Abdelrahman Badawy – Their shifty propaganda tricks

Here's a propaganda trick that they've been using

successfully for decades. You may not have noticed

it before but I promise you, once you

know what to look for, you will see

it everywhere and you will never be fooled

by it again. It's called hijacking a slogan

and it only requires 3 simple steps. Step

1, they take one of our slogans that

have been around for a long time. Step

2, they reinterpret it to give it a

negative meaning, usually violent or extreme. And then

step 3, they try to shame us for

using it, try to get it censored, and

try to get it banned. Let's see some

examples. The first and most obvious one of

the past 30 years has to be Allahu

Akbar. God is great. One of the most

often repeated phrases that a Muslim uses in

every single one of our prayers. We use

it when we celebrate. You might ask, well,

how can they take something so beautiful and

turn it negative? Well, they did. 30 years

of Hollywood, news media, propaganda,

comedy, all of it associating the beautiful phrase

of Allahu Akbar with negativity, terrorism, extremism, suicide

bombing, you name it. That wasn't accidental. It

was 100% intentional and targeted. It is propaganda.

They give your beautiful slogan a new meaning,

a negative meaning, and then go on a

campaign to delete it and cut you off

from your roots. Example number 2. What we're

seeing today with from the river to the

sea, Palestine will be free. This is a

slogan that has existed for decades. You can

look it up yourself. It is a slogan

about freedom. And now they're trying to reinterpret

it and tell us what we're supposed to

believe. And since that meaning is bad, I'm

gonna go ahead and tell you you can't

use it. Like the sheer audacity of it,

the sheer arrogance and the sheer attempt at

subjugating

other people. Since when does calling for the

freedom of a people mean that you want

to harm another people? But that's how they

do it. And then tell you, hey, since

we think it means a bad thing and

they don't actually mean that. They don't actually

think that. They just want to control what

you're allowed to say and what you're not

allowed to say. What you're allowed to think

and what you're not allowed to think. This

is how they erase your identity slowly. They

know that if they cut you off from

your roots, you will have no heritage and

you will have no source of strength. Don't

fall for it. The examples are endless and

you can see some of them here and

in the captions, Insha'Allah. I want you to

look for this example in the past. What

are some things that they have associated with

negativity and then made you and me self

censor and disconnect from that stuff out of

fear of being associated with extremism, violence, negativity,

terrorism, etcetera.

I wonder how they've been successful in this

and how we can start to undo that

and reclaim our own meanings and our own

beliefs.

And I wonder if we're gonna be strong

enough and wise enough to avoid falling for

this in the future.

Stay strong and don't become anybody's donkey.