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am human muslimeen and honey’s on a belt
is an imam and founder president and
muslims for progressive values she joins
us from Earth and lead among expression
and religion is one of our principles
oftentimes the media’s where were the
progressive Muslims well and the Muslim
were there I have a jailed tortured or
killed the argument that we always try
to make is to go back to the crown the
puzzle story of the common how is gender
issues as well it’s incredibly
oppressive the nature of the first
conferences because it really spoke to a
lot of Muslims come to us and condemned
us this is a Western creation and so on
and so forth but the truth is is that
the first female Imam was appointed by
force of home
this is our community praying men and
women together unsegregated
we must attack make war on these
heretical teachings before it goes too
far and poison Muslims who are ignorant
and then another comment is apostates
like this their blood is halal
permissible for execution just slaughter
that’s my daughter when she was or I
love you mom
actually writing a paper which I just
read about Christian traditional
weddings budding rituals I’m in our
Christian room is it’s just like a very
big
they’re gonna write about a song because
what you could say that you know the
similarity between walking the bride
down the aisle is similar to his thumb
when the father gives permission okay
I’m just putting it out there putting a
I went to Sunday school Muslim Sunday
school for for four years I could speak
Arabic I learned all the prayers I
learned most of the things I know about
the religion now it was suffocating but
I did learn a lot and there was an
obligation at Sunday school to be a
Muslim and at home there’s just a middle
ground where I don’t want to think about
it I can just be you know I took you
around to all my talks and my singing
and my women’s Islamic rights stuff so I
think why she found Sunday school
suffocating was because it wasn’t
inclusive I was seven and my friend’s
mom accidentally made me a ham sandwich
and I hadn’t realized it so I took a
bite out of it and I didn’t recognize
the meat so I think I was like what is
just like oh it’s ham and I was like you
can’t have him and then I told my son it
was Egypt the following Sunday and she
told me I was going to hell if I didn’t
like pray for it like the next like a
month and then you argued with the
teachers as well that’s not true I don’t
go to hell for eating pork because the
Quran said if there is nothing else to
eat you are allowed to eat for because
life is more important and then your
teacher humiliated you and put you in a
corner remember I woke up at 2:00 in the
morning I was like mom I’m going to hell
and then then I want to be Muslim
for inviting me to speak in to your
class so I’m gonna start with how I
started doing the activism than I do and
challenging the status quo
I was a songwriter producer all I did
was write songs and then 9011 happened
and I was like you know what I did to
contribute to a different voice of this
song and I decided to relearn this all
for myself
and what I found was the Quran was
actually really degrading the crown was
really about social justice and yet it’s
not the way we’re living this long it’s
completely not the way we’re living this
long and I didn’t want to partake in
that there’s no way I really will see an
album worth of songs for women’s rights
none of the major Muslim retail stores
in America would sell it and there was
only one man who had the decency to
explain to me why and he said you’re a
female singer your voice is to be
covered and that point I was livid
because the Quran is the purpose of say
protects it inherently so so the fact
that this woman’s voice now in 21st
century is being censored is a
welcome to temple Ariana this is our
oasis of freedom Shabbat service tonight
we truly are one congregation of many
so why not join a religion that
appreciate women his voice as opposed
Amazon his voice well because the
religion of Islam is supportive of a
woman’s voice is just the practice
that’s wack why in a temple not in a
mosque that’s a good question I think
I’m sentenced them to give gender
equality
I believe Islam is the region of U T the
region of freedom but the immigrants
where we come from the issue of gender
equality is far behind tribalism
culturalism all these have created a
barrier I don’t believe there is any
restriction based on the religion but
unfortunately as of now the community is
and a sister who graduated I lost our
University and Sharia law and she yeah
we definitely do not agree it’s better
she says so who are you following in
this group of yours don’t just follow
your desires it’s not that mom hates you
or doesn’t love you it’s just that mom
feels that this group is is taking you
on the wrong road and she always doesn’t
realize I’m the one that started the
group so but somebody and then please
now but which is you know repent and
women can only be Imam of women which is
so totally wrong my sister is very
intelligent and very rational woman but
when it comes to religion all that
rationality gets thrown out of the
window she’s been in heavy influence on
