That kind of kept him going
and kept his spirits
alive.
Those who contributed on Launch
Good, and the people involved
with Launch Good and so, so many.
You know, again, I don't wanna thank
so many people by not mentioning who
they are, but
God, Allah knows who
you are and what you did and
how you contributed and how
we supported justice and how
you supported this
work against oppression
and against unfairness
and against our Constitution
and Bill of Rights and the freedom
of speech.
And so I just wanted to say on
behalf of the ISM,
we are very proud of you.
We appreciate everything that
everybody did.
No matter how large or big,
we appreciate that.
We thank you and we ask God to
bless each and every one of you
They're just so attached to their
grandpa. I mean, they're just not
letting him go much longer.
We are going to have now Brother
Salasi a bit
about what his thoughts are, because
I don't know.
Thank you very much, Salaam alaikum
and welcome everyone
to Dua'a Al-Salam.
I am so happy and
honored that after
11 Friday
I was not allowed to pray
the Jum'ah prayer which is gathering
prayer with other Muslims.
I used to pray by myself
as an individual almost
99% of the time
inside.
The jail.
Finally, I am back and
I'm here with my
grandchildren, with my
family, with my dear community,
with people of freedom, people of
justice, people of faith
who stood with my
cause and my case.
Thank you very much everyone.
This means the world to me.
I have a new life.
And this life came
from Allah SWT,
came from your support and from
your stand with
justice and stand with
my kids.
And I really appreciate it, thank
you very much.
My dear brothers and sisters,
media and everyone,
my dear society,
I am back to serve the community.
We will have many meetings
to continue building
bridges more and
more with other faiths,
to building projects more
and for the future of our
children.
We are builders for
goodness, we are against
wrongdoing,
we're against anything unjust,
but anything with values,
anything with justice.
Anything to support families,
support education,
support our kids
and the future of our kids,
we will be there and we will
do that extra mile to make sure
to deliver for the best future
to everyone.
This is who we are.
I said the same thing when I wasn't
in jail when I addressed the
community a few times
through the phone.
Inside my room, inside my
cold room, I used to say, because
it's too cold by the way over there.
And we'll continue doing the same,
wherever we are,
to do the mission, to support the
community and society,
and to deliver goodness everywhere
we shall go.
I really was
hoping to see my
mom before she traveled
to Palestine.
So, the last few days
in jail, I was insisting
to do an interview with one of
my attorneys.
And by the way, I really want to
thank the team of attorneys
who worked for my
case, and especially the local one,
which is Brother Munjid Ahmed,
this hero, the community hero.
Go team!
Because in this community,
where you find in downtown
Milwaukee, in court,
fighting for any just cause for
free, by the way.
You find them in Chicago, you find
them anywhere to stand for
justice.
And by the we, 90% of
my neighbors' men, when they
stand for people to be for free with
any just course.
They know how to differentiate
between business and
because, MashaAllah.
And again, there's many attorneys
who stood with me.
I thank them all for what they did.
And I thank the judge for his
service.
The way he chose to
be a just judge and honestly,
he gave me hope for the system
that, thank God,
we have still great people who
can give right
judgment for a better
future.
Because imagine myself...
Finally, I met my mom
last night before she went back
home.
If the judge says something else,
I will lose this opportunity.
And she's 85 years old.
And by the way, Subhanallah, 10
minutes before I went to jail,
she spent five days in the hospital
because of heart problem.
And I spent those five days by the
way with her inside the hospital.
Allah gave me the opportunity to be
with her.
During all nights, I
spent the nights with her in the
same room to stand with my mom.
Because for me she is my mom and
dad. My dad passed away when
I was four years old.
So she raised me as mom and Dad.
And I told her to stand by her,
not to be away from her now when she
needs me.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala again gave
me this opportunity to see her
a day before. And at the same
time to see my beautiful
grandchildren.
I have nine grandchildren and
I'm breaking news there's number ten
coming the way
And my daughter,
she came all the way from Memphis
with her husband, with her kids.
You're prepared to be with me, and
by the way, she had her fourth
baby when I was in jail.
Now it's like 65 or
70 days, and I was jail
when she had the birth of the baby.
It was very tough from here to be
honest with you. Very tough to have
her baby with her kid while
she knew that her dad was going
through what I was going to do.
And to have also my
six sons, they're all professionals,
alhamdulillah, my own kids finished
from Salar school.
