Mustafa Khattab – Dawa Training 2 Islam in the Media
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The history of the Middle East war, including the blessed Muslim-led wars in North Africa and the history of the church's support for Muslims, led to the spread of Islam and the "war of the world" concept. The "vanquished" factor is a critical uniting and distraction mechanism for peace, and is used to distract people's attention from political issues and spread democracy and freedom. The "vanquished" movement is a critical uniting and distraction mechanism for peace, and is critical for the peace movement. The "vanquished" movement is a source of danger for the world, and conservative movement is not helping the economy.
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And, force shari'amas,
so on and so forth.
But, I think this inshallah, this is the
beginning. It's because we have been receiving also,
calls and emails from other places, other Masajid
in the country and also from California. They
said they wanted to do the same thing.
They wanted to get our pamphlet
and print it and distribute it under their
name. So this means they like the ID.
And
And I think this is the largest
DAO project ever. And I don't think any
organization or any city or any country ever
distributed 1,000,000
pamphlets,
to people's homes. This is the largest point
in my opinion.
So before we talk about
dawah and the different types of dawah, dawah,
so there's dawah to Muslims, to non Muslims,
to new Muslims,
before we make dawah to non Muslims, and
this is what we'll talk about next time,
inshallah,
You have to understand the history
of
the stereotypes
against Islam and Muslims.
So why is Islam vilified in the media?
Why do they attack Islam in the media
all the time?
Of course, I'm gonna give you 8 different
reasons tonight why some in the media official
conservatives attack Islam and Muslims.
Of course, some of these,
reasons are based on,
facts, but some are nothing more than,
conspiracy
theories.
Okay.
So some of them are realistic, some are
not.
Of course, the first one is a realistic
one.
So
the
history fact,
of course,
the problem saw some of them lived in
the 7th century.
And,
by the time the problem saw some of
them passed away, most of Arabia
had already accepted Islam.
So why did Islam spread
to neighboring countries? Like, here in Asia and
here in Africa. Because to some people,
there's one explanation for this. That Islam was
spread by the sword.
Okay. To start with,
at that time, back around the time of
the prophet Sarazan, there were 2 major empires.
The Persian empire,
Iran, Iran here.
And they occupied some of the territories here
in Yemen and other places. And of course,
the Roman Empire which dominated most of North
Africa and Syria,
Palestine, and all these place.
Of course, most of these tribes are used
to pay taxes
to Persia and to
Rome. That'll be top of the like. So
when these,
tribes or cities accepted Islam, they start to
pay,
the right or taxes to Persia and to
Iran, and this meant one thing to them.
War, if you don't pay me taxes, I
will fight you.
Of course, these Muslim tribes
have to be defended by the early Muslim
state, and this is why the prophet
prepared the army of Osama and the prophet
passed away before the army was sent.
And every time the Persian and the Roman
troops were defeated,
they retreated and they started to mobilize another
army and Muslims had to attack again and
so on and so forth. And they they
drove them out of North Africa and,
from that area.
So most of these wars were defensive
on the side of
the Muslims.
Of course, most of these countries including Egypt,
they welcomed Muslims for different reasons. Number 1,
the Romans, for example, were, collecting a lot
of taxes from the people. So they burden
the native people of this country. And they
need you, for example, before the coming of
Mohammed,
The Romans who collected
about 26
different types of taxes.
There was this tax they called the death
tax. If someone dies in your family, you
have to pay a big tax before you
are able to bury that person. So when
muslims came,
of course, the natives of Egypt and other
places, they
supported the muslim army, and they fought with
them. And this is what historians say, that
the Egyptians
and most of North Africans, they fought with
Muslims against the Romans.
Also,
the people in North Africa, they knew that
Muslims were.
They believed in one god, like most of
the population in North Africa. But the Romans
the Romans were trin trinitarians. They believed in
3 gods and they were forcing this
by the sword.
You probably heard about the,
the full words of Darius. Arius. Arius.
