Ali Dawah - September 27, 2022


IRANIAN WOMAN TAKES OFF HIJAB


Episode Stats

Length

17 minutes

Words per Minute

202.6117

Word Count

3,460

Sentence Count

591

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

35


Summary

In this episode, we talk about the recent murder of a young Muslim girl in Iran. She was wearing a headscarf and was with her brother at the time of her murder. Her brother was taken away by the morality police and later died in a hospital.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Islam is free from this. This has nothing to do with Islam. I want to make that clear.
00:00:04.000 We want a country that hijab is not compulsive.
00:00:11.000 Islamnet is establishing a masjid and a community center.
00:00:14.000 If you donate to build this masjid, Allah will inshallah build a house for you in Jannah with bricks of gold and silver.
00:00:20.000 Every person who prays in this masjid, every child that memorizes the Quran, you will inshallah share in that reward.
00:00:26.000 Donate now guys and do not delay.
00:00:28.000 Sister, what's your name? My name is Ali. Just formulate it.
00:00:31.000 My name is Ali as well. What's the problem?
00:00:34.000 Sister Ali. Okay, no problem.
00:00:35.000 You don't need to know my gender.
00:00:37.000 No, no, no. I have respect.
00:00:40.000 Don't call me sister. Okay? Go on.
00:00:42.000 What can I call you? I have respect.
00:00:44.000 You don't need to call me.
00:00:45.000 How am I going to refer to you?
00:00:47.000 Can I say madam? Okay, thank you.
00:00:49.000 Okay, okay. Firstly, let's talk about what's important in her life, which was taken.
00:00:55.000 Yes?
00:00:56.000 The life of this, yeah?
00:00:58.000 And many more.
00:00:59.000 And many more. Okay, let's talk about that. I think that's really important.
00:01:02.000 The thing I'm just a little bit confused about before I come to this, her name was Mahsa?
00:01:07.000 Yeah, Mahsa.
00:01:08.000 Okay, okay. So firstly, we acknowledge that, I'm a Muslim by the way. I came to Islam 10 years ago.
00:01:13.000 My family is, my dad's atheist agnostic.
00:01:16.000 Just to give you an idea, I was born Muslim, but I'm not Muslim anymore.
00:01:19.000 Okay, so I came to Islam.
00:01:20.000 I decided not to be a Muslim.
00:01:21.000 Okay, I came to Islam, you left Islam.
00:01:23.000 I don't need to know your religion. I equally respect everyone's opinion, regardless of their religion.
00:01:28.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:29.000 You don't need to explain anything to me.
00:01:31.000 Okay.
00:01:32.000 Get to the point.
00:01:33.000 Okay, so if I can just get to the point, please, yeah?
00:01:34.000 So the point is, number one, that she was killed. What I saw, by the way, I don't know much.
00:01:39.000 If you can educate me, I'll be happy.
00:01:41.000 Yeah.
00:01:42.000 No problem, you are talking more than us.
00:01:45.000 Just shut the face.
00:01:46.000 Shut the face.
00:01:47.000 Let us tell you what happened.
00:01:48.000 That's why I came.
00:01:49.000 You don't have enough information.
00:01:50.000 That's correct.
00:01:51.000 We have information.
00:01:52.000 That's why I came to you.
00:01:53.000 That's why I came to you.
00:01:54.000 That's why I came to you.
00:01:56.000 That's why I came to you.
00:01:57.000 We respect you.
00:01:58.000 You are talking more than us.
00:02:00.000 No, no, no.
00:02:01.000 I'm Parisian too.
00:02:02.000 I want to learn.
00:02:03.000 I came here to learn.
00:02:04.000 I'm not talking.
00:02:05.000 Tell me.
00:02:06.000 Yes.
00:02:07.000 We have a dictator.
00:02:08.000 Okay.
00:02:09.000 Okay.
00:02:10.000 We believe that he's using Islam as a tool to kill people.
00:02:13.000 Okay.
00:02:14.000 We don't care that what religion people have.
00:02:17.000 Okay.
