Imam Tawhidi Played This 1989 Video — Listen to What She Said!

What was being said about America all the way back in 1989? In this remarkable clip from an older interview, Imam Mohammad Tawhidi plays archival footage of Sharifa Alkhateeb, an American Muslim educator and activist, speaking in 1989. In the recording, Alkhateeb discusses what she calls the “long-range process of making America Muslim — all of America Muslim.” She speaks about creating Islamic systems, viewing non-Muslim Americans as potential Muslims, establishing “short-range goals,” and being “very calculated” about accomplishing those goals. Imam Tawhidi plays the footage and offers his own warning about radical Islam, Islamism, immigration, political influence, and the future of the United States. More than three decades after the original recording — and years after Tawhidi discussed it in this interview — his comments are fascinating to revisit in light of today's debates surrounding Islamism, religious political movements, immigration, integration, and political power in America. Was Tawhidi warning America about something that wasn't being taken seriously enough? Watch the footage, hear the words in their original context, listen to Tawhidi's argument, and decide fo