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I'm aligned with the white supremacists on this one. The Islamophobes. I think Muslims should go back home.
All right. Look, we we just have to respect that this is their country. This is their home. If white America, if they had the right ideology of life, they wouldn't be racist in the first place. But they don't have the right viewpoint about life. The non-Muslim Americans understand that your values contradict their values. We need to understand as Muslims, we have a home. Our comfort now is coming to bite us because we are not turning to Allah. We're turning to the dunya. Then this is the problem. What kind of God would let his servants lose when they support him?
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All right. All right. We got an interesting topic today. Is it mom?
People hate him. Some people say, "Should we be supporting him? Should we not be supporting him? Should we even have a Muslim mirror?" Today, what I want to do is I want to play devil's advocate. Okay? Cuz I really want to get to the bottom of it.
Oh, cuz devil.
Just kidding.
All right. I want to play angel's advocate. All right.
All right. Here we go.
All right. So I want to get to the bottom of it and figure out who's in the right, what's the right position on on you know Muslims in America or in the West generally. Okay. When we look at Mam Danny, right, his mother's Hindu, his father's a communist professor, 12 Shia, his wife is not that religious and not pra not that practicing. He's born in Uganda, raised here in America, and he's made this his home, right? Now he's representing New York. So, a lot of people like there's there's mixed feelings around him, right? But it seems like Muslims and non-Muslims both like him a lot, right? He's he's getting the attraction from from both uh from both sides.
But then you have the other side where Muslims are saying this guy doesn't represent us, you know, he's he he could potentially
too, I guess, the the right wing.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So, it seems like we can definitely see a dichotomy, two sides.
But I'd like to know what's the right position on him and and how should we view him? Should we support him or not? What do you think?
Look, the issue is not like, you know, easily just deciphered. We just need to understand the situation. As you can see, this his brother is is you said basically his surroundings not super Islamically focused, right? The most important thing is is he serving the Muslim community or not.
You know, irrespective of his belief, right? Like we have a mayor. Doesn't matter who basically becomes the mayor of New York. Basically, is he going to protect the interest of the Muslims or not, right?
And to be honest, I want to be very frank. The Muslims, they they just need their basic rights in this country.
But should we go beyond basic rights? Like, should we be aspiring to to really get deep into politics or having a lot of influence in in the West?
Look, I'm I'm going to be very controversial here. Okay. I will I personally believe I'm aligned with the with the white supremacist on this one and the Islamophobes.
I don't know how. I'm serious.
Okay.
I think Muslims should go back home.
All right. All right.
I'm serious. I'm serious. Look, let me let me tell you something. Muslims don't necessarily need to be involved in politics in the West.
Okay.
Okay. Number one. Number one, they're seen by I don't I don't know if it's majority or not, but a good sizable chunk of of America, and Europe, and maybe Canada, that they don't they don't want Muslims to come and basically impact their country or or change someone's stuff about their country or become, let's say, political leaders in their country, right? Even if they don't change anything, they don't like it that basically Muslims become political leaders. I resonate with that from a perspective that look, if our basic rights are safeguarded, and sadly they're not. If they were safeguarded, we don't we don't have to really get involved in politics as much.
But isn't that just limiting us like in the West? Meaning like, um,
Well, it looks like it. Yeah, it look it is limiting 100%. Say, yeah, it is limiting. But let me explain like what is our role as Muslims here in the West?
There's two opinions between the Muslims on this between the Muslim community leaders.
The vast majority says that we're here, we need to impact America. We need to be part of America. We need to assimilate and integrate and and and be part of the the social fabric of America and and and and and and become powerful just like maybe other minorities are powerful. We need to be powerful. And there's a minority, maybe I'm one of them, probably maybe the only voice basically that that really is speaking like this.
Okay.
Is that no, I think we should respect the majority. The majority doesn't feel uh the majority doesn't want the Muslims to take these these important positions. They want these positions for themselves. Look, we we just have to respect that this is their country. This is their home. Like, I'm not going to go into other people's homes and then start basically saying, "Look, I'm going to I'm going to say, what are you going to do in your in your living room and you know, your kitchen and moving tables and chairs? I'm going to come in like a nice guest and respect the home of of the host that is inviting me to his house." We need to understand as Muslims, we have a home.
