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Your brothers and sisters in a post-9-11 context as a Muslim community, as the Muslim community has come under the rampant fire, that perpetual hatred that we face right now as a community,

misinformation, propaganda,

and I've braced ourselves as every single election season comes by

as every single

attack happens in the name of Islam, whatever it may be.

As a Muslim community has been trying to figure out

since 9-11 in particular and over the last few years with the current president,

how do we actually tell our story? How do we actually reclaim our narrative? And those words reclaiming the narrative have titled

every single Islamic Convention. I've been given that session like 20 times in the last three years.

How do we reclaim the narrative and there

used to be an emphasis when you talk about reclaiming the narrative on you know

making sure that we get as many diawep pamphlets out there as possible so that

people know the truth about Islam in advance.

There used to be this emphasis on reclaiming the narrative that was very much so within the realm

of d'Iwa. but now reclaiming the narrative means a million

different things to different people to literally over a million different people

here in the United States as a Muslim community. So I want to address this topic mainly to put

out this idea or to first and foremost negate this idea that changing the

narrative should take precedence over actually changing ourselves.

The second thing is that if a person or if we are looking to change the narrative if we become inauthentic to who we are in the process

meaning if at the end of the day we're able to usher forward the Muslim community but not

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