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Andrew Sedra

👤 Speaker
330 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

You got to follow the facts.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

And hey, truth is unpleasant, but it's truthful.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

So you guys have both read the Quran?

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

I have read most of it.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

Straight from the source.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

So I was born in Egypt in the Middle East.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

So I was forced to read the Quran.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

So I'm 35 years old.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

I lived the first half of my life, the first 16 to 17 years of my life of Egypt.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

In Egypt, as a Christian, I was required by the law of the land.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

I had to read and memorize the Quran at school.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

Holy crap.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

If you are a Christian right now in Egypt, it is the law of the land.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

If you go to any school, Christian school, gay school, liberal school, Jewish school, Zana school, you have to learn the Quran by force and you have to memorize it and you got tested every year.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

So I was forced to learn Arabic, to learn the Quran, to memorize the Quran and to memorize the Hadiths.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

Shakespeare and the Bible.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

Because you can't really know Arabic until you know the Quran.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

The Arabic is the holy language of Allah.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

That's why if you pray or if you become a Muslim, you have to know Arabic.

Digital Social Hour
Andrew and Noleen Sendra: Australia’s Culture Clash Is Getting Real | DSH #1781

You have to learn Arabic.