Loading...
Hosts & Guests
Transcript
This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.
This is in our Congress.
Right now, as I speak, there is an existing
Sharia-adherent enclave run by the East Plano Islamic Center.
This is why Texans pass Proposition 10 by a 95% landslide
Ban Sharia in Texas.
You are a hypocrite of the worst type.
You took our votes.
You took our endorsements.
Sharia has no place in America.
I do believe there is an enemy inside of our gate
that is seeking to distract us.
As to what follows, my dear brothers and sisters
of Epic Community, yesterday, Congressman Keith Self
showed a map of our Mesjid and the neighborhood surrounding
our Mesjid in Congress.
And he made many false claims about you and me
and about our Mesjid and about the people living around the Mesjid.
This is in our Congress.
This Congressman Keith Self, he represents
Texas Third District, that is parts of Plano,
McKinney, Allen, Wiley, and other surrounding neighborhoods.
And this Congressman is the primary founder of an entire caucus.
It is called the Sharia-free American Caucus,
which is a political caucus that claims
that America is facing an existential threat
because of Islam and the Sharia.
And that politicians have to come together to ban Sharia
and to make sure Muslims do not practice Sharia.
Yesterday's hearing was a part of that tactic
by this caucus to further their agenda.
Now this particular Congressman, Mr. Keith Self,
he has long shown his blatant animosity to our religion
in multiple statements.
In one interview recently, he said, and I quote,
while Western civilization has evolved, Islam has not.
Islam is stuck in the eighth century.
And if they succeed at imposing their beliefs on us,
we will be dragged back into the dark ages.
End quote. He says, Muslims will drag Europe back into the dark ages.
It would be who of an elected official
and a representative of a district
in which almost 15% of that district speak languages
from Asia and the Middle East to learn some facts
about the religion at least 10% of his own constituents
practice and follow.
The fact of the matter, as all intellectual historians
acknowledge, is that were it not for Islam,
Europe would still be in the dark ages.
This is a reality and a fact that every intellectual historian
has highlighted.
Will Durant, one of the most recognized
and erudite historians of the last century,
will Durant in his magnificent, the history of civilization?
He writes, and I quote, the Islamic world was at that time
the most advanced civilization on earth.
It was the Muslims who preserved and enhanced
and transmitted the Greek heritage back to Europe.
End quote.
Bertrand Russell, perhaps the greatest philosopher
of the last 150 years, Bertrand Russell
when he writes his history of Western philosophy
and iconic book in the required curriculum
across Western's universities.
He writes, for centuries, the Muhammadans,
the Muslims were more civilized and more humane
than the Christians.
They preserved Greek philosophy
when Christians forgot about it.
End quote.
And I can go on and on, but apparently,
our congressman isn't somebody who is particularly fond
of facts and truths.
His entire tirade against us, against you.
His entire tirade was riddled with wild accusations
and conspiratorial craziness.
He claims, completely falsely, that the neighborhood
around the Meschid was sold exclusively to Muslims.
This is a blatant lie.
It was on a public market and anybody could buy.
He claims, and I quote, that this is a Sharia adherent
neighborhood.
And he decries the fact that there are halal shops
across the road.
And there's a Sharia compliant institute
that's giving Sharia compliant, financing schemes
and financing loans.
He even claims, and this is on YouTube.
And if we're not for the facts that are on YouTube,
I would be embarrassed to say this ridiculous claim.
He claims that girls disappear from our societies
at some point in time.
Sisters, apparently you don't exist in his world.
He also claims that there are mysterious deaths taking place.
He literally says this, mysterious deaths taking place
in our community.
He calls Epic a parallel society cut off
from the rest of the world, a de facto Sharia enclave.
Those are his words directly.
And he makes a very big deal of the fact
that close to us around us next to our neighborhood
is a local police station.
But he's never spoken to the chief of police,
with which we have very strong ties,
who visit our community all the time.
We have a great relationship with them.
But he has some sinister agenda that we actually
wanted to build a mosque to do what exactly to monitor
a small little precinct in American.
Think that that's how somehow going
to change the course of American history.
