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Choose to this right from outside right anniversary of the Muslim and refugee ban. We have been Yeah we're still trying to write that's break whoa Great thank you so much. I know thank you everybody, thank you friends for joining us. I'm I yes me. Type I'm a human rights lobbyist for the friends Committee on National legislation which is a quicker lobby so as many of you go. What the President first announce the most women, refugee ban on January 20 seventh 20 17 the nation or opted and outreach flooding america's airports and marching from the White House Yes to the Capitol, we pledge to fight alongside our brothers and sisters being targeted by this administration. One year later, we gather again to say that we will not stand for policies rude. It and fear and discrimination. whoa We all know that this administration list and refugee ban discriminatory on constitutional and fly out on acceptable yeah No work today to stand in solidarity with millions of to the cheese, but we're also here to send a message to this administration. That we will never accepted on constitutional and on constable policies. Trump's Muslim ban is reprehensible and email a grossly violates our core beliefs and runs counter to American values when Muslims are under What are we do. Yeah when refugee under what we do with difference are under attack. What do we do have back today. We're grappling with the worst refugee crisis in history drastically reducing the number of refugees. We welcome and bring the program to stand still has had a devastating impact on the lives of innocent women, children and men seeking save haven now more than ever Welcome documented for many years. I can't and their pup with a Dream and a belief that anything is possible. I find it important. I Appalling that this administration, thanks that the American people will accept policies double discriminate against immigrants, refugees and Muslims and what sense my family story is extraordinary. Out of the thousands millions of families who rebel in the whispered legend of life in America. My family made it but in another sense, where anything but extraordinary that same story unfolded in my life on full today, after day all around the us any friends and refugees Make it to this country and then, striving to build a bright future for themselves and their families. They make it counts. Trump's muscle ban is a stain on our nation's conscience to my family and to millions of other families, America has met who America has met opportunity for my mother in particular America has mess enjoy watching her children running up on shadow by the brief that can top your shoulder at any moment in the world. She only barely escape looking around me. I see Immigrants allies active it's and I think it's all standing here ready to resist and I take home as a President strives to slam the doors shut on immigrants and refugee. We must stand United and push with all of our like to keep those doors open. America has represented hope and opportunity for millions of people over generations and it will remain so long after this President just minutes, policies groupon in the meantime that, with any of our brothers and sisters Target by this administration, what do we do stand up stand up stand up okay. Thank you so much friends So I want to introduce to you our first Speaker an Organization that has been one of the key organizations pushing that on this administration, discriminatory policies and fighting in the courts for our rights. Please help me. Welcome three should by on senior staff attorney with Muslim advocates But how gonna hello, everybody and thank you all for being here. Well, hello Your um, I have to say that I feel like I just wanna open by saying to everybody. Thank you because this morning, when I woke up, I was thinking what is to bring reality. That we live in today because today the most one bad the trump try to put into effect a year ago is actually in full effect right now there are people in Iran and Syria and the other countries word trying to come here. We not come here because this administration is set to them you're, not welcome. There, because of your religion and your National origin, while you're ready take any rock, you did fuck world Since my good and because of this man that's in effect today, refugee doing we are all standing together to come together again just like we did a year ago to say we will not stand for this and just as I was thinking of the sobering reality of today. I came here and I saw all of you. It put a smile on my face and I remember that, even though this has been an incredibly difficult year, a year of challenges and fights and battles it's also been a year of solidarity and togetherness and standing up and fighting for what Yes As someone who's been on the fight in the course on the fight in the streets, I basically lived at dollars airport. 32 months I just wanna say there is nothing that gives me hope, like seeing all of you gathered here today and as I think about this, coming here and what is that we have to do together the only thing that I can think of is we have to keep coming back. We have to keep standing up. We have to keep fighting back and we have to do it through every means available at our disposal and we have to stay together that Muslims are welcome that refugees are welcome That immigrants are welcome and that this is what makes our country beautiful and diverse and strong it's because of everyone of you and everyone of us the full diversity of where we all come from. As and immigrants as an era as a grandchild of refugees. I fully understand the struggles that come with not being welcome and having to lift through our and having to flee for your life and what I can say is that United States of america's distinctive and wonderful and beautiful because it has welcomed, with open arms people in all these categories and we're, not going to let that be Destroyed by the anti Muslim and anti immigrant policies that are coming out of the White House today and because of all of you, we're here today, I believe that we can win this fight. I the you can stand together and say yo hate. No fear, refugees are welcome here. Yeah happy here refugees yeah okay Yeah okay help here, happy new year okay, help here. He's are welcome. Yeah okay out there. Thank trying to three yeah so are not Speaker. Please help me. Welcome uh my toilet show me President and involve of historic