 You know one of the biggest problems in the world today is the destruction of culture okay and especially what we call the global monoculture which is leveling all culture and that's a real big problem and if we don't stop it it will leave us with nothing I went to China the first time in 2002 we had an incredible trip it gets worse every time by the way the first time they're really nice to us times after that they're not so nice to us I've been there three times okay and you know so the second time I went was 2010 and you know I left Chicago in the Chicago Airport I saw some boy there wearing a silly t-shirt like do it or something like that and he had you know the jeans that poor pants jeans he pays a fortune for them but he wants to show that he's actually poor you know you can maybe go on those jeans I don't want to offend you and in that strange that you buy something that's ready for the garbage to show that even though you are wishing really not because no poor person could buy that and they wouldn't they want to have jeans that work right and you know so I came into Beijing and there was a Chinese boy with the same pants in the same shirt so that's global mono culture and it's a great leveler so what do we do about that you know I say this is the greatest opportunity we've ever had because we create culture and like here in my country and your country you know I know we could create cultures that is so beautiful you wouldn't believe it taking from the African Americans and the Africans taking from the first nations you know taking from the Indians and the Pakistanis and the Arabs taking from the whites and the Latinos right going back into history you can do whatever you want because basically the culture is either going or gone okay but you want to have something that resonates with the people and this is also very important have you ever looked at shaker architecture you know the shakers were if you read my book of Muslim and Victorian America you'll learn about all this because web lived in the age of the shakers they were the biggest religious movement of the 19th century and look at shaker architecture you know it's really simple because that's their principle is absolute simplicity and I think you'll find it is beautiful really beautiful now that doesn't mean that everybody wants to shaker staircase which winds by the way and you have to have one for women one for men because they didn't mix men and women but the shakers made really beautiful things and again for them always simplicity so if we were to do something that were shaker like most white Americans would know a shaker but they will be affected by it because it's in no DNA that's really really important you see like for example this turbine okay you know why did certain people put on turbines when they went Afghanistan who were never wearing them before and I actually know what they used to wear they would never be content with this because this meant Sufi but when they go into Afghanistan they put on their turbines and that's because the turbine means something to you whether you know it or not and what does it mean justice and again it's like you know maybe you don't feel that but this is deep in our Muslim culture because we are people who did not care so much about liberty which is a difficult concept but we care about justice and who were the people who defended justice they were the great sheikhs and the great alims like Sheikh Ahmad sub-Hindi who dressed somewhat like this so deep in our DNA in the Muslim world we identify the turbine especially on the head of a man we think to be a mojahed or a good person with justice especially the common people they do you see so that's what they wanted that's what they wanted and you know but what I just want to point out is that you see you have cultural responses that you don't know why you have that response but it's in your DNA and it's in your broad cultural background you know as a Pakistani or an Indian or an Arab or whatever maybe African-American okay so the thing is we have to be culture creators and like wow could you ask for a better thing to do you know like get the best architects get the best artists you know and we have tailors in this country we have a tailor in Chicago you know who is first-rate no question about it you know and you know ma'sha'Allah well I saw our beloved brother Usama Khanan I saw brother Usama not long before I came to Southern California he was wearing the most beautiful blue suit you wouldn't believe it and you know it's identified with us and with them the fabric was spectacular and this is our this is our brother who is a first-rate tailor and he imitates bird colors and he does other things he's smart okay he's created and you know so that's what we want to you know make beautiful clothes you know that a really respectable clothes and your clothes are beautiful they are respectable but we can always do better you see and especially if you can get something that fits in that rings a bell you know my mother would go to church in the 1950s you know I go back a long way veiled did you know that and all the other women in church were veiled did you know that and they wear these big beautiful hats and they have a white veil over their face in a funeral to wear a black veil that's what they do now I'm not gonna I'm not saying you should wear that but the thing is is that you know you might wear a hat even it is possible and I'm not telling you to take off what you've got but sometimes hats are really cool and sometimes you can wear it under scarf but you know it's like you can innovate you can look for something and for us brothers hats are the big problem and then I like your hat I wear hat like that too you know but like I'd like to have a really beautiful hat that looks really cool you know that can be identified as us you know but then also fits in so I actually asked this tailor can you help us and he's working on it you know architects say there's no problem you can't solve and Taylor say the same thing you know and you know so we need tailors