Ali Dawah - November 04, 2021


EASTENDERS FIRST EVER MOSQUE


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Length

6 minutes

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216.99213

Word count

1,489

Sentence count

112

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

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Toxicity

18

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Hate speech

19

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In this episode, I talk about the diversity shown in the British soap opera Eastenders and how it shows Muslims in all the wrong ways. I also talk about a group of Muslims who are petitioning to open a mosque in Eastenders.

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00:00:17.480 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:00:19.940 Hope you guys are well, inshallah.
00:00:20.600 So a sister got in contact with Instagram and said,
00:00:23.200 gave me some information about EastEnders and what they've been doing.
00:00:25.640 I don't watch EastEnders.
00:00:26.640 I used to watch it when I was non-Muslim.
00:00:28.860 Even then I didn't watch it.
00:00:29.900 I just watched it because people that I was around was watching it.
00:00:33.140 I don't know much is going on,
00:00:34.300 but I have been informed by a few characters who are playing a Muslim role.
00:00:37.780 And funnily enough, none of them are orthodox.
00:00:40.020 But from what I know, EastEnders is actually building a masjid.
00:00:43.400 Yes, they're building a mosque.
00:00:45.180 Isn't that to be proud of?
00:00:46.580 Yes, actually, if you think about it, it's nice.
00:00:48.620 They're showing the diversity, even though it might not be real.
00:00:51.080 But, you know, to show it's diverse.
00:00:52.600 But they're showing diversity in a very strange way.
00:00:54.780 Because from what I know, from the picture that you can see,
00:00:57.200 one of the girls here is basically known to be having sex outside of marriage, 1.00
00:01:02.940 which is Zinnah, which is a major sin. 0.99
00:01:05.500 And the other one is a lesbian. 1.00
00:01:07.340 And then you have another guy who's gay. 1.00
00:01:10.840 He's a Muslim also. 0.97
00:01:11.880 And then you have another lady who's apparently, 1.00
00:01:13.620 and this is the information given to me by the sister, by the way.
00:01:15.080 She was married to a guy, a Muslim guy, who cheated, committed adultery,
00:01:20.780 which is worse than Zinnah, because you're married and you're being unlawful to your partner, 0.75
00:01:25.040 which is worse.
00:01:26.820 And then this woman divorces him, and then goes and gets married to another guy. 0.97
00:01:32.020 And this Muslim man ends up being someone that abuses him. 0.80
00:01:34.500 And, you know, so it looks like Muslims are diverse in all the, 0.86
00:01:38.460 should I say, the wrong ways in our religion,
00:01:41.620 because there's certain things that are not permissible, etc.
00:01:43.500 Yes, you can be a Muslim and be sin about it. 1.00
00:01:45.240 Let's not get it twisted.
00:01:46.380 All these things that are committed does not nullify their Islam.
00:01:48.760 All it does is they're showing diversity in the wrong way.
00:01:50.920 And then you have, the others were not wearing hijab.
00:01:53.440 Well, you can be a Muslim as well without wearing hijab,
00:01:55.160 but they don't symbolize it in that sense.
00:01:57.300 Do you know what I'm trying to say?
00:01:57.820 And then you have the hijabi who's snogging a guy and is in pubs. 1.00
00:02:01.240 And radi, radi, radi.
00:02:02.860 Now, let's watch this video, because in these two clips,
00:02:05.480 which you're going to see, inshallah,
00:02:06.900 we want to see them petitioning.
00:02:08.500 And there's a group of them that are petitioning to open a mosque.
00:02:12.560 Let's watch it and be right back.
00:02:14.580 Sorry, guys.
00:02:15.240 So there was a copyright issue, so I can't play the sound.
00:02:17.520 But from what you can see is they opened a new masjid mosque in EastEnders,
00:02:22.100 and they're giving leaflets out, you know, a new mosque.
00:02:23.700 And these are Muslims, basically, who are standing there.
00:02:26.880 And, yeah, and as you can see, they're praying on the road,
00:02:29.060 and that woman's praying as well.
00:02:30.620 And they said to the salah.
00:02:31.240 Anyways, so, yeah, and these are new Muslims, by the way.
00:02:34.320 This lady here on the pink jacket, she's a new Muslim. 1.00
00:02:36.320 That's her dad taking the kind of mick out of her, in a sense. 0.72
00:02:40.960 You saw for yourself, so there's this group of Muslims who are,
00:02:44.560 and outwardly, like I said before, we can't judge people, you know.
00:02:47.260 There's a lot of people who might outwardly look Muslim,
00:02:49.280 but I might not be doing the obligation that I should be doing.
00:02:52.400 You know, I've seen a lot of brothers and fobs,
00:02:54.040 or sisters in niqabs, or hijabs, et cetera,
00:02:55.400 that they don't pray salah.
00:02:56.220 And I've seen a lot of people who do not wear the hijab,
00:02:58.060 or don't grow a beard, but they are dedicated to their salah.
00:03:00.060 And I've seen the other side, which is those who wear the niqab, 1.00
00:03:04.000 and the hijab, and the thawb, or the beard,
00:03:05.660 and they do pray salah.
