you when you posted this what kind of
reaction did you get oh a lot of hate a
lot of death TRS right now for example
in Gaza almost 12,000 names have been
documented of children that have been
killed if the opportunity was to open
would you ever visit Gaza of course
innocent life whe children other should
be protected and we stand and we're
going to Mecca and we're going to Mecca
that's it so's let's you as horse Gracie
you believe that there is none that
should be worshiped except one God that
family they Chang the world the world
boys Gracie proved it in the UFC and he
changed martial arts forever and that
that family's probably the most
consequential the most important
significant family in the history of
martial arts the Gracie family changed
martial arts
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who are familiar with the UFC I don't
think there'd be a UFC if it wasn't for
the Gracie family and hoist Gracie not
not won two three
championships with the UFC is that
correct brought jiujitsu to the Americas
all over the world now if wasn't for
horon horon is the one that create the
UFC your brother hor he had that
division on but a lot of people
misunderstood in the beginning they
thought that the grace are arrogant
they're trying to put down the other
styles no we're in a curiosity to find
out what works and what doesn't
so everybody claims Kate is the best
kung fu is the best H how can we find
out let's put C against Kung Fu see who
wins there you go take all the rules
time limit wait division out and let
them fight so it was more of a curiosity
that my family had to find out if our
style really works if I fight somebody
bigger stronger you see champion on
their Styles definitely uh the mission
was accomplished uh I got excited seeing
him fight and then I went from boxing
kickboxing and I jumped into this and uh
I don't know if you go ahead what you
got excited wasn't because of me
fighting it was the technique that you
saw yes so it wasn't me I was just the
face of it it couldn't be anybody it was
a technique that impressed everybody
absolutely yes so people a lot of times
try to oh but because of you it wasn't
me I was just a product of my father's
work absolutely my you executed the
technique well very well yeah so I don't
know sh man I know we're go some history
he's maybe he's forgot but when I first
started I think it was the Michigan I
went I right away I wanted to compete
and then the tournament was there and he
was actually reing let me see if we can
find some old footage he was the ref for
the division I was a white build at that
time nice and um he was reing I don't
remember and then uh I got the okay I
got my lineage starts from him I got the
blue belt you got youra from him my yes
the Islamic method of accreditation we
Calla so you accredit him and then he
his students and so on and I've stayed
with the Gracie family the whole time
all the way yeah I mean the Gracie are
legends I mean no doubt I mean I've
always heard about Gracies and their
their contribution and the techniques
again that they brought the techniques
that's the most important thing
something brings us here something
unique there was a situation and we can
discuss it and and um you actually had a
seminar booked in Bosnia yes yes my
cousin had arranged uh professor rovic
rris to have you on Bosnia and then
there was a post you had posted
something and that set a fire off and
that brings us here today we got on the
phone and we got to a lot of
misunderstanding there some
misunderstanding ho can you talk to us
uh tell us uh what was it because that
kind of took a lot of people you have a
lot of Muslim fans you have people from
all you visited Kuwait ABAB you've been
all around the Muslim world and you when
you posted this what kind of reaction
did you get oh a lot of hate a lot of
death
trats yep s people like you come over
here we're going to kill you and to call
me names
and but if you read the post
carefully I
sympathize with the with the people that
die in October
7 to me it's like um you ask me hey hor
do you like
oranges and I say you know what no I
don't like oranges oh my God why do you
hate
Florida why you don't like the beach
what do you have against the beach the
sun oh my it's like no that's not what I
said right I sympathize with every
civilian that's dying yeah on both sides
on the Palestinian side over there do
you see
on the Israeli side but people talk that
offense that I'm against Muslims no I'm
not that's the first thing I did was
called my Muslim friends and say guys
are we good like I did with your cousin
he's like no man we're good it's just
people misunderstood this is the this is
the great thing of having communication
so we can clarify things because people
do read into things that are not there
right and yes they interpret exactly
what they want interpreted like like I
said I'm against
Hamas and oh my God you're against
Palestinians you in favor of genocide
the kids no I never said that I'm
against all genocides you see all K on
civilians on both sides as Muslims we
believe that all human life especially
that of innocent children should be
preserved right we believe that you know
unless somebody commits a crime or
something that's different um but
right now for example in Gaza almost
12,000 names have been documented of
children that have been killed right
none of us would agree that that's a
good thing I think you would agree that
those children that's bad that's bad not
just children right women men
non-combatant civilians civilians and
Gazza is very interesting because people
don't realize the history before October
7th of 2023 you know since 2007 the
people of Gaz are not allowed to leave
2007 I'm talking about you know I don't
