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we know that there's a growing Trend
rise of
islamophobia but did you know that to be
anti-islam is to be anti- Jesus did you
know to be anti-islamist to be anti-
Moses you're probably wondering how is
that well that's why you've tuned into
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New
Perspective back in a moment with my
guest who's been battling this
islamophobia for some time so we're
going to be right back here on the dean
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anywhere peace be with you asalam
alaykum how are you sheh Imam Dr Mory
how are you alhamdulillah thank you for
having me I'm very happy to be here how
is it in the sunny State of Florida it's
it's sunny and it's hot but they were
talking about some uh airport uh prayer
room tell us about this well we have uh
been working with the airport Authority
at the Orlando International
Airport uh to provide prayer space for
Muslim Travelers and uh Orlando gets
over 55 million
visitors each year and uh of course many
of those are Muslims who travel to the
attractions at Walt Disney World and
SeaWorld and Universal Studios Kennedy
Space Center so uh they find it
difficult especially in the
international terminal uh not to have
place to pray and we have asked uh the
airport authorities to as part of their
customer service and the enhancement of
that service to provide the space for
traveling Muslims and they have
responded positively and they have
prepared a nice space uh for that which
created a little bit of a firestorm for
uh anti-muslim groups who see Islam in a
very negative way and think that uh the
airport Authority was wrong to make such
a space even though we said that that
space would be also open to all uh Faith
communities uh for anyone who wants to
pray to God there's space um we are not
trying to be exclusive but we believe
that a lot of passengers you know over
80% of people in the world they believe
in God and they want uh time to pray so
it's a natural thing for uh the airport
to do it there are many airp airports
like O'Hare like JFK like hro like
Frankfurt Amsterdam they all have uh
spaces for prayers so uh The Traveler
can really find time to to talk to God
uh now when I I opened up the show I
talked about to be anti-islam to be is
to be anti- Jesus to be anti-islam is to
be anti- Moses I'll get into that
question uh in a moment but for the
person that he is now prayer room in an
airport and they're like this dog on
Muslims and they got the Sharia now in
the airports and they're taking over
have you heard some of this rhetoric I
heard that rhetoric but has nothing to
do with Shar taking over the airport the
airport has spaces for people to eat has
spaces for people to use the restroom
has playgrounds for kids because when
you have to wait for 2 hours sometimes
more to catch your flight and that a
time of anxiety a time of nervousness
you go through security uh you may have
forgotten something uh and with all the
news we hear about people you know uh
dying on flights flights are crashing
around the world so people are not all
you know very happy to be on a flight
they are uh nervous prayer is a way for
the traveler to get calm to be prepared
for a long journey and that actually
helps the people at the airport other
passengers it helps the security at the
airport and uh we feel that everybody is
uh should be given the permission to
pray you know and uh it has nothing to
do with taking over the airport or
implementing sha do on it if I want to
pray I want to pray and you can pray too
it' probably be better for you now it's
better it RIT some of this hatred in
your heart yes doctors tell you that it
is healthy for uh it's better for your
health to pray so that you put your
trust in God and things will be okay and
you go on your journey with that trust
and you don't have to be a nervous wreck
when you're bored so uh Muslim free zone
do they got is this uh happening in all
in Florida in Florida too what's going
on how can you I mean at one point it
was like uh a black free zone uh get to
the back of the bus and now are they
trying to do this to Muslims well in
reaction to the tragic events in chatuga
Tennessee where uh a so-called Muslim
went on a shooting rampage uh some of
those anti-muslim groups also went out
to try to express their anger by
creating these Muslim free zones they
don't want to sell to Muslims they don't
want to deal with Muslims simply because
they don't know Muslims they don't know
Islam and they don't understand ISL
Islam is peace and we are citizens who
love this country and we are willing to
defend it but the rhetoric they hear on
television on the radio all the time
from groups
that really don't like Islam to put it
bluntly uh are M making a lot of
Americans nervous and leading to these
kinds of uh Muslim free zones and
businesses free zones that uh don't want
Muslims to come now many of our viewing
audience if they didn't get a chance cuz
we've had you some years ago on the show
and you actually tackled his head on
there was actually a person who was
trying to burn the Quran Terry Jerry
Jones what's his name Pastor Terry Jones
yes and you actually were the person
that was di go to to his church in
Gainesville Florida and to convince him
to cancel the Quran burning that he had
planned and uh it was
uh an event that captured the
international attention media from all
over the world and uh it led to a lot of
conflicts uh in Afghanistan and other
places where people really didn't like
what this pastor was doing but many
Christians great good good Christians
who have asked him not to do it he
wasn't listening and I had to go two con
