Imam: Don’t Go the US, TT a much nicer place

Hosein was one of the three religious leaders asked to offer an opening prayer at the start of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union 80 anniversary celebration yesterday. Before starting his prayer, however, Hosein commented on international relations. “That country (US) was built on slave labour, of not only Muslims, but on our African brothers and sisters. They were okay with people coming to their country when it was to take advantage of them, because that is how the world works.

Now they want to ban people from coming to their country.

Well I do not want to go to the US, Trinidad is too nice for me.

I implore Muslims not to go to that place.” Hosein criticised the US for its 120 day ban on refugees entering the country. “If we go back 20 years ago, there were no muslim refugees. But wars over the years have made the countries difficult to live in. Historically, there have always been refugees and people have accepted that, but now the US is saying otherwise.

The ban is unfair, but it is irrelevant to me. The US is not as glorious a place as people make it out to be.” Hosein went on to pray for the OWTU on its anniversary and praised it as the “benchmark for all other unions in the country.”