Ali Dawah - February 26, 2018
ALI DAWAH MEETS LAUREN SOUTHERN
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Summary
In this episode, I speak with Ali about her views on the hijab and why she doesn't want to shake hands with non-Muslims. We also talk about the difference between being a Muslim woman and a non-Christian woman, and why it's wrong to shake someone else's hand.
Transcript
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Like, if I said certain things to you forever about the hijab, you're not going to agree with it, yeah?
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Neither am I going to agree with certain things you believe.
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But this doesn't mean we depart our ways, we have our common factors and we go with that.
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So for example, do we both agree that rape is wrong?
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Do we both agree that killing innocent people is wrong?
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Do we both agree that we should live in harmony?
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So, Ali, you've repeatedly contacted me on Twitter.
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Because in our religion, just like, for example, we're Orthodox Christians and Orthodox Jews.
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And they have obviously beliefs, and I respect those beliefs.
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So for example, sometimes when they come out from the synagogue, the women don't really walk on the same side as them.
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Now, to them, we see that a bit extreme, because in Stam we don't have that.
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We don't say a woman has to walk over the street, or a woman is something abnormal.
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She's an abnormal creature where you can't be next to her.
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You know, 1400 years ago, when women were treated like, it was actually like this.
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It was a man who had the rights, then it would be maybe a camel, then it would be a woman.
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So now, Islam came to abolish that, because back in those days, they used to bury their daughters alive.
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Because, why would you bury your daughter alive?
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So, back then, just to finish, sorry, just to finish up.
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The woman got a right to choose who she wants to marry.
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The woman got a right to not adopt her husband's surname.
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The woman in Islam has a right to, for example, my wife, if she has 20 million pounds in her
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account, and I'm broke, I'm not allowed to touch her money.
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So, she has a right to education, a right to own property, a right to divorce.
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But that wasn't what I was asking about, was it?
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It wasn't, but it's just to give you a little context behind, because what happens is, me
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not shaking your hand automatically might make people think, hold on a second, why?
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Or like what Jada says from Britain First, Isaac, because I'm a dirty kufrad.
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These kind of things, I really want to get this misconception out there, but it's got
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Because the thing is, for example, it's not just because of you.
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If a Muslim woman came to me and said, shake my hand, I'd be like, no.
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No, no, it's because you're an opposite gender.
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She would not shake the hand of another man, be it a Muslim or not.
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It's because we just believe that interaction is for your husband or your father or your brother.
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And just the way the Orthodox Jews have that belief as well.
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But, like for example, if I say to you, I have a belief where you need to touch my toe.
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If I say to you, Lauren, can you touch my toe please?
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You might find out a bit like, I prefer not to.
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I think it's totally fine that you have those beliefs and that you behave in that way.
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However, you are aware you are in England right now where shaking one's hand is seen as a sign of greeting and respect.
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Now, for example, just because I'm in England, that doesn't matter.
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I try to obey the law of the land as much as I can to the best of my ability.
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Like I showed my passport when I confronted Tony Robinson is that that passport is an agreement
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with me and this British government that I'll obey the law of the land.
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I'm not going to go and do what these maniacs do, run people over or whatever it may be.
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I'm here to live in peace side by side by you and have an interaction with me and talk to you.
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And like you see today, for example, we're here to interact with people and live in harmony.
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We're not here just because I live in this land.
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This doesn't mean that you impose your ideas or I impose my ideas on you.
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If I come and say to you, Lauren, why are you not wearing a hijab?
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You're going to say, Ali, first you might say, look, this is my country.
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I'm not going to come and say, Lauren, why are you not wearing a hijab?
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I'm not going to come and say, hey, you're in a Muslim land, put your hijab on.
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I actually think that I should assimilate to, if I go and I move somewhere, I should assimilate to that culture.
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And I think as someone who is Christian, I wouldn't go and move to a Muslim majority country
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And I don't think I would be creating areas of just Christians, no-go zones,
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where Muslims couldn't come into and practice their faith in a Muslim nation.
