Hamza Yusuf – TV, Video Games And Violence

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The term "immediate of the Roman" is used in media and is used to train police officers to become police officers. The success of the military operation in Vietnam and the importance of speaking out against abroad is emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need to be a person and not just a person, as it is crucial to achieve success in the future. The deification of the culture with the deification of Islam is also emphasized.

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			data on Toynbee, the English historian said that the spirit of civilization is religion. It's the
roar that animates civilization. And if you take religion out of any civilization, then its health
and for destruction, it's * bent for destruction. It's headed for destruction. And we saw a sign
today on the way here, it said, play work soft, play hard. It was a advertisement.
		
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			This is what ship I'm telling these people
		
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			work soft and play hard.
		
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			This is what they're doing. They're reduced. Today, the newspaper, The Met major story was the Super
Bowl, front page, major story. And in the fact in the business section, Greenspan said, we're in big
trouble.
		
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			This is the surface of the Roman, it's bread and circus, give them bread and give them circus. And
whenever things got hard for the Roman politicians, what did they do? They gave them more bread, and
more circus. This is what they do in Ramadan. Now in the Muslim country, they say the best
television programs are in Ramadan, well, that's because he believes is behind the programming. And
that's why they call it programming. Because you're being programmed.
		
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			And he's the programmer. He's behind it all. They had a cartoon in an American newspaper of a guy
opening a door that said tech support, and he opens it in it was *, and there was a devil behind
the computer with all the wires coming down there. And they said, Now I understand the internet.
		
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			I mean, even their cartoonists can see it. And cartoonists in this country are the only people that
are allowed to say the truth. The only real news in the newspapers is in the cartoons, because
they're the court jesters. Court jesters were characters that were allowed to say the truth to the
king because they were considered fools. And this is why the cartoon they'll tell the truth in the
cartoons really true though. And all these characters and Tom tomorrow, these guys will not come
tomorrow. If you want real news, just read Tom tomorrow.
		
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			He's the only serious news analyst in America as far as I'm concerned. And he's a cartoonist.
		
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			I'm not making that up. I'm really serious. These people that look at that we have the solution to
the to the crises of this country, and we should want to salvage this country. There's no reason why
we should want to see this country destroyed. There's all these Muslims and and and it's troubling
for me because I'm living here but they're all saying Allahumma de Moura, America Aloma Shabbat
shalom Allahumma armelle. Nice. Misha.
		
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			Misha home Aloma yet, Tim. Oh, nada, whom? I mean, I'm hearing it in the massage and I'm thinking
		
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			I had a more Italian chef. I was in the middle of the desert. He was saying Aloha.
		
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			And I said, your ship and the art comes out. It took a pilot I ride on those brains. He said, Oh, my
God, that it's not gonna if you're on the plane, it's okay.
		
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			Seriously, we have to we have to realize we've got things to do here. You know, when I was in, I was
recently in, in Arabia. And there was a deaf person came into the room. And there was a prison
there. And I started talking to him through this interpreter, and I and he said, Where's he from?
And he said, he said,
		
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			I said, He's from America. So he went like this.
		
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			And I said, What was that?
		
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			And he said, That's America.
		
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			In Arabic sign language. I said, What does that mean? He said, You know Cowboys, like shoot.
		
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			That's America. If you want to sign for America to a deaf Arab, you say
		
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			we want to change that. Really? These people need to get that yeah. I said, How do you say English?
And he said,
		
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			and I said, Why? He said because of BBC, they're always talking. And then he asked me where I was
going. I said first and then
		
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			but that's that really bothered me that he does what he said that's America. Shoot 'em up. Bang
Bang. That's what they do. Just go in Newcomb. That's a good American phrase. We are a nuke the
whole lot of those sand Arabs. We are a nuclear drag heads. They develop the neutron bomb for the
for the Arabian Peninsula. People really I'm not making that they develop the neutron bomb, because
the neutron bomb kills all the people and leaves the oil refineries standing. It was designed to
solve the problem of not destroying the infrastructure. So you can kill all the people and you can
		
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			still wait a little while until all that nuclear fallout dissipates, and then you go in and get your
oil.
		
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			What is that?
		
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			This is a sickness of the mind. Their children, our children, their children, our children, a lot of
Muslim children are watching daily television violence on TV. It's Haram in Sharia to watch a person
being killed. It's hard to watch that unless it's for the hoodoo. And there are a group of believers
are supposed to watch it as a deterrent.
		
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			But it is actually a harm to go and see things like that, to watch torture any of these type thing.
This is desensitization, in this country, now we have daily acts of of violence that we can't
understand anymore. They don't even have a frame of reference. They have a lieutenant colonel Dave
Grossman, who wrote a book called on killing.
		
