 There are three things you cannot try to learn when we start lecturing. The first one is, salamu alaykum. You know what that means? Who does not know what salamu alaykum means? Salam alaykum is a piece up on you, but if you say it in a real and some other place as you might get killed for it, so be careful. The other one throughout the lecture will teach you the second one, and the third one where we're done. So salamu alaykum, and the response you say? You say wa alaykum as-salam, wa alaykum as-salam. So what does that mean? That means, and may peace be with you as well. So that's what it means. So you can see the greeting of Islam is very peaceful, and this is actually how our life is if you believe so. So we're going to be talking about the real, who is Islam? What is Islam, I should say? What are the real terrorists? And talk about Islamophobia, how the Islamophobia came about. So, but we want to show you a quick video. And some of you may have seen that. And you have to pay very attention to what Ibrahim Jaber is actually talking about. Ready? You've been systematically programmed to hate Islam, hate Islam, hate Islam. You've been conditioned to blame religion through image cognition. I can make you bark like Pavlov's dog. Excuse me. I can make you bow to man-made gods. Repeat what you see. Era, era, repeat after me. Fear, terror, fear, terror, terror, extreme. Fear them, fear them, freedom, freedom. American dream, woman in a scarf, bomb. Man with a beard, bomb. Jihad, jihad, Islam, Islam, the war on terror. Era, era, delete, brainwash, complete. You've been hypnotized, made to believe that Muslims are not civilized. You don't even realize it, but you have justified genocide. Kill them all. Kill them, kill them all, savage, savage. Your entire country is collateral damage. The real problem is the national debt. Era, era, Muslims are a national threat. Do me a favor and don't think for yourself. Just pay taxes if you really want to help. The people in power have this all under control. And you, you, you, you should be worried about the Super Bowl. Did you hear that interception on your cell phone, Era? Did you see that interception in the end zone? It's Patriots win. Patriots, Patriots win. That's a subliminal message. Should I say it again? East versus West. And the media is worse than a cheating ref. As more Patriots touch down for a game of sudden death. But let's play with the lives of innocent people. Another epic battle of good against evil. The music is deadly and the media is lethal. Big brother is watching and believe me, he sees you. Program after program. We are being subconsciously programmed. Sick come after sick come. Bombs drop as you sick come. Let's go out to the theater for an incredible experiment. Era, experience, filling up the eyes with lies while taking the lives of humans to see how long you just sit there and let their lives be ruined. We've successfully desensitized an entire generation through movie and video game stimulation and overstimulation is an open invitation to blow up entire nations. Sex driven society. Who cares about Gaza? It's almost time to prepare for the Oscars. Who's your nomination for movie of the year? You cry over fiction, but real life doesn't move you to tears. Your eyes have been blinded and your hearts are numb. Your ears cannot hear. You are deaf and dumb. And it's just the beginning before you realize what we've done. Most of your generation will be dead and gone. And it'll be too late once we wake from this sleep. The damage has been done. Brainwash complete. A little heavy. Obviously there's a lot of political and there's a lot in that video but hopefully we get a chance to interact with you today. The purpose of this as well is to ask Muslim people as well how we feel instead of getting it from different media sources and also we'll talk about who are the ambassadors in Islam for our religion, our ambassadors in the media right now and how they don't represent us. First we'd like to make a disclaimer that we are not Muslim scholars and we do not claim to be. I just want you to know that. We are Muslims and do practice Islam daily. We are presenting information that is already available on the internet so everything you see and the presentation is available for you to see. We're not making things up. So we're talking about Islam and religion. Islam is actually an Abrahamic religion and some people would try to deny that. Concise and associated with neural correlates of religious with tradition of Jewish and Christianity. And if you really, if you do study Islam and you can see a lot of commonality between those three religions as we speak. They all believe and worship the same God. Allah is an Arabic word for God. So if you want to say, here's somebody saying Allah, you go, but what they're actually trying to say is God. If in the Christians or in the Jews in the Arab world they refer God as Allah in an Arabic word, an Arabic word. And just to bring that into real life, my uncle was traveling from Algeria to here and there was some turbulence on the plane and his reaction was Allah Akbar, which is like, oh my God, that's all it means and the whole plane turns over and that he became a bigger distraction just by saying Allah Akbar, which is, oh my God, which is a natural reaction. So that kind of got the people to be a little bit more nervous about the turbulence and wondering who this guy is here and the plane yelling Allah Akbar, if that makes sense. So just put that into perspective. Allah Akbar means that God is great. And we all believe so. At any rate, Islam is monotheistic. We're not done yet. We do that game. It's a monotheistic religion. We all believe in a single, all powerful God. We oppose the religions that believe in multiple gods. Islam proclaims Adam, Noah, Solomon, Moses, Jesus as prophet and messenger of God. We refer to them as Sayyidina, which is our masters, which means our ultimate leader, mentor, guide, and etc. And historical perspective, Islam came about 600 years after Christianity. Just to kind of give you an idea. People, the book. So this is what Muslims believe, who we should follow. What we believe in other books as well, the revelations is the medium by which Allah claims to have communicated His words to His prophets so that they might inform the people of His will. What He wants from them and what they must do for Him in order to be saved from internal domination. Islam is a liberal and secular religion. In a sense, it's respect. All other religions are stated in the following verse of Quran. To you be your religion and to me, my religion. The verse said also assert tolerance to other religions. And I'm going to go over some of the religions and actually the books of, we call them the people of the book. And they are the Torah Old Testament. Next please. I'm not going to go into detail. It was going to take us a while. The Psalms, the New Testament, the four Gospels and also the Quran. That's who we believe are the books of the word of Allah. Five pillars of Islam. We declare that there is no God to worship but God Himself, a single entity that's not anthropomorphic or we can't, as human beings we can't imagine we're not, we don't have the knowledge or the capacity to understand what God looks like or associate anything that is of this world to God. And Allah is a word for God in Arabic and it's not, it can't be plural and it can't be feminine or masculine if that makes sense. So it gives you an idea of what, so we believe that there is no God but God and then there is no, that Muhammad is his prophet and the messenger. So that would be the first pillar. The second pillar is our prayers. So we pray five times a day, one early in the morning before the sun rises. Right now it's at