# Not just Trump: why he sees the Capitol riot as reflective of the United States - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/3/ - Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (13:29–21:37) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=809s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/ **Topics:** Current events commentary; Race, nation and identity **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the Capitol riot is just Trump, but that it is in many ways reflective of the United States. **Evidence, his words at 18:25:** “this is not in my understanding just a trumpian issue i think that's like that's naive thinking that this is just trump” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=1105s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think this is just Trump, and that it is naive to blame a megalomaniac and his supporters alone, since the riot is in many ways reflective of the United States. He points to school shootings being treated as routine, to the victims of Hurricane Katrina still awaiting restoration, and to billionaires' wealth rising by around 80 percent over the Obama and Trump terms and by hundreds of billions during the pandemic while millions lost their jobs. He says the country was built on eradicating a people and that race relations are a nightmare, adding that Biden is better than Trump but will not save the world. He then offers what he calls speculation and food for thought: that the European settlers were high risk-takers and that this may have shaped a culture prone to chaotic events. ## Sources and names cited - Donald Trump - Joe Biden - Barack Obama - Hurricane Katrina - the COVID-19 pandemic ## Transcript (machine tier, 13:29–21:37) [13:28] i understand your pain yeah go home we love you here we love you so but yeah but in all honesty it's not i i don't think this is just trump you know i think in one way it's easy uh to say that look this is trump he's a megalomaniac and you know these are a bunch of hillbillies but the truth is i think america this is in many ways [14:04] reflective of the united states that the united states is just so wild you know it's not like this is uh i suppose it's a violent event um several people at least one person died if not maybe a few more but um people got injured you've breached the you know this political sanctum but extraordinarily crazy [14:42] wacko events are not are no you know stranger to the united states i mean this is a country where things like school shootings are you know like oh just another school shooting i mean you know can you imagine that in the rest of the world it's like shooting up a school what the hell is that about i mean what the hell is that and there it's like ah it's another school shooting you know this is a part of the world where [15:19] which is home to an exceptionally tiny super hyper successfully rich people of this globe who put together would out balance the the gdp of many countries combined i mean that that's just so mind-boggling and simultaneously it's the home of a state where you know do you remember years back hurricane katrina they those people haven't even [15:56] had their restoration yet from from that from a natural catastrophe a few years ago let alone all the other catastrophes that have happened it's a crazy country i mean i was just reading that in the last um few terms so including obama you know people saying that this um you know the democrats are now gonna biden's gonna save the world i don't really think so but obviously yeah he's better than trump i get that but i'm reading how [16:34] including the democrats the last couple of terms also under obama and trump you had the billionaires of the united states their wealth had increased collectively up to almost a hundred percent it was about 80 percent their wealth had increased i'm talking about the the billionaires okay s whilst [17:11] you've got and and and this is reflective of you know in the pandemic as well you've they there was something showing that in the pandemic alone the rich had made over 630 billion dollars whilst the 40 million i think it was some it was something like that americans were out of employment and what is the american population 300 million so a huge chunk is out of population i'm out of employment so wow [17:48] and and it was saying something like uh one out of um a handful of people i think one out of four people didn't even have four hundred dollars in his bank account did not even have that whilst you've got some of the most ludicrously wealthy people and i'm not against being wealthy but i'm just saying this is just it's what is going on in america it's just crazy isn't it the whole country is [18:25] built on eradicating an entire race of people and then just keeping them you know just inebriate and drunk with their casinos know race relations bloody to nightmare i think there's so much this is not in my understanding just a trumpian issue i think that's like that's naive thinking that this is just trump this is welcome to the united states [19:04] [Laughter] you know that's what it is i think so i don't know whether they can fix it or what you know i had a theory that i think you see the people that migrated to america to set it up uh the europeans i'm talking about the the people who count the white people right they i feel for the most part and the people that moved were naturally would have been the very risk-taking folk like [19:42] it's a huge risk you know you're going to travel thousands of miles you're going to go by boat you don't know what's going to happen you know diseases sickness wild animals you don't know what you're going to encounter but it's a risk so they were i think high risk takers that kind of moved there and you see i think that's genetically contributed it's a significant factor for explaining some of these psychotic events and incidents of the united states because i think part of the gene pool um [20:22] has been people that have been very um you know prepared to take chaotic steps prepared to hence you you get the united states even i mean even now one could argue that culture but they happily will move around you know the people they will fly to a different state settle down there they'll do and i think i could be you know this could just this is just speculation but that maybe the kind of gene pool that contributed to that especially in terms of being risk averse or risk taking or highly you know the high risk taking factors that may have played a role in the [21:01] landscape of the united states today hence you get crazy people serial killers you know school shooters this kind of stuff but anyway food for thought people food for thought high on impulsivity yeah yeah i think that's um um you know but yeah it's food for thought cool people what is going on mufti check your instagram i can't check it right now can i [21:36] you know nowadays you have to be careful when you open certain messages in public you never know could be one of those pranks uh you know which one i'm talking about you harami's right so what is going on people what is going on let's share with the poem yeah this is one there isn't we've heard this before but i had to read ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 1zgHntbMPis/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/3/ Not a fatwa: these answers 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