And this is the problem. The problem is not necessarily like politics or not. Sometimes the act is halal, but see, there's a repercussions to the act.
Okay.
Okay. Irrespective of the of the if being in mayor is haram. Just put that aside for a second. Let's assume it's okay.
Mhm.
I'm saying there's an impact. There's there's there's a strategic, you know, problem here.
Mhm. Do we want to continue to live in America, Canada, and Europe for the next 300, 400 years, forever, or should we go back home? Like, it's it's a real question that we have to wrestle with. And the Islamophobes who are and the populist movement, political movements in both Europe and America are screaming for the last 10, 15 years very loud and clear that they don't want us there. So we should respect that and say look, we're just here guests and to be honest, we don't need to even be involved in politics, but as long as our rights are respected. This is where basically the issue is. Like, so I'm not 100% aligned. I would like to be aligned fully with with the Islamophobic.
That's crazy. That's a crazy thing.
It's a joke, but at the end of the day, it's their stance. If if two if if both stances are equal, doesn't mean that basically I'm, you know, in line anyway or shape with their views, but I'm just saying I respect. I look, if there's people who are, let's say, if there's people who are not supremacist.
Mhm.
They're just white Americans.
Mhm.
And they're the majority.
Mhm.
And they say, "Look, we want to keep America white."
Mhm.
Okay. We want to keep America, let's say, liberal and a capitalistic nation.
And and Islam is contradictory to our values. And maybe they might say, "Look, if you guys want to stay here as guests and just don't don't like try to change anything about our country, we're fine." And and this is the position I take that while the Muslim are living in the West, we should respect those host countries, never try to change anything about it as long as our basic rights are are protected, our rights are protected. And then also basically try to have a have a vision to go back home. We have a home. I don't care if you're fourth generation American. Okay. I sometimes ask some Muslims, they say, "Where are you from?" He's like, "Well, I'm from from America."
Born and raised. Yeah.
Born and raised from America. I'm from from like, let's say, uh, Texas. I'm from Dallas.
Like, yeah, but but but where are your parents from? Pakistan. I'm like, bro, just just say it as it is. You're from Pakistan.
Uhhuh.
Okay. You look Pakistani, even though you might whatever speak perfect English.
And and do you really want to stay in a country that your values, look, the non-Muslims, yeah, the non-Muslim Americans understand that your values contradict their values?
Well, why why can't we just assimilate? Why can't we fit in? Why can't we make this our home?
Because the then we have to lose our values. That's fine.
How?
Because Muslim in America.
No.
Why?
Well, not a Muslim Muslim in America. It's not like that. There's many Muslims in America. You can't be a Muslim American, for sure.
Okay.
That's not the question. The issue is bas issue of values.
Okay.
You want to sit here. Look, first of all, do they want you here in the first place? Number two, is the majority going to push you to lose your values?
Okay.
Meaning 40 years from now, you're going to have great grandchildren. Those will never be Muslim.
Why?
Because that that's the reality of of societies. The minorities will melt into the majority. That's how.
Like a melting. It's a Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. It's a sociological phenomena.
Okay.
That's how it works. The reason our communities have been thriving since the 1960s is because since the 1960s, the immigration started again and and and grew very fast. And since the Muslim countries in the world, which is we're two billion out of eight, we have the the most youthful population on earth, immigration basically, we had lots of immigrants. And because sadly the disasters in the Muslim world, many people immigrated. So we we had a greater proportion than even 25%.
Okay.
Across the world, you know, whatever it is.
Honestly, for me, like, I'm born and raised in Canada. Okay. It doesn't seem like Islamophobia was too like I became an adult after crisis in 9/11 and uh maybe my parents and the elders really took most of the hit. But then after I grew up in an area where diversity in my school and and uh it seems like I didn't really see that part. So now I can understand how people more recently the Islamophobic, the anti-Muslim sentiment has grown. More recently.
The far right may use people like Zaran Mdani and his likes and make them their favorite pinata and just basically use them to fuel the anti-Muslim rhetoric. Yeah, exactly. The fear. So, I can understand that, but at the same time, like you're talking to a lot of young people, a lot of a lot of Gen Z's and who really feel like they were, you know, they belong here. This is my home.
Yes. Yes. My parents came from Lebanon, but like.
I agree. I agree. Look, look, let me tell you something. Like, I was raised here myself.