And they're both professional
Finnish colleges.
All my six kids, they are Finnish
colleges, they're born in Dallas,
and they are recognized, they are
professional, they are the product
of this community.
They're raised in this community,
like other kids here in this
committee.
We belong here,
and we wanna continue to build here.
So I hope inshallah ta'ala
the future will be better because
we deserve a better future
for all of us inshAllah ta'al.
And again, thank you very much.
Thank you very much for coming.
I appreciate my dear community who
stood with me.
People of pain, I
don't want to miss any names,
honestly, or any group.
Tilted group, and I go back with me,
more than 400 letters arrived
to my room.
And the guards there used to be
shocked.
And once, one time,
the guard came to me, and a female
guard told me, Can you come and
carry the mail?
I can't carry it.
What is this?
And I have to walk outside to
go carry my own mail because it was
too heavy.
It's two boxes of mail I
have like at least four e-letters
from Dallas.
I have 23 letters from
Michigan.
I had almost 70 letters
from Chicago
Medicine community JBB
and other groups who work hard with
medicine.
They send me tens of letters in
Milwaukee, the Salama school,
you feel it?
I mean, if I was to say raise hands,
I'm sure that a few of you guys
would raise hands and say, okay, I
see your letters a lot.
But it means a lot to someone who
is going through unjust situation.
Again, thank you very much.
I owe you for this.
I love you, and I promise you
that you will do your best for the
sake of Islam.
It's a great feeling and
we're looking forward to working
with you more on a daily basis.
I want to call up, before we
talk to the attorney,
I would like to bring up Kenneen
Sastua.
This is Slaaf's eldest
son.
He took over from his
dad, Masha'Allah, he's a quiet
guy, but he's
a tremendous asset
to the family.
He took on a really major
task, and
he wants to talk a little bit about
what it was like for the family,
for those 81 people.
Salam Aleykum, thank you for being
here today.
I mean, when you go
back and realize your
dad was hit now and you have to go
find him and being overwhelmed with
all those emotions
and living every day as
the nightmare continues, waking up
every single day not knowing how
your dad is, what's going on,
if he's okay,
Many other nights we also heard
about the food poisoning that he was
going through and stuff like that.
So it was killing to us as
a family and the news came to us, as
an earthquake, to us and the
community.
My son insisted on bringing
a blanket today thinking that his
grandfather is so cold from
the nights that he spent over there.
So,
when we heard the news yesterday and
we rushed, we rushed.
We knew it was a dream come true.
But we were worried that we were
daydreaming.
So we rushed to make sure that we
got there as fast as we can.
And dreaming every day, hugging your
father again, seeing him
being back to the family.
It was a Dream Come True.
And it came true because
of this amazing community,
amazing leaders, amazing
people that took the action and
did what they had to do to make
sure that he comes home.
And for that we thank all of you
guys and the Wisconsin community
and the cities across the nation.
Thank you.
He's back home.
He's back home with his family,
and we took a
quiet night last night, knowing that
he's home, sound asleep in
his bed, and that he
is among his family.
So, that's a big free
come true to us, and now we
can actually call him every day,
whenever we want, check on him
whenever we wanted, see him whenever
want, and he
has one big family that we
should have. What happened to
him should have happened.
We did the thing and we will
continue doing the thing.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Karim.
We are next going to
hear from...
We will have the
video available for you
afterwards, or if anyone wants
what she's saying, we
will give you the link so
that you can actually have the
videos. We're not going to be able
to project it.
But this is
Attorney Luna Druby
from, I think
it's Bell Doc, let me
get the name correct, I
don't want to screw it up.
Bell Doc Levine at Hoffman LLP
in New York.
She's worked on a number of cases
nationally, particularly
for those individuals involved
with the... Offense and the
attempt to target them.
She was a great
Sorry, one of the,
I don't know if one of you.
One of the mics set here just fell
off, one second.
Over here.
But let's just.
Okay, we're gonna give that a try.
All right, sorry about that.
So, again,
great attorney, great work,
and great results.
I mean, we were really very,
very happy to see the
judge's decision, and I'll have
Attorney Drupie
talk about
some of the case and where we're
going from here.
Attorney Dupie.
We will now allow
it. Okay, can you all hear me, okay?
Can you guys hear good?
Yeah, everyone is saying yes.
Thank you all for being here.
I am so honored to be
a member of the Colossus Army.
It is an amazing team of
lawyers dedicated to getting justice
for Soloff.
It is profoundly moving to
see him and hear Soloff speak in
front of you all and in person.
It has been such a battle and
it is wonderful to see his home and
back home below.
The loss was detained for 80
days in a plain country jail
where he endured horrific conditions
of confinement.
The loss lost 30 pounds
while incarcerated and was denied
basic medical treatment.
He had a tight tooth, diabetic,
and must have his blood glucose
checked at least daily
or was at risk of serious
medical complications.
At one point,
he suffered severe stomach pain.
It was debilitating and cost
him to fend the guard for medical
treatment.
Instead he was told to purchase his
own Tylenol and that medical
staff would not be available until
the next morning.
In addition to his medical issues,
he was denied the ability to
practice his faith freely.
But as we told the federal
judge a few weeks ago,
the real problem was that he should
not be detained in the first place.
His detention was punitive
and was retaliation from his
advocacy on behalf of his people.
Salah Sarsour is a proud
Palestinian, and as he
told me when he was in detention,
nothing would stop him from speaking
out about Palestinians for the
right.
Yesterday, a federal judge agreed
and founded a government to not
retaliate against Salah's advocacy.
However, Salah legal battle
continues.
And he will continue to pursue his
claims in the federal court.
Secondly, since immigration cases
continue, and he'll
be challenged to release every one
of the government's false
allegations against him there as
well.
But the lesson here today
is clear.
The government's policy of chilling
speech of those who
advocate for Palestinians will not
proceed.
Freedom of speech and association is
a core constitutional right in this
country.
And yesterday, a federal judge
agreed.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
We're going to have if any of
the media have questions for
attorney Druby,
we will have you ask
those questions right now before
we have a few other
speakers who will address you.
Anyone have a question and
we'll relay it directly to attorney
Drupy.
Yes
Okay, so the question is are
we worried about the
Heritage Foundation and
the issues related to the freedom of
speech and that they're trying to
Impact
Well, I think everybody in
the country should be terrified by
what the government has done in
response to the Heritage Foundation
and their plans.
But as we saw yesterday,
we cannot allow
these actors to chill
the speech of anybody.
This is about Palestine,
but it could affect any other
area, whether it's climate justice
or, you
know, human rights.
It can affect everybody, it
starts here, and that's
something that we all should be
aware of and be ready to fight.
Yes.
Okay, so he is saying
that the government has been very
strong with regards
to the allegation
and the language that they have
actually used.
And he wants to know how
will you go forward in addressing
some of these allegations that
are being raised by the government.
As we informed the
judge, and as the judge decided in
yesterday's decision, these
are 30-year-old stale allegations
that they're grudging up now.
They know their fault.
In fact, they chose to
not believe them multiple times
during Mr. Sarsour's
30 years in this country.
And so everybody can see
the pretext behind
that. The real reality
here is that the philosopher
was targeted for his lawful
speech.
And that's the reality and that's
what we continue to fight.
Okay,
so the question is, how many
pending cases does
Salah has have, excuse me?
I'm sorry, I saw that coming down.
And what is the nature of
those cases? So how many cases
does the law have that are pending?
And what's the nature?
So there are two parallel cases
going on right now.
There's an immigration court case
related to the government's
accusation
and relating to
the immigration status.
Separately, our federal case
relates to his unlawful detention,
so when he was detained,
lawyers jumped into action very
quickly to try to get a court
order to stop them from moving him
or deporting him,
God forbid, overseas.
So because of quick action of
lawyers, we were able to keep him
in Indiana, and
that was the power of that federal
case,
Yes, ma'am.
So the question is, as an attorney,
what are the next steps as you're
moving forward with these cases?
We have an incredible immigration
team of lawyers who will
be pursuing and fighting
every criminal allegation against
him for the government's
claims that are the basis of his
removal proceeding, which is the
immigration proceeding.
And we, on the federal case,
the federal side, we will continue
to pursue that case,
whether it's through discovery and
fact-finding.
We will continue to...
That case and we
believe strongly that the judge will
ultimately come down and
rule definitively that
the lost person's constitutional
rights are violated.
Any other questions from the media?
Yes, sir.
Does the federal government ever
explain or offer any information why
they brought in Indiana?
Did the government ever explain
why they brought him to
Indiana?
The benefit of explaining
their conduct.
