This is over a thousand years of mothers
teaching their children grow up and kill
Jews. Grow up and kill Jews.
>> How are you doing for me?
>> Thank you. Thank you for coming in.
We're getting straight into it. You see,
uh, this is beyond fiction. I mean,
fairy tales. What do you call this?
>> I call this incredible right-wing
propaganda. Incredible Israeli
multi-billion dollar PR propaganda. And
also desperation. desperation in this
idea that now you have people screaming
down the microphone saying that we
shouldn't play nice guy anymore. But why
are they saying it? They are saying it
because they are responding to a
phenomenon that is unfolding which is
what I call the great awakening which is
that people are finally beginning to see
the cause for what it is which is an
apartheid settler project against the
Palestinians. And now there is this
hysteria because that sounds hysterical.
There is this hysteria that is emerging
which is calling on people not to
believe the Palestinian narratives that
for the first time have finally broken
through Israel's chokeold over the
monopoly. I know that sometimes people
when they hear this kind of thing they
think you know oh this is the reaction
is going to be really bad and this shows
that things are becoming dangerous or
the like. Part of that might be true,
but it's also important to note that the
widespread message, the widespread
messaging of messages such as this is a
reaction to what they perceive to be a
threat. And the threat they perceive to
be here is not a military threat from
Gaza or the Palestinians. It's the
threat that after 75 years of portraying
the Palestinians as barbaric and
inhuman, the world is beginning to see
them as humans, as mothers, as fathers,
as the grandfather who has the beard,
where for years Hollywood kept
presenting anybody with a beard as
somebody associated with radicalism.
People saw a viral video where a man in
the beard dressed in Muslim attire is
holding his dead granddaughter and says,
"The spirit, the soul of my soul,
They are seeing this and they are human.
These videos are humanizing the
Palestinians in a way that is provoking
that sort of hysteria. And that's why,
as you said, they're going beyond
fiction in order to try to create
multiple narratives in a desperate
attempt to dehumanize the Palestinians
after failing in previous attempts with
the stories of beheaded babies, with the
apparent stories of rape, with the
apparent mistreatment of the hostages or
like all of which have since been
debunked.
>> You being a practicing Muslim obviously
tell us uh what does Islam is this part
of the teach because you said for over a
thousand years, Muslim mothers have been
taught to just hate Jews. Is this part
of the Islamic teaching just to hate
Jews because they're Jews?
>> I think that when it comes to this
particular propaganda and messaging,
it's important to note that those who
say this are very much detached from
history. And the reason why I say that
they are detached from their own
history. And the reason why I say this
in particular is that it's true that as
Muslims, it's very easy to debunk this.
But it's important to highlight that
even in non-Muslim literature, there is
a resounding consensus that the only
example of real coexistence between the
religions based on justice and harmony
has only ever truly existed in its
objective form in Muslim history. It was
Muslim and delusia that was the
considered the epitome of coexistence
between Muslims, Jews and Christians. So
much so that when you look at the rate
of conversions from Judaism to Islam
under Andalooia, they weren't as fast as
Christianity because the Jews found a
haven within Muslim rule whereby Allah
subhana wa ta'ala in the Quran allowed
them to operate within their own laws,
within their own societies inside the
Muslim state. This was something
ordained by Allah subhana wa ta'ala
himself. When Isabella kicked out the
Muslims from Spain and the Jews, the
Jews found haven not in Christian Europe
which had which had brutalized them. Not
in white supremacist anti-semitic
Europe. They went to the Muslims because
they knew the Muslim tradition
encouraged the coexistence between the
religions in a way that
Judeo-Christianity does not. Even when
you look Eddie, the only country, the
only city in Europe that has the
nickname the Jerusalem of Europe and
before I go into Jerusalem of Europe,
why is it called Jerusalem? It's because
Jerusalem in Christian literature, in
Western literature, Jerusalem is
considered a place of the coexistence of
religions. But why is it considered the
place of coexistence? It's because the
Muslims ruled Jerusalem in such a way
