Arabs

Span and Tyson start trying to identify where the foreign fighters are from, aided by Dostum's intelligence chief, Sayid Kamal.

And these three? Arab, Tajik, Bengali.

What about him over there with the long matted hair, the guy who keeps shouting "Ayir?" Indonesian.

He wants water.

Tyson and Span have already planned their interrogation approach.

Tyson will play bad cop, accusing people of being terrorists, and Span will be good cop, trying to build rapport.

They both home in on an overweight Arab, suspecting his weight is a sign of his importance next to his underfed companions.

I am a reporter, Al Jazeera.

If you make it this big, it becomes Goh.

So the Arabs used to hunt it and eat it.

Our non-Muslims also hunt it and eat it.

So he was hunting Goh and hanging his rope from his back.

They come to know once again that the Meccans are now planning a genocide in the true sense of the word.

Mecca has developed the largest army in the history of the Arabs to plot on the Muslims in Madinah and to surround them from all directions and to finish them once and for all.

And the Muslims did what? To protect themselves? I'm just testing you all because it's an easy question now.

They built a trench.

He survived that illness and now he is leading in the most consequential battle between the Muslims and the Persian Empire.

Of course, the Persian and the Roman Empire are in constant battle with each other.

The Arabs are kind of situated in between there and getting caught up between the client kingdoms and things of that sort.

Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas actually earns the nickname Batl al-Qadisiyah.

In other words, it has racial enclaves, but There's nothing in the Israeli constitution that requires you to be Jewish.

In fact, there's 2 million Arabs living freely, voting freely inside Israel.

All right, so

let's pause it.

The two things don't go hand in hand necessarily.

So he's moved the goalposts to a completely different claim.

Now he attempts to debunk the second claim and he debunks the second claim by claiming this is ridiculous because there's millions of Arab citizens in Israel and they can vote freely in the elections.

It's like, yes, absolutely.

We have much to learn from that.

In valuing, I think, across the last decades, because of the dehumanization that we have faced as Palestinians, as Arabs, as the region in general, as the Orient, as we're sometimes called, such dehumanizing narratives have sometimes also we've taken on and internalized.

I think being here, being given space to celebrate your heritage, celebrate your tradition, celebrate your language, has been such an important aspect for my experience visiting this land.

I

That's black women.

And then you got this massive Arab population.

Right.

And it's only a matter of time before they they collide.

Thank you.

The sister was right.

All the Arabic men came out to terrorize our sister.

And

We've acquired several more radio stations and our audience is growing and a lot of people are meeting you for the first time.

And one of my favorite Steven Mansfield stories is what happened in Damascus that one night when you got stuck traveling and you got invited to a rooftop with about a dozen Arab men and they didn't speak.

and you didn't speak Arabic.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, what a transformational night for you.

And so he pulled together some of his friends on a rooftop of a hotel in Damascus.

Well, that's the setup.

So I didn't speak Arabic.

flip congress the moment that president biden called out of the race and vice president harris had become the nominee i endorsed her and i endorsed her because i understood that whether you saw this race from the eyes of a child in detroit who i was responsible for as wayne county's health director or the eyes of a child in gaza that donald trump was going to be worse But it was a really, really difficult 107 days for everyone involved.

Now, fast forward into this election, going back to the reverend's question, there were some hurt feelings about the engagement with the Arab and Muslim community around the 2024 election.

Folks saying, well, if your community couldn't stand up for Vice President Harris, why should we stand up with you, even though I was on the right side of that conversation? But who better to say it than Vice President Harris? We've got a large, diverse community.

We're not Alaska.