Tom Facchine – Our Demands from Muslims in Politics & Biden Dilemma

Lancet.

Now they say that they came out with

sort of a a bombshell figure, but if

you're a Muslim and you're following this, this

should not be a surprise whatsoever.

It could exceed a

186,000 deaths, the the death toll and it

was now the irony is that the United

States recently prohibited

the state department from citing

death toll counts from the health care system

within Gaza,

ostensibly because it's run by Hamas. Here comes

Lancet which is has nothing to do with

Gaza or anything and they come out with

a number that far exceeds by several factors

that the figures that were the the Gaza

health system was putting out. If we have

9 and 10 people, 90% of people in

Gaza,

have been displaced at least once since the

war began. May Allah grant victory to the

people of Gaza and Palestine. So we see

that with the post war plan for Gaza,

there's a lot of jockeying going on. Israel

is trying to push, and the US is

trying to push, and even some of the

Arab states are trying to push for a

demilitarization

of Gaza. This is very insulting to the

resistance

of Gaza, which has basically been the only

bargaining chip that they have with Sabrina just

the the anniversary of Sabrina just a day

away.

What happened

to Bosnia and the Bosnians when they gave

up their arms and the UN came in

and demilitarized them? They became sitting ducks. And

so this is something that was well

this is well known. There's your phrase, you

know, from the river to the sea. It

can be argued, and there's a context about

it when you say it, where you say

it. What I would say, in a respectful

way to those who protest, you know, yes,

we're gonna have a conversation about freedom of

expression. Yes, we're gonna have a conversation about

criminal law. But actually, if you know it's

caused an offense distress

to your friends and neighbors and colleagues who

are Jewish,

don't say it. Alright. And I we can

get to conversation about freedom of expression. Okay.

So as you can tell, I mean, like,

this is a very very milk toast, vanilla

take from Sadegh Khan. We don't just want

Muslims in power. Right? We've been burnt by

that before. Tokenization is a real thing. They

will find the handful of Muslims that are

fringe. Islam supports

LGBTQ,

and Islam supports this, Islam supports that. They

will go out and find those people and

put them in power. Okay. That that is

how tokenization

works. So we need to have our own

principles and list of demands so that we

make sure that we're not being tokenized

by the people who are getting elected or

by the people who run for office or

even in our own communities,

downstream of that.

So Sadegh Khan fails. He fails at that.

Spectacularly fails because he frames the issue of

from the river to the sea as, oh,

it's causing distress,

to the Jewish community out realizing that the

Zionist

element of the Jewish community is weaponizing

their narrative of victimhood

in order to silence criticism of Israel. First

of all, not all Jews agree that from

the river to the sea, Palestine will be

free is anti Semitic. 2nd of all, it's

the Zionists who have relied specifically on trying

to get this portrayed as anti Semitic

and equated with anti Semitism so that they

can shut down any type of criticism is

Israel whatsoever.

So Saad Khan had a chance for those

who watch football. He had the ball at

his feet. The cross came in. He was

right on the 6 yard line, and he

totally whiffed. He had an an opportunity to

push back on the framing of this particular

thing,

and he fell for it hook, line, and

sinker, which is not

that's not what we want in politicians. The

phenomenon of tokenism is the people in power

will always attempt to conscript

and use Muslims

who are willing to compromise their principles

in order to

save face and say that, well, we're not

really against the Muslims. What

criteria or demands should we put in place

of people who are thinking about becoming officials

or elected representatives

that would actually mean that their presence wasn't

simply just tokenization. So there's a couple. And

I'm sure that many of you could come

up with, with your own. One of them

is very important that they have to be

accountable

to our community. They actually be have to

be accountable to our community. And that means

they need to be funded by our community,

and they need to be

in our communities, not just show up around

election time, not just be given the for

free. Right? Not,

just, they're the the person who pays or

the group that pays. They're paid by the

lobbies. They're paid by the political parties to

run, and therefore, they're not put up by

the Muslims and they have no accountability

to the Muslims so that their agenda is

determined by the party. Their agenda is determined

by the lobbyists. Number 2 is that when

people go into a position of power

that they have to bring their values

not just their identity.

They will always use one of us

to control and keep down us. The system

sometimes it will tolerate the diversity of your

skin tone. It will tolerate the diversity of

your clothing. You can wear a dashiki. You

can wear a turban hijab,

but it will not always tolerate

the diversity of values. As the saying goes

in American vernacular,

all skin folk ain't kin folk. Right? That

they will find that we remember Colin Powell

standing in front of the UN, you know,

trying to call for the weapons of mass

destruction and and justify the invasion of Iraq.

We have the US ambassadors to the UN

with the assault and bombardment of Gaza that

are pro that are vetoing

the the ceasefires.

Right? We know that they will always conscript

one of us and so we have to

be insistent on this.

That we demand a diversity of values. That

if we come to office or we come

to a position, we bring our values with

us. Identity politics is an epidemic

and too many people have caught that disease.

Too many Muslims have caught that disease. Have

an impact.

Don't be used. Okay.

Many people that are Muslims that get involved

in politics, they end up themselves being transformed

rather than them having a transformative effect. That's

backwards. Right? We need to make sure that

if you're going into politics that you're going

to have an impact, you're not going to

be impacted.

As a case study, if we're talking about

the Palestine issue in particular, what are you

gonna see now? How is tokenization going to

come to you? I'll tell you how tokenization

is going to come to you within from

now to November.

Everybody's gonna be ceasefire. Everybody's gonna say, yeah.

We're a pro ceasefire. Pro seize pro ceasefire

is nothing anymore. And I'm not saying it's

nothing when it in when it comes to

we want the ceasefire. We want the lives,

of our brothers and sisters in Gaza to

stop being killed at will as one article

said. But

all the traitors

and the betrayers are going to come with

you with ceasefire language. They're not gonna talk

about ending the Zionist occupation.

They're not gonna talk about ending the Israeli

influence on US law and politics. They're not

going to talk about,

ending the

between anti Semitism and anti Zionism. They're not

gonna talk about that. They're going to portray

themselves

as somebody who is pro ceasefire

and act as if that is some radical

position that they're making some big moral stand

about. That is nothing anymore. If you are

somebody who's going to stand up. So Muslims

do not be tricked. Do not be tricked.

Do not be tricked. Be aware.

Hold these people to account. When Abu Bakr

Radiallahu Anhu got in front of the Muslims

And that is the attitude that you should

expect and demand from your Muslim

And that is the attitude that you should

expect and demand from your Muslim representatives and

your Muslim politicians.

If you go astray, we will set you

straight. You can bet on it. Incumbent president

Biden, who is participating actively in the genocide

of our brothers and sisters in Gaza as

everyone abandons him and his campaign is in

a tailspin and he is being,

basically told to step down very public ways

by even

elected representatives, some people within his party. He

is refusing.

And this is not a good look for

the Democratic Party whatsoever. If we look and

remember just back 2016

and how they handled that election, how they

completely

sabotaged

the popular sentiment and the popular will that

was behind Bernie Sanders,

they played, you know, dirty games to sideline

him and put Hillary forth, and Hillary lost

spectacularly,

in that election to Donald Trump. It looks

as if the Democratic Party is heading in

the same direction. So the positive is that

Democrats are very vulnerable,

and as Muslims, we should think about how

then we can actually influence that agenda. Okay.

Is that when they're vulnerable, they're probably more

vulnerable to suggestion and being steered than if

they're coming from a place of strength. The

downside is that people are criticizing Biden and

his campaign for simply his mental acuity or

lack thereof,

as opposed to being guilty of participating in

a genocide.