Shadee Elmasry – Documenting the War on Gaza NBF 282
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Rasulillah who are early he was happy to be here. Women were
there. Welcome everybody to the Safina society nothing but facts
live stream on a sunny yet frigid, very cold, very cold day. I mean,
it's like Chicago out here. You should have seen it last night. I
was at a
college event on new to Dina Salahuddin which Mateen Han have
is also a medical physician
in the area, and we gave a talk after that talk, we I was walking
home like frigid walk into my car.
But nonetheless, I want to open up with some things here. And then
we're gonna go to our guest for today journalist with five pillars
UK, or at Robert Carter. And I want to talk about some things
that I've been doing on social media because as you know, I am I
did make the intention to go back. Why did I make that intention? I
realized Dawa. The field of Dawa is about, it's engage or die.
Okay? It's engage or die. And so
not engaging, when you have the ability to engage you just, it's
didn't seem right to me when you have the ability to. And so when I
engage with followers with with different accounts, you have to
understand the logic here. Students have knowledge should go
to knowledge. That's the rule. But when people are not students of
knowledge, okay. And they're not even interested in the dean.
Amendment had dad said in his great book at Tao at Tim, the
complete call on Dawa, that you must go to them.
Some somebody's Twitter account.
I think most there are a lot of platforms. But to me, this is the
most important one.
It's like his public street corner here establishing a public street
corner, you're standing on a box and you're talking like back in
the day you say you stand on a soapbox or whatever, or a tree
stump in the American context. And
as speak, you go there and you reply to them. You go there and
you talk. That should not be viewed as an endorsement at all.
All right. If I mean people always say they retweet is not
is not an endorsement like likewise replying to somebody, but
it's got to be done constructively. With that good for
in a thick rotten, foul mood meaning prophets, Allah Allah
Quran says, remind people for reminder benefits the believers.
And in terms of Dawa, likewise, right, it's how are you going to
introduce this message if you're not talking? So that is the whole
point of Dawa. So when I go onto someone's timeline when I talked
to them, that's not don't don't take that as an endorsement was
not the Prophet Musa was the greatest man on the earth. Really,
up until that point, at that time, he was the greatest man on earth.
He had gifts that Allah gave that Allah did not give to anybody
else. The great Prophet Musa alayhis salam, who speak to Allah
and Allah always answered him with no hardship.
Like many prophets receive a revelation and it's difficult for
them. The Prophet Musa A sound spoke to Allah with no hardship at
all. Prophet Musa, Allah, He said, was the most pious, the most
beloved, the most knowledgeable man on the earth, and he was, of
course Prophet and Messenger. And Allah said to him, go and remind
him around, give him a gentle reminder.
Not only did he do that, but he did it for 10 years. Not one time
allow us to have Joseph on you. It's not how it works. It's not
human nature. Which is the proof colorless, I put down lay down the
gauntlet and that's it.
No, that's not how it works. All right.
So, remind, engage, remember, had dead
In his book of Dawa tema, he said that the Ummah was in its best
when the Alama and I'm not claiming to be from the
parliament, we're just from Tula blood.
But enough to do Dawa to people.
When the alarm went out to the people sat in public places, such
as masajid, such as other court places hold us, for example, hope
that was like a public
public part of a house, but everyone's welcome to it, but it's
your private property,
or any place that were the courtyard of a masjid or
something. And they spoke to the people and spoke to them and spoke
to them and talked and spent their energy and he said the OMA was in
its worst state when the automat stayed in their homes, and only
talk to themselves authoring Hashi on this and hasha on that. And his
own student
said I'm a benzene and Habashi one of the great Allamah of terrorism
Hadramaut al Balawi.
He authored a spiritual shutter on Susan Fattah
Imam and dad said, Oh, this is beautiful. I hope you only wrote
this to relax
as a relaxation, like that's like a hobby on the side or something
that to unwind yourself.
He said, because the people of your locality, they're not even
pronouncing Fatiha properly, you must go to them and initiate the
kalam you have to go and initiate the talk, be an initiator. Okay.
And in order to do this, you have to know there are consequences
people, you can make judgment calls all the time, the way you
say something who you say it to, when you say it, okay, it's all
judgment calls. Guaranteed loads of people are going to disagree
with your judgment called guarantee amongst those people,
there will be the polite well wishers, there will be neutral
people and there will be mean and vicious people. So you got to get
used to getting
hearing words that you don't like to hear about yourself. getting
made fun of
you have to get used to this. If you don't have thick skin, you're
not going to do this. This is not a nice little community that we're
living in online, the online world. Okay, in community
cowardice, and connections makes everyone polite. Right? I can't
say that. I'm friends with this cousin. I can't I can't say that.
You know, my wife is friends with his wife. All right. I might think
something bad about someone. I might think we all think oh my
gosh, I can't believe you said this, right. I can't believe you
said, but you don't. Because you got too many connections. Guy now
if it's something unlawful, that's your problem. That's not right.
You have to say something if it's unlawful, or if it's heretical.
But most cases, because of all these connections, we go to these
invitations, these public places with the intent, I'm not going to,
I'm going to get along with everyone. I'm going to make an
excuse for everybody. Well, in the online world, people don't have
those scruples. They don't have those shackles to make them
polite, and they're just mean and vicious. So you just have to you
just have to get used to that. Okay, that's one thing second
thing.
Commenting on the
commenting on the brothers who want the concubines
Okay, look.
When I'm telling you be aware of what you're getting into, and the
world that you're imagining, right, that is not a shout out a
statement or a festival or a disregard of anything that's a
shitty has given prove being at the Battle of Oh hood, the young
Muslims who missed out on the battle of beds of two years past
because there was battle of better the next year they went and polish
had gone early and left. There was no battle.
The year after that was a battle of
the year young Sahaba wanted to go out for fight for a fight. The
elder Sahaba were the ones that are Hold on a second let's stay in
the city and let them come to us.
Yet the young Sahaba were so excited about it and they want to
do good deeds and they want to fight. So they put the they voiced
their opinion back the prophets I send them saw this and he went
with their opinion. Okay.
Fast forward now.
After the prophets, Allah when he was selling, went to get dressed,
put on his armor, the elderly, the older Sahaba censored the youth
and said the Prophet didn't want to go out. Right? So is this an
alteration of the prophets encouragement to go fight when
it's necessary? And the Quran is encouragement to do this? No. But
it's being aware. Be aware of the world that you're wanting to get
yourself up. Let me tell you something else too.
would never advise people to do something that you yourself
haven't done, and that you wouldn't even wouldn't advise your
own kids to do. Okay? And it's not to say that, it's not to say that,
that applies in everything. Because there are certain things
God mandates and we have to do, and we have to advise for it
regardless. But be very careful, you're not gonna always look good
advising everyone and pumping up, let's go and do this. Let's pick
this fight. Let's do that. When you've never done it yourself. You
don't know the consequences. That's why the older Sahaba said
to the younger ones. Cool, calm down, let's let them come to us.
Okay, don't desire to go out as a prophet. So I said them said, so
it's, these two things do come together. Alright, which
recognizing, what is the world that you want here? Okay, what is
the cost of it? What are the dangers of it? Alright, is
something that you're going to realize when you have your own
little humans, that your words and your actions have a direct impact
on them. And you got to think twice now?
About what you're encouraging so much. Okay. Again, that is the
spirit in which the prophets that I send them said, Let's have to
manually call I do it for that type of unaware of the costs of
what we're getting into, let's just go do it. And that's what the
Prophet was taming back, not the concept of battle itself, battles
necessary. Battles necessary, it's going to happen in the world.
Okay. And I asked my Sheikh Sheikh Mahmoud should be is what would be
the Scituate conditions in which slavery, criminals of war or
prisoners of war slavery, conky manager would ever come back to
the world.
He said, When the kofod bring it back, right. This was not
something that assigned was the world was neutral and Islam
introduced it to the world that already existed in the world. It
was the way of the world
and the Sharia then gave it some rules.
trimmed it as always, give it some rules tamed is not something that
the Cydia came down. Oh, all Oh, humanity. Look, the beautiful
thing that we gave you now, slavery and prisoners of war and
concubines it's not how it was, it was already in the world. And the
Shediac came with rules for it. Rules of Engagement for this thing
that already exists in your world. Okay.
So he said that if the kofod bring it back, then we'll bring it back.
So in other words, when we find ourselves living in that world
again, then we will practice the secondly, I was talking with
Sheikh Hassan and he can I can pull these up but we had a
discussion in our data set in the in the in the teacher's chat on
the nature of * with concubines I mean, it's an issue we got to
talk about it.
And they said and the Imam and no, we called the big names all you
find it in many books, they talked about the rules of engagement with
a concubine.
That the rules of having if you have a slave that you cannot harm
them.
You cannot, you cannot make them lift what they cannot lift. You
cannot make them sleep where they can get sick or something like
that, or not enough food, you cannot harm them. So when it would
come to this to concubinage, let's say you took a prisoner of war. I
mean wars happening in the world these days. And I think the world
is gonna go more and more in the direction of
you know, the old world to be honest with you. Except technology
has made it so lopsided. But you got prisoners of war, you can't
* them.
If it's viewed as a harm, okay. By the slave, you're not allowed to
harm them. So it's not me saying this. It's the books of FIP. You
want to argue with it? You want to say no at all, whether she likes
it or not, I want to *. Okay, that's on you. I'm telling you
what Islam says.
Okay, telling you what Islam says. And in most cases here, we're not
talking national policy. We're not even talking like Ficker fatawa.
We're talking to some, I guess there's Shabaab youth online,
probably not married, probably not having kids. Probably not with
many responsibility. But there's about there out there. Right. And
we were all one Shabaab. And I'm just telling you, this is the
reality of the situation. So have a balanced perspective, not just
run into something like this, or it's not like any anyone's going
to do this. All this is all talk. In any event, done with that
subject. Let's now move to our guests, Robert Carter. He's on my
timeline. And I've been looking at some of his posts lately. And I
decided, Oh, he's a journalist. journalists tend to be in the know
on what's going on in things much more than you know someone like
myself. So
I figured no, let's let's hear what he has to say. And mainly
what I watched recently I
And let's let's bring Robert Carter on and introduce him. He
works with Delia Hussein. He is a Swedish British convert to Islam,
Swedish of ethnicity, British or heritage and British in where he
lives. So welcome to the Safina side and nothing but facts live
stream. And let me ask you the first question right off the bat,
tell us about yourself and about how you even came to start into
Islam and then to start working with five pillars you get.
Thank you very much. Welcome, Salam. It's a pleasure to be here.
And I really appreciate the invitation, especially to speak to
our brothers right across the pond, as they call it. So thank
you for that. Yeah, I guess, for many of your viewers who might not
know who I am, British convert to Islam, I converted to Islam. When
I was in my teens, I'd say about 16 years old, if my memory serves
me, right. I did my Shahada publicly, and embraced Islam.
