Mohammed Hijab – Who Should You Vote For- US 2024 Elections
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The speakers discuss the importance of belief in great rewards rather than just achieving one result, with a focus on the history of support for certain individuals, such as President Trump and the Muslim community. They suggest a community support for these individuals, rather than just a single vote, and note the controversy surrounding the recent election and the potential for political mandate. They also touch on cultural differences between the United States and Europe, including the Muslim community's presence in the West and the large population in the North East, and the war in the West and a woman named Kamala decision to leave the country.
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The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ told us that 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 will have on your scale.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
How are you guys doing?
The American elections are just around the corner
and many people in the Muslim community are
thinking, what should we do?
The difference of opinions that exists in the
Muslim community that I've been seeing and been
privy to on social media.
Some people saying that, well, we should vote
for Harris and all the Democrats because they
are the lesser of two evils.
And others saying, well, actually, Donald Trump, he
represents much more of our values than Harris.
The truth of the matter is that both
of those individuals are vehement supporters of the
state of Israel.
And there is a long track record of
both of those candidates not just rhetorically supporting
the state of Israel but materially doing so
as well.
Take a look at this video of, for
example, the latest campaign of Donald Trump.
One of the people's spokespersons there speaking and
let's come back and respond in kind.
And the Palestinians are taught to kill us
at two years old.
They won't let a Palestinian in Jordan, they
won't let a Palestinian in Egypt and Harris
wants to bring them to you.
They may have good people.
I'm sorry, I don't take a risk with
people that are taught to kill Americans at
two.
I'm on the side of Israel.
You're on the side of Israel.
Donald Trump's on the side of Israel.
And they're on the side of the terrorists.
So, there's no doubt about it that these
candidates and parties have unequivocal and unconditional support
for the state of Israel.
And for the Muslim people, what should be
the case, very clearly for me anyway, is
that we should let them work for it
at the end of the day.
More than that, I would say, I think
it's quite abominable and condemnable that we talk
about boycotts and not going to Starbucks and
not going to McDonald's and these kinds of
places, which is very good.
However, on the one hand, you talk about
boycotts because you don't want to support a
multinational company which directly or indirectly supports the
state of Israel.
In fact, many of those companies on the
boycott list are there because the CEOs, for
example, some of the longer boycott lists, have
said something positive about the state of Israel.
So you say that on the one hand.
On the other hand, you talk about Kamala
Harris being the lesser of two evils.
That doesn't, sorry to say, make any sense
because if in principle it's wrong to lend
support or give legitimacy to a body or
an organisation which lends support, in turn, to
the Zionist entity, then by extension, giving a
political mandate, okay, giving legitimacy through political mandate
by giving your vote should be even more
condemnable, which it is, in fact.
There's nothing more that you can give to
someone than your vote, really.
It's even worse than giving them your money.
So I think this should be very clear.
Now, some people have suggested that, okay, well,
why don't we vote for Jill Stein, for
example, or a third-party candidate.
Now, something like that could work, but then
it has to have the community support.
And I think, I mean, the American Muslim
community have to come together and work that
out, like we did here in the UK.
I mean, if you look at our recent
elections, we got independence in the, you know,
many independents, Muslim independents, at an unprecedented scale
because there was many initiatives like the Muslim
Vote Initiative, which unified and centralized our efforts.
And what I'm saying to you is that
maybe we could do the same thing.
When I went to Norway, the guys in
IslamNet, who you saw the advert of in
the beginning of this video, have an even
more interesting thing, which is that they created
this website in Norwegian, which ranks all of
the political parties compared to all the things
that Muslims care about.
And of course, Gaza and Palestine was at
the top.
And those parties were so affected by that
move that they started to get in contact
with them to try and boost their ratings
on that particular website.
The key message here is, actually, there's more
than one.
Number one is, I think it's morally objectionable,
okay, to vote for any body or any
political entity or person who, in turn, lends
their support to the State of Israel, considering
45,000, at least, people have been brutally
murdered in Gaza.
How can you vote for someone who supports
that in any way, who doesn't want to
see an end to that in any way,
who's not very clear-cut in an end
to that in any way?
Why would you want that blood in your
hands?
Frankly, that's the truth of the matter.
You have some responsibility because you're giving these
people a political mandate.
So I see it as politically, morally objectionable.
The second thing is, I think that America
being a huge country, I mean, people in
the West, or I should say, people in
Europe don't realise that America is almost comparable
to all of Western Europe, maybe with even
part of, you know, Central Europe, you could
say.
It's a huge country with 50 states, 330
million people.
The Muslim community is not as big by
ratio as it is, for example, in the
United Kingdom, and or in any other cities
as it is in the United Kingdom or
many of the European countries like France, etc.
So it's even more difficult because of geographic
landscape, etc., to do this, to centralise.
However, if you have online initiatives and you
bring leaders, community leaders and influentials together, then
I think the job can still be done.
And some would say, what are you talking
about?
Why are you even giving your opinion on
this matter when you're all the way here
in the United Kingdom?
I mean, sorry to say, but, you know,
United Kingdom, probably for me to get to
New York is a similar distance to get
from one place in America to another.
The world has become a, you know, a
village.
Globalisation has made us see what's going on
with Donald Trump, made us see what's going
on with Kamala, Kamala, Kamala Harris, this individual.
But so it doesn't really matter, to be
honest with you.
I mean, the Bible Belt versus South America,
as you know, the culture in South America
versus North East, there's a world of difference
between that.
You could say, you know, people in Europe,
yeah, places in Europe are closer in culture
than parts of the North East comparative to
North East and South.
So this thing about, okay, why is this
person with this citizenship commenting on this issue
and this, I mean, why are we talking
about Palestine and Middle East anyway, we're all
the way here in the West.
This is a non sequitur and it's a
fallacious type of argument, but this is just
me lending, you know, giving some arguments or
giving my opinion and that's, that's all I've
got to say.
Wasalaamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Even greater.
So give generously and Allah Azza wa Jal
gives generously.