miss Miller rahmanir rahim' al-hamdu
lillahi rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa
salam wanna say the muhammadin wa ala
adios I be a Marine I'm about before we
begin the topic I think it is very
pertinent for for us to mention some of
what's going on in the world today and
some of the thoughts that we should have
the efforts that we should be really
thinking about exerting in this time of
course I'm referring to the crises of
insulting the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa seldom of the movie that came out in
california that was funded by some
Coptic Christians and then they blamed
it on Israeli Jews this was a false
accusation and it just spurred from
there well I much can be said and it is
even possible to give an entire hour and
a half lecture just on this crises and
there's much to criticize on all sides
and Allah subhana WA Ta'ala requires us
to be fair and truthful even if it is
against ourselves Allah says in the
Quran that Yemen oh oh you who believe
kouno committed Allah he sure had that a
big test stand up truthfully for Allah
and for justice even if it be against
yourselves and your relatives and
therefore we do not look at the world in
the simplistic way that many people do
of black and white of whatever we do
must be right whatever they do must be
wrong rather the world as I have said
many many times is not black and white
it is multicolored it is multifaceted
and there is no doubt that what our
brothers and sisters did will primarily
brothers with other ones are going to be
doing this what our brothers did across
the world of storming compounds and
embassies and causing innocent blood to
be shed there is no question that this
is unassuming it contradicts the tenets
of our religion and there's simply no
ifs ands or buts about it
that what they did was wrong and we are
very very saddened that our Muslim
population can be so easily provoked can
simply be baited so easily that all they
need to do is just to dangle any bait
and they will immediately go and show
their violence and their anger honestly
in the most foolish form what has the
can embassy got to do with this movie
what has the Ambassador got to do with
this movie
what has this country got to do with one
of its 350 million citizens what has
that got to do if the president said
something it was an official stance at
least we can I'm not justifying at least
we understand why you get angry at an
embassy but merely because somebody in
America did it and of course living in
America all of us here on the same page
so we don't have to go too deeply into
this but some people might be watching
that or not in these lands where they
have other perspectives and we want to
be very clear that what we're
criticizing we're criticizing not
because we're in America not because our
citizenship is American but because our
prophet sallallaahu them said and this
is a hadith ambassadors are not killed
rosula talk tell this is a hadith that
the ambassadors are not killed it
doesn't matter how angry you are well
law even if a country declares war
against a Muslim country the ambassador
of that country cannot be harmed you can
return him back home you can say get out
of here but you cannot lay a finger on
the ambassador said this is our Sharia
and it is also the law of the world it
is the way that the United Nations and
all worlds function and all legal
systems that the ambassadors the
representatives the diplomats are not
killed and this is something that enough
unfortunately these people may allah
azzawajal forgive them in US in their
anger in their extremism they simply do
not even see beyond their emotions and
they simply want to do anything and they
think this is going to defend the
prophet sallallaahu idea he would sell
them so there's no doubt we are critical
of this also and this needs to be said
that we I am critical of the people who
did what they did in terms of violence
they could have protested peacefully and
of course there's not a problem at all
I'm also critical of another group of
people and not the protesters I'm
critical of another group of people
perhaps even more critical at them and
those are people that I share a lot in
common with because they are also
students of knowledge and scholars and
our ulema and I mean by this those
scholars who when they found this movie
they popularized it and they distributed
it and they had entire television shows
about broadcasting this movie on
national television this movie was not
produced one week ago it was produced
four or five months
just like the Danish cartoon
controversies that when it happened it
was not even a bubble does not even a
drop nobody none of you and myself and I
am very well connected to what's going
on in in the North American circle on so
many blogs I know what's going on none
of us heard of a whisper of this movie
until when did we hear of it
some Muslims found it and perhaps from
what I understand this is rumor now but
perhaps it is a dispute between the
Coptic community and the Muslim
community of Egypt they have a lot of
tension and so amongst this community it
was spread that some Coptic Christian
has done this and so some scholars in
Egypt they found this movie and they
broadcast on national Egyptian
television they broadcast entire clips
of this movie
and subhanAllah Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
