First of all I didn’t understand was this a joke, because of the hangover dude, but I watched a second time and it seemed like the talk was serious. But anyway I thought the people on the show were all stupid. Didn’t think neither one of them knew what they were talking about it first went from Mohammed being the most popular baby name to Sharia Law being instituted in Great Britain. To start off with the first thing that pissed me off saying that Islam is taking over the west? Really I fail to see that anywhere. People in the west are getting shameless and shameless day by day. We see new stories every day that shock us on how people act and what they do. Also there are a lot of Muslims in the world and they are going to have babies so if the majority of them living in the United Kingdom name them Mohammed then there will be a vast majority of little babies named Mohammed due to the Muslim population there. Now on to the Sharia Law are you kidding me you really think if the United Kingdom was under Sharia Law they place would have a major turn around, I can assure you of that. I don’t understand how someone would give these nuts airtime they have no knowledge, and obviously don’t know what is going on around the world they live in. I think they need to be warned about getting some knowledge about topics before they go on television.

I found the video very entertaining though it was a short video the message was very big, stop being stereotypical of Arabs. Though he showed little clips of what most Arabs are seen as today it was true, many see them as extremist Muslims, and see them as dangerous people. I guess from the video we saw that that wasn’t the case. The guy in the video was from Kuwait he was just giving us the message that he likes to go out and enjoy himself just like many of us do. I understand that his point of the video was to show the message that hey I am just an ordinary guy in Miami that likes to enjoy the beaches, and relax. He talked about his brother as well as a message that Arabs got families to and they have fun with each other, they don’t have to do violent acts as many think they do. The video gets you to think that many Arabs are seen in this light though the vast majority are peaceful people just because of a few hundred people; millions of people are looked at as terrorist. The guy in the video is sending such a big message in a short way he covered many topics with simple examples, such as the Arab money song, just because the media shows you something doesn’t mean that’s reality. I respect the man who made this video he did a good job getting his point across in the nicest way possible.

I would first like to start off by saying what Sam said is touching. Because it makes you realize as a person that we look at life from our perspectives and don’t take the time out to look at it from another’s. Like they say there is always two sides to a story yet we don’t have time to listen to the other side. What we see here about the middle east from our media is our perspective until a person like Sam opens our eyes we sit here and say look at all them Iraqis killing our troops, but at the same time our troops are the ones killing the innocent civilians at times to, as well as citizens who are fighting for their country. We see our troops who are so called fighting to keep us safe and not oil as heroes yet we call the people who truly are defending their country in the Middle East terrorist. Is this really fair? No, because I know for a fact if the Chinese as Sam said were here for our coal, but they said they were here to help us would none of us fight for what belongs to our country? Yes, we would and that is what the Iraqi people are doing but we are to shallow to notice them and their efforts to help their country.

To compare men and women in Islam is not right each have their own roles they play in society as well as in the house. So to compare the two according to the religion is not really fair, is like comparing a quarterback to a defensive back. They both have different roles one takes care of the offense while the other takes care of the defense, just like in Islam a man has certain obligations, and the women has others. I understood the point that the females were trying to get through to us males in that conversation, but it’s not a valid point. Women are more protected because they are a prized possession. They eventually have to get married and go to another house, the more respect they have the better marriage proposals they will tend to get. If a girl is known for hanging out to late with other males in any society she will be looked at with less respect, and the same goes for a male. Parents care more for their daughters because a lot of their respect depends on her acts with society, but when compared to a male he is looked upon as his own many times not refereed with the parents. When it comes to the way society looks at females it is more from the culture aspect and not the religious aspect. Even in India females are not allowed out after sometime even if they are with just their female friends because it looks bad in society. My point I am trying to get across is exactly what Ahmed said if a women is looked at with such respect and is being so protected why are you crying you should be happy.

Though Anas was a little harsh in the way he explained haha.. I have to agree with him. Even in my culture if your gay that is not something you would ever tell anyone or you yourself would understand I have to get over this because my family will never allow this in anyway. This is strictly because our religion tells us that it is no permissible and is a big sin, and I agree with it there is a reason why men are here and women. Ya people say that some people are naturally gay, but I’m sorry I disagree I won’t disrespect someone that is gay or anything but I cannot just say that I am fine with it. For me if you’re gay your gay I will respect you for whom you are, but to see a Muslim that’s gay would be weird because I have never came across them. For me if our religion forbids it then someone should not do it. For example if someone in my family ever told there family members they were gay they would try to change them and if it didn’t work they would probably sad to say disown them, because it would not be tolerated by anyone. So all I have to basically say is being gay in Islam is very difficult because it is not permissible and the religion is not open minded, there are strict rules you follow and live your life by and if you don’t it’s your choice at the end of the day and everyone will have to answer for themselves.

Can you call this racism? No, you can’t the student who gave the Philadelphia and Pittsburg example was right. I’m from Philadelphia myself and I can admit to you I don’t like Pittsburg or the people simply because they are from there. But that is just a personal thing and not to be taken seriously I have many friends from Pittsburg, but I’ll make fun of them once in a while so would that make me racist? Many people in bordering countries or even cities tend to be more competitive towards each other. Just like India is in cricket towards Pakistan though both countries will hate each other for that time period at the end of the day we are all classified as Desi’s just as Kuwait and Saudi is at the end of the day they are all Arabs. So I don’t really know how you would be racist towards your own kind. I know there are differences in the people of Kuwait compared to Saudi just as I said earlier there are differences between Pakistani people and Indians but we are looked at as the same, and I think the same goes for the Arabs. People see them as the same and when people from those countries make fun of each other or anything I don’t believe that would be considered racist. Being racist would be to me when someone from Saudi went to Kuwait and the Kuwaiti person tells the Saudi you can’t enter the country because you’re Saudi.

