Mohammed Hijab – The Champions Of The Palestinian Cause
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The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us,
whoever builds a mosque for Allah, Allah will
build for him a similar house in Jannah.
And we know the great reward that will
not only be gained but rather
will fill your grave after your death.
Whenever someone prays there, whenever someone gives shahada
in the masjid, whenever someone learns something in
the masjid,
yes,
that will be something that you have on
your scale.
Assalamu alaikum.
How are you guys doing? I'm joined with
a wonderful man,
a champion in his own right.
A man I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna do anything.
What we usually do.
I'm just joined with Zeeshan Ali. Come on.
Yes. Big deal. See, I've done it. I
didn't
turn it around at all.
I think the viewers, have, you know, they're
used to it now. There's too much now.
We've overdone it. We've overkilled it. Definitely.
Today, what we're gonna be talking about and
we thought about some interesting videos. And and
the objective of this video, first and foremost
is to show or to give encouragement to
people to continue doing the personal activism.
Now months months after the conflict, we're approaching
effectively a year after
December now. If you think about it, like,
it was almost
a year, like Wow.
We need to continue
the good work and so I thought to
myself,
let's give people credit today. Mhmm.
You know, and,
what we decided to do is have a
list of, you know, the 5
most influential
or most impactful or most significant
people outside of our own Dao sphere. Yeah.
Okay. Because we don't wanna make this self
congratulating
exercise.
People who have contributed to the Palestine course,
you're gonna give me your 5, I'll give
you my 5 and,
people can decide and put in their comments
who they think also has done a great
job. Obviously, we don't include ourselves because we're
the number 1. There's no doubt about that.
Shit. We're the number 1 position. Yeah. Yeah.
That's right. We can't put ourselves in there.
But let's give credit, actually. Let's start off
by giving credit. But you know why that's
important? I think it's a good behavior to
instill as well because
negative things and and bad experiences will always
happen. Uh-huh. And the thing is that it
doesn't get more worse than the the Palestine
issue. Yeah, man. In terms of the dunya.
Mhmm. So
of course when other things happen in your
life, yes, you should, you know, mourn and
yes, you should be upset
and that should motivate change. Mhmm. But also
when good things happen, you should give it
their due right and your attention as well.
And if a person is skewed only to
the negative side,
it's actually It's your it's a good point.
It's a good point. Studies wise, they say
that you have a lower
life expectancy as well Really? Than people that
are pessimistic.
Yeah, pessimistic, critical, reputatory
all the time. We do a lot of
reputational videos and I think it's only right
from time to time also that we we
encourage people and we Yeah. Yeah. Praise people
because too much negativity is never good for
anyone. Yeah.
I think before we say that, okay, we
said we're not gonna include people in our
own sphere of Dawah and so on in
the list because that would just be kind
of self defeating or self congratulating really, isn't
it? I think we should, before we we
give our respective lists, give credit to people
in the Dao sphere. A lot of them
Mhmm. Have done excellent, excellent work.
So for example, Daniel Khrykosho has an excellent
work, hasn't he, in in the Palestine conflict?
Mhmm. Omar Suleiman has an excellent work himself.
He's he's come on the next Friedman show.
He's he's he's always posting on on Twitter.
To be fair also Yasser Kadi has an
excellent work. I've seen him be very vocal
going to the campsites and stuff like that.
And these guys are in our own sphere.
We have people like Jake, Metaphysician.
He went on the he was one of
the best actually performances, but it was more
low radar.
And he went on and done really good
against this James
Whale
character.
Abdul Andalusi?
Yes. Now he is the backbone really
you know, of this conflict in terms of,
intellectual arguments in the Dao sphere. Yeah. I
would say so. I mean he he teaches
us a lot of the the the arguments
and stuff like Abdul Andalusi. He's seriously
he has encyclopedic knowledge on this. And he's
always on he's online and stuff like that.
So he's excellent.
I think what's important that a lot of
people don't realize is
social media is heavily skewed against pro Palestinian
activism.
