SHNEAKO - SNEAKO interviews Grand Mufti of South Philippines

00:00:00.000 What is your position on the Iran war?

00:00:02.000 For me, for me?

00:00:02.860 The Mufti position.

00:00:03.880 As a Mufti, when we look at the actual situation,

00:00:07.820 Iran did not invade America.

00:00:10.300 Can you say?

00:00:11.040 They didn't provoke America? No.

00:00:12.280 They were struck first.

00:00:13.680 They did not attack America.

00:00:15.040 Never they invade America.

00:00:16.900 No, and they can't. 0.98

00:00:17.820 And why is it American people allowed themselves to invade Iran

00:00:21.860 and kill even innocent people?

00:00:23.900 And then Manab, the school, 168 children.

00:00:26.060 Because these bombs, these bombs falling from the sky of Iran, from America, missiles from America and Israel,

00:00:35.120 these are not addressed to a specific group.

00:00:40.760 These are to anyone there, including women, children, kids, old people.

00:00:48.960 We in Islam, we've been taught, do not kill the old people.

00:00:52.580 Or children.

00:00:53.740 Children. 1.00

00:00:55.140 Women. 0.95

00:00:56.060 People who are, who dedicate themselves in their synagogue, in their churches, priests and monks, do not touch them. 0.96

00:01:06.820 This is our teachings.

00:01:08.300 But these people there, it's the opposite. 1.00

00:01:14.320 In San Buonga City, alhamdulillah, we are living with the non-Muslims in a very harmonious way. 1.00

00:01:23.200 Alhamdulillah. 1.00

00:01:24.160 You know what's so dope about Majid?

00:01:26.060 is that worldwide the design is simplistic like you're not supposed to post artwork you can't

00:01:31.920 have different idols or depictions in there it has a very simple instructions that you're

00:01:36.620 supposed to follow yet throughout the world they're so different another thing i just love

00:01:40.680 about islam and hopefully this is seen in my content the fact that i've traveled the world 0.94

00:01:47.140 and i've prayed in masjids in bosnia in saudi arabia in the philippines in thailand and columbia

00:01:53.080 and doing this on stream just seeing like i really like the lineup with the children the

00:01:58.080 filipino children it's like well we really come from the same ethnicity half you know i was just

00:02:03.000 there for eid i was in bosnia with people that look very different or when i go for umrah there's

00:02:07.920 so many nigerians and so many black people it's just reassuring and you get to see visually how

00:02:13.920 this is for mankind and prophet muhammad sallahu alayhi wasallam his last speech he did not say

00:02:18.200 oh jews he did not say oh kafir he did not say oh asians or arabs he said oh mankind

00:02:22.380 islam is for all of mankind so any propaganda that's trying to tell you otherwise forget it

00:02:28.220 and the southeast asia tour is coming to a close i'm trying we're gonna it's gonna be

00:02:34.060 informational on this last stream but i do have to say malaysia is that just that resonates with

00:02:43.100 me the most. It really does. This looks like it was propped up for a music video. Should

00:02:48.280 we go in? What is this Mashiq called?

00:02:55.620 I think we're meeting the Grand Mufti of Zambanga now.

00:03:25.620 Pretty much, if you don't know Mufti is, it's like the Pope.

00:03:27.840 Essentially, we're meeting the Muslim Pope of the South of the Philippines.

00:03:31.980 As-salamu alaykum. 0.73

00:03:34.220 As-salamu alaykum.

00:03:35.980 Please?

00:03:36.740 As-salamu alaykum.

00:03:37.200 As-salamu alaykum.

00:03:38.040 This is the Grand Mufti.

00:03:40.060 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.

00:03:41.660 How are you?

00:03:42.180 You are welcome.

00:03:43.400 As-salamu alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah.

00:03:45.040 Please.

00:03:45.620 What should I, how should I address you?

00:03:47.080 Mufti?

00:03:48.000 You can call me anything that would make you comfortable with.

00:03:54.420 Mufti Kuya?

00:03:55.100 it's a beautiful library you have

00:04:07.060 yes yes this is our humble library

00:04:09.720 yes

00:04:11.420 you are from

00:04:13.240 I'm from New York 1.00

00:04:14.400 are you from Zambwanga

00:04:16.100 yes I'm from Zambwanga city

00:04:17.820 I've been in New York

00:04:18.960 six months ago

00:04:21.840 Where did you go? You went to visit Mamdani?

00:04:26.840 No, I just participated. I mean, I accompanied my daughter participating in a school competition.

00:04:38.840 She was representing the school, the Turkish school.

00:04:43.840 Do you mind putting this on for me?

00:04:45.840 Yes, please.

00:04:46.840 what's in colombia or fordham uh-huh which school uh my my daughter is from turkish tolerance school

00:04:58.840 based in shambunga city okay yeah this is sheikh waleed abubakar okay grand mufti

00:05:05.720 region can you show them yes you are originally from colombia or from from colombia or something

00:05:13.480 um i'm filipino i'm half filipino but my dad is from haiti so he's from haiti haiti half black

00:05:20.540 half white oh wow yeah wow colombia that's the first time i ever got that before the looks like

00:05:26.360 shakira hips don't lie oh wow you don't think i look filipino at all never i thought that

00:05:32.940 yes it's glad to be it's good to be back here i came last time when i was eight years old to

00:05:41.200 Manila my family lives in Manila and it's my first time back so you must be

00:05:45.220 fluent in Tagalog or you just understand some words yeah some words but

00:05:52.420 I know you have a lot of dialects in Zambwanga yes we have

00:05:55.840 you can say it is the official dialect in Sambwanga

00:06:08.120 and we have the Tawsoom

00:06:10.860 it is almost required for everybody staying in Sambwanga

00:06:15.500 and Chabakano

00:06:23.180 Chabakano of course

00:06:25.060 But Tausug is the, what do you say, the dialect being used from among the people

00:06:34.960 because most of the people doing business in the city are almost Tausug.

00:06:43.340 Most of them are Tausug.

00:06:45.580 And most of the clients coming from the three provinces,

00:06:50.120 which is Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, they are all Tausug spoken.

00:06:54.540 okay yeah that's why it's almost a required for every tendera you know the sales lady sales boys

00:07:02.000 who are doing business the stores along the way yeah those are uh people doing the running the

00:07:11.520 business in the city and it is almost a required to understand the tao soon and they should have

00:07:18.420 to speak the Tawsu. 0.88

00:07:19.640 Your English is perfect. 0.99

00:07:22.980 Whose English? Mine?

00:07:24.240 Yeah.

00:07:25.300 Not in the level of

00:07:27.640 our shape here.

00:07:29.100 Not to his level.

00:07:31.620 Not to his level.

00:07:32.880 I'm only his student.

00:07:35.680 There is no comparison

00:07:37.700 at all between me and him

00:07:39.260 because he's a professor

00:07:41.660 in a university here.

00:07:44.780 Yes.

00:07:45.420 so can i ask you a question yep sure please so basically the the reason i i come here i'm a

00:07:53.020 revert i reverted three years ago you already come to islam thank you alhamdulillah maybe the

00:07:58.620 word revert has more of a meaning with filipinos because revert is the idea of returning back to

00:08:03.740 your faith and the philippines was muslim before the spanish conquered and force converted the

00:08:09.340 people under catalysis that's correct so zamboanga is a city within mindanao correct where most of 0.95

00:08:14.720 mortos are this is the muslim filipinos correct and they say that this is where the mortos declared

00:08:19.680 the longest ever jihad resistance even longer than the palestinians so it's 300 years and eventually 0.97

00:08:26.560 the spanish left and they protected that's correct their faith so what does the world

00:08:34.000 not know about muslims in the philippines and also what do the filipinos not seem to understand about

00:08:39.600 muslims well actually we are here from

00:08:49.120 15 or even way back before that date

00:09:00.080 but our our situation is that we are almost right in the far corner of the world

00:09:09.600 uh people in the world they are we are not almost be seen even in the in the world map

00:09:20.640 and our situation here since we are considered as the uh minority of the country but before the

00:09:31.040 the coming of the Spaniards, we were the majority from Manila to far Mindanao.

00:09:39.800 Wasn't Manila called Aman Allah?

00:09:41.500 Amanullah.

00:09:42.520 Amanullah.

00:09:43.040 Amanullah.

00:09:45.320 Because people, every time they go from Manila, everybody says,

00:09:52.420 Fi Amanillah.

00:09:53.400 Fi Amanillah.

00:09:54.080 From then on, it was called Manila.

00:09:57.400 ah that's why you can still see some uh streets in manila in loson as a whole you can still see

00:10:11.560 uh streets named and attributed to the muslims before sulaiman you can see sulaiman flame

00:10:20.200 market you can see uh pasai this pasai area is named uh in attributed to the princess the daughter

00:10:30.520 of the king that time pasai pasai until now it is still pasai and a little little who know

00:10:38.920 the history of this that's why uh there is always what we call that team

00:10:50.200 should I say some sort of

00:10:55.640 lack of information

00:11:01.000 this is what we need actually

00:11:04.360 for the people of the world can see us

00:11:06.680 oh there is

00:11:07.640 Muslim groups there

00:11:12.040 and thanks to the 1.00

00:11:16.040 MNLF organization who started the war

00:11:22.700 and they wage war against the government of the Philippines.

00:11:28.820 They started from 1972, way back 1972.

