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Many of you know that I used to be a professor, correct?

You know this, right?

I was to teach 10 years at Rhodes College in Tennessee.

And my most popular course over there,

it was so popular that they had to give me the largest hall in the...

It will always get, you know, full of the students students it was actually called jihad and fundamentalism in the modern world that was the title of my class so when people would ask me what do you do I said I teach jihad in Tennessee it was actually factually correct okay it was my most popular course now today's talk will be a

little bit interesting academic inshallah a few weeks ago as you all are

aware certain TikTok and YouTube videos started appearing about some New York

Muslim guy running for mayor right very interesting videos never heard of the guy's name until a few weeks ago.

As soon as I saw his name, I'm like, hold on a sec.

I know this name.

I know this last name.

And I wondered if that last name was the same name that I was familiar with.

So I went to a book that was assigned reading in my class for 10 years.

It's called Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, by Mahmoud Mamdani.

And I'm like, this is Mamdani. I opened the page. By the way, this is my copy from 2010.

You can see it, Memphis, Tennessee.

I opened the book, and it says for my beloved mother and for Zohran and his friends.

This is the guy running for the mayor, right?

Turns out this is the guy's father.

His father is a professor at Columbia,

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