Right now I'm a journalist working for Muslim probably Britain's
biggest Muslim news website, five pillars, which I highly recommend
you guys check out, of course, you yourself doctor have done an
interview with my colleagues really fantastic podcast on the
blood brothers podcast, which I'm sure many of you probably have
seen. So do keep an eye on us. Five Pillars? In terms of Yes,
starting from the beginning, yeah, Hamdulillah, I'm a well
established Muslim. My friends call me Muhammad Ali, that's my
Muslim name. But I also stick to, you know, my birth name simply
because, you know, it's, it's a bit easier. Plus, it doesn't rob
my family of that connection, they gave me that name. So for that
reason, I keep to it as well. But now handle, I'm Muslim, through
and through, it's a big part of my identity. And I'm very blessed to
be in the position I am. Because after embracing Islam as a
teenager,
who sort of lacked direction, I didn't know what I wanted to be
when I was older, I came from a broken family. So you know, all
the problems that comes with that, as a young guy trying to figure
out your place in the world. I was so grateful to what Muslims had
given to me, and the direction that Islam had provided me. And I
always wanted to give something back to the Ummah to the to the
community, and I just didn't know how to do it.
So eventually, after getting involved in media work, and also
some activism,
it led one thing led to another and literally Subhanallah it's
almost like proof in my eyes of Allah's existence, because I've
been sort of guided on this path, which has put me in a position now
where I'm not only providing a service back to the Ummah, but at
a time when Muslims are literally under attack from all directions,
whether it be in the media sphere, in news on the ground, like in
Gaza right now, I have a role to play where I can actually hit back
by covering the news, providing an alternative perspective. And
literally when the opportunity arises, I can
literally hit back. We've seen with the Palestine issue right
now, it's so important that these pro Palestine voices across the
globe, particularly in the West, really speak up now because the
Palestinians are literally facing a genocide and the Western
mainstream establishment, both media and political establishment.
Just one sided here, they're literally doing and facilitating
Israel at a time when they're literally committing a genocide
against indigenous Palestinian people. So hamdulillah I'm in a
position where I have quite an important role to play. And I do
my best to step up. And of course, I take guidance from the Quran and
Sunnah in the work that I do as well. So we try I try my best to
follow Islamic ethics in everything I do. But I'm far from
perfect. That's one thing I want to put out there straight away as
I'm far from it. So yeah, I'm, I'm sure you can find mistakes
somewhere in my timeline. But no, hamdulillah I'm in a very blessed
position, and to serve Islam is is is a privilege. And I'm very lucky
to have been guided
to the truth that hamdulillah we're all everyone in this day.
And age is, in a sense, a work in progress, because there's just so
much so many things to have a position on as a result of that a
person is never going to be fully educated on everything.
I remember one time
there was something that I said about Afghanistan, that I wasn't
fully up to date on what's happened Afghanistan, and of
course a lot of brothers.
You know, they thought that that's bizarre, right? A lot of Afghan
but
Other data that's bizarre. I said, Listen, are you updating what's
happening in Egypt? They're like, No, I was like, who's the
president of Egypt? And they're like, oh, who was the SEC? Who was
the previous president of Egypt? They could have named mercy. So I
was like, okay, so people are going to be aware of what their
families you know about. In a sense. There's all sorts of drama
right now about Jemima
in the Pakistani timelines, right? I'm not aware, right. It's
impossible to be aware of everything. So that's why we're
here talking, right? And we're trying to learn every everyone's
trying to learn something new. If you're on Instagram, hop over to
saphenous. It is to be inside his YouTube channel, so you can see
the whole picture. Okay. Now, let me ask you a question here.
In your journalism, when I announced yesterday, we're
bringing on Robert Carter, people said to me, don't bring him on.
He's pro Iran pro acid. So I got to bring the elephant in the room.
And you may have a defense of them that I'm not aware of. And is it
even true?
No, that's absolutely fine. Basically, I'm in a transition
period, in my journey through life. And I actually recently
spoke about this on the blood brothers podcast.
When I not long after I entered into Islam.
I was I entered into Shia Islam, the Twelver shia sect of Islam.
And for many years, that that was me. I was so Shia Muslim. And I
was yeah, it was public knowledge. I ended up working with Iranian
media one point as well. Till quite recently, in fact, but
Alhamdulillah I've actually reached a stage now where I've,
I've moved on. So I've actually left Twelver Shiism, I made that
public for the first time in the blood brothers podcast. So that's
probably why it hasn't been seen by all yet.
And yeah, I'm in a stage now where I've left Twelver Shiism, for
good. I've put it behind me. I'm no longer working with Iranian
media at all.
Handily la Hamdulillah. So I've reached a stage now where I'm,
I'm, it's a new me, which many people probably aren't aware of
yet. And yeah, in fact, I wouldn't want to spoil it. A lot of these
question marks about my views on Iran, Syria, they were actually
addressed with Diddy Hussein on the blood brothers podcast. So
that's a good teaser. Yeah, podcast where you could probably
clarify a few of those issues. But one thing I will say is that my
view has changed on a wide variety of things.
And yeah, if you judge me by things I said, maybe like, what,
six years ago, something like that, which a lot of these
comments may be based on. I'm a completely different guy. Since
then, a lot has changed. I mean, I'm in a really unique position
now. Because, yeah, the guy after entering into Islam, one of the
big questions is, okay, how you're going to pray, what set you belong
to, that's something which converts have to deal with, right.
And it's, it's something which I dealt with, in a way which, with
hindsight, I now have regrets. I pinned my name to a particular
flag, which I now don't agree with a set of Muslim sects, which I no
longer follow. So obviously, you'll find stuff still connected
me to that till now. But hamdulillah a lot of things have
changed. So yeah, go check out the podcast. That's why I'd recommend,
but I'm happy to talk about it more. This is all public
knowledge. And, yeah, I think that one of the things that I enjoy so
much about talking about Islam is that I'm, I'm literally still
learning. I'm, like, literally, I'm gonna be learning for my
entire life, right? Because I'm a convert, I wasn't born into a
Muslim family born into a sect. I've got, I'm kind of learning
about things which other Muslims may take for granted. But I think
that it provides valuable life lessons and experience which I
have now accumulating, which actually means that in some cases,
I actually have more experiences of the wider Muslim world.
And other Muslims have, you know, not, again, because of the type of
work I mean, I've actually been to many Muslim countries as part of
my work, and worked there, you know, done reporting and
investigating and experiencing the culture in a way that you wouldn't
necessarily be able to do if you just went there for a holiday or a
getaway, or vacation as you guys might call it. So yeah, for sure.
No, I understand. There's definitely a lot of people I don't
think there would have got that update yet. But yeah, like I say,
check me out on five pillars. You'll see you'll see the new me
Okay, good. So are you can or anybody who's watching actually
don't distract Omar, he may be doing something else. So let's see
who's a regular chocolate Wallah. Why don't you post it? Look up the
daily Hussein podcast with him.
Robert Carter, and posted over on Murphy's free he can do it too. So
but thank you for clarifying that it's always a courageous thing to
do someone a chance to change their opinion. And people change
their opinion all the time. And we hope that Allah guides us to a
better opinion,
or stance, or truth get away from falsehood as opposed to the
opposite. So I'm glad we talked and we just brought it up. All
right.
So let me ask you another question. Because when I went on
to your,
your YouTube channel, I saw a very interesting video on you speaking
to the Swedish population. Being that you are originally Swedish.
How originally Swedish? Are you? Like one generation and two
generations? That's my first question. And the second is, how
did you find any interaction? Was there any interaction between you
and the, and the Swedish world?
Basically, I may have misled you slightly. I am biking ancestry in
terms of, you know, how many generations ago it would be quite
a few generations ago. Basically, my claim to Scandinavia, is they
actually did a DNA test to discover out where my heritage was
many years ago, and it was majority, it was majority British,
but with a very strong Scandinavian percentage as well.
So blatantly, that's where the blond hair blue eyes comes from.
So that's my claim to Viking heritage, in terms of why I was
involved in speaking to Swedes directly. I had been there
multiple times to cover the news regarding the horrific case of
Quran desecrations, which have been occurring there on a very
regular basis. Over the past probably about a year, maybe two,
it's been getting more and more persistent. And it's because of
some notorious individuals who have begun championing this
disgusting vile practice of desecrating Islam's holy
sanctities in order to try and spark civil unrest, to incite
hate, to peddle Islamophobic,
a racist Islamophobic ideology, and to try and radicalize the
public and to basically try and spark some kind of civil unrest.
That's, that's what they're trying to do. It's as clear as day Yeah.
And unfortunately, Scandinavia, specifically, when it comes to
Europe, seems to have this very peculiar take on free speech,
where they really permit the most disgusting forms of hate speech.
We don't tend to find elsewhere in Europe, even in other countries
with problems with Islamophobia. Like France, for example. You
don't tend to find the authorities permitting, like burnings of the
Quran. Although France don't get me wrong, France is a disgraceful,
vile Islamophobic country as well, institutionally Islamophobic, to
the point where they, they have done other things which Muslims
have protested against, like defending caricatures insulting
our beloved Holy Prophets on the line.
So, you know, I'm not defending France here by any means. But in
terms of burning the Koran publicly and providing police
protection for it. That's something which has become
synonymous with Scandinavian countries, including Denmark. I
think there's also been multiple cases in Norway as well. So
Scandinavia is a massive problem for this. So as a journalist and
reporting on it, I took it upon myself to push this issue. And
yeah, hamdulillah in the UK, there's a massive Muslim community
here. That's very, it's a strong community or Hamdulillah. I think
that's something which,
in all honesty, you might not necessarily find so much in the
states. The UK Muslim community is very outspoken.
There, they're more willing to push boundaries to hit back to
protest. We saw, for example, massive protests against the
blasphemous lady of Heaven movie, which came out I think, like a
year ago, I don't know if you remember that. But again, that was
a vile Islamophobic movie which attacked Islam sanctities,
including the Sahaba, including the wives of the Prophet, it
depicted the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam on on screen. This
was a disgusting film. And there was a humongous protest movement
which was sparked in the UK, which Hamdulillah I created quite an
impact. I have to say, in fact, some cinemas were actually
removing the film, from screenings as a result of Muslim backlash. So
you know, British Muslims, mashallah we don't mess around. We
have strength which we're willing to utilize from time to time.
Under peaceful means, of course, I have to say that because any
Muslim who defends themselves is considered a terrorist. So, you
know, we're a peaceful community, but we're a strong community or
hamdulillah and we come out
out protests and we will defend Islam when we need to. And when it
came to the Quran desecrations. Again, there was a very large
protest movement on a weekly basis. Outside the Swedish Embassy
outside the Danish embassy and martial law. It was a very good
strong reaction, which created many headlines, but it was part of
this great global effort to stand up for Islam. And it's the Swedish
authorities have actually been pressured into, basically, I think
they're considering changing laws there, Denmark are actually trying
to pursue it. But Sweden, I think they're under a lot of pressure.
Now, they haven't changed the laws. But certainly the practice
of of desecrating the Quran.
Although it still continues and is still being defended, it's faced
some limitations. And they're thinking twice about whether or
not they can even permit it going forward, simply because of the
backlash from the Muslim community worldwide. So Hamdulillah that
gave me the opportunity to try to raise awareness of the issue, and
also just to try and defend Islam, and to help the spread of Islam
because I think that's the best strategy to combat. Islamophobia
and hate speech, right is to use it as an opportunity to actually
teach people about Islam to showcase an ethic. It's
like, you know, there was no retaliatory Bible burnings. In
fact, Muslims have been spearheading the defense of all
Abrahamic holy texts during this time. So handily, it was an
opportunity to showcase Islam. And I think we did that very well. I
personally, believe just on the patterns that we're seeing, and
the and the character and the temperament of nations that the
British
there are British Isles will be very, very firmly established,
that Islam will be very firmly established there. Muslims
themselves will be very firmly established there by the end of
the century.
