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i was born and raised as a Muslim in

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Cairo Egypt but I grew up as a child in

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the 50s in the Gaza Strip and uh the

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reason I was in Gaza was because Gaza at

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that time was part of Egypt i attended

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Gaza elementary schools where we learned

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hatred vengeance retaliation peace was

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never an option the concept of peace was

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something foreign actually the word

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peace was never even mentioned in the

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services of any mosque we recited poetry

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every day in the school wishing up upon

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ourselves to die as martyrs i used to

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see girls reciting this poetry while

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they're crying they would wish upon

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themselves to die as a martyr see our

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value system was about victimhood

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thinking of ourselves as victims or to

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be a martyr to go kill everybody and die

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as a martyr either a victim or a martyr

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there is nothing in between women don't

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go to mosques but we used to hear the

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service of the mosque either on radio or

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on TV and I remember every Friday prayer

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the sheh would be at the end of the

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sermon he would curse may God destroy

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the Jews and the infidel and the even

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the Christians and non-Muslims and he

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would call non-Muslims the enemies of

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Allah if you grow up with cursing as a

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form of prayer it can feel and sound

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normal hatred can be normal because who

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am I to judge i never noticed that this

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is not holy so this is how I grew up 22

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Arab countries did everything they could

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to make life impossible for Israel to

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exist the Arab League forbade absorbing

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the so-called Arab Palestinians rejected

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to give them citizenship in any Arab

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country so you could see an a

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Palestinian born in Cairo for instance

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and never get the citizenship and die in

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Cairo they born and die in Syria a a

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Palestinian and they never get a

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citizenship why because the Arab League

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wanted the Palestinian problem never to

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be solved this is not their agenda the

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agenda is to keep them refugees from

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birth to death the culture was so for

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sacrificing they encouraged women to

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stand up in front of the cameras and say

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"I gave my son to the jihad and I want

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my other children to die in the jihad."

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Women who are for life for peace were

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looked down upon women who would be

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radical if not more radical than men who

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will promote jihad for their children

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were lifted up as honorable women to be

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respected in society so for a woman to

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be respected in Islamic society you have

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to be as radical if not more radical

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than men and that is why a lot of women

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are silent they are proud to give their

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children to jihad and many people told

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that to my mother to my grandparents

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after my father died that your boy

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you're lucky he's in heaven now it's the

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only way to go to heaven is to go and

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kill the infidel and die in the process

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the Arabs of Israel were pushed

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constantly they are rejected from being

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absorbed and constantly pushed against

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the borders with Israel in order to keep

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the problem alive the Arab world doesn't

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have a shortage of land if you look at

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the Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean

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Morocco all the way to Persia from

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Turkey all the way to Sudan at that time

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when I was a child the Sinai was

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practically empty desert nobody lived in

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the Sinai like today there is Sharmishek

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you know all the nice beaches this was a

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military zone and there is absolutely no

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need no pressing need for Arabs to be so

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dwelled on wanting to throw the Jews in

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the sea you know this international

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conflict called the Arab-Israeli

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conflict really is a fabrication this is

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not a conflict over land and anybody who

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thinks it's a conflict over land is

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misguided because we don't see the truth

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the truth is Arabs there is something in

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Islam anti-Jewish anti-Christian

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especially anti-Jewish and I will tell

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you why those people calling themselves

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Palestinians who live in the Gaza and

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the West Bank are the pawns of the Arab

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world i don't believe that they care

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about their happiness or welfare they

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are set up to live a miserable life on

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purpose in order to show the world that

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we're victims do you think Saudi Arabia

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with all the money they have the Gulf

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countries all these oil money they can't

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give them good roads and good homes and

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good police and turn it into a

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productive area of of the Middle East

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they can but that is not their objective

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there is a hidden objective and I don't

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understand why Western culture doesn't

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get it why Western media doesn't get it

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it's so obvious so the unemployed people

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in Gaza and the West Bank all this high

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unemployment where do they go to work do

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they stand on the border of Egypt to get

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a job do they stand on the border of

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Syria or Jordan no they line up on the

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borders of Israel the very people they

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are supposed to kill it's a very

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unnatural way of living and nobody sees

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it but they go and blame Israel they

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compare the living standard of the West

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Bank and Gaza with Israel a democracy

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the only democracy in the Middle East

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why don't they compare the living

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conditions of Gaza and the West Bank

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with Egypt with Syria with Jordan and if