almost 5 a.m. And then the second prayer of the day is when the sun is in the middle of the sky which is around 1.30. We're missing one right now as we speak. And then the fourth one is when the sun gets a little bit, not ready to set yet, but it's early afternoon. It's about 5.30 in the afternoon this time, today. And then the last, the fourth one is before sunset. So right before the sunset and that's maghrib prayer. And then the last one is when the night settles in which is right now I think it's at 10, pretty close to 9.45 to 10 p.m. So those are the times of prayer. And prayer is just a way for us to connect to God directly. So, and before we pray, we have a process called evolution which is you go and wash your hands, your mouth, your face, your arms to here, and then also your wife and you wash your feet as well. This is a evolution process that prepares you for prayer. Okay, so a lot of people when they they want to convert to Islam, the first thing they say, which is the shahada. That's how they actually welcome Islam as their religion. And it's actually longer during the summer and that's probably problematic for Muslims because Ramadan is actually happening in the summers from sunrise to sundown. It's about 18 hours of the day. We don't eat or drink and we don't even can cuss during Ramadan. That's a bad for me. And you can't get mad either. Yeah, it's supposed to treat people nicely and if you go to the Muslim world it's a disaster. People are fighting and arguing and so it's Muslim world, Muslim countries are not a representation of Islam. Just keep that in mind. So there's some things that would nullify your fast which is the third pillar of Islam and that's abstaining from water and food from sunrise to sunset from the first prayer to the second to last prayer. So you can't eat or drink anything. You can't even smoke. Yeah, you can't smoke. So you can't ingest anything pretty much. And this is not problematic but it's an interesting one. I've dealt with this my whole life here and I used to play soccer and my coaches thought I was crazy. And this was 10 years ago. They thought I was crazy for not eating and drinking anything and we practiced in the middle of the day but for me that was bigger than anything else. So it was irrelevant what the coaches said because that's my belief that comes first. And I actually went back to the Sounders and I was talking to them about what they're doing, new technique, and they're actually making their kids the athletes fast. They do intermittent fasting. I was like, well you guys didn't allow me to do that when I was here. So interestingly enough, they found out that if you fast and you do high intensity exercises then your level of your growth hormones rides up in your body and helps you recover and get fitter which is interesting, I thought it was interesting. Sorry, I went way off topic. Sam is looking at me. How is that cat? Charity is another pillar of Islam. So whether you're poor or you're rich this is an obligation. So you give to someone that has less than you. And it's an important one It's set up where you have to excuse my, I'm not a religious scholar but I know that you give a percentage of your money you cleanse pretty much your money. Especially if you have money sitting in an account and you don't touch it for a year if a year rolls over that money you have to give someone that away just sitting there, someone else might need it because we believe that that money is literally a gift for you and it's not all yours. It was given to you and it could have been given to anybody and we all know money comes with it. And Zakat just not money it could be food, clothing something you give from your heart that had just a pilgrimage to Mecca we are very lucky and one thing I want to talk about is I know there's a lot of bad rhetoric about Islamophobia but we are fortunate compared to be here and also live in a society where we can still practice Islam and it's like that throughout the world but people back in Algeria where I'm from there are so many people that want to go to Hajj they do a lottery so they actually, because they can't accommodate all these people and every country has a percentage of people that go once a year and I think it's you get anywhere between five to six million if I'm not wrong in Mecca which is a small city in the middle of Saudi Arabia and it's the harshest environment in the entire world it's really really hot and Hajj is a physically demanding ritual it contains a lot of rituals that you're supposed to do one of them is running back and forth between two mountains so there's a lot of rituals that are associated with it and this goes back to the Abrahamic religion Sunnah which is what we call a practice and the Hajj actually the only time you are allowed to do it if you are unable or you can't do it financially but you don't have to do it but you only do it you're required to do it once in your lifetime so if you are able financially to do it you can actually do the Hajj but a lot of Muslims don't are unable to and when you go to the Hajj too it's really interesting because we talk a lot about about equality and diversity you get people from all over the world and everybody wears the same thing they just wear a sheet that's wrapped around their bodies that's all you wear because in Islam when you die that's all you're going to take with you so you just wear that sheet whether you're rich, poor from any country in the world everybody is the same doing the same rituals so that term Hajj happens once a year in Islamic calendar Islamic calendar is about 11 days shorter than a Christian calendar but if you do it outside of that time limit then we call it Umrah that's not necessarily a Hajj but it's something you actually do actually a friend of mine just sent me pictures of him from Saudi Arabia doing the Umrah okay so what Islam actually teaches all creatures are equal in every aspect there are neither caste system nor class system in Islam male and female are equal and have equal rights free will is well placed in Islam yet all power is to God human rights and all beings' rights are protected and promoted in Quran Holy Book of Islam is not only book of do's and don'ts but also way of life for peace and prosperity prosperity to all beings on earth and beyond most do's and don'ts are conditional and agreements are encouraged in Quran same message that CNN gives you no no don't do that and this is really important because please ask a Muslim person ask sorry sisters to embarrass you but ask the sisters back there about the hijab don't ask Barbara Walters or someone on CNN about it so this are the average numbers we gather some people there are about 1.7 almost some people say almost 1.8 billion Muslims are in the world but the bottom numbers is 1.6 billion people in the world what that equates to 23% of the world populations are Muslims so 1 every 4 people you talk to in the world is a Muslim but some of them they look a Muslim because they have the beard or the abaya or the women have the hijab but not necessarily all women are in the same image 65 of all Muslims are non-denominational Muslims that means Muslims do not belong to a specific Islam denomination but accept Islam as a religion generally and you see the majority Muslims are what we call moderate Muslims that's how we consider moderate Muslims Islam is a personal religion it has neither clergy no religious authoritative system it promotes personal relationship between God and humankind so for Muslims there are a lot of scholars that we can seek to for interpretation and understanding but not necessarily to follow and that's what we feel as Muslims not like Christianity there is a Pope there is a church there is a ministry that you follow