lot of misconceptions a lot of false
false Notions that are out there being
propagated about Islam and Muslims and
it's based on illogical fallacies on
things concocted by people who have no
idea what they're talking about and some
genuine sincere people who have just
been stooped and misinformed and I want
to go ahead and start off with one
incident where I was speaking with
someone and I was sharing with him many
of the commonalities like first off how
we greet each other peace be with you
alayum we're people of Peace spreading
peace and purpose and this is how Jesus
greeted his followers with and talking
about the deep love that we have for
Jesus we can't be the Antichrist if we
love Christ and Christ is Jesus the
Messiah he was calling people to worship
the Creator not the creation as article
attendant of our faith so I'm telling
all this to one Christian brother and he
said well Isis like Jesus too then right
I said oh that's interesting I said the
KKK likes him too right so they have
those big Jesus saves and but they don't
represent Christianity and nowadays
what's really propagated in the media
and constantly been thrown out their D
Isis as if these people represent Islam
they have a very you know um uh they've
drifted away they're killing more
Muslims and what do you end up
responding to when you get this question
that's out there about this uh people
attributing Islam to uh people such as
these uh extreme elements that out there
so this is a very common question that
we get all the time because this is
something that is you know being um
shown in the media over and over and
over so the thing is the thing we tend
the way we to tend to ask answer this
question is as follows if if something
or somebody does not act like who who
claim he is then he's not that person
again for example if something does not
look like a chicken does not like walk
like a chicken does not uh uh does not
have the feather like a chicken that is
not a chicken so the same thing you know
if somebody you know who does not act
like a Muslim who does not function like
a Muslim who who he could claim he a chi
he's he's a Muslim you know up and down
left to right and center but if he does
not act like a Muslim then he's not a
Muslim you know so this is a very you
know something that we we tend to make
the people realize of you know not
everybody who claim he's a Muslim then
he or then he's a Muslim again the these
people are nothing but a small fraction
of what Islam and Muslims are the
majority of mean we're talking about
here 99% of all Muslims have denied such
actions they said these these things
does not ex represent Islam whatsoever
you know so and actually the basic
principle
of the Quran have taught us of something
against against that in which Allah
subhana
said that whoever have given saves the
lives is he has saved the lives all of
humanity you know um I think the I mean
the real threat is I mean you know yes
definitely these these these groups are
terrorist groups and you will see many
many many actually the majority of
Muslims have denounced these people
they're actually killing more Muslims in
in the in the on the ground who is
fighting Isis Muslims who who are being
killed mainly by ISIS are Muslims so we
are taking most of the casualties us
Muslims um and we are the one who's
denouncing denouncing them but even but
in America we have I think we have a
much of a bigger threat than Isis uh
that that we claim that that that exist
you know for instance we have we
actually it was kind of ironic that you
it was almost 2 weeks ago it was there
in in CNN uh in which a show called
under the shades of America they talked
about how many chapters here of kka we
have here in the ground in in the United
States of America and they say that in
2004 there was 56 kka
chapters and in 2016 this year you have
197 chapters of kka
197 chapters of this is the Christian
KKK and obviously they don't represent
Christianity but if they took charge
they'd be lynching everybody who doesn't
agree with their version of Christianity
not only their own version of
Christianity different even different
races now yeah I mean they would mean
pretty much anybody who is not Caucasian
they will be against him so the thing is
who is considered now a bigger threat
you know yes we we we denounce these
these uh these uh acts that are done by
a small minute minority of Muslims but
on the ground we have even bigger
problems that we need to deal with you
know and this is something that people
need to open their eyes with yeah lot of
lot of Mis uh misconceptions here but
the facts there's facts and then there's
fictions you know if you look at the FBI
data reports from 1980 to 2005
94% of terrorist attacks were by people
who didn't ascribe to being Muslim and
then also in europ pole less than one
around 1% and when you give these facts
these not fiction doesn't make sense now
that you have more of a chance of being
hit by your furniture right uh Dr Pape
who is the University professor in
Chicago he was a he's a terrorism expert
he evaluated the cases from 1980 to
current times in over a thousand
different cases and he concluded that
Islam had little or nothing to do with
these terrorist acts these were all
politically motivated in in the past few
years there almost almost about 350 plus
mass shooting
in America of all of them there were
done the Muslims who have done mass
shooting of all of the mass shooting the
300 plus 350 plus mass shootings the
mass shootings that were done by Muslims
are two or three of all of them so we
have a bigger problem why should we
focus in the two or three people of
Muslims who have done these things and
forget about the people who are carrying
guns left and right in down the street
you know and you in the schools in the
markets and shooting at people uh you
know regardless of their race or
religion yeah uh there's um Muslims are
your friends not your foes and the facts
are the facts fiction is what's being
propagated to create fear for a certain
agenda but when you meet your Muslim
neighbor people have went down and spent
some time with Muslim they say these
people are the most peaceful the most
hospitable the most charitable people on
the planet and this is a fact not
fiction um tell us about the story with
the brother who was um I don't know was
a trump Rally or something and then
again propagating uh something about
Isis and what did he respond to him with
you remember yeah he was saying he was
he was telling him how many Muslim
Scholars nowadays promote
Isis there is none find me one he said
find me one Muslim Scholars like real
known and knowledgeable Muslim Scholars
who promote Isis there is none you're
not going to find a single one who says
oh these people are the way to go none
of them all of them denounce all of them
have have issued edicts or fatwas
against these people in which they said
that these people do not represent Islam
whatsoever so what I mean if again if
you want to know about Islam then you
ask a Muslim yeah and 50 years ago 40
years ago there was no such thing as
these groups Al-Qaeda and and Isis they
didn't exist and the Dr Pape who is a
terrorist expert again little or nothing
to do with Islam all of these things are
political which again Islam condemns it
clearly and I think anybody who's smart
enough you know to do some research to
look into it they will see the same
things that this is fiction not fact and
there's fantasy and we got a lot of
movies Hollywood Bollywood you always
need a bad guy but Islam is not the bad
guy as though someone tried to perceive
it to be tell us uh before we conclude
why many people they say well why don't
Muslims again just this is a lot of
these um are just um silly things that
are thrown out there but you have a big
organization here has the media ever
come to you because they say where's the
Muslim voice why has Muslims have not
condemned things like this I think the
Muslims always been condemning these
things but the question is is the media
showing how much we can we are
condemning these things quite honestly I
think sometime we Muslims have to take
the blame for this that we have to be
out there interacting with the people
showing them what Islam is all about and
this is about one of our missions with
ask Muslim in which that we want to to
show the community what the a real
Muslim would look like they're not the
Mogi man that you would see in the CNN
or Fox News we are real people we have
kids we love to live you know we we
worship God just like you do you know we
we have families we have jobs you know
you see you see Muslims in all walks of
life you see them as an engineer as a
doctor as a as a Salesman you know
pretty much we are your neighbors you
know
so come talk to us you know see what we
all about and and for you to know what
the the the reality of Islam is all
about basically ask a Muslim get to know
your Muslim make the human connection
and don't be fooled by a lot of the
fiction that's out there come and learn
the facts and we'll see you next time
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