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So it is our

Distinct pleasure and honor to welcome a guest to our community coming to us from Cleveland

And that is our brother Bashir Jones and I did not know this until he reminded me with the phone

We have actually spoken together at various

Conventions and conferences

Our brother Bashir Jones. He's gonna tell us a little bit about himself

But just in a nutshell

Not only is he's the first

Muslim city councilman from the city of Cleveland and inshallah

He has higher political aspirations, which we're gonna hear inshallah

But one thing that makes our brother Bashir different from many other Muslim politicians is that he's also

Studied Islamic sciences to a good degree and he does give hold of buzz and he does he's active on the speaking circuit

And as we're aware almost all Muslims will enter politics

By and large they haven't studied Islam and they're disconnected from our tradition the academic side of things

But brother Bashir alhamdulillah he has studied informally and he's also has a

Master's degree from Bayan

Seminary as well in Islamic studies

So alhamdulillah and he does give hold buzz and he's active on the Islamic circuit

I actually gave talks with him here reminded me at a number of conventions

And I didn't know that he was running for politics back then and then he ran for politics and he was a city

Councilman so inshallah bismillah first and foremost welcome to our community to their machine. I want to go down

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