know how many years is that right it's
not so long ago it's yeah so I mean
people cannot leave it's a prison and
since 2008 they haven't had an election
so it's not like they can choose even
right and when when Israel and the IDF
go in and bomb hospitals and churches
and buildings the people don't have a
choice so just like we feel for any um
Jewish children that are killed if
whatever we we feel that's wrong as
Muslims we do as the Quran teaches us as
the prophet Muhammad peace and blessing
be upon Him taught us we don't believe
in non-combatants even being involved in
war but at the same time it's very sad
when the world is seeing continuously
right now a massacre going on and people
are not standing for those innocent
people being killed the UN almost every
country is saying we need to stop this
massacre which has no goal it's not a
war that where Israel is going after the
leadership of Hamas they're
bombing 2 million people that can't
leave it's not like they can get up and
go to Egypt or Jordan the borders are
closed you know so I think there's a lot
of sensitive feelings obviously and
that's why I really appreciate you
coming out and making that clarification
that's a huge step I mean because him
coming out and to go ahead and clarify
and to talk for us because there is a
lot of conditioning programming and
people are getting this Vision that
Muslims hate Jews they want to eradicate
Jews so let's start with that does
you're because you're like a you're
you're like you're an Imam you're a Muti
so you're a religious cleric Islamic
cleric does your religion Islam teach
you to hate Jews to want to eradicate
Jews from the face of the Earth
absolutely not uh I mean if you look at
Islam the prophet Muhammad peace and
blessings be upon him
um when he made the famous Hijra which
is when he move when he went from Mecca
to Madina he migrated um this is where
the Islamic calender began this is a
very important aspect of the life of the
Prophet peace be upon him when he came
to Medina he made peace treaties with
the Jewish tribes there you
know all the the major tribes there they
made peace treaties to live and defend
Medina
together bu and others even at the
battles where those treaties were
violated even after that Jews lived in
Medina even in the time of the calipat
of Abu Bakr and Omar later Jews Muslims
and Christians were there there were
people that would come and ask questions
ofman for example if you look at
Palestine and the time of salahudin AI
you know salad you heard yeah so I mean
even any Western historian will tell you
that unlike the Crusaders the Muslims
ruled there with Jews having synagogues
and Christians having churches and their
rights protected now when we look at the
issue of Palestine
um people forget the history right when
when when the major populations of
Palestinians were forcefully moved out
taken out of their homes when the
genocide that has been going on against
Palestinians for for way before October
7th and even now when we look at the the
issue going on it's not a Muslim Jewish
issue you know it's not like there's any
Jews and Muslims fighting in in
Indonesia or Malaysia or something um
it's an issue where okay Hamas and the
Israeli government have an issue but the
bombing is not of Hamas it is of by a
government by actual government
bombarding 2 million civilians that have
nowhere to go 1.5 million of them have
been displaced from their own homes
right now and children that have nothing
to do with Hamas nothing to do with hisb
whatever nothing to do with any
political party that are being killed
this is where our hearts are yearning
just like our hearts would pain for any
Jewish children or Christian children or
the children of any atheist we don't
believe that that should be that should
be acceptable especially by actual
government I mean a government that is
got you know $50 billion of us tax
dollar going right so I mean our our our
Senators are writing billions of dollars
of checks that could could go towards
health care that could go towards jobs
that could go towards helping the US
where it's needed and bombs that are
being bought from that are are killing
innocent people and this is where I
think all of us would agree this is
wrong I don't I don't know if uh if ho
knows maybe does but or many people are
viewing audience that before 1948 you
had Jews Christians and Muslims living
in a relative peace there in Jerusalem
there was a peace but then what happened
was you had the Europeans coming over
and now what's called Zionist so Muslims
have nothing against Jews because I've
had many Jewish rabbis is explain what
is Zionism is a ideology that came up to
make a Homeland for the Jews um I mean
it's it's a well-known ideology but the
interesting thing is there are many
Orthodox practicing religious Jews that
are very opposed to Zionism till Zionism
came about Jews flourished as as
distinctly religious Jewish communities
and they weren't massacred on the
contrary they went to these Arab and
Muslim lands to escape persecution uh
from the Crusades from the Inquisition
and from many other trials and
tribulations and the um and even World
War II uh the Arab and Muslim lands
opened their hearts opened their lands
and uh provided a safe haven and a
gracious Hospitality for the Jewish
people and that's why a lot of the
protest you will see them as well
because they feel that it that the way
that Jew the Jewish people are going to
get their homel was through the will of
God and by using for example the King
David Hotel bombing and using terrorism
for the goals of Zionism which is
historic many Jews feel that it it
caused this conflict that is still going
on and again what World War II and the
Holocaust and and all that happened is