By the trends that we're seeing, and, and this is going to be good
for England, right? Islam is a religion that brings
eliminates intoxication. It brings sobriety to the brain, it to the
mind, it brings, it collects your family together, it pulls your
family together, it gives you direction and purpose of life. It
protects your wealth.
There's no people that gamble on Saturdays more than the British
gambling away their money on soccer, right? It protects your
wealth, it protects your mind, it protects your lineage. It's a
religion that will when practiced by nature cannot will succeed in
its advancing its population, leveling their heads off and
making the productive in the world. It's going to be something
that's, that's good for the British, but some British folks
are like those Scandinavian folks, and they're holding on very
tightly to the old world. The likes of
Golding, Paul was named Paul Golding. And Tommy Robinson,
they're very big online. My question to you is, if you were to
gather 100, random British folk,
what would they stand for them against them or be neutral?
I, obviously they're hate preachers, and they represent a
vocal minority. There's no doubt about that. But they still
represent that minority still pretty significant. I think that
we live in very polarized and divisive times. And I think that
they are starting to champion a particular viewpoint of far right
viewpoints, which even some middle ground British people kind of
indirectly support. Basically, they may receive a lot of sympathy
on some issues, some talking points, not directly that people
might not come out and mobilize because of a call by Tommy
Robinson, to descend on London, for example. But you know, how
could British people vote would they vote for policies similar to
what Tommy Robinson advocates for? Quite possibly? I think that there
is a massive divide because what you have to understand is that the
UK right now is going through economic hardships.
They are engaged in warfare abroad. This is a right wing
conservative country. If you look at the establishment how it's set
up, it's an it's a post imperialist, colonialist country,
with a monarchy and a conservative establishment and institutions
that date back to the whole concept of British nurse is based
on we rolled waves and we conquer other people, and we are we are at
like a supreme race. That's That's what Britishness was at one stage
and it hasn't really gone over there.
At. So there is a lot of intolerance that exists here,
institutional and on the street level, and it's starting to become
worse because there are some populist speakers, politicians,
we're starting to import American style, politically motivated and
driven news channels. Like, for example, you guys have Fox News,
we now have a channel here called GB news. And it's it's, it's
trying to imitate and aspire to be the Fox News of Britain, and then
push, they literally push at times anti Muslim conspiracy theories
Islamophobic tropes about Muslims, as if it were fact. And that's how
they have reported it in the past. And so now we live in this toxic
environment, which is getting worse. And with all of the
problems going on. The establishment is seeking a
scapegoat, which is very easily minorities. And the key minority
to target right now is Muslims.
They package it up as anti immigration, rhetoric, we need to
cut down on immigration, we need to stop foreigners coming in
basically, in so many words. And the the main foreigner that they
want to stop who they who they pitch package up as the enemy is
the Muslim, and, but to be Islamophobic it's not even a term
that's defined officially here in the UK. So if I'm if if someone is
racist and hates brown people, for example, they can discriminate
against the religion, which is associated with brown people,
which is Islam freely be as hateful and disgusting as they
want to be about it. But they won't get done for racism, because
Islamophobia isn't defined properly as a type of racism right
now. In fact, it's a term which the government here is refusing to
define officially, because probably most government ministers
will be guilty of it to some degree or another. So Islamophobia
has become the way for racists to be racist without getting in
trouble. And so, again, the emphasis on discriminating against
Muslims has only grown and it's provided this safe enclave for
racism to exist, and to spread basically. And Tommy Robinson and
the Paul Goldings they are thriving in this environment and
with the freedom that's now provided to them ons basis like X
on Twitter. They're starting to amass this big online following
now and they can make an impact there. But yeah, unfortunately,
it's not all doom and gloom here but yeah, for Muslims it's, it's,
it's very, it's very polarized. Now. You got friends today,
yesterday had a march was Islam.
Geert Wilders, of course, was elected, we know that.
The Goldings and Robinsons are gaining traction in the UK. Now
you said to have a channel to strengthen them.
There's going to be clearly a clash a conflict. I don't see how
the Muslims are going away. I don't know if you saw yesterday's
video by Prop and CO but he brought this a clip from from from
a movie where the ants were so small in number, but there's so
many right that you just can't stop them. That's what Muslims are
in Europe. I just can't try to imagine trying to imagine what
will the nature of the clash because there must there will
always be a clash you never have a power that is displaced by another
power except that there must be a clash first, is it ancient Greek
historical theory, it's just based on observation. There must at some
point be some kind of class because power never gives itself
up. And it never just deludes and washes away. At some point,
there's going to be a last ditch effort to push to push back. Some
people in America say January 6 Was that some people say was a
complete, you know, conspiracy to make Trump look bad. Who knows
what the truth is, but I probably lean towards that there was some
truth to it. It just sparked right. But in any event, there's
always got to be some pushback. So what do you where do you what do
you foresee as a as forecasting, obviously not prophecy, but
forecasting the nature of this clash in Europe, between a certain
population that's rising, that's not going anywhere? If they were
to stop all immigration, that population is going to still
increase at a faster rate than even the white population. So what
kind of classes do you see do you foresee?
Yes, in fact, what you just mentioned
the Muslim community here is growing
Hang. And there are actually there was actually a census, a
nationwide census, which is conducted every year, you probably
do over there in the States as well, where they gather
information about the general public, you have to fill out a
questionnaire and you fill in details like, what's your
religion? How do you class yourself? Do you classify yourself
as English or British, that type of thing. So they gather
information about the people of that country. And the results of
that census showed a large spike in the Muslim population. And
there were areas in the country where white British people were
decreasing. But other nationalities, including Muslim
nationalities were growing exponentially in those areas. So
they were being described basically as Muslim majority
enclaves that would be formed. That's how the right wing was
spinning the story. And they were acting with shock, alarm and
disbelief that Britain was becoming like this. And as if it
were a bad thing. I celebrated it, of course, because I didn't see
anything wrong with black and brown people coming to the UK, and
I don't see anything wrong with this long growing in the UK
either. But there are unfortunately right wing forces
that do see a problem with that. And, yeah, in terms of how things
could turn out.
Don't underestimate the European
house EULA, I say it the willingness to commit a genocide.
Historically, if you look at how Europe has behaved in their
history, a genocide or persecution of religious minorities is quite
common here in Europe, we may think that those days are long
gone following the end of the Second World War, for example, but
I'm not so sure about that. I would say that I wouldn't put it
past the Europeans to perhaps go back to an environment similar to
where we ended up, which led to the rise of fascism in Europe. I
mean, quite frankly, was only a couple of generations ago, that
Europe was that racist that's willing to massacre people in
their millions in a very, very mechanical, efficient way.
And you have to remember that the the horrors of
Nazi Germany were were not as apparent as they are now at the
beginning, before the Second World War began, but they were known, it
was known how horrible and vile and disgusting fascism was, and
what the what Germany had become, prior to lead up to the Second
World War, but the initial reaction by the European powers
was to appease to this vile regime was to try and find a working
relationship with this disgusting regime.
And yeah, now I wonder if situation could come back,
especially when you see ignoramuses vile, disgusting
ignoramuses like Wilders being elected to power in countries like
Holland. I must admit even that caught me by surprise. I've been
to Holland many times and I did believe that the Dutch were
were educated enough that they would go for a Gert Wilders, I
thought that he would have some support. It'd be a vocal fringe
element within the political spectrum there but in terms of
gaining power in that country, even that caught me by surprise, I
think things are escalating much faster than I think many people
realize. And perhaps by the time we realize it will be too late.
Especially if you look at how Muslims are being treated in
France for example, and how how dehumanized Muslims are becoming
in in media, including in British media too. So I fear a Day where
mass deportations some kind of reeducation a mass reeducation of
Muslims, something like you might see in, in we we weekers in China,
for example. Yeah, I I don't know. I could see it happening. Yeah,
not I pray not but I wouldn't put it past don't put a genocide past
the Europeans. They've been doing many, many times for many years,
the Jews and I wouldn't be surprised if the Muslims were the
next and for far more centuries they did it than not. We're
talking with Robert Carter from five pillars UK. You if you're on
RAM hopped over to YouTube Safina society channel so that you can
see the full picture.
We have about 200 people watching between both platforms. So let me
ask you a shift over to the your your Gaza coverage. You recently I
had an interview with a Yemeni.
They sent out what Yemeni journalist sorry, they sent out
what exactly did they send over in the direction of the
Mediterranean? What are the sorry, the Red Sea? What exactly are
they? Are they doing?
So Yemen is one of the few Arab world countries that has actually
done anything meaningful to hit back if you like. Israeli regime
began its its attempted conquest of Gaza.
They have entered they've literally entered the war. They've
declared war in Israel. They fired, I think, some ballistic
missiles and some drones at Israel directly. They have we're in
Israel. That's right. They've come and did they've
detained some cargo shipping, at least one. And there have been
other attacks, reported attacks on other, I think an oil tanker was
targeted off the south coast, not far off of the coast of add in the
southern capital of Yemen. So Yemenis have basically entered the
war directly. But of course there are other we know there's a front
on in South Lebanon as well.
And then of course, we're going to wait and see how things escalate.
But I think overall, let me just be clear about this. I think that
the the the response by the Muslim world, in general, generally
speaking, has been poor. from a political standpoint. I think that
we're literally witnessing the mass murder of Arab innocence,
women and children. And basically, the Arab world politically has
done practically nothing. I mean, how there's this this
misconception that Arab Arabs are wealthy, and are privileged and
more prestigious than other people, because they live these
luxury lifestyles of skyscrapers and gold and huge banquets. But
with all that money, how worthless are they when the blood in their
veins is so is so cheap that they can I mean, what are we standing
at now? 15,000 innocent, yeah, killed slain, mostly women and
children in Gaza. And there's, there's like no reaction to it.
There's no reaction, there's no sanctions, the oil still flows to
the west. In fact, there are still economic ties with many of these
Arab countries to Israel, still.
There has been some minor blowback.
Some ambassadors called back, but it's disgraceful. And these, the
leadership in these countries still have the audacity, the gall
to to talk about the issue as if they're somehow defending the
Palestinians rights. They condemn Israel. If you're not going to do
anything. Be quiet, shut your mouth. How dare you speak as if
you're defending the Palestinians when you are literally doing
nothing? And the murders are happening right now. Like, today?
There were two, I think one of the kids was a nine year old. There
were two kids killed in the bank by a sniper. They were just gunned
down blatantly. I mean, the sniper knew who he was targeting. Right.
He's going through his scope clearly enough that he could hit
them that easily. So he knew who he was targeting in the West Bank,
where Hamas doesn't have any presence whatsoever. And still
there is there is nothing, there is hardly a word of meaningful
condemnation. Yeah. And
that's how normalized it's become. If the same thing if, if if,
if two nine year old Israelis were gunned down today, they would be
human, there'd be a tremendous reaction to this. In fact, the
West would probably threatened to invade Gaza as well. For example,
that's the kind of reaction we would see. Just look at the
reaction to Russia invading Ukraine, for example, tremendous
reaction to that. Israel is doing worse to Gaza than Russia has done
to Ukraine. And Russia has been attacking Ukraine for what like
three years now. Yeah. And I think Israel has outdone Russia, in
terms of its death toll in some areas. Three months. Exactly. So,
um, okay. There's no sanctions whatsoever on Israel. In fact,
here I don't know. I know obviously the US
is facilitating and defending Israel to the hilt. I don't know
what Joe Biden said recently. But here we actually have basically no
politicians, no leaders of any of our major parties here that's
willing to call for a ceasefire. Not not not condemn Israel or
anything like that. Of course not. They're not going to do that. But
they're not even willing to call for a ceasefire, just let that
sink in. They're not even willing to call for a ceasefire, any
ceasefire, even the temporary ceasefire, which might just save
some Arab kids from being murdered might just save some, they're not
even willing to do that to symbolically offer that lip
service to just call for genocide. Can you imagine how, how
disgusting that is that innocent, it's okay to murder kids in some
situations, if they are if they're Palestinian, if it's Israel doing
it. It's okay to murder kids in this instance. And they won't even
call for a ceasefire. That's, that's the situation we're in now.