in Islam there is no such a thing and the relationship I believe in my personal believe Muslims they have direct relationship with God whatever they do with a person doing good to other people help other people and pray and read the Quran this is the relationship that I have between me and my and God next please the Sharia Allah it's coming to Texas coming to Texas how many of you believe there is a Sharia Allah book raise your hand before we read this there is no Sharia Allah book Sharia is only interpretation of a certain person to the Quran that is all there is no Sharia Allah book if you really want to know the Sharia Allah read the Quran that's it it tells you everything but again because we are not a scholar we rely on other people to interpret the Quran for us or even from Arabic to Arabic so we rely on their understanding there is no there is not one Sharia Allah to follow many sectors of Islam have their own interpretation of the Sharia Allah and there are eight major sectors of religion of Islam I don't know all of them but I'm not going to go over them so each one of those sectors they have different interpretation of the Sharia Allah now my scholar tell me if their interpretation can contradict the Quran so don't go by it so we also have to follow the Quran sometimes the resources are falsely attributed to the prophet of Muhammad and when they are falsely attributed guess what and that's when other people utilize that against us next you hear a lot about Sharia Allah in the media and especially a lot of rhetoric before the election and that's what you hear and I feel like every time I turn on the TV I don't know if I'm being because I am Muslim and I hear that a lot but I listen to Sharia Allah, terrorists, Muslims Sharia Allah, terrorists every third fourth word and I think it's important to understand that not the entire Quran is Sharia Allah I think it's I'm not completely sure but I know it's less than 1% of it is so out of the entire content of it I know that there is again we're not Muslim scholars again it's not the entire Quran is not Sharia Allah so let me before I go before I go to the next slide we saw the word jihad how many of you think that's what the exercise I want to do in the class I just didn't do it in the class, I'm sorry in an event I didn't do it how many of you think jihad is a bad word please honestly raise your hand I'm not going to haunt you so why do you think jihad is a bad word answer that associated with killing other people you know how many of you is really struggling in their classes raise your hand only one person oh my god let me repeat that question how many of you is really struggling in their classes raise your hand keep your hands up how many of you are struggling doing their work raise your hand are you struggling to make a living everybody keep your hands up how many of you struggles when you drive I hate driving, raise your hand guess what you are all jihadi jihad is a struggle you're struggling in classes you're struggling in work you're struggling in driving you're struggling in understanding people jihad that's that real terminology of jihad is interpreted is associated with killing by whom by Muslims so the meaning of the word jihad is struggle or strive or striving term is jihad of war fighting or combat in the name of Allah is never really used in the Quran there is no concept in Islam obliging Muslims, I'm sorry to wage war for propagating or propagation of implementation of Islam war is only allowed in defense jihad is not a violent concept but again the way we interpreted the way it's being used by the media, the western media I'm not just saying the United States it's European also they twist that word jihad like salamu alaikum or Allahu Akbar they make it a bad thing but it's not a bad thing so this is the verse of the Quran and whoever saves a person it is as if he saved all mankind next please and the verse prior to this whoever kills a person is as if they killed the entire mankind this next this right there oh sorry Sam's presentation okay this isn't anymore this is an interesting video that there's an organization called CARE they did this video I don't know if some of you have seen it I think it's pretty funny the neighbor is a terrorist Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar does your fear of Muslims get in the way of living a normal life he's coming did you call an Uber? yeah we'll take the next one if you try alright you saw the app I didn't know I didn't know do you judge people by their outer appearance introducing Islamophobia now in an easy and convenient chewing gum starts working within 5 minutes to relieve bigotry and intolerance call your doctor if your Islamophobia worsens or you have hallucinations that discrimination isn't real side effects include fondness, brotherhood, acceptance loss of bigotry, increase in rationality and possible denouncement of superiority I didn't realize I had a problem but admitting is the first step Islamophobia and work for me ask your doctor if it's right for you it's not my yeah my name is Usama imagine that in 2001 so I'd love to give you a story in 2001 I had a conference I lived in California I had a conference in Phoenix in September 22nd of 2001 now if you were during that time there's a lot of flight cancellations a lot of flights were cancelled and people backed up I had to wait 11 hours for my flight to leave Phoenix to Los Angeles and one of the airline agent asked me not to go on an airline on an airplane I had another class to teach next day I had to leave I had no choice but to leave and she called me out loud through the microphone Mr. Usama Al Khalidi I approached the bench or approached the desk so I said say Usama Al Khalidi where is Usama coming from so we'll offer you $300 and the next flight not to go on a flight I said no I have to go and had two other teachers with me five minutes later Mr. Usama Al Khalidi again loud enough to come to approach the desk so I came and said we'll give you $500 we are going up to $800 not to go on an airplane I only paid $300 for the airplane ticket so I could rent a car and drive to Los Angeles would probably be easier for me but now I want to make a point I'm an American although my name is Usama I'm still proud of my name a lot of my friends said you should change your name from Usama to Sam that's what people know you by I said no however we are going to talk about the history of ISIS we are going to talk about the history of ISIS so when you are when you hear ISIS what do you think of war you know there is an Israeli secret agent called ISIS I'm not going to talk about that ISIS actually used to be known also as an ICL which is Islam mixed state of Iraq and the Levant Levant are, correct me if I'm wrong Lebanon Syria and part of Jordan and Palestine there are many factions of ISIS and many different titles but we will call them Daesh when we Fouzi and I talk about Daesh we don't call them ISIS, we call them Daesh why Daesh? because it's the abbreviation of Arabic word it becomes Daesh and they hate to be called Daesh because the meaning of it is similar to Islam Daesh because we want to stump them in a humanity, alright next please so their history this is not the first time this kind of concept came to create an Islamic world actually in the 1970s 1930s actually that concept started with another group but Arab world took 40 some years to actually vanquish them so it's not around but there's other terms that started that we supported as the United States government to fight Russia for us during the Cold War I hope you guys are familiar with the Cold War so the CIA supported that Mujahideen back then was a Afghani group to fight Russia for us and we supplied them with intelligence and weapons