something horrible and we condemn it and
I think it would have been a great idea
to cut a piece of Germany and give it to
the Jewish people as a Homeland for the
horrible Massacre that they went through
at the hand of of the Germans I just
don't understand what the Palestinians
had done to be kicked out of their homes
you know because of what Germany did and
because of that conflict that the
British and the Europeans started we're
still seeing this problem people that
for example I don't know if you've been
to uh any Palestine or Israel occupied
to Israel many right so for example when
you went did you notice that uh people
that of the Jewish faith have different
rights than those of the Christian or
Muslim faith for example in in Tel Aviv
or uh in i' I've never been T Aviv I've
been to Jerusalem ORS U regular Jews can
walk around with guns but Palestinian
police can't even have guns so that's
not a state that has equal rights for
the its citizens right that's an
apartheid where some people are given
certain rights that others are not even
when I would enter from the from the
border crossing there would be different
lines for Jews and non-jews and that's
something I don't think any of us find
acceptable right I agree yeah good but
there's a small minority mhm kind like
we see that all over the world like in
America small minority of group of
people that makes a big talk true it's a
small minority of terrorist right that
comes over and kill innocent blow
themselves up killing as many as they
can you see I I been to many times and
it happened when I was there sure it's
like thaty will go to a bus stop and
blow himself up kill four or five people
one shot innocent people sometimes
soldiers they they getting ready to get
the bus to go to work it's like I'm not
justifying I agree what the what the
Israelis are doing yeah by not letting
them have weapons you see but it's
question of not trusting right so well
that's the question then when half your
population is and according to the
statistics right now half of it is Arab
Palestinians and you don't trust that
half and you put that half behind lines
and oh it's more than half of they're
civilians right it's a small minority so
so what I'm saying is when when that
half of the country all has to share
I'll give you an example right you're
from Brazil right so for example if uh
some Brazilians get together and they
make a gang for example and they rob
cars or they you know Rob people and
steal cars for example some bad apples
sure could happen right and then we say
okay no Brazilian can drive a car yep no
Brazilian small minori a small group of
people so after a while as somebody of
Brazilian Heritage you would get sick of
it you would start saying hey why are
you blaming me for the actions of that
small minority and when it continues
when we say okay well we're going to
take your car because somebody Brazilian
had stolen a car in the end you're going
to start reacting acting in ways
sometimes in the wrong way right because
you just get sick of it so what people
forget about October 7th is what
happened October 6th and 5th and 4th and
since the' 40s 1948 and then before that
so when you have a organized method of
stealing a people's lands making I mean
I I I don't know if you've been to
Jordan right I was in Jordan the
population of Jordan about 5 million 4
million of that is displaced
Palestinians right that were forced ful
kicked out of their houses their lands
they can't go back to their own house
they can't visit their own families they
don't have any status what's the
population of Jordan about 5 million
five that's it that's it yeah and 4
million is already L 7 million people
walk in ex more than 7 million wow more
some country came in exactly more than
some let's not change subjects yes sorry
so goe so so this is very important to
always understand the history behind
things how did Hamas get to be how did
the PLO get to be why was there reason
for arm because wasn't it before this
and look we're not any card carrying
members of Hamas or not at all I don't
support any but before uh it was the PLO
it was whoever else it was like when you
subjugate and oppress a people like
let's take this uh Legend here and if
you try to oppress this man like let's
say your family what do you think in
Brazil they would do if someone what's
the neighboring state or let's say
Zionist came over to Brazil and they
start to I know you guys have your
father Helio Gracie got a beautiful Farm
over there right let's say Zionist came
or whoever and they started to land grab
like you have how many 800,000 happen in
Brazil yeah illegal you have illegal
settlements or people stealing other
when that happens in Brazil what do you
do right now the law is you're not
allowed to do a thing but what they call
a
um there's a there's a name for that for
the the people that have no land no
homes if I have a huge Farm if they come
in and they say you know what we're
going to take it cuz you're not using
wow well I use from Plantation now
because we need a place to live wow and
they just take it and the government say
it's okay wow it's like there's no way
to fight there's no we can't buy guns in
Brazil so and they just take it it's
like and there's nothing that people can
do about it it's hard for example it's
hard it's very difficult I mean your
land is one thing but let's say your own
home let's say somebody walks into your
house and says you know what my great
great great great grandfather lived here
so get out they make people do that W so
do you think that's right um there's a
name for that for the movement and the
come in and goes sorry man pack your
stuff you got to leave I seen videos of
people come to the door and they come by
Massive group you can't fight a massive