Hahaha…the second video was a really cute video gotta admit that. The second video portrayed a great message, a message that should go out to the entire world that people shouldn’t get caught up in race or ethnicity when it comes to liking someone, but instead it should come from the heart. There was always a saying that kids can teach you a lot, and this video just showed us that. This one little kid who is in love with this girl because there is just something about her, that makes him love her is a perfect example of how everyone in the world should act. People shouldn’t have to base love on their race or ethnicity, but it should be from the heart instead. These two kids just taught a lifelong lesson to all of us that you can love anybody, all of us humans are the same and racial identity shouldn’t play a role in our judgments we make of others. The second video was very shocking to me. I would never expect a person just a normal customer giving their kidney away to a cashier that they had so much respect for. While I was watching that video I was surprised that the customer even figured out that there was something wrong with the register lady and she wasn’t being her normal self. This video is showing to all of us that you basically never know who may come and help you, if you keep faith and stay strong there might be a path for you. I would first like to give a shout out to the customer for donating his kidney, which is not something easy to do at all. The customer who has no ties to the cashier by family willingly donated his kidney to a women he sees all the time when he goes grocery shopping. This video right here opened my eyes and really showed that there are some people out there in the world who are really good hearted. Both of the videos had similar messages they both told us to love people, and not look at their race or ethnicity, but to love them with your heart. From the first video we learned that people can have a strong bond without knowing it, and help can come from places you never expected. In the second video we see two little kids that are very young and the one male loves his best friend who is going out with someone else, though this seemed like a movie, the point the video was making was on target, they really showed you that when these two young people can love without judging then why as we so called get mature do we judge other races and ethnicities.

This is a great question and no doubt if the government can afford it they should give health care to immigrants as well as of course citizens of this country. But the government’s first preference and right now their focus should be on helping the citizens of this country out first, since they deserve it the most. The citizens of this country have supported this country the most, and for the longest time so they deserve to have more treatment, that doesn’t mean that if you are an immigrant you should be treated differently. The point I am trying to make is a citizen of a country deserves first preference and more attention because they are the reason our country is where it is. The health care plan is going to help a lot of people in need, and I feel the people who probably need it the most are the immigrants because they usually are working jobs that don’t pay a lot and are the people who are getting the low end of benefits from a country. Also if an illegal immigrant wants to receive health care, I think they should get it as long he or she is paying their taxes, though they are illegal they still play a big role in our economy, and country. So if they can pay taxes then why can’t they also receive health care, but this should not be the governments first concern it should be to help the citizens, and then worry about the immigrants.

And I have a question for you, the person who asked this question, so if someone came on your land and just took it away, you would tell yourself it happens life isn’t fair? What they did at that period in time was wrong, and I think all the intelligent people learned this from Sam’s earlier lectures, but the point I am trying to say is that if the United States would just go into Mexico and just take their land because we are stronger than them actually give us the right to do that? No, it doesn’t so for me the situation isn’t much different who ever came to this country and actually took over Native American land, and started to work, and establishes themselves here without the consent of Native Americans is the same as a Mexican coming over the border to get a better life. Essentially the people that came and took the Native Americans land first came here because they were having difficulties in their old countries and wanted to start out fresh, isn’t that why immigrants come to the United States now a days? Immigrants play a big role in running this country, so if we didn’t have immigrants legal or illegal half of our products we buy and produce would rise, yet we don’t want this, and we don’t want illegal immigration, so what is the government suppose to do? I am not in any way saying open the gates of the United States to any person, but we can control illegal immigration just so that we can continue living the way we are, because no matter what we do illegal immigration is going to happen, it happens all over the world.

This is a good question and I actually did watch the episode though I am not a big fan of South Park. For me South Park isn’t really funny I don’t find much humor in it, and I see what the show makers were trying to do, but I think they went a little ahead and pushed the limits tremendously. Not just because they tried to show Muhammad, but they showed many different religions being portrayed, and having their god, or religious representative shown having meetings with each other. To me religion is a very delicate issue and for people who are not strong believers or have no knowledge regarding the religion they should not talk about it. I am not coming at Sam by saying this he has pretty good knowledge about the religions he talks about. But South Park showing these religious figures is really pushing the limit, I know it is for fun, but not all people around the world or even in the United States sees it as a joke. When I was watching this show with a couple friends my one friend who was a Hindu right away expressed his anger as soon as the Hindu religious figure was shown. He felt offended as well and said that South Park shouldn’t be having his God put in this situation or on South Park in general. Though to some this may seem a little drastic it’s not if I was in his place I would feel the same way. Speaking as a Muslim and having the knowledge that I have about my religion, when the name of Muhammad ever comes up we are suppose to pay our respects, so for South Park trying to show Muhammad on TV is totally wrong and I feel disrespected. This reminds me when some Dutch newspapers released cartoons about the prophet and how they pissed the Muslim people off around the world, because for us no one knows how the prophet looks like, he has been described to us, but no pictures of him exist. So for people making cartoons out of him and thinking it’s funny it isn’t, it is more ill-mannered than anything. So when South Park tries to actually show the prophet it is obviously going to piss people who are Muslim off, because the prophet is a very gentle topic which shouldn’t be talked about or used like it was in the show. Having respects for all religions, I would just like to point out that showing any religious figure in ways like this are highly disrespectful. This is just how I feel about this topic and I am glad that it was brought up so people can understand why the Muslim people react the way they do when people try to illustrate prophet Muhammad.