to fight Russia for us and they were successful they driven Russia from Afghanistan so that's when Mujahideen overthrown Afghanistan and they were a vacuum if there is no actually another government to govern Afghanistan they were all communist rule that was still there as a governor of the government but slowly they were pushed away by a new group Mujahideen then slowly the Mujahideen is gone then Al-Qaeda is in power so Al-Qaeda is part of the Mujahideen they just created their own group to actually control that region United States military has left many weapons and arsenals behind that led Al-Qaeda to be the strongest group in that region the way United States left Afghanistan to fight and murder each other has driven the extremists to unite against them so much it's not an accident that they all drive Toyota trucks that you see driving in the freeways here so and because Hillary Clinton in the early 90s she actually admitted that's what we the United States was behind the creation of Al-Qaeda and next slide and Al-Qaeda was led but this guy none other by Osama bin Laden that's bad Osama and better Osama Al-Qaeda came to power as the strongest faction of the region have tried to infiltrate surrounding Arab countries but failed that's including Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon and Syria but worldwide networked together intelligence so they are great very nicely networked throughout the world worked with rich individuals from the Gulf countries specifically Saudi Arabia for financial support Osama bin Laden is actually one of the very rich Saudi Arabia prince I should say that he he gained a lot of money and support from them became their leader in 1993-94 with the goal to drive away Western influence from their region as a bad influence grabbing people from the region where they are doing the bad things next slide so the reverse of ISIS started happening about five years ago some became the strongest 2011 I should say after the United States invasion of Iraq in 2002 created a lot of hate for the United States because it changed the way it was actually structured and that was bad for a lot of regions in that area many groups have become an offshoot of al-Qaeda first we have heard of Daesh in 2005 as they are right now but they were very small they were almost unheard of in 2006 they had a plan to take over Iraq on the 11th again that's Syria, Lebanon as part of it they came to full power enduring 2011 during the revolution in Syria Syria president Bashar Assad did not actually help the situation it actually made the situation a lot worse because during the Syrian in 2013 or so 2014 Bashar Assad released almost 15,000 of those groups to grade their own strong militia to fight not just the Syrian government actually to fight the rebels actually they're not even fighting the government they're fighting the rebels oh we went too far so terrorism and Islam terrorism has no place in Islam and clearly forbidden Islam in light of the teaching of the Quran suicide attacks terrorism is clearly forbidden in Islam Quran state practices of masculine and in murder of entire town or country is also forbidden the predominant theme in the Quran is for forgiveness and peace most people who do terrorism are mentally sick or brainwashed by self-serving politicians and misguided and self-proclaimed you guys believe that I'm gonna show you numbers to actually back this out those are very small numbers do you wanna add anything think about the the biggest concern of radicalizing people there's all these media videos actually interestingly enough the rhetoric from the free election is actually used as a tool to recruit terrorists by ISIS they're showing them videos of our current administration saying saying things they're saying hey look they hate you you gotta hate them back there's some research done by the University of Duke about youth in America Muslim youth in America and they talked about how the students or the kids that are connected to a community they're part of a stronghold Muslim community they have support they attend the mosque they're not the ones that are outcasts on their own those are most of the the American Muslims that have been accused of terrorism or been involved like the San Bernardino couple they were not associated with a community they had so many issues within themselves and they were kind of removed from the community the same thing with the person that was involved in the Orlando shooting he wasn't part of a Muslim community so that the youth that are involved in the Muslim community get really frustrated because they have a nice solid foundation base they have a community to rely on and they're getting thrown under this umbrella that you're a terrorist and you're trying to so they have a sense of insecurity so they come to defend they feel like they're constantly having to defend themselves against the media and think about it this way you're an American Muslim but you can't be a Muslim American you can either be an American or a Muslim if that makes sense you can't be both an American and Muslim and that's really frustrating for a youth I work a lot with the youth in the area and that's what they talk about so so now I'm going to let you read this see if that makes sense to you it's not a lone wolf that we talked about if it's also think about the if anytime there is an incident on the news and I turn on the news and I hear something and I hope his name is not Mohammed or something like that and this is the reality because the minute that comes out it's like we had in the US prior to 9-11 the Muslim community didn't exist in a sense of one big Muslim community but there are communities maybe they represent the nationalities maybe the Somali community the Saudi community the Iraqi community but 9-11 kind of brought the community to themselves it was something that happened so the community said okay we're not worried about our nationality and our group we are all Muslims here let's figure out how we can talk about Islamophobia talk about the real truth behind Islam and then so that happened the more now there is so much more awareness of Islam so I think the youth myths and we talk about this a lot in our groups in the Muslim community is there is issues but it's actually a good thing that there is Islamophobia because it allows us a sense of resistance in educating people we wouldn't be here talking about this so 30 years ago I mean 10 years ago we wouldn't have had this big of a voice where is the situation sorry I'll let you get to the objective part of the presentation so I'm going to we're going to start sharing with you some statistics that we collected and we present it in here so terrorist attacks in Europe European Union that's what that means religiously motivated terrorist attacks so we have the red mark not religious terrorist attack and the blue mark is a religious motivated terrorist attack that's not just Muslims this is all religious and look at the blue line it almost does not exist except 2012 but we don't see that the terrorist attack in the United States this figure I actually received it from FBI the United States suffered approximately 14,000 murders in 2013 since September 11 Muslim American terrorism has claimed 37 lives in the United States out of the more than 190,000 murders during this period in 2015 there were 250 mass shooting in 2015 during the Obama administration 2015 was the highest mass shooting that happens in the United States but one Muslims actually was participating at the San Bernardino we only talked about the San Bernardino shooting we forgot the other 258 so that's what really bothered me according to FBI data compiled by Princeton University Islamist extremists were responsible for just 6% of