Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Friday khutbah delivered by Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, 23 May 2026.

Chapters:
0:00 First adhan
4:38 Terrorist Attack in San Diego
6:25 The Politics of Memory
12:47 How collective memory is constructed
16:40 Taking the "political" out of Islam
20:25 "Toothless Islam"
22:34 The Exoticizing of the Colonized
26:05 Islam of the White Man and the White-Passing Man
28:38 Epstein's Mosque and what it symbolizes
44:59 The Dream of the Colonizers of Islam
49:35 Second khutbah: Hegemony over Muslim Memory

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