group for someone who has had that in
their family for Generations Generations
the question is is that right
no no it's not it's not so the same
thing with the Palestinian peoples who
were forcefully kicked out of their own
homes and the UN has passed resolutions
on this it's always gets vioed either by
the us or UK right now the ceasefire the
entire world is saying hey at least stop
fighting you know let's you know you've
already killed 12,000 children in Gazza
and these are documented names these are
not like you know numbers that are
thrown out at least let humanitarian Aid
come into Gaza at least let the people
of Gazza go and seek treatment in in
other places when they have their legs
blown off and and the borders have been
closed and this is this is why you know
it's very important when we when we
condemn October 7th and no doubt we
condemn the killing of any innocent
human beings we also condemn the what's
been going on before and after that from
the IDF and terrorists organizations
like that and I I think uh ho uh the
thing is is very important like you're
were saying that they're trying to make
this out like this is a Jew Muslim thing
and if you look at for instance like I
said we have nothing to do with Hamas or
whatnot but listening to some of the I
was listening to one of the leaders of
Hamas he said look if that was my own
brother taking my land if that was a
Muslim taking my land I'm want to fight
the person taking my land so we we have
nothing against the Jews just don't take
my land that's it right let me live in
peace don't control the water that I
fish in Don't control my electricity the
water that I drink they have total
control over all of this open air prison
they don't even say they actually you
know and this is not open air prison but
they say this is an open air
concentration camp because even the
prisoners have certain rights you follow
me that they don't have so this is the
thing where you suppress and you
subjugate a people to this level and
extent it's like you're creating an
atmosphere of hate and you're creating
this atmosphere of resentment because
Muslims don't and you can as a religious
figures substantiate this that we don't
have a history of persecuting Jews
Muslim Jews ran away from persecution to
Muslim lands interestingly I was
speaking to somebody from Morocco
recently and they were talking about the
Spanish Inquisition when the people of
Europe they took over Spain after the
Moors had ruled it and they massacred
the Jews and Muslims and other types of
Christians that they didn't approve of
the Spanish Inquisition is well famous
you can Google it many of the Jews from
Spain they actually went to Morocco and
Algeria and Northern Africa to seek
refuge and they lived there fin finally
very strong and successfully for
Generations till today you know so this
is not about you know Jew and Muslim
it's obviously about oppression of a
people and innocent lives that are being
lost and I think we all agree that you
know innocent lives should be protected
all human life is press of course all
human not just children but yeah
Children Human I mean women I mean men
um even right now as we speak there's
still a genocide going on there's still
bombs being dropped kids that are being
killed hospitals that are being bombed
churches mosques and so on and the world
is watching and not speaking out you
know yes October 7th but what about
every you know now we're into March
almost right and you know everything
that's been going on before that and
since that is what people forget and
again I really appreciate you coming and
making this clarification that you stand
with the people of Palestine and you
stand with the innocent of Israel and
other places and
everybody who's innocent should be
protected regardless and you know I
don't stand usually the terrorist group
yes doesn't matter where they're from
whether IDF or so on doesn't matter if
they're just killing innocent people yes
I'm against that I that's why my father
always said I'm from Brazil but you
never saw me carrying a Brazilian flag
cuz my father said you belong to the
world that's beautiful I've been to
Qatar how' you like it Dubai
Jordan aaban to being all over the place
over there the Middle East and I always
joke I love it I love the food the food
is awesome food is amazing I was just
there myself I was in Dubai sha uh
Kuwait and Doha Qatar and I got to say
the food was amazing yeah but I don't
know like my I agree with my son I don't
know if I can do the Ramadan not eating
for what for how long you don't eat from
the morning sunrise to sunset but for
how long how many days so so no no we
eat every night but but how many days
for one month 29 without eating during
the daytime yes I don't know if I can do
that I can I think you're very dis I can
do it for a couple days you're very
competitive so I'm sure and if you're
doing it for the right reason because if
you're just doing it for yourself but
when you confirm that this is indeed
from the creator of the heavens and the
Earth and you're doing what God wants
you to do you're definitely you'll be on
top of you'll be on top look for a cup I
can spend two days people have said this
how many people have said this zero no
eating for two two and a half days after
that it's like be surprised we'll be
surprised so the thing is you're not
you're not not eating the whole time
because you eat at night right so I'll
tell you what I can tell that you're a
welld disciplined man right to to be at
the level that you were I mean from
grappling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu and so
on you had to discipline yourself you
couldn't eat what you want right I'm
sure if you were just sitting on in a