00:11:37.040 From then on, people have started to know,

00:11:40.980 oh, there is Muslims in that particular place,

00:11:44.520 in that very tiny corner of the world yes do most filipinos even know that this country was

00:11:52.440 a muslim country before yes they know yes i didn't know but there is already i'm colombian the young

00:12:00.000 the young generations they do not know this anymore they do not know this anymore and little

00:12:06.660 who knows these things uh until including the age of a young boy here i i doubt if they know the

00:12:18.020 history of the whole uh philippine from way back thousands of years back right yes even before i

00:12:31.060 ahead before the arrival of the spaniards because when you look at the purpose of the

00:12:41.620 spaniards when they came not only to conquer the the the philippines as a country but to change

00:12:53.860 the religion of the people living in that country 1.00

00:12:56.980 if you are going to

00:13:00.020 change something

00:13:00.980 then there must be something there

00:13:03.860 already you are going to

00:13:05.940 change it

00:13:06.580 because if you are going to introduce

00:13:09.720 something new

00:13:11.520 maybe not necessarily there is

00:13:13.840 already a religion there

00:13:15.320 but since you are coming here to 0.60

00:13:17.740 change the religion

00:13:18.860 that necessarily means there is

00:13:21.720 already a religion in that place

00:13:23.320 which one? it was Islam

00:13:25.460 so spania came to change the religion of islam and they converted people by force to uh christianity 0.62

00:13:35.640 that's the history and what was the reason why force convert people to catholicism was that so

00:13:41.660 they would pay taxes to the spanish empire or because they cared about teaching the lessons

00:13:47.160 of jesus no no no they came for they called it the three g's gold one five three g's gold glory god

00:13:59.720 so there is always these three things uh included in the purpose of the spaniards came coming to

00:14:10.520 the philippines gold glory and god so they they introduced they did not introduce they changed

00:14:21.880 the original religion of the people living here in this country which is islam and they changed it 0.73

00:14:30.840 into christianity and of course that time very ancient time people are still far from the 0.88

00:14:42.040 cradle of islam which i i doubt we started to be connected to the islamic world

00:14:53.240 way back to our 0.79

00:15:00.840 four generations, five generations from us now.

00:15:06.840 So what is it like being a Mufti in this role?

00:15:11.320 It's a very specific and important role.

00:15:13.280 You're protecting a lot of...

00:15:14.600 It's very challenging, actually.

00:15:16.420 It's very challenging because we are living in a country 1.00

00:15:19.880 wherein we are rubbing elbows with non-Muslims. 1.00

00:15:24.800 It's very hard for us. 1.00

00:15:26.200 We have to adjust everything. 1.00

00:15:27.580 And we cannot just do something that might hurt the relationship between the non-Muslims and the Muslims.

00:15:37.060 And we Muslims, we are always compelled by our religion to showcase the goodness in Islam, in the beauty of Islam.

00:15:49.940 because nowadays the thicker cover

00:15:56.120 that make people cannot see the beauty of Islam 1.00

00:16:01.160 because of the akhlaq of the Muslims. 1.00

00:16:06.280 Because some Muslims we cannot blame 1.00

00:16:09.800 because they are ignorant people. 1.00

00:16:13.300 They do not know what is the akhlaq of Islam 0.99

00:16:18.600 and how to deal with people in such a society because it's very hard it's very hard so that's

00:16:26.360 why we have to we have to be first educated well in islam are you optimistic about the future yes

00:16:39.480 Yes. Yes, definitely. Everybody who is following the right path, they should be optimistic of the future.

00:16:50.180 What about for the Philippines? I was supposed to do an interview with the mayor of Manila.

00:16:54.200 What's his name?

00:16:56.160 Esco.

00:16:56.780 Esco. And he canceled the interview last second, I think because he's a Zionist probably, and I'm very vocal about... 0.97

00:17:03.960 I don't think so. He's a Zionist. 0.99

00:17:05.740 You don't think so? 1.00

00:17:06.740 I don't think so.

00:17:07.900 Okay.

00:17:08.160 He's actually one of the most loved mayor of the Philippines.

00:17:15.400 Really?

00:17:16.000 Yes.

00:17:16.540 Okay.

00:17:17.400 Because he was then, when he was a small boy, he was a celebrity from then on.

00:17:25.700 Okay.

00:17:26.020 Celebrities.

00:17:26.560 That's why it's not because he is a Zionist when he reached that level in political life,

00:17:37.560 But he is a celebrity from the very young age.

00:17:42.640 So that's why the people of the Philippines always tend to align themselves with the celebrities.

00:17:55.640 Like Pacquiao.

00:17:56.900 Yes, like Pacquiao.

00:17:57.940 See, Pacquiao, he's not that, not even the level of eloquency in public speaking.

00:18:11.000 Right, he's very quiet.

00:18:12.600 He cannot even, he cannot even language well to the people, but still he won for how many times, I think?

00:18:23.620 Three times?

00:18:24.900 I think four division champion.

00:18:26.100 Four, four times.

00:18:27.940 in a very high position of the of the country it's only because he is a

00:18:36.520 celebrity guy not because he has this yeah not because he has this he spoke

00:18:44.920 English very well I met him two days ago maybe now yes maybe now because when he

00:18:50.140 was already there he started to feel that he really needs to improve his

00:18:57.280 his linguistic abilities language capability so that he can be able to

00:19:05.140 communicate the people right because he's not only talking to the Filipinos not

00:19:11.320 even his Tagalog his Tagalog it's not that much also yes but he has to develop

00:19:18.700 this alhamdulillah he did able to do it while he was already there but not like

00:19:26.860 Like, of course, not like those who are from the very beginning, even before going to that position, having a good position in the government, they are already eloquent in public speaking, like recto, like these people around.

00:19:45.300 Yes. Ping Lakson is one of those. He's very eloquent.

00:19:50.980 And most of our, you know, in Senate, also in Congress,

00:19:58.240 we should have to put a requirement that people going there

00:20:03.300 or concur any chair in these two chambers,

00:20:08.900 They must be low-educated people,

00:20:16.400 not any people because he's a celebrity 0.97

00:20:19.840 or he's very sikat in the country,

00:20:24.520 then he can just position himself in that chair.

00:20:29.300 Si Bong Rebilya, Lito Lapid, we have.

00:20:33.620 And they are spending the people's money.

00:20:36.760 and they are yet they are just sitting down there in the in the senate doing nothing he did nothing

00:20:43.440 in the senate yeah a little lapid we have one little lapid we have we have bong rebilla we have

00:20:50.420 uh and some others what they have done to the public none to mention

00:20:59.460 so what is it like working with the mayor and other people because you're saying the 1.00

00:21:07.520 difficulties of working with the non-muslims you're always bumping elbows with them

00:21:10.460 i asked about the mayor and i'm wondering what is the role of a mufti

00:21:14.900 i am talking about here in sambuanga city i am not talking about uh the whole philippine 0.97

00:21:22.400 in general but in sambuanga city alamdulillah we are living with the non-muslims in a very 0.71

00:21:29.140 harmony way, harmonious 0.66

00:21:31.640 way. Alhamdulillah.

00:21:34.380 Not like

00:21:35.340 before. Before, maybe

00:21:36.720 you can, there is always this

00:21:39.300 hazaziyat,

00:21:41.360 we say, some

00:21:43.460 a little problem

00:21:45.200 with the non-Muslims. But 0.68

00:21:47.160 nowadays, Alhamdulillah, with the 0.99

00:21:49.300 continuously

00:21:50.920 dealings with them,

00:21:53.420 they have already discovered, oh, 1.00

00:21:55.100 Muslims are not as what 1.00

00:21:57.080 some other people telling us

00:21:59.660 Muslim people are 0.98

00:22:01.140 arrogant, some 1.00

00:22:03.040 are problematic people.

00:22:05.480 Nowadays, alhamdulillah,

00:22:07.520 they have already discovered that

00:22:09.260 Muslims are also

00:22:11.380 good people. Not all of them 1.00

00:22:15.580 are evil and not all 0.75

00:22:17.420 non-Muslims are angels. 0.91

00:22:22.480 There's a lot of propaganda.

00:22:24.200 It's good to see that you value

00:22:25.840 unity and peace with other religions this is very important here in samboanga city

00:22:30.800 like samboanga city we are living here muslims non-muslims uh pagans pagans yes we have pagans

00:22:42.160 here i saw a lot of freemason signs here yes i see the freemason signs on the cars there is and when

00:22:47.760 you leave the airport there's a giant free and most of them are lawyers lawyers yes of course

00:22:53.040 they are well organized those lawyers are organized in that under that

00:23:00.960 organization yeah why why is freemasonry so popular in the philippines it seems like

00:23:05.600 i really don't know because uh people who are uh connected to this or belong to this organization

00:23:15.680 easily can have

00:23:18.340 the good positions in the government.

00:23:22.880 So people

00:23:24.580 tend to, oh, I will

00:23:26.640 go with that

00:23:28.340 organization so that I can be

00:23:30.580 in that position.

00:23:32.180 So what is the truth? A lot of people are saying Freemasonry

00:23:34.740 is just a brotherhood and it's for connections.

00:23:37.120 Is Freemasonry linked

00:23:38.760 to Shaitan?