Yeah. And to be honest, basically if you ask me where's home, from the emotional sense and from like the familiarity, like literally from a psych from emotional psychological sense, this is my home and I I really am I'm comfortable here, not in terms of life comfort, like I like it here, the culture, the familiar.
Yeah, just just the the human connection, the attachment, there's attachment, right? But see, at the end of the day, Allah created us for a purpose. The most important thing for us is not the emotional attachment to a geographic location. The most important thing is to live by the values that we believe in. Otherwise, just otherwise, what is our belief means? Like if we believe in Islam, but we don't really embody its values, we don't live in a society that embodies his values, then what's what's the use of Islam? Just the the the prayers and the fasting and this is this is what we're we're against. What we're against is to reduce the the great Islamic system of life that God have revealed to humanity for for the sake of it for for the sake of human society is to live in peace and in justice.
To just few rituals where Muslims can live in any non-Islamic society. No, I I think if if the Islamophobes have a problem with us, well, we should have had a problem with ourselves being here in the first place. Now, I'm not saying basic people should go just leave right now or whatever. We should have a nice, you know, way to go back home where also back home becomes uh equally like, look, nobody's going to go back home to the Muslim world, right? And we should call it home all the time. Whether we're born here or not, whether we're converts from here or not, home is back in the Muslim world. Even if you're blonde, blue-eyed convert, home is over there, not here.
That's an odd thing to say.
Well, this is what Allah says.
Subhan Allah. But but Islam didn't come to replace culture, right? It came to filter. And you can still be an American Muslim and you can be. So when you say we're watering it down, what are the values specifically that you're talking about that makes us attached to the East?
Well, let's take for example, simple things. Pornography is rampant, right?
Nakedness is everywhere. Haram relationship is everywhere.
But why can't we change these things?
But because it's not our society. This is why the the the Americans are getting angry at Muslims because they want to change things. We need to stop trying to change their stuff, their their place, their society, and just go change ours. The reason we left ours because we don't we don't like certain things about it. We don't we don't like basically the the the political stability and security of those countries. We don't like the economic prosperity of those countries. We don't like the educational advancement, the scientific advancement of those countries. We don't like the business environment of these countries. We don't like the legal system of these countries. We don't like the crime rates of these countries. We don't like many things about these countries.
We come here because we want to uh live in higher quality of life society and they want to change it based upon our values, but well, they get offended. Like, I'm not trying to defend. Look, if white America, we're speaking really about the right.
Okay. If they had the right ideology of life, they wouldn't be racist in the first place. They wouldn't basically care about whiteness in the first place. They would, but they don't. They don't have the right true uh viewpoint about life.
Right. We Muslims believe we have the right viewpoint about life, which is universal. We don't care about black or brown or white or Asian, whatever it is. We believe in the fact about what is the universe all about. The universe is a creation of God, and God have sent us revelation that structures the whole society in all of its aspects, political, economical, financial, and social. So humanity can live in peace, just like the atoms live within the systems of physics that God created.
In order. Yeah. And you see what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. So we believe in that. Why are we coming here to change their values? They don't appreciate that. And and this is what I'm trying to say. I'm saying Islam told us not to try to change these societies. We as Muslims, we have a home. It's the Muslim world. Our people are the Muslims back over there. That's what this is what we should be changing. Not not leave our homeland and our own people in a big mess and go try to change other people's lifestyles. That's not what God has said.
So I need you to and you could ask me like, what is what's the deal for that? Allah told.
Okay.
Warn Mecca and and the surroundings of Mecca. Surroundings Mecca means Arabian Peninsula.
Okay. Am was not ordered by God to go to the Romans and go to the Persians, go to the Abbassinians and and and preach and find the place where Islam gets established. No, no, no, no. He instructed the to only stay in the Arabian Peninsula.
To start with his own people.
And start with his own people to establish Islam within his own people.
So even when he went to Medina, oh, I guess they were Arabs as well.
Arabs.
Okay.
The Arabian Peninsula. That's why Mecca and it's surrounding. So so today we're saying the same order stays. It's just now who's our people? The Muslims. What's our land? The Muslim world. Is this like how the Prophetam left Mecca then and went to because Mecca was was his home, right?
Yes. Like that's that's from like the the individualistic home, right? The the home of the individual is Mecca foram. He was attached to. Actually, when he did Hijra, he actually cried.
