Yasir Qadhi – Difficult Reality Of Muslims In Germany
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The history and characteristics of the Islam in Germany during the 17th century are discussed, with Germany having a history of migration to Pakistan and the largest Christian community in the whole country. The largest migration from Pakistan is the largest Christian community in Germany, with over 5 million people. The community is mostly Muslim, and there is a culture of fear and intimidation. The speakers express concern about the political and educational pressure on the people and encourage people to take action. The conflict between the Muslim community and their own religion is discussed, and the speakers stress the need for a discussion and acknowledgment of political language use.
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Today's lecture will be inshallah informative and useful.
I have just returned from a tour to
Germany.
First time I was visiting Germany as a
tour.
And so I wanted to explain to you
the reality of Islam and Muslims in Germany.
As you know, I do these types of
series.
We talked about Islam in Nordic countries, Islam
in Australia, Islam in multiple places.
The purpose is so that we broaden our
horizons and benefit from their experiences, they benefit
from us.
We realize the problems and the positives and
the negatives, and we feel a connection with
our ummah across the globe.
So a brief summary of this journey that
I had and also the reality of Islam
in Germany.
Germany, out of all of the superpowers of
the 18th, 19th century, actually has a unique
history.
It was the only major superpower that did
not colonize a Muslim land.
Italy colonized a Muslim land, France colonized, England
colonized, Germany did not colonize any Muslim land.
In fact, Germany, generally speaking, was far more
sympathetic to Islam and Muslims in the 17th,
18th, 19th century than the other superpowers.
In fact, they were the ones who invented
the term the Orient in order to kind
of romanticize the Orient meaning us Muslims and
to put us on a pedestal.
Their most famous intellectual philosopher of the 17th
century, Goethe, he actually has a book, if
you know your Persian history, the Divan of
Hafiz, right?
So Goethe, who is the most famous German
poet philosopher, wrote a book similar to the
Divan of Hafiz, and he called it the
East West Divan.
And in it, he praised Islam.
And he mentioned that Islam, out of all
of the religions is the most global religion.
So in the 17th century, one of the
most greatest minds from this region is actually
praising Islam when England and other countries had
nothing but disdain for Islam.
So from the beginning, generally speaking, the German
mindset was more sympathetic to Islam and the
Ottoman Empire.
And this is actually demonstrated even in political
ties.
So in the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire
actually established ties with Germany, and the German
Kaiser, the Emperor Wilhelm II, actually visited Istanbul.
So the German Emperor Wilhelm II visited Istanbul
1898.
And he met with Sultan Abdul Hamid.
There's a famous place in Istanbul.
If you go there, they constructed an entire
mini, if you like podium, which is still
there one of the iconic sites that you
will find.
So and there's video footage of the Emperor
coming because it's 1898.
So black and white video footage.
And he gave a lecture in which he
said, Germany will remain an ally to the
300 million Muslims back then Muslims with 300
million.
He literally said, Germany will be your ally.
These other superpowers forget about them, we will
be your helpers.
And he established a strong tie with the
Ottoman Sultan and Empire.
And that is why German scholarship about Islam
was always radically different than English scholarship.
Perhaps some of you don't know this.
But even when I went to do my
PhD, I realized this very early on, the
bulk of writings in the 17th, 18th, 19th
century about Islam that are even a little
bit positive, relatively speaking, are in the German
language.
And the English language did not have even
anything equivalent.
And the German orientalist back then they would
call the were far ahead of the British
equivalent.
German scholarship on Islam left a mark in
the Western Academy that we still feel to
this day.
On a personal note, when I was doing
my PhD at Yale, both of my professors
were German.
The as you know, the Ivy League's hire
the best professors, both of my Islamic studies
professors had studied in Germany, PhD in Germany,
and they're brought to America because that level
of scholarship, it is difficult to find over
here.
And they are accomplished scholars in their own
fields.
So German scholarship about Islamic studies has always
been light years ahead.
This isn't before the modern times.
Now things have changed, but we're talking about
until the 1950s.
And in fact, when Nazi Germany came into
power, many scholars of Islamic studies fled to
Ottoman lands, and they took refuge in Ottoman
lands.
And some of them trained a new generation
of Muslim scholars because they were now based
in Istanbul and other regions.
So Germany, therefore, has always had a slightly
different relationship back in the past.
