Ali Dawah - August 26, 2021


TALIBAN SUPPORTING JEW IN AFGHANISTAN SPEAKS OUT


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

185.53491

Word Count

1,192

Sentence Count

4

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Zalban Simintov, the caretaker of Kabul's only synagogue, decides to stay in Afghanistan despite the return of the taliban. Why would a jewish man stay in a country ruled by the Taliban?


Transcript

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00:00:30.100 in defense hope you guys are well inshallah today i read an article and i found it very profound because
00:00:34.680 there was a few lessons we can learn from this and i'm going to jump straight into inshallah yeah so
00:00:38.660 us left with a bad name afghanistan's last known jew hails taliban's return a jewish person hailing
00:00:46.580 taliban's return the two doesn't look like they can mix let's carry on reading brothers and sisters
00:00:51.700 and we can learn some lessons out of this inshallah so this man his name is zabilon simintov
00:00:57.340 as the caretaker of kabul's only synagogue so there is a synagogue in kabul right interesting
00:01:04.160 residing in this compound for decades simintov has witnessed a civil war soviet and u.s invasions
00:01:09.800 of afghanistan the taliban rule and the groups returned to power 20 years later all his bags were
00:01:15.160 packed and zabilon simintov was ready to go but since the taliban's stunning take-off of kabul last
00:01:21.520 week simintov afghanistan's last known jew has had a change of heart and plans saying he does not
00:01:27.300 wish to leave anymore why would a jewish man no one to leave afghanistan especially when they're
00:01:33.020 ruling on the taliban however after taliban's brothers seek or siege of afghanistan capital on
00:01:38.820 sunday and the groups pledged to form an all-inclusive government and not seek revenge against
00:01:43.040 enemies simintov says he has chosen to stay in afghanistan his home for over five decades a few days
00:01:48.780 ago an afghan came from america with a plane ticket to take me back to israel i said i won't go even if
00:01:54.980 the plane comes outside my home what a dedication why he told arab news over the phone from his own
00:02:01.140 from his home in kabul on saturday if need if need to protect the synagogue here i see no threat from
00:02:07.140 the taliban side the taliban have come they are welcome there is no fear no threat simintov a carpet and
00:02:13.340 jury merchant added the taliban have sought to present a more moderate face since last week's
00:02:18.460 lightning offensive me personally i wouldn't say it's a more moderate i think that hopefully they
00:02:25.400 try to practice the real islam and not go to extremes of you know a woman um i'm not saying
00:02:31.220 wearing burqa is extreme but you know to those levels they can't study they can't all this kind of
00:02:35.320 stuff you know this is not from islam they're coming to the true understanding of islam hopefully
00:02:39.540 but the group was infamous for its harsh repressive policies when it ruled afghanistan afghanistan from
00:02:45.740 1996 to 2001 before being toppled by the u.s death forces and prompting many to form formulate an exit
00:02:52.180 plan but simintov who has served twice in the afghan army said he would not leave despite his wife and
00:02:57.560 two daughters moving to israel in 1992 as the caretaker of kabul's only synagogue residing in his compound for
00:03:03.280 decades simintov has witnessed a civil war soviet and u.s invasion afghanistan the taliban rule and the
00:03:09.300 groups returned to power 20 years later the kabul synagogue established in 1966 is the only jewish
00:03:15.460 place of worship in the country after all jews moved to herat in western afghanistan which once
00:03:20.760 hosted four synagogues wow so that's in total five synagogues although information on the origins of
00:03:25.920 judaism in afghanistan is scarce it is believed that jews came to the region about 2 000 years ago
00:03:31.240 living in relative peace and harmony in the muslim majority country until the mid 20th century
00:03:36.980 once a thriving community in afghanistan thousands of afghan jews left for israel and western countries
00:03:42.260 in the late 1940s after the creation of israel and after the soviet invasion in 1979 simintov also
00:03:47.860 simintov also expressed and urged the taliban not to give any share to these former figures and
00:03:56.060 militia leaders who have been behind the country's destruction and instead bring together sound and
00:04:01.880 professional individuals from different ethnic groups and minorities these leaders have given their
00:04:06.580 tests in the past have plundered afghanistan and looted billions their presence will damage the
00:04:11.080 taliban's credibility simintov said wow this is coming from a jewish person despite his hostility
00:04:16.240 towards the taliban in the past he admits to kabul and other areas being safer under their rule
00:04:20.460 blaming us leaders for invading afghanistan and creating destruction and carnage the us is leaving
00:04:25.920 a bad name in history by invading here the taliban is back why did it spend so much money kill so many
00:04:31.400 people and now leave this way us citizens should not vote for president joe biden and former president
00:04:36.540 donald trump both of them are totally mad he said let's see what comes next brothers and sisters the
00:04:41.640 prophet peace be upon him has lived with the jews and the christians in harmony so much so that they
00:04:46.140 had a treaty with the tribes of jewish tribes in medina that they would protect them and if an enemy
00:04:54.100 comes that they will protect each other vice versa even though some of the jewish tribes of
00:04:57.060 and banu kainuqa broke those treaties but the point here is that when people think about a muslim nation
00:05:04.740 this whole notion that there is compulsion religion is absolutely false not only do we see this in
00:05:10.900 afghanistan 2 000 years that they've been living there and there's about five synagogues in that
00:05:15.960 country this myth is debunked once again and the jewish people have run to muslim lands the ottoman empire
00:05:22.940 and many many other empires in history why because they were persecuted by the christians yep the
00:05:29.900 crusaders and the christians who have actually anti-semitism has derived from because they
00:05:35.380 believe that their god jesus was killed by jewish people you know and that's why the animosity towards
00:05:42.600 the jews have been rampant throughout history and the muslims have been a safe haven for these jews so much
00:05:48.480 so that uh one um rabbi said that if the muslims ruled around the 19 should say the 40s onwards we
00:05:57.000 would have five million extra jews today brothers and sisters i'm not going to keep this video long
00:06:01.520 this was a reminder to all of us that muslims live in peace and muslims are not here to rule and force
00:06:08.460 coercion you know to uh islam uh and that is made clear in the quran by allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
00:06:14.960 to your religion and to us ours may allah bless you guys inshallah and share this with your friends
00:06:19.180 and family inshallah brothers and sisters till next time assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
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