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assalamu alaikum
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dear viewers if islamic history has
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taught us one thing
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is that no matter how dreadful someone's
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past
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is if he or she even intends to make it
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right
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or atoned for his mistakes allah creates
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fascinating pathways that leave him or
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her
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to the path of righteousness this story
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is about one such person a former u.s
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marine
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richard mckinney who once planned to bob
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a mosque
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but in a twisting turn of events ended
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up becoming a muslim himself
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to begin with growing up richard
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mckinney was always the boy
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who was into the adventure genre his
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favorite movie
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was rambo which was characterized by
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plenty of action
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the protagonist of the movie was ramble
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himself who mckinney believed to be
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tough
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respected and having an intestinal
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fortitude
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mckinney wanted to be like rambo he
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wanted
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action so got enrolled in the united
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states marine corps
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ultimately for quite a number of years
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mckinney fought
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several times in the middle east desert
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shield desert storm
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south america philippines and somalia
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during this time he took down countless
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enemies
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at first he used to count down the foes
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felt by him
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but he lost count after 26. after
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serving in the marine corps for 25 years
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he contracted an injury in iraq and was
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forced
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to retire moving on when he came back to
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his home country
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as a retired marine he was traumatized
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by all the deaths he had caused as a
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soldier his nationalistic beliefs were
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amplified
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and he decided that islam was his enemy
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he had begun drinking
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half a gallon of vodka every single day
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and was getting consumed by
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hate and anger after his return one day
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mckenney went to a dsw with his wife he
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saw two women
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in black berkus from distance and his
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first
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instinct was to go over and end
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their lives after his conversion he
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described the event in the following
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words
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i cried as i pray for enough strength to
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go over there
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and break both their necks fortunately
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he didn't act on his impulses
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he however devised a plan to create his
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own homeland bomb ied and
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set it off right outside the islamic
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center
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of monkey to kill or injure
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200 plus muslims he knew that doing so
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would send him to federal prison and
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eventually get him executed but he
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didn't care his hatred of islam
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was what was keeping him alive he
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thought he was doing his country
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a favor interestingly before he
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implanted this devious plan
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one day he had a conversation with his
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daughter who told about the mother
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of a boy who sat across from her in the
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school
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apparently that woman was a muslim and
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had covered her body
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from tip to toe on hearing that mckinney
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snapped he started spewing things
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that children should never hear his
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daughter just stood there
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in silence appalled mckinney later said
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she didn't say anything it was look on
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her face
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i remember my daughter looking at me
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like i was
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absolutely the craziest person on the
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face of the earth
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she was my little buddy she used to say
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we were road dogs
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i know i saw it in her eyes i made her
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question that love
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that was the turning point of mckinney's
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life
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he decided to give the muslim community
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one more chain
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he went to the islamic center of monkey
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and was greeted
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by a gentleman with a smile mckinney
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told him
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that he wanted to learn about islam the
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man gave him the english version of the
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holy quran
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and told him to read it and come back to
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him with any questions
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mckinney did exactly that whenever he
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found
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something confusing he would go to the
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muslims
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in that mosque and ask them to explain
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to his surprise
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they always had all the answers he says
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they would explain it in a way that i
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could understand
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what they were talking about they didn't
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try to answer a parable
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with another parable this gave me plain
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answer
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this was an awakening for mckinney after
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eight weeks
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of his first visit to the islamic center
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mckinney said
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his shahada and became a muslim three
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years later
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he became the president of the islamic
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center of monkey
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the same place which he once intended
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to destroy after his conversion mckenney
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said
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that he was completely wrong about
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everything that he felt before his
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conversion to islam
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he says judaism had a message
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christianity
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had a message and islam had a message
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funny thing is
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though it was the same message it was
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about peace
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it was about love of the three
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aforementioned religions
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mckinney however was able to find the
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answers he was looking for
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in islam he believes that everyone
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has been sent to this world by the same
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creator and we all have one
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unanimous purpose to get along
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nowadays mckinney lives as a muslim a
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veteran
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and a proud american he is often being
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summoned
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to motivational speaking sessions as a
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guest speaker
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his big ambition is to stop the hate
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from spreading in the world
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he says that he has done a lot of things
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hurt a lot of people
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and he has to live with that but he
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believes that if he can direct
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someone else to the right path he will
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be satisfied
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with himself he also says that followers
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of other faith
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usually have a lot of questions about
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islam and urges
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his muslim brothers and sisters to
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address those questions
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in a friendly manner without giving them
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the impression that anyone
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is trying to convert them with that
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being said
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the heartwarming story of brother
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richard mckinney reaches
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its conclusion
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