00:03:06.600 So there's different, different aspects to it.
00:03:08.280 And they are petitioned to open a mosque.
00:03:11.020 Now, the question here, what needs to follow is this.
00:03:14.300 EastEnders, for some reason, is pushing this culture.
00:03:18.240 You know, if you look at EastEnders, when I used to watch it,
00:03:19.960 it was a messed up thing to watch.
00:03:22.040 Whole town, or this whole city, have slept with each other.
00:03:24.420 Like, this person slept with his mum, his mum has slept with this, 0.89
00:03:27.060 and that person slept with that, and that person slept with that. 0.99
00:03:28.900 It's all about sleeping.
00:03:30.020 One catches his husband with his son's wife, and all. 0.98
00:03:33.720 It's disgusting. 0.57
00:03:35.040 Let's just be real. 0.99
00:03:35.660 And you have Muslims watching this. 1.00
00:03:37.220 You have Muslims watching this stuff, which is sickening. 1.00
00:03:41.580 This culture that they want us to adapt, 0.98
00:03:43.120 if we look at recent studies that show that the society that we live in,
00:03:46.660 in the Western world, like I said before,
00:03:48.240 it really is going in a direction that is not good.
00:03:50.520 I have to be real and speak about it, yeah?
00:03:52.320 Even if it's the lands that I live in.
00:03:53.720 Because rape has seen an increased, sexual assault has seen a rapid increase.
00:03:59.680 Yeah?
00:04:00.420 Alcohol, gambling, murder, robbery, you name it.
00:04:05.380 Yeah?
00:04:05.660 And this is in the culture they want us to adapt, and they're pushing down our flows.
00:04:08.680 We don't see any Orthodox Muslims, you know, at EastEnders.
00:04:10.980 I mean, if you guys want, you know, you can maybe, you don't need to pay me.
00:04:14.160 I can come and maybe I can send Mohammed Ijab, or Zizshara, 1.00
00:04:16.620 or someone there to, you know, represent the Orthodox community.
00:04:19.460 You know, all you're showing is not an Orthodox community.
00:04:21.900 And now, the masjid that you want to build. 0.72
00:04:23.840 Now, I'm going to make some speculations.
00:04:24.860 I've got no evidences towards this.
00:04:26.380 I won't be surprised if they turn that mosque into a hub where terrorism is bred. 1.00
00:04:30.080 Yeah?
00:04:30.560 That it's, it's, it's no-gone.
00:04:32.240 Oh, I won't be surprised if they're going to get the girls, 0.95
00:04:34.180 there's going to be a woman imam, and leading everybody, or it's going to be, I don't know.
00:04:38.640 But from what I can see from their track record, and how they're represented, how Muslims are,
00:04:41.760 yes, all these things that they showed are Muslims who are sinning, and Muslims do sin. 0.98
00:04:46.580 We are sinners. 0.94
00:04:47.620 But the point is the following, that they are making it out as if that's true Muslims. 0.82
00:04:51.240 No.
00:04:51.980 90% of, 80% of, 90% of Muslims, yes, those who even commit those sins, 1.00
00:04:56.780 shouldn't go out and publicly, you know, announce it.
00:04:59.460 You know, it is not permissible in our religion.
00:05:02.260 So, this mosque that's being built in EastEnders,
00:05:05.480 God knows what they've got planned, and God knows what kind of a hub, masjid is going to be turned into. 0.77
00:05:10.780 I won't be surprised if it's going to be called the, I don't know, the LGBTQT mosque, whatever.
00:05:15.940 I won't be surprised.
00:05:16.840 Practically, what we need to do, and what the solutions are for this problem, sisters,
00:05:19.600 is to be one step ahead, and protect yourself.
00:05:22.720 The heartless and desire, where the eyes don't see.
00:05:24.600 For the Muslims that are watching this, you need to understand, yeah?
00:05:27.580 As you're watching this, your brain is psychologically normalising this behaviour.
00:05:30.820 When you watch a movie, or whatever it may be,
00:05:32.600 and you're constantly being told that having intimacy, or an affair with your neighbour,
00:05:36.960 and this, that, and intimacy, you become desensitised to it.
00:05:39.760 You become norm.
00:05:41.200 It becomes a norm, because you're exposed to it every day.
00:05:43.700 You are corrupting your inner self without knowing.
00:05:46.780 That's why when someone comes out and says,
00:05:48.480 I had zina with my neighbour,
00:05:50.440 you're like, where are you?
00:05:51.260 That's normal.
00:05:51.920 I've heard that in EastEnders all day, all night.
00:05:53.880 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:05:55.220 Do you see the problem?
00:05:56.380 So, you need to understand, what you consume with your eyes,
00:05:58.620 it's going to corrupt the heart.
00:05:59.960 So, it's my advice to anybody watching this,
00:06:02.580 to stop watching EastEnders. 0.88
00:06:03.680 If you're a Muslim, 1.00
00:06:04.600 wallahi, I do not fathom how you can watch such filth. 1.00
00:06:07.280 It is filth.
00:06:08.460 And I will end on that.
00:06:09.560 No problems, sisters.
00:06:10.440 Because if not,
00:06:11.260 don't think what you're seeing is not going to corrupt your heart.
00:06:13.200 Believe me.
00:06:13.800 If you're consuming with your mouth,
00:06:15.120 you're also consuming with your tongue,
00:06:16.480 and your ears.
00:06:17.740 May Allah protect us.
00:06:18.820 Till next time.
00:06:19.560 As-salamu alaykum,
00:06:20.580 wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
00:06:21.740 Let's go.