Ali Dawah - December 29, 2021


RUSSEL HOWARD DEFENDS MUSLIMS


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

221.57065

Word count

932

Sentence count

53

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

7

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Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Jummah Kutbahaykum: Is it worth it to be a Muslim? Russell Howard's comments about ISIS on a comedy show have shocked many Muslims. Is he right or is he wrong?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Guys, before the video starts, I'm doing a winter appeal for Syria, Afghanistan and Ethiopia, brothers and sisters, inshaAllah.
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00:00:24.180 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:00:30.500 Before I start, I want to praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the most merciful, the most trust, or praise His glory and gratitude belong to Him.
00:00:34.700 So I was setting this video from, it's Russell Howard, as you guys know, he's a comedian.
00:00:40.860 He's on this show and he's being asked some questions and the presenter of the show asks him a specific question,
00:00:47.220 why he prefers to work at a different TV station rather than BBC.
00:00:52.040 This is what he had to say. Let's listen to it and see what we can take out of it.
00:00:55.860 I wasn't allowed to call it ISIS. I said that ISIS aren't Muslims, they're terrorists. 1.00
00:00:59.900 Can you say that ISIS aren't fundamental Muslims, they're terrorists? 0.99
00:01:02.940 And you're like, what, we're going to get a letter from ISIS, are we? 0.97
00:01:06.420 Cheers, BBC. Imagine my horror being this.
00:01:09.000 Okay guys, so we saw that for ourselves. Now, it's very interesting because I was discussing with brothers Ishan and a few others,
00:01:14.780 is it worth doing? And some of the brothers did say that basically, if you think about it,
00:01:20.000 like what BBC are doing is kind of right, you know, because they do not want to misrepresent, let's say for example.
00:01:27.580 But then again, I was thinking to myself, you know, the Prophet said, every action is based on its intention.
00:01:32.320 Now, it might be like, to me, for example, it might seem as something like in a legal sense that they have to say that
00:01:39.620 because BBC's got their solicitors, etc.
00:01:41.680 But looking at the track record of BBC, I don't think we have any room to assume the best.
00:01:45.780 I mean, if you have somebody who is consistently attacking Islam and vilifying Islam,
00:01:50.160 I think we can't really say, oh, let's assume the best. We're not going to assume the best, we're going to assume the worst.
00:01:53.740 It's as simple as that. We're going to assume the worst.
00:01:55.720 So to me, I don't think it's an issue of legal.
00:01:58.440 Now, Russell Howard, if you think about it, he has good intentions in that sense where he's trying to negate Islam from ISIS. 0.98
00:02:07.380 Now, we do the same as well, but let's be honest here, we do agree that ISIS is Muslims. 0.97
00:02:14.640 They are Muslims. I don't go to the extremes of doing takfir and saying they're not Muslims.
00:02:18.520 They are Muslims, but they are bad Muslims. 1.00
00:02:20.940 So Russell Howard obviously doesn't know the technicalities in the religion of doing takfir or not. 0.97
00:02:24.800 But the point is this, he's coming from a place of goodness where he does not want that to be associated to Muslims
00:02:29.660 because he realizes the consequences of media and propaganda that it comes at the cost of people
00:02:34.740 literally wanting to take the lives of Muslims that we saw in New Zealand, in Christchurch. 1.00
00:02:38.280 So, but when you look at BBC, you can clearly see the issue is not legal.
00:02:42.000 Like he said, which was quite funny as well, what's ISIS going to do? 0.77
00:02:44.680 Write a letter to you and say, how dare you misrepresent us?
00:02:47.580 You know, we are Muslims, you know.
00:02:50.100 So I did not understand the issue, but what really made it, to me, really clear that BBC has an agenda. 0.85
00:02:57.920 Like, it's unbelievable that they are picking on something so pathetic that Russell Howard prefers not to even work there.
00:03:04.220 Why? Because he said ISIS are terrorists, they are not Muslims. 1.00
00:03:07.120 Oh no, no, you can't say that. 0.99
00:03:08.620 Say they are Muslims, but you can say they are bad Muslims or whatever it may be.
00:03:12.680 The point is this, brothers and sisters, it's this agenda that's been pushed forward all the time, once again.
00:03:18.680 And what that does, brothers and sisters, to us as Muslims is that this propaganda that's been continuously targeted at Muslims
00:03:26.220 is coming from the higher up to the lower down.
00:03:28.520 So you can clearly see there that BBC has specific solicitors that are bloody telling the presenters or the comedians who make jokes, man.
00:03:36.400 Oh, don't say this, but say that.
00:03:38.080 Who cares? Why are you so concerned?
00:03:39.600 What's Abu Bakr Baghdad going to do?
00:03:41.640 Send a defamation?
00:03:43.180 Well, what's he going to do?
00:03:44.360 So I just wanted to share that with you guys to show that Russell Howard, that we salute him, at least he's coming from a place of goodness.
00:03:50.220 And like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Surah Mumtahina, Allah does not forbid you from being just and kind to those who do not fight you based on your faith and kick you out of your houses.
00:03:59.180 It is very, very clear.
00:04:00.620 And I just wanted to share that with you guys, brothers and sisters, inshallah.
00:04:03.120 We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide him as well because he just seemed like a lovely chap, you know, at the end of the day.
00:04:08.580 And yeah, so till next time.
00:04:10.080 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
00:04:12.120 Goodbye.