Ali Dawah - April 09, 2023


I WAS CALLED A P#KI & IM KURDISH 🤦‍♂️


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

208.9747

Word Count

801

Sentence Count

1

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Racism is a problem that affects brothers and sisters of all ethnicities and is directly connected to their race. In this episode, I talk about my own experience of racism and how it affected me as a young Muslim boy growing up in the UK.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 look we need points in it all right i don't know i don't mean this maliciously what the words
00:00:05.840 a story
00:00:12.800 asalaamu alaikum guys hope you guys are well inshallah dishan from smile to jannah done an amazing video touching on this topic
00:00:41.000 the reason i'm doing this video is usually when i see a co-brother like mashallah on the youtube
00:00:44.720 seems touched on a topic i don't find the need to handle he's covered it if it comes from an angle
00:00:48.240 that i haven't come from handle but this thing was actually very close to my heart many of you guys
00:00:52.380 might not know but i was called the word paki yes i used to live in london i used to get into fights
00:00:56.940 and all this kind of stuff my dad took me outside london i used to live in a place in northeast
00:01:00.560 lincolnshire and i was me and my friends were subject to racism day in day out we used to get
00:01:06.640 into fights every single literally nearly every single day yeah be it like jahili we still got
00:01:11.560 clubbing etc somebody come and call them the words paki when we're walking even my black friends were
00:01:15.740 called paki like the guy was so bloody he was like you know if you're gonna call me call me the n-word
00:01:19.080 at least i mean bloody yeah they both of them are wrong but we would i would get and i'm turkish i'm
00:01:23.980 kurdish i'm not even you know like it's irrelevant the point is not that oh just because you're
00:01:27.720 pakistan they could call you that no i used to be called these things well i cannot tell you the amount
00:01:31.880 of times i got into fights i got jumped all because of this and so much so that i was even in the local
00:01:37.020 tele the newspaper because we had a big fight against these racist thugs all the brothers from
00:01:41.920 different ethnicities that where we used to live we came together and they outright brought like
00:01:47.300 literally a fight about 30 40 of us against 50 60 of them alhamdulillah yeah they got sparked uh just
00:01:53.220 to be and i'm not even a bosun if you really read the telegraph okay uh it's uh it's grimsby telegraph
00:01:58.740 okay i actually tried to get in contact with them to find the article yeah yeah they kind of got
00:02:02.340 bounced alhamdulillah and from that day onwards they did not even come near us they put some respect
00:02:06.180 alhamdulillah after that day once we show them you know they say they want to show your teeth once we
00:02:10.320 show them you know alhamdulillah we all of us came together um the africans the jamaicans lebanese
00:02:16.180 turkish kurdish pakistani bengali we all came together so much so we was on the uh local newspaper uh subhanallah
00:02:22.320 and even then the local newspaper made it seem as if we're attacking a group of white men for no reason
00:02:27.120 they were racist individuals subhanallah so i know this and not only that when i used to live in the
00:02:32.480 same place i was younger they smashed my house they broke all the the the wooden shed thing in the
00:02:39.180 front yeah the gates they smashed that they came and smashed my windows me and my mom my brother
00:02:44.660 was small i can remember that that was like a trauma i can remember they're trying to get into the
00:02:49.240 house to attack us literally and we're hold i was holding the door i remember these things subhanallah
00:02:54.040 and for someone like ksi to trivialize it it's like me saying the n-word yeah and trivializing what
00:02:59.340 they went through well lie this is so sad you don't know like zishan said many of the people
00:03:04.160 they used to tell me stories what they used to go through we we had so many people go through racism
00:03:08.180 yeah racism because of their background so it is disgusting and i don't know if it's on a public
00:03:13.140 apology but while lie i myself as a kurdish man from turkey i was subject to this harassment this
00:03:19.260 bullying being attacked for years on end and i know how it feels that when you walk with your
00:03:23.820 family you don't feel safe who's going to say what it's disgusting it is disgusting brothers and
00:03:28.700 sisters well lie that's all i wanted to say brother sister inshaallah may allah protect us and may
00:03:32.640 allah deal with racism which is directly connected to iblis yes of thinking you are better than someone
00:03:37.740 else just because of their race the color or whatever it may be inshaallah and alhamdulillah
00:03:41.420 islam has come to abolish racism brothers and sisters may allah bless you guys have an amazing
00:03:45.340 Ramadan assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh