Tom Facchine – Mark Ruffalo Calls Project 2025 Sharia Law – LGBTQ and Palestine
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The speaker discusses the history of the stance on LGBTQ in the United States, including the stance of the Church of Jesus and the Church of America. They emphasize the importance of educating followers and setting accountability for their actions. The speaker also mentions a recent statement by a member of the Church of America, who criticized the church's stance on gayity and sexuality.
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Since we we poked the topic and it
kind of exploded, a lot of people started
talking about it and some people started throwing
out some things about
about
LGBTQ in Palestine, and saying that,
the LGBTQ
movement has been the biggest allies to the
Palestinian cause, and what will we do without
the LGBTQ movement supporting our Palestinian cause? First
of all, the genocide's still going on. Let
me remind you that. So whatever support has
been provided thus far, it has not stopped
the genocide. So there's not a situation where
we feel like we're indebted to anybody. 2nd
of all, if someone is going to support
the liberation and the honor of the dignity
of anybody else, it has to be with
no strings attached.
It has to be because it's the right
thing to do. It is not a quid
pro quo. This is not a transaction
where they are trading their support
for our support for their issue. That is
not how this works. And the 3rd issue,
and this is brought up multiple times and
we'll say it again. If you go to
Palestine, and you ask the average person on
the street, would they accept this type of
thing? Would they accept
the these ideologies about sexuality
and gender that are very very popular on
the left? The overwhelming response would be, no.
The groups on the ground that are trying
to resist the occupation as best they can,
what would there be response
to these ideologies and these groups? Would they
support their ideologies?
No.
So if you want to support the cause
because it's the right thing to do, you're
welcome no matter who you are. But don't
for a second
think that you're going to impose your values
on the same people that you're supposedly trying
to liberate
and help in the first place. That is
not allyship.
It's not. It's actually a type of colonization
and a type of imposing and imposition and
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and we'd rather honestly not have your help,
if that's what it's gonna be. What some
people have tried to say, unfortunately, some very
westernized academics and even some westernized Muslims
have attempted to try to eke out an
argument, actually the Quran isn't against,
same * actions, and actually it isn't, and
the comb of loot story has been misinterpreted,
and this all has been first of all,
it's borrowed from Christian apologetics. Second of all,
it's been dealt with multiple multiple multiple times.
There is someone who named Scott Kugel, who
attempted to make this argument
a decade or 2 ago and will be
invade completely demolished it. If you haven't seen
it, go online. Will be invade, VAIID.
Completely demolished any attempt of Quranic revisionism.
Right? Which is attempting to
act as if, Masha'Allah, in 20 24, you're
the 1st person to understand this Quran. You're
the 1st person to understand this Qur'anic verse
with the story of Lut in a new
way. Wow. Allahu Akbar. 1400 years of people
interpreting and understanding this have all been wrong.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
according to your logic, okay,
Didn't understand this verse properly. Think about how
dangerous that is. Our shahada, need I remind
you is, La ilaha illallah
Muhammadun Rasulullah.
We take guidance from the Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam. We don't take guidance from you.
So I don't care who comes in 2024
and tells me that everybody or implies that
the Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam misunderstood
the story of Lut in the Quran, or
misunderstood the guidance that Islam has or the
Sharia has on,
gender and on sexuality,
then you should question your shahada, and the
validity of your shahada. We're not making tech
for you, that's not our business. But you
should really really check yourself rather than point
to us and make us seem like we're
What I What do they call us? Islamic
fundamentalists? I think that's what they called us.
I mean, Masha'Allah. If believing in Islam makes
us a fundamentalist, then I guess if the
shoe fits, Who are our real allies and
do allies sometimes do more damage than good?
Do allies, people who tell us that they
are supporting us, actually hold us back and
stop us from the work that actually needs
to be done either through distraction,
or through dividing and conquering, or for anything
else. 2 hap 2 things happened this week
that are super super important to this conversation.
1, let's bring it up. Mark Ruffalo,
somebody who has been very supportive of Palestine.
He made a comment this week, where Here
we go.
Project 2025 is not a game, he says.
It's white Christian nationalism. It's the Sharia law
of Christian crazy people who aren't Christian at
all, etcetera, etcetera.
But,
okay,
what we see here, we have somebody who
has spoken in support of Palestine.
However,
who has used
Sharia
law as a euphemism for something oppressive and
barbaric.
Now Sharia,
the Sharia is something that the vast majority
of Palestinians
believe in
and support a 100%.
Okay? Yes. Even some of the Christians and
the Jews. I I hate to break it
to the people who play identity politics and
ask us to say like, oh, no, but
you're erasing the Christians. Oh, no, but you're
erasing the Jews. I know Palestinian Christians
who said that life was much better for
them under Sharia than whatever else has been
going on since.
Okay?
So understand
understand that
when we have an ally that steps out
of line or someone who has spoken up
on Palestine,
but they need to be educated, then you
have to have some sort of accountability structure
to educate them. I say, yo Mark. And
many people did. They say, hey Mark, listen.
We appreciate your support of Palestine, but you're
not gonna throw the city out under the
bus. You don't get to support Palestine at
the expense
of
entrenching anti Islamic sentiment.
Right? Like that, those 2 things don't go
together.
Okay. So this is a very very important
thing that we have to keep allies in
check. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam made
alliances with people but those alliances had accountability
measures when the different tribes within Medina
actually,
they betrayed the Muslims.
There were accountability measures that held them in
check and even punish them if they were
to step out of line. An ally quote
unquote without accountability,
sometimes if not all the time, is worse
than having no ally at all.