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Cited in 15 segments across 9 recordings · 2017 to 2021 · person/person:donald-trump
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17 May 2021video
LatestAre Bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf to blame for the UAE's deal with Israel?
No, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: the UAE's ruler does not take direction from scholars, Bin Bayyah is said to have disliked the treaty while deferring to the ruler's decision, and Hamza Yusuf had nothing to do with it. He opens with condolences for the losses in Gaza.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
The storming of the US Capitol and Trump's 'go home, we love you' video
Clips of the Capitol riot and Trump's 'go home, we love you' video, with Mufti Abu Layth's mocking commentary.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Not just Trump: why he sees the Capitol riot as reflective of the United States
Mufti Abu Layth sees the Capitol riot as a symptom of the United States as a whole, not just of Trump, pointing to school shootings, inequality and race relations.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Chat round: Trump's Twitter ban, Surah Ya Sin in the morning, and banter
Light chat: he is unsure how he feels about Trump's Twitter ban and says reciting Ya Sin each morning is not a sunnah.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Who do you think will win the US election?
Mufti Abu Layth has a scary feeling that Trump will win again but says it would not be the end of the world; he cannot understand Americans' resistance to free health care.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf to blame for the UAE-Israel deal?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is unfair to blame Abdullah bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf for the UAE-Israel deal, since the UAE's ruler does not care what scholars think.
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19 Aug 2020Responding to Refutations
What did the leak of Yasir Qadhi's emails on the Quran's preservation lead to?
The leak of Yasir Qadhi's emails set off a fitna in which people doubted or left Islam, and Yasir Qadhi's own explanation made it worse. Being clever and well-read does not make someone an academic.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
What do you think of the Wayfair trafficking rumours and Epstein?
Mufti Abu Layth suspects Epstein was blackmailing powerful figures and was protected by the CIA in return for that leverage; the Wayfair rumours he cannot confirm but hopes are investigated.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
Can a mosque that was once a waqf never be anything else?
The waqf argument fails, he says, because Abu Hanifa held that an endowment can be overturned, a view Hanafis drop when it does not serve power.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is America losing its place in the world?
The guest argues that America is in an internal crisis and has lost the soft power of alliances and credibility that matters more than military strength.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why do so many people admire Trump's style?
Mufti Abu Layth condemns Trump and his views but admits a grudging admiration for his impunity; the guest ties Trump's rise to Fox News and a politics of fear.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Are mosques in America at risk from far-right anger?
The guest warns that rising white supremacist anger in the US, fed by scapegoating and Fox News, means every mosque now needs security.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Have nuclear weapons made the world more peaceful?
Mufti Abu Layth argues that nuclear deterrence has ironically kept the peace; the guest fears what the people holding the weapons might do.
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17 Jan 2020Responding to Refutations
Reaction to Daniel Haqiqatjou's post about Mufti Menk writing 'Almighty' instead of 'Allah'
Mufti Abu Layth mocks Daniel Haqiqatjou's complaint that Mufti Menk tweets 'Almighty' rather than 'Allah' as petty, says Haqiqatjou is not trained in the Sharia, and says he is driven by hostility to the left rather than scholarship.
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20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
How do we know mental illnesses are not really jinn possessions?
A theory that explains everything, like a child's cyborg conspiracy, is not thereby true, and 'the jinn' is such a theory for Muslims. Like Basil Mitchell's partisan who rationalises everything the stranger does, this is non-propositional faith that no evidence can reach.
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