So obviously, I've been covering it. Censorship is a massive
problem. I don't know if you want to ask me about that. But we're
not even really able to talk about the Arab situation properly.
Because if you talk in certain terms,
it's like illegal here basically, like the censorship of Palestine
Solidarity is so crazy now that it's almost illegal to wave a
Palestinian flag in the UK and well, circumstances it's almost
illegal, almost equal.
Don't back to what Yemen is doing. Where are they attacking Israel?
Like, are they in random locations? Are they
aiming at specific locations? And where are they firing from?
Um, basically, there is a city in the south of occupied Palestine. I
believe it's called Aliette Aliette. I think I'm pronouncing
it right. That's received the brunt of Yemen's ballistic missile
strikes.
Obviously, it's disputed on how accurate or effective they've
been.
I think there hasn't been any major escalation recently. The big
question is, Will Israel respond? Would they directly attack Yemen?
That's a question on many people's minds in response to this. As we
know, Israel has a habit of attacking its neighbors. They
attack Lebanon all the time, they attack Syria all the time. And
obviously they attack occupied Palestine Gaza all the time. But
would they go as far as to attack Yemen, now that you've been need
to, like Yemen is like a little miskeen.
You know, I'm surprised Yemen even made their way up.
So they, you took their ships one around the corner, right, or came
straight out EOD and went up the Red Sea? Right and are firing from
there. So how has Israel not taste taken out that ship? You said the
power shift here is not even comparable? So how have they just
not knocked out that ship? I don't understand why they're letting
them. Are they letting them do this so that they could justify
some kind of other project? Consider it a provocation.
I think that there is quite a distance between Yemen and
occupied Palestine. And it's a very busy shipping lane, through
through the Red Sea.
There's a lot of shipping going through there. And it's quite a
vital connection route between, like the oil rich Gulf Arab Gulf
countries and, and Europe, basically, as they go through
Egypt and on the Turanian.
They've decided to target any cargo shipping links to Israel in
any way as a type of sanctioning strategy to pressure for for for
for them to end their aggression on Gaza. Like what the Somali
pirates, it doesn't, there isn't necessarily a lot of Israeli
military presence in the Red Sea that we know of, to the point
where they could maybe deflect because, you know, Yemenis using,
from what I've seen,
hit and run sort of tactics, they use smaller vessels. They're using
helicopters to land on passing cargo ships, so they can hit hard
and fast basically, and it would be very difficult to anticipate
when Yemenis are going to strike these are the types of tactics
they're using. I guess you could call them a type of guerrilla
tactic but Yemen although it's a country, which is it's gone
through a long war, it's gone through its own major hardships.
Don't Don't Don't Don't mistake the Emily people's determination
to stand by Islam and stand by Palestine.
That's one thing which I'll give the m&s credit for. They love
Palestine, they love Islam. It's an incredibly religious country.
And it's it's an old fashioned Arab country as well, all of the
all of its neighboring Arab countries where you associate
traditional Arab values to their kind of reforming now to the point
where you may actually not recognize how Arabs behave in
those countries compared to maybe one or two generations. Just one
generation back. Yeah, exactly. It's changing so fast. But Yemen,
on the other hand, is a little bit time locked in that sense. So
yeah, the concepts of, you know,
fighting for Islam, basically, it's very strong there. And
although Yemenis, this is what I was speaking to the journalist
about.
He was use of use of was his name, he basically explained that
Yemenis. They've been dying in large numbers for years, for
their, for their, for their own country, they're willing to do the
same for Palestine. It's as simple as that. And that's something
which I think,
has to be noted, it's as simple as that. I think it's so unique. Now,
when you look at how the their neighbors are behaving, when it
comes to Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and so on, they're
looking to normalize with the apartheid regime that's killing
Arabs in
Yemen, on the other hand, is is literally fighting them. How crazy
is that, that you have the these these Arab countries, the
normalization countries attacking Muslims in Yemen for years, I
think over 100,000 Yemenis have been killed so far that we know
of. But yeah, it's that country, the one that they've been
attacking, they actually stood up for Palestine. There is a logic
here that
there's a logic that when you've been fighting for your life, for a
long period of time, it's very, the fight button is very easy to
locate. Right? When you've been been getting hit for so long, the
mindset of exposing yourself to another hit is sometimes there.
And you see that all the time, when people were fighting for
their lives for a long period of time, although on the outside,
they look weak. But on the inside,
the fight ethic is alive and well.
And the contrast that those who are very strong, and because of
their strength, haven't needed to fight, when it comes time to
fight, despite their external strength, they can't find the
button, they can't find the internal mechanism, the button to
push that says fight. And that's where in the world of Muslims, you
find that it's the poorest, and it's, I think it's universal, the
poorest, the are downtrodden, those are the people they've so
accustomed to this. And they don't have much to lose in the first
place that are most willing to defend their people.
Those who have living comfortably and do have a lot to lose.
They don't have that button. Right. And they never show up. And
that's your I think universally throughout history, you find those
situations.
It's just so interesting that they actually went out and did it. I
didn't expect them to, if you asked me, someone who's observed
the Yemeni politics from afar, I didn't even know they have a
functioning government, let alone a function military,
let alone you know,
any kind of order to go and do something like this. So this is
all, you know, very interesting to me. In contrast to that, the one
group that I do know has 150,000 person army, has been barking for
a long time, has done it before has fought Israel before is
Hezbollah. And if you're not going to show up in a 15,000 person
massacre in the span of eight weeks, seven weeks, seven weeks,
15,000 people in seven weeks. It's 8000 people a week. Well, what's
the math? Sorry, and that's 56,000. I don't know the math, but
it's two point something 1000 A week. Okay.
What are the what was the point of all this military and all this
barking and all this talking from Hezbollah? It's not that I'm here
publicly encouraging them to go do this. But I'm wondering, you talk
a big game
about Palestine against Israel. They go and they do the worst
attacks on civilians that they've done.
Ever worse than the Nakba.
If probably get just by numbers.
What are you going to do here? Why are they just sitting around what
why should anyone believe a word they have to say again about how
strong they are? And how tough they are? And how much they're
ready to fight?
It's very good question. I mean, basically, yeah, there's there's a
few countries. A few
A few, a few groups, which you could accuse them of all doing the
same thing.
Turkey, Iran as well.
People kind of you know, it's like I said earlier,
if you're if you can't do anything, don't don't talk about
it, because that's perhaps more offensive even then, then say, for
example, a Saudi Arabia who they don't talk,
like a war game. They don't they're, in fact, they're going
the opposite way. They're going for normalization and the economic
roots.
At guess you could say, at least they're consistent. I mean,
they're not talking about it, are they? They're selling out. But
then you have the other side, which talks about it, like, you
know, we're going to liberate and you know, in a couple of years,
there'll be liberate, don't worry, and we'll be marching into Al
Quds. And then when, as you say, there's a massive massacre taking
place. And
you feel like okay, Muslim armies going to mobilize now to save
Muslims being massacred? No one does is deadly silence. I mean,
it's bizarre, like you built up this army, and they've done it
before they fought with Israel before. They talk a good game
150,000 person army, like a country inside of a country. And
when it comes to the biggest massacre of your people of the
people, you supposedly are supporting a complete no show.
It's weird. It's just weird.
So we've covered Norway, or Sweden, sorry. And England's
Europe's far, right. We've covered Yemen. We've covered now LeMat.
Lebanon, what else do you think needs coverage? You as a
journalist, what is at the forefront that needs to be talked
about today?
Can you take that lamp? I think the the censorship of the
Palestinian cause in the West is a massive problem.
I think that I don't know what it's been like over there in the
States. I've seen some videos of pro Palestine action taking place
and things like that. And I know that you guys have quite a broad
definition of free speech, which Americans tend to be quite
protective over that that right, that freedom, that I think it's in
the I forget what it's called the Constitution, right? You have
constitutional rights to free speech. Here, it seems as if our
free speeches are literally being eroded away to the point where it
feels like we're living in a police state. It literally feels
like we're living in a police state. And I think many Americans
would be really surprised by the the police behavior when dealing
with protests,
like peaceful protests, the the numbers in support Palestine are
much larger here in the UK. I'm quite proud about that, like, on
an average weekend, and we've had weekly marches for Palestine in
London, we can pull out easily above 100,000 people.
I mean, minimum minimum on a sort of quiet day since October the
seventh, I would say we we've pulled out like 50,000 people,
60,000 people, 80,000 people. And then we've pushed numbers right up
to close to a million I think the the biggest protests we had we had
like a Million Man March. And we were close to those numbers if we
didn't hit it.
For for the, for the pro Israel side. I mean, they're lucky if
they can get maybe 10,000 people, I think they really pushed and
there's been accusations that they pay people to come and support
Israel at their protests. And there's also there's also an issue
where they have far right Islamophobic groups showing up at
the pro Israel marches as well who only support Israel because it's
an anti Muslim, anti Palestine regime that that's killing
listeners basically, and recently as people show up, so it's nothing
to brag about. But the way that the police have now been basically
bullied, peer pressured by the political establishment here to go
after Palestine Solidarity, like a witch hunt is unbelievable. Like,
it's so shocking. People are being arrested for holding up placards
or protests that say the wrong thing. There was a woman who a
Muslim woman who was arrested at a Palestine protest, I think maybe
two weeks ago, she had a sign, which it was a coconut tree. And
she was referring to the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as a
fruit from that trip.
I'm sure you understand why
she was arrested. I think the crime she allegedly committed on
may have committed the offense was like hate speech or something like
that or racially motivated hate speech or something ridiculous.
Now, I'm sorry, but I'm sure any American looking at this to see a
protest arrested for holding up a sign with a coconut. Yeah.
Oh, you froze for a second there.
Let's see, am I back now? Yeah, you're back now. You're right, the
Americans in terms of free speech, I think that they're very
sensitive to that. But corporate is not sensitive to that. So you
there are, there's a legal element of things. And then there's a
corporate element of things, corporations, they all make their
own rules. Sometimes they don't have to have rules, right, they
can just disassociate from an employee, for no reason, like at
will contracts, types of things. But the corporate is far more
sensitive. And that's usually where America goes, they go, and
they'll get you on the court of public opinion, more so than the
court of law. So the court of law may be pretty much more wide open.
But the opinion in the office, and the court of public opinion, is
going to be far more brutal. And that's where you see
people becoming very nervous, if they're entrenched in some
industry, that's, you know, a general industry that has all
sorts of people in it, that industry will reflect, you know,
the common tones and tolerances and temperaments of,
of the current political climate. And it'll be very, very, there'll
be very cautious about what they talk about. So you definitely have
that in the in the corporate worlds, more so than in the legal
sense.
