very exciting show today hopefully we can bring out some points that i know a lot of people have been thinking about but we want to cover it with those points a little more in terms of the current political atmosphere and get us started well first of all we were like to thank our guests who are tuning in you know there's so much in these days and times you know you hear about islam and you know sometimes i watch the news like we all watch the news in we might see a thirty minute segment we might see seven or eight things that are supposedly reflecting is and all of them are negative no it might be some things going on in afghanistan iraq iran and so forth and all these things that are coming out are normally always negative things you're selling boy and somebody  suicide by killing innocent people killing people who are going to funerals kill people in the mosque eccentric certainly so there is a constant dose  of these now these negative elements that are trying to influence islam and not to say they don't exist but this is all that we are fed constantly over and over so if we don't have a reference point of what islam is and a lot of times we have you know what the general public is bombarded with we're getting  then we hardly hear anything on the positive note so we continually get this bombardment of negative things of islam and then the other side of that or another degree of that is that if the general public doesn't know much about islam then they will just take this then as well this is what islam is about you know they they don't like christians they don't like jews if you're not a muslim you know you're not worth the any respect or any due process these are kind of things that are just constantly fail and you know when you grow up if you're fairly certain thing you want to believe that other cultures other religions and a lot of times even people and this country don't even know their own religion let alone someone else's religion you know they have somebody feeding them something every order to to understand but have they gone in depth and really looked at their religious beliefs where they came from how the bible was developed and so for and also on the other side is how the koran you know came into being and how it was developed you know a lot of things we just don't know about each other so when you don't know about each other you tend to have a suspicion or a fear so what we like to do that day is try to touch on much as we can and just be maybe a source so that makes your mind think do some critical thinking and here you have a better understanding of the not that we have all the answers but i think we have something to offer to kind of bring these different things out and hopefully in the series of programs we can and from there we'll go with to you brother benjamin all right first of all if you could get and the reason why i'm forming this out is because this paper comes out every week in the united states of america every week this paper comes out and i'm saying that i'm saying this to respond to those who say well how come the muslims don't speak out against all this terrorism how come the muslims don't speak out against what's going on i never hear anything i never hear any muslim saying anything about what's going on and then you want to say that this is now this what these terrorists are doing how come i know here in the muslim speaking out well then to my answer to that is because there are serious elements in this society that really don't want you to know what really is love is all about so they hype up all of this concept that most of the terrorists and we beat our women and in and we don't believe that we're there we talk about nine eleven and they say and then the the opposer say oh i didn't hear you say anything when the eleven took place if you think this is wrong and there's a matter of fact they say we saw pictures on the news of people in muslim countries that were jumping up and down the street ahead parades or rarely celebrating nine eleven so how can we compete account of that when this is what the media is representing islam is this is who the media is accenting and then we say well we have the right wing media and the left wing me so you would assume that the left wing media would try to give a real balanced view of things but they're all in it together now the left wing media will probably have a clip that the rate we media won't hear but they won't accept the don't want to i don't want to mention it by name but there were a few hollywood actresses there got busted for drug possession and then they went to court then they got out of going to court then they got sentence and then they got this sent reduce and then one was supposed to go to jail and she hired a high powered lawyer and she didn't go to jail she went to some kind of program but the point is that every time you turn on the news this is what they were talking about over and benefit does this have with the political environment america absolutely what benefit does this have with the israeli peace talks israeli palestinian peace does with the troops in afghanistan the troops in iraq absolutely nothing but yet the news media hear are less about muslims do this of muslims or they drilled into us then another muslim comes along the counter then say no this is incorrect so to cover it for five minutes or even five fifty seconds there was somebody charges the that is the point i'm trying to say the media there are elements in the media sinister elements in the media that really do not want to be respected represented in its proper light and what is proper light number one is pro of the truth of the underlying basis of all religions islam is no different from christianity in its core values is not is not different from judaism in its core values of the core values being fair to all human beings being just to all human beings no s computers and putting up with a twenty nine