the terrorist attack between 1980 and 2005 so if you look at the the chart so the most victims victims are done by Latinos 42% those are drug dealers and some kind of domestic violence other 16% those were not quite compiled extreme right wing group 24% who can give me example of that and it's happened or more now than it was few years ago it's happened or more now than it was few years ago you guys follow the news do you agree with that? this number has increasingly growing at this time Jewish extremists 7% Islamic extremists 6% and we still have commonest is about 5% so the commonest is not quite gone yet now Muslim numbers around the world and they were said there are about 1.6 Muslims around the world their modest about 1.1 billion excuse me Muslims in the world are considered moderate and known is about half a billion just unknown they don't know what affiliation whether they're moderate they're just unknown and there are extremists about 1.6 million extremists out of 1.6 billion those extremists we're not saying those extremists are actually active extremists in a way they go ahead and commit crimes so who are out of those 1.6 million 30% are others ISIS are 31% Taliban 35% Al Qaeda 4% Al Qaeda is just now growing it's using the election of the United States and it's also following what's going on in France do you guys follow the France election? they're exactly going the same way using the same method Trump did to win the elections and this is really dangerous the extremists think about the environment for the extremist population think about those Syrian boys that you see the traumatized kid that his whole family died so what is he going to not like and those are pretty much breathing grounds for extremists terrorists the reality of it it's not it's the aftermath of a war it's a country depleted of resources and people die in it's those vulnerable that vulnerable population that doesn't have an opportunity for education that doesn't have an opportunity to do anything to work I moved here because of something similar to this in 1994 there was a revolution in Algeria so things weren't very good there's almost a mini civil war but you won't hear about it because there's not much news that come out of Algeria for political reasons but it's also my dad brought me here because he's worried about me and I ended up here because of that and I was and I had a younger brother that was three years younger than me it passed away actually, he got killed by ISIS, by extremists so he was just in a store that got robbed and got shot and there are just militia groups that go around so it's really the environment more so than the actual and the people that don't have community support this is why we try to to get around our community and rally them up and make sure they have support and it's important for us so let's I'm going to ask you questions what's the best way to put that question so ISIS who are the most victims of ISIS actions who are the most victims of ISIS actions who are the innocents here in the United States Muslims are the most victimized group of ISIS 86% of the victims of ISIS were Muslims, are Muslims 86% so and again people fail to see that so who are the real terrorists I'm going to go through there I still have about 10 presentation, a slight presentation and we need to have some Q&A definition of terrorists the use of violence and threat to intimidate or coerce especially for political purposes the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization terrorist method of governing of arrest resistance in our government so 2009 the FBI office here in Seattle they invited us for presentation they are talking about terrorists and they were not presented to general audience so there were about 10-15 of us sitting in that, let's say our police department they showed their presentation they were listing all these terrorists but every time there was a killing or something big guess what all the images are they were Muslims they did not use any of these pictures of white Caucasian picture as a terrorist or murderer they just used Muslims pictures and that really bothered me so we all spoke out and hopefully they changed it so what do you think kind of picture comes to your mind when you search for terrorists or they talk about terrorists who will think about it now click right click, don't go slowly, you think of Daesh or ISIS or ISIL next I know we need one of those clickers what do I need to click how about KKK you know they are under rise thanks to who our administration they are under rise they probably have a I know they have lobbies in administration, go next please they are under administration how about this guy who is this guy went to the church and killed how many 15 African-American African-American and how did and that define him as a sick person yeah next imagine Muslim did that how about Timothy McPhee that's before September 11 how many did he kill 178 people in Oklahoma bombing okay nobody talks about him how about this guy how many people did he kill millions you should google a picture of Iraq before the war and after and just the recent one it's devastating in Syria as well it really just shows you the impact of what that administration did in Iraq just google it when you get home compare the two images how many people think he is a terrorist when you kill your own people how many almost a million of them in my opinion is a terrorist next please and the last one is this guy why is this guy on my list because he's killing the people in Yemen we don't hear about it he killed almost 400 people 400,000 people in Yemen how come we don't hear about it because Saudi Arabia is an Allah in the United States so we're not going to hear about it okay go next please so what do we find search for terrorists if you go to google any of you right now on your cell phone go search for put terrorists where's the first special comes to your mind this show look at this guy last time I did that search was there next so this is google what is this one again I went to a different search engine I put just terrorists and see what the images is going to come up this is the brainwash that the media is actually doing to you about Islam next please I think one more search that next one is Bing which is Microsoft look at that what are you looking in there okay so who are the real terrorists I'm going to go kind of quickly some of them were responsible for 4,000 most of them were in the twin tower 2001 September 11 next this is just in the US the other ones don't count because they're not as equal yeah I agree how about this guy I mean Adada Idi Amin but we hunted them down how about this guy 600,000 death he was part of I'm going to go through this quiz how about this guy Mussolini killed 300,000 how about this guy we don't hear about this guy because again Indonesia is one of the countries that we work with there was responsible for 800,000 death how about Ganskin's gun he killed 1,500,000 people most of them were Muslims but nobody talks about those either but guess what his people became Muslim afterward think clever that second I never heard of this guy until the search he had about 8,000,000 people in Belgium next please everybody heard Joseph Stalin he killed 23,000,000 people for the purpose of the communist revolution next please and about Adolf Hitler everybody knows him because we hate him he kills about 23,000,000 people that's the Union of World War II how about this guy we don't hear much about him he killed 60,000,000 people in China 60,000,000 people this is not my data this is your search for it I'm not making this up we're not making this up your slide he is you can blame him on the side of Native Americans we're neglecting that we don't hear this when we talk