Ali Dawah - September 10, 2017OLD JEWISH MAN EXPOSES MUSLIM HISTORY
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by an old friend of mine who is a great champion of the Islamic religion. He has a vast amount of knowledge and experience in the field of Islamic history. We discuss the history of the Jewish community in Spain and its relationship with Islam.
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From Euclid, until the Muslim Empire, they didn't understand mathematics, they didn't understand geometry, they didn't understand physics, they didn't understand astrology without the Muslim influence in Europe in the Middle Ages.
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The Western Civilization took a step backwards when the Muslims were thrown out of Spain in 1492.
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Do you mind, as a Jewish, do you know historically that the Jewish have been saved by the Muslims in Spain?
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That is then. That is not necessarily now. For reasons that we best know.
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Because most of the people, they don't know about this. Could you tell us a bit about it?
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And they don't bloody will read. I'm sorry, sir.
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They should read and know the tourists go to Spain. Do they look at Seville? Do they look at the Alhambra?
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Do they not see the effect on Spanish architecture of the Muslim architects? Southern France is the same thing.
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So, basically, the Jewish, at that time, they survived, which we know today, through the Muslim umbrella.
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And we started to have a hard time in Europe when the Muslim empire retreated.
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Most of the people, they don't know. That's why we're going to put this...
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The Europeans don't know it. Yeah, that's right.
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That's the reason of it. Or maybe because of the history has been hidden of them.
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Do you know there were Muslim members of the UK Parliament at the time of Queen Victoria and Edward VII?
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They sat over here as free people. A lot of people don't know that either.
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You look up under about Marmonides. He was the leading civil servant of the Caliphs in Spain.
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He was one of those strange fellows who was a polymath.
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He was a mathematician. He was a doctor. He was a poet. He was an astrologer.
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Sorry, you have a lot of knowledge. Do you want to ask you, how old are you, if you don't mind?
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I can tell you, you have a lot of historical knowledge, which is...
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They ask you, do you have a Quran at home? Do you have a copy from...
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I can't read it in Arabic for obvious reasons. I have to read it in English.
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So do you have the English version or you have...
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Oh, good, good. So you advise people to look to the Quran as well?
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Oh, that's good, that's good, that's good. Happy to meet you, sir?
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How do you regard, you know, Islam and the Muslim world nowadays?
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Well, look, I'm actually, interestingly enough, as an Orthodox Jew, a great champion of Islam.
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The fact is that the Jewish community has a real debt to the Islamic community
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because when we were kicked out of Catholic Spain in 1492,
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when we were kicked out of Catholic Portugal, I think in 1503,
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That's why there were Jewish communities in the Islamic world until this very day.
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The Islamic community, the Jewish community of Istanbul dates from then.
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It was specifically countries beyond the Ottoman Empire
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where Jews were tolerated and they were welcomed in.
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And they paid a jizya, there was a poll tax they paid, but they were never persecuted,
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and there wasn't a Holocaust in the Islamic world.
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The fact is that Jews and Muslims have so much in common.
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Very often I meet Muslims here in the United States,
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and my first expression to them is one of sympathy,
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I don't know that you scripture, but I wanted to deny you men weapons,
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But if you don't have like foodier is becoming whatever most proteins
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I know people haveated what makes this decision meal.
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If you don't have shilly words, you're talking about a difficult position of people in other states,
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in West Virginia did not have really gustado me.
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I want to talk to him and say the() folks can be educational.
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But who screwed up if you don't have something to do before?
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I want to bring someSi and the Jews and the right away Mission,