uh there's a lot of islamophobia out
there and people are scared they see you
maybe you fly and you get hassled at the
airport a lot of people do because
they're trying to practice this this
pure way of life pure monotheism not
trying to harm anybody being a benefit
to society and I'm sure you've been
asked this have you uh people thinking
now that you've accepted the other and
they equate you and Islam with terrorism
what would you say well I mean I would
just tell them that you know uh Islam is
a gigantic tree right I mean there's
almost some say close to two billion
people people on Earth and out of that
tree we have bad apples we have our
mentally ill we have our misguided and
ultimately Muslims Are Not Angels we
weren't created to be perfect um and so
we do sin and we do have people who do a
lot of bad things and we are a huge tree
so sometimes it appears that many of us
are doing bad things but the reality of
it is I would highly recommend anyone
who has these kind of suspicions of
Muslims to actually get to know one and
that's why I teach the massaged the the
Muslim houses of worship all over this
country whenever I'm able to do
something like meet your Muslim neighbor
which is to invite your neighborhood to
come and meet you and sit down and eat a
meal with you and you'll find that those
misconceptions will dissipate very
quickly