The fact of the matter is, to read in something sinister,
to a mosque and a thriving community,
to read in conspiratorial craziness to show our mishops
and how our products, to claim that a coincidental closeness
to a small local training facility is somehow
a sinister agenda to take over the country,
when in most circumstances, be scoffed
at some type of conspiratorial, glend-backed talk
of a person with very low IQ.
But when a member of Congress brazenly mentions
our mosque by name, when he displays a neighborhood map
with the actual houses of the people living around the mosque,
literally highlighted on his map.
When he brings in talk of sinister accusations of a takeover,
it is no longer some clown shouting outside of the street.
This is a direct threat to the safety of the people
of our community and of the innocent families living
around our neighborhood.
This is not some deranged, lone conspiracy theorist.
This is a sitting member of Congress who is supposed
to protect us, and instead of protecting us,
he is literally inviting an unwarranted hatred attention
to our communities.
But you see, what clearly demonstrates this congressman's blatant
deception is that while he was running for office,
the very office that you used to attack us,
you were standing right outside our mosque over there,
not 10 feet from where I'm giving this lecture.
You were begging us for votes.
You were standing right there inside of our community,
asking us to vote for you.
And now you come and stab us in the back.
Have you no shame?
What's your real enclave are you talking about?
What parallel society are you accusing us of
when you came here unannounced, unarmed?
You came here, walked in with full freedoms.
You came here begging for our votes.
Where did you see a second parallel universe?
Where did you see girls disappearing being zapped up
into the air?
Where did you see mysterious deaths?
All of a sudden, when you get into Congress,
when you're finally elected to the place
that our constituents used to elect you,
you backstab the very people you're supposed to be supporting
and whose very taxes pay your own paycheck.
Have you no shame, Mr. Keatself?
This is the reality that we have to deal with.
The gap between what you say in Congress now
and what you did yesterday outside of our mosque,
wanting to be voted in, that gap leaves no room
for interpretation.
You, sir, are a hypocrite of the worst kind.
You are a hypocrite of the worst type.
You took our votes.
You took our endorsements.
You knew full well.
We are a part of our society.
We are American tax paying citizens.
And when you got into Congress,
you turned around and you backstab the very people
you are supposed to be representing.
Congressman, I say to you directly and I quote from you.
I'm quoting from your statement yesterday.
You said, make no mistake.
The enemy is inside the gates, end quote.
Given the fact that you were inside our gates,
let me state as a born and raised Texan
that I actually do believe there is an enemy
inside of our gates.
I do believe there is an enemy that is allowing this great
nation to be overcome with fear
and is dividing our societies based upon prejudice.
There is an enemy that is actively working
to dismiss the freedoms granted to us
by the very constitution you claim to uphold.
I do believe there is an enemy inside of our gates
that is seeking to distract us from the Epstein files
that wants to deflect attention away from yet another war
that this government is fighting on behalf of Israel.
Yes, there is indeed an enemy
and it's not just inside the gates,
it's inside Congress, it's inside the Senate
and it's inside higher places than that.
The enemy is indeed within
and that enemy is fermenting fear,
it is preaching misinformation, it is preaching hatred.
And so I say to you and to everybody who is listening,
it is never too late.
No matter what you say about us,
we will extend an olive branch to you
in spite of your misinformation.
And we still will welcome you and anybody else
who has any confusion about us
because we are so confident that anybody
who comes to our community,
anybody who visits us with an open heart
and an open mind with a clean heart
wanting to seek information,
wanting to interact with us.
We are confident that what you will see
far from being an enemy, you will see loyal, hard working,
tax paying, honorable, dignified believers in God,
followers of the prophet.
The people of Epic, dear sir, are no enemy.
The people of Epic and all the Muslims of this country,
they represent the best of what it means
to be the God centric, the best of what it means
to be believers in God, the best of what it means
to contribute back to humanity.
And thus I firmly believe we represent
the best of what it means not just to be Americans
but to be humans and to be representatives
of the religion of God on earth.
So help us God.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
to protect us from the evil machinations
of all of those who are plotting to go against us.
We ask Allah Azza Wajal for his help,
for his protection.