says in the Quran that when you heard of
such a thing when you heard of something
bad it was of course about the slander
of Aisha right I'm not comparing this to
that I'm comparing one point Allah
saying why didn't you just be quiet
about it why did you have to go tell
others about it right when you hear
something that's all going to be no
benefit and no doubt I'm not comparing a
stuff for Allah nobody misquote me that
I'm comparing this land or show what
these people did of course not but I'm
saying there's a sense in our Shetty eye
that you don't publicize evil when it's
gonna not be bring any benefit and Allah
says in the Quran that Allah follow
Allah
lalamon with Istanbul tolima who ladina
yes 10 built on a home income what's the
higher right before it what's the phrase
right before it what I would do who in
Allah he will avoid Allah so Allah will
Amram in whom that if this issue now
this is about another issue that
happened in the past if they let this
issue go back to Allah and His Messenger
and to the people in charge they would
have been able to extract something to
deal with it now this is about another
fitna that took place in the time of the
Prophet SAS Allah and Allah said that
they should have gone to people in
authority
instead of sensationalizing in amongst
the masses and there's another evidence
for this in the hill a formidable kebab
that a serious issue happened in his
laugher and he was in an expedition and
he was gonna stand up and address the
issue publicly one of the Sahaba said Oh
Amir al-mumineen
in this gathering or munafa kun are
hypocrites are evil people and righteous
people all mixed together why don't you
wait till we get back to Medina where
you will be amongst a much more secure
group and you call the people of halal
Headley will act the senior people and
then discuss it amongst them and so I'm
gonna agree to this hadith is in Bukhari
I'm gonna agree to this and he went back
to Medina and then he raised the issue
with the senior people will lie he
brothers and sisters and I say this very
bluntly and I know it's gonna get me
into trouble
I wonder about the intention of those
people who bring attention to this movie
what is their intention
I wonder I'm not accusing them Allah
knows their heart but why would you take
an obscure movie that nobody has ever
heard about and put it on national
television
well I he why would you do this and we
have to ask this question what did you
gain by doing this nobody had heard they
say that this movie was produced in
California they rented out a theater
this year there was empty nobody wanted
to watch it for free that's how bad it
was nobody wanted to come had we the
Muslim community been quiet about this
movie nothing would have happened this
isn't the first time our prophet system
has been smeared and we respond to those
smears each one according to its level
yes if the smear is public we go public
but if the smear is in the privacy of
one's home or one's theater if we bring
attention to the world rather than
trying to solve it behind the scenes
Allah he wears our own wisdom in this so
I am critical of the mobs but I'm even
more critical of the Muslim leaders the
clerics the ulama
who popularized this movie and made it a
worldwide issue and the exact same thing
happened with the Danish cartoons by the
way that three four months after the
cartoons came out after numerous
attempts by the Muslim community to
instigate it and to make it a bigger
deal than it was then it became a
national attention and wisdom dictates
that you deal with it at a local level
it's a local problem deal with it at a
local level right so this is my
criticism to my fellow
Muslims may Allah forgive them and me of
course there's no doubt much can be said
about those who made the movie much can
be said about this and we can go on and
on the people who made it clearly they
have an agenda there is a particular
coptic priest in california fathers that
korea is his name and he has a website
as well
he is the main brains they say that is
preaching this type of doctrine and one
of the people in his parish one of the
people in his church is this sam the
hoodie guy of course his name is not
sandwiches what's his name again i
Bakula what is it Nicholai Nicholai
whatever nikolay monsieur i mean i don't
know how to pronounce it so I mean what
his name is now no his name is now known
this is the person who produced it and
financed it and I mean firstly of course
for us as Muslims it is not allowed
really to watch these things unless
there's a reason to do so I must confess
that I did watch portions of it so that
when I speak I speak upon knowledge and
not that I have heard someone like
myself perhaps may Allah forgive me but
I need to see what it is in order to
speak upon Vasya and upon him but I tell
all of you do not waste your time even
to watch this well llahi it was so
disgusting I could not watch more than 3
minutes as Allah is my witness it was
just so vile
there is no artistic merit whatsoever it
is nothing but it is actually semi
pornographic it is disgusting filthy I
could not believe this is clearly
intended to provoke that really was what
the point is right there is no I mean
well like if you wanted to convert the
Muslims you would produce a fancy movie
with a beautiful script a gentle you
know theology of Christianity and people