All I can say is the practice
that we've seen in multiple cases is
they try to shuttle people down
south to favorable jurisdictions
for them to impose
the harshest.
Treatment possible, and
like I said, if it weren't for
the incredibly quick conduct
of the legal team,
that might have just happened, but
we were able to stop him and
keep him in Indiana.
Still out of his way from his
family, but not down
south where I think inevitably we're
trying to defend him.
If I could just add to
that, I do know that
when they took him to
Chicago and then they were taking
him to Indiana, what
Attorney Tooby has mentioned is
that a habeas petition without
even having all the
papers from the government was
filed, because the fear was that
he would be moved down to Louisiana
or some other jurisdiction,
as Attorney Dupuy was
mentioning, moving down south is
something that's more favorable to
the government.
Any other immediate questions?
Attorney Julie, thank you so much.
We appreciate your time and
again, appreciate all your work.
We're very, very thankful for you
and your entire team.
Okay, thank you.
There was a lot of popping in the
background, but I hope you were able
to hear that.
All right, next,
as I mentioned, there were many
groups that were really involved.
Last Sunday, we had
a group,
Dr. Jody Malame was
part of that group.
I'm going to have you talk a little
bit about that.
They actually went down,
drove the five, five and a half
hours to Clay
County, Indiana, in
the middle of nowhere,
and they
were able to rally in
support of so-and-so.
So Sue wouldn't need them a lot
more, and she's going to just give
you a little indication of both.
Okay, I think we got it.
Okay, go right ahead.
Go right ahead, don't worry about
the...
Good afternoon sisters and brothers.
Today is a really joyous day.
In addition to being Juneteenth,
today is Salaf as our
freedom day.
Today we celebrate Salah's
freedom from unjust captivity
by ICE for his strong voice
and advocacy for
justice in Palestine.
I am one of many Jews in Milwaukee
who see Salah as
our hero for
standing up for all of our
constitutional rights, for standing
for democracy.
As Brother Osmond was saying,
last Sunday, I stood with
close to 200 people, many
folks here in this room today,
outside the Clay County Retention
Center.
It included Jewish people from
across three states,
alongside an interfaith crowd and
Salah's family,
calling for his release, hoping
he would hear us.
Some traveled many hundreds of miles
to be there.
Harit Mikuni Mandelbaum, the
wife of an Orthodox rabbi,
said in our Jews for Salah vigil,
using the words from the story of
Exodus, let my people go,
Salah Hasor is my people,
we are all connected.
In the two months since
Salah Safur was taken
from his beloved community here,
thousands of Jewish Americans have
risen up to oppose the
state terror done in our name
against Salah and other
Palestinians.
It didn't happen like this before
Salah was taken.
We know that Jewish safety
depends on protecting a
free, multicultural, multiracial
democracy, and that when ice
comes for one, they come
for us all.
Wisconsin Jews for
Justice collected more than
400 signatures from just
Jewish residents of Wisconsin
demanding Salah's freedom.
Then the ARC, which is a
national progressive Jewish group,
put up a Jewish petition to
free Sava, which currently has
an amazing 9,500
plus signatures, which is a
record number for that organization
on any issue.
This week, four rabbis
published an op-ed in the Chicago
Sun-Times demanding the release
of Salah, saying, we will
not allow Salah or anyone
else to get illegally detained
in our name.
In my work with Jewish boys from
peace here in Milwaukee, I have had
the great, great honor of working
closely with Salah for more than 12
years.
And I know him well as an
extraordinary doer of mitzvahs,
of good deeds.
I love and respect his orientations
for justice for everyone,
and especially for the most
vulnerable.
Jews for Salah is an
unprecedented convergence of Jews
from across the Midwest.
From grassroots and political
movements, synagogue, shuls,
ley-led minions, representing a
wide range of denominational,
political and ideological
commitments, but collectively
we share a common outrage
and a firmly held belief that
it is our Jewish obligation to
fight for Salah's fundamental
freedom and for the right to dignity
and free speech for him and for
Salih, and we are tired of
Palestinian speech being repressed
by the government.
One of our speakers, Rabbi
Chris Elder, had actually
just returned from Auschwitz before
he joined us in front of the Clay
County Detention Center.
The Nazi death camp where his
grandmother and aunt had been
murdered. It was his first visit
there.