00:02:18.000 People in Iran can have many religions, whatever that they like.
00:02:21.000 Okay.
00:02:22.000 They can be Christians.
00:02:23.000 They can be Muslims.
00:02:24.000 They can choose whatever that they like.
00:02:26.000 But imposing and using a tool, using religion as a tool and forcing it on people and killing
00:02:33.000 people in the name of it, that is wrong.
00:02:36.000 That is so wrong that we don't need even to talk about it.
00:02:40.000 This girl was with her brother.
00:02:43.000 Okay.
00:02:44.000 Okay.
00:02:45.000 She was wearing something that I believe and many people believe that was absolutely
00:02:51.000 normal.
00:02:52.000 Okay.
00:02:53.000 She wasn't without a scarf.
00:02:54.000 Yeah.
00:02:55.000 She was having a normal.
00:02:56.000 Yeah.
00:02:57.000 But she was kept by the police and then morality police.
00:03:03.000 Separated them.
00:03:04.000 Separated them.
00:03:05.000 With her brother.
00:03:06.000 With her brother.
00:03:07.000 With her brother.
00:03:08.000 Separated from the sister.
00:03:09.000 Yes.
00:03:10.000 Forcefully.
00:03:11.000 Forcefully.
00:03:12.000 And then murdered the sister.
00:03:13.000 They murdered him.
00:03:14.000 Okay.
00:03:15.000 How do you think that brother is feeling now?
00:03:16.000 Just imagine you have a sister.
00:03:17.000 That was my sister.
00:03:18.000 Yes.
00:03:19.000 Yes.
00:03:20.000 With her.
00:03:21.000 Going to another city.
00:03:22.000 Yeah.
00:03:23.000 Imagine that you just go to another city.
00:03:24.000 Yeah.
00:03:25.000 And then they keep your sister.
00:03:28.000 Yes.
00:03:29.000 And then after few hours, they give you someone that is going to die in the hospital three
00:03:35.000 days later.
00:03:36.000 Just imagine how her brother is feeling now.
00:03:39.000 That's not.
00:03:40.000 If it was my sister.
00:03:41.000 If it was my sister.
00:03:42.000 I would be very angry.
00:03:43.000 I would do more than that.
00:03:44.000 You know.
00:03:45.000 Most of the opinion I hear from my Muslim brothers.
00:03:48.000 Yes.
00:03:49.000 Is based on their assumption and interpretation of Islam.
00:03:52.000 What in Iran.
00:03:53.000 Islam is a political brand.
00:03:55.000 Yes.
00:03:56.000 Shia.
00:03:57.000 Shia.
00:03:58.000 Shia is their political brand.
00:04:00.000 Yes.
00:04:01.000 To brutally suppress any other thought.
00:04:04.000 Okay.
00:04:05.000 Any other movement in that society.
00:04:07.000 When they put this tag as an Islamic state or Islamic country on Iran.
00:04:12.000 Yeah.
00:04:13.000 It doesn't reflect true nature of the society.
00:04:15.000 It's their brand.
00:04:16.000 Yes.
00:04:17.000 Okay.
00:04:18.000 Proposing it on everyone.
00:04:19.000 No matter what they think.
00:04:21.000 That's.
00:04:22.000 That's what.
00:04:23.000 That.
00:04:24.000 That's why people are now on the street.
00:04:25.000 Uh.
00:04:26.000 Fighting.
00:04:27.000 Protesting.
00:04:28.000 Protesting and fighting for freedom.
00:04:29.000 Yeah.
00:04:30.000 Okay.
00:04:31.000 Because they aren't happy with this totalitarian system.
00:04:33.000 Okay.
00:04:34.000 I saw a video.
00:04:35.000 Please educate me.
00:04:36.000 I'm here to be educated.
00:04:37.000 Um.
00:04:38.000 Where she.
00:04:39.000 Is that in hospital or police custody when she falls.
00:04:40.000 And she.
00:04:41.000 Yeah.
00:04:42.000 Where did that happen?
00:04:43.000 I don't know.
00:04:44.000 Okay.
00:04:45.000 So in police custody she collapses.
00:04:46.000 Yes.
00:04:47.000 Yes.
00:04:48.000 Because.
00:04:49.000 Because.
00:04:50.000 Before that.
00:04:51.000 It cracked her skull open.
00:04:52.000 So before that she was.
00:04:54.000 She had a.
00:04:55.000 Um.
00:04:56.000 Um.
00:04:57.000 Attacked her.
00:04:58.000 Yes.
00:04:59.000 She took her in custody.
00:05:00.000 Okay.
00:05:01.000 And brutally.
