Tom Facchine – Because they say, our Lord is Allah
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The dangerous situation of the UK where anti-Americanism and racism is causing problems for Muslims and immigrants, including comments on the far-left movement and local culture being under attack. The "arson" approach of local culture is not a political tactic but rather a dehumanizing strategy. The need for policy-driven dehumanization of Muslims is emphasized, and the "arson" approach of local culture is not just about protecting individual property and reputation, but rather about the fundamental misogyny of the situation. The importance of protecting individual property and reputation is also emphasized, and the need for policy-driven dehumanization of Muslims is also emphasized.
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We've got riots going on in the UK.
All of our beloved brothers and sisters in
the UK are under a very, very,
sensitive time. There was misinformation that there was
an attack on some young people, some children
that was carried out by a Muslim and,
of course, it turned out to not be
a Muslim. In fact, it was all
it was
all fake
news,
and but this started a perception that this
was another sort of classic sort of case
of
so called immigrant violence or imminent immigrant criminality.
It sparked riots across the country. We've seen
the WhatsApp messages and the Telegram messages of
people
saying that they're going to click up and
group up here. There's been burnings. There's been
attacks. There's been attacks on mosques. There's been
attacks on Muslim graves.
Okay.
So they this is a very very sensitive
situation. It's very dangerous situation. We ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to protect our brothers and
sisters in the UK.
Now a lot of people there's been a
little bit of a debate about
the far right
and sort of how do Muslims relate to
the far right, especially those people who are
very online, like you notice that some people
on the far right are
anti Zionist or at least against Israel. Some
of them for good reasons, some of them
for bad reasons or problematic reasons.
How do we deal with those sorts of
things? And I really appreciated the intervention today.
Both Paul Williams has a video on this,
but also,
the intervention of Mohammed Jada from the thinking
Muslim. Shout out to my my friends and
colleagues.
When it comes to the constitution
of the far right and the specific character
of these,
riots that are going on the UK. Somebody,
or a few people
in the, in the chat here called them
pogroms, and I think that that is accurate.
That these are not
your average everyday sort of anti immigration sort
of rallies. This is very, very bold racism,
very anti Muslim sentiment.
It's not even just about the sensitivities
of the,
the the far right who are concerned with
the great replacement or being replaced, which honestly,
you can have a a tiny bit a
tiny bit of sympathy
for
those people in the sense that it is
true that local culture is under assault everywhere,
but
what they get wrong is that it's not
under attack or assault from Muslims or immigrants.
It's actually under attack and assault from neoliberalism
and neoconservatism.
These forces that bring in McDonald's and bring
in Dunkin' Donuts and bring in Starbucks and
bring in these sorts of different global brands
and replace the local stores and replace the
local ways of doing Right? That's the thing
that's actually threatening you to replace your culture
and stop or the neoliberal sort of economics
that squeeze more and more money out of
you so that you can't afford to,
sustain your marriage or to have children or
to have large families or these sorts of
things. Right? That enact, you know, all of
the sort of social engineering that neoliberal regimes
have engaged in in order to stop people
from living, you know, comfortable lives and eroding
the middle class and making sort of working
class life impossible.
That's really your enemy, not the immigrant, not
the Muslim. And so I don't buy into
the discourse that, oh, you know, Muslims, they
should just, you know, they should be necessarily
more English or they brought it upon themselves
by not being English enough or not integrating
enough. I don't necessarily buy that. And 2,
that it doesn't account for the
Zionists
who are deliberately
manipulating the situation and fanning the flames. Tommy
Robinson
being one of them. Okay? We're talking about
here, an Israeli asset and the other Israeli
assets that are out there that are
fanning the flames to this mischief, coordinating it.
I thought it was funny that we saw
that Tommy Robinson, I guess, his accountant is
Muslim,
though she quit on him.
So we see that even they, they play
a double game.
So I don't think that yes. I think
let's see. Like, Asha says Tommy Robinson
is running pogrom in the cloak of original
British weaponizing emotions and nationalism. Yes. I think
that's
that's a a very good,
summary of what's going on. So I don't
necessarily think that this is a problem of
the Muslims,
not engaging with the right. I think that
the particular character
of these riots and the people who have
been fanning the flames such as the Naija
Farajs and the and the Tommy Robinsons, other
people, they are not the
pro Palestinian right at all. And that was
Mohammed Jalal's main point. These are people that
are
very deeply anti Muslim, very deeply anti Islamic,
very deeply racist. You need a 2 pronged
approach.
Approach number 1, and this is a long
term sort of strategy, is to build relationships
and do things, you know, the sort
of Biryani diplomacy,
which is a DAO tactic. It's not a
it's not a political tactic. Biryani diplomacy does
not work in politics, but it does work
in Dua, right, to give people sambuses and
and things like that. That that can work
in Dua, but it's not enough. We have
to realize that there are always
people that are trying
to dehumanize Muslims and fan the flames, and
that these people are very dangerous and that
at the end of the day, you need
to have a certain deterrent capacity,
the ability to defend yourself individually and as
a community. That does not mean hooliganism. Allah
says
if it weren't for
Allah checking
people some by means of others, then what
would happen?
All houses of worship would be destroyed.
Monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, places where Allah's
name,
Allah's name is mentioned.
So, yes, a certain amount of deterrent capacity
is praiseworthy in our deen, and it is
important. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also says, just
coming off the top of my head,
that you should prepare for them what you
can of power. Why? Is it because we
look for trouble? No. Muslims don't look for
trouble, but we also don't want people to
mess with us. And sometimes,
establishing something of a reputation stops people from
messing with it. Okay. Sadah says a lot
of Muslim Muslim leaders in the UK were
urging the youth to not follow along with
violence but only to defend. Because it can
get carried away. You don't wanna do anything
and I we've seen the videos the couple
of times where a Muslim youth is, you
know, with their face covered and, like, being,
like, sort of a thug. Right? Or being
sort of, like, you know, a little bit
too aggressive. Right? Unprincipled,
out of control, then that's just fodder. That's
gonna just fuel the sort of, you know,
the far right is gonna say, look, look,
we told you so. This is what they're
out for. This is what they do. Noah
asked, what is the Islamic ruling on illegal
immigrants and refugees? Well, I mean, I would,
I would encourage people we talked about this
in Malaysia at the, UMADICS conference, and and
many people, especially the Indonesians, but also the
Malaysians, were
disappointed with how many people on the ground
treated the Rohingya
when they came to Malaysia and Indonesia. And
definitely, this is one of the consequences of
nationalism. Right? That nationalism
stops us from having the attitude that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam encouraged
the unsolved to have towards the Muhajirun.
Right, when he made mu'akha baynahumah,
when he actually made them as literal brothers,
were a far cry from that.
When the attitude of refugee is, well, you
can maybe come here for a couple years,
but then you gotta find somewhere else to
go. That is
not very Islamic.
Now it's true that in a population crisis,
there needs to be very very well thought
out policies for what to deal what to
do to deal with, a large influx of
immigrants or refugees.
However, right now, it's exposing our nationalistic
sort of constitution and program.