And a lot of these brothers even with
big channels, medium channels, even small channels and
pages,
they have been shadow banned. Their content has
been restricted. Yeah that's right. And it's really
put them in, you know it's really got
them to reflect about you know what this
is you know for some people it's their
livelihood
and a lot of people have sacrificed a
lot. So even if you haven't made it
onto the list
you knew you know yourself
why you've done it and we're human beings
and we're very limited and we can there's
only so much that we've seen and that
we can kind of communicate Yeah. We're gonna
we're gonna get it wrong but it's just
it's it's subjective like, at the end of
the day. So there's lots of people in
the Dallas field. Musa Adnan, who was we
were working together on Critical Content News. I
was extremely proud of him. He went on
the James Whale show as well, done really
well.
Dili Hussein,
he done very well and he's continually doing
great work. But these are guys, once again,
we're not all in a circle. We don't
wanna But I I would that's it's very
interesting you mentioned that. Like, critical content news,
it's a very small,
puny
So, you know, it's like a blog page
or
page but
s 2j news. You know what I mean?
You know what? Now you've mentioned the chance.
S2J News. S2 Oh my God. But even
like S2J News, bro. Yeah. Like, Alhamdulillah.
We're dealing with volunteers. You're dealing volunteers as
well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're not dealing with
people I wanna give actually, I think it's
only right now that I I I I
mentioned some of the volunteers
people in my organization who's done really great
work. Like, Tarek. You know Tarek, Kurd. He's
absolutely excellent.
Shaker, he was doing a lot of the
research bro, behind the scenes and you know
him.
How intelligent and on the ball and sharp
he has been.
Fantastic. Shamir,
another newcomer. You've met him.
Really good work. Osman, you've met him and
he's he's done some things as well for
crew content
news. And a host of other people as
well. I'm sure. Crew content. I mentioned already
Moose Adnan.
Abu Bakr, the the camera and graphics guy
from our perspective, great work. Do you wanna
mention any of your guys? Yeah.
I think definitely Aisha has been very supportive.
She's pretty much kept the page going. Really?
Yeah, bro. Like, mashallah.
Really, really helpful since the beginning. Tanweer has
been good and
of course there's because there's volunteers people have
come and they've gone, but the contribution that
they've given even at the onset of the
conflict that's going on, it's not even a
conflict, a genocide, a massacre. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah. Just alhamdulillah. No. It's good to
be mentioning this. Volunteered. That's right. Because I
don't think we give these people enough credit.
Another person I I should mention, and he's
a great mentor of mine, and really I
know this guy. He's one of the best
leaders, if not the best leader I've ever
seen. Big up Hamza. You know what I'm
gonna say. It's Hamza. I always say it
myself, Hamza's awesome. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Masha'Allah.
He's engaged on the ground.
He's actually Sapiens Institute, which we are working
with,
he's allowed some of the funds to be
used because he's in charge of all the
funds, he's the CEO of the organisation.
So he's allowed some of the funds, a
big chunk of it to be used in
creating books,
courses,
You guys released a book, innit? It was
free books. Three books. Three books, bro. And
it's free as well? It's free. My one's
called Double
Standards, who I coauthored with a guy called
Jodie McIntyre, who's actually running for election now.
Uh-huh.
Fantastic guy himself in his own right, and,
a brilliant, brilliant, kind hearted, warm hearted guy
who deserves his credit in his own right.
I'm gonna miss somebody out in this. You
know, we mentioned 5 pillars in all of
our organizations but before we mention outside, I
think it is right to at least give
all these people honorable
mentions. Ali Dawa,
you know, his channel has been used, and
your channel of course, have been used
vociferously in the course.
So much so that they are targeting them
and
so there's lots of people we can mention.
But let's get our list. Let's get the
lists. Let's do this. So I don't know,
should we start with number 5?
In no particular order. In no particular order.
Okay.