00:05:02.000 Beat her up.
00:05:03.000 Beat her up.
00:05:04.000 Okay.
00:05:05.000 To the point that it cracked her skull open.
00:05:06.000 Okay.
00:05:07.000 Then later on in the police station.
00:05:08.000 Yeah.
00:05:09.000 Because of the.
00:05:10.000 The injury.
00:05:11.000 Hemorrhage.
00:05:12.000 In her.
00:05:13.000 In her.
00:05:14.000 Brain.
00:05:15.000 Brain yeah.
00:05:16.000 She collapses and passes away.
00:05:17.000 Okay.
00:05:18.000 And they don't tell you the entire story.
00:05:19.000 Okay.
00:05:20.000 Who puts a lot of focus on that footage only.
00:05:22.000 Okay.
00:05:23.000 They say okay it was.
00:05:24.000 Because of natural causes.
00:05:25.000 But that's.
00:05:26.000 Yeah that's what they were saying.
00:05:27.000 Listen to her.
00:05:28.000 Yeah.
00:05:29.000 Listen to her brother.
00:05:30.000 Yeah.
00:05:31.000 They are very brave.
00:05:32.000 And they're talking.
00:05:33.000 And they ask so many.
00:05:34.000 Questions.
00:05:35.000 Okay.
00:05:36.000 But why the government is not.
00:05:37.000 Answering those questions.
00:05:38.000 And if you want to.
00:05:39.000 Actually feel the brothers.
00:05:40.000 If you have a sister.
00:05:41.000 Yes.
00:05:42.000 She's wearing her job.
00:05:43.000 Yeah.
00:05:44.000 Just imagine in here.
00:05:45.000 Someone take her.
00:05:46.000 Yeah.
00:05:47.000 Imagine the police starts after your sister.
00:05:48.000 You know.
00:05:49.000 Because she has the job.
00:05:51.000 It's the same feeling.
00:05:52.000 Yeah.
00:05:53.000 It's not right.
00:05:54.000 Okay.
00:05:55.000 So as.
00:05:56.000 I've listened to you guys.
00:05:57.000 Like I didn't know some stuff.
00:05:58.000 I really appreciate.
00:05:59.000 Thank you for crowdfunding for me.
00:06:00.000 As a Muslim man.
00:06:01.000 Um.
00:06:02.000 What's that?
00:06:03.000 Number one.
00:06:04.000 I'm against the whole regime of Iran.
00:06:05.000 Period.
00:06:06.000 Like as Muslims.
00:06:07.000 The Sunni Muslims were against that anyways.
00:06:08.000 And number two.
00:06:09.000 In Islam.
00:06:10.000 Actually to take a life.
00:06:11.000 Like there is no prescribed punishment.
00:06:12.000 For someone not wearing a hijab.
00:06:13.000 Like if you look at the Sharia.
00:06:14.000 There is no prescribed.
00:06:15.000 There is no prescribed punishment.
00:06:16.000 For adultery.
00:06:17.000 For zina.
00:06:18.000 For slander.
00:06:19.000 For robbery.
00:06:20.000 Um.
00:06:21.000 For apostasy.
00:06:22.000 But when it comes to the hijab.
00:06:23.000 There is.
00:06:24.000 It doesn't mean it's not a sin.
00:06:25.000 But there is nothing that says.
00:06:26.000 That you can kill somebody.
00:06:28.000 Over a hijab.
00:06:29.000 This is a big fat lie.
00:06:30.000 Which is a different topic.
00:06:31.000 I'm just clarifying.
00:06:32.000 But the problem is.
00:06:33.000 They kill people.
00:06:34.000 For a variety of reasons.
00:06:35.000 Exactly.
00:06:36.000 It's not only this.
00:06:37.000 It's just an excuse.
00:06:38.000 Because they are oppressing the society.
00:06:39.000 Yes.
00:06:40.000 Exactly.
00:06:41.000 Yes.
00:06:42.000 They have their brutal police force.
00:06:43.000 Yes.
00:06:44.000 To.
00:06:45.000 Trying to silence people.
00:06:46.000 Yes.
00:06:47.000 So you have only about hijab.
00:06:48.000 What we are against is that.
00:06:49.000 Our politicians.
00:06:50.000 Our government.
00:06:51.000 Yes.
00:06:52.000 We are not against anything other than.
00:06:53.000 Yes.
00:06:54.000 Gay people.
00:06:55.000 If.
00:06:56.000 Yeah.
00:06:57.000 If someone.
00:06:58.000 Would force or kill.
00:06:59.000 Any woman in Iran.
00:07:00.000 Yes.
00:07:01.000 Hijab.
00:07:02.000 Yes.
00:07:03.000 I would do the same.
00:07:04.000 Yes.
00:07:05.000 I would do exactly the same.
00:07:06.000 You know sometimes.
00:07:07.000 You know like in France for example.
