Christchurch: Ending the Muslim Terrorist Narrative (2019-03-21) ​

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0:01:10 um
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0:01:19 he says that we will certainly try you
0:01:23 with something of fear
0:01:27 and hunger and loss of life
0:01:31 and loss of wealth and life human life
0:01:36 and investment so give glad tidings to
0:01:40 those who have
0:01:41 patience the ones who when calamity
0:01:45 befalls them
0:01:46 they say to allah we belong
0:01:49 and to him we shall return those are the
0:01:52 ones
0:01:53 who allah will shower with his blessings
0:01:56 and mercy
0:01:57 and those are the ones who are truly
0:01:59 guided you see
0:02:00 from an islamic perspective death is
0:02:03 where life begins
0:02:05 and from this perspective you could say
0:02:09 that we're an impossible enemy because
0:02:11 the worst thing you can do to a muslim
0:02:13 is kill them but for us
0:02:17 death is the beginning so when it comes
0:02:20 to
0:02:21 those white supremacists who have
0:02:26 taken the lives of those
0:02:29 49 50 people in christchurch
0:02:32 thinking that they are reading the world
0:02:35 of the invading enemy
0:02:37 to put it in tarrant the the killers the
0:02:40 terrorists words
0:02:44 of the invading enemy what he's actually
0:02:45 doing
0:02:47 is he's hardening the efforts and he's
0:02:50 strengthening the spirit
0:02:52 of muslims all around the world
0:02:56 and here's what you need to understand
0:02:58 that this narrative which has been
0:03:00 promulgated
0:03:01 by right wing extremists who have been
0:03:05 frankly the knowledge
0:03:08 producers for the islamophobic
0:03:13 atmosphere through which and by which
0:03:17 such terroristic minds can develop
0:03:22 those people who've had this discourse
0:03:24 of the peculiar muslim
0:03:26 other abject other that is
0:03:31 distinctively known by his violence
0:03:35 and uniquely understood by his terrorism
0:03:38 that discourse has been destabilized
0:03:43 and it's not just on this occasion we
0:03:45 have to be clear
0:03:46 there was the chapel hill shooting there
0:03:48 was brelvik killing 77 innocents
0:03:50 and now you have this man brendan
0:03:54 tarrant or whatever his name is
0:03:56 killing 50 individuals many of which are
0:03:58 children and he wanted the world to know
0:04:00 about it and he filmed it on social
0:04:02 media
0:04:02 and he called himself a terrorist in his
0:04:04 manifesto there's no running away from
0:04:06 it
0:04:07 he was inspired yes
0:04:10 by his own ideological justification
0:04:14 and there is a continuity here between
0:04:17 right-wing rhetoric
0:04:19 especially ultra-right and alternative
0:04:22 right-wing rhetoric
0:04:23 and his own understanding of the world
0:04:25 especially in relation to
0:04:26 immigration which is why we find a lot
0:04:29 of people
0:04:30 from the right now coming out and
0:04:32 condemning the attack
0:04:34 in reminiscent terms because this of
0:04:37 course reminds us of how muslims
0:04:39 muslim leaders usually come and you know
0:04:41 condemn attacks
0:04:43 and for once in their life they have
0:04:45 been able to introduce nuance
0:04:47 to the discussion i i watched stephen
0:04:50 crowler i watched
0:04:52 um ben shapiro
0:04:55 i watched even katie hopkins and their
0:04:58 responses
0:05:00 seem to indicate that look there's
0:05:02 entanglement of different contributing
0:05:04 factors
0:05:05 all of which shaped this individual one
0:05:07 of which was ideology a lot of them
0:05:09 admit
0:05:10 but it wasn't the only thing the daily
0:05:12 mail goes much further than that
0:05:13 putting a picture of this man calling
0:05:15 the angelic boy
0:05:16 that his father had cancer and so on as
0:05:19 if
0:05:20 look we have to look at this thing from
0:05:23 different angles
0:05:24 but that nuance that they now introduced
0:05:26 in a terroristic discussion
0:05:28 was never introduced from their own
0:05:31 knowledge producers and contributors
0:05:34 when muslim terrorists commit
0:05:36 acts it has to be reduced to a low and
0:05:39 lowest common multiple and many times if
0:05:42 not always has to be islam itself
0:05:45 so why is it the case that it's
0:05:47 inconceivable for the right wing mind
0:05:52 that there's a potentiality within their
0:05:54 own ideological systems
0:05:56 for people to churn out a net
0:06:00 terrorism which emerges on our streets
0:06:02 in our mosques
0:06:04 why is it inconceivable for you to
0:06:05 realize that terrorism can be committed
0:06:07 by secular whites
0:06:09 it's that thesis that you've tried to
0:06:12 superimpose upon the sociological
0:06:14 reality
0:06:14 which has now become untenable
0:06:18 it's that discourse that you have tried
0:06:20 to iterate and reiterate
0:06:22 into public spheres and through your
0:06:24 platforms which has been totally
0:06:27 destabilized now there's no more media
0:06:30 com
0:06:30 covering up the man himself wanted to be
0:06:33 known
0:06:34 and now they're trying to censor his
0:06:37 name
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0:06:40 pretense by the way this is a pretense
0:06:42 of yes we don't want to give him
0:06:45 notoriety
0:06:47 no that's a pretense the reason why you
0:06:48 want to censor his name and you want to
0:06:50 censor his actions
0:06:51 is because you don't want us to
0:06:52 reference him that you know this is an
0:06:54 entry point for academics
0:06:56 you know there's an entry point for
0:06:57 people to criticize and reference this
0:07:00 as a white supremacist which was
0:07:03 inspired by a right-wing terrorist as a
0:07:05 terrorist
0:07:07 and now the body of work of right-wing