nation's mos, not holding We'll be there from the Muslim and asked the camera to step back just a notch and the marshals. If you can come in and I start to put it to carbs down and this will be we're getting ready for our time. If the call to prayer. Thank you right So, thank you so much. Mom sorry, for being here and supporting them that's a them on. They going to everyone like on and that is god's peace, be upon all of you here. Uh we're so wonderful I'm so grateful to be here to see the many new wonderful faces we all together, starting just like little, you know, I got a text I'm gonna text every morning and the text I received this morning. It said this is it God does not look to your faces everybody's your forms, your possessions are you will get says he looks to your heart and your actions. I think it's already God is telling the That's what he does not think we should do the same thing and that's why we are here because we are looking at the heart and looking at the actions, then they disappoint us drinking. We are here standing together. I will hold the scripture, says yeah you have living on the new food calling that build kiss, God calls all people of faith and it's a wonderful thing to be standing with my fellow brothers and sisters of pink thousand all those of faith the people to be I help people standing for something beautiful. What can be more meaningful than denial of human rights to nine O thing that is so precious doing in the being you know again. I'm the man thought of two reef of Mr Mohamed the nation's months. Some of you might not notice the eighty year community for eighty years right here in our nation's capital and we know that don't listens have been here for a long time, so that's a long time, so I'm over this establishment and That's a whole nother never go on another great demographics and these these all happen america's people in addition America struggling is driving to see our humanity free. You know, I, I served probably so what does nation for 30 years as a Muslim to hold how one of so many this thousand of serve and we serve because we knew that the founding principles of this nation and you not the pledge that we say one nation under God Right in the visible never seen and Justice oh, you know that we have what we have a much older says e. For more of what's going on. I hope many 11 nation one God, one humanity and we notice our beautiful because we say oh, my God makes us think about comedy night coming life is human beings when we look at our parents. Adam eat when they were eight. It they did not how Difference identity was not a racial identity. Their friends identity was not ethic identity. The first identity was not a National identity and we can keep going on all the identities. I came after the very first identity, then I'll pairs we're giving what was it identity. It was human. It was your hand and from then identity came the many beautiful wonderful that very Questions I'm here, like just like we see in this proud today oh how contributed to the beauty and strength of not just America but the world, but we are grateful. We are standing in front the high aspirations of our founding documents so and I found in documents they say we heard these truths to be self evident that all are created equal. I would definitely nation of Prices that was taking place to largest prices in our history and on the less than one Said I was get to be recycle less than one percent get to be reset. This is big. This process and nobody not you think of you are put put up from your home and it was three minute for me, but you all the new plan for some kind of prices and we know america's. This based on the parents clean persecution. These people are fleeing persecution and that same percent as you know, we have this talk compassion look our constitution was so bring food as I just mention it does not Don't not know, visit itself open the common and universal tight that all of us off the same with no difference that's. Why we are standing. We do not want to see and you wrong jump, but these had everyone universal aspirations. That's what makes us a great Positive dog that has four we don't back was we're so grateful to be here not the King told us that don't like you, saying something on his life, that you begin to lose your life. The moment you decide to be selling silent about the things that matter is we're not gonna be sorry that's what we're here and we are going to stand we're gonna do we just got the commemorating his history, his life and we are getting ready to us To commemorate the history of after america's xl room and in the spirit of movement, they say it, we are not gonna. Let the dogs trying so now we got not gonna. Let the clock turn us around and he kept going and going no. So we're gonna keep bread we're gonna continue to stand up, get up keep are faith of and we're gonna stay praying up together. Thank you Going on now have something that's being beautiful, all something that even we look at President, such as love, jefferson as and how many of them, how they welcome the diversity of religions and they wanted the beauty of the religious to be recognize. You were gonna give to call to frame a call the process really the universal print and we gonna take in the muscle lot of great and we are so grateful to have you all here to took to protect the Muslims and it's the minds also, what happened as long as history when, as long as week, there was a crystal her push aside, you came down, protected the Muslims In that worship, when I couldn't defend themselves and in the heart of the run and tells us that we have an obligation as was loves to protect Christians, Jews and others in the worship. So we're here today and this type of ram. But we're not afraid because we have you stand with us so we're gonna hear the call and then we're going to three. 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I have to make sure I was protected with equipment so we representing the protection help them find a life woman by the lifestyle for the woman so not that there behind the lesson is at the boy important bag, so just know, protection just like now you all the protected up to appreciate that so we're ready for Hello at all and sugar on value the halo night should be one of my hundred are rush tuna. How you last saw that how yellow for last come back to us on our country come not to saw that a lot of black but a lot of ball left. You, like at long On my our black water