And this is also demonstrated in their converts,
a number of famous people from Germany converted
to Islam of them, somebody by the name
of Hugo Marcus, this is in World War
Two, you probably don't know his name, maybe
one day, I'll give you a whole talk
about him.
Hugo Marcus, he converted, and he went to
the Ottoman side.
And he fought against his own people, he
became an ally with the Muslim Ummah.
And he called himself Suleyman al-Franconi from
Frank, Suleyman al-Franconi is a famous story
about him, maybe one day we'll mention that.
But all of you know, one convert from
Germany, he has left a mark on the
world 100 years ago.
And that is Leopold Weiss, Muhammad Asad.
Muhammad Asad, the famous person, all Pakistani should
know him, he was the first foreign minister,
the first foreign minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Asad,
because he took Pakistani citizenship, believe it or
not, right?
The German convert, he was born in the
German lands, he spoke German as his mother
tongue.
Of course, he's Austrian, Polish, German, you know,
back then it's all one, but he's German,
he's German.
And he traveled in Arabia, he interacted with
King Abdul Aziz, right?
He at the time was a non Muslim,
he became very well known in Arabia, he
converted to Islam in Arabia, he married a
lady from Mecca, he married a lady from
Mecca in Arabia, his son, his son is
a very famous professor in New York, Talal
Asad.
So Talal Asad is a famous anthropologist, one
of the most famous in the world.
His mother is a Makkawi, and his father
is a Jewish convert, because Muhammad Asad was
a Jewish convert, one of the most interesting
cases, maybe one day we'll talk about Talal
Asad, that's another case.
Muhammad Asad then migrated to Pakistan, he took
on Pakistani citizenship, he died in Pakistan, there
are interviews that he has from Pakistan, because
he died in 1981-82.
So there's interviews of Muhammad Asad, again, a
German convert to Islam.
So Germany has always had a very different
relationship in this regard.
As for German immigration, the Muslims migrating to
Germany, this too has a very unique history.
After World War Two, when Germany, of course,
is completely demolished, when their their male population
is dwindling.
So they open up a program, they call
it guest workers in the German term, guest
workers, they want people to migrate.
And because they have close ties with Turkish
Ottomans, they actually opened the door for the
Turks to come to Germany.
This is a historic connection that they now
open up the door.
And so 1961, they want Turkish people to
come and work because they need workers, they
don't have workers, factories don't have men, they
needed people to run the business, they need
people.
So perhaps a million people came, that is
a massive number, a million, those 1 million,
their descendants are now 5 million or something,
6 million, like massive amounts.
This is in the 60s.
So in the 60s, Germany opened the door
for Turkish Muslims to come.
And because of this, as we're going to
come to large groups of Turkish Muslims came,
and now their third generations are in Turkey
are in Germany now, not their children, their
grandchildren and great grandchildren, because this is a
migration before America, American migration, you know, took
place my primarily 80s, some 70s, very few
60s, 80s and 90s is the main migration.
In Germany, the migration is one and a
half generation before.
So when I went there, the majority of
the Turkish Germans that I met, their grandfathers
had come, their fathers and mothers were born
in Germany, their grandfathers had come from Turkey
to Germany.
So this is the largest group of migrants
that have come, and we're going to come
back to them.
Along with this in the last 20 or
30 years, Germany has also opened the door
for migration from other lands, and especially from
war torn lands.
And so Afghanistan and Syria, perhaps a million
each massive quantity, the largest group of migration
from Afghanistan to any Western country has taken
place in Germany.
And the largest group of migration from Syria
to any Western country has been Germany.
And this is recent, ie the last 20
years, right since the war of the last
25 years, and especially Syria, the last 10
years.
So you now have massive populations of these
lands, you have smaller pockets as well.
And that is, you have also North Africans,
Moroccans, you have Bosnians, you have Pakistani Indians
will go everywhere, mashallah.
But not like here, we're not our percentages
are nowhere there.
In the whole audience there, they were probably
less than 5% of our ethnic background,
right.
So I did miss not having enough biryani
when I go over there.
Generally, I always make sure I have some
biryani.
So the Pakistani said, next time you come,
we'll take you to our restaurants, because there
are not as many as the other groups
over there.
Currently, how many Muslims in Germany?
Unbelievable, unbelievable.
It is estimated that up to 8%
of the country is Muslim, 8%.
And this 8%, as is always the case,
you cannot say 8% for the whole
country.