that
brought back the
brought back the Jews to live in
Jerusalem after they had been kicked out
by the Christians and established a
system of coexistence that became such a
model of practice that Jerusalem as an
ideal became what people used to
describe as the ideal form of
coexistence. And the only city in
Europe, Eddie, and you will know this as
well because you are from this country
where this city is the only city in
Europe that's called the Jerusalem of
Europe. The Jerusalem being a reference
that this is the only city in Europe
that the westerns like to argue is a
place where coexistence works is Savo of
Bosnia. And Savo became this Jerusalem
of Europe by their own recognition. The
reason why I avoided the Islamic text is
because the non we're talking
non-Muslims. They say it I'm saying even
in the non-Muslim literature they call
SVO the Jerusalem of Europe on the basis
that when the Muslims ruled SVO you see
the synagogue you see the church and the
masjid because the Muslims believed it
was incumbent upon them to facilitate
that coexistence in a way that
anti-semitic Europe never did and it's
important to stress here that despite
that idea that that even beyond the idea
of Jerusalem of Europe it's important
for us to be very blunt as well with
regard with regards to the tragedies and
the horrific atrocities that were
committed. We should be blunt and we
should acknowledge them that it was the
Europeans, the anti-semitic Europeans
that gassed the that gassed the Jews. It
was the anti-semitic Europeans that put
the Jews under the Holocaust. It was the
anti-semitic white supremacists that
kicked out the Jews and massacred them
in Spain. It was the anti-semitic
Europeans that did the pilgrims in
Warsaw in Poland that massacred the Jews
for no other reason than they were Jews.
It was the anti-semitic white
supremacist Europeans who came up with
the Balfor declaration which was not
supposed to be a gift of Palestine to
the Jews so much as an attempt to kick
out in their words the alien Jews from
our society in the words of the Daily
Mail. And it's very interesting that
when the Balfor Declaration was
announced, it was a Jewish the only
Jewish member of parliament who stood up
and said it's outrageous for you to try
to kick us out of the UK on the basis of
anti-semitism that you believe somehow
we don't belong here. Even in their own
literature, Eddie, even in their own
literature, they acknowledge that they
taught their children hate. We taught
our children love. They taught their
children to commit atrocities. We taught
our children to build havens. They
taught their children to massacre Jews.
We taught our children to give sanctuary
to the Jews. And that's why only
somebody detached from history comes to
those very outrageous conclusions.
>> This is deep. I mean, anybody. So, it
wasn't Muslims didn't have this kind of
problem. You mentioned everybody but the
Muslims. Muslims are welcoming Jews. I
want to build this framework, this
foundation so we can clear up any doubt
that anybody has. Anyone does a little
bit of homework, looks into the history,
they're going to come up with what you
just mentioned here. This uh it's
interesting in SO mentioned SVO that the
when the Muslims there at that time,
they were actually I interviewed some
some people in Bosnia, they were saying
how they were um hiding the Jews in the
to to protect them. um in the cab or in
the Islamic dress. Is that
>> Yes. Yes. During the World War II, the
Muslims and the Bosnjaks people in SONA
are protecting the Jews wearing the
nikab especially nikab.
>> Muslims would put this on the Jews.
>> This way the helping to not kill
>> to hide the the hide in his house.
>> So so the Nazis wouldn't kill them.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. to protect
>> protect them the Jews from the Nazis.
>> This is deep.
>> No, it's but it's true. And also the
Ottoman Empire sent ships to rescue Jews
from Spain. Like we're not talking about
the Jews turned up on the shores and we
said, "Oh, okay. You know, let's take
them in." No. The Muslims proactively
went out to rescue the Jews from
anti-semitic white supremacist Europe.
Even those pictures of the Jews from
Europe who are coming to Palestine after
the Holocaust, after the brutality of
what Europe did to them, they unfell the
banners, please don't do to us what the
Europeans did to us, what the
anti-semitic white supremacist Europeans
did to us. And that's why I find it
fascinating that what white supremacist
Europe tends to do, the white
supremacists, is they try to reflect
their atrocities or impose them on
others in that they were anti-semitic.