two days consecutively and meet with him
uh while he was armed and dangerous uh
to try to convince him not to do it
because it's not good for anybody and uh
thanks to God I was successful and uh we
had peaceful Aid at that time but some
hate groups convinced him several months
later to do it anyway and
unfortunately uh it led to what we
feared people dying in Afghanistan at a
un compound because of his actions so we
had this situation whatever we got to go
to break but uh we want to find out what
happened to this pastor he was trying to
burn the Quran and then how would you
respond we got someone uh trying to eat
the Quran this is something also real
crazy back with more here in show don't
go anywhere the question is about
whether Muslims are or not good citizens
the Constitution defines what a good
citizen is and the preul says we the
people of the United States in order to
form a more perfect union establish
justice Ure domes Tranquility to many
Muslim that can say that is a good
Muslim and most Muslims can say that
most Muslims will Embrace that most
Muslims are good
Americans back here on the dean show and
anti to be anti-muslim is to be anti-
Jesus a bold statement we're going to
address this not yet okay what happened
to uh Terry Pastor Jones whatever
happened to to him well first he lost
his church he moved from Gainesville
went to penales County near Tampa
Florida and the last I know is he opened
uh a fries you know and a little shop in
inside the mall selling french fries so
he was trying to jump on born on the
islamophobia industry trying to actually
take advantage yes and that didn't work
out he was yeah exactly didn't work out
he printed
T-shirts uh saying Islam is of the devil
he you know made mugs coffee mugs he did
everything to try to uh make money out
of islamophobia but then you know
Americans turned their backs on him and
had that business venture failed so now
he is uh doing french fries you know I
mean that's uh what happens you know you
spew in hate your proponent of hate and
you end up being humiliated at the end
exactly yeah so tell us
now uh we're going to go to this clip we
talked about him trying to end up
burning the Quran uh this person uh
trying to eat the Quran you will burn in
hell look at
this your only he's acting like a real
Muslim look at it that's a real Muslim
it is
hate okay you got to see this disturbing
clip I I'm not so you you know you have
these uh lunatics out there who are
trying to provoke you know people these
kids going to school we did a show on
this before I'm more concerned that now
when Muslims they end up falling for
this they end up maybe acting
inappropriately and then the person says
n gotcha so the Muslim will do something
ignorant also in response to ignorance
so then the camera will catch this and
then you just made a fool out of
yourself you didn't help uh you know the
the cause of uh propagating the truth
what advice do you have I think we have
seen for number of years now that every
few weeks some crazy person would come
out trying to provoke Muslims either by
doing you know caricature of the Prophet
or writing an article to insult Muslims
or doing something you know to uh show
their distasteful attitude towards the
Quran or the prophet and they have in
the past succeeded in provoking some
Muslims and the media loves to capture
uh those provoked Muslims and how they
react negatively and they Overlook the
provocators who brought that situation
to begin with my advice to Muslims is
the prophet peace be upon him uh was
provoked but he was patient and he did
not get angry and as you know when we
fast uh if somebody provoke us the
prophet said you should say I'm fasting
you should not fall for it you should
not respond in kind because that's not
Islam Islam means to be peaceful a
Muslim means the peaceful person and if
someone provokes you or insults you say
peace and move away do not respond to
this kind of Madness you know in every
society there are Fanatics there are
lunatics who act like this and it's not
our job to fix them or respond to them
we just have to say peace Salam and move
away that's it I mean you're not going
to help the situation I mean you
shouldn't be cursing anyway exactly you
shouldn't be throwing a punch you
shouldn't be getting violent that's not
that's not going to help at all at all
and uh it's going to prove a point that
they're trying to make and they time and
again they try to provoke us sometimes
they do a video about the prophet
sometimes they do caricature of the
prophet and we know our Prophet we know
the prophet wasn't anything like what
they're describing he was a man of Peace
man of Justice man of loving everyone
and we need to be like him and not
respond in kind to these provocations
have you had also recently you've had
some of these organized efforts where
people actually come with guns in front
of the houses of of of God of uh of
worship have you have you seen this in
Florida
we had it in Arizona recently we have
seen it in Arizona we had at our mosque
group that flew from Texas okay and uh
organized in front of the mosque in the
right of way and they had megaphones and
they were shouting and screaming just
like the video we saw you're going to
hell you're going to burn in hell and
all of these provocations but it was in
the height of summer in July in Florida
where you know it's 100° with 100%
humidity so I felt sorry for them and I
send the volunteers with water and
lemonade I said these people are going
to pass out if you don't give them some
water so we don't respond in kind we
respond as Muslims the way our Prophet
taught us you know uh go to them give
them chilled water let them calm down