00:07:08.000 Yeah.
00:07:09.000 I would be absolutely against that.
00:07:10.000 Exactly.
00:07:11.000 It's just sometimes.
00:07:12.000 You know what it is.
00:07:13.000 We understand where you are coming from.
00:07:14.000 Somebody has lost their life.
00:07:15.000 At the end of the day.
00:07:16.000 Like Allah says in the Quran.
00:07:17.000 If you take one soul.
00:07:18.000 This is going to kill the whole of humanity.
00:07:19.000 And if you save one soul.
00:07:20.000 So what we want to tell you guys.
00:07:21.000 I know some of you guys are not Muslim.
00:07:22.000 But the thing is.
00:07:23.000 Islam is free from this.
00:07:24.000 This has nothing to do with Islam.
00:07:26.000 I want to make that clear.
00:07:27.000 That's a very important point.
00:07:28.000 I want to make that clear.
00:07:29.000 The behaviour of these regimes.
00:07:31.000 Yes.
00:07:32.000 Is damaging the society.
00:07:33.000 Yes.
00:07:34.000 But you know who takes the damage even more than that.
00:07:35.000 Yeah.
00:07:36.000 Islam.
00:07:37.000 Yes.
00:07:38.000 Exactly.
00:07:39.000 Because they do it in the name of Islam.
00:07:40.000 Exactly.
00:07:41.000 Same as ISIS.
00:07:42.000 They do it in our name.
00:07:43.000 Exactly.
00:07:44.000 It's exactly the same.
00:07:45.000 For Iranians.
00:07:46.000 When we come to any other countries.
00:07:47.000 Yes.
00:07:48.000 They think.
00:07:49.000 I'm Iranian.
00:07:50.000 Yes.
00:07:51.000 I'm not with the government.
00:07:52.000 Exactly.
00:07:53.000 I'm not thinking about killing other.
00:07:54.000 Exactly.
00:07:55.000 Yeah.
00:07:56.000 That's.
00:07:57.000 So you share our pain.
00:07:58.000 Because we go through the same thing.
00:07:59.000 Exactly.
00:08:00.000 That's the same.
00:08:01.000 We're doing.
00:08:02.000 All we're doing is we're suffering at the hands of these people who've hijacked our religion.
00:08:03.000 Like for you guys.
00:08:04.000 Anyone who's using their power.
00:08:05.000 We have to be against them.
00:08:06.000 Yes.
00:08:07.000 No one should be in power more than a period of time in any country.
00:08:11.000 Yeah.
00:08:12.000 You've been in power for five years.
00:08:14.000 Thank you very much.
00:08:15.000 Go away.
00:08:16.000 Someone else should come in.
00:08:17.000 Yeah.
00:08:18.000 But the problem is this man been in power for more than three years.
00:08:22.000 For more than 30 years.
00:08:23.000 Yeah.
00:08:24.000 Imagine how corrupted is that government.
00:08:27.000 Imagine all the money that they have and how they are spending it.
00:08:31.000 It's awful.
00:08:32.000 You can see all indications of a dictatorship and a totalitarian regime in Iran.
00:08:38.000 All indications.
00:08:39.000 And one of the massive ones is a single person in power for more than 30 years.
00:08:44.000 Yeah.
00:08:45.000 He has all the power and resources in the country.
00:08:47.000 Okay.
00:08:48.000 So you know one thing I wanted to touch up on.
00:08:49.000 Maybe it's relating to this.
00:08:50.000 Is that you know when we talk about freedom.
00:08:52.000 So like for example a person is free to wear the hijab or not to wear the hijab.
00:08:58.000 Just off topic a bit.
00:08:59.000 When we talk about freedom what do you exactly mean?
00:09:01.000 Because like I don't believe personally in this concept that you choose not to wear the hijab.
00:09:07.000 I don't believe this exists.
00:09:08.000 Like I don't.
00:09:09.000 I don't.
00:09:10.000 I'll repeat again.
00:09:11.000 I believe that you don't choose not to wear the hijab.
00:09:14.000 You are forced not to wear the hijab.
00:09:16.000 By whom?
00:09:17.000 By whom?
00:09:18.000 Okay good.
00:09:19.000 Good.
00:09:20.000 So this is where I want to come in.
00:09:21.000 Society.
00:09:22.000 Society.
00:09:23.000 Maybe by the things that I've read.
