I find hard to believe I mean have you ever been to a doctor million chances are probably a Muslim saw saw were allowed to do we Muslim immigrants doctor or lawyer engineer that's it but what's fascinating about this poll is that it showed that the greatest determinant
to a person's view about this llame is whether they know a single Muslim if you know one Muslim it cut in half the negativity ratings out towards your view of Islam and that makes perfect sense because it's not about knowledge knowledge doesn't change mines relationships change
mines it's about forming the relationships that allow you to recognize that there is something beyond just the symbols that separate assets different religions different ethnicities different races different colors that ultimately we are all the same that ultimately we have all absorbed the story
America as our own and that inside we struggle with the same obstacles we have the same aspirations as everyone else does that we are in fact unified in our diverse city it's about relationships now how do we use relationships to do away with something this anti-muslim sentiment well
I'm certainly not suggesting that all Muslims should go door-to-door introducing themselves specially do not do that in Arizona but what I am saying is that in order to understand each other we have to rely on our stories its storytelling that build those relationships about the arts
about film that music about movies my company boom Jen studios helps make films and movies that deal with this story's coming out of the Middle East because we know that its stories that change people's minds and after all if we do live in a country founded upon a common story and the acceptance
up that story then it's through stories that we are going to change this country for the better you see what's remarkable about the American story and what makes it unlike any other story that you can possibly think up is that it's one that is constantly in flux it's constantly changing a country of immigrants says that as
you change to become more like us we will change to become more like you we are not a melting pot we respond and as a result of that we have created the most diverse nation in the world a nation that demographer Stella's will in the next decade become the first nation on earth
to be majority minorities that is miraculous and it also scares the pants at a lot of people because the chat that you hear so often nowadays about how we walked America BAC is precisely this notion that somehow you can hold on to what you think
this country is supposed to be rather than allow the story to unfold on its own as an american as a Muslim now has an Iranian I am proud not just to call this country my own but to be able to actually add to the story love this country to at to its diverse city and now
am happy to say that along with my Christian wife that we are telling the new story of America together and that our children will be raised in the country in which they can be sure up that promise that we are one nation under got indivisible with Liberty and justice for all amen hallelujah