MO SALAH REJECTED BY BBC - MUSLIM REACTS
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Summary
BBC cancels Gary Lineker's final interview with Mo Salah over concerns that the pair would discuss Gaza, a decision that has been widely condemned on social media as 'pathetic' and 'shameful' by many.
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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
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I found this out from Zeto, I think that's how it's pronounced, from Mehdi Hassan's media platform.
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And I was shocked that Mo Salah and Gary Lineker's interview was cancelled by the BBC.
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For what reason though? Let's find it inshallah. Let's hear it from Mehdi Hassan himself.
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The BBC recently cancelled a scheduled interview, apparently, between Gary Lineker and Liverpool star Mo Salah
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over concerns that the pair might talk about Gaza, right?
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A decision that you called beyond pathetic on social media.
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What do you make of the BBC's coverage of this, Jonathan?
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Well, there's been a lot of, because of the flow tale, and I was there for the launch for a few days and stuff like that.
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I have recently been, and I haven't replied to the email yet.
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I just got it today to ask me to go on the BBC News.
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And there is not a hope in hell of me going on the BBC at the moment.
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And I have a magnificent relationship with the BBC.
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I would not have had a career on TV, certainly, without the BBC.
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The UK have been incredibly kind to me and my career.
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I will be eternally grateful, as the US has as well.
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It's like watching a movie with a BBC News insert in it.
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It's, it's, was it Paul Krugman talked about the tyranny of even-handedness?
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I think the first time I'd read it, he'd, he'd, he'd used that phrase.
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And if I may borrow a striking metaphor, are we saying, due to impartiality, that if this
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was 1944, 1945, when we discovered the horrors of Auschwitz, would we be contacting Heinrich
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It is, it's a tragic scene that we're in, where, as you say, people want to be even-handed
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You don't even have to go back to World War II.
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I don't think the BBC wait for the Russian military response every time they report on
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I think they don't trust the Russian military, rightly so.
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But for some reason, the Israeli military gets a pass.
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And this is Bron and Sisters reported in many, many news outlets.
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Let me just show you guys a couple, inshallah, yeah?
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So, this is one of those, like, subhanAllah, look at this.
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BBC cancels Gary Lineker's final interview with Mohamed Salah over concerns that they will
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But if Russia was to attack Ukraine for a split second, no problem at all.
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And here's another video you can see for yourself, inshallah, clearly stating that, look, that
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Gary Lineker's final BBC interview with Mohamed Salah was reportedly cancelled over concerns
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that the former pundit would discuss the war in Gaza with the Liverpool star.
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The England legend announced that he would step back from the broadcaster for good after
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becoming embroiled in controversy for sharing an Instagram story about Zionism featuring a
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rat, an anti-Semitic trope used by the Nazis to characterise Jewish people as vermin.
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However, according to The Sun, Lineker was believed to be primed for a sit-down with Salah,
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but the interview was cancelled without warning amid fears that he would discuss the ongoing
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Meanwhile, the BBC were contacted for comment by the publication and shared the following
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The interview was cancelled because it planned to air after Gary's last match of the day.
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What could you make out of that, subhanAllah, that they are cancelling most Salah and Gary
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You have people like Dave Smith, who's a Jewish person, who's a Jewish man, and all of them,
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they have been attacked because of objective news to say that what's going on in Gaza is a
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It's genuinely you think to yourself, and rightly so, that guy, Mehti Sun was interviewing,
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then, it's like in the 1944-1945, going to one of Hitler's left-hand right-hand men and
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asking him for explanations, you know, and give Elaine here, not to be impartial.
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Brothers and sisters, they would never do this.
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That's why justice is one of the most important things in Islam.
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And this is something that's not just insult in Muslims, but even non-Muslims.
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And even Tehmi says, those, even Kuffar, non-Muslims, who act on justice, Allah will
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give them victory over the Muslims who are unjust.
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Because the greatest injustice in this life is the associate partners, Allah will
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And that follows with other injustices, subhanAllah.
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And subhanAllah, and we hope people like Maw Salah carry on speaking more.
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I don't know if he's speaking about it, but he should do more about it, inshallah.