Okay. Particular order. Yeah. Particular order I think
would be more interesting. Okay. Give me your
5. Give me your 5. Top 5. Alright.
So what number one for me in this
would be did you wanna start with Start
with 5. Okay. Start with 5. So
starting with 5, I'd probably say hamzat shimaev.
Really? Yeah. Because
everyone's
like there there are a lot of sports
stars that have stood up for Palestine
and said what they've said and it's all
been appreciated. But Khamzat Chimaev's
speech was very unique When he I think
he said it in Chechen.
And he he actually said what a lot
of people will feel. That's true. And he
said it with such zeal and he said
it on a stage that the guy has
the potential of losing it all. The guy
was like if you know it makes me
want to pick up arms and go and
join and help them. Yeah. Yeah. So it's
interesting to say for a man of his
position. And I'm paraphrasing but Yeah. Yeah. And
I heard he's already
received
some kind of backlash. Yeah. You can't get
to the United States. Maybe that's the reason
why. Maybe it's other reasons. But the the
the thing with, Hamzat
is Yeah. I think a lot of us
saw the vicious side of him, okay,
and the
crazy side of him, you know, in the
ring and in the press conferences and stuff
like that. But when we met him,
we saw the humble side of him. We
saw the human side of him. And I
think we all saw the human side of
him when he's there was one time he
was asked about the Palestine conflict and he
just said something like it hurts and he
was visibly emotional. And I think that made
him,
like,
more respected in the eyes of so many
people, Muslims and non Muslims alike. More so
than most of his fights. Because we saw
the compassionate side. There's there's something beautiful
and virtuous about a strong man with compassion.
You know? And there there is one thing
that you're just fighting opponents in a ring
Yeah. That you're just fighting for the sake
of fighting or fighting for fame and money,
but when you're fighting it's what made Muhammad
Ali,
you cross over that boundary and become one
of the greats. It was because of his
stance in Vietnam.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Yes. And
that's what made him and Martin Luther King
said, you know, you may disagree with him
but you've gotta respect what he's standing for.
Absolutely right. And,
Hamzah Chimaev is is definitely kind of demonstrated
that and
we definitely saw it first hand as well.
Yeah. Because he he's gone further than other
other sports Muslim sports people in in like
what he wants to say.
I my number 5 is, low key.
He's not strictly speaking about the Dao sphere.
He's obviously very close to us. Hamza's close
to us. We both met him and done
interviews with him as well. But,
you know, low key, the reason why is
because number 1, his consistency.
He has a very consistent record. Number 2,
his arguments are really watertight.
He's one of the people that I actually
take knowledge from in this area. Like I
would sit down and take notes from him
or something like that. Yes. Number 3 is
because
of his, you know, continuous output.
His continuous output. And he puts himself in
positions
which
could get many people in trouble. But because
of these reasons, and he's done obviously a
really excellent interview on Piers Morgan,
we've had him here on this sofa. We've
we've done a podcast with him and he
was, you know, giving us all the information.
He really tracks down the funding and where
these people are getting their money from and
who's, you know, being funded by who and
Yeah. I'm I'm surprised that he memorizes all
of that stuff. Mhmm. It's almost do you
know like Muhadiths? Like, you know, the Hadith,
tradition Yeah. Where you got chain of narration.
He has a chain of narration,
a genesis of where everyone's getting their money,
what's the motivation. Because let's be honest, a
lot of people are motivated by money. This
is the reason why on the pro Israeli
side, people are
where they are positioned because they're being paid
by somebody. He he's he's actually lifted
the veil on that. Yeah. Who's who's your
number 4?
Number 4, I'd probably say Norman Finkelstein.
Now Norman Finkelstein,
he's, he's been old school in this. Yes.
He's been there since,
since I can remember Mhmm. And his books
are really thoroughly researched. He's a scholar
to the highest eminence
and he just hasn't been appreciated.
There was one clip the holocaust clip of
his that went viral. Crookedities. Yeah Crookedities.
There have been clips here and there but
that's been the but the guy has
so much to offer. Yes. And it's only
now that he's really kind of been appreciated.