He's leaving the home that he lived lived in all his life. Wasn't easy, but he had to. Why did he do Hijra? Because now the society, the Madinah society, now adopted the Islamic values at a social level, at a societal level.
So now basically the the whole city, which is equivalent to a country today, is running by based upon Islamic values. That's why he immigrated because now that fits his his belief system as an individual.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So any, let's look, if we have a communist in America, that person would basically be, you know, dreaming about going to China. If we have a capitalist in China, that person would be dreaming going to America.
Okay.
If we have a Muslim in America, that person should, if he's a real believer, should be dreaming about going to a society that has Islam. Now, I understand the Muslim world does not really have Islam.
But that's where basically that's where the work. That's where we need to basically push a little bit and and and start, you know, creating more awareness and and and and support our brothers and sisters back home to cultivate more Islam in the Muslim world so we can feel feel comfortable to go back.
Right?
Yeah.
Cuz see, if we're going to keep it like sac, few people sacrificing, you know, there's 55 million Muslims in the West.
But that's why B6 people are screaming here, lying, you know, this is this, you know, sadly Islamophobes, like yo bro, these guys are becoming like, you know, they're going to get to 100 million soon.
It's 55 million is a big number. Like, how how big is the West? Like 450 million in Europe and 350 million, let's say in in Canada, US, let's say 400. Let's from 850 million, you have 55 million.
It's a big number.
And by the way, the projections are they look at the projection, they start their hair their hair starts falling. Yeah. Yeah.
But but again, so that's why the real Muslims who understand the the world and and politics and strategy and the Quran and the Sunnah will always tell you, look, look, Muslims should live in an Islamic environment.
Yeah. Yeah.
And we're not supposed to be here to live forever. Alhamdulillah, we came here, many of us basically escaped civil wars or, you know, failed states or even just like actual war wars and genocides and so forth. So, alhamdulillah, God God gave us a blessings. We we we came here, we raised our kids, we went to universities, we got jobs, but it's time for us not to forget our homeland.
Mh.
And it's time for us to not be comfortable in. And that's why maybe partly the phenomena of the Sunnah of Allah is that, you know, our comfort now is is coming to bite us because we are not turning to Allah. We're turning to the dunya.
Yeah. Yeah. I think one thing that you said earlier is very powerful, and it's probably the main reason why most of us cannot imagine our home being back home, right? Um, and it's because you've placed Islam on the same arena as capitalism and socialism. Like, we don't really see it that way. We don't see Islam as comparing to these systems. We see as just like a religion, obviously, that we practice, and everyone can practice different religions, but live in a different system.
Exactly.
So that's that's very interesting. That's very powerful. Now I'm wondering actually, where do the Muslims from like, you know, in the S the Muslims that were in Abyssinia, what was the role of them being there? Because would you say that's like comparing us here?
Oh, 100%. Yeah.
It is 100%. There's no debate about this. Anybody who debates this, Subhan Allah, may Allah forgive them. Today, we are like the Muslims in the Muslims in Abyssinia. They never tried to change anything about society.
Is there proof for that?
Yeah, the whole history.
So, there is no nothing that came out of that. Oh, it's interesting.
They didn't even try to like even preach at a wide scale. Not really. They stayed within themselves as a minority. Alhamdulillah, the the ruler of Abyssinia was a just ruler. So, he allowed them to basically have their religious rights and and they lived like that until they immigrated back to to Medina.
Okay.
And that's how we should be. We should bas we're here. We should be here on a temporary basis, and we have to support our brothers and sisters over there to help make the Muslim world a more prosperous, peaceful place that we can go back to. You understand? And this is the Hijra for the sake of Allah Subhana Tala. Like a real believer is described in the Quran as one who basically does Hijra for the sake of Allah. Because the society that you want to live in is a society that should match your beliefs in your heart and your mind. That's a that's a big one. Okay. So, going back then to Mamani. So, so yay or nay? Are you pro or not?
Well, look, as I told you, it's not a simple yes or no.
I believe today our rights have been trampled. So, I actually I am pro-Muslims going into uh political positions so they can preserve our our rights. If this is the intention, this and this is a big if.
Okay.
Look, Madam is a politician and he's a very astute politician, son of a gun.
