"Long Range Process of Making America Muslim, All of America Muslim"

One-minute message from The Muslim Political Conference "Making America Muslim"  Sharifa Alkhateeb, Aug 5, 1989, C-SPAN

"Education is one of the most important areas Muslims have to address. And while our objective, our final objective is not just to become part of the system that we experience now and that we see, our objective, our final objective is to create our own Islamic systems and not only create Islamic systems for Muslims but to look at all the other people who are sharing this country with us as potential Muslims. And if we look at them as potential Muslims and feel that we have the obligation which Allah has told us to try to bring them into the same style of thinking, into the same way of behaving, into the same objectives that we have, then we have to have some way that we can communicate with them and some way that we can work with them. And in that long range process of making America Muslim, all of America Muslim, then we have to have some actual short range goals. We have to have some way of dealing with them, and know how we're going to deal with them, and in which ways, and be very calculated about it, or else we will not accomplish our goals."