Like in terms of academia Yeah, yeah, he's
always yeah. Mhmm. Definitely the guy would be
at the top but obviously we're talking about
influence in different realms and different aspects and
facets.
I was puzzled my number my number 4
Bassem Youssef.
Mhmm. Reason he's not strictly in that obviously
not in that sphere and we have different
opinions.
And people will be like, why are you
mentioning this person, that person, the other person?
We're not agreeing with all their stance. Yes.
Of course. Just to be I mean, we
have to mention this. But we have to
be mature about this. We're talking about those
who have who have had an impact. Yes.
And his his two interviews with,
with Piers Morgan were the most watched ones.
Yes. Okay. And they were not just only
watched by people in the English speaking sphere,
they were they were also very much watched
by people in the Arabic speaking sphere. People
must realize that his language, his first language
is Arabic.
Mhmm. And so for someone whose English is
a foreign language to them, that's actually extremely
impressive for them to be able to communicate
in that way in in the English language
which is not his first language.
And to then do it through the medium
of comedy. Comedy means that you have a
certain mastery of that language. Yeah. Yeah. Because
you can only be funny in a language.
Yeah. You cannot be comedic, you cannot be
rhetorical at the same time. Yes. So he's
So now
he used this kind of like, I would
say, sarcastic style to great effect the first
time with Piers. It was fantastic. And he
kept using that. And the thing is, what
made me put him in this list is
not just his 2 interviews with Piers Morgan
but also his subsequent interviews with so many
different hostile interviewers. Recently, he had one with
Trigonometry
who they who they told me to come
in, but I knew that they had an
issue Yeah. And stuff like that. So I
put some conditions. I said, let me film
it as well at the same time. And
they didn't respond to that because I didn't
want anything to be cut up or anything
like that. He went on that show Mhmm.
And,
what what he done there was fantastic. He
answered all their questions and he's been doing
that consistently. And for example, PBD, he went
on the PBD podcast Yeah. And done fantastically.
I was actually quite impressed with his argumentative
ability because he's a comedian.
A comedian doesn't necessarily have to have the
ability to construct arguments in a coherent coherent
and consistent fashion. Mhmm. He he seems to
have a really good grasp of some of
the historical aspects. He's now even delving into
I saw something recently with him in Mehdi
Hasan,
in some of the biblical aspects, the Red
Hefir and all that kind of stuff.
Yes, he's, you know, he's kind of spreading
his tentacles and
being consistent
in that. So I think that he deserves
to be on this list. He's definitely like,
I think he's my number 3. Okay. And
the reason being because
now when he came he completely
took
the the whole issue by surprise. Like people
didn't expect
somebody that's pro Palestinian
in a conversation in which it's only meant
to go one way. Do you condemn Hamas?
Do you acknowledge what happened on October 7th?
And this and that. The guy completely threw
a curveball. If you actually look at Piers
Morgan's body language
and like it's it was it
was something that even
I would say it broke the internet
because of the amount of acceptance it got,
because a lot of people when it comes
to Muslims or anything related to Muslims were
seen as angry, we're seen as you know
violent, aggressive
but this guy completely broke the stereotype. Some
people have even said that this guy has
been an integral and and important thorn in
the backside of Israel.
That's stopped them
from, you know, justifying and doing worse actions
that they have. Mhmm. No. I'm impressed. It
was it was definitely a cultural moment,
his interviews with Piers Morgan. They're a cultural
moment. And frankly, probably a historical one as
well, man, if we're being honest. If we
go for number 3, my number 3 is
probably Abby Martin.
Uh-huh.