Cities, the bigger cities will have what?
More or less?
More population.
I was completely blown away.
Hamburg and Berlin, more than 10% Muslim.
When I was driving down Hamburg, my host
said to me, in this one street that
we're driving, there are over 50 musallas.
50 in this few miles, one street, one
main street, 50 areas to pray.
I said, no, no, you got to be
15.
No, 50, he said.
Frankfurt, which is the hub of international trade,
you will be completely blown away.
It is estimated 15% of Frankfurt is
Muslim.
Unbelievable.
Again, statistics are, and you see this because
everywhere you go, everywhere you go, there are
literally like corner stores that are selling halal
products, selling stuff from the Middle East, corner
stores that are Afghani in origin, or Syrian,
or Iraqi, shawarma places everywhere.
And you know, all the different cuisines and
all the different people, everywhere you go in
the major cities, you find the presence of
Islam very, very clear, very palpable.
However, obviously, as with all, there's positives and
negatives in each one.
And the fact of the matter is that
it was eye opening for me to hear
from the German Muslims, the reality of life
in Germany.
There is a sentiment of fear.
There is a climate of intimidation right now.
Alhamdulillah, I was allowed to go preach there.
There are many preachers that are banned for
the most trivial reasons, number one.
Number two, me myself and you know, my
track record, I'm not involved in anything radical
or whatnot.
It wasn't about me.
We couldn't rent a single university campus or
a public hall for my talks.
I said, Why is there an issue with
me?
No, everybody is scared to rent to Muslims.
The non Muslims, they don't want to be
involved with the Muslim population, despite the fact
we're 15%.
But they don't want anything to do with
having anything Islamic anything public to do with
Islam.
Why is this the case?
Let us now deconstruct and I say this
with love and respect to my brothers and
sisters in Germany.
The goal is to benefit.
There's no criticism here.
We're all in this together.
We want to help each other out.
We want to make sure that we learn
from you learn from us.
The biggest impediment that I have seen 60
% of the Muslims are of Turkish origin.
And the Turkish masajid are run directly from
the government in Turkey.
The construction, the imams, the climate, the khutbas,
it is as if you're in Turkey.
And that community 60% is disconnected from
the rest of the Muslim groups.
They have their own.
So in the audience that I came to
a few token Turkish brothers that are involved
outside of their groups.
Otherwise, I'm not going to be in that
60%.
And because these masajid are controlled literally by
the Turkish government, literally, like there is a
department the Anad Center, which again, it's great.
They're doing it.
I'm not criticizing that.
But what's going to happen when the government
is going to be directly involved in the
masajid?
No politics.
No khutba, nothing about you get the point
like no political engagement, just pray, go back
home, pray read Quran do dhikr go back
home.
So 60% of the population of Muslims,
they're completely disconnected from civic society.
In fact, what is even more like I
need to say this a bit bluntly with
love and respect.
Still, that's that 60%.
Many of them don't even want to take
German citizenship.
They are not German citizens.
There's a permanent green card category that this
group has.
And it's both ways.
members in the government as well don't want
them to become citizens.
And they themselves, many of them are very
happy, because the version that they're being taught
is their pride of their ancestry and whatnot.
And so there is this limbo, you're neither
here nor there, because they're not living in
Turkey permanently.
They visit every few years, they speak the
language fluently.
This is by the way, unique, I haven't
seen any other country in Europe or in
the Eastern Western world.
The third generation is still speaking the language
fluently only happened with them.
Why?
Because their communities are bubbles.
Their communities are cut off from the rest
of the society.
So within their community, 100% Turkish khutbas
to this day, third generation, Turkish, the whole
ambience is Turkish, which is I guess fine
culturally.
But then what happens with that?
You are not taught that you are German.
You are not taught you should be a
part of society to do anything with society.
It's literally you come into the masjid you
are Islamic, you go outside, you forget about
this reality.
When you have this mindset, then what's going
to happen, right?
So the groups that invited me were the
other masajid non because the government control obviously
I cannot I'm not from that land.
So I'm not going to be I'm not
going to be in that system, right?
So who invited me the masajid that are
from the more immigrant community, right?
Those who came from Arab lands and some
Pakistanis here, they're like that.
They're the ones who were active and doing
these types of duroos and halaqat.
So the main issue is that automatically that
15% we're talking about more than half
of them.