00:09:24.000 Maybe.
00:09:25.000 Or maybe.
00:09:26.000 Maybe.
00:09:27.000 Maybe.
00:09:28.000 Maybe.
00:09:29.000 Maybe.
00:09:30.000 Maybe.
00:09:31.000 Maybe.
00:09:32.000 Maybe.
00:09:33.000 Maybe.
00:09:34.000 Maybe in the day.
00:09:35.000 100 years later, women are going to shave their hair
00:09:39.120 because it's more efficient.
00:09:41.300 It can be anything.
00:09:43.600 I absolutely agree.
00:09:44.900 I am not wearing hijab at the moment
00:09:47.640 because of all the things that happened in my life.
00:09:50.880 Okay, I understand, and I'm sorry that happened.
00:09:52.640 And whoever did this, I genuinely, on their behalf,
00:09:54.700 to make you feel...
00:09:55.860 I'll be honest with you, look, sometimes, as Muslims,
00:09:58.220 the Prophet, peace be upon him, said,
00:09:59.600 I came for nothing but to perfect good character.
00:10:02.100 Meaning, when you look...
00:10:03.080 What's the definition of good character?
00:10:04.280 So, for example, good character starts with Allah, God Almighty.
00:10:07.740 Because some people say this tree is God.
00:10:09.660 We say that's having bad character with Allah.
00:10:11.340 I want to give you a tip.
00:10:13.060 One tip, because I've been, of course, I'm 41 years old.
00:10:18.100 I've had this conversation a lot.
00:10:21.800 One thing that people get wrong is that
00:10:24.240 if in a good intention,
00:10:27.680 even in a brotherhood intention,
00:10:30.180 they come and tell me and tell me,
00:10:32.440 one day, I'm going to say,
00:10:34.020 okay, I'm going to wait a second.
00:10:34.960 Absolutely impose it on you.
00:10:36.000 No, maybe not.
00:10:36.500 That's not going to work on you.
00:10:37.060 No, no, not exactly.
00:10:38.060 So, even with the good intention,
00:10:41.540 Yes.
00:10:41.960 do not repeat the same message.
00:10:43.780 I'm telling you.
00:10:44.280 Yes, exactly, yes.
00:10:45.040 So, what I'm saying...
00:10:45.900 Change it.
00:10:46.900 Give it other things.
00:10:47.980 Yeah.
00:10:48.140 Because I believe that people,
00:10:51.360 they are...
00:10:52.140 Most people, they look for religion.
00:10:54.340 They want to have a religion.
00:10:55.260 Of course, everybody...
00:10:56.240 It gives them happiness.
00:10:58.840 A purpose.
00:10:59.220 It calms them.
00:10:59.940 A purpose, yes.
00:11:00.740 If they are having a stressful life...
00:11:03.300 Whatever reason is it.
00:11:04.600 Whatever reason.
00:11:05.760 Yeah.
00:11:06.080 They find it.
00:11:07.300 So, I don't have problems people having religion.
00:11:10.000 Yeah, I know, I know.
00:11:10.520 I know, I know.
00:11:11.460 Islam can be one of those.
00:11:12.680 Yes, yes.
00:11:13.280 I don't mind.
00:11:13.880 What I wanted really for you is that even by being kind but repeating and repeating,
00:11:21.120 that's not going to work.
00:11:21.840 Okay, good.
00:11:22.400 So, what I was saying...
00:11:23.860 I wasn't saying that let's be kind and do the same thing.
00:11:26.220 What I was saying in general, as Muslims, we should have good character.
00:11:29.520 Period.
00:11:29.880 Not about you wear hijab and not wear hijab.
00:11:31.240 I'm just saying in general, as Muslims, we are...
00:11:33.700 This is where the...
00:11:35.780 What do you call those...
00:11:37.540 I forgot the name.
00:11:38.940 But basically, we are the ones who are in the front.
00:11:40.700 We are the ones that people judge Islam by.
00:11:42.680 So, it's very important for us to conduct ourselves in the right manner.
00:11:46.080 But the thing I was just saying for the sister as well is that I believe truly that for someone
00:11:50.720 to say that they don't wear the hijab and they choose not to, I believe this is not true.
00:11:55.260 And luckily, I'm talking off topic.
00:11:56.360 I'm not talking about this issue, yeah?
