Sami Hamdi – Gaza Power, Media, and The Mobilization of the Ummah End of the Truce
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The Israeli government is considering peace plans for the upcoming ground invasion of Jerusalem, caused by the conflict between the United States and Iran. The conflict has caused political chaos and the use of images of Israeli leaders to portray them as "ugly" and unproof. The segment also touches on the controversy surrounding Israeli authorization to burn a bomb settlement camp and the use of language in media. The speakers emphasize the importance of showing one's power and finding one's own success in a situation, as well as the success of Islam in activating neighbors and boosting voter turnout. The segment also touches on upcoming political events and the importance of finding one's own success in a situation, as well as engaging in a change to deliver a candidate who has a history of success and a chance to deliver a candidate who has a history of success.
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Thank you very much everybody for coming here. I think that, first
and foremost, the best way to start this is
to go directly to the current events at hand, which is about
Raza, and what everybody is seeing happening in Raza as well, the
events and the pictures as well, that, to be honest, have broken
our hearts. For some of us, it's instilled despair in our hearts.
We've all seen the videos. We've seen the pictures. We saw the
famous video of the man hugging his granddaughter, yaru. He says,
The soul of my soul. We've seen the images of the dead children
and their bodies underneath the rubble. We've seen the images
coming from Martha Aza, from plastiya, from these other
different accounts. We've seen the horror that's unfolded. And many
of us have asked ourselves, what is it that we can do in this
situation? The world is as horrible as it's ever been. We've
seen the international community upholding an environment that
allows ethnic cleansing, that says that genocide is more nuanced,
that there is an a possibility for nuanced genocide, and we've seen
essentially international law. Hamdullah, I studied law, but not
international law, so I didn't waste my time. We've seen
international law essentially become established as the most
useless subject that anybody can study at any university. For those
of you studying international law, save yourselves and change your
subject immediately.
What I want to highlight today. And somebody did make a joke. They
say, when Sammy speaks, he says the same thing over and over and
over again, but in different ways. And I always reply, and I say, the
Quran has had the same message for the past 1400 years. It doesn't
make it any less relevant,
not that I'm saying My words are Quran. I'm saying that. Did I just
say if I'm wrong anyway,
the point I want to make is I want to highlight, is I want to
highlight the reason why we've seen changes in the stance of
policy makers who categorically refused the ceasefire or a pause,
who demanded that the State Department never use the word
ceasefire or pause those countries that came out and defended Israel
between quotation marks, Israel's right to self defense.
And I want to do it by telling you or reminding you of the series of
events and your role in bringing those change. And we'll have a
part one, then salatre. Then for those of you who still have
patience for me, you can come back for part two. For part
two. You'll remember the week before October 7, Netanyahu stood
at the United Nations, and he held up a map, and he had that
horrible, dirty smirk on his face, and he held up the map, and he
said, This is the future vision of the Middle East. This is what
peace in the Middle East looks like. And if you looked at the
map, he had completely erased Palestine completely from the in
the same breath, he said that normalization of ties with Saudi
Arabia will be the greatest deal since the end of the Cold War.
Then the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations told can
television, the Israeli television, he was asked if the
government if, if normalization with Saudi Arabia is on the table,
will the government sign on it or not? And the Israeli ambassador
replied that when the government realizes that normalization with
Saudi Arabia means, quote, the complete Arab abandonment of the
Palestinians, when they realize the opportunities that this
presents, they will sign off it immediately.
In the same trip, after making the speech, Netanyahu, met with the
Turkish president, Erdogan for the first time since Erdogan came to
power in 2003
they discussed a joint gas pipeline in the Mediterranean.
They discussed the Middle East corridor. Turkey is upset that the
Middle East corridor will start in India. It will cross the sea a
little bit and then go to the UAE, through Saudi Arabia, through
Jordan, through Israel, into Europe, which will objectively
transform the whole economics of the area. The Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was saying, don't go through Saudi Arabia. Go
through Turkey. We are better for you as a friend, the Israelis took
that picture, and they started goading the Palestinians and
saying, look, the Sultan of the Muslim world is now sitting and
recognizing the UAE ambassador to Washington. Yusuf oteba gave a
talk to Brookings or Carnegie, one of those think tanks that has the
blue emblem. I forgot which one,
and he was asked, What has normalization of ties with Israel
realistically achieved for the Palestinians? And he said, and I
promise you, this is his words, not mine. He
said, normalization with Israel has achieved absolutely nothing
for the Palestinians, and we Morocco, Sudan and Bahrain and
these nations that have normalized have been unable to get any real
concessions for the Palestinians from the Israelis. And they said,
Well, what are you going to do about it? He said, Now it's up to
the future nations that want to normalize whether they want to get
concessions for the Palestinians. But let's not talk about that. Let
me tell you now how exciting it is, the number of flights we now
have between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv and the wonderful economic
trade contracts.
Now signed between Tel Aviv and between Abu Dhabi. So you can
imagine when Netanyahu returns to Tel Aviv after the United Nations.
You can imagine how he feels. This is it. This is my time. It's
unprecedented. No one is standing by the Palestinians anymore.
Nobody cares about their rights at this particular moment in time,
everybody's coming to me because they want Washington, not me,
Netanyahu abula, but everybody is coming to me because they want
Washington and coming to me because they want economic
assistance. So Netanyahu orders that the Israeli army begins to
build up forces by the border with the Jenin refugee camp near the
West Bank, in preparation for another attempt to annex the West
Bank. For those of you who don't know, in 2019 when Trump came to
try to facilitate normalization between the UAE and Israel. Trump
asked Netanyahu not to raid the Janine refugee camp to allow room
for the UAE to normalize. That's why the UAE told us that they were
normalizing to prevent the annexation of the West Bank. Once
they normalized, Ed, Netanyahu went back and raided the Jenin
refugee camp. Then unfortunately unfortunately, he lost the
election. Naftali Bennett came became prime minister, and he
thought he went in to raid the gene refugee camp, and he was
beginning a military campaign, but then sharin Abu akleh was killed
by an Israeli sniper, and that ended the military operation,
because the killing of such a high profile journalist meant that the
Israelis could no longer continue their offensive this time.
Netanyahu believed that, given everything suggests that the
Palestinian cause is dying, that the Palestinians are being
abandoned, that the Saudi ambassador to Palestine,
Ambassador, between quotation marks, went to the Palestinian
Authority to make an offer for money in exchange for recognition
of Saudi normalization with Israel, something that the
Palestinians were so angry about that when the Saudi ambassador
wanted to pray in Al Aqsa Mosque, the Palestinians told them, Don't
you dare come near Al Aqsa Mosque. Don't you dare set foot. You're
not allowed to pray here. We refuse to allow you. And the Saudi
ambassador said, Whoa, okay, I'm just going to go back to Saudi
Arabia, and Inshallah, another time I'll come to Al Aqsa. Well
done, Palestinians.
Reuters was reporting at the time
that the Saudis had told the Americans, this isn't me. This is
Reuters. The Saudis had told the Americans that they were no longer
keen on a Palestinian state. They wouldn't mind as long as Biden
gives them a NATO style security agreement, nuclear technology, for
a for a chemical weapon, for a weapon, for nuclear weapon. And
also give support for vision 2030, to help to raise the profile of
the concerts of Nicki Minaj of Shakira, of these other concerts,
to show the world that Saudi Arabia is changing, that it's
developing a new image, and that it is becoming more modern, and
that there is progress. If Biden provides these three then he's
willing to compromise on a Palestinian state. If you notice
the Saudi Crown Princess Fox News interview, you'll notice he
doesn't mention a Palestinian state. He says that we will
normalize in exchange for, quote, anything that makes life easier
for the Palestinians.
So Netanyahu, imagine how he feels sitting with his cabinet guys.
There is no King Faisal anymore to do an oil embargo.
There is no Anwar Sadat to surprise us and go into Sinai
Peninsula or come across our border.
There are no Arab leaders anymore who are giving us the three no's
that they gave in Sudan, no peace, no normalization. I can't remember
the third No, but it was something about establishing justice.
But the point here is, Netanyahu said that the whole mood has
shifted. Now is the time to go into the West Bank. So he sent
troops to reinforce Gaza to make sure there been no counter attack,
and he sent troops on the Jenin refugee camp. The point here being
is everybody likes to start on October 7. And the response was
always, let's go back to 1948 but you don't need to go to 1948 the
week before Netanyahu was getting ready to invade. Netanyahu was
getting ready to go into the West Bank. Netanyahu was openly saying,
I'm going in. The Israeli settlers were going they were setting fire
to the houses of the Palestinians. They were going in and saying,
we're going to take the gene refugee camp Mahmoud Abbas. Why
were there huge protests against Mahmoud Abbas, two weeks before
October 7? For those who don't know Mahmoud Abbas, he's the
President of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, the
reason there were huge protests was because they were saying to
Mahmoud, Abbas, the Israelis are preparing for an invasion. Why are
you quiet and not doing anything?
So when anybody talks to you about October 7,
it doesn't matter what you think about October 7, the week before
the Israelis were getting ready to invade, they were raiding the
Jenin refugee camp,
and that's why, for Netanyahu, the events of October 7 were a shock,
because the
Palestinians weren't supposed to have agency. They were supposed to
be dying. The Palestinian cause was supposed to be finished.
But suddenly, now everybody's talking about Palestine,
everybody's talking about Gaza.
Five weeks ago, six weeks ago, people were saying it looks really
bad for.
The Palestinians. Now, everybody's roaring palestine's name.
Netanyahu realized that this is a crisis now because Erdogan, who
started the conflict, giving out neutral statements. The Turks are
so angry that they're forcing him to take harder statements.
The Saudi Crown Prince, who was on the verge of normalizing, is now
lifting restrictions on the Haram, whereas the last year, they
haven't been making any dua for Palestine. Now he's allowing the
Imams to make dua for Palestine. Again,
the UAE, which normalized ties and refused to allow its commentators
to criticize Israel, allowed Abdul Khaliq Abdullah and Nashik and
these others to start lambasting the Israelis within limits. They
can't say kick out the Israeli ambassador, but they can
Ambassador Israelis. But still, suddenly these nations are
buckling under pressure, but more importantly for Netanyahu, the
Israeli polls themselves were saying that this was all Netanyahu
fault,
that Netanyahu brought this disaster on us, that Mr. Security
turned out to be a stay insecurity,
if you notice, in that first week, usually when a country is in a
state of war, a war cabinet is established. Almost immediately.
It's a national duty, national crisis, you form a war cabinet.
But for almost 10 days, Netanyahu could not form a war cabinet. The
reason being is that none of the parties thought that this was a
serious threat to Israel. They believed it was a serious threat
only to Netanyahu political future,
and they didn't want to be the ones to rescue Netanyahu political
future. Yahi Lapid, head of the opposition, refused to join the
cabinet. So did the other parties, until eventually, Netanyahu had to
settle for Benny Gantz to join his war cabinet 10 days they don't
form a war cabinet to show you how the Israelis viewed this as
Netanyahu fault, not the Palestinians fault.
