You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inc. where is only this is episode 61. I am your somewhat sick host, Thomas Smith. And so because of that I'm not going to do much preamble here. I'm just going to get to a really excellent interview with

Kossum Rashid. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I think we disagree a lot and I

think we're coming from two very unique places and it's a conversation that I don't think I've ever heard like

the kind of conversation we had which is why I want to do it so I hope you

enjoy it as much as I did without any further rambling let's get over to my interview with Cosam Rashid.

Joining me right now is Cosam Rashid and thank you for the pronunciation help on that. Cosam nice to speak to you. Hey thanks for having me

man, great to be here. It is really good to have you.

I'm super curious how exactly this will go because I feel like we're coming from such

different perspectives, but I think we share a lot in common and I know for example I mean you're a big advocate of Black Lives

Matter that's really cool that's something that's important to me too you're

interested in well there's a lot I'll let you speak for yourself but I can't

wait thanks for having the conversation but would you I'll let you speak for yourself but I can't wait.

Thanks for having the conversation.

But would you mind for those not familiar,

maybe give a brief background, where you're coming from,

who you are, that kind of stuff?

Definitely.

So Koston Rashid, you got my name right, rhymes with awesome.

I'm a national spokesperson for the I'm a dear Muslim community which is the nation's oldest Muslim

organization.

We're worldwide in scope, and we are united worldwide

under a caliph, which makes people panic

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