Yasir Qadhi – You Want Us to Condemn – A Response to the Media
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Speaker 1 discusses the actions taken by Israeli leaders during World War 1, including requiring leaders to learn their facts and push back on tactics. They criticize the actions of Israeli propaganda and threaten actions taken by other leaders. Speaker 1 demands the attention of leaders who promised to condemn and calls for more aggressive stance.
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All Muslims,
it is high time that we claim the
narrative,
and we shift the conversation.
Don't be intimidated
by such tactics.
Don't fall prey to these types of 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 1. 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. Let's begin by condemning that.
You want me to condemn?
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, you wanted 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 hundreds of bodies were filled up in
the well of Deir Yassin. You want me
to condemn 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 of people?
Let us begin by the carpet bombings that
Israel constantly does for the last 25 years.
And as for And I'm gonna go there
today brothers and sisters, because enough is enough,
and if we're all cowered 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
if every one of us is brave enough
to push back, Well then, insha'allah,
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 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 decapitated
babies. Pure lies.
Israeli propaganda.
I will condemn and this is my condemnation.
How dare you lie to us? You're supposed
to be our president. You're supposed to speak
the truth, and you lied 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 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,
What Gaza has done
is that it has
shown the world
the hypocrisy
of those who claim to champion
human rights and freedom.