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First and foremost, I want to extend my gratitude

to the brave students, the courageous students that have braved night in,

night out, day in, day out, here at the encampment in Calgary, despite the intimidation, on behalf of the entire community that is here and beyond.

Thank you. May Allah bless you all.

May God continue to strengthen you and keep you determined. I want to actually start

off by reading a poem from my beloved friend and fallen brother, a sheid, Addictor

Raffa'arit al-Aid. On the shores of the Mediterranean

I saw humanity drenched in salt

face down dead

eyes gouged hands up to the sky praying

or trembling in fear I could not tell the sea harsher than the heart of an Arab dances

soaked with blood. Only the pebbles wept, only the pebbles. All the perfumes of Arabia will not

grace the rot that Israel breeds. Rifat al-Aarir, may Allah have mercy on him,

one of the tens of thousands of martyrs now in Gaza,

who said very famously,

if I die, you must live.

If I'm not around to tell my story,

you must tell my story for me.

Your brothers and sisters,

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