She had a really good interview with Joe
Rogan, okay? So Joe Rogan is seen as
one of the top podcasts and the way
that she delivered,
the thing is as a woman, obviously, has
more of a compassionate, you know, kind of
approach to it. Yeah. And she's able to,
once again, relay information in a very
methodical but also coherent fashion. Mhmm. And her
recent discussion with Piers Morgan and the, the
son of the Hamas leader,
you know, that was brilliant as well that
she was able to finish him off in
a very classy way, and we've done a
reaction video to that. But it's also that
she has a track record of supporting the
cause. Yes. And that's always what's gonna be
the decider in these kinds of lists, for
you to be in the top five. She
has a track record of that. And so
with all that kind of thing, I put
her as number 3 actually. Mhmm. I'd probably
say alongside her or in the same breath
like Mehdi Hasan.
Yeah. Mehdi You know what? Honestly, I'm not
putting him in the top five here because
he's been a little bit more reserved this
time and Yeah. And look, Mehdi Hasan is
a in my in my estimation anyway, he's
probably one of the best public speakers in
the United Kingdom. He's a world class public
speaker. That's how I consider it. I consider
myself somewhat of a connoisseur for these things
as you know, like we talk about that.
He's his rhetorical style,
his ability to debate. He's actually he wrote
a book on debating. He did. How how
not to lose any argument or something like
that. I've read some of the chapters on
that book. Very interesting book,
not bad.
Mehdi Hasan, his his debate on the Islam
thing in
one was absolutely fantastic. He's No. No. He's
good. He he he is always gonna bring
forward world class performance. You could see, it
was like,
he he transcended
the interview format of Piers Morgan. He was
like, come on. But Piers Morgan was throwing
things that would throw,
any other person off but because Abi Martin,
Mehdi Hasan, they're seasoned
in this topic,
they were able to write names off like
it was nothing. Yeah. And they know what's
going on. They know exactly what game is
playing Yeah. Being played. I mean, remember Mehdi
Hasan is usually the one who asks the
question. He's usually the interrogator.
Yeah. That's usually the format that he likes
to debate in or discuss and that he's
most experienced in. Yes. And so to be
put on the back foot, it's good for
him because
for us to know who's an all rounded
public speaker, they need to be versatile. We
need to put we need to be we
need to see them as, as interrogated, but
also as the interrogator, but also the interrogated.
Mhmm. In the podium on the podium, on
the street, whatever. So the fact that was
able to perform very well in that format
showed that he was as good on the
back foot as he is on the front
foot. Yeah.
And so, yeah, Mehdi Hasan is always gonna
be like. We saw his debate within the
I think it was Oxford University Yeah. On
Islam.
After I saw that debate and many of
his other performances, I I knew this guy's
world class, actually. He's actually world class. The
reason why I didn't put him in my
top five is only because he seemed like,
I'm watching him some of his stuff on
Twitter now, and he seems a little bit
reluctant. And I don't know who is basically
trying to sorry to put this, but please.
Mhmm.
You know, this whole thing about overcompensating about
anti Semitism and this is this person's an
antisemite and stuff is it it detracts from
the force of what we're trying to accomplish.
So that's His liberal sensibilities have kind of
been the anchor that's been pulling him down
from bring from showing his true potential. Yeah.
Because if he lets those punches go.
I mean he will be he could easily
top the list. Mhmm. He a person with
his
charisma and capabilities can top the list. But
if if he tries to,
appease the liberal Credit where credit is due,
I think he did have a slot on,
I think it was on MSNBC
Yeah. Yeah. And he had an interview,
with one of the Israeli officials in which
I mean there were clips going around in
which he absolutely embarrassed the guy. No. No.
He does very well. And people were of
the opinion
that straight after that interview,
that that that's it. Like his his contract
was not renewed. Mhmm. It came to an
end and he's had to start
off his own media organization, Zateo.
Mhmm. So so, I mean, there is definitely
There is a bit. He's he's taking he's
taking punches as well for the course. Who's
number 2 for you? For for me, number
2,
it's it's difficult. It's it's a toss toss-up
between both of these.
I'd probably say it's it's very difficult. It
depends how you see it. Mhmm.
I would say
ICJ.
Okay. So you've got an organisation there. Yeah.
I'm pointing an organisation to ICJ.
