1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,050 On the 27th December an ordinary US citizen 2 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:17,750 (although his height was not of the ordinary type, 3 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,450 he was six foot four and played basketball) 4 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,300 decided to propose marriage to a woman. 5 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:28,150 He went ahead and proposed and the young lady agreed immediately… 6 00:00:28,221 --> 00:00:33,480 Within weeks they were wearing their best clothes and laughing as they left the wedding party, 7 00:00:33,750 --> 00:00:37,380 rushing to their happy marital home in California… 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,500 After precisely 45 days each of them 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,850 had received a bullet in the back of their heads as they prepared breakfast in their kitchen. 10 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:51,000 ISLAMOPHOBIA 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,200 People know that love motivates individuals… 12 00:00:55,250 --> 00:01:00,100 and politicians know that hate mobilizescrowds 13 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:04,800 There is always a need for an enemy to stir up the hearts of the people with hatred 14 00:01:05,250 --> 00:01:08,000 It doesn’t matter if this enemy is real or imaginary. 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,600 And if this enemy goes away or if we make peace with them we need to find a new one, 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,300 so that the people will remain frightened and in ward looking,demanding the protection of Big Brother. 17 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:26,900 This is why after the red enemy with the hammer and sickle collapsed,there appeared the green enemy 18 00:01:26,950 --> 00:01:29,350 with the crescent …Islam. 19 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:32,430 Islamophobia is blinding… 20 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:39,300 It blinds humanity to the genocide of entire peoples in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Myanmar 21 00:01:39,650 --> 00:01:45,800 because those who we are annihilating are people with harsh and violent natures who deserve to die. 22 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:54,750 Islamophobia blinds people to the fact that 113 of the 114 surahs of the Quran 23 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,930 start with the names of God, “the Compassionate, the Ever-Merciful” 24 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,000 Islamophobia blinds the eyes… 25 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:08,060 You see one or two crimes committed by Muslims and you don’t see FBI statistics 26 00:02:08,450 --> 00:02:14,850 which say that in one year hate crimes against Muslims increased by 67%, 27 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:24,150 from 154incidents in 2014 to 257 in 2015. 28 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:31,350 At a time when the cinema shows Muslims(or Arabs it doesn’t matter,Islamophobia blinds you to the difference) 29 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,050 as ignorant,violent savages 30 00:02:34,165 --> 00:02:36,800 ,in movies such as Raiders of the Lost Ark 31 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,700 American Sniper,Iron Man,and Rules of Engagement, 32 00:02:40,779 --> 00:02:47,730 the peoples who have been blinded by Islamophobia forget that Muslims make up nearly one quarter of humanity 33 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,550 1.7 billion people. 34 00:02:51,220 --> 00:02:56,280 That means that if we were to assume that an explosion in which innocent people were killed 35 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,330 took place not once a year,but once every half hour, 36 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,480 i.e.18,000 explosions per year,all because of Muslims 37 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:10,400 ,that would mean that only one in a hundred thousand Muslims were responsible, 38 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:14,300 even if we were to assume this illusory proposition were true. 39 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,300 What about the other ninety-nine and nine hundred ninety-nine Muslims…But we have to ignore this. 40 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:24,950 In the latest statistical study of the two largest political publications in the world, 41 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:33,130 Time and Newsweek we find that 94%of their news about Muslims were negative and only 6%positive. 42 00:03:33,550 --> 00:03:43,050 As for anti-Islamic organizations,they spent 46 million dollars between 2001 and 2009 to distort the image of Muslims. 43 00:03:43,850 --> 00:03:49,000 In the midst of this madness,will anyone look at the tyranny and oppressions Muslims 44 00:03:49,050 --> 00:03:53,550 are suffering in most parts of the world,the shedding of their blood, 45 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,450 and the violations of their homes and sanctity? 46 00:03:57,150 --> 00:04:02,150 I don’t think so,because when Islamophobia blinds you to the truth, 47 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,150 you can easily break into the home of two young newlyweds 48 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:12,350 and empty your gun into their heads,feeling like you have carried out your national duty… 49 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,250 It was not only the newly married couple who were killed; 50 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:20,300 the bride’s sister was there that day,congratulating the happy couple 51 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,120 and she also was shot dead. 52 00:04:23,450 --> 00:04:27,700 The incident was not classified as terrorist.Have you guessed why? 53 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,600 The killer was named Stephen Craig. 54 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:37,650 The victims were Dia Shadi,Razan Mohamed,and Yusr Mohammed,do you know why? 55 00:04:38,150 --> 00:04:44,100 “Because of this did We ordain to the Children of Israel that if 56 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:51,150 anyone slays a human being,for anything other than in punishment of murder or for spreading corruption on earth, 57 00:04:51,400 --> 00:05:04,920 it shall be as though he had slain all mankind;and that if anyone saves a human life, 58 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:12,250 it shall be as though he had saved all mankind.Our messengers brought them clear evidence 59 00:05:12,330 --> 00:05:18,900 of the truth,but despite all this,many of them continue to commit all manner of excesses on earth”.(5:32)