By 9. On promoting unity in the Muslim community:
Malik: It takes the respect of understanding our diversity. We have different agendas, different goals and objectives as communities… But at the same time, there are things that will affect everyone at once. We must come together as a united front and deal with those issues. It’s the activist community who are the game changers.
Abed: What’s important is to go back to our roots.
Islam is a beautiful religion. It has the blueprint for all our problems and our solutions. We should look back at our Islamic history, look back at the challenges the Prophet faced, look back at the challenges during his time and how far we’ve come. Islam is a religion based on social justice and equality. If we follow the teachings of the prophet and the teachings that came after him, and work together to achieve our goal, I’m telling you the blueprint is there. It doesn’t matter where you’re from […] We can work together because we have this common bond, this common belief. And it’s a beautiful bond, a beautiful belief.