couch popcorns and ice cream and soas
you wouldn't be in the shape that you
are you'd be in the shape that I am I'm
just kidding right hey I'm on the same
fighting weight okay say for 30 years so
how did you maintain that discipline
there's your key same thing with Ramadan
it's discipline but
Ramadan you guys eat at night right we
do I like my sleeping too sleeping is sp
of my routine over here of
discipline I'll tell you what
I'll skip a couple days let's do this
let's do a day me and you no I can do a
couple days I can go I've been actually
two and a half days without eating at
all oh wow just drinking water that's
amazing that's how disciplined I'll tell
you what let's do this this coming
Ramadan around the 10th 11th of March
we'll start Ramadan me and you will do
one day together I mean I'm going to do
the whole month I can do a couple days I
can do a couple days no problem once you
do that it's after sun sun from sunrise
to Sunset you're going to be straight
nothing water nothing no water no food
no sexual intercourse rise to Sunset
yeah that's it so hold on let's go to a
place with the sunet with this like a
very short
daytime be there for the we're coming to
nor Artic Circle going a couple of hours
I'm not eating and we're good to go y
but I'll tell you um I have a lot of
friends that reverted came back I mean
became Muslims and a lot of them I want
you I want you to before you can out
Define what a Muslim is because a lot of
times people will stigmatize think
Muslim terrorist Muslim Arab Muslim in
the desert riding a camel what is a
Muslim yeah so I think first and
foremost just to be clear Muslim
Palestinian yeah I mean Palestinians and
Hamas right so so Palestinian is is a
nationality many Palestinians are
Christians many many are Muslim many are
of other denominations you know so
that's the nationality Arab is a ethnic
race um less than 4 14% of the Muslim
world today is Arab Palestinian is a
very small percentage but Arab um Muslim
is to submit your will to your creator
the word Muslim comes from the word as
to submit which is the same root word as
peace Salam right Sal this is the if you
go back right so when you submit your
will to your creator and you say you
know my God my Creator knows better than
me it's not my will it's the will of the
Creator like Jesus as we find in the
Bible today uh being quoted that saying
that it's not my will it's the will of
the father right you know what one
important thing what he said earlier he
believes that Jesus was a messenger of
God yes and we have the same Bel correct
right that's what we believe so we have
the same belief that Jesus is not God
Moses is not God Muhammad is not God
peace and blessings be upon them they
are messengers prophets who brought a
message right which is something you
were saying earlier right so that that's
the same belief so as Jesus peace be
upon him he submitted he fasted
right in the Bible right he prayed in
the Bible he put his forehead on the
ground and prayed and when you see us
pray it's the same prayer so as Jesus
fasted as Moses fasted peace and
blessings be upon them the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him um as I was
speaking to you're very intelligent son
who was asking really good questions
earlier right what is the role of
Messengers is to bring that message and
show us an example how to do it right so
I'll tell you this a lot of my friends
that were Christians that were Catholics
that were atheists that were Jewish that
are Muslim today a lot when they heard
about Ramadan they were like o I don't
know about that one right but I tell you
when you fast a couple of days you will
love it so much that for me one of the
saddest times when ramadan's ending my
favorite time of the year is Ramadan I'm
healthier in Ramadan I drink more water
in Ramadan than the rest of the year I'm
horrible about not drinking water but in
Ramadan I'm like I better drink some
water right and I I eat healthier in
Ramadan than I do outside I personally I
lose weight in Ramadan although a lot of
people I have to be honest they gain
weight cuz they you know really enjoy
their food in Ramadan but I'll tell you
this you know when you haven't had food
all day and you haven't had drink all
day that first sip of water that first
bite of food it's the tastiest you
appreciate it and then you remember that
there are people in faas to ghettos that
you know from different areas that don't
have the luxuries we have that you know
people in in Palestine right now in Gaza
that they they they don't have food
because the borders have been shut off
so you feel the pain of others cuz
sometimes as you know you kind of get
caught up in the worldly life you know
and Ramadan kind of brings you back to
your Center like the five time prayers
that we have the same thing you get
caught up in your daily routine money
world you know whatever your test may be
everybody has a different test for some
it may be women for some it may be men
some maybe money it maybe Fame but when
you stand up and you pray it reminds you
that there's is a God that's greater
than you that you have a purpose more
than just what you know making money and
living out your life so Ramadan Hajj as
we were talking about earlier you know
when you go for that pilgrimage to Mecca
and you see people from all different
nationalities and you and you drop those
labels you know because in the world you
see somebody dressed a certain way you
assume certain things about them right
somebody's in a customade suit with a
Rolex and a Ferrari and a Bentley and
all of that you assume they're
successful you see see somebody you know
broke on the side of the street you
assume they're failures you look at
somebody dressed certain way you assume
they're Mexican or they're Pakistani or
