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So let's get started right away, in shawlma.

The first topic that I wanted to talk about is something very personal to me.

I don't come from a very religious background and when I did come towards Islam

I was in New York and the thing about New York is depending on which Maschid you go you get a different brand of Islam

So and should you go, you get a different brand of Islam. So, and each, they don't just call themselves Muslim.

They have another label next to them.

We are this kind of Muslim, that kind of Muslim,

this school of thought, that school of thought,

this Jamaa, that jamaa.

There are these different names.

And we're not going to be naming names in this discussion, but certainly it was the case that

each of those groups, some were accepting of others than others,

some of them are very exclusive.

If you're not part of us, then you're not even in proper Islam.

You're misguided and all those people are going to hell etc.

Right?

And the majority of their energy was spent talking about how they're right and everybody else is wrong.

And yet other groups, their emphasis was on some completely different things, some other piece of Islam,

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