Reason being because
ICJ slash South Africa have have taken it
to a legalistic,
Maidan Would you say would you say that
this is South South Africa's initiative then? Would
you South Africa? Oh, for sure. For sure.
Yeah. In particular the, the foreign minister of
South Africa. She's done really excellently. Yes. Yes.
So South Africa taking see Germany that have
witnessed again atrocities
other hand we see Germany that have witnessed
again atrocities but still being on the side
of the oppressor Yeah. And still not having
learnt their lesson.
There's a clear disparity between South Africa and
Germany and and the credit where credit is
due South Africa has definitely
empowered the people on pro Palestinian starts in
discussions and in debates
giving them the academic backing. I think Norman
Finkelstein was saying just reading their report that
they submitting that they submitted for people that
want to read about this issue that's a
really good starting point. It gives you that
strong academic
backing
to kind of get involved in this. So
they definitely have ticked that box for us.
Okay. Yeah. I mean I agree. I think
South Africa's
the foreign minister of South Africa, she's done
an excellent job, and she's done something that,
you know, Muslim leaders should have done, frankly.
Right? But who I'll put as number 2,
and this is gonna be controversial, what is
George Galloway.
And the reason why is because he has
a consistent track record
and he's very very strong on this course.
Now people will say, well, how can you
put him? And you know what he's saying
about well, he what he agrees, especially from
our our circles. We'll say, you know what
his views are on the Syrian thing and
and the Uighur issue? On these issues, we're
diametrically opposed to his views. Right? But then
again, if you look at the whole of
the list, there's people in there that we're
diametrically opposed to their views on other areas.
Religion,
society, like Mehdi Hasan and this person, that
person. We differ on the same issues. Liberalism
or this or that, LGBT.
I don't know what Abby Martin's
views on LGBT is. I mean Yeah. For
example, I'm I'm just saying if it's if
that's the thing, we're not gonna praise anyone
here. Yeah. We're talking specifically and strictly about
the Palestine conflict. Yes. And if we're doing
that, then George Galloway has to be put
there up there because,
he's been consistent
and his voice has been extremely strong.
And once again, in terms of his ability
to articulate an argument,
really there's only few people in the last
50 to a 100 years in the United
Kingdom
who can do it as good as George
Galloway, bro. Mhmm. And this is for anyone
who knows about public speaking will be able
to recognize that immediately.
Mhmm. He knows how to put people in
their place. He'd done it with the Iraq
war. He was the number one figure in
the Iraq war in the United Kingdom
and he's been so consistent with the Palestine
cause. We've seen what he's been posting on
Twitter. We've seen that he's, run elections and
done this and that and the other. So
frankly, he deserves credit. No doubt about it.
System such that he had to as you
think it was night time when Roshi Suna
came outside to kind of condemn his victory.
Oh,
exactly. So if if you're if you're if
you're getting the p PM, the prime minister
of a country to respond to you, that
shows that there's impact here, bro. So that's
one thing. And not just responding, doing emergency
response and this kind of thing So we
have to give credit where credit is due
He's been phenomenal in that regard
And if you look at his debating history,
bro, I mean people don't know this but
he's debated Christopher Hitchens who is considered to
be
one of the greatest orators for for these
guys, the atheists and the secularists and the
liberals and whatever, maybe of all time, for
them. And he destroyed him. Mhmm. And what
have you ever watched the debate with him
in Prison of Edges on Iraq war?
If you watch that debate, you'll see
it's one of the most interesting debates I've
ever watched. Oh. And he gave him the
decisive blow. And
even avid,
kind of fans
of Christopher Hitchens would say that he lost
that debate that day. Mhmm. So the guy
is a force. Even when he was, doing
the Brexit thing because he was on pro
Brexit, when Nigel Farage, who we refuted last
week,
was introducing him, he had to introduce him
as one of the greatest orators in Britain
or something like that. Really? Yeah. He's it's
well known.
If you just watch him in certain in
certain discussions, he'll throw Shakespeare
in the middle of the
all the
perfumes of Arabia wouldn't be able to do
pluck. You know, that's a Shakespearean quote. Wow.