00:23:41.260 I cannot see that

00:23:42.520 because I do not have

00:23:44.600 right to say things which i do not know actually okay because uh if you say so you have to prove

00:23:54.120 are they are they connected to shaitan or whatever no i i cannot say anything about

00:24:00.760 i do not have the right to say so what is the day-to-day of a mufti we are here waiting for

00:24:09.400 situations coming in or questions raised to us we have to

00:24:16.680 relay our our opinion but not forcing anyone to do something which

00:24:23.560 whatever we say it should be done by the people but we only give as a house of islamic opinion

00:24:31.320 we will give our opinion that's it that's it because that means is the uh house of islamic

00:24:41.800 opinion we do not have any police power to compel people to follow what we say right

00:24:47.720 yes it's just knowledge yes we just give opinions that's knowledge of course is it comparable to the

00:24:56.040 the sultan in malaysia because they don't have direct political no no okay because sultan in

00:25:01.800 malaysia he has the power of the police power okay yes he has the police power anyone if the sultan

00:25:10.280 say something or dictate something and then there is a somebody who do not follow what he says

00:25:19.560 they will bring him to jail

00:25:21.900 they will prosecute him

00:25:23.420 because the sultan already said

00:25:25.600 I will give you example

00:25:28.180 during Ramadan time

00:25:30.140 we give our opinion

00:25:32.740 that Ramadan will start tomorrow

00:25:35.260 if there is somebody

00:25:37.840 who do not start tomorrow 1.00

00:25:39.200 Ramadan we cannot do anything 0.78

00:25:40.800 because it's just a mere opinion from us

00:25:44.160 but in Malaysia

00:25:45.500 if the king, the sultan says

00:25:48.180 tomorrow is ramadan everybody is compelled to follow and have to pass

00:25:53.100 if there is anyone who will not pass yet they will be prosecuted and bring they will be bring

00:26:01.240 him to jail because he has the police power for us here we do not have that so that's the

00:26:08.180 difference between the daril ifta and the sultanate of the sultan of malaysia he has the

00:26:14.700 he has the police power we don't have so speaking of police power and armed power

00:26:19.900 what was the siege that happened in 2013 because to give you some context in america when i said i

00:26:26.960 was going to zamboanga they said be careful do not go there terrorist city dangerous they weren't

00:26:32.560 new they weren't even i have a muslim brother of mine the warner abdul wahab was very afraid saying

00:26:37.240 that it's you're going to get put on a watch list what is the the truth about that right why does

00:26:43.100 Zamboanga have this reputation it's a very beautiful city well it's it's actually a political

00:26:49.020 political actions from the some of the splinters group of MNLF what's MNLF MNLF Moro National

00:26:58.780 Liberation Front is this it is an organization fought against the government it started from

00:27:07.980 From the days of Marcos, June senior, 1972, I think, March 18, 1972, they organized themselves

00:27:19.740 to fight against the government.

00:27:22.880 That's why during Marcos' time, he declared the martial law in September 1972.

00:27:32.860 Yes, so the Muslims in the South, they organized themselves because there was really too much atrocities happened during that time. 0.80

00:27:47.780 And because Marcos Sr., he brought in to the Muslim communities, people from the South, and they start to pick up anyone they would like to disturb him with his family. 0.52

00:28:14.060 and 0.96

00:28:15.100 there was actually the

00:28:17.580 move from Marcos time

00:28:19.560 I cannot remember 0.99

00:28:21.760 Nara, this is an

00:28:23.380 abbreviation 0.99

00:28:24.340 they would like to conquer

00:28:27.520 all the lands of

00:28:29.600 our forefathers

00:28:30.600 that's why we fought against the government

00:28:33.860 he started

00:28:36.140 to bring in

00:28:37.580 from the south

00:28:38.460 from north to south

00:28:41.240 to conquer

00:28:43.740 the pieces of lands of our forefathers.

00:28:47.100 That's why we started to fight them. 0.55

00:28:49.160 And there was Eminelef was created. 0.91

00:28:51.400 Is Eminelef like Hamas? 0.51

00:28:52.780 Or you could even say Hezbollah. 0.76

00:28:54.180 It's the same thing. 0.64

00:28:54.780 So you have Israel invades Lebanon, 0.84

00:28:56.500 and then they defend themselves, 0.95

00:28:57.740 and they call themselves,

00:28:58.880 they get called terrorists.

00:29:00.500 Is it the same situation?

00:29:03.680 Terrorists, calling terrorists,

00:29:07.620 by that time,

00:29:09.540 it was not yet the vogue of the time.

00:29:13.740 nowadays anyone who fought for the rights against american or its allies gets called

00:29:24.940 a terrorist they will call him a terrorist okay without even uh further any investigations that

00:29:33.100 are they qualified to be uh called terrorist or not it's up to the american to say oh you

00:29:41.420 If they say you are a terrorist, then you are a terrorist in the eyes of the world.

00:29:45.200 If they say you are a friend, even though you are a terrorist, you are a killer, you are the highest criminal on earth, you will be the good person. 0.97

00:29:56.340 Yeah. 0.99

00:29:56.940 If the Americans say so.

00:29:59.080 Wow.

00:30:00.520 We see the same pattern throughout the world.

00:30:02.620 That's, that's. 0.91

00:30:03.480 Venezuela.

00:30:04.680 That is really happening in the world.

00:30:07.340 I'm sorry to say.

00:30:08.180 Let's say.

00:30:08.940 sorry to say that's that's already the the reality the reality right now the world can i tell you

00:30:16.320 something on the plane here i was sitting next to a u.s soldier and he was just changed he now

00:30:21.260 has deployment in uh zambunga and i'm like why he said well because philippines are allies well

00:30:26.280 okay so there's u.s military bases in the philippines and essentially he admitted that

00:30:32.340 america's the bully that we bully people into submission yes the peso is getting wrecked right

00:30:37.160 now the pesos is 62 pesos is equal to one dollar if we're allies then why would we be destroying 0.89

00:30:42.920 their economy with the petrodollar so do the filipinos seem to understand that america

00:30:49.620 does not actually see them as an ally and just see them as a colony why the highest the higher

00:30:55.640 the higher uh level of thinking of people they know that they know that but most of the people 0.53

00:31:03.300 You know, here in the Philippines, we are always amazed with the white people. 0.60

00:31:09.920 That's why one of those white people who accidentally rode with me going to Malaysia, 0.65

00:31:20.520 he said, oh, there is nothing impossible for a white man here. 1.00

00:31:27.440 I said, you come to my country, we will cut off your head. 1.00

00:31:30.200 he said 1.00

00:31:32.760 really

00:31:33.600 I said yes

00:31:34.600 if you do

00:31:35.260 something wrong

00:31:36.040 with us

00:31:36.920 do not think

00:31:38.460 that you are white 0.99

00:31:39.340 you will cut 1.00

00:31:40.620 off your head 1.00

00:31:41.320 he said

00:31:42.860 no

00:31:43.160 yes

00:31:46.720 wow

00:31:48.200 it's actually

00:31:49.600 the situation

00:31:52.200 dictates

00:31:52.820 like that

00:31:53.340 right now

00:31:54.100 whatever

00:31:55.160 the American

00:31:56.120 says

00:31:56.700 goes

00:31:57.800 that's it

00:31:59.180 What is the fascination with the white man?

00:32:01.700 Because the Philippines was conquered by the Spanish, 1.00

00:32:05.060 conquered by the lighter-skinned Japanese, 0.95

00:32:07.780 the Dutch were attacking them. 0.97

00:32:09.100 It depends with that white man. 0.73

00:32:11.400 If he is doing good with the society, 0.52

00:32:17.240 then he is a good man.

00:32:18.820 But if he is creating atrocity in our society,

00:32:23.520 then he will be treated as a bad man.

00:32:28.160 That's it.

00:32:29.180 That's the reality happening in the society of the Muslims. 1.00

00:32:34.880 Not the same like he is treated in the society of the non-Muslims. 1.00

00:32:42.940 Because non-Muslims, they are always after what you have in your pocket. 1.00

00:32:53.140 I'm sorry to say this. 1.00

00:32:54.640 No, I'm not Kufari saying it as if I am.

00:32:56.740 We are Filipinos, you know.

00:32:58.140 So am I.

00:32:58.600 Am I Colombian?

00:32:59.180 whatever hurts any Filipino,

00:33:01.480 that hurts us also.

00:33:03.500 It's all one and one.

00:33:04.200 But what we are saying here right now

00:33:06.440 is the reality happening in the ground. 0.83

00:33:09.940 White men 1.00

00:33:10.620 are always 1.00

00:33:13.400 look

00:33:14.040 when he is

00:33:17.580 in the

00:33:18.360 non-Muslim society,

00:33:21.220 they always look at him as 0.92

00:33:23.240 he is a dollar. 0.99

00:33:25.880 Not all white men, 0.92

00:33:27.400 but the major power.

00:33:29.180 this that that's the the overall situation yeah but here in our our our society in muslim society

00:33:38.600 no it's different we do not look him like that but him guys that guys he's a spy maybe or

00:33:48.380 nowadays nowadays but before of course we respect anyone who is coming to our place

00:33:55.960 Because I can still remember when I was a small boy, there are a lot of Americans, white people walking around the city of Hulu.

00:34:08.160 And we used to talk to them, oh, Django or Gringo.

00:34:14.580 Hey, Gringo, from where did you come from?

00:34:17.540 We say like that, from where did you come from?

00:34:19.920 Well, because we used to imitate the films, but instead of saying, from where you came from, you say, from where did you came from?

00:34:37.920 Awkward, awkward English. 0.92

00:34:40.560 When we were young, now you cannot see white people anymore walking around the city. 0.86

00:34:47.880 White people don't come here anymore. 0.99

00:34:49.920 They are not, they don't dare to come. 0.99

00:34:52.780 They're afraid of the terrorists.

00:34:53.800 Because of the situation.

00:34:54.720 Because of the situation.

00:34:55.540 The situation is not too bad.

00:34:56.880 Because, but not here in Samwonga City.

00:34:59.660 I'm talking about Sulu, Basilan.

00:35:02.940 Tawi-Tawi may be better than the three.

00:35:06.680 Yes, better of the three is Tawi-Tawi. 0.98

00:35:09.520 Do I look like a gringo spy? 1.00

00:35:12.740 Well, if you are white, yes. 1.00

00:35:17.460 If you are white.