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they do they will find that the standard

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of living is even higher than many areas

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of the Arab world but Western media are

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too lazy to compare apples with apples

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they want to compare apples and oranges

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i don't know how can I call Western

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media ignorant they should not be

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ignorant and then they go and ask Israel

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why don't you do some concessions for

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the Palestinians i never hear them stand

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up to Arab leaders and ask Western media

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why don't they ask Arab leaders how

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about some concessions to the Israeli

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people and it's very convenient to blame

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all of this terrorism on after 911

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especially they blame the terrorism oh

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it's because we have this terrorism

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everywhere by Muslims it's all because

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of the occupation if it wasn't for the

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occupation of Gaza if it's not for the

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occupation of the West Bank we wouldn't

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have a problem the problem all is

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because of Israel that's what they want

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to give the impression and this is a big

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lie because I lived in Gaza as a child

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and I witnessed the terrorism against

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Israel before the occupation of Gaza and

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before the occupation of the West Bank

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and our media here doesn't even know

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that there was terrorism against Israel

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before the occupation so people who are

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Arabs who claim that they are doing

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terrorism now because they want freedom

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democracy no there is no freedom and

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democracy in any Arab country let alone

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the West Bank or Gaza so we have to

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really call a spade a spade now this is

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too serious to just take all these lies

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and look the other way because it's very

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very hard to know the truth if you rely

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on Arab media if you rely on the culture

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around you and because of life in an

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oppressive society I moved to America I

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moved to America in the end of

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7879 and my life completely changed and

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one time I wanted to go to attend a

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synagogue and a church because I was

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curious ious i thought they were going

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to curse the Arabs the same way we

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cursed them in our mosque the holiness

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of the place they were praying for

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everybody they were praying for peace on

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earth how can we leave this earth a

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better place it was a totally different

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way of thinking the opposite of what I

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grew up with and that's when I went to a

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mosque here also in Los Angeles and I

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thought that because they allowed women

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that it was going to be different here

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within America i am so glad that Islam

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in America must be so different so I

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went to the mosque and I heard

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anti-semitism again in the mosque and I

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was told "Don't assimilate in America

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we're here to Islamize America." They

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were looking down at American culture

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they were looking down at this society

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and I felt very uncomfortable i said "Oh

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my god there is an agenda here." And I

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never went back again it hit me how

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could we do this how could we lie and

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accuse people of something we Arabs know

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very well we have done ourselves how

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could this happen what kind of value

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system allows a person or allows a

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culture or a religion to lie and accuse

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their enemies of something that they

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know they've done themselves they know

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that Abin Laden did that they know that

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he was financed with Arab money with oil

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money until today how could they accuse

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the Jewish people of that look at the

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map of the Middle East look at the map

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you can hardly see Israel it's

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impossible to convince any person who

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has an IQ of a child that this problem

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is over the land called Israel it's time

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for the West to understand this because

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it's not just not good for Israel it's

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not good for the Arab world they are

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collapsing a lot of people think that

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the Arab world is so strong and so

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powerful it's rotting from the core but

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they don't know the religious leaders

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are telling them to keep continue the

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hate instead of telling them to repent

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and find the true God the love and the

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friendship in the eyes of many Muslims

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in the eyes of Islam itself Jews and

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non-Muslims they call them the kafir the

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infidels they don't deserve the truth

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they don't deserve justice and they

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don't deserve mercy how can this happen

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and we accept it and we don't say no the

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Arab world will never have freedom and

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democracy when the hatred is number one

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when the jihad is number one when

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killing your enemy is number one when

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you're fixated on lies and slander you

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will never have peace and democracy

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nobody asks this question why all this

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these lies and slander against the

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Jewish people against America they call

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America the great Satan and Israel the

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little saint why do you know that on

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Syrian TV on Arabic TV on Egyptian TV

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the constant day and night lies about

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the Jewish people is unbelievable there

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was a show that was saying and in it was

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not just religious leaders some of them

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were scientists Arab scientists saying

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that "Oh do you know why Israel went to

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Haiti to help with the earthquake?" You

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know why because Israel really wanted to

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harvest the organs of the Haitian people

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these are the

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intelligencia of the Arab world when the

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intellectuals of the Arab world say that

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what do you expect from the man on the

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street and you wonder why they hate

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because day in and day out they are told

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this i was told horrific things about

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the Jewish people it took me years to

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extract it out of my mind my heart and

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my consciousness