Uhhuh. The the issue is, is he really rallying Muslims just for their votes or does he really take our interests as something that's sacred?
Well, it seems like he is. It seems like he's.
Well, I don't know. And you don't know.
Nobody knows what's in his heart because see now because every every politician has an agenda, and that agenda is secret.
Only time will reveal what is his real agenda because everybody can say whatever. Talks cheap. And this is the problem today. As Muslims, we're very emotional. We get driven with a little speech and we just move. Right? We have to become more politically astute.
Islam teaches us that.
Says that the believer is sharp and astute. Sharp and astute. But we're not.
We're emotional, bro. We don't we don't even know the ABCs of politics. But set that aside. So that's why I would say I am pro-Muslims actually getting involved to the max in political life as long as they adhere to the Islamic rules and represent the Muslims' interests in the country they're living in. But I say it out loud that if our our interests and basic rights are secured in these countries, I would say we shouldn't be doing that. That's their home. Let them basically run it as they wish. Okay. So so that's why basically this is where I I balance it. I am basically I'm aligned with with the rights call for Muslims to go back home. Fully aligned.
Uhhuh.
But I'm also aligned from a perspective that, you know, sadly our rights have been trampled both by right and the left. By the right and the left. Say it one more time. Right.
And therefore we need to basically push sincere individuals who fear Allah Subhana T in positions of political say. Uh, that being said, I don't see many of those who basically have taken certain positions as such sincere people, and not because I opened their hearts and checked it, because their track record said otherwise.
And this is where the the political awareness should be in the community to hold these individuals accountable, not just vote for them and just forget it.
Whether they're Muslim or non-Muslim.
Well, especially the Muslims.
Okay.
But both definitely, but especially the Muslims because they're rallying based upon an Islamic ticket.
Okay.
So, I'm voting for you because you're Muslim, and then basically you don't you don't do nothing for Islam. You might actually sometimes vote against Muslim interests. But we h if you want to vote, you have to hold them accountable because that's your vote. But we don't do that.
So, some people may say that like, it's not possible to get into politics without having to bend some of your principles or even go against them. That's that's.
You have to please different part like you have to get the votes of the people, right?
I wouldn't I wouldn't agree to that. I wouldn't agree to that. I would say basically at the end of the day, Islam has rules. Those rules have exceptions. If there's exceptions, and if sometimes there's no exception, so we need to adhere to them. I'm speaking in general here. There's no such thing as basically we going to go and become malleable to adapt. There's there's Allah's pleasure, and that should be number one. And when we leave Allah's pleasure because we feel, wow, you know, we're endangered, we're this, wisdom, blah, then Allah lets us leaves us alone. That that's why we're in this mess. Allah in the Quran says that Allah will will give victory to those who give His Deen victory. That's all we need to do. If we want victory, if we want success, success is success. If we want success, we need to basically work for the success of this Deen. Okay.
We need to work for the pleasure of Allah. When we do, and this doesn't mean just prayers and fasting, is what I'm trying to say. When we do, then Allah will give us success. And when we see ourselves as as humiliated, we know that the curse of Allah and the anger and the wrath of Allah is upon us. We're doing something wrong as a community. And brothers and sisters, understand that that the minute we're humiliated, understand that humiliation is the result of our displeas us displeasing Allah as a collective.
Mhm. Because Muslims should only only only succeed and come out victorious in any aspect of life if we're doing the right thing.
Because God is with us. Like what kind of like what kind of God would let his servants basically lose when they support him?
It's not befitting, wallah, it's not befitting. And the Quran says otherwise. Allah says he will always support the believers and make them come out. How many times basically the Muslim failed? They only failed in very few times when they disobeyed, when they as a collective broke the rules of success, the the right causation for the right impact of success. But otherwise, Allah is always on their side. We as Muslims are invincible, undefeatable if we are with Allah Subhana Tala. So when we see ourselves humiliated, we left the cause. We have left the cause. Period.
So speaking of Muslims in the West, then, um,
they would have to like look, the left supports us a lot when it comes to all our causes, right?
If we want to gain their support too, we're going to have to advocate for their stuff. But at times it's going to go, most times it goes against Islamic values and principles. So if we cannot make it into politics without bending some of our rules and principles, then why would Muslims even try?