00:35:18.700 but we are brown people let's go right so this you touched on something that I've noticed a lot

00:35:27.700 because I was born in America we always pride ourselves first world country first world country 1.00

00:35:32.180 yeah yes and you look at something like the Philippines oh they're third world it's disgusting 1.00

00:35:35.320 but now look at why this happens it's because you destroy their economy you control their

00:35:40.280 leadership you take all their resources you exploit them and then you look down on them

00:35:44.800 yeah so this superiority complex is probably not going to go anywhere but people don't seem to

00:35:50.400 understand why they think the things they think it's uh and it's also not earned because again

00:35:56.740 like the u.s soldier i was sitting next to on the plane the reason he became a soldier is not for

00:36:00.660 jihad the soldiers here when they were fighting back against colonization they were doing it for

00:36:04.860 a law you look at the soldiers in iran they're fighting for the sake of a law the american

00:36:09.900 soldiers they do it to get a paycheck they want to get a retirement fund they want to get a camaro

00:36:14.300 car exactly when you ask all the american soldiers deployed to iraq or deployed to iran

00:36:23.980 they are not happy with their deployment they are just doing it because they are forced to do so

00:36:30.220 because of the paycheck as you have said but it's a first world country but they're forced to give

00:36:34.460 their lives away to a cause they don't even agree with i cannot see any reason why why why another

00:36:41.820 country invade another country i cannot see any reason to take

00:36:51.020 oil that's maybe the number one reason why because uh not less than trump himself he

00:37:01.100 explicitly uh said i'd like to control the oil of iran the straighter formulas

00:37:11.820 And this region is probably next.

00:37:14.740 With the Strait of Malacca, they're going to look to get the oil from here.

00:37:18.820 But our resources here is not yet exploited.

00:37:23.580 Still virgin.

00:37:26.360 Still untouched.

00:37:27.640 Untouched. 0.99

00:37:28.240 The Malaysia government and Brunei and some Labuan part of Sabah, they started to already gaining some of these resources.

00:37:51.400 But the center of the debasing of the fuel underground is in Sulusi.

00:38:02.060 We know that.

00:38:03.600 But we do not have the capacity to exploit it until now, to explore.

00:38:10.580 Unless we have to be a partner with big companies.

00:38:19.580 but they are

00:38:21.140 we do not trust them

00:38:23.400 you can't trust them

00:38:24.980 you know what they want

00:38:27.280 they just want us to be worker for them

00:38:29.600 not as the owner

00:38:32.980 that's

00:38:35.240 the reason why some people

00:38:37.540 are hesitant to

00:38:39.340 allow anyone to

00:38:42.940 explore the

00:38:44.740 resources of the

00:38:47.060 country

00:38:48.480 We have, we have.

00:38:49.920 And that's the number one export from the Philippines is the worker, is human, human, human, human, human export.

00:38:57.920 Yeah. 0.93

00:38:58.640 Yes.

00:39:00.100 Human power.

00:39:01.480 We have.

00:39:02.660 But we have actually natural resources if only we can explore it.

00:39:10.240 But until now, firstly, we do not have the capacity to explore

00:39:15.060 unless we will partner with the American companies or European companies.

00:39:23.880 And later on, we will just be the worker for them.

00:39:28.540 And I saw some Iran flags flying around the taxis.

00:39:36.500 Here?

00:39:36.920 Yeah.

00:39:38.140 On the tricycle, I saw a giant Iran flag.

00:39:40.900 Is that used as a symbol of resistance?

00:39:44.020 What's the purpose?

00:39:44.860 Why do we see this here?

00:39:46.720 No, it's not.

00:39:48.020 It's only a symbol of sympathizing Iran.

00:39:53.660 Why do they sympathize?

00:39:54.840 Or what is your position on the Iran war?

00:39:57.520 For me, for me.

00:39:58.620 The Mufti position.

00:39:59.360 As a mufti, when we look at the actual situation, Iran did not invade America.

00:40:12.480 Can you say?

00:40:13.640 They didn't provoke America, no.

00:40:14.900 They were struck first.

00:40:16.300 They did not attack America.

00:40:17.560 Never did they invade America.

00:40:19.520 No, and they can't.

00:40:20.840 And they can't.

00:40:22.440 They can't.

00:40:23.000 And they won't.

00:40:23.920 They won't.

00:40:24.920 And why is it American people allowed themselves to invade Iran and kill even innocent people?

00:40:32.720 And then Manab, the school, 168 children.

00:40:36.740 Because these bombs, these bombs falling from the sky of Iran, from America,

00:40:45.040 missiles from America and Israel,

00:40:48.660 these are not addressed to a specific group.

00:40:54.920 this is to anyone there including women children kids old people we in islam have been taught

00:41:07.320 even before do not kill if you are in jihad do not kill the old people or children children women

00:41:17.000 People who are, who dedicate themselves in their synagogue, in their churches, priests and monks, do not touch them.

00:41:29.060 This is our teachings.

00:41:30.540 But these people there?

00:41:33.360 It's the opposite.

00:41:36.080 But you know what I'm coming to realize?

00:41:37.980 I think you made a great point.

00:41:39.200 The reason Americans don't care is because we have a superiority complex.

00:41:43.660 when you think that america is the first world and we're better than everyone else and we should

00:41:47.580 spread democracy and american values then when 168 kids are killed in iran they don't even care 0.88

00:41:54.040 they don't care because they're third world they don't even care they're brown they're you know 0.96

00:41:58.160 subhuman they are subhuman we don't see them as human lives yeah because of all the propaganda 0.99

00:42:03.860 we're fed of being the first world superior the problem but mind you this is not the totality

00:42:11.700 of the way Americans think.

00:42:16.580 There are still a lot of people saying,

00:42:18.840 no, you should not do this.

00:42:22.220 There's no protest for it in America.

00:42:24.860 We protested for George Floyd, but I didn't see any.

00:42:27.920 There are protests.

00:42:30.320 There are protests, even in Congress, even in Cheney.

00:42:33.520 Well, from the citizens, not the same.

00:42:36.380 well

00:42:38.480 sorry to say

00:42:41.600 because

00:42:42.020 they are both

00:42:43.760 Americans

00:42:44.260 but not 0.86

00:42:45.700 all Americans

00:42:47.540 are thinking

00:42:48.160 the same

00:42:48.660 no

00:42:50.280 there are still

00:42:51.520 people

00:42:51.920 saying no

00:42:53.020 to this

00:42:53.820 there are

00:42:55.000 you cannot

00:42:56.240 deny that also

00:42:57.180 so you cannot

00:42:59.280 generalize

00:43:00.020 American people

00:43:01.000 only those 1.00

00:43:02.840 who are

00:43:03.300 there

00:43:04.500 up there

00:43:05.020 true yeah why do they say that america is allied with the philippines what does america give the

00:43:14.680 philippines and how is this friendship and relationship maintained well these are more

00:43:20.080 political political issues we do not interfere with okay just knowledge yes okay we are given

00:43:29.980 a chance to say our words and there is nothing behind we are not political people we are not

00:43:37.980 we don't belong to any party we do not deciding any group we are just stating the facts what we 1.00

00:43:45.900 can see what is happening in the ground yes do you think there's a chance that islam could spread 1.00

00:43:54.380 in the philippines there is always that big chance as i have said if you are with the truth 1.00

00:44:03.420 the truth will always prevail definitely but it only depends on how it dependers will do

00:44:11.820 the dua

00:44:14.980 what they do

00:44:17.380 if we do not work for that

00:44:20.560 it will take

00:44:22.280 it will take long

00:44:23.780 but definitely at the end of the day 1.00

00:44:26.720 Islam will spread 0.99

00:44:28.500 it will 1.00

00:44:29.120 just imagine from 0.97

00:44:31.980 from Muhammad 0.99

00:44:34.520 he started alone 0.99

00:44:36.780 remember this 1.00

00:44:38.780 the first Muslim 0.98

00:44:39.600 he started

00:44:41.640 alone

00:44:42.440 in the midst of 0.51

00:44:45.100 kuffar

00:44:47.040 in the midst of kuffar

00:44:49.480 he started alone

00:44:51.360 and until now

00:44:53.040 until now Islam

00:44:54.520 the light of Islam

00:44:57.320 is still spreading

00:44:58.380 and it is unstoppable

00:45:01.680 why?

00:45:03.220 because people at the end of the day

00:45:05.280 will realize it is really

00:45:07.320 the truth

00:45:07.900 subhanAllah

00:45:09.220 yes

00:45:10.220 that's it

00:45:12.300 so if it is the truth

00:45:15.200 then definitely it will prevail

00:45:17.440 can I have any final words

00:45:23.040 that you would like to

00:45:24.060 well thank you for coming

00:45:26.020 thank you so much

00:45:26.800 this was an honor to be able to speak to you

00:45:28.760 it's an honor to

00:45:29.720 welcome you in our humble office

00:45:32.960 it's a beautiful office

00:45:34.340 one day we will see you there in New York

00:45:37.000 inshallah inshallah i would love to host you inshallah and how how is this what they are

00:45:42.060 doing there during ramadan they are praying in the area in time square in time square where

00:45:47.540 yes that was me yeah that was me i was yeah yes that's why i'm asking you because when i was

00:45:54.720 there for the first time that was 1990 no in 2008 then last year i was there in america in new york

00:46:04.840 in Times Square

00:46:05.980 every time I go there

00:46:07.660 I cannot just remember

00:46:09.600 what day it is

00:46:11.340 they are specifying

00:46:13.440 one day

00:46:14.200 they do the body painting

00:46:16.560 in Times Square

00:46:18.140 everybody was just

00:46:21.380 laid out like that 1.00

00:46:23.220 women, men 1.00

00:46:24.320 without dress 0.96

00:46:25.520 without even this bikini

00:46:28.300 they put out everything

00:46:29.960 and they just change it

00:46:31.360 into a paint

00:46:32.180 that is in time square and during ramadan time they pray there yeah but you know the difference

00:46:40.560 in america what do you think they got more outraged at the naked body paint or the

00:46:46.520 prayer in time square what did the media get angry about

00:46:50.160 really it's really it's really

00:46:54.800 it's really paradox is always there everything is inverted yes

00:47:01.360 one day you can see

00:47:04.940 something good

00:47:06.240 another day you can see

00:47:07.400 satanic thing

00:47:08.660 satanic

00:47:10.540 they fall asleep

00:47:11.760 something good

00:47:13.240 and they freak out

00:47:14.260 yes

00:47:15.460 Alhamdulillah

00:47:16.700 and thank you for coming

00:47:18.220 I appreciate it

00:47:19.220 and I wish the best

00:47:20.200 successful

00:47:20.620 he can say

00:47:22.140 he can say

00:47:24.380 it's a big mention

00:47:25.680 it's a big mention

00:47:29.720 it's a big mention

00:47:35.220 Voldemort

00:47:36.020 for us

00:47:36.980 I wish

00:47:38.800 for you

00:47:39.240 for us

00:47:40.140 I wish

00:47:40.760 I wish

00:47:41.860 Are you going to another place?