The reason I say all this is to set the lay of the land one week
before, and to put October 7 into context, and also to put into
context that the Israelis themselves believe that this is
Netanyahu fault, not anything to do with the Palestinians.
The problem, however, is here in the United States of America, you
have some very ideological officials, such as Anthony
Blinken,
who became so excited that the opportunity that all of this
crisis now suddenly presents
the opportunity to get more land for Israel to expand Israel's
Israel's borders. Anthony Blinken immediately told his State
Department, not a single one of you is allowed to use the word
pause or cease fire.
This is an exciting opportunity for ethnic cleansing, and we're
going to take it to the maximum. John Paul, one of the directors,
Secretary of this of the State Department, is so horrified he
resigns.
State Department employees cannot believe that Blinken is so brazen
in supporting ethnic cleansing. So they start shouting louder,
blinking then goes to Tel Aviv in excitement, and he says, I'm here
not as the Secretary of State of the United States. I'm here as a
Jew,
as if the Holocaust happened in the Middle East,
as if the Spanish Inquisition happened in seria,
as if the Warsaw program in Poland happened in Tunisia,
as if somehow it was not the Europeans, the most anti Semitic
people in history,
who persecuted the Jews and drove them out of Europe, so that they
came to the Muslim lands over and over again, and they found Haven
and they found sanctity. When Isabella of Spain kicked out the
Jews and massacred them, it was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
who said, Allah has ordained on me a duty to look after you and
protect you. Come to the Muslim lands. We will never treat you
like these anti semitic Europeans.
When the poles happened in Poland, it was the Muslim lands where the
Jews found sanctity after the Holocaust, the Jews, they got in
their boats coming towards Palestine, and they had these big
banners, please don't do to us what Europe has done to us. And we
told them, never, we will never do it. The Muslims never do this kind
of thing to other populations, because Allah doesn't allow us to
the Prophet Muhammad SAW, never allows us to the Prophet Muhammad
SAW, when he entered Medina and he made the medina covenant, he said
to the Jews, those who oppress you, we will defend you against
them, and you will defend us against those who seek to oppress
us. That's the bond between the relation that Allah has enjoined
on us. That's why Omar Al Muhtar the Libyan liberation leader, when
the Italians were capturing the Libyans and torturing them,
when they when the Libyans finally captured Italians, they said,
Let's do to them what they do to us. Among said they are not our
teachers. These anti semitic Europeans are not our teachers.
One of the reasons that Jews search for an independent state
was because the Europeans treated them so horribly, they used to
massacre them and persecute them. Even the Balfour Declaration, the
Balfour Declaration was not a favor to the Jews. It was an anti
semitic proposal.
Balfour, in which he said, We don't want these Indian Jews. We
don't want them here. We want to kick them out. Go Anywhere, go
Argentina, Uganda, going, we don't want you here. And that's why it
was the only Jewish representative, the only Jewish
representative in parliament, actually stood up and rejected the
Balfour Declaration. He said, What is this antiSemitism? We want to
kick us out of the country. We always assume it was a favor. It
wasn't. It was because Europe was so anti semitic that they were
passing laws in Parliament and making declaration to get the Jews
out of Europe. It's a uniquely European affair.
So when Blinken turns up in Tel Aviv and says, I'm here as a Jew,
I can't lie to you. When I heard that, I said, Alhamdulillah, you
Jews have always been safe here, but welcome.
Yeah, I know it must be tough for you guys. You know, in Europe and
within in the barbaric nature of Europe, come to the Muslim lands,
we always look after you. Andalusi is the epitome of coexistence. You
know, even to this day, Sarajevo is called the Jerusalem of Europe.
Sarajevo, Muslim city in the heart of Europe, is called the Jerusalem
of Europe. Why? Because it's the only European city where the
religions live side by side peacefully, under which rule,
under Muslim rule, even they acknowledge it.
But anyway, Blinken turns up to Tel Aviv, and he says, I'm here as
a Jew, not as a secretary of state.
And Blinken says, We will give every support for the Israelis to
ethnic Eclipse and to bombard Gaza. The
problem, however, is
there is an issue. When Blinken lands in Tel Aviv and meets with
Netanyahu, he's supposed to go straight to Washington, but then
he tells the journalist that we're not going home to Washington,
guys. We need to go see bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. We need to go see
the UAE. We need to go see a Qatar. There's something urgent
that I've discussed with Netanyahu that needs to be remedied very
quickly.
And we political analyst went, what happened? What? What did they
say that requires them to go to the regional powers?
Washington Post the next day reported Blinken fails in his trip
to the regional powers, and it said Blinken had gone to ask them
to tamp down on public anger. Blinken and Netanyahu sat there
and said that Muslims in the Bay Area are talking about Palestine
so much that they're forcing a shift in public opinion. I'm going
to seek help from Bin Salman and Bin Zayed and from our allies to
get the Bay Area Muslims to be quiet.
The Secretary of State and Netanyahu talked about you in
their war room. Think about it. Think about they talked about the
priorities the highest levels of state. They sat in their war room
and they said that these guys in Bay are so problematic, I need to
go on a plane. I need to fly 1000s of miles in order to try to get
help, to get them to be quiet.
So some of the leaders say, ABS, don't worry, I've got this
Abdul Rahman Al suday as salaam alaikum. I need a fatwa that says
that Razer is fitna and that they should not talk about it, because
it might turn them against wali al AMR AB Sharia, Tawil, Ahmed
sudays in the in the Haram in Mecca. He tells them, may Allah
bless Raza and give them victory. But don't talk too much about Raza
things that you have no right to talk about, because this is a
fitna that will lead you against your rulers.
I had a Turkish friend who said to me, Sammy, sometimes in your
videos, you exaggerate about the extent to which the Ulama are used
to keep people quiet about Raza. I said, Okay, rather, no problem. He
said to me, I'm going to Umrah in Medina, and I'm going to prove to
you that they're talking about Ghazal Faustin talk. Allah.
Hadibi, may Allah, when you're there, make dua that I have a
chance one day in my lifetime to make Umrah again as well.
Inshallah,
say Ameen, because it's not nice people say they want to be
political. Analyst. I tell them you don't want to bear the
consequences of it. So he goes and he sends me a voice note 10
minutes long, and he says, Sammy, the imam in Medina said Raza, and
I recorded it for you. Here you go. Say something Kazi.
So I listen to the voice note. He doesn't understand Arabic and
skin the imam in the voice note says,
Our hearts are bleeding for but ya. Ibad Allah, beware the people
who are trying to cause fitna and turn you against your leaders. Do
not talk about issues that you do not know. Trust our leaders, that
they know what they are doing. Give your backing to our leaders.
Don't burden them with your analysis, stick to your leaders
and obey them. This is the Sunnah. This is what Islam is about.
Stuff, Allah. Love you. Stuff, Allah, stuff, Medina, munawww,
next to the grave of the Prophet Muhammad.
Not only that, Bin Salman offers blinking something else as well,
where blinking goes back and the Saudis
decide to do something that no other Arab countries does. And
bear in mind the opinions expressed. Here are the opinions
of the speaker only, not of the Muslims sent to the Bay Area.
Please let them continue to do Ahmad and sha Allah, it's not
their fault, Allah, it's only mine, and please don't hold them.
To account for it. The organizers did not know what I was going to
say.
So on the night that Israel turns off the internet on Gaza and
begins its ground invasion,
Shakira is dancing Riyadh in the Riyadh season,
the UAE, Oman Kuwait and these other countries all banned their
festivals. They all stopped it in solidarity with Raza. But Turkey
elishik, the descendant of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab, I know
the irony. The descendant of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab, who is
the not Muhammad Abu hab Turki Al shikh is the head of the
entertainment authority, and the descent of Muhammad wahib Turki al
posts on Facebook on the Friday night before Riyadh season, and he
says, How can anybody ask me to cancel Shakira and Riyadh season?
Name me one football match that was canceled because of a
political event, and he doesn't have the class to even write at
the bottom. May Allah accept the martyrs of Brazil.
So Saudi Arabia says, Okay, no problem blinking. Don't worry,
Jared Kushner, the son in law of Trump, is invited to Saudi Arabia
as the keynote speaker at the Davos forum. So in the middle of
Riyadh, in the third week of bombing of Gaza, Jared Kushner,
from the heart of Saudi Arabia, says that the Palestinians wanted
to ruin the Abraham Accords, but the Saudis and the Israelis will
not allow that to happen,
and that the Saudis are aware that these Palestinians are also a
threat to them. And he
starts celebrating the Abraham accords from the heart of Saudi
Arabia. Then Jared Kushner comes back to the US, and he says the
Saudis are still very enthusiastic about normalization of ties, and I
felt safer in Saudi Arabia than I do on some of the university
campuses. University campuses here in the United
States. But some countries refuse Blinken request. CC does something
that I didn't expect him to do. He turns on the cameras when Blinken
sits with him, and he starts lecturing Blinken for 40 minutes,
telling him, what does it mean when you come to Tel Aviv and say,
I'm here as a Jew. Never
done anything to the Jews. Or what kind of lecture is this? Give me
an example of something that we did. Yeah, blinking. What are you
doing?
To be honest, as much as whatever my opinions about CCR, it was an
excellent lecture.
Blinken goes to Jordan and says to the Jordanians, I know that you're
very angry, I know. But why don't we get the Palestinian authority
to rule over as afterwards, instead of Hamas in Jordan, 50% of
the population of Palestinians, King Abdullah can't do anything
that upsets the Palestinians. He doesn't get the * out of my
door, you know? How dare you. You put me in this very difficult
position, you know.
So Blinken goes back and reports to Biden. So Biden comes up with
an idea. On the 20th of October, Biden says, just tap the table
when I'm
because sometimes, you know, they they get they feel embarrassed to
tell me to stop, but they can't tell me to stop. So Biden, on the
20th of October, announces that he's going to deal with this
problem by presenting a bill to Congress in which Congress will
dedicate millions of dollars to give to Egypt and Jordan, and they
will forgive the debt of Egypt if they take in the Palestinians.
Biden says, look here, Jamal, I know that you guys are concerned
about the fallout of what's happening in Gaza, but we can help
to accelerate the ethnic cleansing process. To accelerate it, we will
give you money, just open the border and let the Palestinians
come in, and you don't have to spend the penny. We will spend the
money. We will fund the ethnic cleansing. Just take in the
Palestinians. CC says, absolutely no way. They already call me a
traitor for doing a coup. They're going to call me a traitor for
contributing to Akbar, but then I'm not doing it. Do I look
stupid? The the same Shukri tells Financial Times that if we're
forced to take in the Palestinians, we will put them all
on boats and send them to Europe and you can deal with them. Not
the nicest thing to say about Muslim Brothers, but it is what it
is.
