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Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently able for the past eight years. I've been your host, Lauren Seiler. Arlene is here today. On our television program today, we will focus on Muslim leader Shaqe Musa Drame. Shaqe Musa Drame is a religious leader and community activist who focuses on public health and safety and pulling youth out of gangs. And he is also the publisher of the Muslim Community Report, Newspaper, Park Chester Times, New York Parrot, and the Muslim Press Group. We would like to thank Shaqe Musa Drame for joining us on this edition of Ableton On Air. Thank you for joining us. Okay, so let's get talk about what exactly is your position being in the journalism field on what's going on, especially in Israel? Well, Larry, as I explained in our previous recording, our media network was established as a result of being able to counter the toxic narratives from Islamic extremist ideologies. And we were, we thought that since they used, you know, the media effectively globally in order to counter their narratives, their toxic, misleading, deadly narratives, we should also be in the media field. And that was the emphasis for creating Muslim media cooperation. And since the launching of it, we have been consistently editorializing peace building, you know, good relationship and the support for a peaceful coexistence among all people, especially between the Jews and the Arabs on the Holy Land. So we continue with our mission of peace building and, you know, relationship building and creating harmonious relationship among people. But what importantly, being able to immediately counter any, you know, publicized version of their demonic ideologies. For those who don't know about terrorism and what it is, and, you know, I know we had 9-11 and all of that, what is an Islamic extremist, if I may ask that question, to make it simpler for our special needs viewers, if you can. Extremism, okay, extremism. Okay, go ahead. So take me back a couple of days ago, this, well, Gaza back in 1948, when it first came, you know, when Israel became a state, it wasn't what it is now. It was beautiful farmland, trees, you know, tree-lined streets, you know, very beautiful kibbutzes, farms, you know, all because of a bengoring on and the mindset of gold in my ear. So why did it go complete, if I may say, go completely backwards? And, you know, if people, example, if people are living in someone's house or people are living, because in Jerusalem, people are living in, you know, if you're living in someone's house and you're told to get out and it's not your house, why are you stealing the house? So why is people's mindset that way, if it wasn't the mindset back in 1948, when Israel became a state? Yeah, there's always two sides to every story, sir. Exactly, a little bit my point, because when the Nazis, we're talking about World War II and the night of broken glass, okay, when the Nazis were also jealous of when the Jewish person had a business, butcher shop, shoe shine plays, you know, clothing store or whatever, they would break the windows, it was called Kristallnacht, they would break the windows of the Jewish person's business and take everything away from them. Is this something similar to, I know I'm supposed to remain, but, you know, I'm supposed to remain neutral here, but is this something similar to that, or is this something to do with maybe some jealousy between the Palestinians and Israel? That's a question. Thanks, you want to ask a question? Real quick, I'm going to do one more comment and then my wife wants to ask a question. A quick thing in terms of this, especially when you have children that are in the middle of this, because children are also dying from the rockets and everything else. When you have children and people with special needs and other infirm populations dying because of this, it becomes a whole other issue, because one of the things that are happening also, you know, some of the extremists, they put their children in front of them figuring, okay, nobody's going to kill their kid, but or kill their child. But, you know, that's a whole other issue. You have anything to say about the young children dying, you know, the young populations passing away because of this too? How to kill, yeah. And also, on Palestinian television, I've seen clips, and this is on YouTube, which is absolutely ridiculous. On Palestinian TV, you have people dressing up as characters such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, you know, with masks and things, teaching their kids how to shoot guns. That's a whole other thing also. Okay, my wife wanted to ask a question. Go ahead. You know, the Arabs are destroying our synagogues, which this isn't right. And then they go ahead and drop bombs anywhere up. But a good thing Israel is going to fix is Hamas. Can you explain what Hamas is for those who don't know and known as an extremist group? But now they're also bombing religious institutions such as synagogues and mosques. Yeah, labels for, you know, labels of prescription bottles, not people, but go ahead. Okay, let's get to the local issues. We know that with Park Chester Times, New York Power, can you talk about what you're doing locally to help peacemaking? There's a word for that, it's called belittle. When you belittle somebody and bring them down, oh, you're, oh, you're dumb, you're this, you're that, you're something like you won't be able to finish, finish school, you know, you're, you know, when they use the word dumb, stupid and other words, like for example, years, I always tell my students, certain words, they stop using like the word, the all word, which is retard, the word feeble, feeble minded, and other words, describing people with disabilities or people with special needs. When, when doctors stopped using that, they stopped using those things across the board because, you know, that's just the right wing part of society. You know, a person with an intellectual challenge can go to school, there's ways now, they can have work, you know, they can be employable. So when you put, when you put dis, dis in front of able, dis means not. So when you, when you say handicapped or stuff like that, you know, words hurt, like you say labels, go ahead. Mm-hmm. I mean, why can't example? I mean, this might be a little extreme. I mean, as far as my thinking is concerned, example, but do you know, you know the show Shark Tank, yes? Yes. People go in there with ideas, hoping to get a deal, and, you know, own a business or have a business. And what's to say, a person with a special need can't be a millionaire or have a business and be able to give people chances to own a business. You know, there's a small percentage of people in the United States who are well off, you know, but giving people chances and mentoring them in those chances and giving them chances to own a business is the way things should be. You know, they, they have situations where people work at home and, and they have a business, but it, but they always put people with special needs in catchment or catch all areas of, it's a horrible word that's used, it's a horrible word that's used in Hollywood. And that is, you know, Hollywood in terms of movies. And that is pigeonhole. Pigeonhole means putting people in a group and keeping them in that group, but not giving them a chance to come out of that group. So, example, when you have an actor that, oh, if you have a special needs person who, or a challenged person who is in Hollywood trying to make it as an actor, and you put that person in a role such as a person in a wheelchair or a person that's homeless or something like that, you're pigeonholing them, you're not giving them a chance to, to fly to other, to other types of roles. You got anything you want to say about how the media deals with that too? Well, you know, if you label people and, you know, you're not worthy or they're not capable, or they're not smart enough, or they're not strong enough, or they don't have all the attributes required to get a job done. Some will fall for it and some will look at themselves and say, I can do it because I don't have this, I don't have that. Yeah, people always feel sorry for them too. And just me, our work is never done, Mr. Dramé. Our work will never be done, you know. Anyway, anything else you want to say before we end? About New York, about New York Parrot and Park Just The Times and your, and your media corporation. Yeah, where do we, where do we see this peacemaking in the future? Like all the noise, you know, they, they create all the havoc We would like to thank Sike Musa Dramé, Muslim Leader, for joining us on this edition of Abledon Arnair. For more information on his work, you can go to www.afcfp.org. That's American Friends for Combatants for Peace. So the website again is www.afccfp.org. American Friends for Combatants for Peace. And for more information on Sike Musa Dramé's work also, you can go to www. ParkChesterTimes.com or NewYorkParrot.com as well as the Muslim Community Report. Again, this puts an end to this edition of Abledon Arnair. I'm Lauren Seiler. Arlene is here today. She would also like to thank our sponsors Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, and many, many, many others for supporting Abledon Arnair. Also, Abledon Arnair is a proud member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter. Thank you for joining us on this edition of Abledon Arnair. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Abledon Arnair is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support comes together. Media sponsors for Abledon Arnair include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisthebronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps, Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. Partners with Abledon Arnair include Yakhad New York and New England, where everyone belongs, and the Orthodox Union. 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