Yasir Qadhi – We Already WON! – Responds to Piers Morgan
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Do you condemn what Hamas did that day?
Do you condemn October 7th? Do you condemn
that political organization? Do you condemn? Do you
condemn? All Muslims,
it is high time that we claim the
narrative,
and we shift the conversation.
Don't be intimidated
by such tactics.
Be brave. Learn your facts and push back.
You want me to condemn? Yes, wallahi, I
will condemn. I will begin by condemning the
debacle of the Balfour declaration
where all of this began. The Balfour declaration
and the Sykes Picot agreement. Let's begin by
condemning world war one. Let's begin by condemning
great Britain, handing over a piece of land
that it had nothing to do with to
a people that have nothing to do with
it. You want me to condemn? Let us
begin by condemning the first and the second
nakba, in which 1,500,000
people were displaced. You want me to condemn
genocides and massacres? Let us begin by condemning
the massacres that Israel perpetrated against Palestine, beginning
with Deir Yassin in 1947,
where 100 of bodies were filled up in
the well of Deir Yassin. You want me
to condemn hostages? Let's begin by condemning
15,000
Palestinians
held without trial, without any fair representation
in Israeli prisons. Let's begin by condemning them.
You want me to condemn killing a people?
Let us begin by the carpet bombings that
Israel constantly does for the last 25
years. And I'm gonna go there today, brothers
and sisters, because enough is enough. And if
we're all towered into silence, if we're all
too scared to speak the truth, they're gonna
get away with it. But if every one
of us raises our voices, is that every
one of us is brave enough to push
back, well then, insha Allahu ta'ala, we will
achieve a level of social credibility.
We will push back at the narrative. When
too many people speak the truth, that is
what is gonna break down falsehood. And And
that's what we need to do. So let's
go to the very events you want us
to condemn. You want us to condemn October
7th. I have plenty to condemn
even on that day. How about we begin
by condemning
the lies that you perpetrated
about what happened on that day? Lies that
went all the way from CNN, from BBC,
from New York Times, from every single newspaper.
Even our president lied straight to us and
he looked at the camera and he said,
I saw pictures of 40 decaminated
babies. I never really thought that I would
see and have
confirmed
pictures of terrorists
beheading each other. Pure lie, Israeli propaganda. I
will condemn and this is my condemnation.
How dare you lie to us and you
lie to the world. And because of that
lie, people were enraged and 1,000 lost their
lives. We all know it was a lie.
Even the New York Times had to withdraw
and retract the story. You want me to
condemn? How about the condemnation of your lies,
of the mass rapes that you said occurred?
Not a single * has been attested to
that day. I will condemn because you're the
ones who created a narrative. You're the ones
who falsely construed a narrative that was then
used to bomb, to kill, to maim, to
rampage.
You're the ones who falsely created a narrative.
This October 7th did not come out of
a vacuum. You want me to condemn?
I will condemn
75
years of brutal occupation before October 7th. That's
what I'm going to condemn. Enough is enough,
brothers and sisters. Enough is enough. And what
Gaza has done is that it has shown
the world
the hypocrisy
of those who claim to champion
human rights and freedom.
Gaza has shown the hypocrisy
of those who said, we are the world's
leaders because we are the best.
We are the world's leaders because we are
for democracy.
We are for human rights. We are for
liberties.
And what a small group of people in
Gaza have done is to shown the world
those were blatant
lies.
Absolute
lies.
The mask of deceit has fallen. And the
truth has been laid bare. And the myth
of the moral superiority
of western civilization
has been shattered
single handedly
by our brothers and sisters in Gaza. The
world is changing.
The tide is shifting.
The narrative has now been changed.
And there is no going back, all Muslims.
There's no going back. The fact of the
matter,
even if Gaza is in shambles,
the people of Palestine have won on the
global battlefield.
Never in 75 years has the Palestinian
cause garnered so much support.
Never in 75 years has the entire globe,
other than a few countries come behind Palestine.
All Muslims, remain firm.
Remain persevering.
Persist in all that you're doing. Raise your
voice. Be an influence to your family and
friends, and understand we're in this battle for
the long run, and we might not see
political victory immediately. We might not. But I
say to you loudly and clearly,
we have already won the moral victory. We
have already won the moral battle. Palestine has
won. The people of Gaza have won.