about terrorism about African Americans slavery we don't want to hear about this because it does not put the United States in a good image so we're not going to talk about it Canada talked about it Canada acknowledged it and acted up on it but we're not doing that I don't think that's quite accurate now go next please so why are we hated by the Muslim worlds fact one the West drew the line that expected everything to just work what do you mean they drew the line after World War II they colonized our countries Syria used to be called the country of the sham was Lebanon, Syria Jordan and even some of the policy they divided us to control us they give Egypt to England, Lebanon to France they colonized us it's happening right now in Syria if you're paying attention it is happening right now the West has treated the countries of the Middle East like a pawn in a class game this started in the 60's this started in Lebanon they committed the civil war but it's not it's actually a war of pawn by the Western world and there's Israel existent that is a big problem for us as well I tried colonization colonism we continue to support horrible regimes that's talking about the local regime in our countries the war in Iraq and Afghanistan I can put Pakistan in there because it's not quite sold and we only get involved Syria does not suit us there is no interest for the United States in Syria this way Syria is in a warm hole right now how about Syria go next who is killing the civilian in Syria this number is going to I don't know if you come to this website I can share it with the group if you want go next please I'm going to go all the way through we can read this 95% are responsible for the Syrian death now we're trying to fight that but it's a little too late next how many children died in Syria 91% of the regime were responsible of killing the children in a regime this number has risen by the way sorry do you ever wonder why they talk about children dying and not normal adults because the adults are gone pretty much it's because when there is a war zone they will take out the adults and they kill them and there is children left and women and children and why they kill children because they don't want to grow up and rise against them that's their excuse how about the women in Syria again similar numbers 91% of the regime killed the Syrian women it's almost 20,000 that number has risen recent months torture and civilian to death in Syria look at the number almost 100% done by the regime 100% and how about killing the medics you know I don't know if you guys were following what's going on in Aleppo Aleppo is the largest city in Syria for the government to control Aleppo they destroyed every hospital in Aleppo they're trying to kill every doctor in Aleppo last this past summer we had students here well little kids here refugees from Syria and we did a program with them here on campus and we presented to them a presentation on Aleppo how it's a nice destination for tourists to go to they're thinking I just came from there it does not look like this it might have years ago but it's really being current well this stuff is really really important really important so there are numbers of election 2016 that's right after election these numbers have changed 35 Americans have federal opinion of Islam to the lowest rating since 2001 32% of the borders do not believe Muslims should be eligible to sit in a U.S. Supreme Court 59% to 70% of Americans believe Islam has a little or nothing in common with their own religion 25% of Americans don't want Muslims as their neighbor 35% of Americans favor requiring Muslims including United States citizens to carry special ID cards I want to statistic I'll add to this but 50% of Americans have not met a Muslim person actually more than that actually more than that so let me tell you the first class I taught after September 11 this semester system was 2002 the spring 2002 my class roster they put O.Alkalili and people took my class because it's a popular class my class is always filled up I have 42 students in my class I counted them when I spelled what the O stood for 5 students walked out no reason, 5 just walked out it get better next semester only 3 walked out things are improving I saw positive out of this I think it was the grading method 52% of Muslim Americans said they had personal experience racial or religious discrimination 76% of the young Arabs said they were personally discriminated against over 400 reported this actually raised to 600 that should have updated this since the election they were discriminated and harassed by others hey groups are all time high the poverty level center of the report the first time since the center began accounting such a group in 1980s hate group top 1000 again the number is higher time magazine reports that militias have doubled and the president Obama is receiving 400% more death threats than the president Bush according to the secret service although the rise in hate and hate groups not directly connected to Islamophobia they significantly contribute to factor do you remember the allegation of Obama being Muslim who was pushing that allegation so what if he was Muslim I think this word near the end the US identified more than 172 Muslims American terrorists suspect on proprietary since 2011 it's only 1% of the United States occurred violence each year only 1% Muslim American community has helped security and law enforcement official to prevent nearly 2 every 5 al-Qaeda terrorist squads Europe in 2011 those are names terrorist attacks in Europe and how about Burma even our Pope talked about Burma you know how many death in Burma how many who are dying in Burma how many of you know what's going on in Burma so as there's a small minority Muslims that live in Burma and they're called the Rohingyas and they are extremely oppressed and they're literally being burnt as we speak their villages are getting and this is done by I'm not saying this by any means to say religious to affiliate this with a religion but it's Buddhist Buddhist inspired you know attacks that make sense so there's a Buddhist that don't want the Muslims to be there and exist with them so I'm not saying this Buddhists are killing people but that's kind of like the other end of us being here Muslims being the terrorists if that makes sense so you get a chance to look that up it's really interesting it's really sad and there's the first Rohingyas refugees got here I think this past summer which is pretty cool there's a couple families here from that community when our administration and in the UN condemn Israel for what they're doing that's mean is bad because why Israel is our sister country don't you agree so when our administration condemns the United States what Israel have done that's really bad Israel in 2015 alone had 400 acts of terror we don't want to talk about Gaza because that's completely annihilation right there in the United States that we've seen before we can skip it so these are local terrorists armed with suicide army of God Air and nation Black Liberation Army the Covenant the Jesus defense league and Cuckoo's Clan So in conclusion this is the last slide please note that not all Muslims are not all Muslims are terrorists that's what foxx in 2010 not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. Is that a true statement? They said, not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. They've said that many, many times, and that's stuck to people's mind. When you hear terrorists, you hear Muslims. Please know that you may have a chance to be killed by a light and strike than you are by a Muslim terrorist. Please know the translation of Islam in English as mean peace. Q and A. Questions. I know some of you have a lot of questions