can do that right and well why we would
not have been anywhere near as offended
right but this movie the persons in
Egyptian and he knows martial it's about
Accola Egyptian blood martial it's about
a cola right and he knows all he needs
to do to provoke that response right and
he knew exactly what he is doing this is
an intended response he knew exactly
perhaps he didn't expect it to go this
bad but he knew it would provoke
he wanted to provoke and this is what
has happened that he baited and the
Muslims fell for it so we can criticize
this and as I have quoted on my Facebook
page that were in a between a rock and a
hard stone here that the fact of the
matter is the first amendment of this
country does guarantee ultimate freedom
of speech with caveats as I said there's
in my facebook page there's no such
thing as unconditional freedom of speech
and subhanAllah it is as if Allah Azza
WA JAL wanted to demonstrate the
hypocrisy of those who are clamoring for
freedom of speech with a number of
incidents that are taking place within
this week right immediately after this
was the issue of Princess Kate and the
photographs that were taken right that
so many people are saying oh this is
indecent you have in verse this is not
appropriate for the royal family that
this is shown and no very few people are
saying well this is freedom of speech
here why can't we show these pictures
right why can't we show offensive images
this is a picture right and another
thing that happened was the yesterday or
two days ago the Supreme Court of
California or sorry the governor of
California the Governor of California
signed a bill that limited that Westboro
Church which is the one that's
petitioning petitioning soldiers when
they come back funerals of dead soldiers
when they come back and funerals are
held Westboro Church is well known that
they actually drive in they take a bus
they drive in whatever it is and they
will have placards and signs outside of
the burial of the military servicemen
and they will say very filthy and nasty
things that you guys deserve this
because you're such an immoral Society
and God hates homosexuals and this is
why he's dead yeah they are a little bit
crazy people they're putting all of
these things in and nobody I mean I'm
not different about them you know
supporting them at all they literally
are a little bit fringe and lunatic but
they were never violent they're never
carrying a gun
they never there's no question they're
not physically threatening the people is
just a placard and sign right and the
reaction for the last four or five years
has been one of a Turk contempt for
these people you watch clips on Fox News
about these people right and what lies
as if they want to kill them like how
dare they and this
that and just this week the governor of
California has banned them from being
within a few hundred feet of the of the
funeral so nobody who attends the
funeral will see the placards you can go
in a thousand feet or something away you
can have the sign nobody in the church
will see them why because they are
offensive not because they're militant
not because they're terrorists because
their message is offend so we can point
out as much as we want that there are
issues of double standards right not
even to begin the issue of Muslims who
has said things that are dubious in
nature but there's no actual militancy
and they have gone to jail for twenty
five thirty five forty five years many
people that I know are sitting in jail
merely for saying things that the
government deemed to be inappropriate
there was no charges against them of
military there's no charges against gun
there's no charge
no it's what they said in this sensitive
time that they supported one side over
another and so in this sensitive time of
paranoia simply because they said things
that the government feels is in sin jury
is militant as jihadist they are put
into jail for twenty five thirty five
lifetime sentences right so we have to
be very clear here no doubt the First
Amendment is there at the same time
interpreting it has always been the whim
and fancy of the current pulse of the
nation right and at the current pulse
and the current climate of England those
photos should not be published and they
won the court case in France isn't it
ironic France has just said they will
release cartoons against the process of
them but the same week and the same days
that they said this right iliza we just
showed them that know not all images are
the same in your eyes right that the
French judge has ruled that those
pictures of Princess Kate are illegal
and anybody who publishes them will be
fined and it is van to do so and the
same week or day they release that we
were going to get images against the
professor right so no doubt there are
lawyers who are going to find their way
out and say oh this is this this is that
and I'm not saying it's exactly the same
I'm not saying that but I'm saying
common sense shows us there is no such
thing as unconditional freedom of speech
right nonetheless the caveat is that
okay there's no such thing as ultimate
freedom speech but still it is the First
Amendment
allows us to be who we are in this
country truth is the truth and we have
to be very clear here that if we were to
ask for the banning of hate speech then
it is very clear that people who don't
like us would come after us and say your
