# Muslim Speaker Challenges Assumptions About Allegiance to the Constitution - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2111730116544155827 - Source account: [@xuromini](https://x.com/xuromini) - Source language: English - Duration: 4:47 - Published: 2026-10-18 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution) Simple question. No, your friend's got the mic. Would you answer your- Hey. [0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=2) I'm asking you a simple question. You give me your name, I'll answer the question. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=4) Okay, Tommy. Hi, Tommy. How are you? I'm great. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=7) Are you? Do you know what the Constitution of the United States is? [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=11) I have one simple question. No. Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=14) Sure, yeah, absolutely. But I want, I want to ask you the question that you're asking. Why are you asking the question? [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=19) Well, because they're a terrorist group. [0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=22) Oh. Okay. No, no, but what are you implying? The, the-- do you assume that I wouldn't? [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=27) Yes. Why not? Because I have not heard you disavow them yet. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=30) Have you disavowed them? I haven't heard you disavow them yet. [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=33) I disavow them. Do you? Great. But here's the thing about it. [0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=35) You're asking the question because implicitly you assume that I'll have dual loyalties, right? [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=42) You assume that somehow I wouldn't disavow or that I'll have some higher order allegiance than to the Constitution. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=50) Correct? Tommy, is that what you imply? Yes. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=52) Why would you think that about me? Because I have not heard you disavow them. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=55) No, no, no, no. Why would you actually think that about me? [0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=57) Because I have not heard you disavow them. [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=58) But I just did. But why would you actually think that? [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=60) Why would you-- why-- have you asked everybody in your life if they disavow them? [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=65) I have not. So why are you asking me? Because I have not heard you disavow them yet. [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=68) No, no, no. Answer the question, Tommy. Everybody knows the answer to it. [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=71) Answer the question. All right. So let me just tell you. Let me just tell you. [1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=77) I'm gonna swear an oath to the Constitution of the United States. [1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=80) And that constitution guarantees us all- -the right to practice whatever faith we want or no, no faith at all. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=87) And now, you assume, you assume, Tommy, that because I am Muslim, that somehow I would have some allegiance to something that is not our Constitution. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=98) That's your assumption. That's implicit in the question. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=102) And what's interesting to me is that this is not the first time people have asked those kinds of questions, because do you know who John F. Kennedy is? [1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=110) Do you know who that is, Tommy? I do. All right. Uh, do you know what he was asked as the first possible Catholic president of the United States? What did they ask him? [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=119) You don't remember? You should read history. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=121) Tommy, when he ran for president, he was asked whether or not he was going to have allegiance to the Pope at the Vatican because of course he's Catholic. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=133) And his answer famously was that he was not running to be a Catholic president. He was running to be president and happened to be Catholic. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=142) I'm not running to be a Catholic president. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=145) I'm running to be your president. I'm not [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=150) a Christian. And so, you know, it's important, I think, because you would ask this question in a way that suggests that somehow our Constitution shouldn't be the thing that all of us bear allegiance to. [2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=167) Yeah. And I'm just telling you that for me, that Constitution is the guiding light. [2:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=173) It guarantees me the right to pray as I choose to pray or not pray at all. [2:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=179) It guarantees you the right to pray as you choose to pray or not pray at all. [3:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=183) Now, Tommy, I'm gonna ask you about your faith. [3:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=185) Are you a man of faith? I am. And what faith do you practice? [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=188) I am Christian. You're a Christian. Oh. Do you-- no, no, I mean, it's a, it's a good question. Look up. [3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=194) Do you live by Christian doctrine? I would say so, yes. [3:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=197) Good. And you try as hard as you can to live by Christian doctrine, right? [3:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=200) Yes. Do you think I have to live by Christian doctrine? [3:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=204) Do you? It's up to you. It's up to me, right? Why? Why is it up to me? [3:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=208) Because we have free will. Right. Free will, and also in this country, what else do we have? [3:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=212) Separation. We have our religions. What else do we have, Tommy? [3:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=217) Religions. No, I mean, you're asking me about my allegiance to the Constitution. [3:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=220) It's the Constitution, my guy. We have a Constitution, and that Constitution guarantees you the right to live by your faith and guarantees me the right to do the same. [3:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=229) That's right. And the reality of it is this: I'm never gonna tell you what faith you can or can't practice. [3:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=235) I want to protect your right to practice your faith as you choose as a Christian man. [4:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=241) The only question, though, is that it seems like you don't want to protect my right to practice as I choose to practice. [4:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=255) So I'm gonna ask you, do you disavow any attempt to read any religious doctrine into the laws of our country? [4:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=264) I do not. You don't disavow that. So I think it's you who needs to understand the Constitution, not me. [4:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=269) Yeah. [4:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2fuyI0JI25jH/en/muslim-speaker-challenges-assumptions-about-allegiance-to-the-constitution?t=286) Best of luck.