and waiting for me. They said, I hope I can answer. If not, I know quite a few people who can help me out. All right, you're ready. We have 15 minutes for questions and answers. Any questions? Yes. Are you able to pray with a person who is praying? Are you able to do it? Let me give you examples. There are a lot of churches before mosque would really exist. A church is working with Muslim community to allow them to pray in the church. Do you understand? I was at a mosque on Friday. There is a mosque that just opened by Starbucks here. I don't know if you know that. It's right down the street behind the gas station. I was there for the prayer and there was a gentleman there. A Caucasian-American person that's been attending for a long time for the last couple of months. He's been coming every three months and he's attended the mosque. The reason I know this is because he came up and testified that he wanted to be a Muslim after being there for a long time. The mosques are always open to the public and you can go pray anytime. As Muslims, I can't tell Sam that I'm more Muslim than he is. Or he can tell me that. I don't have the authority to judge each other. The other thing to an Islam, we believe that Islam is a message to mankind. Who am I to say that that person is going to be Muslim or better than I can ever be if that makes sense? To answer your question, we can't judge that if that makes sense. Yes, I'm really sorry we didn't address that. If you have a question, that's why those microphones are here. If you want to come up in line, if you don't want to come up in line, go come up. The Prophet Muhammad is the most popular name in the world. If you take the entire world and say, in the Muslim community it's a lot of people name the name Muhammad. My dad's name is Muhammad. So it's a very, very common name. And it's because we believe that the Prophet Muhammad is the perfect example of a human being that ever lived. So it's kind of an honor to name the person Muhammad. There are also a lot of abbreviations for Muhammad, like Ahmad and Mahmood. There are abbreviations for Muhammad. Now you know what our Muslims' names are, right? I have a lot of questions. My question is about, and firstly I have two questions. But for my question, there are two times that I get sad. And the two times are when I hear a Muslim person commit some crime. All the people, no matter where, with religion, they think maybe that all Muslims are the ones who do bad things. No, we are not. I'm a Muslim and I have never thought to do something wrong to anyone. But when some Muslim people they do, and I hear, I feel, people will think all Muslims are same. That affects me. Then I worry about the incidents. Another thing is that when black people do something, same, I feel same. Many people believe that black people are doing bad things. No, they don't. I'm a black. I have black skin. And I don't think to do anything wrong. That's what I feel to is. My question is, you say it's not only Muslims who are tourists. There are a lot of different tourists. Okay, why Muslims are the ones who carry with the tourist name? Why the world doesn't call other people tourists? But all Muslims are the tourists when they do something wrong. My other question is, how Muslim people, Islam people, can introduce to the world which is blind? I believe what is blind about the Muslim? Because Muslim is not to kill others. Muslim is not to harm others. And instead is to support and help others. How Muslim people can introduce who they are to the rest of the world? Thank you. We are fighting, I'll give you an example. In 2003 in California where I used to teach and direct a program, there was a big hype about a reverend coming from somewhere in the Midwest to talk about Islam and Muslims. I was extremely happy for someone to actually come and talk about Islam and Muslims. So when I attended his, I even told my students to come and go to his presentation to kind of learn about Islam and Muslims. And a boy I was so sorry. The first thing he said, Muslim has contributed nothing to humanity, they're nothing but murderers and killers. Yeah, you can look him up. His name is Dr. Carlson. Somewhere, I forgot his first name. So from the very first moment for an hour and a half, some people call me an angry person, I was sitting there respectfully trying, and I was dying to kind of speak out and tell them how wrong he was. He was actually taking verses of the Quran and twist them in an English. Quran does not translate correctly to English. Just, I want you to tell you that. Although there are translations, there is a lot of explanation trying to get you the right meanings of the Arabic into the Quran, into English. And sometimes it fails miserably. And he uses that as a weapon to put us down and make us murderers. However, I was so proud of my students. We called them, they called them liar. And in retrospect, I just walked out of his presentation. And at the same time, people knew I was a Muslim because I was known by Sam instead of Osama. And they were surprised, why am I standing and talking against this guy? Don't I'm a Muslim? My name is Osama, you call me Sam. Do you understand? This is the rise of the Muslims' hate, but hey, hold on a second. This didn't happen after September 11. It actually was happening way before September 11. It came to the top after September 11. Abadi, I feel your frustrations. And I know what you mean. I think it goes back to what we talked about earlier. If you're an American Muslim or if you're a Muslim living in America, then you're either one of the good guys. I have friends that say, I used to think it's funny when I said, oh, he's one of the good Muslims. And now as I got older and a little bit more aware, I'm like, what do you really mean by that? I used to live in downtown Seattle. One of my coworkers lived in Queen Anne Avenue. So he lived about three or four apartments north of me. And at four in the morning, there used to be somebody in a scooter that was so loud that came down every morning. And we talked about it the next day. I said, hey, did you hear that guy? And he goes, yeah, he always wakes us up. I don't know what scooter it was, but I know it was really loud. And it woke us up. So my friend sent me an email and he said, will you set up a road bomb for him? You know? I laughed about that. I thought it was funny. And I went and confronted him. I said, you know, what do you mean by that? And I think the moral of my story is it's going to take courage from the Muslim community to stand up for themselves and advocate for yourself. And it's our responsibility as well as a community to talk about it, to get to know people, to set an example, to develop relationships. And I think that will help alleviate all those issues. And people see the human side of us. The interesting thing is Muslims, we've been dehumanized. So we're not human anymore in the eyes of the media and some of the communities. And that's the reality of it, you know? There's another statistic that's falsely been spreading throughout the world. It's been around for the last four or five years and my brother sent it to me and I told him, brother, please don't send that statistics anymore. The statistics say Muslims will control Europe by 2030. Why? Because Muslims, they have four to five children, each family where they're Europeans, they have maybe one child per family. So by their statistics and the migrations coming to Europe, by their statistics, which is false statistics, Europe will be controlling Europe in 2030. So imagine if somebody kind of come in and take over your house, what happens? You want to defend yourself. So these are tactics to generate that fear that you, oh, I want to do something. I want to put somebody in