Mirza Yawar Baig – Dont get brainwashed

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The history of India, including the use of tall ships and European powers, is discussed, along with the importance of learning to hate oneself and localizing history. The use of dress code and clothing in modern buildings and old pictures of Maharajas are also highlighted. The history of slavery and the use of racist language is also discussed, along with the importance of protecting one's privacy and not using words like "will" to avoid violence. The speakers emphasize the need for education to produce low-level employees for the colonial government and not to use political language to incite violence.

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			Bismillah, 100 Illah wa Salat was
Salaam warah, Rasoolallah wa Allah
		
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			Ali. He was happy. He or Oba, my
dear
		
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			brothers and sisters,
		
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			one of the most powerful
		
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			and well known ways
		
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			to destroy
		
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			a nation,
		
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			be it at an individual level of a
person and his family or her
		
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			family, or at the collective level
of the nation. And by nation, I
		
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			don't mean a
		
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			political state. I mean nation, as
in a people,
		
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			one of the most powerful and one
of the oldest ways,
		
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			is to make them forget their
history
		
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			and to make them hate their
history.
		
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			In other words, hate themselves.
Now
		
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			you might say, well, this sound
like a tall prescription, but
		
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			that's the reason why you should
read history.
		
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			What the
		
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			This was done throughout the ages,
but it was done in a very vicious,
		
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			very organized and very powerful
way during the colonial period,
		
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			which
		
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			is called by different names, but
the European colonial period,
		
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			where Europeans
		
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			went out of Europe, which at that
time was a place where
		
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			they had military power, military
superiority,
		
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			and thanks to
		
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			almost, I must say,
		
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			almost uniquely, thanks to sailing
ships that could cross the big
		
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			oceans, and this was the tall
ships,
		
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			which were different from the
catamarans of the Polynesians, The
		
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			long ships of the Vikings, the
dhows of the Arabs, all of which
		
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			predated European navies.
		
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			But when European navies came on
the scene,
		
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			they outperformed all of these
thanks to the design of the tall
		
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			ship, which enabled it to cross
		
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			the big oceans, and of course, at
that time, also the
		
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			the availability, the propagation,
the use of gunpowder, so the use
		
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			of cannon. Now, once again,
		
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			the Ottomans, for example, and the
malls
		
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			and the Safavids. They were, these
were called the gunpowder empires.
		
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			They used cannon long before the
Europeans. The Chinese used
		
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			cannons centuries before the
European and the others yet,
		
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			because the Chinese used it in the
used used gunpowder in the 13th
		
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			and 12th and 13th centuries.
		
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			Despite all that, the fact remains
that these European powers, they
		
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			conquered and
		
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			and colonized and occupied
		
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			most or almost all
		
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			of the known world at the time,
except China and Japan
		
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			and some of those,
		
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			those, those lands They kept
		
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			permanently,
		
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			like Australia, like the United
States,
		
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			and like Canada and others, they
gave up after having sucked them
		
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			dry of all their resources, like
India, for example, or like
		
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			Africa, and installed in them
their own people who were
		
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			dark skinned on the outside, but
white inside. I don't mean that in
		
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			a racist manner. I mean that in an
ideological manner, who believed
		
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			and
		
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			who believed the same principles
as the colonial as their colonial
		
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			masters. Now, the way they did all
of that was by making the locals
		
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			do these two things. One is forget
the history, and then the second
		
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			one was to learn to hate
themselves.
		
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			Now forgetting the history was
relatively easy in that they just
		
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			stopped teaching it
		
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			in schools to the set of schools
in.
		
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			In the Name of education and
basically, these were training
		
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			places to produce low level
employees for the colonial
		
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			government,
		
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			whether it was civil service and
so forth. For you know, the
		
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			majority of the colonial period,
the locals never could even,
		
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			couldn't even aspire to senior or
even middle level positions in the
		
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			judiciary, in the civil service,
in the police, in the military,
		
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			but they needed to learn to read
and write and to understand the
		
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			systems of the colonial so they
were sent to school. Now, in these
		
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			schools,
		
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			their local history, their local
culture, their local traditions,
		
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			much less religion, were not
taught at all. Instead, they were
		
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			taught a distorted version of
history, and believe it or not,
		
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			even geography, which made their
countries and their cultures look
		
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			small and insignificant and
violent and backward and
		
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			regressive, whereas the white
man's culture, the white man's
		
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			religion, the white man's social
norms and so on. These got
		
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			precedence, and these were
extolled and they were glorified,
		
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			and frankly, falsified. I mean, in
the in the context of the reality,
		
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			they were falsified this, this
lying version of history was
		
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			taught. But what was even more
powerful
		
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			was the substitution of
		
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			now, including, for example, just
to give you some examples, if you
		
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			look at the usual dress of a
doorman
		
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			in
		
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			in any major five star hotel, you
will find a gentleman who is
		
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			wearing a pagadi, who is wearing a
turban, who is wearing a long coat
		
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			that goes below his knees, and He
is wearing trousers and so on.
		