ninety five you would think mint twenty what the hell is twenty ninety five i can handle there but it's twenty nine ninety five a week not a month a week homosexuals oh and homo started just like black people will never come you know you can't is a totally different war a world a totally different agenda and if you look in all the scriptures christianity and islam if you look at all of those scriptures because they are refer to the same stories when did the end of all of those great civilizations fall when lot that a large destroyed that city because of the people participating in homosexuality so i don't care how popular it is today and how sensitive people are about it the reality is is that god in the scriptures denounces it and tells righteous people to d no hidden agendas no male chauvinist oh no everybody just oh muslims or muslims believe it's not in the book i don't care what they're doing is not in  book and this is this is this is the thing and ok the next thing i know class distinctions this is wasn't in this book and in the bible and in the tour once you get down to the chapter two verse sixty two chapter two verse sixty two in the holy koran chapter five verse sixty nine chapter five verse sixty nine in the holy qur'an talks about that god acknowledges the different religions and there are those who practice those different religions and do righteousness have no fear nor shall they grieve and they will be rewarded by god that's what's in the book so what does all this other stuff come from that muslims hate jews and jews hate muslims and  christians and christians hate jews and we've got to fight it what is all this stuff come from wherever it comes from is not coming from what god has it's directed us to do in the book that's the point i'm trying to get going here now we would go to this paper here this one here the first one that we looked at the camera for it says and i'm looking at the picture here and it's got white folks black folks asian people men women and the caption says muslims christians and jews every day twenty four hours a day week after week after week because they don't want us to see that picture they don't want us to see that  so this is my advice anybody who's really serious about trying to understand all this stuff get you a koran get to a nice kor it came about how i was beginning came about in the early history of islam in the world then you begin to see all this stuff out here is just a bunch of propaganda to continue to incite hatred and enmity between people in the name of these labels you will see that islam doesn't promote that and when you really really study christin the secrecy it doesn't promote that it promotes harmony with the most working with prejudices as long as we stick to that we'll never know the truth and leaders come out and take advantage of that but i say this to those leaders once people find out the truth what do you think we're going to think about those people who misled us what do you think about how we how we will feel about them then once we read the qur'an for  when i say read the qur'an for yourself i don't mean get a qur'an and then go to somebody that you know listen listen to help you understand i mean read it for yourself first then if you come across some you really really really care feather then you might ask somebody but read it for yourself first because the person you hands may be a nut there's a lot of nuts out there what i mean by nuts is that they don't want to accept the responsibilities that's in the koran and the responsibilities that's in the qur'an is placed on every individual to be responsible for elevating society those around them in dealing with justice and fairness to all they don't want to accept that they want to wear the clothes they want to speak the language they want to go through the rituals but they don't want to dig aside and put down their pet peeves in the fancies in their personal prejudices and one of the personal prejudice prejudices that exist is being anti american anti establishment anti government oh they're there they're against the muslims oh you know we can't do anything because we're muslims oh you know they don't like is but when we look at what's going on in the world we see we have muslims in government the way household's ramadan break i'm going to fair every year the white house has hosted it in the biggest and most obvious thing is that muslims are being protected and defended by the united states military in these countr and i know some years or own no brother they try to go over there and take over they're going over there with the military and capital and fighting against muslims that are fighting against other muslims that's the reality of the situation but for some reason some of us not only want to look at that the united states protected kuwait they went to war with iraq saddam hussein because they attacked kuwait also there was i don't know if it was a rumor or not but it was saying that saddam hussein had two hundred fifty thousand lined up on the border of saudi arabia going to attack saudi arabia so we need to get when we need to start looking at this thing as a parent and child but look at things as an adult because it you know the easiest thing to do is a stand and take a do or temper tantrum jump up and down scream and jump up and down and point fingers and in all this callous the air we don't take responsibility for being an adult getting involved in the society getting involved in the government getting involved then we start to see things a little differently if we don't like what's going on get involved and try to change on at the situation there are still elements that do not want us to look at our own religion on a more serious level to see that it is more than about just an emotional response it is about being civically engaged in the society to make it a better place that's what muhammad that's what jesus did and that's what moses d