and understand that if they think we're
going to hell that's their opinion
they're entitled to their opinion but we
know better we know that Islam is peace
and we have to live that peace when we
are dealing with our neighbors actually
when the Muslims invited you know about
this when they invited one of the some
of the key organizers into the MOs
totally different change totally a
change of heart happen exactly and
that's the strategy you need to know
that these people are ignorant they
don't know what is Islam is so instead
of arguing with them and fighting with
them invite them bring them in feed them
give them something to drink let them
rest let them see for themselves our MS
are open to everyone by the way the
prophet peace be upon Him invited Jewish
rabbis into the mosque he invited the
Christians of njan to his mosque for
days so we have no restriction to invite
non-muslims in we have nothing to hide
we're proud of where we pray to God and
uh we're not a secret society we are
human beings who love peace who love our
neighbors and everyone is welcome I
encourage everyone watching to please
visit your mosque okay we'll give you
personal tour and answer all of your
questions no obligations free of charge
just this is our your right to know and
it's Our obligation to open our hearts
and homes and M to you now what you've
been waiting for when we come back
answering the Bold statement that being
anti-islam if you're a Christian now is
actually anti- Jesus when we come back
here in the dean show we're going to be
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they've been waiting for glued in from
the beginning he said this guy said look
man to be anti uh Islam is to be anti-
Moses Jesus Abraham and all the prophets
is this a true statement that's true
because the religion that God had for
Humanity is Islam is peace Adam was a
man of Peace Abraham Moses Jesus all of
the prophets were men of peace they were
all calling to God so if you go against
one of them you're going against all of
them if you say I'm against Muhammad
well you are against Jesus and Moses and
Abraham and Adam and hundreds of other
prophets because all of these prophets
were not calling people to themselves
they were calling people to the one true
God Allah and that's the unifying
message for all Humanity we are not
Islam is not a religion for the Arabs
it's not a religion for the Turks it's a
religion for every human being it's a
relationship between you and God and
Jesus himself declared himself as a
Muslim Abraham and ishma they declared
themselves as Muslims in the Quran
says like make us Muslims to you which
means to be at peace with you oh God and
we have to understand that there is one
God one humanity and all of these
prophets as our leaders and mentors and
role models are in our faith beloved
Muslims that's amazing when you really
dissect the word Muslim one who
surrenders peacefully to the creator of
the heavens and earth and has peace with
his cator peace with Society we're not
trying to harm nobody we say we opened
up the show we said peace be with you
exactly and who's
more embodies that than the prophets
themselves Muhammad Jesus Moses Abraham
they are the RO models in submitting to
God and being at peace with God I really
think you know and I've mentioned men
this before you know sometime not too
long ago you had these racist uh bigots
skin head KKK people in the white thobes
now the white thobes is not cool to wear
that anymore but now that racism many
that have inherited you know because
you're not born uh with this hate you've
taught it exactly so now they just
carrying over many people they haven't
figured out the purpose of life they're
angry with life and now just looking for
someone to hate on to blame and as a
nation the United States have had uh
this problem for a long time with
different groups you know they hated the
Jews at one day they hated the Cubans
they hated the Mexicans they hated you
know the African-Americans and now it's
our turn they hate Muslims because they
don't understand Islam if you understand
Islam I encourage everyone watching
please take the time and study Islam ask
Siri you know on your phone tell me
about Islam go on Wikipedia read about
Islam on your own you know you don't
have to think about why just read it
inform yourself be an informed citizen
you will find for yourself that Islam is
peace Islam is love Islam is respect and
you will come around not to hate Muslims
and I don't want people of this great
nation to feel sorry one day in the
future and say you know we have made a
mistake as we did with the
African-Americans and the American
Indians no learn
today this education this information is
available at your fingertips everywhere
there's no excuse to be ignorant anymore
Islam is a multi-race every uh person
from any background is invited and it's
people don't realize there is over 1.7
billion Muslims according to the PE
Research Center and they are in every
country in every ethnic group every
language there are Muslims in every
shape and color and that is the fact
Islam is not an Arabic group Islam is a
global Faith a global religion there was
one politician who he had his key
researcher um look into Islam and a lot
of times they look to try to cherry-pick
verses to try to use them to incite fear
but anyone who just opens up the Quran
reads the before and after will see the
context of these verses be like oh what
this guy is saying is false but this
actually this person uh was actually
trying to ban the Quran his researcher
actually ended up accepting Islam did
you uh you you heard about this guy I
heard about that and that's the beauty
