this is a part to eat with muslims and we're going to talk about this organization what they do in some other topics that are going to come to my right as he lays to the on next to her  rabbit and i mean and me i mean for the business i think we're going to start off with you know you have some questions and we have a wonderful sisters here today who are doing great work with an organization called eat with muslims where this is part two of the show where they have had muslims sit down with non muslims and break bread and you know talk about everyday things and also about the religion and where it's something that people get to know each other so i'll just leave it right there yeah i just want to add also that you know dismissed as we did a wonderful show with us and then we kind of twisted there are to stay and do another show so this is part two of the same show for the same day so we just want to make that clear so people would know that what's really going on so sisters could you want to briefly explain two thousand and sixteen december two thousand and sixteen and our official first and i was january of two thousand and seventeen and it's an organization that works to build bridges between muslims and non muslims through breaking bread a good us and so many churches reach out to us and so though the first so we did two dinners with two different churches and then and a third church reach out to us st james and  other the only way for each other once in a while when they see each other but then one day once they get the chance to sit together and share cuppa tea they found out that they have so much more in common you know they talk about how mary in was is our prophet moses our profits and and you know and so so we have all this you know and we talk about the fact that we both women and our struggles and you know  so it's so it's i have it's like twenty minutes long so it's one act of play and and then the war got out and more and more churches reach out the eyes and they already have building congregations and so that's how that one of the in our last dinner that you were part of which was just wonderful there was never a black prophet and and i'm like interesting i clicked on it and he talked about how you know there are no known black pro and so we're the only ones who can do this you know for our especially for our youth and for us to give our young people the inspirations that they need we're not trying to separate muslims we're all brothers and sisters but at the same time we need to be able to i think there's the way art can tell stories on the way you can tell stories to artistic expression and you know there's something more powerful and kept a fading and appealing i thing about to when you do something like that and so we're and we're showcasing muslim movies movies that are made by so yeah we all want to go wauconda well you know it's interesting this kind of leads us into a different direction but the different challenges the islamic world and everything is not all sweet and nice and tidy there are challenges with with racism and when you talk about some of the prophet you know  blond hair blue eyes he would have stood out that would have been you know that would have been easy easy to find him and to spot him so it's interesting how  know black african country you know africa that's not all want to be black you know that you know north africans don't many of them except maybe moroccans would be the only ones who oftentimes would say oh yeah i'm  african american guy who is trying to identify with his african roots but he's feeling like you know i was left behind and so he's supposed to be the villain but you can relate  that because i have seen africans you know come here and they're like you know we do we can do our own thing you know i'm going to move away from the black neighborhoods and whatever and we don't reach out to our brothers and sisters and some would say well african americans do the same thing they push us away they don't you know they're like you coming here taking what's mine so there is that rift but i think  what we africans when we come here don't understand is the fact that we often come here and we realize oh my god there are so many opportunities we got to grab everything we can  just now not too long ago and i already own a home and i already have a car and this and that work and you know why couldn't they do the same but what they don't understand oftentimes is that an african who came here who already have th identity intact you know and just have one goal of just working going to school working hard you know an african american who's got so many other obstacles or where he working against have doors open for you because you don't have the battery you know you you just want to do well and you don't you don't have all that history that you know the new carrying and so i think we  honoring their african heritage you know when i see the way they're honoring the clothes they're wearing the way they're so proud the way i feel like they're doing that for us i don't see us doing it for them now and i feel like we don't acknowledge you know and as well as you know the muslim community that now feel like they're under siege and they're being targeted and all of a sudden you know we're in g martin luther king and rosa parks in the civil rights the rights giants and but we don't we know how often times brown people treat black people you know  so we need to do better job we need to not just make you know it knowledge our pain only when when it suits us but we need to stand up for the rights of all human beings and affirm the humanity of all people especially groups that have been trying to get it forever you know a lot of us have it better than african americans do in this country you  know and thanks to them but we don't i feel like we don't we don't show them the respect and even when i came here i was years old i moved to virginia black you're african and i thought wait a minute what's the number you know and it was it was automatic distinction of like hey i want to make sure that you understand your struggle in this country will be the same exact and so therefore you should be i'm not talking about you should be happy to be here essentially and so it was so confusing to me because i realized at that point there is an automatic distinction  taught from a young age of if you're an african american immigrant you should just be happy to be here and you'll do better you know essentially later you know you'll be fine and  it always it was always you know striking to me and there's there's definitely it hurts because you know i don't i consider myself american molly but if i'm walking around and nobody knows you know what a typical somali looks like i'm still a black you know african american at the end of the day so i know the my history in the same but i'm i going to get treated you know better because my history isn't the same or why you know i mean like it's just kind of a little bit confusing sometimes and you think that i don't have i don't suffer you think you know you understand my reality and one of the things one of the attributes of our lives our hoc and it's loosely translated as the truth but it's also translated as the reality and there's a reality that's going on i run into all kinds of flak when i try to get other muslims to address these issues and the point that you ma about the civil rights movement and the benefits did a lot of brothers and sisters from overseas come over here and they just take it for granted but there was a time when your color your color your code and marco no matter where and so it was people like dr martin luther king it was people like ali you know malcolm x who entered do any large amount of it would put that out there who introduced the dignity of us as  dignified and dr martin luther king our laws changed on the books so that so that my brother from somalia or rocco or saudi arabia can come here and he has the money he can buy a house any neighborhood he wants before it was possible so like you said they do stand on the shoulders of our great giants their food and they do not want to deal with it and this is what eats me up inside when i say let's have a conversation about this you know i know but i know of well we don't talk about that so just ahead or the thing about race how did this come about to be such a powerful disease is because the image they  you know as a caucasian not only that they put him as a caucasian but they also say he's god so i'm looking at the world and god chose to come into the world to a happening in libya you know africans are changed and being sold and you know you don't hear award from you know the powerful middle east countries to say anything met this young man who was from so the many years ago we were in i was in los angeles at the time and we've become friends and he was going to u s c he become friends with a lot of people and one day he said to me you know you know f because it said before when i was in my own country when i treat people you know it was normal to treat certain groups of people with contempt and with you know a nobody would tell you you're wrong