Ali Dawah - September 20, 2018TERROR ATTACK ON SHIAS & MEDIA SILENT
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Summary
Jazakallah speaks at the site of the attack in which 3 people were injured, but no one was killed. We should not shy away from calling it a terrorist attack just because the perpetrators failed in their attempt to kill Muslims. If someone, for example, tried to kill the people in Westminster, and they missed their targets, they would still be labeled as terrorists. In the same way, in the case of these individuals here, despite the fact that they didn t manage to kill anyone, they certainly were plotting a attack which did injure three individuals critically.
Transcript
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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We're here at the scene of a crime where a vicious terrorist attack actually took place.
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And we shouldn't shy away from calling this a terrorist attack just because it was unsuccessful in killing the people that the attempted murderers tried to kill.
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If someone, for example, the Westminster bomber, tried to, or those guys who ran over the individuals in Westminster, they missed their targets, they'd still be labeled as terrorists.
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In the same way, these individuals here, despite the fact that they didn't manage to kill anyone, certainly were plotting a terrorist attack which did injure three individuals critically.
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And one of the things here, this is a Hosseiniyyah, where the Shia sect obviously occupied this area.
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And we want to show that despite the fact that we are Sunnis, obviously here we have ideological differences with the Shia.
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That at points of, you know, when there is actually physical harm, when there's injustice, when there is, when people's lives are at risk,
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we must show our support to every community that feels that injustice.
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Whether it's the Shia community, or Ahmadi community, or the Sikh community, or the Christian community, or the Jewish community, or the atheist community.
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Whoever it is, as Muslims, as Sunni Muslims, we must, we really must show that it's not something to do with religion.
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It's more to do with a universal matter of justice, which we must uphold as a matter of our religion.
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Yes, bismillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.
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I want to say also something very important, which is that this was, jazakallah, this wasn't an act of, it was a hate crime.
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People were injured, and the reality is that we should not judge an act by the people harmed,
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but rather by the intent of the person who carried out the act.
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And as Muslims, we would stand together with any religious group, regardless of their religious background, or inclinations, or theologies, or whatever you call it.
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The point being is that, whereas there is a maslaha, a benefit for Islam, the Muslims,
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then we should stand hand-to-hand with these people, and ensure the maslaha, the benefit of Islam, and the Muslims.
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And as Brother Muhammad, jazallah khairan, mentioned, yes, there are certain differences,
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certain theological differences, which are irreconcilable, irrefutable.
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And this is, of course, the consensus of Ahl-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah.
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But rather, we are here for a different reason.
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وَتَعَوْنَ عَلْبِرِ وَتَقْوَى وَلَا تَعَوْنَ إِثْمُ وَالْعِدُوَانِ
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And Allah SWT says, and unite with those upon justice and khair, and do not unite upon transgression and sin.
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And this is mutlak, as one of my mishaysh, Abdul Muhsin Abad, said,
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this is mutlak, it is absolute, irrespective of a person's religious background.
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If there is a benefit from Islam and the Muslims, just like Hilf al-Fudul, in the time of Jahiliyyah,
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and Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam witnessed it.
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And he said, if it were here now, I would have witnessed it again.
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If it were here now, I would have witnessed it again.
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So wherever there is justice, then we should also take part in that.
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So brothers and sisters, Allah SWT says in the Quran,
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if you save one soul, it is as if you save the whole of humanity.
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And if you kill one soul, it is as if you kill the whole of humanity.
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Now, the reason we're here is because we want to prevent this.
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And in order for us to do this, we need to bring this to light to the people.
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Because if we do not, and if we just brush it under the carpet,
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It happened with Finsbury Park, Darren Osborne, who was watching far-right propaganda.
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They checked his daughter's iPad, and they found him watching Britain First and Tommy Robinson's videos.
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Not only that, in his letter, he quoted Tommy Robinson.
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And that's what you will have, which we're going to have accounts of the people
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who actually lived and saw this for themselves.
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But before I do that, inshallah, what I want to do is I just want to go maybe tell the reporters.
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are they reporting this as a terrorist incident or a hate crime?
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And after, we just want to go to the brothers on that side
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and find out because some of them were nearly getting hit.
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We want to hear from their mouth of exactly what's happened.
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So after you go live, we can't ask you any questions at all.
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You're reporting as a terrorist incident, right?
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I don't care if they're going to rape you guys.
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So guys, what we're going to do now is we're going to go and find out from these brothers here
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who they witnessed it theirself exactly what happened.
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Okay, so basically, the guys who witnessed it, they're coming now.
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One of them actually said himself that the car literally nearly missed him and hit an old
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So we're going to find out from him, Inshallah.
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So basically, we left last night after the lecture.
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Going up that way, the car's that way, right at the top of the road.
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So you was in a lecture, you left, and you was heading there.
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So my car's parked up there, but you can imagine a lot of people coming out at the same time.
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you see where that brown building is there, yeah?
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As we get there, we're hearing like a loud car sound.
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So we're hearing people shouting, stop him, stop him.