the administration to fight those people in order not to grow or to immigrate to this country. You understand? It's happening now in Europe. So don't believe everything you see. Even my own people believe that and when you really look into the statistics, those are false statistics. Oh, Muslims can be all over the world. That's not true. That's not true. We are in an increasing number, not just because Muslims make more babies, because there are other factors as well. Any other questions? We don't want to talk about Muslim food. Ramadan is coming. You know how many people heard about Ramadan and know what Ramadan is? Raise your hand. Ramadan is going to be on May 27th through July 25th. I'm sorry, June 25th. As my brother here said, we fast from sunrise, that's three o'clock in the morning, to sundown, that's 9.15 in the night. We're not going to be able to drink, eat, or put anything in our body. So just to let you know, if you might see this, I'm going to be very cranky during that time. So I make sure I teach in the morning and I leave in the afternoon. So I want to be cranky. It takes a lot of time on our body, but again, it's a way to cleanse our system. And some people are trying to fast with us. They're unable to, because they're not raised that way. But it's really a way for us to cleanse our system. Like Fauzi said earlier, it feels more energetic, built his metabolism and so on and so on. That's exactly how to regenerate your body. Any other questions? Did we answer everything? Yes. Yes, Tories. First and foremost, thank you all so much for presenting today. For those of us that are really into wanting to know more in terms of the news that is not American news, what would you recommend in terms of resources that we can get more up-to-date information on what's happening, especially in places like Syria and Yemen, et cetera? Have you guys, Bear Riley, was outed from Fox? Bear Riley was gone from Fox. But nobody's talking about it, because Fox is the one who loses audience. At any rates, yes, I don't follow CNN. I definitely don't follow Fox. I don't follow any of those major news. And I'd go to, there's a lot of other news I can follow. RT is actually for Russians and for Al Jazeera. I don't follow Al Jazeera completely. But there are a lot of other news you can actually read. And compile your own news. The nature of news lately, it's what happened who gets it out first. And I think there's a lot of misinformation that goes out in the news. And then by the time there's evidence or credibility, there's another news story. And it never gets resolved. So I would recommend, if you're interested in a news source, then just to kind of follow that news a little bit more and watch the story develop. For example, there was a terrorist threat that was a young Muslim person that planned to blow up, do stuff in New York. And New Jersey recently, I can't think of his name. But his dad ended up turning him in. He called the FBI and said, hey, my son is not okay. You need to look into this. And they caught him. But you won't see that piece in the news you just hear. Muslim guy is going to blow up some New Jersey. And then by the time that story develops, a couple of days, and then there's another story and another story as well. And I think it's just finding a way to find credible news. Even Al Jazeera and news from the other side is also swayed. So it is a really, really tough, challenging time to find news, honestly. I can't. It's just, you know, just like everything else. Everything is so saturated in a fast-paced environment. And most people get their news from their Twitter or Facebook feeds. And it's, you know, and you see 100 people died in Syria. And then you see, you know, a cool Facebook page. And then you see something else and then you see something else. And it becomes, you become numb to it. I think it's just tough to let the news impact this data. You should really hear the news from everyone, but also look for other resources. Like I listen to CNN, I listen to Fox, I listen to other news media. But then I actually talk to people from the ground. Now, I have a lot of friends. They are pro-Trump and against Trump. Actually, I have more against Trump than pro-Trump. And I have a lot of friends. They are a pro-asset and against-asset. You have to listen to both of them to make sense on your own. What really sounds better? I mean, you're intelligent enough to make sense out of the news. If that doesn't make sense to you, there's something wrong. They investigate. So be smart about that. Develop relationships. Especially, I'm going to speak this in terms of Islamophobia. If you have a question, walk up to a Muslim and talk to them. They love to talk about their religion because they think if they convert you to Islam, all of your deeds are going to be theirs anyway. So go talk to them anyways. Ask questions. They'll be happy. They'll stop everything they're doing. And they'll just say, hey, what else do you need to know? So that would probably be the first source to go. Go to the source itself, just like you college students. You learn in that. What class is that? Two English research class? So you got to filter through it to get to the credible sources. That makes sense. Any other questions? One last question. Yes, sir? Not Saudi Arabia. No, definitely not Saudi Arabia. That's a really good question because I think a lot of times when we talk about Muslim countries, think about where you go when you think about Muslim countries. Usually Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan. So there is a big difference between those countries. I'm from Algeria and it's completely different than Saudi Arabia under completely different laws. The largest Muslim country in the world is, anybody knows that? Indonesia. And you don't hear anything from Indonesia from the Muslim community there. So I think there is a huge influence of the Western influence because those are just trends and people tend to follow trends just like our youth here follow regular trends. And I feel like there's a lack of education. Any wind can take a generation. Any information and any trend will sweep that across. And I think in some of those countries like Syria, Iraq, and even in North Africa, they're victim of colonization. They don't have a base for education. So any trend that comes along will take them. And it feels like they're being Westernized. So you get these people that are thinking, oh, we're losing our youth. So it's a really deep rooted issue. But I also think it's definitely the communication tools as well these days. So I hope that answers your question. If you have a chance, go look for Afghan history. See how Afghan people look like back then. Yeah, like they look really different. They're European. So what has happened when the Western countries invade or intervene their influence in a country like this, other elements trying to defend it, you understand? And that's what happened. So there's balances. So that's what we're talking about. Have you guys heard that quote, best way to destroy a civilization is to sever the roots? And I think that's kind of what happens generally. If you take away the roots in their education or history, then it becomes something else. So there are two words we didn't talk about. I forgot. Whatom says, inshallah, and is God willing. So we all be living peacefully, inshallah. My colleagues know that a lot because they went to Egypt with me. They hear that a lot. And a lot of one is alhamdulillah. This is a little bit difficult to learn. Alhamdulillah. We all say that all the time because we thank God for everything, for the good and the bad. So inshallah we all live peacefully. Alhamdulillah to have you as friends. Thank you very much for your time.