When I turned on for just five minutes,
I was moving somebody's car. And I turned on for like five minutes,
the radio, and he came on to the normal news radio that tells you
the traffic and the weather and all that stuff. They were still
talking as if it was October 8.
Like they were still talking about the
all the terrible things that have happened with zero mention of
which the stuff that's actually happening in the sea on Twitter,
and I realized mainstream media is so useless now. It's lost all
sense of credibility, it's completely useless. It's not
something that
anyone with any common sense is going to pay attention to. So
we've kept you for a long time. Let's now turn to the comments.
I'm going to open my
I'm opening up my, the YouTube chat. And let's throw out three
questions for you three questions that you have for Robert Carter.
Okay.
All right, let's take the first one here.
UK is still better than the rest of Europe? Does it mean that
they're doing very well?
You have any comments on that?
It depends what you mean by doing better than the rest of Europe?
Because
economically, we're not doing much better than Europe. In fact, were
one of the worst performing
three, five economies, I think, yeah. So economically, we're not
doing very well, in terms of political freedoms. And again, we
may be doing better for Muslims in the compared to some other
countries like France, where Muslims literally feel petrified
to speak out now about anything.
But I think we're going in that direction. So I think we have some
slight, slightly more freedoms here compared to some European
countries, but it's not good. I mean, if you look at how they're
censoring the Palestine Solidarity movement right now, I feel like
I'm in a police state where I literally feel intimidated. Delhi
has seen my colleague had police show up at his his doorstep
because of the tweets because of a tweet. Wow. No, and people are
being plucked off the streets by police officers for having Arabic
writing on the placards that they can't translate. So they just
panic and automatically detain them. We have people wearing the
the traditional Arab shell I have it here.
This this print, this print is being described as dressing as a
terrorist in publications, local publications, right wing
publications. So if I were this, I suddenly might get branded a
terrorist sympathizer. And there have been a few arrests and
condemnations of there was a police officer who was pictured
with a child wearing this and people were outraged that this
police woman would take a picture with someone wearing this because
she was seen as sympathizing with taking the terrorist sympathizer
basically, this is how bad it is. So don't Don't I know Britain
might look lovely and fun and like a great vacation location.
We've all these posh speaking Brits at the Ritz, visit
Buckingham Palace. It's it's far from that when you when you live
here when you do Muslim activism here, it's a very intimidating
hostile environment where you could easily be branded an
extremist or a terrorist sympathizer at the drop of a hat
because you say the wrong thing, or I don't know, say the wrong
Islamic word like jihad. Or
if you read the wrong Quran verse publicly, you could be branded a
terrorist. So you know, just put that in perspective. Let me ask
you this. Have you seen the officers talking about this? Or
dealing with protesters in that way? Do you think that the
officers themselves believe in this
and by and large in general, of course, I wouldn't put it past
them because the the London Metropolitan Police Force, for
example, has a lot of accusations of being institutionally racist
against them. There's many cases particularly black Brits, they
they have a very poor reputation with black British Londoners and
elsewhere in the country, because of accusations of instituting
institutional racism. So I wouldn't put it past some police
officers to have Islamophobic tendencies as well. However, I
think by and large, the police are naive and ignorant. They just
don't understand. Like they don't know what, what they don't read
Arabic. They don't they don't know what this is people tell people
are claiming this is like a Hamas uniform or something. That's how
it's been described by some in the press, or a chance there are a
chance here which are being criminalized, essentially, because
they're apparently advocating for genocide. And pro Palestine
chanting, the police don't know, the average Bobby on the street
doesn't understand the complexities of Arab culture.
They're just doing what they're being told to do. And it's,
they're being told to do it because of political pressure from
our government, which is being applied because they're under
pressure to fall in line with with Israel in all honesty. Israel
wants its Western allies to support its genocide by any means
necessary. And because pro Palestine support is so strong and
a street level here in the UK, specifically, the government has
to
peer pressure the police to basically go on a witch hunt, in
order to intimidate people out of supporting Palestine. That's how
that's how pathetic it's become. It's about intimidation. That's
why police show up at Diddy Hussein's door. That's why
protesters are being plucked out of Palestine demonstrations and
are being they're being referred to as hate mobs by government
ministers in this country.
Despite the fact that these protests pass by largely peaceful
even though hundreds of 1000s of people show up, they go by with
minimal arrests, because they just can't find any genuine cases of
hateful behavior most of the time. So it's, it's it's crazy. It's
absolutely crazy. And unfortunately, the police are
being they're literally being pressured, strong armed into
behaving this way, whether they want to or not. Okay, second
question here. And we'll we'll I'm going to narrow this question down
from chocolate Wallah to the Palestine as a situation, is there
a conspiracy theory? Or is there a theory out there related to all
this that you deem to be a conspiracy theory? It's a little
different from chocolate while this question, but I want to just
try to keep it
to the subject here. It's the theories. Yeah. So when I first
became Muslim, many years ago,
I was told sometimes I was I was, I was warned by other Muslim
activists, people in the community from time to time, be careful,
because there's a Western war against Islam happening.
West is at war with Islam, not just a war with the Arab world,
not just trying to take the oil, not trying to occupy Iraq and
defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their lives literally at war with
Islam, the religion, they want to defeat the religion. And I wasn't
so sure about it, to be honest with you, I wasn't so sure about
it. I was like, Well, you know, it's geopolitics. If if the Middle
East wasn't so oil rich, maybe the West would still have good
relations with the Muslim world. You know, they had better
relations with Muslims during the Cold War era. So who knows? Maybe
it will go back to that. But actually, no, I think in more
recent years with the type of work I've done, I would say that
perhaps there is a lot of truth to that. I think that Islam has been
identified by the powers that be in the West as an enemy as an
enemy force, for many reasons, not just geopolitical.
Not just because, you know, the region is oil wealthy that plays a
big part in it. Don't get me wrong. But I think that there are
far too many Muslims living in the West. Muslims actually believe in
Islam. By the way, it's not like Christianity where, you know,
they'll take some stuff, ditch the rest, and by and large, it's a
defeated force, especially here in the UK and other parts of Europe.
Christianity is a defeated force.
No, I think Muslims they stand by their religion, there's something
unique about Islam is the fastest growing religion. Muslims actually
believe it, including all of it, including the bits, which the West
considers controversial, and is willing to stand by it. Muslims
are prepared to basically,
yeah, they're not prepared to compromise. They're not prepared
to water down or reform their beliefs. And Islam is actually a
winning formula. Two, if you follow Islam, you are a winner.
And we see that because Muslim communities, Muslim family units
are growing, they're having large, productive families, they're
successfully passing on their religious beliefs to the next
generation, which is something you don't see, in other denominations,
Christians find it much harder to convince their children to accept
their beliefs than Muslims to. So Islam has the real potential here
of becoming not just the world's largest religion, but the largest
religion in the West, specifically. Yeah, and I think
that people have identified that now. And they see that as a
problem, because everything that the West Stands for, including all
of the bad stuff, whether it be imperialism, colonialism, or just
fanatic liberal feminism, and secularism, which is like a
religion in itself. They're all at risk. Islam provides a moral
fiber, which the West no longer stands for, and actually detects.
Yeah, and, um, has the real possibility of winning slowly but
surely, you know, Allah is with us. And Allah is the Creator of
the universe. And clearly, we are on the winning side here, it may
not seem it, but on the winning side, so this this conspiracy, as
it's described, that there's some kind of Western against Islam? No,
I think that there is I think, 100% and, and I would say that
Allah subhana, which has with us, with his by giving us a law,
giving us a lot that is super simple to understand.
And everybody can do it. And it's that law, that when, and also, it
seems non threatening on the outside, right, it seems something
that you wouldn't really pay much attention to very simple things of
not gambling, not drinking, not fornicating, believing in one God,
creator, that you're going to meet at the end of life,
praying five times a day to keep yourself centered with that
creator. So simple, that
it's going to guarantee the family unit, it must guarantee the family
unit. If you guarantee the family unit, your population grows.
That's that simple. If you don't drink and you don't gamble, and
you don't put yourself in a serious situation, your money will
grow the and you encourage trade which we do in Islam. Prophets I
sent him said nine tenths of all wealth is distributed to the
merchant. You will your your wealth will grow generation after
gender. It's so slow. And so I like to say granular and it's like
the word that I like that it really is unstoppable. And that is
what the Europeans are seeing now they're so frustrated. I should
say the right wing extremist types
are so frustrated that it is something that they can't do
anything about. It's too late anyway. Unless they're gonna go
some mass crazy, genocidal psychopath. I want to bring up the
last comment here Luke Williams. I'm a fellow native white, blond
haired blue eyed Brit, who reverted to Islam. We are a
growing demographic and the future of the UK. The non racial element
of Islam is one of its most powerful forces. You can pick on
the Bengali cab driver, whatever it is the trope.
Here in New York, it's like the Egyptian shawarma, falafel stand
in England, all of the South Asians, but there's going to come
a day where you can't necessarily say that Islam is South Asians,
there's going to be so many mix out Asian and white
kids, white converts, French white converts, Dutch white converts,
that is really ends up being the game changer because it really
confuses that messaging of the right wing, racist immigrant brown
people. It sort of ends it in a sense as that demographic grows,
which leads to the final question
which was from I can't remember who it was, but you're a convert.
Can you tell us is was there a book? Here? It is. This was a
question from
okay, I scrolled too much I can't see it here.
Was there a book a person, a something that triggered your
interest, and then eventual conversion into Islam?
Yes, Hamdulillah. I had Muslim friends at secondary school. So I
credit them. One in particular, who basically introduced me to
Islam. And because he was a practicing Muslim, steadfast
practicing Muslim, I witnessed and learned from him. So I think that
that's a testament to the importance of remembering that
we're all ambassadors for the religion. And although we may not
engage in Dawa, as we know it today, like the industry, the Dow
industry, speakers corner and that type of stuff, which we have here
in the UK, just because you're not a YouTube, dour activist doesn't
mean that you're not representing the religion. And just by
practicing Islam, not not talking to people about it, not going to
speakers corner or whatever, but just practicing it, praying
publicly, in front of your colleagues, whatever. And just
being a good human being, following the prophets, examples
of Allah, whatever Salam and aspiring to be like him and how he
was, that can have a tremendous impact, you may not even realize
it. And that's how I benefited from it in terms of like Islamic
personalities that benefit from the life of the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam was the most important aspects that because
obviously, there's a lot of misconceptions about Islam and
Muslims. And a guy like me, coming from a traditional English
background, I thought all Muslims were basically like terrorist
sympathizers, and Islam as a religion of hate, that wanted to
kill the infidels and all that stuff. You know, I mean, all the
typical stuff that were taught in the media, and we're not actually
bothered to learn about the life of the prophet, and the many great
examples that he said, how he dealt with multiple scenarios and
what he actually stood for and said and represented and what he
did for the Arabs for the world for humanity, when he was alive.
The anti racism point being a prime example. He was the first
anti racism activist, for example, who actively sought to free slaves
who actively sought to break down the societal barriers which
separated the races, the colors, that type of thing. It's just
tremendous. And that really opened my eyes to the beauty of Islam.
But the problem is, you have to get that message to people who may
be shrouded in this ignorance, this this tough ignorance as well.
That has to be broken through the Tommy Robinson types. But most of
the time, their view is based on sheer ignorance. Like they
literally don't have a clue. Like all of these anti Islam experts.