And he told us that while the Clay
county jail was not a death
camp, it was a step towards
that. It a step toward fascism.
He told us the Torah says,
do not stand, I be
mine, the blood of your neighbor.
And Rabbi Elder said to the Trump
administration directly,
do not use anti-Semitism
as a cudgel in your
made up war against free
speech, against what you decry
as liberalism, against the
First Amendment, against Muslims,
against Palestinians, against peace
activists, against brown skinned
people. As Jews, we reject
the use of our community's
legitimate concerns as a
smoke screen for policies
that separate families and undermine
democracy.
So to my brothers-in-law,
I say welcome.
It's so good to see your smile here
at ISM again.
Your interface community stands with
you. We celebrate your return
today, and we know the work
continues tomorrow.
It's an honor to be in this struggle
with you, and we will remain in
it with you until all of you
ridiculous charges are dropped.
We also remember, all
together, all of us remember that
more than 200 other souls
still trapped underground in
the Clay County Jail, denied healthy
food, sunlight,
medical care, taken by
the ICE Gestapo to brave our
democracy, and we all
say that Frisala Hasor
means freedom all.
Thank you very much, Dr. Malana.
Okay, we have just
a couple more.
We're gonna hear from,
next, the Executive Director
of the Wisconsin Muslim Civil
Alliance, Sister Fauzia
Quraishi.
They were very, very involved in
getting information out to
the community.
She worked with also
elected officials.
We wanna really thank the
elected officials From those who
came when we had our initial
press conference,
you know, the officials from
the city of Milwaukee and the
surrounding communities, as
well as those who subsequently
helped in passing resolutions,
Sister Fazio can discuss some of
that stuff. Thank you.
Good afternoon,
everyone. Look around you.
This right here is
what happens when you
tell the community to sit down and
be silent because our community
leader was taken for his free
speech.
But we stand up instead.
We speak up every
single time.
When Brother Salah was taken
from this community, some people
expected us to be quiet.
They did not know this community,
and Alhamdulillah, now Brother
Salah is home.
My name is Wazir Qureshi, and I'm
the executive director for the
Wisconsin Muslim City Alliance.
And I want to talk about how we got
here.
Because this community deserves
to celebrate the collective efforts
that can protect us and
bring our community members home
when we stand up for one another.
From the moment Brother Salah was
taken and detained, we made
a decision.
We were not going to whisper.
We were going to wait.
We were going to organize.
Over 200 organizations
from across Wisconsin and
beyond signed on to a letter calling
for Salah's release and
named that this was a clear attack
on his free speech to
oppose the genocide in Gaza
and uplift Palestinian
rights.
As a legal resident for over
30 years, a beloved community
leader and family man,
we stood up to tell the truth about
who he is.
Muslim, non-Muslim,
faith organizations, civil rights
organizations, labor groups,
and every other group, we thank you,
we are grateful for all of you.
All of us united under one
truth.
This detention was wrong,
and we were going to say this
everywhere, to everyone,
and to every level of government.
Milwaukee spoke out.
We saw that.
Our Milwaukee Common Council
passed a resolution with 12 votes
in favor.
Thank you, Alderman Alice Brower,
for leading that.
We also saw that at the Milwaukee
County Supervisor level, where
I testified along with Brother
Celeste's family.
And I watched supervisors
who would not originally said
yes and vote yes, but they then,
after listening to all of us and
listening to our community, voted
yes. We want to thank Commie
Supervisor Carolyn Gomez-Tom
for authoring that resolution.
You rallied your colleagues and
you showed up for this community.
We thank you. We needed a champion
and we reverted.
We appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
We went to Congress.
Six members led by Congresswoman
Gwen Moore, right here from
Wisconsin's 4th District,
wrote directly to the Secretary of
Homeland Security demanding Brother
Salah's release.
Senator Tammy Baldwin led
a Senate leader letter joined
by Senators Bernie Sanders and
Senators Chris
Van Hollen.
And the people, the people of this
community and across the nation
sent over 25,000
letters to members of Congress.
25,00 letters, please.
This is a community that
refuses to be ignored.
All of that, every resolution,
every letter, every phone call,
every rally, built the pressure
that supported Brother Salah's
legal team as they fought for this,
for his habeas petition
to be heard in federal court.
And this week, a federal judge
ordered his immediate release.
And this is what advocacy really
does look like.
That is what it produces.