So Arius was
a bishop from Libya,
and he was stationed in Alexandria, and he
was the highest bishop at that time. And
he was teaching this,
belief that there's only one God, ae, salaam,
was a prophet,
and so on and so forth. So Rome
didn't like this, and they fought, and they
killed 100 of 1000
of Aries in that area.
You can Google them.
Aries.
Aries, the followers of Aries.
So this is another reason why
the Egyptians, for example, fought alongside of Muhammad
ibn Assam, the Muslim army against the Romans.
When did Egypt become a Muslim country?
How many years after Ahmadinejad
and the Muslim army arrived in Egypt?
How many
years? Anyone?
300 years.
So if Islam was stripped by the sword,
why in the world it took Muslims 300
years to convert the people of Egypt to
Islam?
This doesn't happen. The people accepted Islam willingly.
Of course,
we we might talk about the j z
and why Muslims were collecting j z and
from the people. Okay. To start with,
everybody in the world throughout history
paid taxes. We paid taxes,
okay, in this country. So Muslims and non
Muslims paid taxes.
The Muslims paid taxes in the form of
Saqqah.
Non Muslims paid taxes in the form of
Jizyah, and that that Jizyah was collected based
on the income, and
Canadian money, then you could pay about
$300
in jizyah, and
The Arab elderly didn't
pay. The old
and the elderly didn't pay. They, those who
were not able to work, the children, they
didn't pay. Jisib.
Non Muslims who joined the Muslim army to
defend these countries against the Persians and the
Romans didn't pay Jizya.
Muslims who didn't join the army to fight
against the Romans and the Persians had to
pay Jizya. So it has to be understood
in this way.
The GZL was paid at the time of
and it was paid during the time of
GZL.
You read in the bible work
when the Jews came to GZL
asking,
should we continue paying the GZL to Caesar?
So he said, pay to God. We give
to God what is God's and give to
Caesar what is Caesar's.
Gives a god for Allah and give g
c n to Caesar. So,
that was used in a lot of time.
Islam was seen as the only
or has been seen as the only threat
to prison them in Europe. Why?
Number 1, because Islam was unmatched in terms
of its organization
and rapid spread and bigger.
And number 2, because of the close, vicinity
of the Muslim world. Here's the Muslim world
at that time and here's Europe. China was
a little bit far away. India was
far away and,
weak at that time, so they didn't
constitute a threat to Europe. So Islam was
always seen as a threat, and they see
the rapid Islam,
in North Africa,
in Asia, and also some Europeans also accepted
Islam.
Based on this understanding
that Muslims and Europeans and Christians have have
always fought wars,
like a crusades.
Of course, Muslims
pushed back during the time of the of
the ottomans, and they reached the elites of
Vienna,
Vienna, the heart of Europe
in the 12th century.
The Europeans pushed back, and they invaded almost
all Muslim countries in the past 300 or
400 years.
Of course, the creation of the state of
Israel here
and and so on and so forth. The
portrayal of Muslim countries in world war 1
1914,
almost all Muslim countries supported, I mean, the
allies.
So when the ultimate empire is defeated
with the support of Muslim countries,
then European countries will give independence to Muslim
countries. But this doesn't didn't happen.
Right after the war,
France
and Britain,
they sat in Iraq somewhere, and they divided
almost all Muslim countries among themselves. They call
it the Cyprus people agreement.
So they betray Muslims and they stab them
in the back. So this is how Muslims
look at
it.
So based on this idea,
some people like Bernard Lewis,
Huntington,
of course, they wrote about the clash of
civilization.
If conflict dominated
the history of muslims and Europe,
then most likely the future will be the
same.
So muslims in the muslim world
and Europeans and of course, America, they will
continue fighting in the future. They will have
to fight
for *.
The second one is the world *.
Mulan style,
attacking people and using military force to attack
people in the west using planes and so
on and so forth. And of course, they
use some Muslims
like Andrew Choudhary in London. He's a very,
hardliner
activist. He always talks in the news. They
invite him all the time on Fox News
and other conservative media, and he says it
very clearly. You know what? The flag of
Islam
will fly over the White House one day,
and we will dominate the west
verses from the Quran. You can
quote any verses from the Quran to support
anything you want. Of course, people are scared
to death when they hear this.