So he's got the the rhetoric, he's got
rhetoric to a very high level. He's got
the argumentative,
power and he's got the political savviness.
Well, someone of his level has to be
put up there for me Mhmm. As numbers.
Who would you put as number 1 now?
Let's, As number 1, one, I think,
for me
it was a toss-up between,
these guys and the ICJ, but for me
I think definitely they have been the eyes
and ears
of the Ummah of the pro Palestinian cause
on the ground. Without these guys we would
not see what's going on. Indeed social media
does have you know and has played its
part wonderfully
and immaculately.
However, when it comes to authentic reporting where
it actually matters and you know doing it
within the system, it's been Al Jazeera.
And again like you said a lot can
be said about Al Jazeera
but the thing is they have definitely,
been the eyes and ears and not only
been the eyes and ears but they have
significantly
risked
their position on a worldwide stage and they
they have a lot of people to please
but
they're showing us what's going on, not compromising
that regard
and keeping their footing on an international level,
it's a very difficult balance and not everybody
can do it. And I think on top
of that,
they were even allowed in Israel as well.
Israel, they
they had this, you know, understanding with Israel
and speaking to an Israeli
Jewish lady at speakers' corner she was saying
that Al Jazeera
was our only source of seeing the Palestinian
side because the way they are presented what's
going on it's very one-sided,
it's very propagandized
so Al Jazeera was definitely something
unique, a light in a dark room but
now Al Jazeera has been retracted and
Al Jazeera is no longer running from there
and is being shown over there as well,
which is unsurprising.
But the role that they've played is absolutely
phenomenal. And in that, there's there's in the
Arabic Al Jazeera, Arabic Al Jazeera has been
much better than the English one, by the
way. I mean, if if you think the
English one is good, the Arabic one is,
like, double doubly as good. Right?
They had this one guy, he's his name
is Fais Lduaidi.
Now this guy
is phenomenal, bro. Yeah? Oh, he is like
in terms of knowing because he's a military
strategist. He comes from like
Jordanian background and stuff and he was a
military strategist. He went to different schools and
stuff like that.
So much so that, you know, on Hamas,
there's a clip, it went viral. Mhmm. Hamas
used a rocket launcher to destroy one of
the, you know, tanks or something like that.
And then after it blew up, he said
the guy said, Halley a Duwedi.
Analyze this Duwedi.
He said that? Yeah. He said that as
he was blowing up. And it went viral
in the in the Arab world. Wow.
This guy, he knows all the weapons.
And most of what he says strategically pans
out. Everyone is watching him. Oh, damn. It's
it's it's so it's like, do you know
when you watch match of the day life?
No.
Well, match of the day life is like
football and stuff, or you've watched a football
match or international football. Is that and then
afterwards, you have, like, Gary Lineker or something
that. Yeah. You got Gary Lineker. He's good
as well. Right? He's been fantastic as well.
Palestinian thing. Yeah. Yeah. So you have and
then he's telling you this is what happened.
This is like Faz Duarte when it comes
to him on the ground. He's been so
good,
bro. I used to be addicted to watching
his videos.
Every morning, I watched the video and watch
it again. That's so good, bro. You should
be addicted, bro. Like, Love up his videos.
He's excellent. I wouldn't put him as number
1 because we're talking mostly about the English
fear by the way. In the average say
he's number 1 no doubt. Really? Oh, there's
no question. In terms of like
for me, the one who's had impact and
everyone goes to and the,
you know,
is Duedi.
Mhmm. But in the English fair, I would
put Norman Finkelstein. As number 1. Really? Yeah.
Because the thing is, there's not many people
actually, there's no one
on in the world Yeah. Who has been
able to contribute to academia as he has.
He's the only one who's written a book
on Gaza. Mhmm. And and he's the only
I think there's no more voluminous output than
his. If you look at the bibliographies of
his book, it's clearly the most he's the
clearly
head and shoulders above every other human being
on the face of the planet, most researched
person
on this issue. Mhmm. You know?