So they accuse others of being
anti-semitic. Everything they did they
are trying to accuse the Muslims of
doing. And the reason why Muslims are so
baffled by it is because the Muslims
look at their own rich tradition in
history and they say yo guy we did it
already. We even today in the
universities when they study coexistence
and is the number one example they all
use. Savvo is one of the top examples
that they use. They struggle to find a
single European city where they can
legitimately argue that there was
harmony between the different religions
because white supremacist Europe didn't
believe in coexistence. They believed in
subjugation. They believed in massacres.
Even in the Hollywood films Eddie, even
in the Hollywood films, I don't know if
anybody has seen the film Kingdom of
Heaven with Orlando Bloom where they
talk about Salah and they they try to
paint Orlando Bloom as Balein as some
sort of hero. And there's a scene right
at the end where Balian says, "Okay, I
will surrender the city." But how do I
know that you won't do to the Christians
be you won't massacre the Christians?
Because Balon is aware that when the
Christians took Jerusalem, they
massacred 70,000 of the population.
Muslims and Jews. And he says, "How do I
know you won't do that to the population
in there?" And Salah goes, "Because I am
Salah. I'm not you. You're not my
teacher." And that's why I think it's
fascinating that even in the Quran when
Allah subhana wa ta'ala talks about the
dawa, he says,
"I is there any better speech than the
one who calls to Allah and does good
deeds and says, I am from the Muslim."
We tend to forget that the next gives
context to that which is
the good deed and the bad deed are not
equal. They are anti-semmites. We are
that doesn't make us anti-semmites. They
are Islamophobic that doesn't make us
racist. They are racist that doesn't
make us in other words just because they
do vile atrocities. We've never taken
them as our teachers in the way that we
treat the Jews. We never and the reason
why these cities existed and SVO and
these other places where the Jews were
able to live in the same era in which
the Jews were being persecuted by white
supremacist anti-semitic Europe. The
reason why these cities were able to
exist is because the Muslims even in
those environments never took them to be
the teachers. They took Allah subhana wa
ta'ala where he says in the Quran
conduct yourself in that which is best
for it may be the one who is an enemy
today tomorrow becomes your warmest ally
and we are seeing it today one of the
things that they find these white
supremacists and those Zionists the
reason they are struggling so much Eddie
is because they are seeing that as a
result of the of the Muslim and the da
of the Muslims one more and more people
are entering Islam but two more and more
allies are aligning ing themselves with
Muslim causes. Eddie, you saw the Jewish
cousins do the sitting in the Congress
demanding a ceasefire. You've been to
protest before. You've seen the Jews
join us and say, "We stand against this
ceasefire." They're doing it because of
the da the Muslims are giving and also
because those particular Jews know their
history. They know that historically
there's never really been a problem
between the Jews and the Muslims in so
far as the Muslims living side by side
with the Jews. And to finish on this
point, anybody who opens the book Road
to Mecca by Muhammad Assad. Muhammad
Assad writes at a time before Israel is
established. Muhammad Assad says that in
Palestine where he was living, the Jews
and the Muslims live side by side in
complete harmony. But these the influx
of Europeans coming in particularly
Europeans coming in are agitating and
causing a rift in society that is
exacerbating these differences because
they refuse to engage with the society
and look down on the Jews who support
the coexistence. And the reason why I
want to finish on this particular point
on this topic is to highlight that
Zionism in its essence was always about
ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was
something that was so disgusted by the
Islamic principle of respect and
coexistence. They were so disgusted that
Islam called for respect of it was so
disgusted that Islam would uphold a
system of justice whereby
the fourth Khalifa of Islam would go to
a court case and he would be against the
Jew and they would be arguing over a
plot of land or the like and the judge
would would give a ruling in favor of
the Jew and then look at and say, "Yeah,
you look upset with the judgment." And
would say, "No, judge. I'm not upset
with the judgment. I'm upset that you
called me Abel Hassan, but didn't call
him with a you honored me by calling me
by. If you use Ka on me, use CO on him.
If you will call me Abu Hassan, you call
me Abu on his son to elevate him in
status." To show you how Islam even in
something as the title with which you
address the Jew, is something that Islam
demands that you uphold justice in. The
Zionists were disgusted that Islam
respected the Jew. So they wanted to
dehumanize the Muslim to try to convince
the world that somehow we're the ones
who are the ones who oppressing the
Jews. And you have a lot of academics.