00:47:52.600 I need to see as much of Zamboanga as I can today.

00:47:55.140 You will be amazed.

00:47:56.480 It is the most beautiful mosque in Zamboanga City, if not in Asia as a home.

00:48:03.740 Yes.

00:48:06.540 So are you the Grand Mufti?

00:48:09.720 Can I say you're Grand Mufti of the Philippines?

00:48:11.340 No, not Grand Mufti of the Philippines.

00:48:14.620 Only for Region 9 in Palawa.

00:48:17.180 It'd be a better title.

00:48:19.000 Yes.

00:48:19.460 Yeah.

00:48:20.520 Yes, we do not interfere the whole...

00:48:23.220 In the whole region?

00:48:24.460 The whole region.

00:48:24.880 Okay.

00:48:25.760 So Region 9 in...

00:48:26.440 Region 9 in Palawa.

00:48:27.940 This is the south of the Philippines?

00:48:30.200 So you could say Grand Mufti of the South Philippines?

00:48:32.060 Yes.

00:48:33.180 Okay.

00:48:34.440 Grand Mufti of the South Philippines.

00:48:35.780 Okay.

00:48:36.420 It's a beautiful office.

00:48:37.340 How long have you been the Mufti here?

00:48:38.500 After the previous move, he died. Even before he died, he was already in the hospital and looking at him that his situation is getting worse.

00:48:52.680 We started already to gather meetings and to confer to each other who will be the next.

00:49:03.600 And I did not even expect that I will be the one they will toast.

00:49:10.260 But when they, for several times they already had meetings, they concluded that it should be me.

00:49:20.640 So actually, the first day they offered it to me, I refused because I know it is already

00:49:30.260 the end of my free time, my freedom with my family.

00:49:36.040 I do not have any more time with my family, with my kids, because I am always with my

00:49:42.820 kids, you know.

00:49:43.980 That's why my kids right now are complaining.

00:49:46.440 God, where is your time for us?

00:49:50.640 I refused actually at the very first moment but then they forced me they said you will be asked

00:49:59.020 in front of Allah if you do not accept this so I said okay but I got a promise from them

00:50:12.040 they will help me why Abu Bakr of I know the family it's the name of the best

00:50:21.100 friend of the best companion of the Prophet yes in the second the first

00:50:28.720 But there is no root origin.

00:50:39.080 There is no relation.

00:50:40.440 Okay.

00:50:42.700 This is the name of my family.

00:50:45.600 Abu Bakar.

00:50:47.300 Do you mind?

00:50:48.280 Can we take a photo in front of your son?

00:50:50.080 Yes.

00:50:50.520 Yes.

00:50:51.100 Yes, please.

00:50:53.980 Yes.

00:50:54.940 Come. 0.93

00:50:55.740 Come.

00:50:56.000 Let's look at this on my phone, there we go.

00:51:26.000 okay thank you so much actually take my phone yeah just it's not probably better

00:51:43.160 if we do it centered over here we are all graduates from Al-Azhar University

00:51:56.000 How do you say cheese in Tagalog?

00:51:59.340 Yeah, say cheese.

00:52:26.000 Huh, when it wasn't up I'd call to Barbour, a testified city in the future.

00:52:41.000 A lot of places followed by this area, there was Let's check the north.

00:52:55.000 Have a seat first for a while.

00:53:00.920 We are just waiting for the snacks.

00:53:05.440 We will let you taste our preferred snacks.

00:53:10.580 Perfect. Are we in a rush?

00:53:11.860 Please. Not really.

00:53:13.220 Okay.

00:53:13.780 It's very neat.

00:53:16.540 10 to 10 minutes.

00:53:18.880 InshaAllah.

00:53:20.440 Are the pictures good? 0.97

00:53:25.000 Damn, I kind of get in the fro. 0.96

00:53:35.880 Chad, do you like this fro? 0.99

00:53:37.820 What the frick? 0.81

00:53:47.940 Chad, what did you think of the grand mufti? 0.93

00:53:50.660 You guys enjoy the interview?

00:53:53.120 W Snacks?

00:53:55.000 This is our preferred snack, from banana.

00:54:18.000 Is this going to cut my hair? I kind of want to keep growing it out. What are you going to keep growing it?

00:54:24.000 Feed the Warner, no.

00:54:25.920 Oh, by the way, Warner, I'm joking around.

00:54:28.280 I'm putting it to context about the propaganda about terrorism.

00:54:31.620 W. Warner, bro, I'm exaggerating.

00:54:34.400 Warner's texting during the interview saying I threw him...

00:54:36.280 Dude, come on, W. Warner, bro.

00:54:39.380 I'm just saying, I'm using that as a vessel to talk about how people have this perception in America that this is a terrorist place, and it's not.

00:54:47.740 Of course, Warner's the, you know, Warner's the best, Warner the GOAT, man, W. Warner.

00:54:54.000 You can't miss out on Marawi City?

00:54:58.740 This is our preferred snack.

00:55:01.180 So they have this every day.

00:55:02.740 Yes.

00:55:03.200 Every day?

00:55:03.840 Almost every day.

00:55:04.800 Can I take one?

00:55:05.580 Yes.

00:55:06.200 Not only one.

00:55:07.600 Just one.

00:55:08.360 Just one.

00:55:09.740 If I eat too much, then I get slow and boring.

00:55:12.400 I need to starve myself.

00:55:14.260 Yeah, please.

00:55:14.980 I'm fasting.

00:55:18.520 It's a nice one.

00:55:19.400 Mmm.

00:55:21.440 Oh my.

00:55:22.680 What?

00:55:23.320 Yeah.

00:55:24.000 Dang, what is this called?

00:55:28.000 Torong.

00:55:30.000 Torong?

00:55:32.000 Torong.

00:55:34.000 This is so good.

00:55:36.000 Oh, is this plantain or banana?

00:55:40.000 It's my mom's favorite food.

00:55:44.000 Actually, we already know each other because I live right behind the mosque.

00:55:50.000 Oh, yeah? 0.87

00:55:52.000 like right outside

00:55:53.800 okay you see

00:55:55.780 there's so many people

00:55:56.320 in the room

00:55:56.660 and they kept talking

00:55:58.120 and dude

00:55:59.360 someone started

00:56:00.460 doom scrolling

00:56:01.020 right next to me

00:56:01.680 playing short form content

00:56:02.640 I think it was 1.00

00:56:03.520 the shit from the 1.00

00:56:04.100 I'm like dude 1.00

00:56:05.160 can you not do this

00:56:06.060 right now

00:56:06.920 like I hear your videos

00:56:10.180 like are you kidding

00:56:10.780 me right now

00:56:11.220 I'm doing an interview

00:56:11.900 with the Mufti

00:56:13.280 like

00:56:13.540 yeah right

00:56:16.140 he had a Nokia earlier

00:56:17.100 now he's doom scrolling

00:56:17.880 like looking at brain rot

00:56:18.920 on Instagram 1.00

00:56:19.400 So what's the best thing about Zambwanga?

00:56:43.900 beautiful beaches

00:56:49.500 there's not too much fin of the zen of the eyes

00:56:56.620 a little bit island hopping is also one of the best

00:57:03.780 if you have your rod with you you can come with me

00:57:10.420 Yeah?

00:57:12.420 To go fishing.

00:57:14.420 We should go today.

00:57:16.420 No, not now. We are busy.

00:57:21.420 It's never too busy for fishing.

00:57:36.420 Which part of Zambongo are we? Where are we in Zambongo?

00:57:39.420 Currently, we are in Santa Catalina in Lombonga.

00:57:44.420 Oh, and there's a Majid here? 0.99

00:57:46.420 Yeah, right outside. 0.99

00:57:47.420 Can we see before we leave?

00:57:48.420 Yeah, we can.

00:57:49.420 Can we go now?

00:57:50.420 Yeah.

00:57:55.420 Have your tea, bro.

00:57:56.420 Have your tea first.

00:57:58.420 How many of you have been here?

00:58:03.420 Hello, you have been here.

00:58:09.420 So this is the total hospitality I was telling you about?

00:58:13.420 I know, I'm just having a show of stream I wanted to...

00:58:17.420 You're married?

00:58:19.420 No?

00:58:20.420 I don't say that...

00:58:21.420 Obviously no.

00:58:22.420 Obviously?

00:58:24.420 Doofy!

00:58:28.420 What the...

00:58:30.420 Why do you say that?

00:58:32.420 You're actually young, yeah.

00:58:34.420 I'm 27.

00:58:36.420 I'm old, I'm cashing up to you.

00:58:39.420 It was exactly my age when I got married.

00:58:42.640 27?

00:58:43.120 27.

00:58:47.500 How did you find your wife?

00:58:51.200 Allah.

00:58:52.600 Blessing from Allah.

00:58:55.340 Could use some of that, you know? 0.96

00:58:58.020 Well, for wife to agree.

00:59:03.300 Is your wife also from Zamboanga?

00:59:05.540 No, she's from Kabi Kabi.

00:59:08.420 I don't know.

00:59:09.420 Is that close by?

00:59:10.980 No, it's just the farthest part of the south.

00:59:15.900 Oh wow.

00:59:34.700 It's unfortunate that Islam has been forgotten so much

00:59:37.900 from the Filipino culture?

00:59:39.360 Because I have so much Filipino family,

00:59:42.220 all my titos and titas, I live in Manila.

