do you say bye in in uh in the
your language uh how do we say bye we
say just me say the
must bye okay take care see you
bye so that that would
be that would be the answer to the
question to worship God and serve God
and one of the things of serving God is
is serving human being in the service of
humanity you know this is something that
is the crust knowing that also this life
is a test we're here for a short amount
of time and every human beings going to
be accountable for what they did in this
life right and then at the end we
believe there's a day of judgment and
the final judgment is left to God and
that it wouldn't be it would be unfair
if God didn't send Messengers didn't
send guidance and then from
there the wonderful WS of
paradise for the criminals of the world
those people who set up partners with
God those who re rejected who the
Hitlers of the world they'll be brought
to
account you know that did you know that
over 30 to 40% of the the original I
would say the natives of of America the
original Americans if you want to say
we're we actually African-Americans the
Muslims they were Muslim did you know
that
kin if you look if the americ
African-Americans they look into the
roots you'll see that you know in Africa
you come you have Islam has it's a
there's a rich history in Islam very
rich history when you look at like you
ever watch The Roots kin mhm you know he
would say Allah he would he would call
on God and this is because the original
people