And we will do this for every
community member who is targeted
by an administration that wants
to silence us.
Brother Salah's release is a
victory.
However, the work is not finished.
We know that.
We must still fight.
For his right to free speech
in court, and there are others in
detention, as Jogi mentioned
as well, that don't have
a coalition behind them.
No press conference, no resolutions.
The system that made this possible
are still in place,
and we will do everything we can
to speak for our neighbors, and that
is what they deserve.
To Brother Salah, we welcome
you. Thank you so much.
And you're free and belongs to every
person in this room.
And I congratulate every one of us
and we are so thankful and blessed
to have you back.
Thank you. Thank you so much,
Sister Fuzia.
So we're going to hear from just two
more individuals.
The last person who
will be speaking
is Mujat Ahmed,
one of the attorneys.
He's also going to read a statement
that was issued by Congresswoman
Gwen Moore's office, who did go down
twice to see
Salah Sassoura at the Clay County.
And again, we appreciate her
efforts.
One of the things about this
targeting of individuals is
it's targeting individuals from
many many different communities and
one of the allies that
the ISM has worked with for many
years and the Muslim community has
worked for many years was
the Latinx
or the Hispanic community from
many, many different backgrounds and
we are going to hear from
Christine Duman Ortiz
It's wonderful to be here
with all of you at
this time to
celebrate him
coming home to be reunited
with his family and to be reunited
with this community.
It's also an opportunity for all
of us, a commitment Asada
Sosun mentioned earlier,
to really commit ourselves again
to the struggle ahead, to the
days ahead.
Because we know
that we continue to
face challenges including the
ongoing effort at deportation
but broadly speaking
too against efforts to
silence dissent and the abuse of
power and so it's
you know, really proof today
that when we come together,
we do make a difference.
And not everyone speaks out,
but when people speak out, that's
what it's speaking out on behalf of
others, and that's it allows
everyone to see the humanity
of the situation, to understand
the injustice.
To peel away the walls of
that prison, to expose the
inhumanity, and to bring us
together.
And so we also thank you for your
leadership and your advice,
and the families who spoke on your
behalf.
Aida Benitez,
another Wisconsinite who we've
been supporting and all of us as
a community was
also recently released,
still facing a deportation
without having any criminal
record.
But it really shows
in both cases part of what's
been important to expose has
been those conditions in the jail
because we've
been able to see how
these prisons that are
private prisons this is a business
they're making money off
this have been
owning people for
long periods of time and
putting their lives and health at
risk.
Anita was able to, when she
came out, to also share how
she and others were offered
three dollars a day to
do work in the prison, in the
cafeteria, and cleaning,
and how she witnessed two
miscarriages of two
pregnant women because of the
abusive conditions.
So our struggle continues,
and I just want to say all
of this of what's been happening,
it's an effort.
We are seeing the escalation against
our communities, whether that's
voting rights activists in Ohio.
Whether that's Palestinian activists
who were part of the broader network
to document ICE abuses in
Minnesota.
We know the escalation against
organizations and activists
is part of an effort,
right?
But this is proof that every time
they come at us, we
come back stronger and we're
united. So we meet fear with
courage and we meet division
with unity. It's an honor to be in
the struggle with all of you to
celebrate this moment, and
we will continue to build in
the times ahead.
Thank you.
Thank you very much,
Christine. Before I call off
a budget, I just want to mention one
thing. I had the opportunity to
drive back with Salah
from Tate County yesterday.
And we were talking about
even wealth conditions were
there.
And Salah doesn't shy
away from expressing himself
and organizing people.
And many of the people he actually
said there were not from our
community. Many came
from Mexico and other areas.
But he said how he had
developed a relationship with
them. Some of them didn't have much
family, they didn't the resources
he allowed them to use.
You know, his phone or the time
method, you know, that they were
able to use the phone, his minutes,
if I could call it that, not the
actual phone.
He helped them, you know writing
things in
English.
Again, he said it was a family.
And when he left, he said,
it's amazing when they
found out that he was leaving, many
of them were crying, and
in their own language, just thanking
him for the work that he
actually did.
And again, I just think that that's
something too important to
mention, that we are one community
regardless.
I just want to
invite Mungin.
I've known Mung in for a long time.
He's one of the board members of the
ISM.
I don't know if he did any work in
81 days, other than for Salah.
I really, you know,
every time we're on the phone
all the time, in
meetings he's, you