how my he was but the whole society has
changed the whole idea of inclusive II
which she instilled me at a young age is
not what she subscribed to no she don’t
lie oldest brother that I don’t want to
see onion till she stops with her
permissive Islam activism
Levine and I like him
the path of those whom thou hast
favoured not the path of those whom earn
I would love to use that as a perfect
example of what an American interfaith
wedding should be when we first met we
knew that we had different faiths yeah
love doesn’t choose yeah we had a number
of conversations you know at the end of
the day all the three Abrahamic
religions have the same thing in common
just love and respect for other human
being I know a lot of people have asked
their partners to like convert and so
that they could have an Islamic wedding
I told my husband I don’t want you to
convert you have the right to be who you
want to believe whatever you want but
unfortunately some of my family members
didn’t take it very well at all and my
mom still doesn’t and my husband did it
moms who wouldn’t do interfaith
marriages I was really excited one not
only because you were a woman and it was
really important for me to have that
represented in Islam and to find a woman
Imam it was like good luck you can’t
find some people will ask what gives you
the authority you don’t need to have
Authority the Quran gives me that
authority it tells you everyone has the
right and is mandated to read the Quran
for yourself to stick up for justice
even if it’s against your family against
your father your tradition your tribe
rich or the port that is in the Quran I
have full authority every one of us have
the authority and is not using it that’s
the Quran is very clear that men and
women are spiritual equals and yet in
the traditional mindset women have no
rights elite prayer no spiritual
leadership role it is not permissible
for all men to lead the player of men
best mosque for a woman is animals why
should I stop that this is an email that
I receive from a stranger he puts in my
home address and then writes dear a nice
on event and leaves it blank in other
words to say I know where you live
it’s very hard to be truthful what is
your intention for doing something I
think that is the pureness of what the
quran is about about the pureness of
heart why you do what you do
am i doing it for fame am i doing it for
to align things with my own beliefs
why am i doing it honey
that is something i asked every day I
ask myself that every day – turkey being
[Music]
ready remember – [Music]
am human muslimeen and honey’s on a belt
is an imam and founder president and
muslims for progressive values she joins
us from Earth and lead among expression
and religion is one of our principles
oftentimes the media’s where were the
progressive Muslims well and the Muslim
were there I have a jailed tortured or
killed the argument that we always try
to make is to go back to the crown the
puzzle story of the common how is gender
issues as well it’s incredibly
oppressive the nature of the first
conferences because it really spoke to a
lot of Muslims come to us and condemned
us this is a Western creation and so on
and so forth but the truth is is that
the first female Imam was appointed by
force of home
this is our community praying men and
women together unsegregated
we must attack make war on these
heretical teachings before it goes too
far and poison Muslims who are ignorant
and then another comment is apostates
like this their blood is halal
permissible for execution just slaughter
that’s my daughter when she was or I
love you mom
actually writing a paper which I just
read about Christian traditional
weddings budding rituals I’m in our
Christian room is it’s just like a very
big
they’re gonna write about a song because
what you could say that you know the
similarity between walking the bride
down the aisle is similar to his thumb
when the father gives permission okay
I’m just putting it out there putting a
I went to Sunday school Muslim Sunday
school for for four years I could speak
Arabic I learned all the prayers I
learned most of the things I know about
the religion now it was suffocating but
I did learn a lot and there was an
obligation at Sunday school to be a
Muslim and at home there’s just a middle
ground where I don’t want to think about
it I can just be you know I took you
around to all my talks and my singing
and my women’s Islamic rights stuff so I
think why she found Sunday school
suffocating was because it wasn’t
inclusive I was seven and my friend’s
mom accidentally made me a ham sandwich
and I hadn’t realized it so I took a
bite out of it and I didn’t recognize
the meat so I think I was like what is
just like oh it’s ham and I was like you
can’t have him and then I told my son it
was Egypt the following Sunday and she
told me I was going to hell if I didn’t
like pray for it like the next like a
month and then you argued with the
teachers as well that’s not true I don’t
go to hell for eating pork because the
Quran said if there is nothing else to
eat you are allowed to eat for because
life is more important and then your
teacher humiliated you and put you in a