0:07:09 terrorists is starting to become
0:07:10 self-evident so much so
0:07:12 that it's become impossible for
0:07:14 politicians and
0:07:16 other elites to ignore it and at this
0:07:19 point it's important for us to say
0:07:21 we do actually we actually do appreciate
0:07:23 all the support
0:07:25 with all the anger that we have
0:07:29 that there has been community
0:07:31 togetherness
0:07:32 and support from all different aspects
0:07:35 uh all different parts of society
0:07:37 and we thank non-muslim society
0:07:39 communities
0:07:40 for showing us your support
0:07:43 we also would like to show you our
0:07:46 gratitude for that
0:07:48 this is exactly what we need to do we
0:07:50 need to realize that they
0:07:52 there are people of different
0:07:54 dispositions ideological religious or
0:07:56 otherwise
0:07:57 that are capable of these monstrous
0:08:00 terroristic acts
0:08:03 and that the mo the main motivating
0:08:07 factor
0:08:08 for those individuals is usually the
0:08:10 same it's an emotive one rather than an
0:08:13 intellectual one
0:08:14 where they they see themselves living in
0:08:18 a state of perpetual war and conflict
0:08:20 and they want to enact their school of
0:08:22 duty style
0:08:24 role where they themselves are becoming
0:08:28 the main protagonist
0:08:31 and getting rid of the enemies
0:08:35 and of course one thing runs almost
0:08:38 consistently throughout all of these
0:08:40 themes
0:08:41 which is that there is an element of
0:08:43 ideological justification
0:08:45 whether it be from those terrorists from
0:08:48 our side
0:08:49 or those from from the right-wing side
0:08:54 and that justification and knows what
0:08:56 otherwise nullifies
0:08:58 the the principle of non-combatant
0:09:02 immunity
0:09:05 it nullifies the principle of
0:09:07 non-combatant immunity but that is not
0:09:09 particular to islam
0:09:11 and it's not particular to muslims so
0:09:13 the narrative
0:09:15 is now being forcibly changed by virtue
0:09:18 of the fact
0:09:19 that we live in a hyper globalized world
0:09:21 and events cannot be
0:09:24 disguised or otherwise camouflaged
0:09:27 anymore
0:09:29 social media is overtaking the media
0:09:32 this man himself
0:09:33 wanted people to know he was a terrorist
0:09:36 no matter what the media says
0:09:38 this information is freely available to
0:09:40 us and it can never be reversed
0:09:43 so the right wing needs to come to terms
0:09:45 with itself
0:09:47 it's immigration rhetoric kicking these
0:09:50 people out and
0:09:51 re-whitening the discourse that all
0:09:53 needs to be reassessed
0:09:54 because it it provides fertile grounds
0:09:59 for the kind of terroristic actions that
0:10:02 we see
0:10:03 or have seen in christ's church
0:10:07 i want to end this this
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0:10:14 which is the following
0:10:18 it's high time that we have discussions
0:10:21 and debates
0:10:23 that the muslim traditionalist muslim
0:10:25 community especially
0:10:26 those who adhere to classical jews
0:10:29 prudential understanding of islam and
0:10:32 right-wing advocates
0:10:36 that we have discussions and debates on
0:10:38 points of tension
0:10:39 in controlled settings such that
0:10:43 misconceptions can be corrected why is
0:10:45 it the case that i always find myself
0:10:47 telling people that look islam doesn't
0:10:49 tell people to go and kill
0:10:51 innocents now in chapter 60 verse 8
0:10:53 chapter 5 verse 32
0:10:55 and the prophet you know killing one
0:10:57 person is like killing the whole of
0:10:58 humanity the prophet told us not to kill
0:11:00 women and children so on why do i always
0:11:02 have to repeat myself and then be told
0:11:04 that i'm lying
0:11:05 that actually this is not what you
0:11:06 believe or that it is not
0:11:09 what you ought to believe if you're a
0:11:10 classical traditionalist muslim don't
0:11:12 tell me what
0:11:13 i should believe i know my scripture is
0:11:15 more than the right wing
0:11:17 english speaking and no other language
0:11:22 person who's telling me why i should
0:11:23 read i should believe
0:11:25 don't tell me what i should believe i
0:11:26 know what we should believe so let's
0:11:28 have these discussions we need to fix
0:11:30 these misconceptions
0:11:31 someone like ben shapiro someone like
0:11:34 milo
0:11:36 someone like jordan peterson this is an
0:11:39 open
0:11:40 invitation i'm not going to call it an
0:11:41 open challenge this is an open
0:11:43 invitation
0:11:44 for a dialogue and discussion
0:11:49 where we have equal time to talk and ask
0:11:51 questions from each other
0:11:52 and where we can probe each other
0:11:56 i think this is necessary and i think it
0:11:58 will solve a lot of societal problems
0:12:01 but in regards to what we should do for
0:12:03 the people of christchurch
0:12:05 we should make dua for them as the
0:12:06 muslims we have to mix application for
0:12:08 them
0:12:09 and realize that the prophet muhammad
0:12:12 i'm going to end with this the prophet
0:12:13 says something beautiful and this is in
0:12:15 hadith
0:12:17 he says whoever is killed
0:12:20 protecting their wealth he is a shaheed
0:12:25 whoever is killed protecting their blood
0:12:28 i.e themselves
0:12:29 then he's a shaheed do not leave
0:12:31 protecting their families
0:12:33 he's a martyr he's a mata he's a mata
0:12:36 so we believe that these individuals are
0:12:38 martyrs there's no doubt about that
0:12:42 and even we should ask allah subhanahu
0:12:44 wa ta'ala to give them the high stations
0:12:46 of jannah
0:12:47 and to make us with them and i'll leave
0:12:49 with that salaam alaikum
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