They have nothing to do with politics, with
the political system with engagement in public, and
they're simply living their lives.
Another issue is that the large percentage even
of the other half are absolute fresh immigrants
1015 years ago, a million and a half
or 2 million from Afghanistan and Syria in
particular these two countries and they came when
1015 years ago.
So do you think they're going to speak
fluent German?
Do you think they're going to get the
top notch jobs?
So then they are fresh immigrants, they are
being discriminated against, they don't understand the system.
They have come from war torn zones.
And obviously they're living disconnected lives right now.
But there is hope in their children, some
of their own children.
Now they're in university, they're the ones coming
to my lectures.
So we have a person, his father came
from Syria, another his parents came from Afghanistan,
the children of that batch, they are now
inshallah.
They're the ones there were the main ones
who are hosting me now, the children.
But this leads me to point number three.
And this is something us American Muslims don't
understand.
Generally speaking, and I say this with love,
trying to be factual, I'm not trying to
be dismissive.
Generally speaking, European Muslims, socio economically are at
a different status than American Muslims.
Why?
Because where did the visas come from in
Europe?
Who was the visa given to in Europe,
to the workers?
And in America, who was the primary recipient
of visas, students and skilled workers, students and
skilled were the primary we know this, we
all know this, right?
This makes a massive difference in mindset, and
in socio economic clout.
And I cannot impress upon you the reality
of this.
Most Muslims in Germany are socio economically, not
middle class, if you get my point, the
majority of them.
And this also reflects in education.
The people that I told you were third
generation, I was shocked.
They are the first people to go to
university in their line.
Their grandfather and grandmothers are workers, their parents
were social, we're working menial jobs.
It's this generation now that they're just beginning
to go to university.
The culture of education is not the same
as over here.
You know, for most of us, our children
cannot even think of stopping after high school,
it's not even an option, right?
Straight to university, it's not even an option.
You have to understand that's not the case
for most of Europe still.
It's still not the case.
And this has impact because your socio economic
clout, your political clout is all going to
come with education with integration.
So when the bulk of these 15%
are not economically empowered, they're not even some
of them speaking German fluently, what is going
to happen.
And there's not a culture of education.
Rather, there's a culture of isolation, which leads
me to another negative.
And again, I say this, Oh, Muslims of
America, we really have a lot of positives
we should thank Allah for.
When you're living in Europe, when you're living
in Germany, for example, America is a land
of immigrants.
We are all immigrants.
And the diversity of languages, skin colors, ethnicities,
it's something we use to our advantage.
Europe is not a land of immigrants.
And when Muslims are the only immigrants, they
have a different religion, and a different skin
color, and a different cultural identity.
It is very easy for the dominant group
because it's only one group and one culture
and one skin color and one language, right?
It's very easy for the dominant group to
put you down, demonize you.
We know this in this country, that the
people that are looked down upon, they're divided
into different categories, right?
I don't want to be too explicit.
Some have to do with south of the
border, some have to do with the skin
color, some have to do the immigration some.
So the hatred of the dominant group is
split amongst multiple people.
Do you understand what I'm saying here, right?
The racism is split.
Imagine in Europe, in Germany, in France, all
of that racism against immigration, against the wrong
skin color, against the wrong this, against all
of that combined against us.
That's the reality.
So the reality, therefore, is that that 15%,
that 10%, they're not equal to the rest
of the 85-90%.
They are living like second-class citizens.
Education, it's not in your face, but it's
not as welcoming.
Jobs, you apply and the other person applies
this.
They said the same thing to me, like
the name, the background, that hidden racism, right?
That second-class citizenship, it is very clear
over there.
And therefore, this leads me to my next
one of the most awkward points, but it
needs to be said here.
When you have a large group of disenfranchised
young men and women cut off from the
broader opportunities in public, right?
What do you think is going to happen
to that group in terms of their understanding
of Islam?
Which strands and versions of Islam will appeal
to them more?
The mainstream ones or the more hardline ones?
Again, we need to understand human psychology, right?
When you are persecuted even a little bit,
you like ideologies that seem to give you
extra power, make you more elitist, make you
look down at everybody else.
And so, not surprisingly, I don't want to
mention too explicitly, very hardline groups are popular
amongst the youth, some of which are banned
by the government.
And of course, when you ban the group,
what's going to happen?
What's going to happen?
Even more popular.
When the government bans the group, right?