corner remember I woke up at 2:00 in the
morning I was like mom I’m going to hell
and then then I want to be Muslim
for inviting me to speak in to your
class so I’m gonna start with how I
started doing the activism than I do and
challenging the status quo
I was a songwriter producer all I did
was write songs and then 9011 happened
and I was like you know what I did to
contribute to a different voice of this
song and I decided to relearn this all
for myself
and what I found was the Quran was
actually really degrading the crown was
really about social justice and yet it’s
not the way we’re living this long it’s
completely not the way we’re living this
long and I didn’t want to partake in
that there’s no way I really will see an
album worth of songs for women’s rights
none of the major Muslim retail stores
in America would sell it and there was
only one man who had the decency to
explain to me why and he said you’re a
female singer your voice is to be
covered and that point I was livid
because the Quran is the purpose of say
protects it inherently so so the fact
that this woman’s voice now in 21st
century is being censored is a
welcome to temple Ariana this is our
oasis of freedom Shabbat service tonight
we truly are one congregation of many
so why not join a religion that
appreciate women his voice as opposed
Amazon his voice well because the
religion of Islam is supportive of a
woman’s voice is just the practice
that’s wack why in a temple not in a
mosque that’s a good question I think
I’m sentenced them to give gender
equality
I believe Islam is the region of U T the
region of freedom but the immigrants
where we come from the issue of gender
equality is far behind tribalism
culturalism all these have created a
barrier I don’t believe there is any
restriction based on the religion but
unfortunately as of now the community is
and a sister who graduated I lost our
University and Sharia law and she yeah
we definitely do not agree it’s better
she says so who are you following in
this group of yours don’t just follow
your desires it’s not that mom hates you
or doesn’t love you it’s just that mom
feels that this group is is taking you
on the wrong road and she always doesn’t
realize I’m the one that started the
group so but somebody and then please
now but which is you know repent and
women can only be Imam of women which is
so totally wrong my sister is very
intelligent and very rational woman but
when it comes to religion all that
rationality gets thrown out of the
window she’s been in heavy influence on
how my he was but the whole society has
changed the whole idea of inclusive II
which she instilled me at a young age is
not what she subscribed to no she don’t
lie oldest brother that I don’t want to
see onion till she stops with her
permissive Islam activism
Levine and I like him
the path of those whom thou hast
favoured not the path of those whom earn
I would love to use that as a perfect
example of what an American interfaith
wedding should be when we first met we
knew that we had different faiths yeah
love doesn’t choose yeah we had a number
of conversations you know at the end of
the day all the three Abrahamic
religions have the same thing in common
just love and respect for other human
being I know a lot of people have asked
their partners to like convert and so
that they could have an Islamic wedding
I told my husband I don’t want you to
convert you have the right to be who you
want to believe whatever you want but
unfortunately some of my family members
didn’t take it very well at all and my
mom still doesn’t and my husband did it
moms who wouldn’t do interfaith
marriages I was really excited one not
only because you were a woman and it was
really important for me to have that
represented in Islam and to find a woman
Imam it was like good luck you can’t
find some people will ask what gives you
the authority you don’t need to have
Authority the Quran gives me that
authority it tells you everyone has the
right and is mandated to read the Quran
for yourself to stick up for justice
even if it’s against your family against
your father your tradition your tribe
rich or the port that is in the Quran I
have full authority every one of us have
the authority and is not using it that’s
the Quran is very clear that men and
women are spiritual equals and yet in
the traditional mindset women have no
rights elite prayer no spiritual
leadership role it is not permissible
for all men to lead the player of men
best mosque for a woman is animals why
should I stop that this is an email that
I receive from a stranger he puts in my
home address and then writes dear a nice
on event and leaves it blank in other
words to say I know where you live
it’s very hard to be truthful what is
your intention for doing something I
think that is the pureness of what the
quran is about about the pureness of
heart why you do what you do
am i doing it for fame am i doing it for
to align things with my own beliefs
why am i doing it honey
that is something i asked every day I
ask myself that every day – turkey being
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ready remember – [Music]
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