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			And it's worth reading this because he's written some very important material. This man taught the
psychology of killing at West Point. And he said, basically, what they're doing now in videos, is
they are training children to become assassins. Because the army uses the exact same desensitization
techniques
		
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			for training assassins in the army, the same technique, they have policemen, you want to know why
I'm a Diablo was killed. You go look how they train the policeman. They train them on video games,
that people know that they train them on video games, they don't see it used to be in the old days.
They didn't train people to react, they train them to think, because that's what you want. You
wanted a policeman who thought before he acted like heroin. The idea of thinking before you act
because to kill a human being is not a simple thing. And anybody who's ever done it, there might be
somebody in this room who's done it. Anybody who's ever killed a human being knows what that means.
		
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			I met a man who was a an assassin in Vietnam, he became Muslim. And he told me that he was trained
to kill people only when he saw their faces. He blew their heads off. And I asked him, he killed
many people. He and I asked him once, I said, Do you ever see those faces? He said every night,
		
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			every night.
		
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			This what's happening out here we had, do people know who Brian Wilson is not the beach boy. Do
people know who Brian Wilson is.
		
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			He's a Vietnam vet, who started a organization, an anti war organization, he lost his leg. Because
he he laid on tracks for a train that was taking military hardware that would be taken to Nicaragua
to kill Sandinistas. He put his body on the tracks. And because the FBI is worn the conductor about
terrorists, they're the conductor ran over this man's leg and cut his leg. He lectures now, the man
who was assigned by the FBI to watch this man
		
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			actually ended up quitting the FBI and joining this man's organization. And they lecture together.
This ex FBI agent and this ex Vietnam vet what this Vietnam veteran said was his job in Vietnam was
to assess the successful bombing missions. What that meant was he had to go into villages and see
what the death count was. Because that's how successful the bombing mission was, how many people
were killed. And when he came back to this country, he became a lawyer. And for 10 years, he said he
never talked about what he saw. But he lived with it every single night. He lived with it every
single night of his life. And then he became a counselor to Vietnam veterans in Boston. And he began
		
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			every time that he would counsel these vets, they would end up basically just crying together.
		
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			I know a man who drives a taxi in the Bay Area who told me every night he drives home Vietnam
veterans in this country who weep after getting drunk in a bar. And they say do you know we did?
		
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			There's been more Vietnam veterans have killed themselves than soldiers died on the American side
fighting in Vietnam.
		
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			suicide rates, you think it's easy to go and tyrannized people, you think that's an easy thing to be
an oppressor?
		
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			It's not an easy thing.
		
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			It's not an easy thing.
		
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			They suffer.
		
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			And that's why we have to give victory to the oppressed and to the oppressor and the way we give
victory
		
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			To the oppressor is to stop him from his oppression. And that's our role in this country. And if
we're silent about it, then we're cowards. And that's what we are. And if you're not willing to
speak out for the truth, and take the consequences, then you're in the wrong religion, because
that's what this religion is about. It's about standing up for the truth. And the greatest Shaheed
is the one who speaks the truth in front of unjust authority. It's not the one who goes out and
kills a bunch of people. It's the one who speaks the truth in the face of unjust authority.
		
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			That's what the Shaheed is in this Deen, that is the highest Shahada, heavy metal and the soap and
Jaya
		
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			and we need to speak the truth because we're still living in a country where you're permitted
		
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			to speak the truth. You're permitted, they will do things and we know that but that's not our
concern. Because Allah subhana wa livina Aminu, we're not here to blow up anything. I'm in this
country with Stockman.
		
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			I'm in this country, I'm not here to blow up anything. I'm not here to kill anybody. I'm not here to
subvert anything other than the dominant paradigm. That's all I'm interested in subverting. I'm
interested in subverting Kufa.
		
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			And that's what we're here to do. If you want to do something else, then you make hedra from this
country, you make you drift from this country and you go to another place. But as long as you're in
this country, your job in this country is to spread peace and spread the truth. When the Messenger
of God Salalah, who it was sent him, went to Medina, I believe in Sudan, the great Jewish rabbi who
became Muslim went to hear the words and he said, the first words I heard from the Messenger of
Allah Salalah, it was Sam, where he said the first thing he noticed, he said, knockout now what you
who watch
		
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			his face was not the face of a liar. And this is called Sriracha, because the Arabs knew the rasa.
They knew what a good face was, and a bad thing. And then he sat and listened to the words and the
first thing the Messenger of Allah said, Yeah, you
		
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			have to sit down. Oh, humanity, spread peace. We're up.
		