so on but when you go there and you see
everybody wearing the same thing two
pieces of white simple cloth nobody's
got a Bentley and nobody's on a bike
eating together Muslim can I go you can
definitely come visit for example Medina
right now there are uh you know some uh
programs that have been set up for
non-muslims to come visit Ramadan in
Ramadan yeah if you want to go to Medina
you can visit Medina right now it's open
minina is a Medina is a city of the
Prophet it's it's next to Mecca what I
see on TV that on on no no this is Mecca
here we're going to have to get you a
special Visa which is the shahada so you
have to be Muslim for that one Mecca is
where Mecca is where the Kaa is where
the you know where the people go around
it what country Saudi Arabia both of
them are in Saudi Arabia Medina both of
them in Saud been Saudi Arabia I haven't
been to if I want to go to Mecca the the
mecca the holy the Haram the the
sanctuary this is could I go to Mecca uh
you could when you're Muslim only for
Muslim yeah yeah Medina I can go without
being Muslim in Medina right now they
have non-muslims that are allowed to
visit yes um but you can Saudi Arabia
obviously how they know if I'm
Muslim they trust you so it's it's on
your word you know but R for example
there's a lot of uh UFC events and stuff
that's going on I heard
now the visa to get in there it's very
simple
it's I bear witness that there's nothing
worthy of worship except the one God the
Creator and Muhammad is the messenger
that's the Visa that's it I mean but
think about it you you already believe
there's one God you don't believe we
should worship idols or you know cows or
anything right you believe that God sent
Messengers like Abraham and Moses and
Jesus and Muhammad you believe they were
Messengers you're Muslim I don't eat
pork I don't drink
us you're there the only thing I cannot
smoke that how do you call that we we we
don't smoke that that how do you call
that the the shisha shisha no no no
don't smoke Shisha please I don't smoke
Shisha shisha is not Halal that's not
the I don't smoke Shisha I don't drink I
don't eat pork that's it so so so you're
Muslim already you have the Muslim
belief I got let my beer gr yeah it
looks good no it's in fad nowadays right
I as a Muslim you don't have to have a
beard it is a waj it's an obligation the
prophet ordered it but the the core of
what makes a Muslim is your belief what
we call a belief right so you as horse
Gracie you believe that there is none
that should be worshiped except one God
yes correct you believe that that God
sent Messengers yes Abraham Moses Jesus
Muhammad you believe they were
Messengers yes that's a Muslim that's
it that is that is I can go to Mecca now
now you can go to Mecca we're going
we're going to we're going to do your
we're going to do the testimony and then
we're going to go to Mecca together
how's that we got to go to Mecca one day
we'll do it in insh insh you already
know that that's excellent yeah earlier
you knowum you
knowum I belong to the world of course
Muslims Muslims are not segregated by
race right we're not we don't claim to
be a Chosen People by ethnicity I'm not
Arab he's not Arab not nobody here is
Arab
right as as a Brazilian is Muslim in the
same respect same line would be a
Chinese Muslim would be a African Muslim
would be a Russian Muslim we have no
segregation in that we believe the only
person who's better is the one that's
more Pious and Allah knows the hearts we
don't know the hearts right whoever is
closer to God whoever is a better person
is superior this we call tawa right we
do not believe in saying okay because
I'm Muslim I'm from a certain country no
like me I'm American that's my passport
right ethnically I'm Pon right but I
don't carry any flag with me right
because like your father told you right
you belong to the world I believe that
all humans are created by the same
Creator I believe the same God that that
sanctioned and sent Abraham as a prophet
that sent Moses as a prophet that sent
David as a prophet that sent Jesus as a
prophet sent Muhammad as a prophet and
when I say their names I say peace be
upon them because I respect and love all
of them
right so you agree that there is none
that should be worshiped except one God
right yes and you agree you testify that
Muhammad is a messenger as Jesus and
Abraham were Messengers yes that's a
Muslim testimony we're going to do it in
Arabic you ready all right say it with
me how you say peace upon God peace be
upon him how do you say that s. wasallam
or you can
sayam perfect your Arabic is good your
pronunciation is good it's said because
I don't have to twist the words it's
very easy for us to learn wonderful you
got to teach me some Brazilian yeah I
speak similar I mean the pronunciations
very the same amazing amazing close this
thing before we shift off and uh I want
to obviously ho um Gracie who's here
with us there is what many people
thought that now he hates Muslims that's
we've closed that door this is something
that you we've clarified we clarified
that
and just against all genocides yeah we
agree you had something with I don't
know much of the politics and presidents
in Brazil and whatnot but I was even
listening to the um one the current
President of Brazil he was also standing
on the side of Palestinians saying this
is a genocide this needs to stop what's
his name Lula Lula did you see his
statements on
this
uh so if this was happening to Jews uh
Muslims would also be against against
this and um I wanted to make this point
because when people saw this PO seeing
an Israeli flag it's what's associated
with it um human rights organizations
like Amnesty International even the
Jewish um human rights organization