They're all charlatans Douglas Murray, Tommy Robinson, these guys
are experts on Islam by the way they they've written books about
Islam, but they don't care Arabic. When you ask them about Islam,
they misquote verses of the Quran and they take things out of
context they cherry pick, they don't have a clue about Islam, or
what Muslims believe they don't know. That's why they hate on it.
Yeah, just just remember that and you know, simple things like just
teaching people about the life of the prophet Sallallahu
is is so important because so many times non Muslims will say, Oh, I
didn't know that. I didn't realize that you don't assume anything.
Exactly. So just keep to the basics. And I you'd be surprised
how powerful it is to just to share the truth to share the
message of Islam 100%
Thank you so much for coming on. And anytime that you want to share
something
in fact, probably 50% of my audience the audience here that is
live is in England. The Americans tend to watch the video later but
the live it's now like what 7pm 8pm in England so they watch
in the evening. But anytime that you want to come on and talk about
something to bring something up feel free we'd love to have you on
and I can I can I just do the shameless behavior of promoting my
show as we leaves brown just tell us about your show. I'm not
familiar with that much apologies for this but I'm really excited
about it. We have a brand new live discussion show it's going to be a
weekly thing every Thursday on five pillars exclusively. Me and
Russia Mohamed salah, another colleague of mine will be
discussing all sorts of issues similar to what we've done here
today and you as well doctor, you are certainly going to be a
welcome guest I hope inshallah beautiful episodes. So yeah, do
check us out at five pillars if you haven't already, and
especially tomorrow it will be
Your first discussion show live discussion show. So very good
discussion. Hope to see you there in Sharla. I'd love to, I'd love
to watch and be part of that and maybe someday pop in into your
studio. So just look forward to that. And again, thank you so much
for your time. Thank you for coming on. Does that go Okay,
thank you. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this interview with Robert
Carter. Thank you again.
All right.
All right, folks. Let's pan this camera out. Let's get the lunch
Bismillah bring that lunch out. It's now time let's open it up for
the audience here. And Ryan wanted to tweak around with I mean Omar
tweak around with the lighting a little bit I don't know why I was
so dim. The studio was so dim we need to change these lamps right
here we need to get better lighting. I despise the white
lighting but maybe if we put it up here here bring it here. What do
we have today? Afghan food
whatever set the table however you wish. Good
Allahu Akbar
Jr. says what is your background Middle Eastern? Yes it is. I guess
you could they call it MENA Middle East North Africa. Okay. Now why
is there a fight here? I don't understand here who is fighting in
the chat section
let's see what this loud shark
Why is he upset?
Hear put on the sides here. But on the sides if you want. Good.
All right. Here's Amin. Yesterday want to ask about those
controversial questions. You misunderstood my question. I said,
What do you say about those who say some schewe sugarcoat or
intentionally misconstrued misconstrued?
I think sometimes people sugarcoat
things in the slum, maybe temporarily,
for the audience in front of them to sort of maybe calm them down or
something like that. And there may be some times where that is the
appropriate act to do but as an overall policy, this is not our
religion. Keep that in mind.
Islam is not your ownership, you don't own it.
You have no right to be playing around and fiddling with it. Okay.
In Edina end Allah al Islam guy who was a Malcolm al Muslimeen.
Allah named you Muslims.
The religion in the sight of Allah Islam. Okay.
It's not our religion to play around with it.
As a general overall policy, just present Islam as it is tried. If
you want it, try to show how it's sensible in the eyes of the person
asking, that's good, I would say because part of Qlm LML Kalam is
to show that Allah has not asked us to believe in something absurd.
Okay, or contradictory?
Maybe your culture doesn't understand it. Maybe you don't
understand it. But it the muamalat the accent, the interactions are
always sensible. Okay.
Well, dude, what does that make? Does that make sense? I mean, so
I thought he was asking you and he got pumped up about having
concubines, but I'll take some white sauce. Why not? Yeah, why
not?
Yeah.
What are you talking about? Ryan? Read me the question. What dude,
can you explain how to navigate apostasy and capital punishment,
law, conversations with non Muslims. It's quality control.
Okay. It's quality control. The root of our civilization is
submission to God and His Prophet. That's like the citizenship good.
to Now side with the devil and side with demonic forces an
apostate out of Islam.
You bring it into cancer into Islam, you have to understand the
law of Islam cannot be separated from its beliefs about the world.
We're not naturalists that believe only this world exists and only
these.
The physical element that we see exists no. God exists as Prophet
is true. And he is in charge. He has the right to tell us how to
live and what to do. That's the root of our civilization. Now
someone may not be a Muslim at all.
Okay, and we can't force him to be a Muslim. He's going to be on his
own religion. That's his choice. But the concept that a Muslim will
come in to Islam then leave Islam. Now this Muslim has the ability to
do
Laura others into this falsehood that he's upon.
Whereas the Hindu is very hard for a Hindu or even a Christian to
come in and pull family members out of Islam.
But someone within the family can do that within the OMA can easily
do that.
Okay, that's the Hanafi madhhab says he's only executed if he is
political in his rebellion
that he physically rebels Correct. Give me the source because I told
you remind, remind me the stores pull it up. Pull it up. I have a
young convert here named Ryan. He's very well read on the Hanafi
school. But I say to him Don't ever say a ruling. cite the
source.
Right cite the source
layth knew and says it's really no different than it's really no
difference than
abandoning the military. It's treasonous act. Okay.
The Mad Dog says I've heard you many times on the podcasts
to get married it's so no what would you say for someone who is
not able to decide on a personal level if they want to be in
marriage? Well guess what the great had been out of he did not
want to get married until he learned a hadith, okay?
In which the prophesy seven said marriage is from my son, whoever
wants other than that has left my sunnah
or is not one of us, meaning he hasn't fulfilled Islam properly.
So if an oddity then began to make dua, oh Allah make me love the
Sunnah of the Prophet of getting married. And he did and he got
married. So ask Allah to Allah to guide you to the to desiring to
get married to fulfill that sunnah.
Is it on the point that he says this?
This law
is not
a law.
Unlike
the law of treason,
treason, it is similar to the law of prison. The context of this law
is that if there is a male because the women are not killed, and the
child is not killed within the apostate law,
they are not killed.
If a male who lives in a Muslim society
decides to leave Islam,
the governor or the governor, the ruler of that region,
will determine
is this male individual committing treason and therefore declaring
himself a non Muslim?
This action of treason is what the legislation is relating to that if
he is doing this as a political statement. And as a threat to
society, the punishment is mentioned as an apostate
punishment that the person is killed by the governor, by the
government, not by individual vigilante groups.
All right, you get the idea.
As a religion,
he could always leave the Muslim country and declare himself as an
apostate, the Muslim government will not have any authority over
that person out of the borders outside of the borders, they will
have no authority. Okay.
After having said this, historically speaking and
currently speak, have they been? Okay, there you have it. No, no,
no, no, you got to have better manners eating manners than that.
small bites, wipe him out. Okay, listen, you heard that. So he's
basically saying that if you want to pass that you got to leave the
country. You want to become a Russian citizen and denounce your
American citizenship. What do you have to do? Gotta leave the
country.
Loud shark is saying so in Islam, I can't I don't have the free
speech to do certain things. But
in America, you can speak Yes. The law of Islam and law in America is
not the same. Simple as that.
Simple as that.
I mean, says it was not attack and attack. Personal attack. I love
you all. Yeah, I didn't take it as a personal attack.
I didn't get that from a mean stone at all.
yesterday or today. Okay, will you return to England soon? Probably
soon. I don't know about this summer. The summer may be Malaysia
who knows?
Maybe Malaysia
it'll be Malaysia first unless the South Africans come up with a plan
just an invitation to Malaysia you know all the Hebei about there
Yeah, can you get us gabber Matteo Yan
see how to contact him and get him on? Can you explain the story
about filthy and mocha dem breaking the sword? What is the
battle we weigh regarding when to be peaceful and to fight. Tada
Brazi says the battle we lived in an area where the Muslims
themselves the tribes were fighting one another.
The tribes themselves they were fighting one another in a type of
unlawful manner. And that's where
Imam Al fugly and macadam All right, says that
we will break the sword meaning we will not enter the civil wars
anymore.
We will not enter the civil wars.
Okay
all right, crying to the kofod about Gaza and I don't like it.
No, I don't like
not good.
No, most Muslims should not go crying to non believers for help.
But I mean, there are situations where it's unavoidable but in
general, it's an Maliki click.
Every morning before I head out in my truck, I ask a lot to dispatch
Allah to dispatch angels around me and my truck and my trailer. Is
that wrong? No not at all. I know Allah will protect me but it isn't
wrong to ask for angels not at all. What is the difference
between that asking Allah when you're running out of gas? Oh,
Allah helped me get a gas station helped me find a guest how many of
us have been in that situation? You're stuck on the highway
you're looking for a gas station right? Nothing at all. In fact, a
loss of the province is seldom has asked us that to ask angels
directly yeah a bad Allah Noni.
Right so
how do you remember Ahmed acted upon?
Yeah, a bad Allah de loony Allah three UTI bad Allah de Luna three.
What does that mean? Imam Muhammad even Hamburg was lost.
On his way to Hajj, get up.
You've been served here. He's older than you. What do you want
him to come and walk to you and serve you
know, next year clean it up. You're doing the mop up.
Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal
was lost on his way to Hajj
and
he remembered the Hadith of the Prophet that says when one of you
is lost in the desert say yeah a bad Allah Allah yoni. So he began
saying yeah, about Allah de Luna adultery Yeah, but Allah show me
the way on the road. Yeah, but Allah take me back to the main
road, oh slaves of Allah to me to the main road and he kept saying
that that's what he came back to the main road.
Talking to the angels directly.
We performed almost says on the medium and conveyed are Salam to
the NABI Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, peace be upon
them as to odd that you visit Ohio soon. And may the visit costs
change in the community. Oh, you're from Ohio of ammonium. I
didn't know that. Ohio.
Is got active communities.
Ohio has great weather.
There's a lot of good things about Ohio. The cities are small, but
they have many cities. They got Columbus, they got Cincinnati.
They got Toledo. They got what else they're important every
election that actually matters. For us. It doesn't matter. Right?
This the state of New Jersey is going blue whether we like it or
not. Always goes blue. Hmm.
They're definitely a swing state along with Pennsylvania, New
Mexico, Michigan, Arizona. Nevada, Florida is a huge swing state.
It's usually Ohio and Florida. When was the last president or
candidate someone looked this up? When was the last president that
won Ohio and Florida and lost the election?
Was it Trump? Of course he's gonna say he didn't lose the election.
But
But Ohio and Florida for many many years in a row many elections in a
row.
You want those two? You want the whole state? The whole country
Okay,
Some binary my dad is I think right now Ohio I don't remember a
lot of Somalis I think oh I don't know maybe the multi there was a
bunch of guys from Cleveland
Cleveland, Cleveland Cincinnati Toledo these are the big cities
there
I mean, says Ohio has a lot of Somalis. Lily Rose says kindness
and gentleness but firm guidance. May Allah guide her to Islam and
help you in guiding her Amin and this is in response to Brother
Kenneth he says I reverted in August Islam my daughter is seven
how Chabad example and guide her to this faith. If she is your
daughter, the daughter does not need to convert any child in the
care of a Muslim does not need to convert. They are on the religion
of their parents automatically. You just pray be good be nice
mixture, as Robert mentioned and very common sensical that we're
all ambassadors to Islam, whether we like it or not, so you're going
to need to be to do extra work now, to make them love Islam. That
doesn't mean you don't raise her. And sometimes you have to do
things as a parent has to do, right certain foods, you can eat a
certain time, certain places, you can't go certain things, you can't
buy certain ways you can't talk all that. But nonetheless,
it's us positive associations, positive associations with your
Islamic behavior, your Islamic you know, things that you're now doing
that she didn't see you do before but she doesn't have ticks your
head
does not have ticks on.