00:11:57.520 What I mean by that is, for example, there are a lot of women in this country or around
00:12:01.140 the world, billions of them, who wear miniskirts.
00:12:04.340 They get their nose done.
00:12:05.500 They get their backside done.
00:12:07.280 They get their breasts done.
00:12:08.460 The question is, do they choose to do this?
00:12:10.380 I say no.
00:12:11.060 They are forced to do this.
00:12:12.500 Exactly, to Islam as well.
00:12:15.280 Islam to a side.
00:12:16.360 Islam to a side.
00:12:16.920 We're going to say people are very...
00:12:18.940 No, the beauty industry, other women, men, society.
00:12:23.060 There are many...
00:12:23.420 There's a book on this called...
00:12:24.040 But that happens to people that they have hijab as well.
00:12:27.100 Yes.
00:12:27.460 You are saying that they're not choosing it.
00:12:29.580 It just happens because of their society.
00:12:30.360 No, no, no.
00:12:30.840 For example...
00:12:32.180 They don't have freedom.
00:12:33.080 Why is it so difficult for my Muslim brothers to accept that people can think differently
00:12:38.800 from them?
00:12:39.520 No, no.
00:12:39.800 We accept that.
00:12:40.820 I'm not saying that.
00:12:41.700 It's so miniskirt, it's not bad.
00:12:42.740 No, no, no.
00:12:43.480 It's the hardest thing for you guys to accept that people can think differently and choose
00:12:47.440 not to wear hijab.
00:12:48.400 Of course, I'm not saying that.
00:12:49.480 You are having a very difficult time to accept that.
00:12:51.540 No, no, I accept that.
00:12:52.160 I don't believe that having a nose done job is bad as well.
00:12:55.200 I don't think that piercing is bad for miniskirt.
00:12:57.900 But sister, if a woman tries to get her nose smashed, this is no oppression?
00:13:02.060 No.
00:13:02.660 This is no oppression?
00:13:03.360 It is their body, their choice.
00:13:05.540 Okay.
00:13:06.060 Is it their choice when the industry and the beauty industry and the makeup industry...
00:13:10.360 I'm not going to advertise this.
00:13:11.840 No, no.
00:13:12.300 But sister, what I'm saying is...
00:13:13.540 But if my sister does it, I'm not going to say don't do it.
00:13:16.140 No, no, no.
00:13:16.640 I'm not saying that.
00:13:17.240 Look, we shouldn't hit anybody.
00:13:18.580 What I'm saying is...
00:13:19.160 Sorry, my team is gone.
00:13:20.720 Okay, okay.
00:13:21.400 No problem.
00:13:21.600 Thank you.
00:13:21.980 Thank you, sister.
00:13:22.520 Thank you.
00:13:23.060 Sorry, just in a nutshell, guys.
00:13:24.700 What happened was tragic.
00:13:25.880 I don't want to change the story.
00:13:28.520 The point I was trying to make is this perception that we are under that women who cover up are
00:13:34.800 forced, but women that cover up are not forced.
00:13:37.600 And this is a big, fat lie.
00:13:39.320 This is a big, fat lie.
00:13:41.320 You look at the beauty industry, billion dollar industry.
00:13:44.860 Yeah?
00:13:45.420 Now, just because somebody doesn't hit you on the head and go, don't wear the hijab,
00:13:49.880 get your nose done, doesn't mean they are free.
00:13:53.260 The point I'm trying to say is, which woman, why do they wake up in the morning and find
00:13:57.920 the need to spend two hours doing makeup?
00:14:00.120 Why do they find the need to wear four-inch heels and it's so uncomfortable they have to
00:14:04.300 take it off in cold weather?
00:14:05.760 Why do they find the need to get their buttocks, their bums, excuse me, their backsides done
00:14:10.620 and some of them die in the process?
00:14:12.180 There was a Brazilian woman in Brazil, she got her bomb done and she died.
00:14:16.240 She literally sacrificed her life for that beauty.
00:14:18.960 So the point I'm trying to say is this notion that Muslim women are oppressed and the Western