00:59:44.740 What was preserved?

00:59:46.180 I know so much of that was converted and changed,

00:59:48.680 but aside from the south and the Moros,

00:59:51.820 what was preserved in Filipino culture of Islam?

00:59:55.760 You have some street signs, but that's all.

01:00:00.040 Only the signs and the,

01:00:03.440 not even in the history,

01:00:04.660 They are not already any more mentioned in the history.

01:00:09.980 Suppose they are part of the history of the world.

01:00:19.300 Drink your tea. 0.97

01:00:24.000 Have another turun.

01:00:26.600 Have a coffee.

01:00:29.140 How do you have a tea?

01:00:30.340 Okay, okay, okay.

01:00:31.500 Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

01:00:33.440 All righty.

01:00:34.660 Will you come with us to the masjid?

01:00:58.660 Visit Marawi City. This tea is so hot for how hot it is right now. I can't do it.

01:01:04.660 Did you try the tron?

01:01:11.660 Very hot. I know the tea is very hot.

01:01:24.660 Oh, it is hot.

01:01:34.660 oh wow it's beautiful 1.00

01:01:37.960 drink your tea dude i can't sit here for 10 hours sipping a stupid hot tea 0.98

01:01:45.900 it's like boiling hot out here if i tried to wait for that to cool off it would be tomorrow 0.99

01:01:50.420 like someone has to be the i don't know i know a lot of tests are my patients but if i wasn't

01:01:55.800 impatient bro we would be sitting in just one spot eating mangoes in front of a class all day

01:02:00.160 Like you gotta have someone like me

01:02:03.060 Yeah, is Mufti coming?

01:02:07.880 No

01:02:08.020 Let's go see

01:02:11.800 Wow

01:02:20.400 Hello

01:02:30.160 Oh, he's going to do Asa right now.

01:02:41.760 He's doing Asa.

01:02:42.780 Look at the timing.

01:02:43.620 I'm going to pray about you sooner.

01:03:00.160 In the salats of the council, we goody leaders for the petition so far ,

01:03:13.000 Allah! Allah! Allah! Allah!

01:03:21.140 God bless you everyone!

01:03:25.120 Asbhanimilaah, Asbhanimilaah, Asbhanimilaah, Allah.

01:03:32.120 Allah, Asbhanimilaah, Asbhanimilaah, Allah.

01:03:37.120 That he at the Allahi wa salatu wa toibat wa salam alayka ayah.

01:03:42.120 the

01:03:43.360 sun

01:03:44.720 Allah

01:03:58.500 Allah

01:04:12.120 Thank you.

01:04:42.120 You know what's so dope about Majid?

01:05:12.000 is that worldwide the design is simplistic like you're not supposed to post artwork you can't

01:05:18.160 have different idols or depictions in there it has a very simple instructions that you're supposed

01:05:24.260 to follow yet throughout the world they're so different and you get to see the attention to

01:05:30.140 detail and the material and the spacing i really enjoy it or even where they build build it

01:05:40.080 like in the sun or indoors the the size of the the dome but time to go to the next spot

01:05:50.620 you just know it's hot yeah it is i'm surviving though another thing i just love about islam

01:05:57.860 and hopefully this is seen in my content but the fact that i've traveled the world and i've prayed

01:06:06.040 in Bosnia, in Saudi Arabia, in the Philippines, in Thailand, in Colombia, and doing this on

01:06:13.460 stream, just seeing, like, I really like the lineup with the children, the Filipino children.

01:06:17.320 It's like, well, we really come from the same ethnicity, half.

01:06:21.220 But, you know, I was just there for Eid. 0.99

01:06:23.880 I was in Bosnia with people that look very different.

01:06:26.540 Or when I go for Umrah, there's so many Nigerians and so many black people.

01:06:30.040 it's just

01:06:32.380 reassuring and you get to see visually

01:06:34.700 how this is for mankind

01:06:37.140 in Prophet Muhammad's

01:06:38.260 last speech, he did not say

01:06:40.500 oh Jews, he did not say oh kafir

01:06:42.360 he did not say oh Asians, oh Arabs, he said oh mankind

01:06:44.680 Islam is for all of mankind

01:06:46.580 so

01:06:48.300 any propaganda that's trying to tell you otherwise

01:06:50.240 forget it

01:06:52.640 how are you good how are you

01:06:58.880 yeah what's your name ted ted nice to meet you i've been watching you on live i saw you with

01:07:05.220 yeah it was good it was a very good conversation yo this is great are you our tour guide here or

01:07:11.760 are you just randomly seeing us i'm just randomly seeing you bro i just wanted to say welcome to

01:07:14.920 zambwanga city oh thanks for having me living here for about like a year now where are you

01:07:19.220 where are you from in the states i was born in upstate new york and raised in uh wisconsin as

01:07:23.640 well and what made you come out i can't i'm like a little bit shocked right now please please turn

01:07:27.980 up the f-stop this is incredible i want to make sure that you get a good shot yeah you're from

01:07:33.760 upstate yeah what made you move here uh i was working abroad for about 14 years in saudi arabia

01:07:42.000 my wife was from here we got married about 10 years ago and we decided to settle out here

01:07:46.360 passport bro no i'm joking i'm sorry but uh how are you finding the city so far man i'm loving

01:07:52.840 it man i'm loving it are you are you revert yeah i've been working for about uh 23 years now 23

01:07:59.560 years hold on let's take a listen in front of brother this wait do you come here so you come

01:08:05.720 here often i'm a neighbor actually i'm like five minutes away or could you stand here please yeah

01:08:10.760 sure yeah i just want to know so this was built um 2022 yeah it's still under construction yeah

01:08:16.040 And they kind of opened up for partial prayers in 2022, 2023, Ramadan and stuff.

01:08:22.320 You can't pray right now?

01:08:23.320 You can, you can.

01:08:24.320 But a lot of it's still under construction out there.

01:08:27.020 So when did you revert?

01:08:28.880 2004.

01:08:29.940 You ever get called a race traitor?

01:08:31.560 No, that's something I've seen recently with Nick, your friend, you know. 0.99

01:08:35.720 By the way, you should give him da'wah. 0.94

01:08:37.420 Nick, and who's the other one?

01:08:39.400 Keith Woods.

01:08:40.340 Yeah, I like Keith too.

01:08:41.960 Keith seems like a genuinely good guy.

01:08:44.700 I don't know.

01:08:45.080 But you know how it is.

01:08:45.720 people the whiteness does hold a lot of people back they think that they're they think christianity 1.00

01:08:50.500 is a white religion even though it's from jesus from philistine it's so stupid but they tie european 0.98

01:08:57.000 identity to christianity which is kind of subverting the teachings of jesus because he 0.99

01:09:01.060 never lived in italy or spain he was right right right from bethlehem but they held on to the roman

01:09:05.700 menhage right it's more like following the romans than it is following jesus but anyway

01:09:11.140 So what was it like becoming Muslim?

01:09:14.600 It was pretty basic.

01:09:16.380 I thought it just aligned with everything that we believed in in my hometown.

01:09:19.580 So a lot of people didn't really follow Catholicism at all.

01:09:25.480 You know what I mean?

01:09:25.940 Yeah.

01:09:26.120 People were like, they drifted away from that.

01:09:28.000 We believed in one God, but you know, that Jesus isn't God himself or whatever.

01:09:32.000 Yeah, I know.

01:09:32.520 Same thing.

01:09:32.840 I grew up Catholic.

01:09:33.500 When I prayed, I prayed to God. 1.00

01:09:34.660 So I'm like, oh, this is what Muslims do. 0.97

01:09:35.940 I guess I am Muslim.

01:09:36.540 Yeah, it's already kind of like ingrained.

01:09:38.660 So it was pretty easy for you.

01:09:39.600 pretty easy transition did you revert before you got married yeah yeah we got married about 10 years

01:09:43.940 ago alhamdulillah man congratulations yeah thanks so much okay so you recently seen this back then

01:09:49.100 i mean that was 2004 that was peak you know muslims or terrorist propaganda that never held

01:09:53.060 you back no i studied i mean malcolm x in class so we had malcolm x in high school and that really

01:09:59.500 kind of opened the door but then 9 11 happened so i'm like what's going on like it doesn't jive

01:10:02.740 malcolm was awesome what happened here yeah and so then i had to get a quran for myself

01:10:06.460 if that makes sense. The clear Quran, probably. No, this is way back in the day, bro. 2004,

01:10:11.100 we had, like, a translation by, like, a Turkish author or something like this. Wow, I mean,

01:10:16.040 a white guy converted to Islam in 2004. This was, like, right after the Iraq war started, too.

01:10:21.160 Yeah, yeah. I was one of the protesters that actually, like, took a bus to Washington,

01:10:25.340 D.C. to stand against the war, but, you know, we were leaderless at that time, so. And then you

01:10:29.520 came to the Philippines what year? Just last year. I've been visiting for the last seven years,

01:10:33.580 but actually settling here permanently in Zambwanga for a year.

01:10:38.460 So what can you tell me about Zambwanga?

01:10:40.000 I've been asking people all day, the Mufti, my tour guide, Irfani, has been very generous,

01:10:43.820 but this history, it's complicated and it seems like it's not told and people don't understand it.

01:10:49.100 How do you understand the history of Zambwanga City?

01:10:51.680 Zambwanga, I mean, even since the time of the Japanese, they tried to divide,

01:10:55.400 when they occupied in World War II, they tried to divide the city or whatever between Christians and Muslims,

01:10:59.960 but they didn't. They didn't divide.