The second one is the stealth jihad, and
they talk about this all the time. What
does stealth jihad means? Stealth jihad means to
convert people
to Islam,
with
a smile.
For
example, sending singing sending
out, a 1000000 pamphlets to people's homes. To
them, this is converting people to Islam.
Of course, Muslim organizations, Islamic centers, their role
in the west is to convert people to
Islam stealthily.
So this is number 1. The other one
so Muslims basically are our 5th call. They
try to convert people to Islam and to
be filtering the society to convert it to
Islam from within.
The military
jihad intends to convert people to Islam by
force from without, from the outside.
So this is the first one of the
stealth jihad,
the Muslim organizations,
the Islamic centers.
Is the birth rates. So Muslims make a
lot of babies. So if you speak about,
the Egyptian family, average 3, 4 kids, Lebanese,
6, 7 kids.
Somalis,
17 kids.
Yeah. This this is how they think. This
is how they think. So
Muslims try to confirm the west stealthily knowing
that,
Westerners
don't get married,
and they don't make babies
because they just enjoy their lives. In,
in France, for example, studies show that
one out of 18 gets married. Just 1
out of 18. The 17th,
they just, you know, the boyfriend girlfriend stuff.
So they don't make babies, and they say
it has reached
a stage where it is irreversible.
Even
if westerners start to make more babies, they
cannot
counter
the Muslim,
spread in the west.
So this spread through,
birth rates will
shift
the,
population in the west to Islam within 30
to 40 years. So this is what they
say. Europe and North,
America will become
Muslim colonies in about 50 years.
Okay.
Through immigration and refugees because they have wars
in Somalia. They have wars in
Lebanon. They have wars here and wars there.
So
So people start coming to the west as
refugees or as immigrants.
So what should we do? Number 1,
we have to tighten immigration laws to,
disallow,
Muslims from country from coming to to this
country. We allow people from Europe to come,
but Muslims, no. No. And
some of them even said we have to
kick out some Muslims to send them back
where they came from.
This is the only way to stop the
Muslim
still jihad.
Number 3, what they call the vital enemy
factor. And this is a very important point.
They always talk about it in,
political strategist in the American foreign policy. They
always talk about this point.
The big countries like the US
and European countries, they have to have enemies
to survive.
How?
Number 1, they say
that this vital enemy,
the enemy in need, has to be used
as
a uniting mechanism and as a distracted mechanism.
Okay.
You
explain
Uniting mechanism, you use the foreign enemy. Say
for example, Islam is the enemy, that foreign
enemy. You can use this to unite your
people. You can unite liberals and democrats,
conservatives. And you can, also combine,
or unite the Protestants and Catholics, Jews and
Christians against that foreign enemy.
Otherwise, if you have peace with everyone,
then you're you're going to start to have
civil wars inside.
The wise are going to start attacking blacks
and so on and so forth. Protestants, Catholics,
and so on and so forth.
And this has been true throughout history.
The Roman empire collapsed
basically because they stopped having wars with their
neighbors, then they started to have internal conflicts,
and it ended with the collapse of the
Roman Empire.
Muslims in Spain did the same thing.
When Muslims started stopped the hutahat,
they started to fight with one another in
Mullukhut Tawai, and every,
street was governed by one of, you know,
the Muslim rulers. And the rulers started to
fight with one another
to expand
the impious and eventually get collapsed.
So this is the uniting mechanism. Number 2,
the distracted mechanism. If you always talk about
the foreign enemy,
then it will distract people's attention from all
the social problems you have, economic problems, and
political problems. Okay? You will always be talking
about
the scarecrow, the,
the foreign enemy.
If you look at the US for example,
this is very true.
Just over the past century,
the US has changed enemies every 20 years.
They have to why? They say you cannot
because you cannot use the same excuses to
fight and kill people all the time. You
have to change excuses every 20 years.