You have a lot of um historians, Jewish
historians who also go ahead and are
honest and they come out and say Islam
saved the jury. I want to take it back
to the last and final message sent to
mankind, Prophet Muhammad peace and
blessings be upon him. Did he at at his
time
have the ability if he wanted to if
Muslims were really against Jews to
annihilate Jews at that time? Did he
have the power if he wanted to? The
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam when he enters Medina he's
aware there's a large Jewish population.
He's aware that Khazar is the largest
tribes have given him allegiance. And
he's aware that the Jews have a
sensitivity towards a man who's just
turned up at the gates claiming to be a
prophet of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
bringing a religion that they fear will
supplant their religion. They fear that
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
about to bring about revolutionary
change in Medina that might result in an
existential crisis against the Jews.
answering your question. They believed
that an existential crisis primarily
because his message was resonating with
the two main powers in Medina and that
these two main powers who had been
waring for generations, fighting and
killing each other for generations
suddenly laid down their arms over the
as a result of the message of this man,
an orphan, illiterate orphan who had
come from Mecca and they had offered him
sanctuary. The Jews were concerned what
this message would mean for them. The
prophet Muhammad sallallah.aii wasallam
goes to them and says, "Let us establish
the pact of Medina whereby if somebody
attacks you, we promise to defend you.
If somebody oppresses you, we promise to
defend you. If somebody comes after and
violates you, we swear before Allah
subhanana wa ta'ala, we will fight with
you to the end for your rights even
though you are Jewish and we are
Muslims." but from Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam with the messenger from
Allah himself doesn't say accept Islam
or I will slaughter you doesn't say
accept Zionism or I will massacre you
doesn't say accept my message or I will
eradicate you and commit genocide and
ethnic cleansing and turf you from your
homes the way the Zionists are doing to
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam says your homes are yours your
lands are yours your society is yours
your laws are yours your customs are
yours and we swear to protect it on the
basis of this pact of Medina and you
will promise to protect us when our
rights are violated. And the Jews were
so surprised by it. Then the hypocrites
were so horrified by it because the
hypocrites hoped that they could cause a
division between the Jews and the
Muslims. And they were so stunned that
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam had ruined their plan with
kindness. that he had ruined their plan
with an injunction in Islam that imposed
upon us an obligation to show respect
and uphold the rights of the Jews even
though they are not Muslim. The
hypocrites believe that we have a mantra
like the Zionists where we should be
massacring those who disagree with us.
They were shocked that Allah subhana wa
ta'ala was telling his prophet don't
force them into the religion. Convince
them
convince them
debate with them in that which is best.
Say to my believers that do that which
is best.
The best speech is the one who calls to
Allah, not the one who kills in order
for them. They were stunned that this
man was coming in subverting all the
traditions and customs of the people who
came before him where they would be
violent in imposing their views. They
wanted Islam to be a religion that
imposes itself by force. They were
shocked to find that the prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
coming in and winning their hearts. So
much so that many of the Jews entered
Islam on the basis they thought our
religion doesn't call on us for this.
Our religion talks about Amalech how we
should massacre you know women and
children and the like. Even when people
talk about and the betrayal that
happened afterwards
was Jewish law not Muslim law because
they implemented Jewish law on the
prophet Muhammad says which law do you
want to impose on them? Is it Muslim law
or Jewish law? And Mu says to the Jews
and the Jews they want the Jewish law
implemented on them not the Muslim law.
It's the Jewish law that is implemented
on and that's the important distinction
that is supposed to be made here in that
when the prophet Muhammad wasallam
entered Medina the reason the Medina
covenant is studied even today is
because it was revolutionary in its time
that a man would come with a message
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but tell
people I'm not here to force you into
it. Please give me a chance to plead
with you to enter it. And I think that's
why the prophet wasallam when a Jewish
course was passing by him in a funeral,
he stood up to show respect to it even
if Allah told him don't do it again. But
it showed you the humanity in the heart
of the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and his approach to the
Jews which is the example for us. And
that's why I I always say and I love
Omar Maktar's statement the li Libyan li
liberation leader where when they
captured Italian soldiers and his
soldiers they said let's torture and
kill them the way they did us. Let's rip
their limbs off the way they do to us.