01:11:01.940 they actually stuck together during the occupation um the big difference between zambuanga i would

01:11:06.620 say and like the rest of the north is that like people are really down to earth here and really

01:11:11.360 straightforward you know like if you get a smile it's a real smile whereas in the north like like

01:11:16.800 in manila everybody smiles hey hey hey shout out shout out or whatever but like here it's just like

01:11:21.140 some people smile some people don't and i enjoy the smiles and i don't mind if they don't you

01:11:25.500 know what i mean so the people here i feel like are down to earth and more genuine yeah

01:11:29.680 yes if they have an appreciation for little things and regular life we are very distracted

01:11:37.920 we always think that there's something better out there in america yeah you know every time

01:11:41.700 you get somewhere it's like okay what's the next thing right rather than appreciating appreciating

01:11:46.680 like you know a conversation or like tea right that's not which you've had a lot i saw a lot

01:11:51.660 too much i didn't bring any mangoes for you bro no i wanted to go sit down for six hours and eat

01:11:55.760 mangos with you like hey do you have another 45 minutes it's ibadah do you want to get into the

01:12:00.860 yes i do would love to yeah yeah i don't want to make you wait out in the sun or whatever

01:12:04.420 no no no i'm just enjoying being here pretty stunning eh bro this is incredible bro so guys

01:12:12.760 all the land here is actually for the masjid so like all the surrounding area here that development

01:12:18.180 there is going to be like apartment complexes and i think they're going to open a mall

01:12:21.380 they have a school that they go to on the weekends called

01:12:23.860 Sadiq Islamic School and they have

01:12:25.900 a full time seminary as well that's just right over there

01:12:28.080 in the distance. So this is a huge property

01:12:30.300 and if

01:12:31.440 the viewers are wondering it costs something like

01:12:34.140 2 billion pesos or whatever

01:12:35.560 2 billion pesos. Well by next

01:12:38.280 week that's going to be 3 billion

01:12:39.340 inflation is brutal. Can I get a photo here?

01:12:42.720 Yeah of course.

01:12:43.760 Let's get it centered with the

01:12:45.260 see the way the sun's peaking by the cloud is so cool

01:12:48.380 what's your name again my name is ted ted

01:12:56.860 yeah mufti was saying that the gringos are spies

01:13:06.140 so how do you how would you you know when you said columbia university i think that like it 1.00

01:13:13.080 wrapped his head about columbia you know that's why he was thinking yeah that's a great point

01:13:17.580 like did you go to columbia university and he just columbia was like tossed into the mix that's a

01:13:21.440 great catch i didn't even catch that that's why he was thinking i got a columbian oh he so he didn't

01:13:27.500 even know what i meant by columbia university but what was your advice you said i should give

01:13:31.080 dawa to uh these people how you know you're from russia so you're a white dude how should i give

01:13:35.800 dawa to people like that it's a good i mean you're you're the friend you're a good friend

01:13:40.540 i think being a good friend is is what it what it really takes not like not somebody that's

01:13:45.760 always preaching i never been like put on by people preaching and stuff like that it's a put

01:13:49.900 off for me it's the truth i'm like leave me alone with the truth brother take jahara yeah yeah no

01:13:54.940 no it doesn't work for me i'm gonna run away from that so just be a good friend that's how you

01:13:59.780 resonate with malcolm x he wasn't really even though he was a preacher he wasn't preachy right

01:14:05.600 there's a difference it was his character and there's a way his aura of uh his life that is

01:14:11.880 what resonated with people hopefully you right was that being a good example right and like

01:14:15.760 showing what islam is not just saying what islam is i think it's a difference you said one of your

01:14:20.320 friends didn't come he was like afraid is that like actually true no no no okay okay well shout

01:14:24.580 out to the warner no no he he came for a different reason he didn't come for a different reason but

01:14:28.840 he was saying at first he's like he was looking at online in zambwanga city people are messaging

01:14:33.100 and saying like oh terrorist this and immediately i hear that i'm like i don't believe it you know

01:14:38.540 I don't believe it. 1.00

01:14:39.540 When crime happens here, people will be like, it's Muslims. 1.00

01:14:42.900 You know what's interesting? 1.00

01:14:43.580 That's the difference, man.

01:14:44.080 There's a ton of crime in Manila, bro.

01:14:45.780 Yeah.

01:14:45.940 All the time. 0.85

01:14:47.020 But it's never like, oh, that's the Christians. 0.92

01:14:48.480 Exactly. 0.92

01:14:48.840 We were just talking about that. 1.00

01:14:50.160 Catholics are drug dealers, right? 1.00

01:14:51.320 From Mexican border coming into America, right? 1.00

01:14:54.160 Or if a Catholic commits crimes in Manila, is the media going to say Catholics kill each other? 0.93

01:15:00.420 Catholic crime on the rise. 0.90

01:15:01.380 Catholic crime on the rise. 0.78

01:15:01.960 No. 1.00

01:15:02.460 A Muslim does it. 1.00

01:15:03.420 Immediately, Muslim stabs. 1.00

01:15:04.940 Yeah, yeah. 1.00

01:15:05.760 Exactly.

01:15:05.960 Catholics are never walled.

01:15:07.420 i don't think i've ever seen a catholic ever labeled as even the pope they don't say catholic

01:15:11.900 they just say the pope or the mafia i mean it's an italian right catholic organization

01:15:16.220 where they say like the cosa nostra exactly yeah they never call it that that's a great yeah the

01:15:21.980 mafia the mafia even though their initiations to the the mob when they become a made man they burn

01:15:27.420 a picture of a saint and put their blood on it yeah well those are seen in the sopranos i don't

01:15:32.060 know if i'm being accurate but yeah that's my historical analysis from sopranos oh okay let's

01:15:37.820 go in huh for me um i also love malaysia too i was working there for a year in 2019

01:15:46.540 i didn't get a chance to meet anwar ibrahim he was actually in prison at that time yeah yeah he

01:15:50.620 was showing me salam alaikum hello yo he's loud bro and then he goes right back on the phone

01:15:59.160 Hold on, wait, can you wait?

01:15:59.860 I want to say hi to this guy.

01:16:03.140 I want to say hi to this guy.

01:16:06.300 Mike, Mike.

01:16:08.460 They're all saying give him a mic.

01:16:10.140 Dude, you guys can hear him?

01:16:18.160 Dude, yo, what's up?

01:16:19.400 Dude, yo, what's up, man?

01:16:20.880 What the freak?

01:16:21.780 Oh, my God.

01:16:22.620 Is this on?

01:16:24.860 Is this stream?

01:16:25.500 Is this stream on?

01:16:26.400 Yeah.

01:16:26.580 I'm sorry, dude.

01:16:27.120 Yeah, we're live right now.

01:16:28.240 This is my wife. 1.00

01:16:29.320 We were going to like Victoria prenup, dude.

01:16:33.100 I didn't know you were coming.

01:16:34.220 I thought I saw you in Philippines, dude.

01:16:36.580 Oh, yeah, dude. 0.72

01:16:37.300 What the hell? 0.92

01:16:38.280 Yeah, what the heaven.

01:16:39.640 What the heaven? 0.97

01:16:40.380 What the jana.

01:16:41.500 Yes.

01:16:42.160 As-salamu alaykum, man.

01:16:42.960 Good to see you.

01:16:43.560 Big fun, bro.

01:16:44.380 What a big fun.

01:16:45.160 I've been seeing you since you were a little kid.

01:16:47.120 Yeah.

01:16:47.540 Huh?

01:16:49.080 Yeah, yeah, shaving my head.

01:16:50.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:51.080 Dang, a long time.

01:16:51.800 How are you?

01:16:53.420 How's Samboanga, bro?

01:16:54.280 Bro, I love it.

01:16:54.940 This is my first time at this maajid.

01:16:56.100 It's super dope.

01:16:56.660 No, I thought, who's that guy?

01:16:59.360 It's familiar, dude.

01:17:00.600 I know, you yelled really loud and then you went back on the phone.

01:17:02.760 Who are you talking to?

01:17:04.780 We were having someone just call or something.

01:17:08.100 Oh, okay.

01:17:08.640 I don't want to interrupt you too long.

01:17:09.800 Thanks for having us.

01:17:10.660 Welcome to Samblonga, bro.

01:17:11.820 My kuya.

01:17:13.060 I'm going to go see you inside.

01:17:14.100 Yeah, go.

01:17:19.020 Oh, what up, man?

01:17:20.420 Are you a YouTuber, kicker, ex-guy?

01:17:22.220 YouTube.

01:17:22.960 Oh, nice.

01:17:23.540 I haven't seen it. 0.99

01:17:24.540 Oh, damn. 0.99

01:17:25.280 These visuals look so good on the camera. 0.99

01:17:26.660 Good to see you, bro.

01:17:30.460 Prenup, I don't know what he was talking about, bro.

01:17:32.620 I'm not going to get involved in that marital issue.

01:17:35.580 I'll let him deal with that.

01:17:37.440 Should I orify on visuals here?

01:17:38.640 The owner is a good friend of mine.

01:17:40.420 He's like a sweet brother.

01:17:42.220 What do you call him?

01:17:44.020 Oh, there's something over there.

01:17:46.180 I'll do a Malcolm X thing.

01:17:47.320 I'll do a Malcolm X thing.