In the 19 forties,
when Muslims were the Aladdin
people,
we used to fly with magic lamps and,
the flying carpets, back then we were not
the enemies.
Back in the 19 forties, the enemy was
the Nazis from Germany and the fascists from,
Italy and Japan. That was the enemy back
then.
20 years later in the 19 sixties, who
was the enemy? Vietnamese. The Vietnamese.
20 years later in the 19 eighties,
the communist and the Russians.
20 years later in the 2000,
the Muslims.
20 years later, maybe the Chinese, maybe the
Canadians. Nobody knows. So it has to be
someone else or someone different all the time.
You cannot have the same enemy
forever.
Of course, the 911,
factor
in the US was attacked in September 11,
2001.
And that was the biggest attack on American
soil throughout its history.
Of course, people were afraid
and people were angry.
And there were a lot of questions
in people's minds about Islam and Muslims.
And one of the biggest mistakes they did
in the media,
they didn't invite Muslims to speak about Islam
and Muslims. And Fox News still does the
same thing so today.
So who will they invite to speak about
Islam and Muslims?
It's a Muslim. They will invite a Christian
minister to speak about Islam and Muslim.
And this is just like inviting a,
a plumber to speak about pharmacy.
Okay?
Completely different thing. Even if you speak about
Islam and Muslims and you have the best
intentions but you're not Muslims,
you are not going to give an accurate
representation
of Islam and Muslims.
For example,
there's this movie
that was made in 1992.
Who's the name of that guy used to
steal steal money from the rich and give
it to the poor?
Robinhood, king of the thieves. This is the
title of the movie.
The major character was played by Morgan Freeman,
and Tom Hanks.
It's an excellent movie
made by non Muslims. It speaks about Islam
and Muslims in a very nice way. So
the Muslim,
character Ali, played by Morgan Freeman,
he was very scholarly, very
cultured
Muslim compared to
the non Muslims who were shown in the
movie. There's only one problem.
Azeem prayed like a Hindu,
like this, not like a Muslim. So they
made mistakes when they are presented Islam even
when they have good intentions.
They also invited a lot of,
former Muslims to speak about Islam.
And of course,
if you left something, then you wouldn't have
something good to say about it.
They want, conservatives
and the people who have a history of
hatred against Islam and Muslims.
Of course, people also talk about the oil
factor
That the reason behind,
stereotyping
Islam and Muslims and bashing Islam and demonizing
Muslims is all about the oil. It's a
small screen.
And this was captured by
a famous cartoon back in,
back in 2002.
It says here, they showed, Bush. And he
said, we have
710 good reasons to be involved in the
affairs of the Middle East.
So his assistant said, excuse me, he was
surprised
that they sign it's upside down. So when
they turn it upside down, then it says,
we have one good reason to be involved
in the affairs of the Middle East. Okay.
So the supporters of this reason they say,
okay,
there are many countries in Africa
and there are many countries in Latin America.
They abused their people.
Okay?
They're all on violations against human rights, but
the US doesn't seem to be interested in
helping these people. Why you always seem to
be interested in the Middle East,
in Muslim countries to spread
democracy and freedom
while the same thing is happening in other
countries
that happen not to have oil. They don't
have oil,
but we are not interested in helping them
because they don't have no oil. Okay? So
this is the reason.
Others say
that it always boils down to the picture
dollar. What is the picture dollar? That all
countries in the world have to sell their
oil with the American dollars for
oil for gold.
So,
and,
Ahmadinejad
wants still wants to sell his oil for
anything except the American dollar. So this is
why Americans picking on them because
once you shift, you change the medium of
exchange to euro or anything else,
the American economy would collapse. It's it's already
in trouble, but it will further damage the
American economy. So they have to do anything
they can to stop this.
Countries in the Muslim world
have the majority of the reserves of oil,
oil reserves in the world.
So those who are willing to cooperate and
give some of their oil for to the
US,
willingly,
they're good folks.
But those who refuse to cooperate, like Iraq
and,
Ahmadinejad
and Libya, they are a big job.
