Tom Facchine – Mark Ruffalo Calls Project 2025 Sharia Law – LGBTQ and Palestine

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.