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			Looks very smart, but he's a
doorman. And that was the dress of
		
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			the Indian Maharaja. If you look
at old pictures of the Maharajas
		
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			and so on in India, this was how
kings dressed. And that became the
		
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			dress of the doorman. Though you
will never find a hotel General
		
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			Manager wearing that dress. You
will do, or you will not find even
		
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			the the housekeeping person
inside, donor outside, on the on
		
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			the street, the doorman.
		
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			We have actual pictures of,
		
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			and I have, I think I have one of
them which I will post on this. I
		
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			asked uma to post on this,
		
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			which says, is one I have which of
us of similar club in in India,
		
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			North India, which says, dogs and
Indians not allowed. So the
		
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			Indians in the in the British
clubs were could be servants. And
		
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			they were servants. They were the
people served you over the cooks
		
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			and the
		
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			waiters and the butlers. But they
had they could not sit in your
		
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			presence. The rule was that they
couldn't even wear shoes your
		
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			presence. So you had this Butler
		
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			dressed in a
		
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			in a close collar court, white
with gloves and no shoes, and he
		
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			had to walk barefoot. Try and do
that in a in a in UT Inshallah, in
		
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			Darjeeling in the winter is not
pleasant, to say the least. But
		
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			this is the this is how it was it
was done so in terms of of
		
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			culture, of tradition, of
clothing, we were taught to hate
		
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			ourselves. The same thing happened
in Africa, all over Africa, the
		
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			same thing happened. Africa was a
dark continent inhabited by by
		
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			animals and by, you know,
cannibals and condos, all sorts of
		
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			horrible stuff.
		
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			No question of any civilization.
Civilization in Africa were like
		
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			two different
		
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			words, the culture and tradition
and Africa were like two different
		
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			concepts, the complete and total
falsehood, complete and total
		
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			falsehood, and finally, also the
after the Great
		
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			Transatlantic African
		
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			Atlantic slavery operation, which
transported
		
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			12 million Africans forcibly from
Africa to America, and probably
		
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			more than that number died in
transit, to the extent where
		
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			sharks used to follow slave ships,
they were just dumped overboard,
		
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			not even counted in.
		
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			And they built America. And I'm
just giving one example. They
		
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			literally built this country. But
you never see any African name
		
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			being taken with honor when it
comes to building of the country.
		
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			On the other hand, you have this
tradition I've seen in in
		
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			Australia as well as in America,
and I am assuming that the same
		
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			thing happens in New Zealand,
where you have the haka, which is
		
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			the New Zealand Maori,
		
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			Maori victory dance, which people
do
		
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			nowadays in nice white Public
Schools
		
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			ask, What happened to the Maoris.
The same thing happens, as I said,
		
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			America here, which is that any
official function begins with two
		
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			minutes of silence to honor the
original inhabitants, in many
		
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			cases, the places where this honor
is being bestowed upon them, our
		
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			buildings, our colleges, our you
know, places which from which
		
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			these original inhabitants were
literally annihilated, the
		
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			colonial settler mentality, they
were literally annihilated. Men,
		
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			women, children were killed and
dumped. Their lands were taken
		
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			over. And now we stand in two
minutes of
		
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			of silence, the finest example of
hypocrisy, and say, we are
		
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			honoring those people. And my
question always, I asked one of
		
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			the one of the people ordering, I
said, Well, how about returning
		
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			this land to them? There are still
some, you know, remnants of those
		
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			people, the aboriginals in
Australia, the Native Americans in
		
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			India, who are on reservations or
just wandering around. How about
		
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			giving it back to them, that
would, that would really be honor,
		
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			right? So from when you are
sitting there, just get out of
		
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			this place. It doesn't belong to
you. Give it back to them or pay
		
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			for, pay them for it in today's in
today's money. Give them that
		
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			money for instead of signing and
saying, we are honoring. But this
		
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			is the reality. The reality is
what they did, same thing they do
		
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			with Islam and Muslims who are the
current target and one of the ways
		
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			in which they do that. And may
Allah forgive us. We have our
		
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			Muslim so called intellectuals who
like to call themselves
		
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			intellectuals, people who have
studied in in western colleges,
		
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			universities,
		
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			to a to the final tertiary level,
which includes people like me. I
		
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			studied in some of the finest
schools. I studied in the best
		
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			public school in the country, the
Hyderabad public school. I had
		
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			British teachers and masters. I
		
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			got an MBA from the number one MBA
College in India, business school
		
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			in India, the I Am Ahmedabad and
so on, and so my point is that
		
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			I've been through the whole
system. My eyes are open to that.
		