There was a time, I don't know if
I told you this, like,
I've done
a master's degree in the beginning when I
finished. The first master's degree I ever done
was in history, right?
That was the first one I've done. And
then I actually skipped to a PhD.
Okay? At this time I was living a
rough life and didn't have that much money.
Yeah, you know my my story.
And I started a PhD.
And I started a PhD in one of
the universities
in in in London,
and, and it was on the Palestine conflict.
Really? Yeah. I started a PhD on the
Palestine conflict. And I even wrote,
you know,
thousands of of words and stuff.
Now, two things, at that time I didn't
have money to fund it. Mhmm. So, you
know, they wanted like a yearly thing, and
secondly I had to start working and stuff
to make money. So I actually just I
completely abandoned the PhD.
This was a long time ago. I started
doing other I think the steam came and
you helped do with it. No. The reason
why I mentioned this is I
now do my PhD now. I'm not doing
it in the Palestine conflict. I'm doing it
in a completely different field. Yeah. Philosophy of
religion, whatever.
Part of the reason which made me not
wanna continue doing a PhD Oh. Is when
I was doing the literature review
and I read his works, I thought, you
know,
there's a there's a phrase
in in Arabic, No.
Which there's no Hijrah after the Fatha. When
people said do another shah of Sahil Buhari
Yeah. After fatharberi, which is,
Im Hajar Askarai's one. Yeah. People say it
was no need that you got that one.
Honestly,
his works made me feel like
it's been done. Maybe 50%. You know, it's
like wherever I wanna contribute here, and I
had a particular thesis, a very specific
he's talked about it in a better way.
Salaam. As far as I'm gonna put my
my my my efforts elsewhere. But the point
is is that
I I've read all of his books. I'm
not sure all of them. Let's just say
for the most of them. Most of them.
Yes. Of course. I find it very difficult
to No. No. No. I've read it. I've
read them.
And
that, in addition to the fact that he's
now become a cultural icon and a representative
of this thing, we saw his recent debate
with Lex Frideman, against this this, guy, Destiny.
He completely humiliated him.
Thank you. Excellent. Okay. It was like watching,
like, a professional,
boxer
fight a a layman from the streets. Homeless
guy. Yeah.
Yeah. You know? It was so he he
he debates. He's debated.
Benny Morris, who is seen as probably the
best historian from the other side,
who by the way in his books
he refutes Benny Morris
He's debated,
he's written books. He's appeared on different shows.
He's done everything possible.
And so, because people get his their arguments
from him,
The influence must therefore be attributed to him
Yes That's why I put him as number
1 because of the consistency of the record,
he's been obsessed with this thing for 30
years. I think it would be, wrong not
to not to put him there, so I
put him as number 1.
And that's and that's our list, guys. Yeah.
I think we definitely got carried away with
that video. Well, I think it's only right,
don't you think, because we always refute people
and attack them. I think it's right sometimes
to praise them as well because, look, the
the now the conflict has reached a stage
where, let's be honest, people are getting tired
of it. And the protagonist of this conflict
from our side, from the cultural and, you
know, influential side
They are the ones who also need to
continue working. So I wanna give great thanks
to you guys We're all eternally grateful for
your contributions to the Palestine cause
And continue doing the great work because in
the future, Wallahi, in the future, 10 years,
20 years, 30 years from now, this will
be history
People will be writing about this in schools
People will be talking about this or reading
about this in historical books
So your work as the influencers, your work
as cultural contributors,
as knowledge producers, yes,
is essential.
Any last words, bro? Assalamualaikum.
Hey, you. Are you wasting your time on
social media again? Your brothers and sisters in
the slam net from Norway are establishing a
Masjid, a dawah center.
Establishing a Masjid to convey the message of
Islam is one of the best deeds a
Muslim can do. There's a huge need for
it in Norway. You know this and I
know this. So that makes the reward even
greater.
So give generously and Allah Azzawajal
give you even more.