The Jordanians say any displacement of Palestinians from
Gaza, outside of Gaza will mean a declaration of war
as a result of this pressure, Biden, on the 28th of October,
says that no Palestinian should be kicked out of Gaza. They should
stay in Gaza. Some of you might be thinking, Why didn't Sisi open the
border? Sisi didn't open the border because he was concerned
that the Palestinians would come rushing in, and then he'd be
complicit in the Nakba. It's one of those very awkward catch 22
even. I don't know what's the right decision to open the border
or not to open the border, but what is clear is that as a result
of Sisi not budging and King Abdullah not budging, Biden ended
up abandoning the idea of giving money to those countries to take
it. Now I thought Biden was lying, because Biden did say that he saw
images of beheaded babies. And then the White House were like,
whoa, whoa, whoa, no, guys, he didn't. He didn't, he didn't. It's
Netanyahu who told him he didn't see any pictures of beheaded
babies.
So I thought maybe the kadabi is lying.
And then John Kirby came out the next day and said, Yes, we won't
see the displacement. However, in.
Your problem starts emerging
while they're trying to plot about the day after Gaza and facilitate
the ethnic cleansing. Polls start coming out in America that
suggests that Biden is now behind Trump in five or six swing states.
Not only that, in four of those swing states, Muslims are the
deciding vote.
So Biden starts to panic. And Biden says, Guys, with all due
respect, I love the Israelis and the Zionists by losing an election
for them. So Blinken says, Please wait. Don't do anything yet, I
have a genius idea. Let me go to Tel Aviv and present it to them.
Now I have to confess, this is actually, this was actually a
genius idea. Blinken came up with a marketing strategy for ethnic
cleansing. He went to the Israelis, and he said to them,
guys, you're too loud and brazen with your ethnic cleansing. You
can't say you're going to annihilate Gaza, and you can't see
going to nuke Gaza. You have to use more humane and merciful
terminology. They said, What do you mean blinking? According to
Axios, by the way, Axios Blinken, exact phrase was, help me to help
you. Because the public pressure in the United States from these
annoying Muslims in the Bay Area and the annoying Muslims in LA and
the annoying Muslims in North Carolina and the Muslims across
America, their voices are so loud that they're forcing shift in
public opinion. I'm worried that sleepy Joe is buckling, and we
need to rescue this attempt at ethnic cleansing, cos it may never
come again.
So yeah, Netanyahu, don't say that you're annihilating Gaza. Say that
you will have a humanitarian pause where you allow the families,
mercifully, to leave their homes four hours every single day, and
that they will go through humanitarian corridors under the
protection of the Israeli army. Netanyahu, what do you think?
So you keep ethnically cleansing, but we make it look merciful and
humane. Netanyahu responds, according to Axios, this isn't my
words. Netanyahu says, I need to know that this is not a plan from
Biden to lure me into a ceasefire. I need to know this isn't like
2021 where Biden kept saying he supports me and then called me
randomly one day and said, Stop. No more support. And that's why,
if you remember Biden when the humanitarian pause was
implemented, Biden told journalists it came late, but at
least it came because Biden acknowledged the frustration that
Netanyahu did not implement it when he asked him to you think
they are united, but kolubu Hum shetta, but their hearts are
divided.
So Netanyahu implements this humanitarian pause.
I got the sign.
The problem is, however, that once again, the Ummah refuses to be
silent,
so they start showing pictures of the modern day Nakba,
of an elderly woman in the wheelchair having to go hundreds
of or 10s of miles to escape because the Israelis want to take
her home. They're showing pictures of corpses on the street that
Israel has taken they're seeing now that people who supported
Israel in the past, are now doing videos where they are saying that
they're now becoming increasingly pro Palestinian. They're seeing
people on Tiktok start to open the Quran and say, You know what? I
want to know how these Palestinians have so much
resilience. I want to know what it is that makes them so resilient.
So I'm going to do every day of it. Sorry for the accent I was. I
know it's poor, but I'm going to do a video every single day, guys
of the Quran and the verses that are in the Quran, and I want to
know where they get it. So now they're finding that people are
opening the Quran, and ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is guiding them
to Islam. You remember the girl in the first week she opened the
Quran, and then I saw her last week with Doctor rahe Eunice. She
taken Asher, had that, put on the hijab, and she became Muslim,
SubhanAllah.
They plan on our plans. Suddenly we're seeing that. People are now
reading about what's happening. There was a really good video, so
my sisters pleaded with me eight months ago to get on Tiktok and
Instagram. I'm not old by any stretch, but the other issues I
had with it was Tiktok felt like a waste of time, and Instagram is a
picture oriented thing, and I don't take many pictures even I'm
on holiday.
May Allah bless the creators of Tiktok and Instagram and give them
the highest Jannah.
Truly, I mean it
because as a result of Tiktok, I saw one video as part of the trend
where a girl is doing a simulation of a conversation between an
Israeli and somebody who knows nothing about Palestine Israel,
and I'll try to imitate it here.
Oh my god. October 7, they killed us. They did this. Oh my god.
What? They killed civil they killed babies. They could, yeah,
they did their barbarians, their animals. But why? Why would they
do that? What? What what would make people do that? I don't know.
I don't know. They're just barbarians. What can you No, no,
you know what? This freaks me out. I gotta read about this. No, don't
read about it. Don't read about don't open the book. Don't read
about. No, no, I gotta read it. Don't don't read. Don't read.
That's the.
Mood that everybody is having when they're starting to open the books
and start realizing there was a very nice phrase from Tiktok. They
met with Tiktok directors last week, and they said to Tiktok, you
need to stop sharing pro Palestinian content because you're
promoting terrorism or the like. They said, Listen, it's not the
algorithm. It's just a new generation of pro Palestinian it's
just that the argument is convincing a new generation,
because what was happening, what was troubling Blinken and
Netanyahu, is that, for those of you who work in tech, I don't know
much about tech. I'm not not going to claim I know much, but I do
know this. I do know that what social media likes more than
anything else is not truth or fact. They like popular posts,
so when they saw that hashtag, Palestine was being shared, not in
the millions, but in the billions, first by 1.9 billion Muslims
around the world. One thing Elon Musk did really good, and I really
resented that Elon Musk took over Twitter. I was one of those, you
know, arrogant intellectuals who was like, you know, he's going to
ruin Twitter, but Masha Allah is the Greatest Day in Twitter's
history, and I'll tell you why Musk did something where if you
notice when you open Twitter or x, let's show respect for him. In
this regard. Don't worry about his visit to Tel Aviv. I'm ignoring
that for now.
The thing that he did with x was, if you notice when you open it, he
gives you a homepage of people that you don't follow. That's the
first page that opens up. That homepage is compiled of popular
posts that are trending around the world. So what it meant was that
Dave, sitting in East London, opened up X, and he went, I stave,
have you seen this?
Steve? Steve, I'm not being funny, right? But these Israelis are
killing babies, right? They're killing women and children. Mate,
or they're lunatics. They're insane. What's this? Who's this?
Chamaster? So just because of Kamas, they're killing all these
people. Mate, nah, nah, I can't have it. Oh, let's get the lads.
Let's go to the pub and let's talk about guys. Yeah, I saw. Oh, you
need to see this video. See this video. See this video. Look at
this guy holding his baby. Look at this guy holding this look. Look.
So suddenly the algorithm was favoring those Palestinian posts,
delivering it to new corners of the world, resulting in shift in
public opinion. So when the second poll came out in the US, it showed
that Biden's numbers were falling even further. Now, some of the
Democrats tried to say that this was because of the economy, some
of the
Democrats, some of the Democrats some of them Democrats, tried to
say that it's because of the economy, but one thing that the
pollsters said, According to Reuters, is that the reason these
polls are so shocking is because usually it's the economy, but
these polls are dropping because of Biden's stance on Israel. And
the reason that's shocking is because this is the first time
that the polls have been affected by a war where the US doesn't
officially have troops on the ground. Usually, the reason they
fall imposed because of war is because, why are our boys fighting
all the way in Iraq? Why finally, in Afghanistan, this time, they're
not even fighting in those areas, and still, the polls are dropping
because the Ummah is roaring, and people are hearing that roar.
They're hearing those voices. They're hearing the Palestinian
voices for the first time ever, and that's resulting in a public
shift that made Blinken and Biden Buckle.
It made them buckle.
So when they did this humanitarian pause in order to humanely and
mercifully ethnically cleansed. Nobody bought it. Instead, we saw
tweets such as, Oh my God, you paused the genocide. How do you
pause ethnic cleansing? How is it? It's like I know. I know best.
Abusive role in the Egyptian coup was horrible. I know. Yes, I know.
But Allah chooses his vehicles, not us. Best said the wonderful
thing in the Piers Morgan interview, where he said, Piers
Morgan said to him, but the Israelis are warning the families
before they bomb them. And besim, you said, how cute. Oh, excuse me,
sorry, sir, we're going to bomb your house in in a few hours. Do
you mind leaving so that we can do so what a cute army This is.
People were seeing that, and they were doing Tiktok and memes and
jokes. There were jokes coming out where I remember I saw video. This
isn't Muslim videos. These are, for example, people, ordinary
white Americans, who are making jokes where you sit on a table and
somebody goes, Excuse me, can I sit with you? And then you come
back, you go to the bathroom, you come back, and suddenly he's taken
over the whole table, and he says, Oh, mate, you've been Israel.
These were going viral. These these memes were going viral. We
were seeing these were becoming popular on social media. This is
what the algorithm was promoting. And it is reported. I don't know
if it's true, but it was reported from an Israeli analyst that said,
for every pro Israel video people watch, they're watching 15 pro
Palestinian videos that was and not only that, think about it.
Israel spent millions on advertising for ethnic cleansing.
You know, when I did the yakin podcast, when I went to rewatch it
on YouTube, because somebody laughed at the teacup that I was
using in that in that interview, when I went to rewatch it, the
advert that came up.
Before I started was IDF advert. When I went to listen to Sheik
Sharam surataha, IDF advert came up beforehand. When I went to see
to try to cut some clips from thinking Muslim podcast, IDF
advert came I said, SubhanAllah. They're not even trying to tailor
the marketing. They're just spending billions to do it. You
broke that for free. You broke their narrative for free.
All that money was wasted. You broke it for free. That's why we
should make dua that Allah guides the founders of social media,
because they changed the game. I have never seen mainstream
presenters on TV apologize for their coverage on Palestine and
Israel, when the when the CNN came out and apologized for giving wall
to wall coverage over the issue of the beheaded babies, I ask you,
Bill, I ask you honestly, Did she apologize because Netanyahu called
and said, Wallahi, you weren't fair in the coverage. It doesn't
say Allah. But do you think it's because Netanyahu asked, Do you
think it's because Biden said, oh my goodness, please uphold your
journalistic standards. Do you think it's because Blinken said,
Where is the integrity here? No, she apologized because you were so
loud in your denouncing of CNN that the presenter had no choice
but to come out and say, My goodness. What's this rule? What's
this wave? What's this pressure that's being brought to bear on
me? Let me apologize and get them off my back. You made her
apologize.
