 Islam is like a crystal clear river, its water has no color like this water right here okay but in this cup it's the same water but it looks green doesn't it it looks green but it's not it's not any number of years green but it's the same water as here so Islam is like a crystal clear river but it takes on the color of the bedrock that's what they say so if the water flows over black rocks it looks black even though it's clear if it flows over jade it looks green if it flows over sand it looks sandy and what they mean by that and you'll see this and you probably know this already Islam in China looks Chinese and Islam has been there for over 1400 years and they are hanathis like most of you and they are strict hanathis but they fit into China beautifully okay so um you know in Indonesia Islam looks like the culture of the center it looks Indonesian it looks Malay of course when the British came in and the Dutch came in they said would you build real mosques your mosques have to have domes they have to look like Moroccan and a lot of us did that didn't we you'll see that in Malaysia you'll see that in other countries and then we have to pay most of the budget just to get the algae off the dome whereas you know in the old traditional Malay and Indonesian mosques you don't have any problem with that it's cool it ventilates and it's sacred in the eyes of the people of Nusantara Nusantara are the island people of Malaysia of Singapore of Indonesia of Brunei and of the Philippines okay these are great people great people and in Africa Islam looks african okay wherever it goes it takes on the local color but the water remains clear okay the water remains life-giving okay delicious not green after all okay but this is the way that Islam is supposed to be