Let's electrocute them the way they do
to us. Omar looks at them horrified and
says they are not our teachers.
>> The Muslim says they are not our
teachers.
>> The Muslim says they are not our
teachers. And that's why I say for any
everybody listening to this, they are
not our teachers. When we talk about our
relationship with the Jewish population,
Netanyahu is not our teacher. Blinkin is
not our teacher. Biden is not our
teacher. These people committing
atrocities are not our teacher. Even
when they commit atrocities, we read in
the Quran
The good deed and the bad deed are not
equal. Allah doesn't tell us to respond
with the same atrocity. Allah tells us
that bad deed is not equal to the good
deed. And the prophetam is our example
in that when their rights are violated,
we stand with them. And when they are
oppressors, we were ready to stand
against it. But the point is the
relationship is one of justice. Justice
doesn't belong solely to the Muslims
alone. It also belongs to the Jews and
the Christians. And in their own
history, this is why I finish on this
point. In their own history, forget
Islamic history. in their own history.
This is why I emphasize I started with
their history. In their own history,
they acknowledge that the only religion
in history that gave sanctuary to the
Jews or any persecuted religion that was
persecuted by the white supremacists of
the western world, they always found
sanctuary in Islam. And some of their
greatest writings emerged not in Europe
but emerged in Muslim societies because
they had the freedom to do so.
>> This is really deep. I mean, this leaves
no doubt. Uh you mentioned um you
mentioned a lot of things. Uh it had me
think when you said our cousins. I mean
this is like a term of endearment. Why
are you going to call someone your
cousin? You know if you if you hate them
if you're you're you're teaching your
children like Michelle Bachmann, former
congresswoman is talking about uh if you
have this hate and you're being taught
to kill them. And then you made a
distinction between Jews and Zionism. uh
for for the average person who who
doesn't know the difference uh how would
you define and make help them understand
the Judaism between Zionism and the two
>> one of the things that is worth noting
is that when you go to these protest or
when you see the Jews doing the sitin in
Congress or when you see the Jewish
voice for peace or when you see these
other organizations they are sincere
Jews who are standing against the
violent Zionism that's being implemented
in Palestine. We see many Jewish rabbis
come out and say Zionism is not part of
Judaism. The ethnic cleansing and
genocide is not part of Judaism. And I
believe them to be sincere. And that's
why there's a distinction between these
Jews who uphold justice even if it
belongs to a people that are not their
own and between Zionism which is a
settler apartheid colonial project which
was founded by an atheist secular Jew or
atheist Jew who came out and said that
we need a haven. One thing Eddie I will
say is this. I sympathize with the roots
of Zionism and I explain what I mean.
Zionism doesn't emerge from a vacuum.
Zionism emerges because the white
supremacists of the Western world are so
atrocious atrocious in the calamities
that they that they inflict on the
Jewish population. Their anti-semitism
is so deeply embedded, is so vile, is so
violent, is so brutal. We're talking
pilgrims. We're talking mass massacres
of Jewish populations. We're talking
holocaust. We're talking about the
persecution in their jobs. We're talking
about persecution in society. We're
talking about newspapers doing horrific
cartoons where they show Jews with long
noses and accusing them of being all
these various different things. Zionism
emerges in this environment where the
Jews say to themselves that these
anti-semitic white supremacists of the
western world who are today trying to
preach morality and values that somehow
are they believe to be superior to
everybody else. the the treatment their
treatment at the hands of these white
supremacists was so violent and brutal
that they believe the only solution was
to establish a haven for themselves
where they will no longer be persecuted.
They wanted sanctuary and security from
who? Not the Muslims that they claim
today for thousand years somehow their
children were taught to hate. They
wanted sanctuary from the white
supremacist western world. They wanted
sanctuary from the white supremacist.
They were willing to go anywhere.