Let's say you're, you're in a area that's 5050, half of its Muslim
and half of it's not Muslim, and you see a child walking in the
street. And it has a he's abandoned, let's say
hypothetically, so Okay, all right. Let me adopt this child,
you adopt him as a Muslim? That's it. Okay, let's say now, you are
one house,
one house in a pagan city and you see a child, then know that that
wouldn't apply. Right? You would return him to the but when it's
within the the, like a 5050 that this is partly Muslim and partly
not, then you would assume him to be if you absorb him into Islam.
So, of course, you can always adopt somebody in a pagan area and
then bring them into a slump. So there are
these are the rules on children. They do not have to take Shahada.
They are on the religion of their parents.
And what I'll be doing I visited sin Teddy one month amazing place
and the people are true believers in that place. The Arabs have
Teddy more unlike any other that's 100% Right. Teddy is a city in
Yemen, South Yemen that's where a lot of us go to study
those that's why there is an account called loves of Teddy
house. This is where you come back to Texas. I'll definitely be
coming back to Texas.
But probably Houston
because Dallas doesn't need more activity. Dallas is great.
That all the hype I believe there's there's a lot of realness
to that hype.
But
they have shoo there. Houston though I felt like it was a little
bit more of more beneficial where I don't think they have the same
amount of activity as Dallas. Didn't check out Austin or any of
those places. Is it haram to shave the beard somebody says
the
share phase hold the beard to be sooner.
Okay, so I believe they may hold it to be mcru to shave the beard
not haram the other three methods sold it to be haram to totally
shave off your beard. Hermit by the way. Your Afghan friend your
name my brother
Don't choke.
For Hi nice to meet you from where?
Queens, New York. Nice, Masha, Allah
Amin says isn't just about the two people that are biologically not
alive as an operational definition.
Repeat that question because there's something with the
grammar.
Will the Gaza genocide resulted in massive escalation and several
neighborhood neighboring countries becoming involved? The reason? I
don't think so I don't think any of the neighbor countries dare
fight their creditors and the people they owe major debts to.
Right. That's why they're controlled entities through debt.
Add them says what is the opinion of backbiting a non Muslim in the
Maliki method
I can't remember, to be honest with you, I'd have to look that
up. Of course, we know that you can talk the truth about someone's
back, even if they don't like it in situations where someone may be
harmed, like, should I hire so and so?
Then you may say, most of them are in on you say yes or no, he does.
He's late to work. He's rude to his boss. He's not good to
customers, he's always complaining. All that was held out
for you to say, obligatory, not only that obligatory for you, to
protect the next employer from this person, if you have reason
to, then you say on top of that he has really bad breath, that you
don't have to. That's sinful for. Right because that was
unnecessary. Now, it couldn't be necessary.
If he's a salesman, and he's always talking to people that you
can have bad breath, right? So by the way, you can't hire him. He
has terrible breaths to steal the customers run away from it. So we
can't be in sales but you can put them in the back room or put them
behind a computer or make him talk on the phone. So it has to have
value
in no source source, no rulings should come out of your mouth.
Show me the source right away.
Again, Amin is saying is Sugata is asking any out of Allah for
assistance while knowing all Quadra empowers from Allah That's
correct. is not necessary axiom that help is sought from
biologically not alive people.
I don't know what the meaning and Shediac of biologically not alive
physically not alive on this earth. But what about martyrs when
Allah says Don't say they're dead? Rather they're alive being given
us? It's unknown. It's debated on whether they can help somebody in
this world or not. That is debated. And the henna abita say
no.
Remembering from the class that somebody Aki to class, which is on
our queue, by the way you can get it. It's a great class. How many
athletes on ArcView? Basic go to arc view dot o RG? Okay, we
haven't talked about RP for ages because we went on Palsson Ark foo
dot O R G and listen to the Humbert EOC data class. They
consider that haram because it's really unknown if they can help
you or not. As for the angels, just the prophets, I seldom told
us they can do that. And so therefore, it will be soon not to
do that. Okay? Because it's a feeling that I'm out alone in the
desert. No, you're not alone. You're surrounded by angels.
That's why it calms your heart down. It's specifically like
you're not alone. Clearly, if there was a human guy walking in
front of you, you'd ask him, right? But the prophesy said, I'm
saying when you feel that you are all alone, you have angels around
you.
So ask them for help. In the same way you would ask a regular human
for help. Okay.
Try some of this food.
Is the debt not expired by the attack on Gaza? What do you mean
by expired? All these people are dead to the World Bank, all these
countries? That's how they're controlled Africa's all
controlled.
Read up on that stuff.
What's the reference for the Sheikh Mohammed bin hamburger
reference? Yeah, and what book?
I didn't read it from a book. I took it from the class on ArcView
dot o RG. There's a course called humbly aqidah. You sign up for
ArcView basic, take docky to class then cancel the subscription if
you want. Okay, but on ArcView basic, there's a course there
should use have been Sadhak
speaks about the matter. And he says it's definitely not sure if
it would just be categorized as haram
in terms of doing is still artha with the deceased Elia that you
believe are alive and can help you.
Question If you backbite about non Muslims, do you get the Senate
backbiting, answer? Engaging in nonsensical talk and inciting one
against the other is wrong and sinful, Muslim or non Muslim? This
is what normally happens in backbiting. Well, a typical facade
for art in Allah Allah who will move city don't see corruption in
the earth Allah does not like those who are corrupt.
Okay, from said not even ABI Taalib famous Hadith it's in the
40 nogi men Hosni Islam and Marita Kumala Yanni answered by Ibrahim
Salah G. Okay, and this website is called Islam QA let's go to the
About so we can read it real quick or is the about page Ryan? Why is
there no about page
Yeah.
But they don't have an about page
Yeah, it's them QA. Okay. The answer you from the Format hubs,
and they have sections for all format tips there. What is it is
some qa.org or.com
It's time qa.org That you read that website like all day, right?
I can tell
Afghanistan, the food
of the land, the graveyard of empires. If you've seen the
terrain, no one can fight on that terrain. That terrain, huge
mountain ranges, pine trees, rocks. The Marines have books
there are books on Navy SEALs, just not lasting a day getting
fired up from all angles and then when they fall they hit rock.
Right? Meanwhile, the guy chasing him is got sandals on because
that's his terrain. He knows his way around. These guys didn't know
sea rock right?
And when sudden Navy SEALs to Afghanistan makes no sense.
Every time
Adam says one more thing. If a language has a pronoun for neither
male nor female, would it be okay to use it? In order to mention God
since he is genderless know.
Allah to Allah defines himself and commands us how to speak about
him.
Who in the Arabic language by the way,
can refer to the non a generality, okay.
Um, the affair for example, however, Allah has spoke about
himself by saying the word hula.
He said, we only speak to him with that. As for the question you're
asking, ask the Muslim Imams of that country.
And that language what they think about that because I don't know
the intricacies of that specific language.
I mean, says we chef A's will make you mad if he's into chef a soon.
Nah, I don't know. I don't know about that.
You want chef a school you go to Allentown here
they do take a bunch of guy our guys because they want to go study
with heavy armor. And they want to live in a land that is all shot
face. So that's why the Shafi school will eventually come to
Central Jersey to
Myrtle grind Yep.
Yeah, if he goes long term, if he only goes for one year, then no.
I'm gonna Wi Fi make dua for thing to happen. Ah, you're talking
about the most noble of deeds right here is the most noble of
deeds. Anybody who's Imen as weak as yourself, ones last time you
made.
I asked for things to happen on a specific day in each week, for
different times, but it hasn't happened. Doesn't mean I should
stop making.
No.
Because when you want something you should be willing to wait for
it. That's the truth.
And the prophets I seldom
connected, the answering of your prayers to the level of your want
and your desire.
want and desire.
Prophets I said them said as long as you don't rush the matter, you
will get an answer you're guaranteed an answer as long as
you don't rush the matter. Oh Mr. Allah, what is rushing the matter?
Prophet sallallahu sallam said that the person gives up and says
I asked but I wasn't given.
In this case the profit the person just gave up on it. I asked people
all the time why you made to offer a week, a month a year. What's
greater what you're asking for are high school diploma.
High School what you're asking for of course no one cares about high
school diploma. Well how long did it take you to get a high school
diploma took four years right to four years
or more when you're done I think the cameras tilted a bit
look at look at this wood. You'll see it slanted
this side is higher it slanting down
who do you believe are the Neji has mentioned that in the Hadith
and will have be of course no doubt about that.
Al Azhar Sharif in the 1920s declared them college
far as well we're just no no it's worse now we're on
Hold on. Oh mana delay.
Okay, now it's
Okay, just slightly slightly
Oh really? Okay maybe
Roberto
what is the best job to make to ease the heart one? I hate hearing
something painful couldn't really stop the tears on hearing
professor just send the surgeon from a Shiva
the best thing to hear is to say in delay when they hear a drone
and also to say hola whom journey female see Betty Wyclef new Kira,
Minh memorises ta O Allah reward me for this calamity that I'm in
we get rewarded for being patient with calamities.
Junie female see but the workload new Kira men and grant me a life
better than that a future better than than this calamity?
More person loves the Prophet, are they more tested in life, they'll
be more tested, but to also be more rewarded. Right? Also be more
reward. Who has lost the most money in the world? Probably the
richest people in the world, right? Think about that way.
What if Jeff Bezos fails on a deal? How much does he lose?
You're not losing 1000s
He probably losing millions, he may be even losing 10s of
millions, he may be even losing hundreds of millions, right? So
but also, who gains the most those same people. So you will be
tested, but you also be rewarded, greater and the rewards are like a
suit on the pain of the tests. There. When we say rewarded, what
does that mean? My job is gonna get better. Yeah, could be but
there are, there's that the material is very important. We are
material beings, we need material support. And we love material
pleasures. But there's also we're also spiritual beings, there is a
Sakina in the heart, that is far greater of a reward than the
physical body proof being. You can not have a lot, but you're
internally you have a lot.
And that's far greater, you have satisfaction, you enjoy that. You
are loved by people you feel loved by Allah, you're your envy.
Anybody put that on one skill than another skill. You know, people
with a lot of worldly wealth. But on the inside, they're afraid for
that wealth to be lost. Their wives don't like them. They have
no relationship with their kids. They envy those who are richer
than them. Right?
They may be stingy. Okay, so they have all those diseases, which one
would you want? Then most people are in the middle somewhere.
If a person mentioned their spiritual openings in regard to
possible future events, is it haram only do that to those who
will not envy you and that will not call you a liar. So don't go
into it in the public?