The BBC, I went to the million man protest, very proud. And I took my
kids as well, my four year old, Suleiman on my shoulders, free,
free, free. Palestine,
the
BBC tried to say this was in protest of Hamas supporters.
Within 24 hours, they were forced to apologize again. Why? Because
there was a rule. It just hounded them. They said, there's so much
negative feedback, we have to apologize. You not only made
Blinken buckle, you made the mainstream media buckle as well.
The power that you thought was insignificant, Allah amplified it
and made it significant. And while calling Allah, I'll finish the
rest of the story in sha Allah after Salat Asia, because he told
me one minute, and jezek will finish the story after South Asia,
but we'll continue inshallah. So we got to the point about people
starting reading about Palestine and Israel, and then why that was
becoming problematic. So eventually, Netanyahu had to seed
and allow the humanitarian pause. He had to adopt a new marketing
strategy for ethnic cleansing. Now the reason why I want to stop here
for a second is because I want you to appreciate exactly what you
force Netanyahu to do. It is true that the humanitarian pause is
simply a ploy to redefine or remarket ethnic cleansing. But I
ask you, was that Netanyahu his ideal situation? Was that
Netanyahu his ideal marketing? Was that Netanyahu ideal move? It was
not Netanyahu buckled and was forced to adopt measures in
response to a power that was being brought to bear on him. There was
a power that was pressuring him in order to revise and reconsider the
manner of his ethnic cleansing. I argue that that power was not the
goal. States, that power was you and every other Muslim who shared
on social media, and every other Muslim who shared on Palestine,
who changed the public opinion, and that's what forced Netanyahu
to buckle in his first concession with regards to the humanitarian
pause, it was you, not the Gulf states.
The reason why I want to highlight that is to emphasize that you
thought you had no power, but in reality, you do have power. You
are in the considerations of the policy makers throughout this
conflict. But for you, Netanyahu would have continued the way that
he was conducting himself, but Blinken scrambled, because he said
that your voice was so loud and so effective, they needed a new
marketing strategy for ethnic cleansing that failed miserably,
because within one week or one week and a half of this
humanitarian pause, suddenly They were discussing about the day
after
during that humanitarian pause, we saw the horrific images of
families being forced out of their homes and having to make that
journey down to the south of Gaza. The problem is, however, is that
the Israelis are not used to showing respect for other people.
Allah, Subhanahu wa himself says in the Quran value sabila When
they are told, why do they treat people badly? They say, We have
you cannot blame us for treating the unlettered people this way.
So the IDF decided to bomb jabelli, a refugee camp, and they
massacred and slaughtered 400 Palestinians, including women and
children, because they claim they were targeting one Hamas commander
that they could not confirm, even if they killed him or not.
When the IDF commander went on CNN that night, and the CNN presenter
was trying to find a way to market this tragedy in a way that
doesn't.
Israel look bad. So he asked the IDF commander, what happened? Was
it a blast? Was it explosion? IDF said, No, mate, we did it.
Yeah, we did it. What's the problem? And you watch the CNN
plan, go back to the video, search idfcnn. Jabelya, the presenter, is
stunned. He forgets to ask his next question for a good 1015,
minutes,
the confession is so brazen that New York Times enters the scene
and says, Yeah, IDF, what's this? You can't be so open about your
genocide. We have a suggestion here to help you market it. We
will say that an explosion happened, and we don't know where
this explosion happened. IDF, shrugged their shoulders, and they
said, Yeah, but we did it. CNN said, no, no. IDF, no,
we're going to say that a blast happened somehow, from somewhere.
IDF, again, shrugged their shoulders. Guys do what you want,
but we did it. They were very proud of it.
So very quickly, the marketing strategy was collapsing. Instead
of people saying that there's a humanitarian corridor that
Palestinians are being saved from the bombing under the protection
of the Israeli army, the Israelis just continue doing what they're
doing in terms of their massacre.
That's when CNN reports. And this is CNN, not me. This is when CNN
reports and says that Biden spoke to Netanyahu and said to him that
quote, the bombardment of the videos on social media that is
changing public opinion means you no longer have months. You
probably only have a couple of weeks. The President of the United
States of America, because you wouldn't be quiet, told Netanyahu
that I can't support this project for months anymore. You probably
only have a couple of weeks if that. And that's why the Israeli
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen then came out and said, we probably
have only two weeks left before international pressure really
comes to bear on us.
So you can see them buckling over each other as a result of that
shift in public opinion.
Then another dynamic starts emerging, which leads us to the
ceasefire, truce that we're seeing today. Now,
one thing that Netanyahu has been particularly concerned about is
this
politico which is a news outlet I encourage you to follow very
prominent they reported that Biden told Netanyahu that while he will
support Israel openly, he's now sick and tired of Netanyahu, and
so after all of this is finished, Netanyahu has to go. You'll also
note that Erdogan, for example, himself, said that our allies are
telling us that Netanyahu cannot stay in power after this has
happened, and that's why political reported that one of the reasons
Benny Gantz is in the war cabinet is because the Americans have
promised him that they would work with him as the next prime
minister of Israel. The point here being is Netanyahu is aware that
his political future is on the line, and if the war stops, he
will have to face an angry Israel public opinion that blames him and
that, according to the polls inside Israel, Netanyahu and his
whole coalition would lose the next election if it was held today
in Israel, the families of the hostages, of course, are terrified
for the safety of the prisoners. They've been taught that
Palestinians are horrible, that they are barbaric. They've been
told that Palestinians do horrible things to prisoners, that
Palestinians do to the prisoners, what Israel does to the
Palestinian prisoners. You've seen the prisoners have been released
by Israel teenagers talking about beating, being beaten up by
Israelis, being raped, being tortured, having their bones
broken. One thing, the reason why Israel is not allowing any media
to talk to Israeli hostages is because Israeli hostages look
happy when they're being released. They are turning around and
saying, shalom, alekum. One girl is walking past going, thank you.
One of them is doing a dab. When they are going through they're
having conversation. They're saying, Thank you so much. Take
care. And Israel is like, meanwhile, the Israelis are
bringing out the Palestinian prisoners in headlocks. They're
bringing them, dragging them by their shirts. So Israel said that
this time, we won't make the same mistake as last time. Do you
remember when those two elderly hostages were released, and the
old lady turns down she and she she's going to the Red Cross. She
goes, Wait a second, guys, Shalom alekom. And they tell her,
when she was interviewed by the media, the Israelis were
horrified. They wanted her to say that these are barbarians. I was
beaten up. I was, you know, starved, and they gave me horrible
food. And the like, she turns around and she says, yeah, the
initial experience when we didn't know where we were going, was
*. But to be honest, they treated us well. They we ate from
the same food that they ate, and they did not harm us at all. CNN
was so horrified that Palestinians are human, that they treat prison
as well, that they put their headline. It was an experience
from *.
Those on Twitter, the Twitterati or the exarti These days, they
were so horrified, they said, Stockholm Syndrome. Well, if
it was Stockholm Syndrome, why don't the Palestinian prisons have
Stockholm Syndrome? I.
Why doesn't a single Palestinian come out from an Israeli prison
and say, Wallahi, mashallah, these Israelis treat us so well, yani
only. They have Stockholm Syndrome and Allah.
So this was proven problematic. So the hostages were turning around,
and they were saying to Netanyahu, Netanyahu, why aren't you
releasing the hostages you've been fighting. You talk about
annihilating Gaza, but my family are still there, so a group of the
families of the hostages in Israel begin to protest on the streets.
Benve Netanyahu is right wing ally, the one who goes regularly
to a Jerusalem to provoke the Muslims. He comes out and he says,
I'm going to pass a law in the Knesset banning any protest that
undermines the military operations. People thought it was
directed at Palestinians. It was directed at the families of the
hostages.
So the families of the hostages responded. Israeli said, What on
earth is going on? Why are they turning on our own people? So more
protesters took two streets. They went to Netanyahu house, because
Netanyahu had not attended a single funeral for any of the
victims of what happened on October 7, because Netanyahu was
terrified if he attended the PR would be bad, because they would
blame him
when they turned up at Netanyahu house, Ben gvir ordered Israeli
settlers to charge and attack those Israeli protesters to charge
and attack the families of the hostages.
Suddenly, the Israelis are saying, Whoa. What's going on here? Isn't
this war supposedly to release the hostages? Why are Netanyahu and
his goons attacking the families of the hostages?
Then when the two elderly hostages were released, again, the one who
said Shalom Aleko, I really love the the phrase Shalom Aleko,
because it shows Alhamdulillah, that in Islam, we see Allah orders
us to show respect to everybody
in a way that they don't.
The Times of Israel reported when the two Israeli hostages were
released, they reported and quote, again, you can find this on
Google. This isn't my words. You can find this on Google because
sometimes when a political analyst advising clients, there's
analysis, but oftentimes they want proof. The proof is the Times of
Israel article, which says that when the two hostages were
released, Netanyahu and the IDF were quote, frustrated and
annoyed, because they believe the release of hostages will
compromise the desire and need for military operation. Think about
it. They prefer their people to stay as hostages and prisoners
because they want to go to war and ethnic cleanse, they would rather
see their hostages die for taking in order to take piece of land in
order to ethnic cleanse and commit genocide. The Israelis were
furious,
so Netanyahu realizes that now 1000s of people are starting to
take to the streets in Tel Aviv in solidarity with the families of
the hostages, because they now believe that Netanyahu doesn't
care about them, that Netanyahu just wants war, because he
believes that if he doesn't have war, he would be forced to face an
inquiry that forces him to resign, and it will permanently end his
political career. And this is not Sami saying it. This is Ehud
olmer, the former prime minister who told Politico that Netanyahu
is fighting for his political career and his political life, and
then net Yahoo is scrambling, and the reason he has no strategic
aims is because his only aim at the moment is to try to make sure
he stays in power.
So Netanyahu invites the families of the hostages to meet his wife
again. That doesn't go well at all. The wife says, We care about
you. They say you don't.
So then he invites them to the Knesset, to their version of the
parliament. And when they come to the Knesset, the Israeli officials
say, We assure you we are doing everything we can to these
hostages. And the brother of the hostages shout is, no, you're not.
You're so you're saying that you're going to annihilate Gaza,
that you're going to flatten Gaza. My brother is there. Who are you
flattening? Why don't you care that you might kill him in your
bombing campaign? Israeli social media only took that clip and it
went viral in Israel.
So benvi realizes now that Netanyahu is hesitating, that the
hostage exchange deal that he's been rejecting for the past four
weeks, Netanyahu now finds that Biden is pressuring him to take it
because Biden is worried that those in the Bay Area will not
vote Democrat, and Ben Veer is concerned that Netanyahu will
accept this deal because of Israeli public pressure. So
benigbe says, Netanyahu, give me a chance with the family of the
hostages. I'll get them on board. So he meets them in the Knesset,
and then when they're shouting at him, he goes on, he goes to one of
the family members, and he forces in an assault. He hugs them like
that, and the fellow just like, like this. And that picture goes
viral. So the Israelis say, but they say, they say, my goodness,
how dare Ben veer imposed himself like that on the fannies hostages.
