Are you uh somebody who hates Jews?
Absolutely not. 100%. This an example
how dangerous this kind of rhetoric is.
You know, when they pump people up and
what happened was you had a young boy,
but they're saying commit crimes, right?
They're not going to say this like this,
but this is the indication of what
you're doing. So, they ended up talking
about what was his race instead of
saying what was his religion. It's like
you ask me what's your religion? I'm say
Arab. Yeah. Arab is a race is not my
religion. Right? when you say Jesus was
a Muslim,
you see, u we're coming from a a place
of uh trying to help you and others like
that better understand because it's very
dangerous. Um you know, a lot of this
rhetoric and we had here in Chicago, you
had people listening to this person who
killed a I don't know if you heard back
where you're from, UK, the news here,
well, this is here in Chicago. It's an
example how dangerous this kind of
rhetoric is. you know, when they pump
people up. And what happened was you had
a young boy, Palestinian boy, he got
stabbed like 26 times. And then when
they interviewed the the person who was
his landlord, he said he had been
listening to conservative talk radio. So
this is just one prime example of how
this, you know, this rhetoric this
nonsense is very dangerous. You know,
subh that is the reason uh I made that
response to PPD, the first response that
I made, right? which is the only
response because I don't usually even
give give them the time of the day. But
when you're making so much of a blatant
lie and but the biggest issue I found,
what really made me really uh you know
agitated if you want to use that term
when I when I've seen that clip is what
he was saying. Christians, what are you
going to do? Christians, why are you
Yeah. Like are you are you trying to get
people to become violent? Are you trying
to get people to do incorrect things? Is
that what you're trying to get people to
do? Oh, look, these people are
multiplying. These people are What are
you going to do about it? Well, you
going to stick and you going to be
tolerant? Like, it's essentially saying
be the opposite of tolerant, be
aggressive, be uh violent, commit uh
that's what they're saying, commit
crimes, right? They're not going to say
this like this, but this is the
indication of what you're doing. When
you have an emotional person listening
to you, Yeah. And they did that when it
comes to the when I was responding, it
was the priest incident, you know, that
that what happened. So, in that context,
you have someone who's a Christian who's
attacked in a way. And you're saying,
Christians, what are you going to do?
Christians, what you what are you trying
to say? He uh people flip out when you
say Jesus was a Muslim and they just go
berserk. Uh they can't make the
connection because you know you and
let's go let's get into that real quick.
Defining what Muslim means, the religion
of Abraham, Jesus following that same
religion and and the chronological order
with all the prophets and messengers. It
makes sense because what is he saying?
He said what religion is he? He he he'd
never heard the term Christian, right?
Didn't exist at that time. So it's left
in the air. What religion was he?
Absolutely. And and because Christian
just means to follow Christ and and
that's why that student could not
respond when he asked him what was his
religion. So they ended up talking about
what was his race instead of saying what
was his religion. It's like you ask me
what's your religion? I'm say Arab.
Yeah. Arab is a race is not my religion.
Right. That's a race that where you come
from. It has everyone from every
different belief. That's we can answer
what his religion actually was. We can
answer 100%. Absolutely. 100%. Would you
bet your life on it? 100%. All right.
That's I'll do it right now.
So the thing is this is like the word
Muslim what we say in the Arabic
language if anyone opens any dictionary
in the Arabic language the word Muslim
means submitter. The word Islam means
submission. It comes from the word Islam
the root word in the Arabic language
which means to submit. Submit to what?
To submit to the one God of all the
prophets. The God of Abraham, the God of
Adam, the God of Noah, the God of Moses.
We believe in all of these prophets.
They were Muslims. Meaning they
submitted their will to the one true
God. Even Christians, the Jews will
agree that these prophets submitting to
the one true God. submitted to the one
true cre or they cannot be prophets. So
they have to submit to God because
they're getting revelation from God. We
say that's what it means to be a Muslim
to submit to the one true creator, the
one true God. And we say that Abraham in
which we all agree upon as the Quran
says we all agree on Abraham. We all
believe in Abraham. Abraham could not
have been a Jew or a Christian. There
was no Jesus. There was no Moses. There
was no Juda. There was no Jacob. There
was no Isaac. None of them were in
existence. But Abraham was still a
believer. He was still speaking with
God. He was the friend of God. And
sometimes I say a friend of God, but
then they know God was a trinity because
he never worship a trinity or preach a
trinity. Right? So the friend of God in
the belief of Christians, the person clo
one of the closest people to God. They
say the godfather of the religions or
whatever terms you want to use for him.
What religion was he? He could have been
Christian. He could have been Jew. The
only rational explanation that we can
use is that he submitted his will to the
one true God. He obeyed. He followed the
teachings and commands of God. And these
traditions comes from him and all of the
previous prophets. All of the previous
prophets. And uh Jesus followed him.
Moses followed him. Uh David, Solomon,
all of them followed him. And that's
what it means to be a Muslim. And that's
why Allah in the Quran says to prophet
Muhammad,
follow the way of Abraham, a monotheist
way of Abraham. Same way Abraham Allahel
says to prophetam as well.
Those are the ones that Allah guided
referring to the prophets
with their guidance follow stick follow
the same route as the guidance as these
pre prophet uh pro previous prophets and
messengers. So we believe in all of
these prophets prophets and messengers.
