WCP: Imam W. D. Mohammed(ra) "WEalth Creation and The Pursuit of Happiness"

"They conceived a society that would be pleasing before God and that would best serve man's life.  They came up with the Declaration of Independence, which says that "...we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their creator, with certain unalienable rights, that you cannot take away from them.  Those men believed in the Creator, and believed in a gift from the Creator to every human person, and that no one should violate the sanctity of the individual.  And that he has rights of freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hm?

How can we have freedom in a society like this?

What guarantees do we have today in a place like the city of Chicago, where you have to put bars on your windows, where you can't even let your elderly mother and father go out into the streets alone, where you fear for your child every time he or she walks out of the door.  Where you don't feel comfortable when he or she is at school, under the principal or the teacher, and security guards in every hall, and you still you don't feel secure, because  you still worry about your child.  Where is that guarantee in the United States of America of today?  It doesn't exist! That precious idea of freedom and opportunity for the individual does not  exist now! Satan has got the upper hand.  Satan has robbed America of its promise."