So Israeli public opinion continues to turn against
Netanyahu.
So two dynamics come into play. There's one that you forced,
which is as a result of you pressuring on social media, that
forced.
Erdogan to go from an unprecedentedly weak statement. By
unprecedented, I mean, if you remember Erdogan in the past,
Israel, terror Israel,
this time, he said, We want to media. I have great sympathies for
Erdogan. I like his voice. I didn't do because I like his
voice. It's very strong.
May Allah protect Inshallah,
Erdogan does an unprecedented statement where he says, we
denounce the escalation, and we want to mediate between both
parties, because Erdogan doesn't want to jeopardize the ties with
Israel. He needs that that map and then a viral video goes in Turkey,
where a Turk, because the Turks, masha Allah, this new generation
of Turks, masha Allah, they love their Deen. They took to the
streets in their 1000s in Istanbul, in Ankara, in BUSA, all
across Turkey for the sake of Philistine. And there was a video
that went via a man who said, Erdogan, you called us out in 2016
and they attempted coup to rescue you from the coup. Call us out now
for Raza Erdogan.
And Erdogan realized, oh my goodness, the people are going one
way and I'm going another way. I need to try to control this, to
tell the Israelis that I'm happy to work with them, but I need to
take my people. He organizes a million man rally where he gives a
powerful speech against the Israelis, to let the Turks spread
of some air. But he repeats a phrase constantly, we cannot work
with Netanyahu. We cannot deal with Netanyahu. We cannot do this
with Netanyahu. The message is clear, change Netanyahu and we can
keep the relations as
we are. But the Turks are not happy. They go to the Israeli
embassy. So Israel panics and withdraws the ambassador from
Turkey. Erdogan says, my good this is quite embarrassing for me. So
he decides to withdraw the ambassador from Israel, so it
doesn't look bad for him, but Erdogan is forced to change his
stance. Why? Because of you. Because you said, Erdogan, what
are you doing? Because the Turks said, Erdogan, what are you what
are you doing? For those of you who've been following Saudi
Arabia, you'll note that in the past year and a half, Saudi Arabia
has been avoiding calling Israel an occupation or a colonizer in
2021 if you look at the statement, they referred to Israel as Israel,
but between quotation marks to give room for Mashiach to say that
Saudi is not normalizing because they put Israel in quotation
marks,
Wonderful teh wheel, because
of what public pressure and concern and concern of public
pressure, the Saudi statement went back to calling Israel the
occupation, because bin Salman said, Whoa, I need to be careful
here in terms of how I manage it, that public opinion is forcing the
shift. So you have the first dynamic, Biden being concerned
because of public opinion, and you have the dynamic of Israel, which
leads to this hostage troops and the ceasefire agreement. Here's
what I want you to consider. We went from no ceasefire, no pause,
no talk about it, no mention of it, no nothing, to now a hostage
exchange and a ceasefire. And those of you who saw Biden's tweet
yesterday or the day before, time's a blur when the time
difference is so big between London and this end of the earth,
place that's called San Francisco. But when? But if you see Biden's
tweet yesterday or the day before, you remember Biden in the
beginning of the conflict, said that Hamas that we can't have a
ceasefire, because that's what Hamas wants. Yesterday, he said we
shouldn't have war because that's what Hamas wants, a complete 180
because of you.
And this is why, when Netanyahu is forced to accept the ceasefire,
truce, hostage exchange, Ben gvir goes ballistic. He comes out and
he says, No, I will not vote for it. No, I will not have it. Why?
Who is that message delivered to is delivered to netanyah. It means
Ben gvir believes there's a sudden danger to his desire for ethnic
cleansing in the ceasefire. Truth, I saw many Muslims say this is a
disgrace, this hostage ceasefire. Truth, and it's true. It's a
disgrace insofar as it is not a permanent ceasefire. It's a
disgrace insofar as it doesn't mean an end to the genocide and
ethnic cleansing. But is it a success insofar as it shows they
are falling over themselves, and now they're forced into ceasefire,
into a pause while they revise their tactics, because you've made
it impossible for them to continue in the way that they did before.
You made them buckle. You got the ceasefire. You made benve panic.
You made him riled up. You made Netanyahu accept something that he
adamantly did not want to accept in the first week of what happened
when he went to ethnic cleanse Gaza. That's your victory. That's
your win. That's why you're supposed to continue as you are.
So when Netanyahu accepts this hostage truth, Netanyahu is deeply
concerned because the Palestinian side are upholding the terms the
Palestinians know Halas, we've won. There's a great awakening
that has taken place. There is an article in The Hill that was
published last week by a Zionist writer who said, I fear that even
if this ends with Israel having militarily won, I fear that the
result of the damage.
To public opinion means that our allies will no longer rush to our
aid in the future.
A top diplomat in the UK, former diplomat, told Sky News that even
Israel's friends are now distancing themselves because
they're worried about being associated with genocide and
worried about being associated with ethnic cleansing. So
Netanyahu is forced to accept a ceasefire that he does not want.
He's forced to accept the hostage exchange that he does not want. So
benvir Yesterday says Netanyahu, I'm warning you, if you accept an
extension of the ceasefire, it will result in the collapse of
this coalition.
Which means, think about it, if Ben gvir is saying this to
Netanyahu,
it means that a conversation took place in which benve walked away
with the impression that this ceasefire and hostage exchange
could well become permanent.
And that's why benvere is screaming, because they're aware
now that they no longer have the momentum, that it's no longer in
their favor. Qatar sent Lula, Qatar, the spokesman for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to Gaza,
to show that, yes, you can't come back to the military operations
anymore.
Last night, 40 minutes left to the end of the ceasefire, the
Americans stepped in and said, No, we won't see an extension of the
ceasefire.
Biden wants enough time for you to forget about this before. November
Biden needs time for you guys to really consider about Trump.
Kamala Harris panicked. She published a video where she said,
I'm not going to try her accent. Her accent is bit difficult,
but she said, we are launching the first ever initiative to counter
Islamophobia. Look how amazing we Democrats are. The Democrat Party
sent an email out to all of the members of the Democrat party
saying, Trump wants to bring back the Muslim ban. We stand against
the Muslim ban. Allah alike Kamala.
The question I ask you is this, did commander publish that video?
Because she woke up after six weeks of ethnic cleansing and
genocide and said, Masaki in this Palestinian, poor, poor
Palestinian,
we need to do something, and we're going to count Islamophobia. No,
that video came because the Democrats had a meeting between
themselves where they said to themselves, guys, the Muslims are
the deciding vote in at least three or four of those swing
states. We can't lose them. We need to start reaching out to
them, and we need to make them stop saying no to genocide. Joe.
So what we need them to do, we need to send this email to show
that we still care about them. And then I saw a wonderful response
from a lady called Hindi who is an activist here in the US. I think
she's from Sudanese origin, where she said, I'd like to send a clear
message to the Democrats in response to this email that was
sent there, Biden, you are trying to threaten us with Trump. We
survived four years of Trump. 15,000 Palestinians did not
survive four years of Biden,
don't threaten us with Trump because we lived through it and we
survived. But
Palestinians did not survive your reign. You can't scare us with
Trump. And
that's why the Democrats are scrambling, and the Democrats now
are caught between no man's land again, the opinions expressed here
are the opinions of the speaker, and not the opinions of the
organization or those who invited me.
The Democrats told advisers of Rasheed atlaib When Rasheed at
life said to them, really, you're going to lose the Muslim vote.
Muslim vote. One of them, apparently in the meeting. This
was, this was from speaking one of her advisors. They said that the
advisor to Biden said, Yeah, they'll forget by November. We're
not worried yet about that particular vote.
I do wonder, will you guys forget before November? Will you forget
before November? They heard it here.
Some of my friends have suggested that I exaggerate the impact of
public opinion, and that one of the examples they gave was that
Rashida Tlaib was censored in Congress. You all saw it.
And so one of my friends actually showed me the video, and he said,
Ha, where's your eloquent tongue? Now Sammy
and I looked at the numbers, and I said, 192 he said, No. 252 votes.
I said, No. 192 he said, 250 I said, Yeah, he 192 congress people
did not vote on Israeli lines. When have you ever seen that in
the history of Congress? When have you seen 192 congress people,
almost half of Congress disobey the Israeli line. What an
achievement that's without any concerted effort on our part.
Imagine if we made an effort. Imagine the change you can achieve
in Congress if you keep going as you are.
The ceasefire
may continue to be extended in short bursts.
One of the reasons why that should not concern you is because I want
you to remember that in Yemen at the moment, there is no official
ceasefire, but has been a de facto ceasefire for two years. The
reason the Saudis don't sign an official ceasefire is because they
fear.
Signing an official ceasefire, legitimizes the Houthis, and they
don't want to legitimize the Houthis. The Houthis are fighting
because now it's their seventh attempt. They believe that only
Ahlulbayt is allowed to rule, and that it is where Egypt to keep
fighting and fighting and fighting until Abdul Houthi is leader, so
no amount of national dialog. It's not to say that it's what the
Saudis are doing are great, but it's their belief, and that's why,
from 2004 there have been seven wars just from the Houthis in
order to try to control
Yemen. But there is a de facto ceasefire in place. And it may
well be this will be the situation Gaza, where you don't have an
official ceasefire, permanent one, but it will keep being extended
because nobody wants to legitimize Hamas. Because at the moment,
Blinken is struggling to find an alternative, because the
Palestinian Authority don't want to take over Gaza, because they're
worried that they'll be seen to be complicit in Nakba. The UAE has
suggested that maybe an Arab force can go into Gaza and chain the
Palestinians to ensure they don't do anything to the Israelis. The
UAE are very proactive in embedding Israel into the region
BarakAllahu
Sisi is proposing an option where they demilitarize Gaza make sure
they have no means to resist, so that when Netanyahu comes to annex
the Palestinians have nothing to resist with.
But in the midst of this confusion that you've brought about, this
ceasefire may continue to be extended.
Which brings me to the final point that I want to make here.
There is a suggestion that the options you have in the next
election are Trump and Biden. I argue there is a third way.
If you look at the swing states, the Muslims are the deciding vote
in three of the swing states. Again, these are the opinions of
the speaker. They do not represent the organization. I did not
discuss this with them beforehand. Spare them and stop me at the
airport, not them, please.
There is a third option.
Now, imagine you're a Democrat congressperson in Michigan, and
the Muslims are so angry that they will either that they will not
vote at the moment because of Biden.
Is the seat worth sacrificing for? Joe?
No, I want to be congressperson. I want to be president one day, if
the Democrats are convinced that they are absolutely certain to
lose November because the Muslims are going to punish them and
absolutely not vote for them, if that is what they believe at in
February next year, what do you think they will do? Do you think
that they will ride blindly into certain defeat, or they will ask
whether Joe Biden should be the candidate for the next election.
