Brother Ali Dawah was the most respectful person on the panel. At no point did I feel like I wasn t being heard or wasn't allowed to speak. I think this conversation was very necessary and needed to be had. It's as simple as that.
00:00:00.000Right, so I just want to address certain comments like this because it's simply not true and I cannot allow a narrative to be created that isn't true.
00:00:13.260Okay, so I was not treated badly the whole episode, nor was I treated in any disrespectful manner throughout all the episodes that we recorded.
00:00:27.800Brother Ali Dawah was the most respectful person. There were boundaries. At no point did I feel like I wasn't being heard or wasn't allowed to speak.
00:00:42.500Now, if you watch his previous episodes, you understand that the bitter buzzers, when you hit the bitter buzzer, you have a minute to speak without any interruption.
00:00:57.660Hence why he was timing it. He kept saying, you know, 20 seconds, 30 seconds, because no one was allowed to interrupt me for a whole minute while I pressed the bitter buzzer.
00:01:14.340That was the whole concept of why I hit the buzzer.
00:01:19.140Now, I have been seeing a few other comments about some of the other cast members on the panel.
00:01:27.540For example, Shaquille. Shaquille was not in agreeance with Brother Mehdi.
00:01:33.920And I think, as you can see in the episode, we were giggling because we just couldn't take what Brother Mehdi was saying seriously, in all honesty.
00:01:45.620You know, we could see through the act, hence why, well, in another episode, I won't spoil it, but you'll see in another episode, me clearly trolling him about helping his wives.
00:02:00.820I think this conversation was very necessary and needed to be had.
00:02:09.580And, you know, I keep seeing a lot of hate as to why, you know, this person was allowed, you know, a platform.
00:02:18.400Now, you have people like Piers Morgan, who do documentaries, sitting face to face with murderers who actually committed real life crimes.
00:02:32.240But it's necessary to understand their mindset and it's necessary to have conversations with those kinds of people.
00:02:39.200And I'm not saying Mehdi committed murder or anything like that.
00:02:43.740However, he has a mindset that is problematic to the Umar and we needed to address it.