01:17:52.220 I was going to say, if you actually want specialty coffee,

01:17:56.460 like really really good coffee i really want it to take a long time to make can we get a really

01:18:00.400 slow coffee yeah yeah right and like a japanese one yeah the ice brew no there's a nice cafe

01:18:05.260 that's two minutes away from here it's one of the best in the city yeah if we could fit into

01:18:08.420 the schedule i'd love to i want to go see downtown the boulevard yeah mic him up yeah can we mic up

01:18:14.240 do you mind uh okay the throw was not really ideal for i could put it right here yeah so

01:18:26.380 gnome there you go did they tell you about this yeah what is that sleep uh this in saudi arabia

01:18:31.260 this is for like in the house oh you got the pajamas on yeah i know i remember when i first

01:18:35.260 went to saudi i thought it was dripped up and they said are you gonna go sleep yeah it's actually

01:18:39.100 prohibited now yeah you can't even wear it like in egypt you can't go visit a lot of places with

01:18:43.500 this i like those sobs though so what's the name of this masjid again sadik sadik saudi grand mosque

01:18:51.820 Sadiq Sadiq Grand Mosque and they get a lot of tourists actually can imagine

01:18:58.500 usually local domestic tourists here because it's quite the site and Ramadan

01:19:02.520 we had about 27 people become Muslim and I think it's just curiosity of this

01:19:06.220 huge structure that's really pulling people in you know where did that

01:19:09.340 stream sniper go is that him I think he's off to the right this family he left

01:19:14.200 already okay so as you can see there's a still a ton of construction we can go

01:19:18.400 this way to to get to the masala yeah yo ted's pretty good did you you didn't send him like

01:19:28.500 this is a good one we needed a white guy too to go balance out all the mufti talking about

01:19:33.420 the gringos man no no he's awesome dude and i'm joking masha'Allah mufti waleed is like uh wait

01:19:39.520 do you mind let's go see the construction here because like we're going to look back on this

01:19:42.260 footage in five ten years when it's done i want to see and then this is going to be cool to see

01:19:48.160 can i go here

01:19:51.760 maybe there's like a safety issue

01:19:57.680 we could just peek in but i mean there's also i mean there's a ton of ton of work being done

01:20:03.800 everywhere here yeah but these lamps these looks like straight out of medina it's kind of like a

01:20:09.500 medina fusion yeah yeah it has a majin nabawi feel this is so cool bro wait look look yeah um

01:20:16.360 you haven't made it right they have these lamps uh they have some on the floor right here this

01:20:21.640 is the one that they have in the prophet muhammad's grave they have right uh these lamps are

01:20:27.320 identical to this you've got a good view right here this is the like the final version and

01:20:33.880 right over there you can still see for your viewers like the under construction version

01:20:37.080 or whatever well for the big reveal i just want to show them like some of the smaller stuff

01:20:46.360 but it was open for Eid. Yeah, we came here for Eid actually for the big prayers. That's usually open

01:20:52.420 They didn't have these things like laying around though. You know this. Yeah, I know I just I always take pictures of the I always see these in the

01:20:58.600 Medina it's just cool to see up close

01:21:01.180 It looks identical. It looks like the same ones 0.90

01:21:03.800 They may be ordered from there. I have no idea and they did put a lot of money into it, right, so

01:21:08.800 It wouldn't be surprising. How has this family built any other masjid?

01:21:13.020 if i'm not mistaken the founder of this masjid is like the brother of the governor

01:21:17.260 of tawitawi that region that the mufti's uh family is from is this your house

01:21:29.100 oh okay okay

01:21:32.620 oh they're just adding the rugs over here

01:21:37.260 so they can't put your feet bro there's like glass and stuff they have a program for

01:21:42.060 Those students that are stay-in students that are like orphans and those in need and things like that.

01:21:47.820 Yeah, and you can see like they've got their learning center over here and

01:21:51.440 their

01:21:52.580 the turban with the hat.

01:21:57.480 Okay, now we should do big reveal here.

01:22:04.780 Oh

01:22:06.780 Asma al-Husna, the 99 names of Allah up here.

01:22:11.780 Oh my, how beautiful.

01:22:13.780 And this chandelier was just recently installed.

01:22:27.780 Pretty cool.

01:22:28.780 You can see they're just adding the paint to the Quranic ayat up there.

01:22:32.780 The gold or whatever, or the gold color.

01:22:35.780 I'm speechless.

01:22:44.940 I think this might be the most beautiful ceiling I've seen in any Majid.

01:22:49.660 Hagia Sophia comes close.

01:22:52.420 I like Majid Nabawi ceiling, but it's low and it's pretty symmetric.

01:22:56.780 But the ambitious nature of this ceiling here, it's unlike anything I've seen.

01:23:03.880 I think this takes it.

01:23:05.780 and this started in 2022 I think it's been going on since before then but like open for

01:23:14.480 some prayers in 2022 is probably safer to say wow if that makes sense

01:23:19.640 I'll show it keep showing okay the construction guys this is going to be so cool to look back on

01:23:25.340 I think this is actually the founder of the message right here with the hats if I'm not

01:23:29.060 let's go say hi then at the table let's go say hi have you met him before i i did meet him just uh

01:23:37.860 just shaking hands though not like i didn't sit down or anything like that

01:23:40.580 This is our visitor from the United States.

01:24:10.580 I was told that you are the creator of this masjid here.

01:24:31.900 Well, Allah is the creator, but the builder, I guess.

01:24:35.340 The carpenter. 0.99

01:24:37.160 The carpenter, okay.

01:24:41.460 what can you tell i'm from america i'm a live streamer i reverted three years ago

01:24:46.740 and i'm half filipino it's my first time here first time back in the philippines so i had to

01:24:50.980 come see this majid it's it has me speechless walking around here it's just absolutely beautiful

01:24:57.300 is there anything you could tell us about the process of building this or

01:25:10.580 House of Allah, it's depending on what kind of money or the people you have invested.

01:25:19.720 You cannot just tell people, you can go to people.

01:25:22.200 There are so many people that have to be learned, but again, you have the position, you have the money, you have the people, but I don't know exactly what.

01:25:32.900 You cannot do.

01:25:35.380 I like the choice, the lamps.

01:25:36.860 this is uh well these over here from they remind me of medina majid nabawi right yeah okay i've

01:25:43.800 been there yeah i've been uh four or five times to medina for no not hajj but just umrah and my

01:25:50.500 favorite majid is majid nabawi so i recognize this is it looks similar to the one in rasulullah's

01:25:55.400 grave he has uh if you look up it's just like this and it kind of reminds me of haya sophia

01:26:00.640 in the middle

01:26:01.280 with the way they have

01:26:02.320 the names of Allah

01:26:03.280 around

01:26:03.800 it's magnificent

01:26:06.580 it's incredible

01:26:07.720 to see

01:26:08.280 and the Philippines

01:26:09.780 is a small

01:26:10.580 Muslim community

01:26:11.480 but it's still

01:26:12.940 very grand

01:26:13.540 so it's ambitious

01:26:14.460 and I want to thank you

01:26:15.660 and may I reward you

01:26:16.440 for building this

01:26:17.060 I mean

01:26:18.220 it was a pleasure

01:26:19.180 I don't want to

01:26:19.580 interrupt you too much

01:26:20.260 I know you're in the

01:26:20.680 middle of a meeting

01:26:21.160 thank you so much

01:26:22.360 as-salamu alaykum

01:26:22.800 grab some water

01:26:27.040 give me some water

01:26:27.920 again

01:26:29.240 but it's okay we're gonna mangle with them

01:26:33.160 yeah i'm not gonna mic him up are you kidding me bro mic him up you know who i'm speaking to 0.98

01:26:50.080 you guys are so autistic and like like children 0.94

01:26:52.340 dude like understand social cues bro 0.86

01:26:58.300 audio is low for him yeah obviously it was

01:27:04.060 so yeah you could just uh run into kind of amazing people everywhere yeah you know subhanallah no

01:27:12.520 i mean i'll award them for building something so magnificent you mentioned the uh the mayor

01:27:17.580 of manila yes isco is actually uh somebody that really supported the muslim community here oh

01:27:24.580 really okay so i'm putting out bad information i don't know about any of i actually had this

01:27:29.000 the first time i heard that but he actually you know the discrimination issues so like he was

01:27:33.300 the first mayor of manila to build a muslim graveyard for us oh yeah so up until then if

01:27:37.700 you died in manila you'd have to be sent back to wherever you were from even if you're a convert 0.96

01:27:42.520 there's not a space for you there so he established a graveyard cemetery for us there and he's always

01:27:47.740 in contact with the muslim people he's a cool guy oh okay cool okay well i hope we have the

01:27:52.000 conversation you guys said you couldn't hear him he was basically saying that everybody has their

01:27:58.940 input and you know everyone's saying do this or that and they don't know about the funding

01:28:02.100 he's basically saying people don't know what they're talking about wait do you hear the sound

01:28:05.500 It's going all the way around

01:28:22.580 They've got a good sound system as well 1.00

01:28:25.120 For Ramadan and Tarawih 0.97

01:28:26.260 Can we hear an Adan real quick? 1.00

01:28:27.760 Let's see

01:28:28.060 No, it's alright bro

01:28:28.820 Come on, I want to hear

01:28:29.680 I'm talking about myself

01:28:30.800 Come on, let's hear an Adan real quick

01:28:32.100 Oh, no, no, no.

01:28:36.020 Yeah.

01:28:39.700 Are you able to stay here for a long?

01:28:45.660 Or are you going to be...

01:28:46.520 Because you said it's your last day,

01:28:47.560 but are you going to be, like, in Zamboanga for a while?

01:28:51.360 Up to you.

01:28:52.340 Well, we have somewhere else to go to, right?

01:28:54.060 Yeah, we're going to Mariki after this one.

01:28:57.580 Mariki.

01:28:58.340 What's your prayer sooner?

01:29:00.360 Tayet Amasjid.

01:29:02.100 Yes, right the two. What does that mean?

01:29:04.620 When you enter the mystery to work out, yeah

01:29:17.340 Hey, what's up kids? Hello, what's your name? I feel sneaker

01:29:32.100 Right here, right here.

01:29:39.360 What's your name?

01:29:40.580 My name is American.

01:29:42.200 American, nice to meet you.

01:29:43.460 And your name?

01:29:44.780 My name is...

01:29:45.760 My name is American.

01:29:48.980 American?

01:29:49.780 No, I'm American. 1.00

01:29:51.680 You're Filipino. 0.88

01:29:53.320 America.

01:29:53.840 Yes.

01:29:55.400 Were you from Zamboanga?

01:29:57.820 My family from Manila.

01:30:00.080 No.

01:30:02.100 No, oh

01:30:04.860 Bye

SHNEAKO - April 30, 2026

SNEAKO interviews Grand Mufti of South Philippines

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