Argentina, Uganda, anywhere away from
these white supremacists who are so
racist, so anti-Semitic that we can't
live in their societies. We need to
establish a society for ourselves. In
this, I sympathize. In the Muslim world,
they saw justice. They didn't see it in
the white supremacist anti-semitic
world. I sympathize with that. But
Zionism became an idea of ethnically
cleansing a land that did not belong to
them for the sole purpose that somehow
they believed themselves to be a chosen
people. Allah says in the Quran that
when Benu is used to treat people badly,
they used to be told why do you treat
people this way? And they used to say
that we you can't blame us for the way
that we treat an unlettered people or
people who are below us. The Zionists
argued Europeans by the way ironically
not the Jews of MB or the Jews of you
know the Middle East or the Jews
elsewhere. the European Jews turn up to
Palestine and they preach this idea of
Zionism in which they tell the Jews who
are living in coexistence that what do
you think of the idea where we kick out
people who've been in their homes for
thousands of years let's kick them out
take their land take their homes and
take it for ourselves because we are a
chosen people why don't we commit
genocide and a nekbar and kick them out
in 1948 kick out 700,000 Palestinians
for no other reason than we want their
land and we want to establish it as an
ethnosentric Jewish state. This is
Zionism. The idea that they want to
commit ethnic cleansing of a land to
secure a state that belongs solely to
them whereby they can act with impunity
against the rest of the population. The
irony being is a Zionism is the very
copy of the anti-semitic white
supremacist ideology that they fled
from. So they suffered under an ideology
in white supremacist Western Europe that
said, "You are aliens. You don't belong
here. This is a white state for
Christendom and Jews don't have any
place here." It's almost as if they
graduated from that university, the
Zionists, and said with this model,
though it persecuted us, wouldn't it be
great if we did it to somebody else? And
so they turn up on Palestine, they do
exactly what was done to them. They
massacre the local population,
ethnically cleanse the areas, turf them
from their homes, impose laws to
persecute them. Identical copy. The a
traumatized does do the same. The the
abused is now doing the same thing the
abuser did. Very weird syndrome that is
taking place. This is Zionism. And this
is why the Jews were horrified by what
the Zionist did. Many Jews were
horrified by what the Zionist did. The
Jews who understand Judaism have come
out and they've said that Judaism does
not believe in the genocide and ethnic
cleansing. Some have even gone gone far
as to say the reason they don't have a
state is because God doesn't give us a
state because we betrayed our prophets.
They have that in their own literature.
Zionism is not a religious movement.
It's a political movement designed to
achieve the supremacy of one race over
another. It's an apartheid supremacist
ideology almost identical to the very
white supremacist anti-semitic ideology
that they fled from and they were
brutalized under. It's interesting you
mentioned the Theodore Herzo who who I
call this is like more of the prophet
because these people are not really
following the prophet Moses. They're
following uh someone who was an atheist
and the uh founding members of the
movement were atheists. They really
didn't even believe in God but they
believe that God promised them the land.
This is very very interesting.
>> Very ironic. It's like they say we don't
believe in religion but we'll take the
part of religion that that we like.
Yeah. Uh you uh beautifully explained
the uh Medina charter and prophet
Muhammad he had the power. He could have
annihilated every every Jew there. But
uh this is a proof now.
>> Um
>> Allah didn't let him.
>> He didn't let Yes.
>> You know, I'm not saying prophet never
thought about it that he never thought
about it at all. But I'm saying he was a
messenger from Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
So he was conveying the message of Allah
subhana wa ta'ala. So when he doesn't do
that, it's because Allahh never asked
him to do it ever. And then uh I want to
just move on to um one of the khalifa of
uh Islam uh for the non-Muslim audience
like a president. What would you define
that as leader? Uh
>> the the khalifa the the elected lead the
chosen by consensus. So now he's coming
back and if you can take this away and
he's coming back and taking over
Jerusalem from the Christians and for
how many 600 years the Jews were kicked
out and then now Omaran he comes and
repopulates Jerusalem with Jews. Is this
correct?
>> The story of it is magnificent because
Omar on his way to Jerusalem.
>> Yeah.
>> He's riding a mule.