Do you remember before Joe Biden announced that he was running for
a second term, that none of the Democrats wanted to come out and
confirm that he was running for a second term? Do you remember how
senior Democrats were saying that maybe he shouldn't run for a
second term? That suggests there are those and Democrats who
believe that perhaps he shouldn't now if they're going for certain
defeat, because the Muslims agree that they should punish genocide,
Joe, and that we survived four years of Trump, but 15,000
Palestinians did not survive genocide. Joe. If they're certain
that they're heading for defeat by February or March, I imagine
wallahu Alam that the Democrat convention will convene and they
will say, Guys, we're set for certain defeat. But I heard a
rumor that in a mosque somewhere in Bay Area,
that if we replace Joe Biden, the Muslims will come back and vote
for us and we'll be able to defeat Trump.
I think it's possible,
but it depends on you convincing the Democrats absolutely that you
won't forget before November comes. I
think there's a 5% chance that this can be done. And the more
that you talk about these issues, the more it will grow to 10% then
15% some of you will say, but what if the other candidate is worse?
And I tell you, to these people, you are blind, the point here is
not whether the next candidate is worse. The point is to make
absolutely clear for the first time in America that just as when
you upset the Zionist lobby, the Zionist lobby, the Zionist lobby
can punish you. If you upset the Muslims, the Muslim lobby can
punish
you. Allah has given you an an unprecedented opportunity to show
your power, but you will only be able to use it if you are united.
And Philistine has given you an opportunity to be united.
The point here is not whether there is a better candidate than
Biden. The point is to make clear to the Democrats that anyone who
upsets the Muslim vote will be punished. That's the victory if
you manage to change the Democrat candidate, and even if the next
person is worse, we will simply have a discussion and say to each
other, we punish the sitting US president before we can do it
again. And at that point, you will believe that you have the power to
do so, because you did it before. Remember the Zionist lobby when
they're offering 20 million to somebody to run against Rashida
Tlaib in order to topple her. The reason they're offering that is
because they're trying to use their power to.
Punish Well, we show them we also have that power.
We also have that power. Allah has given us this power unprecedented
in these swing states. The question is, will you use it? Your
choice is not just Trump and Biden. Think bigger. Think about
these different opportunities. Think like the Sahaba, when they
used to go out in different countries and try to identify how
to give dawah one of the things I find fascinating and some people
say that Quran should only be read as a spiritual book. But think
about it, even the ayah woman Asmaa Salah wala in an email
Muslim, there is no better speech, the one who calls to Allah and
does good deeds and say, I am from the Muslim mean, but people forget
the next area. Well, let us there will Hassan, the good deed and the
bad deed are not equal. It fab. Leti here I said for either lady,
Bena Kawabe and hamien, conduct yourself in that which is best, in
what in your dawah that you're giving in your activism, for it
may well be the one who is your enemy today becomes your warmest
ally. Allah is saying that today you may see people standing
against you, but go and make the effort, and tomorrow they might
become your warmest ally. Did you see our Jewish allies, our Jewish
friends that I give credit here today? Who did the sitting in the
Congress? Did you see how they shut down Congress?
The reason why is because Islam stands for justice. Islam stands
for coexistence. Islam stands for rights. Islam doesn't just stand
for LA illAllah Muhammad rasulallah. The reason we say
Layla Muhammad Sallallahu is because Allah calls us to that
which is good, because Allah calls us to that which is just. And
that's why our words resonate with the fitrah that is in every single
human being. And that's why you see these allies joining our ranks
in support because their fitrah is resonating with the Haqq that
Allah has blessed us with, the Quran SubhanAllah.
When you move forward from here, remember
a Muslim Ummah that is successful is an ummah that moves.
Some people think that Islam is primarily about the spiritual side
of things. If that was true, why are only a minority of Sahaba
buried in Medina next to the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
sallam, and the majority are buried outside across the world
because they interpreted Islam as not a desire to be close to the
home of Islam, but as action where Allah's word needs to go out to
the world, and where we need to be on the front lines of justice, on
the front lines of people's rights, Muslim or non Muslim, the
Jews, when they came to us, they came to us because they knew that
the Muslims uphold justice, even for the non Muslims. That's why
they came to the Muslim world. That's why they came to Islam for
sanctuary when they couldn't find it in Christianity.
That's the deen of Islam. That's the deen of Allah. And for those
of you who feel that sometimes your efforts are insignificant,
let me remind you of the words of our beloved Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet Muhammad said, belly
huanyla, convey from me, even if it's just a verse. Now some people
read, read, read this as a spiritual verse. Allah be the
Qlik, read the Quran, and you feel good about yourself.
But what the Hadith actually means is belly one niwala ayah, convey
from me, even if it's just a verse, the even part in the
sentence, even if it's just the verse, is the Prophet saying,
Never Be silent. Never Be quiet. Never say nothing when you see
injustice. Never be somebody who does nothing. Always be a people
of action. Always be a people who mobilize, even if that
mobilization is just the word, even if it's just hashtag
Palestine, even if it's just a retweet, even if it's just a like
the Prophet Muhammad SAW, is telling you that even this is
significant. Allah subhanahu wa put this particular area in one of
the short suras, which is wame and Mikhail avarat, He who does an
atom of a good deed, Allah sees it. Allah didn't put this in Surah
Al Baqarah, which many of us look at and we think, Oh, how am I
going to memorize all of this? May Allah allow us to memorize it.
But he put it in the short surahs so that every child can learn it
easily. That no act is insignificant. Every act has
significance. The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, sallam said, Marah
amikaran fellow, he who sees something that is wrong, let him
change it with his hand. Where in them you start there. And if he
cannot, not, if he doesn't want to, if he cannot, if you don't
have the power to do so, if you're limited in your abilities,
fabilisa, then with his tongue. Let him denounce it. Let him
condemn it. And if he cannot, then with his heart, and that's the
weakest of faith. Every one of you who spoke about Philistine is in
an elevated form of resistance. You're not in the bottom category.
You're in an elevated form of resistance. And that's why it made
the difference. The Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam,
reported in the Hadith called the sea that Allah said that if you
take one step towards.
Me, I take 10 let's be brutally honest. A tweet on its own doesn't
make a difference. But Allah amplified it because we took one
step. He amplified it 10 steps. And for those of you who've seen
that video of that girl who lives in LA she says, I grew up in a
Zionist environment. I never heard Palestinian voices, but Tiktok
brought the video to my feed because you kept sharing it and
forcing it up on the algorithm, and she says, I can't unsee what
I've seen. I'm now pro Palestine.
Allah amplified it. He amplified the voice of justice. He amplified
it because you who did not envisage the outcome, you still
move. You know when Allah tells Musa alaihi salam that take Beni
Israel and go to the sea. Ponder this verse for a second. Walaka,
oh Hana, ILA, Musa Abadi, Father, Ibn Taylor, Bahari Abbas said, you
know, when you're fleeing from someone, when Pharaoh is chasing
Musa, you would think he would run to the mountains or run to the
hills. Why would he run to a dead end? Why would he run to the sea?
What was he expected to do when he gets to the sea? Allah didn't
initially tell him, because Allah told him, listen to me and I'll
handle the outcome. Listen to me and I'll sort it. Just go to the
sea. And Musa as decided, Okay, I'll go. When he got there, Allah
shone in the miracle. He hit the sea and Allah passed through the
sea. Allah doesn't ask you to see the outcome. Allah tells you to
strive and do something. Waman, Arad, Al ahramin on faula, Ikana,
Sakura, and he who does or she, and those who desire Jannah, who
desire the akhira, and strive for it, and they believe in Allah.
They believe that they are striving because they trust Allah
to handle the outcome. Allah doesn't say the outcome is
rewarded. He says the striving is rewarded.
He says the striving is rewarded. The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu,
Sallam never saw Islam in Argentina. He never saw Islam in
San Francisco.
He never saw it. Did he need to No. His efforts were so
magnificent that it carried Islam here to the ends of the earth,
nowhere near anywhere.
Because the magnificence of the Prophet Hausa Salam was not in
that he took Mecca, Medina and the surrounding areas. It was the
spirit that he left behind in the Ummah, in which he commanded an
ummah never to sit down and do nothing, but to always be on the
front line, to resist, regardless of the powers that they might
have.
Lord alayhi salam, in the Quran says when the people come to
oppress him, Rabbi Lo and nali, Bella and nali become cool. What
an OH. AWI ilarus, he says, If only I had power to resist those
who are oppressing me or a powerful ally to this is a prophet
lamenting his lack of power, and Allah, in the following area,
says, Allah has already decided their fate. Take your bags and
leave in the morning, Allah did not tolerate an intervening area
where Lord's statement would be allowed to stand by itself. Allah
said, No. Allah is never out of control, even if the prophet lacks
power.
The reason Prophet Salim said, Shay bet new Huda that the Surat
hood has given me white hairs is because Surat hood is all about
prophets who failed to convince their people,
but still Allah gave them Jenna, because, despite the fact that
people didn't believe, they kept going, no Hale Salam read Surat
Noah, it's a short Surah
page that's considered short, right?
No. Alai Salam laments. Allah. Abi, any doubt to call me Layla,
wanna Hara, well, let me sit him. Dua ELA, Fira, wa nikula, Dao, to
only talk about them my people, day and night, and every time I
call on them, they run away from me. And when I call on them to
believe in you, they put their fingers in their ears, they cover
their faces, and they become arrogant, and they walk away from
me. 900 years, Noah has to put up with this at no point does not
give up, because Noah is not allowed to, because Allah did not
send them to achieve the outcome. Allah sent him with certain powers
to see if he would continue striving. And Allah decided their
outcome.
And some of you will say, Sami, so what am I supposed to strive, even
though I never see the outcome?
And I say, Yahi, oyati, it's because you haven't seen the real
outcome. The outcome is right staring you right in the face.
It's just that you're refusing to see it. The best outcome any of us
could achieve is that the moment when our soul leaves our body, we
hear the angels say,
Yeah,
where
the angels say, subhanAllah, what a soul. It kept striving. It kept
going. It kept pushing. It never stopped. It kept going despite the
odds.
Is they didn't matter if they didn't see the outcome. They kept
going because they believed in Allah. They trusted Allah. They
believed it was in his hands. Yeah, though you didn't see the
outcome in this dunya, come and see the outcome in Jannah that
Allah has prepared for you. Subhan, may Allah make us from
those people. Ya rab, is that not the most beautiful outcome? That's
the outcome Allah has offered you. Allah has says, Don't worry about
the outcome in the dunya. I've sorted it
because I've offered you a better outcome than anything you can
achieve in this dunya,
when your soul comes out of your body, will you care what this
dunya looks like on your will? You care what state the dunya was when
you left it? All you will care about is those scales. When it
weighs your actions. Did you act or did you do nothing? Did you
resist oppression with even a word, or did you do nothing?
Were you silent when oppression was happening, or did you do
something?
