 Hello, glad you could join me once again. It's a very great moment. I think this is the first time we're trying this method of re-acting to a couple of videos that I'm going to be doing for a couple of days, you know, I want to check it to really know whether you guys would love it. I got this video from this site and typed a lot of the videos. Muslim Slays a Maryland School Board. I was captivated by that title. It's a video of a lady, I think a Muslim lady. She, with the title, she's Slays Maryland School Board. I think she's got something to share with us. Good afternoon. I'm Samir Munshi. I work with the Coalition of Virtue, a Muslim-led non-profit based here in Maryland. I want to address the board on the issue of opt-out. I firstly want to acknowledge, like Sister Hussein did, that today is the day of Arafat. It's the holiest day of the year for Muslims. And many of us are fasting, yet we came out to stand in the rain and to voice our concerns, because for us this is genuinely an issue of faith, not hate. I think the video was recorded during the Ramadan last fall and I think it's still very relevant for us, because I really want to listen to what he told the school board. A lot of things is happening right now, and I've made a couple of videos about the eligibility agenda, the discrimination of Muslim ladies and women, and of course Muslim identity in America and in Canada, and just about the entire West. I mean, this is looking bad, but it's cool that she's saying this today, so I want to know the angle from where she's addressing this. Maybe she might be talking about the eligibility ideology and why parents should have more control over what the children should see and watch. And two, she might be talking about the fact that women should be given more respect, especially Muslim women, that allow to exhibit their culture, to show their identity and not hide. And we reject the implication that acting on our faith's principles is a willful means of harming others. In fact, we see as a point of bigotry that some only care for our community and will only protect our rights when we assimilate to their way of life and ways of thinking. Just like it's a point of bigotry when some refuse our women's right to wear hijab and to pray, condemning us for our views on this issue is in itself another act of bigotry like the ones Muslims and immigrants have faced in this country for years. It's really true because in the West, just like what is happening in Christianity today, if you do not follow the current trend, even if they are against the will of God, against the teaching of the church, it doesn't matter. The most important thing is do follow the trend, the political trend, the social trend and what have you. If you do not do that, then apparently you are anti-West. That's bigotry, honestly. The same religion that causes Muslims to care about environment and justice, food and security, or ending anti-black racism, is the same religion that causes us to care about this issue. Our faith is not partisan and our people are not backwards. Part of the American dream of our people is that they pass on their values. Honestly, when I travel to the Middle East, the first impression I was expecting is a country where people are backward, but I was surprised. These are very religious people, dedicated people. The countries are also developed in countries of Africa where we came from. We have Christianity entrenched in some of these countries. In fact, some of these countries are ruled by Christians, but the amount of corruption in these countries are unprecedented to the extent that they see no development. In Africa today, you can't see any country that is fast-forwarding or developing like in Dubai. Most of these countries in Africa have more oil than Dubai. You can't see countries progressing like Qatar because there's a lot of corruption, there's a lot of eye service, and just about all the bad things that can happen to people in Africa because of what? Because they have bad leaders. And guess what? These bad leaders were groomed in the church. So what went wrong? Islam is the only religion, just like she said, where racism is quite low. But members of this school board have mocked our values and have said we cannot be allowed to adopt our children out precisely because they want to end that dream. Our constitutional right to religious freedom and to raise our children precisely protects that dream. Many of our families don't have much of a choice whether to replace their children in this public setting. So we ask that we at least have a choice for our children not to be forced to participate in celebrating or normalizing views that contradict our religion. These children will learn about same-sex couples and trans-identifying people, whether they learn these things in school or not. And the conversations that they will have with these members of our community will serve as education on these matters later in their lives. But we're asking that our children not be strong-armed at such a young age into believing certain ideas about gender and sexuality or that the school system insist on turning our children against the religious values that we hold. Thank you. Oh, that's a very great submission from this amazing lady. I love the way she presented it to the school authority. I think things need to change. What is actually going on in the West is really not encouraging. No one is saying that the West should become Muslim or should become a caliphate. What we're talking about is respect everyone, including the Christian faith. And I wouldn't end this video without saying that when the white men came to most of these areas like, I mean, the Arabian Peninsula, they came for slavery. And after slavery, they came with salvation. So when you compare both of them, you see that there's a real problem there. When they came, they came. Oh yeah, we're going to bar you. You go walking to Plantation in America. Then later, they came with a Bible saying, well, you've got to be saved. I think that is where the hypocrisy is. And a reason why many Africans today are living the so-called Christian faith and embracing Islam. Because Islam is where you find your faith, the true faith, the true light, and the true understanding of how God operates no racism. Arabic slavery is completely different from what we're talking about. Racism within the religion, it's really very low. And I believe it's completely absent. Well, thank you so much for being part of the show today. I sincerely appreciate your time. Please like, share, and subscribe until your next time. As-salamu alaykum.