There's a group that wants to call for
Khilafah all the time, right?
That is the most common group in that
land.
And they have protests with their faces covered,
waving the flag that we want the Khilafah.
What do you think is going to happen
when the fellow German people see this reality,
right?
Covering their faces and waving the flag and
whatnot, and we want to establish the Khilafah
and whatnot.
I don't blame them because that's their education.
But what is going to be the backlash?
The backlash is, listen to this, one of
the most popular political parties is a resurrection
of the Nazi party.
It's called the AFD.
The AFD is now winning more and more
elections.
It is likely within a few years, it
will be one of the largest parties.
And they are a resurrection of Nazi party,
but not against the other group against us.
And it's a two way street, because when
that becomes more popular, the Muslims become even
more, some of them become even more radical,
that feeds into them that feeds into their
vicious loop.
And this was very painful to me.
I asked them, how many politicians you have
15%?
How many politicians are representing Muslim interests?
They said zero or maybe one out of
all of us.
I said, How is this possible?
15% and you don't even have a
single person.
And they told me a few months ago
in this debacle of what's happening in the
Middle East.
A few months ago, a Muslim was running
for office.
I'm gonna say this bluntly because it needs
to be said here.
We need to learn from this Muslim was
running, mashallah votes coming whatnot.
They came to the masjid.
They kind of this group basically stood outside
the masjid started protesting giving flyers.
It is haram to vote this person's a
kafir he's running in a democratic election.
And so they're running and the police had
to be called because they're causing a chaos
outside the the masjid I was at.
They told me this happened a few weeks
ago, that our Muslim candidate is running.
We got the protest from the youth of
our own community.
You cannot run it is kufr to run.
It's haram to run.
And we had to bring in the police
because they're getting physical and whatnot.
And then the media got involved.
Now what do you think is going to
happen when the media comes right?
So we have a lot of internal and
I say this wallahi not to stop for
a lot to make it worse amongst them,
but to make us realize to make us
realize like, how long are we gonna have
this debate?
The people don't even view themselves as being
a part of society.
So what's going to happen then?
Where are your rights going to go?
And therefore don't be surprised in multiple municipalities.
There are clear Islamophobic politicians in multiple areas,
they have attempted to ban the hijab.
They've attempted to here's another point, Germany, churches
and synagogues get funding from the government.
Most mosques, zero funding.
I said, How can this be fair?
How is it fair for a secular land?
You can go and sue and whatnot.
Nobody's done that.
The mosques get zero funding.
And there's a special tax everybody pays.
The state will help build the church, the
state will help finance the synagogue.
And if the Muslims came together, legally, they
could petition to get money because it's a
general, you know, all faith based communities, but
they're not doing that.
Why?
Again, this internal issue, not coming, not coming
together, not petitioning, not whatnot.
And subhanAllah, in the last 11 months or
12 months, because of Palestine and Gaza, you
realize out of all of the European countries,
out of all of them, Germany is the
most pro Israel, the most pro Israeli.
There is not even any competition.
And the reason for this is obvious.
They think they need to make up for
what they have done in World War Two,
right?
They feel that because of World War Two,
because of what our ancestors did, we have
to be the most pro Israeli.
And this is reflected in their policies top
down.
To this day, Germany has not given even
a modicum of humanity to the Palestinians, not
even a ishara, not even a gentle nothing.
To this day, they have always said Israel
has a right to defend itself.
And when the issue started 11 months ago,
12 months ago, first thing Germany did, they
banned protests for Palestine, complete ban, blanket ban,
the Muslims Alhamdulillah, at least they sued.
And they told me a few months ago,
that has been lifted, but then with conditions.
So they told me from the river to
the sea that phrase.
If you had said it up until two
weeks ago, you would be put in jail
and fined.
You could not say it, then another court
case, and they just got that lifted as
well, that from the river to the sea
is allowed to say, Palestinian flag was banned,
they got that lifted as well.
Everything the government here's another difference, their government
has a very different system of laws than
our government does, the government has the right
to pass laws.
And then if the if the police or
if the people challenge them, then the laws
are withdrawn, but the government doesn't need too
much approval, they can get it done.
And so this is reflected in their anti
Palestinian policies, what the government has now done,
basically, basically began to intimidate the Muslim community.
It was very sad for me to hear
that what this entity does, what the government
is like a secret police, if any person
is becoming too active, if they're giving Palestinian
protests on Facebook or whatever, because look, Germany
is supposed to be a democracy supposed to
be freedom technically.