That's the questions that will be asked. And I promise I'm almost
done. I promise, even though I'm notorious for the statement, but I
promise I'm almost done. The reason why I'm saying all of this
is, don't worry about the outcome. Allah subhanahu wa knows what he's
doing. Some of you will say yes, but it's a tragedy unfolding
before us. But what if I was to say to you that those who have
died are with Allah in Jannah now, immediately, they don't go through
limbo. There's no day of judgment. I saw a wonderful picture that an
artist drew, and it's a picture that always moves me every time I
see it. He draws a ghost, a man is sitting in with destruction around
him, and he's sitting like this, weeping and crying that his
daughter has been killed. And he draws a ghost of the daughter with
a hand on his back, and she says, Baba, don't cry. Baba, I'm fine,
Baba, I'm happy there's no bombs where I am, Baba, I'm happy. I'm
with Allah. I'm happy with what Allah has given me, Baba, Baba,
don't cry. You'll be with me soon, Inshallah,
because Allah in the Quran says, What? Don't say that those who've
been killed in the name of Allah. In for the sake of Allah, don't
say they are dead. They are alive. But aun and arabihir zachun, they
are alive with Allah immediately, your zachun being blessed already.
And Allah says, farihana, be my Allahumma, happy with what Allah
has given them. And Allah felt in this area that maybe you won't be
convinced by it. So he tells you what they are saying.
Well, be him, allahum yahun, that they are calling out to us who
have been left behind. We don't feel fear or sadness anymore. And
Allah felt maybe in this area, you still won't believe it. So Allah
continues, yes. Steph Shirley, lemme says, hum Su, they're
calling out and saying, Guys, you never believe the blessings Allah
has given us. You'll never believe where we are now. Alhamdulillah,
you guys, trust me, you can't wait to get here where we are now.
Don't cry for us. We're with Allah.
That's what Allah wants to reassure you with, to say to you,
don't worry, I've got this.
Don't worry, I've got this. I've sorted it. The outcome belongs to
me.
Your duty is not the outcome. It's to strive. It's to keep going.
When everybody tells you there's no point. Keep going,
and I want to finish this with a warning.
Now I'm not saying that these brothers or sisters are like the
people mentioned in the area. I repeat. I'm not saying that those
who say this are like the people in this area. I'm just saying that
when they say there's no point. Or they belittle the actions. They
remind me of this area where Allah told Ben Israel to go with Musa
into Jerusalem. And they told Musa, go, you and your Lord, we're
going to sit here.
And Allah forbade them from entering. They said, We're not
going. Those are common jabarien. They're a powerful, mighty force.
How can you tell us to go against them? And so
Allah forbid it from them for 40 years, he said, This generation,
we will not give them success. We will leave them humiliated, and we
will give the results to the next generation, when talut comes along
with his people and Dawood, alaihi salam comes along and he kills
jalud. Don't be amongst those people who say there's no point.
Don't underestimate every action, even if it is little. It makes a
difference. And the final thing that is worth saying is this,
there is an area that is terrifying in Surat Al Imran,
which is that ullul Al Bab, the people who know Allah, who are
close to him, they say, Rabban Allah, to the Hulu Bena bad ALLAH,
do not guide us out of this. Deen, after you have guided us to it and
bestow upon us Your Mercy, these are not an ordinary believers
saying it. It's urul Al Bab. Those who see Allah everywhere, these
are people who know that Allah guided them to the deen, it's not
alright. It's a blessing and the mercy from Allah that you were
guided to this. Deen, now.
Happens if somebody gives you a gift but you're not grateful for
the
gift? What happens if you get a gift and you're not grateful to
the gift? Why did the Prophet Muhammad, saw him say, yeah,
muqalub al qubit, kalbi Aladin. Why did the Prophet say, Oh, you
who flips the hearts? Keep my heart on the deen. Because he knew
that it was not a right, it was a mercy, and that when Allah said, I
am MELU. Allah, oh, people of Dawood, show thanks in your
actions. It was a sign that we show our thanks through our
actions. We are blessed with a religion that tells us to act. We
are blessed with a religion that tells us even a smile is charity.
We are blessed with a religion that tells us the kind word is
like a mighty tree with its truth, with his roots really deep. We are
blessed with the religion that tells us to proactively go to our
neighbors and say hi and to deliver gifts. We are blessed with
a religion that tells us to proactively stand by the side of
our neighbors and by the side of our friends. We are blessed with a
religion that tells us go and Allah, who will elevate those
efforts,
and that's why
to mobilize for the sake of Ghazal Philistine or for the Muslims.
It's not you honoring Allah. It's not you honoring Islam. Islam has
honored you by giving you the opportunity to be a vehicle for
change. Allah is the One who honored you by choosing you to be
the vehicle to make Blinken and Netanyahu bu Allah has honored us
by giving us the opportunity to make Biden fall into the polls to
the extent that Kamala Harris is now desperately trying to appease
us to make sure that we vote for the Democrats in November. It's
Allah who honored us because he could have left us humiliated
without power. Allah honored us today with power, and we say,
Alhamdulillah, left for that
power and that's why I say to you, it is not Muslims that made Islam
great. It's Islam that made Muslims great when Islam is the
inspiration for action, when Islam is inspiration for your daily
actions, when you decide to strive even though the odds are against
you, when Islam encourages you to go despite that, that's how Islam
elevated, Islam that honors you and tells you don't worry. Musa
Salam needed six reassurances before he went to Farah. He spoke
to Allah, subhanho wa taala, and he saw ayat in Al qubara, two
mighty signs, and still he said to Allah, Allah, have a stutter,
please send Harun with me. Allah says, Okay, no problem. After
that, they say, Rabbana ina hafah, Allah, who is scared if we go to
Pharaoh, he'll do something bad to us. At this point, as a 16 year
old reading the Surah, I thought, Allah Ali, how can you say this to
Allah, who, this guy has attitude for Allah? And
then I saw Allah SubhanAllah. I thought Allah was vengeful and
wrathful, but Allah showing me his Rahman, a Rahim, he says, Lata
HAFA in any man, asmaara, do not be scared. I'm with you. I hear
and I see. And so Musa goes to Pharaoh, and after when they have
the competition with the magicians, Musa again for Oja,
he's still scared as a 16 year old. Amina. Sura going Musa, what
do you need? Man? Subhanallah, how much reassurance Allah told you to
go but it's because I didn't understand the nature of Allah.
Subhanahu, WA it was me who was misguided, because Musa, and think
about it, he was standing alone, magicians taunting him, people
insulting him, Pharaoh ready to kill him. Everything suggested
that he was supposed to lose the same way some of you think that
all the odds are stacked against us.
And so Musa felt scared. The same way you might be feeling scared.
What happens if Trump comes in? What happens if we don't do this?
What happens if wherever, the same way you feel fear I learned, I
learned that's not a biday. There's nothing wrong with it.
Allah won't punish us for this.
Allah says, despite that fear, will you move? Because he tells
Musa, as when he feels the fear, he tells Musa, Kunal, Musa, don't
worry. I know it all looks like it's against you, but don't worry,
I've elevated you. And he reminds him of the sign. Throw your stick
in your right hand, it will eat all he has to remind him of the
sign. And I always imagine, because the ayat, the way they're
structured is that, you know, Musa as throws his stick. And I always
have this image that Musa did this
because of the way the ayat is structured, because this area that
comes straight afterwards is it says, Musa found these magicians,
all prostuja, then Kalu, ahmedabir. It's like Musa went,
Whoa. And they were all frustrated before Allah.
But you know what I find fascinating about surah Taha? Musa
needed six reassurances. The Magicians needed none. Pharaoh
responded to them and said to them, I'm going to cut off your
hands and legs and crucify you. And they said, Follow me. And I
mean, at the United faculty, we know you're going to do this to
us, but we will never prefer you over Allah. We saw the only sign
that we needed to see. We're going back to Allah subhanahu wa, and we
know the outcome is Jannah do what you want. And he actually
crucified them, and now they're in Jannah with Allah subhanahu wa,
because for them, they knew what the special outcome was. My point
I'm making here is, yes, you might.
Feel, and I promise, this is the final point. You might be feeling
that the odds are all stacked against you.
But when have the Muslims ever won a battle being the majority? We
were always the minority in Badr, in Uhud, in khandak, in qadisiya,
in yarmuk. We were always the minority because Allah made the
example that it is he who delivers the outcome and he sends allies
from where we didn't anticipate it, Jewish allies, those of
conscience who come with us on the protest, because the justice is
what resonates with the fitrah. And so they join us. When Allah
says that, you know the enemy might become a friend tomorrow, is
to say to you, yes, you might be scared to be talking about the
issue, because you worry about what that enemy is saying. But you
look at today, how many celebrities are coming out in
favor of Palestine. I saw a rapper. I've never heard his songs
before, but I heard the rapper who said, I don't know much about
Palestine in Israel, but I know a genocide when I see one
that's changing because of your efforts. You took one step. Allah
took 10. And this is what I want to say to you here today, Allah
will decide the outcome in the way that he wants. People often say to
me, what will happen next? What's the outcome? Wallahi, I don't
know, but what I do know is we're having an impact. What I do know
is we force that humanitarian pause, and we force the hostage
truce, and we force the extension of the ceasefire. We made blink
and buckle. We made Biden buckle. I see the Democrats chasing after
us. Ibad Allah, what is the power that they see in us that you have
yet to see in yourself. What is the power that they see in us that
you have yet to appreciate? What is it that they fear from us that
you have yet to wield in your favor in order to bring about the
change? The reason the Ummah there is so much repression on it is not
because the Ummah is weak. Is because the Ummah has the
potential to be so strong that they need to contain it. I ask
you, what is the fastest growing religion in the world? It's Islam.
Why are people entering Islam? It's not because Muslims are
strong. It's because when they hear the Haqq, they enter the
deen, I went to France. I met a journalist, and he said, you know,
France is in a crisis. I said, why? He said, Because the new
French generation, the heroes, are the Muslims in Edin Zidan, the
Muslim Karim Benzema, the Muslim in golokante, the Muslim Paul
pagba, these guys will never know what it means to be French. We
think that Macron is brutalizing the Muslims, but the reason he's
repressing is because Islam is getting stronger.
Some of you say that the Ummah is weak and the Ummah is bleak. In
Bosnia, Bosnia and Yugoslavia, in 1920s they were concerned about
the Muslim population, so they divided Yugoslavia into nine
benvenus, nine provinces, and they made sure Muslims were the
minority in each in 1938 they had the Muslim question. They rounded
up Muslim leaders. They executed some, tortured some, and put
others in hard labor. The Muslims kept going. They kept reading the
Quran. They kept teaching their women. They kept raising their
children. They kept resisting. They kept pushing back. The
Serbians invaded and tried to commit genocide. They survived the
genocide. Islam is still the fastest growing religion in the
heart of Europe. They can't extinguish it
in Turkey, Ataturk comes in, imposes secularism, changes the
language, changes the language of the Adhan. Bans the printing of
the Quran massacres the scholars, puts them in prison, bans
religious education. 1960s the Muslims kept going. They wouldn't
stop. They kept believing in Allah and striving. They delivered Adnan
Mandir is who restored the Adhan. Adnan Mandir is executed for it.
