Ali Dawah - June 05, 2025


MO SALAH REJECTED BY BBC - MUSLIM REACTS


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5 minutes

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980

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70

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1

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2

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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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00:00:36.480 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:00:39.640 I found this out from Zeto, I think that's how it's pronounced, from Mehdi Hassan's media platform.
00:00:45.540 And I was shocked that Mo Salah and Gary Lineker's interview was cancelled by the BBC.
00:00:51.340 For what reason though? Let's find it inshallah. Let's hear it from Mehdi Hassan himself.
00:00:54.940 The BBC recently cancelled a scheduled interview, apparently, between Gary Lineker and Liverpool star Mo Salah
00:01:01.020 over concerns that the pair might talk about Gaza, right? 0.96
00:01:07.880 A decision that you called beyond pathetic on social media.
00:01:11.760 What do you make of the BBC's coverage of this, Jonathan?
00:01:16.000 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.
00:01:21.480 I have recently been, and I haven't replied to the email yet.
00:01:24.740 I just got it today to ask me to go on the BBC News.
00:01:27.820 And there is not a hope in hell of me going on the BBC at the moment.
00:01:32.800 And I have a magnificent relationship with the BBC.
00:01:36.380 I would not have had a career on TV, certainly, without the BBC.
00:01:40.240 They've been incredibly kind to me.
00:01:41.640 The UK have been incredibly kind to me and my career.
00:01:44.220 I will be eternally grateful, as the US has as well.
00:01:48.600 However, BBC News is just, it's jaw-dropping.
00:01:53.660 It's like watching a movie with a BBC News insert in it.
00:01:58.700 And I can't believe what I'm seeing.
00:02:00.780 It's, it's, was it Paul Krugman talked about the tyranny of even-handedness?
00:02:06.220 I think the first time I'd read it, he'd, he'd, he'd used that phrase.
00:02:10.920 Um, yes, this excuse of impartiality.
00:02:15.160 And if I may borrow a striking metaphor, are we saying, due to impartiality, that if this
00:02:21.660 was 1944, 1945, when we discovered the horrors of Auschwitz, would we be contacting Heinrich
00:02:28.640 Himmler for his take on the genocide?
00:02:31.560 Because that's what's going on now.
00:02:34.160 It's, I find it astonishing.
00:02:35.600 I mean, I'm laughing, but I should be crying.
00:02:39.700 It is, it's a tragic scene that we're in, where, as you say, people want to be even-handed
00:02:44.040 in a genocide.
00:02:45.040 You don't even have to go back to World War II.
00:02:47.020 I don't think the BBC wait for the Russian military response every time they report on
00:02:51.000 a missile attack on Kyiv.
00:02:52.880 I think they don't trust the Russian military, rightly so. 1.00
00:02:55.920 But for some reason, the Israeli military gets a pass.
00:02:58.840 And this is Bron and Sisters reported in many, many news outlets.
00:03:02.560 Let me just show you guys a couple, inshallah, yeah?
00:03:05.220 So, this is one of those, like, subhanAllah, look at this. 1.00
00:03:07.480 BBC cancels Gary Lineker's final interview with Mohamed Salah over concerns that they will
00:03:12.140 speak about Gaza.
00:03:14.440 An atrocity that's happened.
00:03:15.780 They are afraid.
00:03:16.300 But if Russia was to attack Ukraine for a split second, no problem at all.
00:03:20.560 No problem at all, inshallah.
00:03:21.980 And here's another video you can see for yourself, inshallah, clearly stating that, look, that
00:03:28.240 the BBC actually done this.
00:03:29.100 Can you believe this?
00:03:29.660 Let's watch it for ourselves, inshallah.
00:03:30.600 This is another quick video.
00:03:32.860 Gary Lineker's final BBC interview with Mohamed Salah was reportedly cancelled over concerns
00:03:38.160 that the former pundit would discuss the war in Gaza with the Liverpool star.
00:03:42.720 The England legend announced that he would step back from the broadcaster for good after
00:03:46.860 becoming embroiled in controversy for sharing an Instagram story about Zionism featuring a 0.90
00:03:51.800 rat, an anti-Semitic trope used by the Nazis to characterise Jewish people as vermin.
00:03:56.800 However, according to The Sun, Lineker was believed to be primed for a sit-down with Salah,
00:04:02.360 but the interview was cancelled without warning amid fears that he would discuss the ongoing
00:04:06.680 conflict in the Middle East.
00:04:08.580 Meanwhile, the BBC were contacted for comment by the publication and shared the following
00:04:13.160 statement.
00:04:14.120 The interview was cancelled because it planned to air after Gary's last match of the day.
00:04:18.500 I mean, there you go guys.
00:04:20.340 What could you make out of that, subhanAllah, that they are cancelling most Salah and Gary
00:04:25.680 Lineker.
00:04:26.120 One's a Muslim, one's a non-Muslim. 1.00
00:04:27.720 You have people like Dave Smith, who's a Jewish person, who's a Jewish man, and all of them,
00:04:32.000 they have been attacked because of objective news to say that what's going on in Gaza is a
00:04:36.640 genocide.
00:04:37.020 This is wrong.
00:04:37.820 You can't make this stuff up, guys.
00:04:39.120 It's genuinely you think to yourself, and rightly so, that guy, Mehti Sun was interviewing, 1.00
00:04:42.920 then, it's like in the 1944-1945, going to one of Hitler's left-hand right-hand men and
00:04:47.240 asking him for explanations, you know, and give Elaine here, not to be impartial. 0.98
00:04:51.760 Brothers and sisters, they would never do this.
00:04:53.340 And you can see the hypocrisy.
00:04:54.820 That's why justice is one of the most important things in Islam.
00:04:58.480 Justice is the most important thing in Islam.
00:05:01.080 And this is something that's not just insult in Muslims, but even non-Muslims. 0.52
00:05:04.380 And even Tehmi says, those, even Kuffar, non-Muslims, who act on justice, Allah will 0.99
00:05:10.640 give them victory over the Muslims who are unjust. 1.00
00:05:12.920 Why?
00:05:13.320 Because the greatest injustice in this life is the associate partners, Allah will 1.00
00:05:16.240 be my sisters.
00:05:16.980 And that follows with other injustices, subhanAllah. 1.00
00:05:19.520 I couldn't believe it.
00:05:20.960 And subhanAllah, and we hope people like Maw Salah carry on speaking more.
00:05:25.220 I don't know if he's speaking about it, but he should do more about it, inshallah.
00:05:28.700 SubhanAllah, sisters, shame on you, BBC.
00:05:30.560 And big up to Gary Linekar.
00:05:32.120 May Allah bless and preserve you guys.
00:05:34.340 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.