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00:00As Muslim legislators, we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to.
00:14Someone is in an audience and is looking at me and Rashida and Abdul and Sam that they ask us the proper questions that they will probably ask any member of Congress.
00:27We might support something that is so abhorrent, so offensive, so evil, so vile.
00:35What we look for and what this whole conversation is about is that not only do we not have internalized fears about what we might believe and how that gets implemented,
00:51our value basis might be because of where we might come from and who we pray to.
00:58If you want us to speak as politicians, American politicians, then you treat us as such.
01:07I am, I think, quite disgusted, really, to be honest, that as Muslim legislators, we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to
01:25because the assumption exists that we somehow support and are for, right, you know, there is an assumption.
01:38So I want to make sure that the next time someone is in an audience and is looking at me and Rashida and Abdul and Sam,
01:50that they ask us the proper questions that they will probably ask any member of Congress or any legislator or any politician
02:00and would not come with an accusation that we might support something that is so abhorrent, so offensive, so evil, so vile.
02:18What we look for and what this whole conversation is about is that not only do we not have internalized fears about what we might believe
02:35and how that gets implemented, but that we also don't have assumptions about what our value basis might be
02:50because of where we might come from and who we pray to.
02:55And so I would like, not just for you, but for everyone, to know that if you want us to speak as politicians, American politicians, then you treat us as such.
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