But the army doesn't have the power to reverse the change,
because a movement is emerging. 97 the Muslims, after relentless
effort and striving, finally break the system and get Erbakan to
power. In 97 the military panics. They topple erban, and then the
Muslims, finally, they get a mighty punch through the system,
and they deliver AB Tahir Erdogan. Can let me ask you, Turkey today,
is it not a haven for Muslims today?
Is this not the reward, the effort of an ummah that strives? So I say
to you, change your perspective. This Ummah is not weak. It
believes it's weak. This Ummah is strong. That's why I say the
greatest tragedy is not that the Ummah is weak, is that it believes
it's weak when everybody else believes it to be strong.
Today, Allah has given you an unprecedented opportunity to be
the deciding vote in the elections. And as a political
analyst, I'm very excited to see how you use it. I'm very excited
to see if you realize it. I'm very excited to see if you mobilize for
it. I have a thrill bursting through my veins that says, Ya
Rabbana, I recognize the power you gave to this ummah, and I'm
pleading every night I came to America to plead with you to say,
ya rab, let them see this power. Ya rab, let them appreciate this
power. Ya rab, let them deploy this power. Ya rab, Let the world
say that when you upset the Muslims in America, you get
unseated as the President of the United States of America.
And the final, final sentence is this,
remember, struggles are not meant to feel easy. So.
Struggles are meant to feel difficult. Sahaba even in the
Quran Allah says, zulzilla, Hata, ya Kula Hai, Kula rasulallah,
wala, Dina ahmah, Abu Sahabah. Even when they knew they had the
Prophet amongst them, they said, Ya rasulallah, when is this
victory coming? When is it coming? That's how in the depths, in the
trenches, they felt the Prophet said, when he was digging the
trench in handak, the munafiqun, they laughed at him, because he
said, I see the pearls of Persia. And they said, the whole Arabia
has gathered against him. And my guy is talking about pearls in
Persia. And
then Allah subhanaw taala sent an ally from where the Prophet didn't
expect a man called No, Aman from the other side had become Muslim.
And he went to the Prophet. He said, Ya Rasulullah, I have a
plan. How to ruin it. How to ruin the he said, How? He said, Leave
it to me. He was within Abu Sufyan ear that the rat a fan want to
withdraw because they're tired. Then he went to that fan, Abu
Sufyan has already ordered his men to withdraw. Then he went to the
other tribe, and they all started bickering with each other. They
all started withdrawing. That's why I'm telling you. We need to
tell the Democrats that absolutely no, you're not going absolutely
no, you're not going to vote for them. They need to believe it. But
the point that I'm making here is don't be intimidated by the
challenge that's in front of you. If you feel that your heart is
becoming tight with the pain, that's not a bad sign. Keep going.
If you have tears in your eyes at the videos. Keep going. If you
feel lethargic in the morning, get out. Keep going, because it all
makes a difference. Because if we don't move, the change won't
happen. If we don't mobilize, the change won't happen. Don't think
yourself insignificant. You are significant. Allah says in the
Quran, Allah says, if you were to count the blessings of Allah,
you'd never finish counting them. Allah didn't say that if the
elites keep counting their blessings, Allah says it for
everybody who entered Allah, I can walk to a protest. I can talk
about the cause. I can retweet and share it online. I can type in an
article. I can hold somebody's hand and force him out the house
to join me on a protest. You count the blessings. I can think, I can
see, I can smell, I can hear, I can process the information. I can
go and sit and talk to people who fly 13 hours from London. I can
all of this. Allah is saying, if you count all those blessings, the
only conclusion you can arrive to is that you are powerful, that you
are strong, that you are capable. And I say to you, and I leave you
on this point when I started initially, when this Gaza thing
exploded, I sat depressed like everybody else at home, and my
wife said to me, please, you're not helping me with the dishes.
You're not helping me with the Hoover. Just go to the office and
record a video and just pour your heart out. And I said, you know,
yeah, Allah, I don't know if anybody will watch it, but I'll go
and do it. Few days later, I did the thinking Muslim podcast. Then
yakim called, then suddenly, I'm getting an invite here to America.
I started and Allah connected the efforts of everybody who was
moving and brought them together until you who are mobilizing
suddenly, Allah has decided that there is benefit in our efforts
crossing together. Did we plan this? No. Did we think this would
happen? No, did I think it would happen? No, but because we
mobilized. We took one step. Allah took the other nine steps to make
sure that when we take the one step, he doesn't make sure we make
five wrong steps. He guides us to the correct other nine steps. And
we are here today together from two sides of the world, to say,
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, while
hamdullah
Israel says or claims that the ceasefire has been broken and
several explosions have now been heard in Gaza again, Netanyahu, of
course, fearing for his political future, is trying to resume the
military operations. I just quickly had a read of the Axios
article. It states that while Netanyahu is accusing Hamas of
breaking the ceasefire, both Biden and Anthony Blinken are concerned
that Israel's actions will result in international pressure
increasing, and that Biden has actually told Netanyahu that there
cannot be a repeat in southern Gaza. There's no reaction yet from
the United States, no reaction from Biden, yet it's breaking
news. It's literally over the past 15 minutes, Israel is going at it
again with this ethnic cleansing and genocide. And that's a
reminder to each and everyone, one of us here, that it's not over,
that everyone has to keep going, that tonight, you should all sit
on your phones. You should look through them. You will see
Palestinians reporting on the atrocities, amplify their voices.
The examples I gave you earlier are examples of Netanyahu
buckling. The examples I gave you at the end are that despite the
despair and difficulties and fatigue that you might be feeling,
this isn't the time to be curling up in bed and crying with despair.
We do that after this chapter is finished. So all of you, we still
have a duty now to keep raising the Palestinian voices. Because
what all the political analyst are saying, including the Israelis, is
that this time, the pursuit of the military operations is out of
Netanyahu desperation, not Netanyahu strength. So everybody
should keep doing what they're doing and raise.
Their voices and keep amplifying the voice of the Palestinians. And
I can see that everybody is upset at the news, but this isn't the
time to be sitting down or feeling deflated. It's the time to keep
going. This is a struggle. Professor Salam went through ahud.
I went through handak. I went through the Treaty of hudaybiyya
before he got to Mecca.
We're in the trenches,
and we have to keep going. We can't stop
in answer to your question, now that we've started with this, you
start with the idea of moving forward. There are many strategies
and moving forward. I always argue that while American football is a
useless sport because they don't use the feet
I do admire that American Football is a game designed to celebrate
the yards that you win when you're going towards the finish line,
towards that touchdown line. I see them, they win 10 yards, and they
high five each other. They win five yards, they high five each
other, because they're celebrating every step that they're moving
forward in order to try to make a difference. And the question that
was posed to me applies in this case, you have an opportunity, if
not to deliver representatives, but to test your power and to test
your ability to influence the proceedings in terms of going
forward. Can you rally behind the candidate? Can you let that
candidate know that when they're elected, they have to answer to
you? They can't ignore you. They have to come and see you. Can you
deliver a candidate who, when they think about making a politically
expedient decision, they think twice about you beforehand. And
that's why I think that this is an opportunity that even if you
believe perhaps you might not be able to achieve anything but to
test it, you lose nothing. And the way I see it is this, there are
many people who sometimes say that the system is rigged against us,
and that I heard somebody say once, every time we vote, we get a
representative who doesn't represent our values and all the
representatives, and they talk as if,
over the past 3040, years, we've actually had representatives who
represent us as if we voted over and over again. They've always
been Muslim representatives in Congress, whereas in reality, it's
a very, very recent phenomenon. The idea of having institutions
like this, yes, it feels like it's been here forever, but it's a
recent phenomenon. It's the result of the struggle of our
forefathers, of those who came before us, who fought the battles
of their day to set us up to ensure we don't have to fight
their battles, and we can take it forward. The reality is, we're in
a stage of now experimenting with public representation of the
community. You might not like some of the representatives, but the
reality is, it's a new experience for the community. You've never
had this experience, but those who came before us did not have this
experience before. So maybe the road you might be shaking on it at
the moment, but now that we're experimenting, let's fix it and
move forward and make it better. And you make it better not by
abandoning the path that was carved out by those who came
before you, but rather, when you trip up on that path. You get up
and you shake that dust down, and you keep walking the
representative before you didn't like go and change them. You felt
the other representative didn't listen to you, mobilize and force
them to listen to you. For Allah, he talk to the elders, and they
will tell you, once upon a time, we had no representation, no
voice, and ask them what those who didn't represent them did to them.
We say in London, sometimes they say sadaqah, and he's does. He's
done things that as a Muslim, I think innalila. But when brothers
come around and say so, it proves the system is useless at alamia.
Let's be brutally honest. Put the right wing as Mayor of London and
sadakan will look like an angel. They are not the same. Allah says,
wa idula, Homa satatum In Kuwa, and prepare for them based on the
amount of your ability. In terms of power, Allah doesn't tell you
prefer the perfect power. But if you have the ability to build a
wall, build it, and you build it by mobilizing, by engaging and
putting a candidate forward, that at least he will hear your voice,
and if he doesn't that one, you can punish later. So I will say to
you now you have an opportunity to test your strength. Raza has
united you. We continue in our efforts to put pressure on the
international community to force Israel to stop its barbaric ethnic
cleansing and genocide. It's a struggle. It's tough, but we move
forward, but now there are opportunities that are opening up
that those who came before us did not have. We will not disgrace
those who came before us who brought us to this position. We
will honor them by inheriting their memories and moving forward
and taking advantage of those opportunities. And one of the ways
in which we do so is to try to use this opportunity before us to try
to deliver a candidate who will listen to us. I encourage you to
engage, because I will say to you honestly, and I always use the
turkey example. Turkey, the entire system was built on military coups
against everything that has the smell of Islam. The Muslims didn't
sit down. They smashed through it. So always take hope from what the
other.
Groups of the Ummah have done. The Ummah is one body, and I'll be
brutally honest, I know sometimes that we in the West, we're
arrogant to believe that we are the heart of the ummah. But when I
compare the efforts of other Muslims around the world, in
Uzbekistan, where the shaking of Soviet influences and now lifting
the ban on children and mosques or the like, I would say they are the
right hand. Turkey is the left hand. Bosnia might be the pillars,
the feet that we stand on. We're probably only the shoulder.
Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. We do not suffer in any
way like the people of those suffered over there. We are in a
blessing, in a Nima because of what our forefathers and our
ancestors and those men and women who strove, they built for us to
put us in a position. We will not disgrace them by abandoning the
opportunities before us, you have an opportunity that has been
presented before you. Let's take that opportunity. The worst case
scenario is that you end up in the same situation that you are today,
and the best case scenario is you make a change, and I think that
means that it's worth mobilizing, and Inshallah, you do it in a way
that Allah guides you, that makes you further influential with more
rights and better protect
inshallah. I've been instructed by certain lawyers to indicate that
the MCA does not endorse any particular candidate for any race
whatsoever.
It's not on tape. Please record me saying that okay
with that, we're going to conclude with the door.