can you please speak on this yeah oh
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the video was wonderful so life like it
made me
feel like i was
almost there it made me want to be able
to view it again
it gave me a lot of information
things that i didn't know
and like what for example well i didn't
know that um
all the freedoms that it talked about
for women for islam
i wasn't aware of that
or
everybody the same different races
and freedoms for everybody getting rid
of slavery i wasn't aware of all of that
so i
enjoyed it 100 110
and 10 percent wow 110 percent that's an
awesome feedback
so the video how was it
the video was fantastic you couldn't ask
for more it was so lifelike it felt like
you were really there you like it it's
fine
yeah just fine some information is not
right
what about the women oh no i'm sorry
so what was that sorry go ahead and take
this uh so oh okay some of the
information
so he can hear it yeah this is hard to
record
oh i see some of the information is not
correct okay for example for example the
women are equal to men and uh they only
um
prevented uh that young girls to be
buried that's true
but not other the other things for
example no i'm sorry no no for example
watching
that's true
women and islam are not equal to men i'm
sorry
okay so
so there are many many humongous rights
that islam has given to women all right
that these rights were unheard of even
in this country
you know before the last 150 years or so
for example yeah yeah for example right
see in this country the ladies they want
the right to owe property
not until 1861 in illinois right sure so
islam things changed
but not
you know what they are telling us no no
what i'm saying to you is coming
directly from islam so islam gave women
the right to owe property in the 7th
century our country they gave it in 1861
right
and not
not just to any women in this country
only the white caucasian married ladies
they won the right not the browns and
the blacks and you know other women so
islam gave rights to women in the
seventh century islam gave the right to
women to get married without any force
without any compulsion right no one can
force marriage islam gave women the
rights
to gain education
you know not until the 1800s in this
country excuse me yes
gave the women right to education
what's happening in afghanistan
okay so
so this so this mosque open house is not
about you know the cultural practices
because sorry but they are muslims there
yeah yeah but look at what they're
treating women there and girls and look
what happened to
malaya
how you know she wanted to go to
school and they shot her in the bus so
sure so if some muslims are taking away
their eyes
so what i'm saying is
so for example suppose if i say that in
this country
they are
92 000 rapes of christian men on
christian women suppose if i say to you
that 20 percent of the ladies here
they go through incest unfortunately
what if i say to you that there are 7.8
million
spousal abuse by christian men husbands
on christian wives right what if i say
to you that forty thousand suicides have
to do with education no no what i'm
saying is that we cannot judge a faith
based upon the cultural practices just
like i don't want to judge you know this
wonderful country english majority yes
yes okay but i hope you understanding
right what we are supposed to do is we
are supposed to uh separate islam which
is perfect from the cultural practices
of people
saying that
the practice of islam is different from
what it's a different thing than what
every
set
like here or any place choose to do it
is that what you're saying yeah yeah
because you know i cannot judge
christianity based upon the crusades
right based upon spanish inquisition
based upon their slavery
or their church or slavery or violence
right so
you have to be and we have to be careful
because if we start blaming the faith
based upon not so good practicing
christians or muslims or hindus then we
have to like throw away all the
religions right what we are saying is
islam is perfect look at the wonderful
guidance if some people are not
following it right the crusaders they
were bible believers they slaughtered
like 300 000 innocent
jews and the muslims
the slave traders in the name of the
bible they did what they did uh how
about how about the genocide on the
native americans it was done in the name
of christianity i as a muslim i don't
want to blame christianity i want to
blame the people that do exactly that's
the whole point
if some muslims in afghanistan are doing
something wrong
we blame them
yes he just said if some people so then
we have to blame them right
see what what the media does is it only
shows the wrong side of the followers of
islam so then it gives the perception as
if every person is like that instead of
the people that did it you know
one funny story is this okay oh so i
went to jerusalem right i went to
jerusalem just to look at the historical
sites with my family so when i went up
there one of the lady she asked me okay
you know sabil where are you from
because she knew i was from the u.s so i
said i'm from chicago
she became so much concerned saying that
oh man i hope you guys are safe look at
all the violence that you see on the
chicago the south side the north side i
was telling her you know what maybe
that's only what the media is showing in
that part of the country
compared to the wonderful people in
chicago not everyone is involved in gun
violence
but media shows and it appears as if
every chicago one every american is like
you know violent person
in the same way in afghanistan if only
the wrong things that people are doing
are shown that means that gives a
perception like that the good and bad
apples and the followers of any faith
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in any faith majority of the people are
good people they're always you know five
percent two percent ten percent which
are always based upon whatever reason
about the country
what was that
a country person no you cannot say that
there are many jews and christians
living in peace and harmony in
afghanistan you know some of the oldest
churches in synagogues are in the muslim
countries in egypt and iraq and
afghanistan and pakis i have been to
pakistan my in-laws are from pakistan
some of the oldest churches in the whole
world are in pakistan
many churches many synagogues they are
in afghanistan right even protected now
since the last 1400 years
so media does not want to show the
positive things
of the minorities how they are living in
peace and harmony yes there are always
flares right here and there even in this
country there have been 35 mosques that
have been burned down in this country
correct nobody knows it suppose if
that's all that we highlight about uh
the treatment of u.s to the muslims just
by burning of the mosque people may
think you know look at u.s how they are
oppressing the muslims no this is just a
bad apples so we cannot judge a faith
based upon the bad apples of any
followers
thank you all right
i hope you agree at least we have to
separate the culture from the faith of
islam
thank you very much and what that's good
what's your name
yes oh i wish i could take my name it
was nice meeting you and thank you for
the
definition and the clarification of
course of course because you know coming
over here that's the reason we are here
is to make sure that there may be so
many misconceptions misperceptions
people may have but by us coming
together
and as a human beings discussing yes we
may have differences right in a
respectable way
discussing differences
what i have found out that we have more
things in common compared to the
differences
so the main purpose of the open house is
to work on the commonalities
to work towards better societies
i'm glad you had the open house and i'm
glad you guys came here all right
thank you for coming take care
okay you're always welcome bring more
friends thank you like her