they've declared that this is an
apartheid state I know if you know
apartheid state just like South Africa
was at one time so this is why you got
such a backlash that thinking that you
also now a racist like this state is
thinking that you also um are somebody
who supports a part tide who supports
terrorism against innocent human beings
but obviously there's a lot more to imp
package and now um you're getting to see
a bigger picture have you ever got to
hear the other side have you ever sat
like this to hear what's happening from
the other side why there's this this um
what's happening there I did one time I
did a tour it
was Kuwait
Jordan
aaban
Dubai Israel it was like seven eight
counters that I went in the Middle East
so my post was just the Flags in order
of which country I'm going to nice
because I post the Israeli Flags again I
got hate mail from I tell them you guys
are
cousins come on you guys all cousins are
over there why because I pushed the flag
of Israel was like let's say I was going
to um Kuwait to Jordan to aaban to Dubai
to Israel to because I put the Israeli
flag in that order when you flip it was
a picture of each flag and people send
me messages like oh my God I can't
believe you going to Israel talking it's
like why why yeah so I think that's the
that's the key is that when when you
look at for example Kuwait or Qatar or
you know there isn't a a apartheid state
meaning uh for example I was just in
Kuwait right and Kuwait I I it was
wonderful I really had a good experience
and I was sitting with a lot of expa
meaning people that were not from Kuwait
that were living there and I met people
including in in the UAE in the Emirates
that were not Muslim that have moved
from Europe and the US and so on because
they feel that their children have a
better environment to be raised in the
Middle East today than in in the western
world because of all the you know the
nonsense that's being forced on the kids
in schools and I think you know about
all that stuff right um so when you go
there you see that people have a
peaceful life people are not being
driven out of their own home people are
not being killed in the streets and so
on and that's why you don't have that
kind of terrorism and things problems in
those countries uh the problem that we
see right now I'm not just talking about
Gazza but even West Bank and Janine is
when like you were saying earlier uh
military and settlers just come in and
take over somebody's house and you can
see the videos online we understand that
is Israeli soldiers came in this morning
and without any notice without any
invitation came into the apartment and
have been there ever
since I cannot speak with you there's
the soldiers the soldiers yes what are
they doing here we are prison here
what's happening they are keep keeping
here and soldiers upstairs we cannot
move we cannot speak with you you can't
leave the house they told you that yes I
can't breathe how long are they going to
stay I don't know are they paying you
any money you are kidding told us when
the soldiers come they wake everybody up
and her them into a kitchen for hours
while soldiers sleep in their bedrooms
they can't leave or use the phone or let
us in When the Children returned we
caught a glimpse of two armed soldiers
at the top of the stairs or you can see
it in person and just take people out of
their own homes and you know people that
that have lived on a land for
Generations or being taken saying well
biblically it's my land right so I mean
we could say well Moses was Muslim to us
so it's our L you know that's not
something you can argue about so when I
put flags of the counters that I fix I
mean that I go
visit for one side to complain and it's
and I know such small minority I'm not
saying thousands and millions of people
come here no I get about maybe 30 to 40
people that come in and talk trash yeah
we should have visited all those counts
besides this one it's like why yeah and
the way I look at it it's the only way
for me to express and see and talk and
explain what's going on is to visit the
people in person sure I think we need to
do a vza tour coming up for would you
would you ever I mean hope when
everything uh if it open if the
opportunity was to open would you ever
visit Gaza of course yeah I've been to
Israel many times yeah to go across the
border what usually people when they go
to the other side then it kicks in then
they're like wow they see the reality of
what's happening when when you go to
West Bank I don't know if you've been to
West Bank or razza life there is very
different than you will in Tel Aviv
right because the government doesn't
treat the people right I mean for
example when you were in in in occupied
Palestine right now um You you nobody
controlled food going in and out of T
Aviv right but in Gazza it's it's
blocked off right the Israeli government
controls the sea they control the
borders so even food right now children
are starving right so this is why it's
different than qar right where you don't
have that issue going on did you hear
there's a an interesting documentary
they were showing that um the people of
festine a certain area they didn't want
to be dependent now on the milk getting
from the certain um from the Jews there
the zionists so they bought a certain
amount of cows and what this Illustrated
was that now they were producing their
own milk there's a lock of doctors
Engineers so they got people to figure
out how to milk and they started
producing milk and and then what
happened was the the government came and
they were like uh oh this is this is a
problem so now they passed they were
pass some ordinances saying this is a
security
threat they went they went there's a do
they went after the cows now so this is