No, I think we can try without. We don't need. Look, when you say the left supports us, I've never seen that the left supporting us except basically always putting laws that infringes on our liberties and our our belief systems.
Yeah, but they're at the rallies. They're at the protests. They're.
I don't care about the rallies and the protests.
But this that has to mean something.
No.
We we we as a community should organize and sure sometimes basically we could make certain alliances.
Mhm.
You know, might as well b make alliances with. Why don't we basically have a better relationship with with with the conservative right?
What?
Yeah. They want us out, and we should go out too. At the same time, tell them, look, you know, you guys don't like the left because the left basically is twisting your values. We believe basically the left also is twisting our values. Uh, we have two thing too many things in common, and we agree that we the Muslims should go back home. We agree on that one, and we we don't we don't we don't like basically the the left's ideological genocide of Muslims.
So might as well. But we don't know how to create these alliances.
Okay. But but hold on because I'm I'm sure you're triggering.
I have no problem. Say again.
I'm sure you're triggering a lot of people.
Well, I don't care if I'm triggering people. I I say the truth. I have no problem protecting, let's say, churches and houses of worship and so forth for people. That's better for me as a Muslim.
Mhm.
I'm proud to basically protect, for example, the family unit, to to help kids and marriages, and to maybe like stop pornography. I'm I'm pretty sure we're going to see eye to eye in many things with with with the conservative right.
Mhm.
You see what I'm saying? They only hate us because they don't want to see it. Let's agree on that. If we agree on that, we agree on everything that's rightwing, for God's sakes.
Yeah. Yeah. But the Christians like it seems to me like we should be together against a lot of these issues because we have similar values and morals, but then they are on the other side calling against us, you know, making a lot of anti-Islamic statements, wanting us.
Because many Muslims want to bring Islam to the West.
We need to stop this stuff, man. For God's sakes, I'm trying to say from the Quran and the Sunnah, God tells us not not to go and try to change these societies.
We should change our society. Make it a role model where people love to be like us, and then they say, "Hey, can you guys help us become like you?" This is how we should live on earth. Don't forget, we're living in a in a small world today, and the right way to preach the Dao is to be the best model back home. Look, look, let me give you an example today. China.
Bro, many people love what the Chinese have done. I understand there might be a little bit of difference of values, you know, that we also might disagree with basically over there, the the repression state, but we're becoming that too here, basically, by the way. But look at the advancements of China. Look at the Chinese economy. Look at look at what they've built.
Many people in the West like, wow, they're wowed. Imagine imagine we in the Muslim world become a greater civilization in ethics and values and and and and the family unit and the society and no crime and technological advancement and scientific develop and peace and harmony and justice, and with with all the minorities respected in the Muslim world, like they have been for the last 1400 years or 1200 years when we were, you know, when we were basically ruling, when Islam was basically setting this the stage of how things work, because we're all about justice.
Like even the Quran tells us that the closest people to us are the Christians. I believe we should open a conversation, and those the majority of our community leaders need to stop saying that we need to basically gain more power and influence in America and the West. No, we don't want no power in America. We don't want no influence in America, but we just want our rights to be respected. This is this is the only le. I say no, we we should basically participate until people secures our basic rights. Again, white America is white America. It's not it's not us. We were immigrants. First gen, second gen, third gen, doesn't matter which generation we are. We're immigrants. We immigrated. Our parents or grandparents, great-grandparents, maybe at max. We immigrated here since the 1960s and forward.
Mhm.
And and and and we should not basically try to change America. This is part of our beliefs, not because we want to be accepted or we want to be safe. We want to be we want to appease anybody. This is what our Deen teaches us. What our Deen teaches us is that basically Muslims in the Bessia lived with respect. Their their rights were honored. They did not try to change the system, and they were temporarily there and they went back home. Went back home. We must go back home. But they went back home when the home was stable enough for them to go back.
Got it?
So I'm not telling people leave today or whatever. That's not what I'm saying. Definitely. No, no, no. We But we need to help in making the Muslim world more stable, more peaceful, have a better quality of life and security so we can go back home. Like we're speaking about 55 million Muslims, don't forget.
So protecting our rights and preserving our rights while we're here is a must. Is a must. Non-negotiable. Non-negotiable.
Okay. But in the long term, our plan is to go back from because of an ideological attachment rather than a physical attachment.