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			What they do with Muslims is to
make us feel that our culture, our
		
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			ways, our traditions, our way of
dressing, our ways of looking,
		
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			are regressive. They are
		
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			they are despicable. They are
horrible. They must not be. We
		
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			must not do these things right,
and if we insist that at least try
		
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			to hide it. So shave your beards,
take off your hijabs, pretend that
		
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			you are not Muslim, so that people
will not think that you are
		
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			regressive and so on. The
tragedies that we have bought
		
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			this, I hear these statements from
our own people, and one of the one
		
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			of the big targets of this, are
the Ulama. Are the are the
		
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			scholars of Islam, which who are
bracketed as being ignorant and
		
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			uneducated. Now imagine here is a
person who is a harvest of the
		
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			Quran, who, the you know, who
studied the religious texts, the
		
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			Hadith, sunnah, so on, so forth,
who's practicing it? And you said,
		
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			this person uneducated, where the
whereas the Muslim who's making
		
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			this statement, you go to his or
her house and say, Bring out your
		
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			children and get them to recite
sorodham Fatiha correctly. Get the
		
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			same person who's calling the
Ulama are educated, and say, my
		
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			brother, my sister, please recite.
And you will see that they cannot
		
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			even recite sorodham Fatiha
correctly with tajbir. Yet they
		
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			are not ashamed of that they are
not they should be completely and
		
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			totally ashamed that they are in
the state where the rokkr of the
		
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			Salah, the pillar of the Salah,
they cannot perform properly. They
		
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			are not ashamed at all. Doesn't
doesn't bother them. However, they
		
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			call the olava, the people who
have spent their lives and
		
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			dedicated their lives to
preserving and to teaching and
		
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			propagating the holy texts of our
religion and our culture, they
		
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			brand them as uneducated, and who
does that, not the outsider, the
		
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			Insider? We Muslims. Please don't
fall into this trap. This is a
		
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			trap which makes you
		
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			which.
		
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			Makes you hate yourself. Don't use
words because words which are
		
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			loaded with with a political,
negative, political
		
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			and cultural connotations that
don't use these words. These words
		
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			are because the one they remember,
the one who owns the language,
		
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			owns the debate. We use these
words and these words malign us. I
		
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			mean, please have some
intelligence. Don't go and you
		
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			know, suicide is halama. This is,
this is the kind of suicide that
		
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			we are doing, where we are using
words and so on, which, which
		
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			destroy our own opinion about our
own culture, how evil and how
		
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			horrible and how stupid is that so
our brothers and sisters, please,
		
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			learn the deed. The counter to all
of this is knowledge. Learn the
		
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			deen. Learn Islam. Learn the
Arabic language. Learn to read the
		
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			Quran correctly. Learn to take joy
in the recitation of the Quran.
		
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			Learn to understand the Quran.
Learn to understand the Hadith.
		
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			Learn to love Muhammad rasulallah,
without which love you and I
		
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			cannot be guided. Learn to love
the rasulallah. Learn to love his
		
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			companions. Learn to love the
culture, the the ideology, the
		
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			akhlaq, the behavior, the Marilla,
the dealings and relationships
		
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			with people, the mahashra, the
culture that he and his Sahaba,
		
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			his companions, propagated, and
which Allah subhanahu wa ex
		
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			stalled, and ALLAH SubhanA wa
Taala praise, learn to love those
		
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			things, not the stuff which goes
opposite to that, and do not mouth
		
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			the platitudes and do not mount
mouth, the the the calumnies and
		
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			the and the and the false
accusations that the enemies of
		
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			Islam have taught us to use. I
mean, how tragic is that we have
		
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			got to a stage where we don't even
need them to say to us, we say to
		
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			ourselves, we are in a state of
self flagellation, of beating
		
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			ourselves up to please other
people, please stop doing that.
		
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			Take pride in your in yourself.
Alhamdulillah. We have a religion
		
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			that was sent by Allah. We have we
follow a messenger who was the
		
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			Messenger of Allah, sallAllahu,
alaihi salam. And we have a way
		
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			which Allah subhanho wa Taala
likes. Who cares whether anyone
		
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			else likes it or doesn't like it?
Who cares think about whether
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala likes it not
because of the Day of Judgment.
		
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			Believe me, you and I will stand
before Allah. And the only thing
		
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			which will matter there is, Did
Allah like me or not? Did Allah
		
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			like my behavior or not? Did Allah
like my actions are not what the
		
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			world thought about. It is not
worth
		
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			All right, I'll let you finish
this that sentence. Please don't
		
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			fall into this trap. We ask Allah
to guide us and help us and keep
		
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			us on the other street and Barrow,
which leads to him and his Rida
		
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			was a while Ali, he was Habiba
Rahat.