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There's no such thing as no-go zones because I've been there.
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I've been to areas where, okay, some of the worst ones I've seen have been in kind of the suburbs of Paris.
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These no-go zones, I would be happy to walk with you and just really see if there's no-go zone areas.
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Because if they really are, that means, I'll say, Lauren, you know what?
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Because how could you dare to sell you just because you are not a Muslim to tell you can't walk through that zone?
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The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, lived with the Jews and the Christians in harmony.
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You have Coptic Christians in Egypt today who are living there.
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I understand that you can interpret your book in different ways, you can interpret your religion in different ways,
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And I know for a fact there are certain areas where if I were to walk through there with someone like Tommy Robinson,
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he wouldn't last 10 minutes and you know that too.
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Okay, Lauren, I would say, I don't know you personally, yeah?
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For example, Lucy is someone that, like I mentioned this a lot, the reason I mention it, yeah?
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Lucy, the reason I'm saying this is because I've messaged Lucy.
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She didn't come and say you, this, that or that, yeah?
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Now, when you get Tommy, it's like, I'm being honest, yeah?
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It's like, you don't get a normal German and put Hitler together.
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That's why I always wonder, why does Lucy work with Tommy?
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With Tommy, Tommy was yesterday in Luton giving out leaflets.
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That means, like, I seek refuge in God Almighty from Satan.
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and try to arrest Tommy and take away his leaflets.
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I hate the Jews and what Hitler did was beautiful.
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Well, hate speech and free speech are the same thing.
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I don't think you should be allowed to do things where you say,
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Because that is a criminal act because you intend to do something
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If you're saying you don't want to do it, then fine.
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Now, when Tony Robinson says why Muslims kill for Islam
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So I need to take the matters into my own hands.
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causes some man to take action into his own hands,
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these kuffar, they look like they're killing us,
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How many times non-Muslims got run over in the bridges?
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That Vice article didn't inspire a single Christian
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who says kill the kuffar wherever you find him.
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And the reason why I went after him in Britain first
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is because Tommy Robinson and Britain first think,
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Tommy, you know, he got the message very clearly
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I care about the terrorist attacks that happened.
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I don't give a damn about what it says in your book.
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but I give a damn about how people are acting right now.
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but most of the Muslims within the UK and Europe now
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and how they view free speech or blasphemy laws
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I think you should be able to have your Muslim culture
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Don't bring it to a Christian nation that has our own laws,
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It's just like the fact that you have to go to Google
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is that if I'm going to talk about Christianity
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We're not talking about just running people over.
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And we are here being accused of grooming gangs
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So I'm sure you're against feminists as well, yeah?
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and that is fundamentally going to be the split
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that Islam and Western values will be compatible.
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Neither am I going to agree with certain things you believe.
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We have our common factors and we go with that.
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Do we both agree that killing innocent people is wrong?
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Do we both agree that we should live in harmony?
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Do we both agree that we should live in harmony?
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And I think that there are aspects of your religion
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that are completely incapable of mixing with Western values
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If I was to do something like, you know, we believe in no Sharia.
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You're going to say, look, you're coming to my country.
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And now you're setting up these areas that I can't come into.
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And if this was from Islam, I would say, yeah, it's not from Islam.
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So if this is not from Islam, now you're conflating a group of maniacs to Islam.
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You can't do something as simple as shake my hand when we say hello.
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That is something that is standard within culture here.
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What I don't want to see and what I believe is inevitable
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Where soon the slight differences that we have,
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where we may disagree on rape, murder, other things,
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once you have a Muslim majority in this country,
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we're going to have our own way of lifestyle, for example,
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if you are going to come and make no-goal zone areas,
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Because I think we've seen this happen in history
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he will probably go and say something crazy up.
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I applaud you for at least bringing a verse, yeah?
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and kick them out from where they kicked you out.
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Lauren, slap her back the way she slapped you back.