>> Yeah. And Jerusalem at that time, bear
in mind, it's a very prestigious global
city and the Muslims have taken it. And
comes to Medina and says to we have
taken Jerusalem. We've taken it. So gets
ready to go to receive the keys of
Jerusalem. As he's approaching, they say
to him, "You are the Khalifa now of the
Muslim of the Muslims. Surely you should
be riding something more prestigious.
Surely you should be riding, etc."
>> He's on a mule.
>> He's he's on a mule. you know, he's
going to show you what what these Muslim
leaders were like and how
>> and he turns around and he says Allah
subhanahu we were a humiliated people.
We were a
we were the most humiliated of people
and Allah gave us glory through Islam
and wall if we were to seek glory in
anything but Islam surely Allah will
humiliate us once more. I will not enter
Jerusalem to show arrogance on the
people that we have conquered. I will
not enter Jerusalem to say that Islam
has arrogantly come in to subjugate
them. I will not enter Jerusalem on the
basis that I've come in to persecute
them the way the Christians did. I will
come in to show them what Islam is
really about. And when he enters
Jerusalem and he orders that the Jews be
restored to to to that they be allowed
to come and live in those areas once
more that white supremacist Christianom
anti-semitic Christianom refused to
allow. The Jews are stunned. Not that
they are coming back, but that that
somehow argues that this is the Islamic
thing to do, that this is the Muslim
thing to do. And there's another
fascinating story in this as well in
that Omar is reported to have entered a
church to show how the white
supremacists are not our teachers. He
enters the church and the Christians are
saying to him, the time for prayer came
in. They said to him, "Yeah,
you may pray here if you wish. we don't
mind.
Now scholars say that it's permissible
for him to have prayed in that church.
But he turns around to them and he says
I will not pray here. They say why? He
says I fear people will come after me
and they will say Omar prayed in this
church and they will tear down this
church and they will build a mosque on
top of it. So he said it's better for
me. You look at the foresight that
had even in his treatment of our cousins
as I as I say as I say sometimes in the
idea that you think about it. What is it
that made
restore the Jews to to Jerusalem? Tell
them you can come back and live here
after the Christians kicked you out
after 600 years as you mentioned. What
made say to the Christians, I don't want
overzealous Muslims to come and tear
down your churches. Something that is
forbidden in Islam. When people say
churches are converted to mosques, it's
usually because the Christians are
selling their churches, selling the land
and the property. It's never through
taking violent by force. The point is
what is driving
to show this attitude to Jews and
Christians that the Jews and Christians
don't even show themselves. What is it
that made show this attitude to people
who are not Muslim that they those
non-Muslims were treating themselves in
that manner? It was an injunction. It
was Islam that inspired.
It was Islam that encouraged
that the ultimate aim of Islam. If you
are trying to get people to become
Muslim, you must convince them freely to
accept Islam. Allah does not accept
somebody to be forcefully converted to
Islam. And that laid the foundations for
coexistence in
and it laid the foundations of the to do
what was not being done anywhere else in
the world at that time which is to
proactively facilitate the coexistence
and that's why I I want to mention I
want to really emphasize this point that
it wasn't just on his own or the prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
coming with human being thoughts on
coexistence they were being guided by
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala who ordained
in the Quran that this is what Islam is
about. Islam is about granting the
rights to everybody irrespective of
their religion. And that's why comes in.
It's Islam that inspires him to bring
the Jews back and Islam that inspires
him to uphold the rights of the
Christians. And in my opinion, I'll
finish on this point.
This is why there was so much animosity
to Islam. The animosity to Islam in my
opinion was never about the battles or
about the conquer or about the conquest
or it was never about any of that. The
animosity towards Islam was that it was
so incredible and majestic in the values
it preached and the transformations it
brought about in individuals that
Christendom and Zionists were so
horrified by what Islam preached. They
were so taken aback by it of the
kindness of the way that Islam promoted
that coexistence that it's sort of like
no I can't have people believe this
message. It's too nice a message. It's
too wonderful a message. I need them to
be brutal like me. I need them to commit
atrocities like me. That's why they hate
Islam. It's the fact that it inspires
justice where they want to uphold
injustice.