Horan says this and your Quran says that
let's bend your Quran right so we're in
between a rock and a hard stone that we
are taking advantage of the First
Amendment because we are not mainstream
America in our beliefs many
fundamentalist Christians would want to
ban us but they can't do it because we
do have the First Amendment by and large
right so we have to understand this that
for better or for worse we cannot call
for the banning of free speech however
what we are calling for and I have given
this a longer talk which you will find
on YouTube defending the process of
against criticism which I gave after the
Danish cartoon controversy in 2010 I
have an hour and half lecture or
something about this you can look it up
there sorry an hour lecture with Q&A
that my main point was we're not calling
for the banning of this speech we're
calling for the moral policing of this
speech and the difference there's a
difference between the two at least for
me and I'm very clear here I am NOT
saying that this type of speech should
be banned in America in fact that's
shooting ourselves in the foot because
it's the same freedom that allows us to
be Muslim and it's not going to happen
no matter how much you clamor they're
not gonna change laws about religions
they make fun of Scientology and
Mormonism and it's not everything they
make fun of everything and believe it or
not many fundamentalist Christians feel
they are much more persecuted than us I
know this sounds strange for many of us
in this Masjid but we'll llahi many
fundamentalist Christians think you guys
have it lucky us we have it lucky why
because when the pastor burns the Koran
the president has to say I disagree with
this whereas when the CEO of chick-fil-a
makes that statement about homosexuals
right then nobody says anything whereas
if a person is fired because of a
Christian belief nobody says anything so
Christian fundamentalism even believe it
or not they actually think we have it
better
people can get away with criticizing
Christianity but they cannot get it with
criticizing Islam you see from their
perspective I know this sounds surreal
to us and I and I had a little bit of an
internet debate with a evangelical back
and forth and I told them look maybe you
might be writing some things but you're
forgetting one thing
there are times where we fear for our
lives during a normal bond I said we had
an armed guard outside our Masjid you
guys never have an armed guard inside
your church we worry if there's another
out Oakland another attack we worried
somebody's gonna come to our house and
get rid of us
you don't worry about something like
that for your children sure you might be
ridiculed I agree you might be ridiculed
in ways that we are not because but
because you are a majority right when
we're a minority there are sensitivities
that are not applicable to you you're
the same ethnicity you're the same race
you're the same skin color as the bulk
of America making fun of you is not
gonna bring about a foreign crises right
we're as Muslims is not exactly that
case so I do understand from your
perspective as telling him but you have
to understand as well that the stakes
are very different in any case getting
back to this issue and then we conclude
so no doubt the person in charge of this
movie any much is worthy of criticism
however Islamically we have to be very
clear here and I do not mince my words
here whatever his verdict might be in an
Islamic state whatever it might be we
cannot implement that verdict here in
America the Sharia does not allow us to
take the law into our own hands and
according to all the books affect the
job of the Haditha and only the halifa
is to take care of the who dude who do
the punishments this is the role of the
Haditha so whatever the role might be of
the halifa I cannot as the person in
this community just decide to implement
what the ha'la'tha is doing for else
you're going to open up a whole can of
worms and therefore as Muslim minorities
in these lands we need to be very
explicit here that these types of people
we are obliged to cut off from them
financially politically socially we
should have nothing to do with them
we should have an anger and hatred
towards them there's no doubt about that
but in terms of physical harm nothing
absolutely nothing we are not allowed to
touch a hair on his head because this is
not the land where Islamic laws are
applied so we leave this to allah azza
wajal and Allah will deal with this
person in this world before the next
before the next and this leads me to my
final point before we start our talk for
today and that is subhanAllah brothers
and sisters Allah Azza WA JAL himself
has said what a phenolic addict Rock
Allah has said that your makan has been
raised up allah azza wajal says in cafe
knuckle mu stands in we are enough to
deal with those who make fun of you I
will take care of them in naka FINA you
don't worry about them I will take care
of them
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says in ishani
akka cool a baton in national Kahoot and
a baton
there anybody who hates you he will be
the one who will be completely cut off
from all good so Allah has taken charge
of defending the honor of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam Allah says in
the Quran well pardon an ammonia leak
Osaka be my opponent
we know Yaris will Allah that your heart