00:14:24.680 women, Iranian women, whoever it may be, we choose to take you off.
00:14:27.840 No, you don't.
00:14:29.200 You are told to in a different way and you think, oh, I choose.
00:14:33.060 No, you don't.
00:14:33.900 Why do you go, like, by the way, anyone can dress up how they want to dress up in this
00:14:36.980 country.
00:14:37.420 The point I'm trying to make is this.
00:14:39.280 When I, well, we shouldn't actually, none of us should see this, but you know, it pops
00:14:42.940 up in front of you.
00:14:43.900 In the winter, a woman wearing a miniskirt, you're thinking to yourself, does she really
00:14:48.360 choose to?
00:14:48.880 Does she wake up and say, it's freezing cold and I'm going to wear a miniskirt today?
00:14:53.280 No, she does not.
00:14:54.320 She's like, I look, I think I look beautiful.
00:14:57.000 Men look at me.
00:14:58.540 I'm, I'm in competition with other women and the beauty industry and all of this, and I
00:15:02.540 am willing to go and wear a miniskirt.
00:15:04.320 That is oppression.
00:15:06.160 Now, the same could be said about our sisters.
00:15:08.820 Do they wear the hijab because they want to?
00:15:10.460 No, they do it because they have to.
00:15:12.500 Do I wake up for Fajr because I want to?
00:15:14.540 Well, yeah, but I do it because I have to.
00:15:17.200 It's not something I enjoy in the context where I'm like, it's hard.
00:15:20.720 Waking up for Fajr is hard.
00:15:21.660 But I do it because I'm told to.
00:15:25.020 Now, you're going to say, well, what's the difference?
00:15:26.780 You are told to.
00:15:27.980 They are told to.
00:15:28.980 The difference is this.
00:15:30.520 I choose to follow the one that created me and he deserves my worship and he deserves
00:15:34.760 me to obey him.
00:15:36.160 However, the creation, the beauty industry, the men and the opposite gender and all these
00:15:40.340 industries, they do not deserve me to listen to them.
00:15:43.440 That is the difference.
00:15:45.040 And that's the point I just wanted to make.
00:15:46.360 And obviously, it's sad what happened to the sister who passed away.
00:15:49.740 And this is not from Islam.
00:15:50.660 Nowhere in Islam does it tell you to execute or kill somebody because they do not wear
00:15:55.240 the hijab.
00:15:55.660 There is no capital punishment for this.
00:15:58.580 Yeah, there is.
00:15:59.100 There isn't.
00:15:59.400 Let's be real.
00:15:59.880 Like, I'm an Orthodox Muslim.
00:16:00.760 I shouldn't call it my religion.
00:16:02.260 You know, there is capital punishment for apostasy.
00:16:04.480 Yeah.
00:16:04.740 And I always say this and I've got no problem with it.
00:16:06.760 Yeah.
00:16:06.880 In a legitimate Islamic country.
00:16:09.460 But when women come to me and make it out as if they choose.
00:16:13.220 Like she said, I don't see any problem with getting my nose done.
00:16:15.920 Can you imagine going under operation?
00:16:18.000 When you get your nose done, your eyes start going.
00:16:19.660 You know, after operation, your eyes are this big.
00:16:21.600 Yeah.
00:16:22.440 There can be confusions, complications.
00:16:24.280 Yeah.
00:16:25.500 You're telling me you are willingly to go there and get your nose done?
00:16:29.140 No, you're not.
00:16:30.420 I have family members.
00:16:31.860 I know.
00:16:32.380 I don't want to get into detail.
00:16:34.440 Three, four of them have got their nose done.
00:16:36.200 And I go to them and go, she done it?
00:16:38.540 Okay.
00:16:39.240 Why did you do it?
00:16:40.280 Oh, I done it because it looked good on her.
00:16:42.260 Okay.
00:16:42.780 So why did you do it?
00:16:43.700 Oh, because it's good.
00:16:44.860 Come on, man.
00:16:45.420 Don't come to me with this.
00:16:46.520 I'm so sorry.
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