The hardware seems odd. It's something that the owner might
have disputed whether it's an innovation, or it is a
permissible, and even those within the classical for schools who said
it's an innovation, they still hold that the vicar done with your
tongue is rewarded. They just just they may dislike and hold
reprehensible the nature of the habit of people asking what is the
Hadera it's like
it seems like a cultural dance combined with the remembrance of
Allah the Chechens have it the Syrians have it the Egyptians have
it the Sudanese have it the Moroccans have it the Turks have
it is like spread throughout the entire Islamic world for a couple
centuries. And it is to send in circles or in rows. And they do it
would seem it would look like an anthropologist would say this is a
cultural dance. It's a masculine dance though, and in unison. And
they remember ALLAH while doing it's as if someone came upon
people doing this and said alright, let's
make it remembrance of Allah since you're doing it anyway. That's
what a habit is. Some of the automat held it to be
reprehensible, and innovation. But the vicar still counts as you're
rewarded for the vicar but the other actions of the body would be
they hold it not appropriate and an innovation other said, why
would it be an innovation? When if I did a cultural dance, no one
would say no. Right? So why is it now that if I remember Allah while
doing it, it's an innovation. How do you make sense of that? When
the Ethiopians came in the mosque of the prophets, I send them and
he allowed them to do a cultural dance and I Isha watched, right?
And the Sahaba watched that upon that as the permissibility of a
have dances for men that are appropriate meaning no hips
involved. No movement of hips or imitation of women in that type of
dance, so using their waist, their legs, that's it, like the depth
cut almost, what is the duck? So Debka saying Free Philistine Debka
saying La ilaha illAllah. So if I got a Debka post of Palestinian
group, and I say let's have a Debka, you guys know what to do
because
the Arabs, they sin and they have some guys holding a stick and they
take two steps and stop right in the middle two steps, stop right
in the middle, and then two, two steps back. And if they're good,
it's amazing to watch right? So let's say they will say something
like free Philistine in the dance, what are the that's the step of
stuff they say? Or if someone's getting married, they say stuff
about him, like Allah bless him for getting married, or our man is
getting married, stuff like that. Well, if they then said La ilaha
illallah inside of that,
is that now all of a sudden wrong when that's the best of speech?
Right?
So, that's your analogy.
It's something similar to that, but not exactly. The whirling
dervish is that it's different it's more like standing, bowing
down, things like that. But in lines or in circles, and they tend
not to move like the W moves the debate is clearly a dance. So ask
a question. When we order when we bring in Debka groups to weddings
to everything do we say don't remember to mention the name of
Allah? No, I don't think so. Are they always say oh my Allah
protect him Allah preserve him May Allah bless his wedding blah blah
blah they're saying that Allah for your people, they're saying this
all the time in the depth because so it just You're
such a klutz?
Just kidding. That's okay. It's okay. Just clean it with soap and
water
how did I know something was going to fall? With Ryan in the studio?
This is not Ryan the old
man at the helm. This is another Ryan who everyone knows here. The
helm
running the strict live stream
you need soap and water because that's sugar right downstairs or
soap and water.
Don't trip over the camera please. hamdulillah spilling This is
better than spill on the camera.
I don't know dry soap just get so from downstairs.
So now I'm one of my family members have adopted some
practices from the Hindu religion. Everyone has cut off from them.
And they're only linked to Islam. It's hard for me to stay
connected. No, when someone apostates out of Islam we don't
stay connected to them when someone innovates we don't stay
connected. But they may come to us. If they come to you
questioning Islam. No problem. Right? Or want to talk about Islam
no problem. If you come to me as if we're all everything's hunky
dory and finding good then no.
The link is open. Call me when you want to make your Toba don't call
me because you just want to be buddies after you apostate out of
a slump.
You're someone who's got brings poison into the house. Not
acceptable. Remember, as Muslims the number one thing is your
belief in Allah and His Prophet. That is the number one thing by
the way less than that we would cut a person off someone say God
I'm not praying and I don't pray anymore. No, not acceptable.
Right? Find yourself another group of friends. Right? You think
disavow is new is only in Islam.
disavowal is not only in Islam, disavow everyone MVC, if you are
seeing wearing a Palestinian scarf, or you're out of NBC,
you're fired from CNN, no one will talk to you. Again, disavow,
right.
But if someone spills sparkling orange juice on the rug, we won't
disavow him at all.
And that's why I like these patterned rugs with a lot of
patterns, because they hide the stains.
I heard a chef say when the cameras around the movements when
making vicar it's probably not from the heart. I would say for
example, that
as a general rule,
right. Worship in private is always better than worship in
public, personally, for your own personal Occulus worship in public
is better for the community, for everyone to see it. And it's also
helpful for people to be encouraged to do it. So there's
and what would stop you from doing both? Right?
I'm sure somebody who has cameras in his face. 24/7 doesn't care
anymore. But it's always better. For your heart, to be in private,
is better for the society, for the community. For the lazy for
The one who is ignorant who doesn't know how to do this to do
it in public that's why we do public vicar and community in many
communities have the Islam I'm saying it exists and why the
Prophet himself did it say hey buddy, after Salah for a period of
time he did the test via out loud and all the Sahaba did it out loud
why this was at the end. Why do you think for simple reason, new
Muslims to learn, right? To learn how to do tests be so the Prophet
which I stopped through Allah, a star for a lot of stuff Allah,
Allah went to Santa Monica Santa Monica alumni nada, they could go
Chicago snowbirds, Allahu La Isla de la Hoya and then Subhan Allah
Subhan Allah SubhanAllah 33 time and hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah him
33 times Allah but Allah, Allah, Allah had a lot to the end of it.
Okay, the prophet would do this himself and the Sahaba would do it
with him. What's the proof? So a body if an ibis as I would know
that the Salah is over, when I would hear the vicar out loud?
Okay, though all of that do not have an answer to who did they say
it all in unison or everyone by themselves?
We don't have an answer to that. So therefore, it could be both.
Right? So he can't deny one. Because you just don't know the
specifics. It could be both. But let me ask you this. Let's all
start saying La ilaha illallah were four or five people in the
room here. Let's all start saying that Illa Illa. Off, not aligned
unaligned from one another. Give it 30 seconds, we're all going to
align this as nature they know and show me time when you saw a bus
full of people saying the bake Allah who I'm gonna bake and
everyone's off within 10 seconds, you're all be on the same meter.
Right? All the taxpayers of every mosque in the world to be of aid.
Everyone's in the same. It's almost impossible. And this unity
unity unity of the voices is good. What's the proof? The prophets I
send them said, if when you say me and when the Imams recites Fattah
and you say Amin, and it matches the mean of the angels, that means
you said it exactly at the time that the angel said it, Your sins
are forgiven
your sins. So not only is it permissible, very good things
happen when the vicar is aligned, and that's why it's so important
sit in rows that are clean. Everyone has the same unity of
voice. There's benefited by theists by analogy. If it's good
in the obligatory Salah it would be good outside the salon to write
by analogy.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is 330 We have gone quite a long time. Last
question is wiping the neck in will do Mr. Roberson that neither
is not part of will do at all in the medical school. I don't know
in the chef a school. If it is part of the they treat it as part
of the head and it's known so we don't do the neck at all fall to
my kings as a sister wants to know she can remove her hijab in front
of her father in law, who is super touchy and says creepy things.
Well, yes, it is permissible but not obligatory.
But you need to reconcile the situation with your father in law
because you can't have issues with your father in law.
Right You don't want to have issues it's going to offend your
husband is going to cause problems so you want to maybe try to say
something very soft to your husband about telling your dad you
know, saying or maybe sometimes in a very casual setting unrelated to
the father in law, but he's there you say I hate being touched. But
I don't like being touched. Right? You say something like that maybe
it slips in someone's head
found Sol says Not sure if he talked about this ca CIA's top
analysis chief changed her Facebook profile to the
Palestinian flag. Can someone look that up? Allah is the Turner of
hearts. I hope they don't get fired. Can someone look that up?
Yeah, anyone's CIA chief analysis chief changing their Facebook
profile to the Palestinian flag. Let's look up that story.
Yeah, even to me.
As you see, nobody knows if she did it or not because nobody goes
on Facebook anymore. Even to me as only classical scholars said it's
about the ship. I think so too.
If we don't have full yoking that allow answer our dua No, you
didn't fulfill the conditions you must have full Yaqeen that Allah
will answer your DUA as you ask it.
Facebook,
she had to delete it, but is there a story on it?
Daily Mail, don't read the X
What is the wisdom says thought of Razi buying Allah sending so many
books and prophets of any sort of E and then only one prophet, final
universal Prophet, to the sons of his maid.
Because is that you would like using one nation as an example for
us? Yes, they, the people, the Benissa had had many ailments in
themselves. They had many sicknesses.
They had a very hard time believing in the unseen, they had
a comp many complexes towards the pagans that they always wanted to
be like them.
They got hardhearted they were very argumentative with their
prophets, they would do two opposite things. Okay.
They would say things oh, well Moses make us see Allah directly.
Also, we don't believe in you. Hold on a second, if you want to
see Allah directly that you means you already believe in Allah.
So why would you not believe in your Prophet Moses? Right. So they
had many of these liked. And today many of those contradictions
exists, for example, that were chosen, but were the victims. We
can do what we want to the goal of
the game, the world of Gentiles, but
but were the victims at the same time. So these two polar these are
opposites. This causes a confusion and this is what the prophets I
said upset about is the baba. He mentioned the Baba, the the mold
of the Jew and the Christian. So the mold of the Jew is fear.
Meaning as soon as a child is born, it's given this fear yet
arrogance almost at the same time yet victimization, these three
ingredients, the arrogance, were chosen, like just by the first the
fact that you're born Jewish. You will from the chosen people,
you're a cut above everybody else. Okay?
Simultaneously, we will be tested more than anyone else because
we're so special, we can handle more tests. So at any given time,
we could be killed, wiped off the Earth, another holocaust, another
Hitler can come around. So it's a great amount of fear. Almost child
abuse, if you think about Thirdly
is that you're a victim. And that's like a policy as always
your Miskin booty betta Allahu Allah to one mascara, always
miskeen always were the victim always down. And that sort of also
a type of abuse of a child to teach them these things, to teach
them to be this way. All right. And what is the mold of the
Christian, the mold of the Christian is that this wonderful
Prophet Jesus, that we love so much, and so much so that we call
Him the Son of God, but he's bloodied up on the cross. Why? For
your sins? We just like an I don't want that. I don't want anyone
going on across from Mike Grimes. So we tell that to a child now,
he's
almost traumatized. Okay. And now he's and because of my dirty
thoughts, and my little stealing a pack of gum and maybe dad's bad
deeds and mom's bad deeds and Grandpa sins that Jesus who we
love, so much had to die on a cross. So that's almost like,
warps your head.
It's a * figure. It's a * image, right? So and it's
your fault. It's my fault. And you do this to a child. So it creates
a great guilt a lot of guilt. So
for your sins, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Because what if Jesus already died for my sins?
No, what's the point? Right? And first of all, Adam came because he
ate from the truth fruit. I have Original Sin. There's Original
Sin, so I'm guilty just because Adam ate from the fruit. Wait a
second. He did it. And then oh, how many 100 years later Jesus
died on the cross. So my sins are forgiven? Wait a second. I didn't
do anything at all my sins were given to me then expunged from me
with no action from myself. What does this do to human willpower?
So it's not right. Amy McFadden Her name was did you look her up?
I mean, there's an article
All right, let's wrap up right here ladies and gentlemen, very
nice podcast with you all. Subhanak Allahu mobi Hamza Nisha?
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Rahmatullah.
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