Definitely. Definitely. Definitely. And that's why I tell you know, we're friends on the right. Friends, I guess, maybe friends and non-friends on the right.
That's crazy.
Some of them are friends.
But you know that look, if really the if you're rallying your whole people to get the Muslims out, guys, it's easy. We're on the same page.
Mhm.
Yeah. You don't have to basically be like, you know, harsh and violent. Relax. We're on the same page. We want to leave too. You just need to speak to the right leaders.
Someone on the other side now, uh, because of like, let's use Mamani as an example, okay? He has gained the support of the left, as well as Muslims, right? Or at least some Muslims, a good portion. Wouldn't somebody have a case if they say like, we should work with the the left because it's about uniting on the idea of humanity on justice for humanity, right? And he cares a lot about about different individuals.
Look, let me tell you something. I have no problem also making alliances with the left.
Okay.
At least some aspect or some leadership of the left.
The left is not one thing. It's a shade of many colors.
So, there's no problem with that as long as we understand again that look, we have values.
See, the right wants us out. The left wants us in, but changed.
Okay.
And that's a problem.
Okay. Okay.
And that's why I can I can say look, I can see eye to eye with the right because we want out also. But the left wants us here to stay as slave labor and also change our Deen. Look, this is this is not acceptable. But if there are honorable people on the left that we can basically say, you know what, hold on one second, guys. You you are you for freedom? Are you for diversity? Are you for pluralism? Are you for blah, blah, blah? But we're Muslim, you have to respect us, and you need to stop pushing your own ideological left agenda on us. And as a 55 million Muslims in the West, we need to stand for that. We don't want to basically be part of the political equation. Right and left. Let them basically do their thing. We could just stay and and just watch and and and as I said, be be nice guests here. But again, both the both sides trying to trample our basic rights gets us to say, "Hold on, we need to participate because we're going to get trampled upon." So, if we can have a communication, a conversation, a discourse that's intellectual, that's rational, definitely we can live together.
100%. Cuz we're people.
Until we leave.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I think this is a this is a really good message. This is a hard pill to swallow though. Like, not going to lie. A young guy, you're talking to a young guy here. It's a very.
Born and bred in America.
Born and raised. You know what I'm saying?
Crazy. I mean like this is my language, right? I'm a bilingual English and French. I do speak Arabic, Alhamdulillah, but it's not as good, I would say, as my English and French, right? So to have that idea of okay, long term, I have to prepare myself now to do migration at some point because that's what my Deen says, and it's more of an ideological attachment. What's your message to Muslims in the West, in America and Europe, that will help them shift their mindset because now I'm sure a lot of them don't have that. That don't have that. You said that you said earlier, the majority of them. You know, people. I'll come. I'll give him this one message. Today, lots of the Chinese are going back home. Are they better than Muslims? Is is what chi China stands for better than what Islam and Muslims stands for?
Definitely not.
We need to live by Islam and we shouldn't be forcing Islam upon nobody. Period.
There's no compulsion in religion. So leave the West as it is. Respect it as it is. And maybe when we do give that respect, we these guys, they reciprocate it.
And we just we focus on building the Muslim world. We focus on helping the the nation building over there and to make the the Muslim world a better place, hopefully the best place in the world. Why don't we imagine a place, a Muslim world where the the white American from Texas and from Red America immigrating to live in the Muslim world because it's more prosperous, it's more peaceful, it's more beautiful, it's more tolerant.
M. And everybody knows about the tolerance of the Muslims basically for 1,200 years. I mean, you know, basically when the when the Jewish community was during the Inquisition and aside from the Inquisition was repressed and and persecuted in Europe, where did they go? They fled to the Muslim world.
Right. Right.
And there's many Jewish authors and writers from the Middle Ages who wrote that the only place that's peaceful is the Muslim world.
I mean, and the Coptic Christians, right? They lasted so long in this under.
But these people immigrated into the Muslim world escaping.
To the Muslim world because we are the most peaceful land. You know that's really that's the truth. I'm sure a lot of people are going to have a hard time wrestling with this episode, and I'm looking forward to the comments. Let's see what we get inshallah. You guys make sure to interact, like and subscribe, follow us, send this to family and friends, let us know what you think. You might also want to send it to some Islamophobes, they might like it. So we'll see, we'll see, we'll see how it goes. All right, we'll see you on the next. Bless you.