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One security guy hits the car, breaks the window.
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I've kind of put two and two together and thought, wait a minute.
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This could be something like a terrorist attack.
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So I've seen like in front of us, we're next to a van.
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There's like a little gap between a van and a golf right there.
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I've literally just pushed him into the middle of the...
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At that moment, we wasn't 100% sure he's coming for us.
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As I'm pushing him into that gap, the car's gone, faced us and gone full throttle at us.
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So we, if literally I didn't like that moment, we would have all been gone.
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As he's just missed us, my other friend's jumped out of the way.
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Yeah, so then he's turned onto that side of the road, a group of maybe four or five guys.
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Then he starts swerving left, right onto this guy, that guy.
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Trying to catch up to him and seeing hundreds of people standing around here, bro.
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So we started screaming, shouting, security, everyone.
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Because I heard one of them said you're effing Muslims.
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You're trying to save as many people as possible.
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And then as they got to this side of the head, he hit, I think, another two, three people here.
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He was directing the car left, right, trying to hit people.
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We heard that there was some kind of altercation in a car park.
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There was some kind of altercation with these guys.
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But apparently today we heard that the car is a stolen car with a stolen number plate.
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If you're parking up to smoke a joint and have a bit of a drink, why are you doing that
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People don't really use a stolen car when they plan to do a criminal.
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Regardless of what happened before, the guy was just going for people and he did manage
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Was it this brother who moved one of the old uncles out of the way?
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Yeah, he was standing after us, after he just missed us.
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Then he had a kid next to him and it was another old man.
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And this is when we started running after the car, screaming, everybody, move out of the
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Yeah, it's just, yeah, roughly, I think, in the age of 50 or something.
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I don't know his name, but he's the person who got hit, literally, after the car just
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Well, I thought, the way he was driving too fast and the engine was too revved, and he
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thought, I thought he was going to hit us and drive into that van, but obviously he
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And he turned in the right, he knew what he was doing.
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So they're not classing this as a terrorist attack?
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When a Muslim does it, they don't care he's, when has he done it, the facts, look, we're
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going to speak to the lady, she's saying, oh, she's busy now, we're going to go and speak
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It's like, if a Muslim done this attack, they don't care, they're not going to say, oh,
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we're waiting for what the police said, how we feel, I don't know if I had breakfast
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It's going to be, you know, it's a terrorist attack.
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But when it's done towards Muslims, it's, oh, look, look, and they're packing away.
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So I'm not going to, I'm not going to say what other people are saying or what, it was
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You know, I, you know, I've seen stuff like that.
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What's terrorist, in the Google definition, is those who...
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If you go on Google and you type what the terrorist, I mean, that's what it means.
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The question that he asked is what inspired him?
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And the most terrifying part of it is after he's just missed us and he's going for everyone
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I personally have no doubt if this guy's been watching far right material.
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Darren Osborne, when he was caught, they checked his daughter's iPad.
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They found he's watching Britain First, Tommy Robinson, all this kind of stuff.
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When ISIS carry out an attack, the far right love it.
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When the far right carry out an attack, ISIS love it.
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They're like, look, this is what they want to do to the Muslims.
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And this is why we're going to speak to the journalist, hopefully, and see what she says about it.
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We just wanted to ask, basically, are you reporting this as a hate crime or is it a terrorist attack?
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We're using the same terminology that the police use, which is a hate crime.
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And I've spoken to them about the reason they use that.
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And that's because they think it wasn't a premeditated incident.
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But I just want to ask, like, you guys in the media.
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I'm like, I mean, I'm quite happy to talk to you, but I am just here to report a story.
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It's just like, when a Muslim carries an attack out, you don't find the information...
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I just want to know, what's the difference between a hate crime and a terrorist attack?
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We are very careful that we use the terminology that the police use.
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So if the police say we're treating it as a terror incident, then we say it's a terror incident.
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So we need to question the police, not you guys.
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But we say, if the police say it's terror, then we say the police are saying it's terror.
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If the police say it's a hate crime, then we say they're using it as a hate crime.
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And then I try and use a bit of explanation about why they say that.
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But personally, to you, would you say this was a terrorist attack or a hate crime?
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I mean, like, yeah, I just, guys, I really, I'm just here to do my job.
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And then I'm going to go try and speak to people and hear about it.
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And everybody's been very brave before coming and speaking to me, which is great.
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So obviously, I don't, I don't blame her because she's at the end they're doing her job.
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The hypocrisy is, and I'm not talking about them generally.
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I'm just talking about in general, the hypocrisy of the media and the police is very clear.
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You know, if this was a Muslim, there is no ifs or buts about it.
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You know, I'm not saying we did it, but I'm just saying that pressure that was put.
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Brothers and sisters, if you're watching this video, make sure this goes viral.
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This can be your mom, your dad, your sister, your kids.
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If you don't do something about it, believe me, you're going to be next.
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We want you guys, inshallah, to share this video with your friends and family.
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I don't know, the police are not here for me to talk to them.