We believe in the teachings that they
came with and we believe they were
Muslims. Since u this can be a sensitive
talk topic to many people I mean you've
um are you uh somebody who hates Jews?
Absolutely not 100%. I don't I we as
Muslims love goodness. We treat
Christians. Allahel says in the Quran,
respond to the verse from the Quran,
which is my belief, right? Allah says in
the Quran, Allah does not forbid you
from those who do not fight you because
of religion. Do not kick you out of your
homes from being just towards them.
Allah loves those who are just. This is
our belief as Muslims. We of course will
dislike the people who are slaughtering
our brothers and sisters. Oppressing our
brothers. We have to be honest, right?
We are not we do not love people who
oppress others. But that does not mean
in any way, shape or form that this is
applicable to people who are innocent.
We see innocent people, we have nothing
against them. We treated them justly. We
treated them fairly. We're good to them
just like they are good to people around
them. And that's why we're talking about
living in harmony in Islamic history.
Right? So I we don't spread messages of
hatred towards communities, towards
groups, whether it is Christians,
whether it is Muslims. The reason we're
talking about these things is first the
other side started talking about the
this false blatant information. We're
responding to it. That's number one. And
number two is we're clarifying the tr
the truth anyways for the people who are
interested to hear because this is an
obligation upon us. So it's not coming
from a place of hatred. And we mentioned
before the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said
I'm the closest ally closest friend of
Jesus son of man. Right? And he said
there's no messenger between me and him
and the the prophets are like cousins.
Right? This is the belief we have. We
love Moses peace be upon him. He's our
messengers maybe the most mentioned by
name if I remember correctly in the
Quran prophet. Right? So these are all
beliefs that we have and we live with
Christians. We've been living with
Christians. I've been living with
Christians almost all my life around
different societies, different
countries, different communities. So, uh
we're not encouraging anyone to do
anything illegal. We're not encouraging
anyone to have hatred towards anyone.
We're talking here purely from a
rational from an intellectual point of
view. This is not a message of hatred.
This is not a message of violence
towards any groups or any minorities or
any people. Rather, it is a message of
truth and advice and genuine care for
the people around us. This is what I
would say. What's the verse in the
Quran? And I would say we coming from I
mean correct me if I'm wrong if you
agree or disagree but I would say you
know I personally coming from you know
because the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him was sent as a mercy to mankind.
Yes. And so if you're coming out from
obviously we hate oppression, we hate
injustice, right? But generally from the
get-go, is it the foundation if it's
mercy? And then what's the verse from
the Quran, the ayah from the Quran where
Allah is telling the prophet Muhammad,
are you going to kill yourself out of um
that that you would like are you going
to kill yourself so they become
believers? This is for example one of
the verses many verses of the Quran like
that. Now is he doing this out of out of
hate or love? No. that that that he was
so much trying everything Allah is
saying you would go to the extent of
like your life is going to go from the
amount of effort that you're trying to
put to get these people to accept Islam
and you know the narration or that he
saw the the Jewish person the his
funeral and the prophetam said this is a
soul that so the companion said why you
standing up yes he said isn't that a
human soul yes yes so so and and and the
the other subhan allah there was a son
of a Jewish person uh who sick with the
prophetam visited them and then The
prophet wasallam said to the son that
accept Islam and then the father who was
a Jewish person said to his son listen
to obey the prophet Muhammad and he did
it. So this was is very interesting.
There was this relationship that was
there between the prophetatam and this
uh you know dealing justly and fairly
but love is a concept that can be
deceiving sometimes and we don't want to
sound uh you know uh like we are
compromising and changing the teachings
of our religion by saying that we love
all Christians, we love all Jews. That's
not the case. We love goodness and love
people who do good. And uh we have even
this concept with Islam. There's a
concept called so alliance and
disassociation. And this is based on the
goodness that is someone even with
Muslims. So I would love a Muslim based
on how much good is in him. And I would
dislike him or dislike the actions that
he's doing based on how much evil that
he's doing. Even a Muslim. We're saying
this is applicable to all human beings,
Muslims, Christian, Jew, whatever it is.
The alliance and love that we put is
based on the goodness that are in these
people in and individuals cannot say say
we love everyone like some Christians
would say like and you start telling
them do you love Hitler do you love this
person oh you know what changed my mind
and remember our brother sne is the last
thing you want to say he was actually
doing his one minute podcast and there
was a Jewish person who sat down with
him and then he's the Jewish person said
to him do you love everyone we love
everyone so sne asked him do you love
Hitler and then he was like you you know
what to say, right? So, so we don't give
confusing messages, incorrect messages
that when you actually start to ask us
questions, we change our position. We
say this is the message what we've been
saying is that we love goodness. We love
people who do good and we do not like
oppression and we try to defend
ourselves. We're not pacifists and and
this is what Islam teaches because if
you really want good for mankind, I
mean, this is something where you're not
there's not like two gangs over here,
right? So we're trying to and at the end
you can accept to reject, right? But you
know that we want good for you.
Absolutely. We want good for the Patrick
Ben Davis, for the Charlie Kirks. At the
end we can agree to disagree, but let
let's have some integrity. Absolutely.
Let's speak the truth. If you really
want to know about Islam, come invite.
Let's talk. We don't have to be on
camera. You ready to go? 100%. We ready
to go? Let's do it. We're here. We're
here. You know, you got my number. Both
of you do. All right. Thank you.