Again,
some of these facts some of these reasons
are realistic. Some are just,
conspiracy
theories.
They always
support Israel,
and the scholars say, like Jack Shani and
Roi
what
what's his name? Sayed. Edward Sayed.
He's originally Palestinian, but he was Christian, and
he was very famous in the US. He
passed away a few years ago.
He said, the reason why they're attacking Islam
all the time and show Israel as a
fake victim
to create public support in the west for
the state of Israel.
So this is why they always portray Palestinians
as the killers and Muslims as the villains
and as the bad people.
So this can create a lot of support
for the state of Israel.
What does Jesus
has to do with the conservatives?
Okay.
There's a
conservatives believe
that
if there is a law of chaos and
fighting than wars in the Middle East,
this will hasten
the the second coming of Risa, alaihis salaam.
The more fighting and the more bloodshed in
the Middle East or in the Muslim world,
the sooner Risa, alaihis salaam, will come back.
And there are a lot of people who
still have this belief.
Most Americans and most people in the west,
non Muslims, they don't have or actually have
little
information about Islam. Most of the information they
have is through the media.
They listen to radio.
They watch movies
and they watch the news. And most of
the information they get is through the media,
not through direct contact with Muslims
because this is different. So when they get
their information from the media, they believe everything
the media tells them, even if it is
false. So everything the media tells them even
if it is false.
So this saying in Abi
means that,
man is the enemy of the unknown. If
you don't know something, then you are always
scared of it. You don't trust it. You're
afraid of it. And this is what happens
in the case of the Muslim world.
Our biggest problem in the Muslim world is
not money or resources. We have everything.
Muslims are probably the richest people in the
world. Compare Muslims
compare Egyptians, for example, to the Japanese. The
Japanese are poor. That's not it. They don't
have anything. They don't have anything. They don't
have anything. They don't have anything. They don't
have
Rasahir. They don't have anything.
We have tourism. We have agriculture.
We have
industry.
We have natural resources. They don't have anything
and they were destroyed in World War 2
to the ground, but still they have some
of the largest economies
in in the world.
Okay? Tight. Do we invest our money
to speak for ourselves in the west and
to educate non muslims about Islam? Or or
do we spend our money on ordana,
movie channels,
the anime, singing
channels, dancing channels, cooking channels?
Okay? This is what we do. 1,000,000,000 of
dollars are spent.
We have so
many Arabic channels that are specialized in movies
and singing and dancing and cooking.
How many Muslim channels are specialized in dawah
in English?
A few.
So there's Beast TV. There's Islam TV. But
most there are few ones, but most of
them have, financial problems, and they are struggling
to survive.
K?
And most of them also address,
Muslim audiences. They are they are not guiding
directly to work
non Muslim audiences. The last one the last
point is what they call the ratings factor.
The ratings factor
they say in English, if it bleeds, it
leads,
or blood sells,
meaning
people are always interested in violence and problems
and crime and big problems.
Okay?
If you're showing the news good stuff all
the time, pleasant situations, this got married,
okay, the flowers,
beautiful things, nobody is gonna watch your channel
and you will run out of business. But
if they show violence and blood and people
dying and people are bleeding and suffering
or in crime, this is what they will
watch.
And the more violence you have, the more
ratings you will get and the more advertisements
you will get, and we'll make lots of
money. So the people in the media, they
understand this. So they always focus on violence
and terrorism and Islam and all these things.
Number 2,
they show people what they are already
familiar with and what they are willing to
to hear.
And I say, for example, if they stop,
if all people in the media start talking
about how beautiful Islam is and how peaceful
Muslims are.
For them, this is fairy tales. Nobody is
going to believe this. But if they tell
them, oh, Islam is violent.
Muslims are killers, and so on and so
forth
Because they are familiar with this stuff, so
they will accept it. Okay.
So people always accept what they are familiar
with. So basically, inshallah, these are the
top eight reasons why Islam is demonized and
attacked in the media. If you have any
questions,
inshallah,
you have any questions inshallah, you can email
me.
We'll continue next time inshallah.