hurts because of what they say span
Allah our Lord is consoling our Prophet
Muhammad SAW Sodom we know that it's
painful what they say we know that it's
difficult to hear what they say what
advice did Allah give the profitsystem
take her sword out and kill them going
mobs and spilt and spread blood
what did Allah say what's the next verse
where dr. dena ala moana que la cosa de
cámara de una vez a baby Hammond arabica
become - arginine why Buddha Rebecca
heterotic a yapping when they start
ridiculing and cursing you or should you
do you say subhanAllah subtopic welcome
- I didn't increase your sadness because
that's how you will increase your honor
in the eyes of Allah by drawing closer
to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala when they
increase their sub and their Shetty and
their time what should you do increase
your subhanAllah face a big and Arabic
increase your
such does and increase your Avada why
boudoir back Hetalia tak you're clean
until you clean Death Comes to you and
our prophecies and himself is being told
this how about me and you well lie those
people that were demonstrating on the
streets confide your time where will
they be comfort your time where will
they be this is a question we need to
ask ourselves where is that love that
they claim for the prophets as and when
it comes in their own daily lives
brothers and sisters the best way to
defend the honor of the prophets asylum
is to act like him and I wondered are we
in this mess you that we all know but
Allah it's amazing how so many Muslims
and not just those living overseas even
some Muslims here yeah you look at my
Facebook page and there are some people
going so they cannot see beyond the
black and white that if you dare
criticize fellow Muslims they think that
you're out of Islam when a sellout this
and that yeah Andy these people are not
thinking rationally they're thinking
emotionally we are against the mobs
we're a million times against those who
make fun of the prophecies and there's
no comparison we are very saddened by
what they have done to shed the blood of
innocent people there's no question
about it
but the punishment of those who made
this movie is infinitely more in the
eyes of Allah there's no question about
that either and so when we criticize the
one it doesn't mean we are supporting
the other each one deserves a criticism
and no doubt you know when somebody in
your own own household does something
you feel more anger when your son back
bites when your son is but Tamizh is
rude you feel much more pain than when a
stranger is rude correct so these are
our fellow Muslims we know what
motivated them was deep down inside love
for us who lost a son and we know this
but when they did what they did it hurts
us even more because they should know
better because every time somebody comes
and provokes they're gonna act like this
it's like a cycle it's like a cycle that
every time somebody comes the one of the
Imams of France one of the the Imam of
the main mosque of France Imam Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr was his name he said that
Muslims need to stop reacting like
Pavlov's dogs Pavlov's dogs you know the
incident of Pavel of the famous Soviet
scientists that he conditioned the dogs
so that every time
saw something they would start
salivating so in so we need to stop
reacting like this that every time we
see something we're gonna do something
it's ridiculous really we need to be
critical of the Muslims and of course no
doubt because there are fellow Muslims
we feel more hurt we expect to the
enemies of Islam to do what they're
doing right what more do you expect from
this priest and from this person who
history his history is very clear he's
already scammed the government he went
to jail the guy had to pay a million
dollars in fines he's already that's his
background he's already said statements
about Islam what did you expect from him
other than this right so no doubt when
we criticize the one we're not defending
the other I think it's very clear that
our goal of course is to emulate the
Prophet SAW senem the problem comes
subhanAllah anyhow for how long can you
continue to battle these stereotypes
amongst Muslims when every time
something like this happens you have
seen the cover of Newsweek magazine
right the which is itself causing a
scandal if you have not seen it go see
is the typical stereotypical cover that
they have of angry Muslim mobs so much
anger is in their eyes that will llahi
if their anger had any power on a
photograph Newsweek would burnt just
like this you know if the anger of their
eyes could actually have an impact you
could not stare at it you yourself would
fall down and the Harlem a you ten or
something you know they found they find
these people I don't know where Wright
and Hollis this is now the cover of
Newsweek and who will be commenting to
solve the problems of the world ayaan
Hirsi Ali the most famous murdered in
modern times who is even more famous
than snot Margie now she has the cover
article of Newsweek magazine that Muslim
rage and how we're going to solve it so
no doubt Annie what are we going to do
other than as Allah says in the Quran
when you hear them do this you increase
your relationship with Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala responded with wisdom and wah
Marlena Allah Allah Mabini