Shadee Elmasry – Did ENDORSE the GREEN PARTY

An organization that I think up to this

point no one has ever heard of, Texas

for Palestine.

Well, I appreciate the sentiment, Texas for Palestine.

I don't know anything else about them.

However, they said that we, a bunch of

us, endorsed the Green Party.

Well, this is not true at all.

Let me read you the letter that was

written, was shown to me, and I agreed

with it.

Together we stand firm in our refusal to

support any political party or candidate that has

actively participated in and funded the unprecedented violence

that has shocked the world.

That's a statement of negation.

He's negating, I'm not supporting any of this.

We want to be absolutely clear, don't stay

home and skip voting.

This is the section where apparently they took

it and ran and did a ta'wil,

where they made their own ta'wil that

this indicates support of the Green but doesn't

support it.

We can't support the Green Party.

Nonprofit organizations such as Masajid, when you work

in one such as myself, you can't even

ever endorse a politician or a party.

You can state what happened, you can say

how terrible this is, you can say things

like that, and we do after Jummah, we

have a report now.

Every Jummah now, our executive director stands up

and gives us a report of what politician

who had promised something and is doing the

opposite or is supporting something that is against

the interests of Muslims, etc.

When you take the position that we're taking

here, on one hand, your conscience is clear.

On the other hand, you risk total irrelevance.

Once you say you're out, you risk total

irrelevance.

This year, make a statement by voting third

party for the presidential ticket.

That's the statement that they interpreted and they

interpreted because there's only one third party out

there that we all know about.

That's probably why they interpreted that.

But he didn't say the Green Party, he

said third party.

And there's Cornel West.

Okay, Cornel West is out there too.

Equally important, vote all the way down the

ballot for candidates and policies that stand for

truth and justice, ensuring your voice is heard

at every level.

So that basically negates any specific party endorsement.

I won't support the Green Party for another

reason, because of how much in love they

are with Likbir Q.

There's not just one thing that's haram in

the world.

It's not like there's the number one bad

thing in the world that's happening.

Now we're going to play cozy with everybody

else.

Sheikh Hamza Maqbool talked about that in his

post.

And he said something similar.

He said, Shaitan is the enemy.

Not Israel.

Israel is one of them.

But Shaitan is the main enemy.

What Shaitan is except just because there is

one really bad evil, we're going to now

all of a sudden get all fuzzy wuzzy

with every other smaller evil.

No, that's a trick of Shaitan itself, right?

That's a trick of Shaitan itself.

So, oh, rabbit, there's a wolf over there.

So let's go be friends with the fox

and the dogs.

If saved from the wolf, then you'll be

in by those things too.

The more you are morally inclined to make

decisions, you end up not supporting these.

And that actually is the tradition of the

scholars from way back.

From way back.

They wouldn't even sit at the tables with

these people.

I believe it was Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal

who asked his Khadim to go get some

food.

And he went and he ended up getting

some bread.

And he said, like, where did you get

this bread from?

And he said, oh, the governor, he gifted

it to me.

Something like that, right?

Governor gifted this bread.

So he said, no, no, get rid of

it.

We're not eating this.

So after he came back, he said, where

did, what did you do with that bread?

He said, no one would take it because

they knew that you rejected it.

So no one else would, the poor wouldn't

even take it.

He said, oh, Ahmad ibn Hanbal won't eat

that bread?

I'm not eating that bread.

So then he said, well, then what did

you do?

He said, I just threw it in the

river for the fish to eat.

Imam Ahmad then said, go and inquire from

the fishermen the average lifespan of a fish.

He said, it's seven years.

He said, all right, don't cook fish for

seven years here.

So I don't know if that's like, like,

what is the rank of that story?

But subhanAllah, they had such a warah.

And the Prophet told us the book and

the Sultan would separate, would split.

Now, there needs to be, I'm telling you,

I've said this before, a political class.

You don't go for the, to them for

fatawa, you don't call them Sheikh or Imam.

But like Sami Hamdi, he's like a political,

he is the leader of the political class.

No one's going to go to them, yeah,

Sheikh Sami, what do I, how do I

pray traveler's prayer?

Or my wife just got divorced?

Blah, blah, blah, you don't go with those

things to him.

He's free to give, to talk politically and

say, guys, this is what's best for our

community.

Without this, such scrupulousness is being expected from

him.

That's what we need.

And those people should talk about and say,

and they shouldn't be connected to Masajid as,

you know, officially.

They could say, guys, I'm looking at it,

the best chess move we can make is

vote for this guy, right?

And then, and they go around telling us,

all right, this is what's happening.

With this candidate, we're having a meeting with

him.

And the meetings with candidates should not happen

with Imams of Masajid who don't even read

the newspapers, right?

And they're just so happy that someone's being

nice to them.

It's a joke.

Wallah al-Azim, it's a joke, right?

I saw Cory Booker come to the Masjid

locally and people jumping up and down and

telling him, you got our vote for president.

We didn't even negotiate anything, right?

It's like walking straight on to a used

car dealership and telling the guy, I'm buying

today.

You don't do that.

I remember when I was young, the first

time I was buying a car and I

liked the car and I said to my,

oh, I love this one, right?

She said, you keep your mouth closed, right?

Pretend you hate it, right?

How are we going to negotiate when you

already played your cards?

Now let's read a criticism.

It absolutely is better to stay home and

not vote rather than have to stand before

Allah on the day of judgment and say

you threw your weight behind an apologist for

the * murder of thousands of Muslims.

Jill Stein is a liar who is now

pretending she never supported Bashar al-Assad.

Pretending is not an acceptable repentance.

She needs to come clean and apologize primarily

to the Syrian people for supporting the massacre

of 200,000 of their people.

This is a valid opinion to me.

Is anyone going to disagree with this?

Basically, you got two options in life.

Deal with the scenario as it is, or

refuse to deal with it on principle.

I think for sure one is safer for

your Akhira.

No doubt about that at the personal level.

But if everyone were to do that, you

sort of sense that we would have problems

at a communal level, which may lead to

a worse situation for the individuals.

You see how it's like paradoxical?

So ultimately, this is a debate.

Maybe we can have Shibley Zaman on.

Maybe we can have somebody on and we

can discuss both sides.

If enough Muslims vote for the Green Party

and give them 5% of the vote,

and therefore they get federal and state money,

and that shows that the Muslims got you

there.

So the Muslims hurt you.

The Democrats are going around and challenging the

Green Party in a lot of states to

keep them off the ballot so that this

doesn't happen.

So that would show that we have the

numbers to vote as a bloc, because unless

you vote as a bloc, it doesn't really

matter.

That's what Sami Hamdi said, right?

In that clip, everyone said, you got to

watch this live stream.

I hadn't had a chance to watch it,

but he basically says that.

That's what he's been saying, yeah.

A, you have to vote as a bloc.

B, well firstly, he's taken the trajectory that

you have to actually be part of, you

have to work with the system and choose

what is the lesser, or strategically move your

way up.

Shibley Zaman's point and many others say that,

know what, nothing at all.

We're not even touching that.

You're all corrupt.

I'm telling you the problem with that is,

number one, it actually may strengthen your enemies,

and it may actually create a worse future

for your next generation.