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This is the rise of a hatred of Islam, the rise of Islamophobia. We find politicians, we find media

pundits, always mentioning us and singling us out. And policies are being enacted against us

across the globe, especially in this land and many western lands. My advice to myself and all of us,

we should study history. We should study history. It's not the first time and it won't be the last time.

History broadens our horizons. History makes us mature. History makes us understand some of the

beneficial tactics about how we can respond to what we are seeing. And in today's brief mini lecture,

inshaAllah wa ta'ala, I want to go back and look at five basic parallels that we see in the

seerah and also in historical examples of the past that can be shown to be replicating what we

are seeing in our times. Because the goal my dear brothers and sisters, one of our goals is to

live peacefully. One of our goals is to not be massacred and murdered. One of our goals is to give

to others without fear of persecution. Our Prophet salallahu wa sallam was physically attacked,

assassination attempts were made. It didn't come out of the blue. Historically speaking, minorities

have been killed. The Muslims of Bosnia yesterday, we celebrated 25 years, not celebrated, commemorated

the anniversary, 25 years of the massacre of Srebrencia in Bosnia, where around 10,000 Muslim men

were rounded up and in one day slaughtered. This is in my lifetime and your lifetime. I remember this

as a teenager and many of us remember this day. Over 10,000 Muslim men were slaughtered in one day.

That did not happen out of the blue. A hundred years ago, in this country, another campaign was

enacted against another minority, the Chinese and the foreign eastern, which culminated around

60 years ago in rounding up a quarter of a million Japanese Americans and putting them in

internment camps. This happened once again in the lifetime of people that are still alive. In

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