But here's how that country is different than
ours.
And this is so sinister, wallahi.
The friend told me this, that if you're
active, the police will call your boss.
The police will literally call your boss and
say, we want you to know that your
employee is being investigated.
Thank you very much.
Bye bye.
That's it.
We want you to know so and so
he's on a list.
And we're just looking at his record.
That's it.
Now what's gonna happen?
You tell me you're gonna get let off
the next time get that the intimidate now
you cannot sue the police because what have
they done?
They've intimidated but they haven't literally said anything
right?
You're not being charged with a crime.
It's just like we're investigating him.
And that's why the entire and I asked
him permission.
I said, Can I say this on your
behalf?
I asked, I went to multiple cities, every
city I met with the shoe and scholars
there, every city I spoke with the activists
there, they all said the same thing.
We are under a climate of fear.
We are under a climate of fear.
We're worried about what to say, not physically,
you're going to get dragged off, but we're
going to lose our jobs.
And like I told you, even my lectures,
I was like, never in no country is
this the case.
They couldn't hire a hall for me 1000
people coming 800 people coming.
There's no space.
Why?
Because anytime we say Islamic lecture, they don't
even care who it is.
No university and no hotel.
It's like I said to them, yeah, this
looks like what happened 1920s to the other
group.
Looks like that intimidation is happening to you
guys.
The irony out of running away from what
they did.
What are they doing?
Do you understand?
I cannot be too explicit.
So I'm saying here, the irony out of
running away from what they did back in
the 1920s, 30s and 40s, right?
It's not as bad as 1940 yet.
But Wallahi this is 1920.
Like 100 years ago, where that second class
where if you're a Muslim, that separation begins
where the mark is very clear social pressure,
education pressure, job pressure, and it hurt me
so many questions were about hijrah.
Can we leave?
Should we leave really hurt me 15%
of the city and they're wondering should we
leave or not?
And I said to them, I cannot tell
you that because I don't live here.
I don't know the pressures, but I'll tell
you generically from the seerah and with this
we conclude inshallah generically from the seerah.
We learn you stay in your land as
long as you have the freedom to worship
Allah and you fight back within the system
and you keep on preaching and teaching.
As of yet, it's a nuisance and irritation.
You're not being physically persecuted.
You're not being dragged away and thrown into
jail.
As of yet, it's intimidation.
And if you were to combine together, if
you were to get that 10-15%, you
could create a ripple effect and a change
and they all recognize this.
So I said I cannot give you a
specific verdict.
But generically speaking, I said to them, my
gut instinct would be your main job right
now is to mobilize, is to come together,
is to tap in.
No city has the entire Muslim community under
one banner.
They are divided ethnically, divided socially, divided into
these firaq as well unfortunately.
And so this group of 10%, 15%
is just a statistic on paper.
I said to them, if you can get
rid of the internal divisions and come together
because your group is one and the Islamophobia
is against all of you, if you can
do this, then subhanAllah, what force can stop
you?
So I want to conclude with this point.
First and foremost, we thank Allah for whatever
issues we have here, very different.
We don't have 15%, no doubt about that.
We're less than 1% or 2%.
In Dallas, we're 1.7%, by the way,
which is more than the rest of the
country.
Greater Dallas area, we're relatively higher than the
rest of the area, but still 1.7%.
By the way, that's all of Dallas.
Maybe Plano might be a little bit more.
Somebody should do some surveys on this.
I think Plano is probably 5%, I would
assume, like good amount.
Plano is a good amount, inshaAllah.
We are relatively good percentage in this part
of the country, but 15 is beyond our
imagination.
No part of the country is 15%.
We benefit from them and then realize, oh
Muslims, the whole world is having its own
issues.
There is no Jannah on earth.
There is no Jannah.
And I said to these brothers, Hijrah, where?
Where?
Name me a country.
And they named a few and I pointed
out problems in each one they named.
For how long?
For what?
No.
The general rule, as much as you can,
you stay where you are, and you fight
for your rights, and you preach and teach
Islam, and you make sure you're able to
pass this religion down to your children.
So I hope inshaAllah that was of some
benefit to study about the Muslims of other
lands.
And I make dua for them and for
all of us.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep our
hearts united and cause us to benefit the
ummah.
SadaqAllahul Azeem.