about Islam people from afar they think
Islam is problem Islam is promoting
terrorism but when they read the Quran
for themselves and that's why I ask
people to read the Quran for themselves
they're going to find it is beautiful it
is promoting peace and love among all
human beings in chapter
49:3 God said oh people who created you
from male and female made you into
Nations and tribes to come to know one
another to love each other to respect
each other that's the purpose the
mission of Islam it's not to divide us
as people but to unite us as human
beings we share one world and we should
love and respect one another now these
people who cherry pick the Quran if they
cherry pick the Bible they're going to
find a lot of horrible things that they
themselves don't agree with and I say
cherry picking is not consistent with
logic you have to read the before and
after you have to put things into
context and you will understand the
beautiful picture I often tell people
because obviously there's such thing as
a just war and when you look at the
verses that are talking about any kind
of battle I usually ask people I say
would you rather be in a fight with
rules and no rules so now when
something's about to go down uh in in um
in a situ situation where let's say um
you are running a country the how do you
apply these verses that now when someone
looks at it and it says oh what this guy
these are these apolog uh apologetic
Muslims and it says you know kill them
wherever you find them you follow me how
how he's lying to us they're doing te
they're they're uh deceiving us well
Islam gives us clear Rules of Engagement
okay not to even in war you cannot
attack civilians you cannot attack
people in their religious places you
cannot cut down trees you have to do
your best to preserve the peace now the
enemies of peace they may wage war on
you Islam gives you the right to defend
yourself now tell me which war that
Christians have done is according to the
teachings of
Jesus now many Christians in this world
if there are true Christians and follow
Jesus can they actually go to war can
they have even a standing army but we
know that Europe went to War World War I
World War II the United States has the
strongest army in the world is this a
Christian
value why they don't ask themselves why
do we have guns why do we as a nation
everybody has a gun on their waist we
have to understand that uh when we
accuse somebody of something we have to
look in the mirror and ask ourselves are
we the ones who are guilty of that there
are millions ions of American Muslims
they don't own guns they never fired the
gun and they they don't have guns in
their homes because guns are tools to
kill and we don't wish to kill anybody
that's uh really the facts I mean when
you look at the facts on the ground yeah
and I like what you said so pick up the
Quran do uh some research um would you
say also a good place to start is I mean
because we want to know why we've been
created the purpose of light is asking
sincerely if you pick up the Quran read
chapter 3 for example that talks about
Mary and Jesus and her family talks
about Christians in very beautiful terms
you will see the similarities if you
read chapter 19 named Mariam or Mary it
is again about the stories of Mariam and
Jesus the birth of Jesus the Miracles
that's what we believe in we are
brothers we are close and Christians owe
it to themselves to open this book and
see it because if you just listen to
someone who accused the Quran of things
you know after 911 some people said oh
there's a verse in the Quran that talked
about 911 and that how it's false the
internet is full of wrong information
about Islam so you have to read for
yourself you have no excuse today you
read many books many novels take this
one book read it for yourself and then
you de side and people can visit you at
your mosque anytime anytime I'll give
them personal tour how can uh people if
they wanted to uh uh tell us about your
organization and people want to get a
contact with
you anytime you are in Orlando Florida
going to Disney please call on us and
come and visit we will love to have you
and we have open houses all the time and
we uh provide free meals and we help our
neighbors so we'd love to have you we uh
as I always uh conclude I say look we
the greeting of Jesus was not hey what's
up how you doing it was peace be with
you exactly so we started with peace we
end with peace Salam Alam Al thank you
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now you had come you had investigated
you have sat with some Muslims and you'd
see that what you've been
taught is actually something that is not
true but you've actually opened your
mind you've been humble enough because
at the end what will happen if you
follow someone of hate you end up just
spewing more hate the heart grows with
hate and you just become bitter and
angry but at the end what happens you go
in like the gentleman did in Arizona
what struck me the most honestly was
when I took a minute to actually talk to
some of the Muslim people to find out
you know they are just like me and I am
uneducated on their religion you know I
could easily make as many mistake
judgment calls as any other person out
there um but when I took a second
decision down and listen to them and um
actually enter their mosque and go and
watch some of their prayers it it was a
beautiful thing and he sat with the
Muslims he came in there had a totally
different perspective and then the heart
softens and maybe even got a new friend
so this is what we need to do we need to
go ahead and build these Bridges we need
to communicate with our brothers in
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