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			And feed food was so Luba NASS was fun to build lady when NASA neon and pray and the night when
people are sleeping headquarters, Janice at the salon, and you enter Paradise, a security and peace.
That's the message of Islam of Shu Saddam was 50% of the world's population are living below the
poverty lines. They're living in slums. They're living in slums. Most people on this planet don't
even have proper water to drink really NEMA. I mean, this is near Ma, when I was a little tiny, this
is black. That's what color it is. And that's what people drink there. And you know what they say
when they finish? And
		
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			that's what they say. They say 100 Ah, look at this Nana, how are we going to do the sugar of this
Namah
		
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			VB how are we going to make sugar for all this NEMA that we're in and this country is headed
seriously. It's getting everything is getting faster and faster, faster, it means you're going down.
That's what it is. When you think faster, it means you're headed down. This country is going to
crash. And if you're here you've got to be prepared. We better be prepared as a community to
recognize this country is headed for a big crash. And if you don't think so you haven't read the
book of Allah subhana wa Tada. You haven't read the book of Allah subhana wa Tada. The British were
the only power in the world in the late 19th century. They were the only power they were the sole
		
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			power in the world. In the late 19th century. They feared no one. The British Empire the sun never
sets on the British Empire will be Chania, we can use the rain waves rule but Britannia will never
never never be slaves. That's what the English said, the sun never sets on the British Empire. Well,
what they forgot was America after the sun sets on England, it rises on America. And when there was
a Libyan woman who I know went to a British embassy to get a
		
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			transit visa to America, he said, Go get your visa from America first. And then maybe we'll give you
one and she said perhaps Britannia venison, the Amreeka Since when did England become a tale for
America? And see, she's a intelligent woman.
		
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			He got like, you know, jealous. So he said, Okay, we're
		
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			not gonna let America do that. But see, that's just
		
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			really what is England now.
		
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			I mean, they're in crisis. Very big, correct. And this is all coming.
		
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			It's all coming. And this is the sooner Allah in His creation. So let us change our lives now.
Really become people we have things to do in this country, we can change the face of this nation we
can the Muslims can do that we have the power to do that by by the power of Allah subhana wa Tada.
We have the truth. On our side, we have every atom, every molecule, every planet, every Angel behind
us. We are it's all behind us. But we have to be the law. That's what we have to be. That's the only
condition to get all of creation working for us. That's the only country that's all creation wants
to see is that we are indeed servants of Allah. And if we do that, the creation will come behind us.
		
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			You will see miracles, just as those who went before us saw miracles, they saw miracles when
Mohammed Alexander Webb, somebody asked him,
		
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			somebody asked him,
		
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			Do you really think you can take Islam to the American people? He said, You You talk as if this is
my work. This is God's work. This isn't my work.
		
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			This is not about Mohammed Alexander. Were taking Islam to America or Zaid, shachar or Sierra to
Hajj or Hamza Yusuf or Fulani or anybody else. This is about the deen of Allah, the Creator of the
heavens and the entire universe. This is the deen of Allah, lest we forget. We are the people of the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the best of creation. And if you want to know
sacrifice, sacrifice, and I'll use a baseball metaphor, because the first hit I ever got in college
in high school baseball and I remember it because people remember things like that was a sacrifice
bumped. That was the first time I ever got a hit. I made a sacrifice but you know what a sacrifice
		
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			buntings. That means you give up your you get out in order to advance somebody else.
		
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			And that's the spirit of this Deen. We are people that we want to advance the deen not ourselves.
And if it means from time to time getting out of the way that we get out of the way
		
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			we get out of the way. It's not about me or you or anybody else. This is the Dean of Allah. And at
the head of this Dean is the best of creation.
		
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			And that's why Zubair is an alum. If you want to know sacrifice, Zuberi, but I want to once took off
his shirt to change it, and a man saw over 70 wounds on his body. And he said, Where did you get
those those wounds from? And he said, shielding the Messenger of Allah shielding that he was a human
shield. Now these people here, they have to do deep brainwashing when they get these, these people
to protect the president jump in front of the President, you know how long they brainwash them to do
that, because that is against every instinct in a human being. They do. They do behavioral
conditioning, to get them to do that. They train them down in Langley and other places, and they
		
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			make them do all these things. When they hear boom, boom, they jump in front, they have to learn
that to be conditioned like a Pavlovian dog. That's what they do. And then when they hear the shot,
they just jump in front end, and the President and if the CIA is calling the hit, sometimes they'll
duck a little bit. That's the bullet go by.
		
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			That's what happened to ravine, right ravine, they opened up his back. They opened it up, you can
see it in the film. I saw the film, they opened up his back, boom.
		
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			And then their secret service said it's only blanks. That's what they shouted. It's only blind layer
ravine. The the Jewish wife of Rabin said, I would rather my children marry Palestinians than some
Jews,
		
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			because she knew who killed her husband.
		
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			You see, that's their treachery.
		
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			And that's not our dean. That's not our Dean as another Dean. But those people that's how they have
to train them by Pavlovian conditioning. The bourbon I want them wasn't trained by Pavlovian
conditioning. When he saw the messenger of a lion danger. He didn't think of anything else other
than getting him out of danger, even if it meant his life because on mobile, you have no man father,
like the Arab say.
		
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			The one who has less virtue is at the service of the one who has greater virtue, and that's the
basis of our Deen akuto. Cody had was talking with a lot he would actually say it and Muslim he was
saramonic moron