just one example of milk we're not
talking about just milk the water supply
the electricity so imagine we get pissed
off at someone parks in our
driveway imagine now somebody
controlling you know what you eat you
know your electricity you can see how
you know say someone comes in your home
and throws you in the basement and takes
over your home so this is the root of
the issue it's again not Muslims were
Jews historically this has not been the
case musl Jews and Muslims have lived in
a relative peace even Christians but
this is like you you were this term this
is the zionists who want to go ahead and
take over this whole area and force
people out of their homes 800,000 there
800,000 illegal settlements in the West
Bank and it's constantly happening which
the United Nations and others have
condemned condemned so United Nation
international law condemn I am not a
historian but I heard the other side
again I'm not a historian I don't want
to if you think of it this way right for
example you you own a home right what
you California I think you live in
California Florida now Florida now right
let's say a Native American comes and
says this is now my house would you walk
out no why
not they could tell you that well
exactly so so so that's exactly the
point so when somebody from Germany and
Austria and Poland comes to Palestine
and says this is my home that's exactly
what the Palestinian people exactly what
you said they said prove it cuz we've
been here for Generations well I mean
again no doubt all of the Americas was
at one time owned by the Native
Americans but you bought a house you
live in it your family lives in it it's
not the right for somebody to just come
and take it because they
claim their land right and again I
personally have great empathy for the
people of the Jewish faith that went
through the Holocaust and the horrible
atrocities in World War II but again
that wasn't the Palestinians that was
the Germans I think it would be a great
idea for Germany even today to cut from
Berlin all the way to bond and give it
to the Israeli people to go live no
problem I mean if that's who caused the
genocide they're the one that should pay
for it it just doesn't makes sense that
the issue happens in Europe Hitler and
Germany and the Holocaust and all of
that and then you take land away from a
people that were peacefully living there
the Palestinian people and you give it
to them right that's like me saying you
know um for example I'm I'm from SoCal
from San Diego right we used to have a
lot of gang wars and shootouts and all
that kind of stuff that I lived through
and for me to say I've been through all
that trauma that's at Alaska's mind now
so the people Alaska would be like what
are we got to do with this right yeah
and you and you do I I have um Israeli
friends Jewish friends I've had them on
the program one interesting individuals
Miko pilled his father was a general in
the Israeli Army his great-grandfather
was one of the original signers of the
Declaration of Independence and rabbis
Orthodox rabbis who are also their
humanity is on and they are also people
who come out and speak against this the
killing of innocent life that's
happening now so this is another thing
that people who are out there they can
see that there's Jews voice for peace
and others to substantial this is not a
Jew Muslim thing this is just a human
thing that we God has given us certain
rights and now for someone to come and
say God gave me this land and many of
the people who even started this
movement the Theodore Herz Souls if you
look at it they didn't even believe in
God they you know so they use this as a
pretest excuse to go ahead and justify
this oppression and whatnot and then
this these things that are happening
with Hamas P this this is these are
excuses to go in there and land grab
more so um so I think I think we've made
the issue very I think we're all on the
same page innocent life whether children
should be protected and we stand and
we're going to Mecca and we're going to
Mecca that's it let's let's do this
let's do this all right so so you do
believe there's only one God yes right
you have no problem testifying to that
yes and you believe that Abraham Moses
Jesus Muhammad were all Messengers of
God yes you don't worship any of them
right no okay we're going to do the
testimony I'm going to do it with you
all
right
MB amazing we're going to say it in
English all right I I bear witness I
bear witness there is none worthy of
worship the none wor worship
except one Allah except one Allah and I
bear witness and I bear witness that
Muhammad that Muhammad is a messenger of
Allah it's a message of Allah allahar
Muslim that's it we're going to
Mecca Mecca trip coming up
together thanks it's a
pleasure thank you all right I'm going
to before we end oops I have to tell you
about a form of martial arts you haven't
heard about yeah all right so Brazil you
have BJJ right
bizu uh karate is from Japan right Kung
Fu watching say Wu from China we pashun
have a form of martial arts called ching
ching pow never heard of it huh ching
ching pow I told him you're into
guns hey be careful because he's always
caring he's always SC excellent I told I
told him into he just he that's why he
came over because you went to pick up
what you won yeah nice he just arrived
what is it all right it's in the car
yeah guys amazing we made
history here and we're at at the dean
Center we are officially opening next
week but I got to give them give uh you
a tour soono got to see a tour here at
the dean Center Educational Center and
the mid here Tampa in
Tampa uh with
uh we're going to pray our first prayer
together grae here
we'll see you guys next time until then
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