Tom Facchine – Because they say, our Lord is Allah

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.