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Thoughts on the Khashoggi Case -Mufti Abu Layth

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those of you that know there's there's a journalist this is what we know so there's this journalist keshavjee some people pronounce it Shaggy and kesaji as well I'm not sure exactly I've seen the Arabic and it seems to be Kashyap gee like that so keshavjee this journalist who was at one time pretty tight with the royal family seems to have become on bat he seems to have ended up on bad terms we don't exactly know what I mean we know he's made some

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tweets in the past and really that those tweets don't warrant what's happened so it couldn't be that just some tweets and you know saying that maybe the the king is being too harsh or things like this nevertheless he lives in the West somewhere but he was in Istanbul and he turns up to the he's a Saudi national Islam expert and he turns up to the Saudi consulate and apparently he is then assassinated but in brutal in

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horrific kind of ways and measures so apparently a team of assassin and I'm talking something out of hostel you know the movie hostel I'm talking like jigsaw laughs or this is this is some some horrific stuff this ain't your usual kind of like here's an assassin he's gonna take a long distance shot and sniper shot and kill this person this they said apparently this guy called muttering some Colonel or somebody and there was a team of a dozen plus

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assassins that have turned up on private this guy came on a private jet they turn up to this to the consulate where keshavjee is the-- and they sedate sedate him but they give him certain he drugs him with something that will keep him alive but pacify him and then whilst he's alive this guy this motor a character severs and cuts his limbs off like he's chopping him into pieces whilst keeping him alive and then

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this last this ordeal this horrific kind of something out of a horror movie lasts for seven minutes before keshavjee is killed before he dies eventually they I mean what they've exactly done we don't know exactly the details apparently there's an audio recording somehow once again how does how did this recording take place we're not too sure some people claim to have a recording was keshavjee himself making an audio recording that had a link somewhere that people were listening in to was the consulate did it have a recording was somebody recording they seem to be

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witnesses that claimed that they could hear him screaming and they've reported this to the police his body is missing so they then cut him up this Matra character he seems to have been part of he seems to be quite elite in the Saudi on the Saudi scene to the extent that he is responsible or part of what set up a seven minute autopsy for people visiting Hajj that died during the Hajj so as you can imagine the whole judge that turn up to the Hajj if somebody dies and there's such a large

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quantity of them you can't have them hanging around in hospitals waiting on coroner reports so they had when they had created a a system where they had a mobile autopsy team clinic that clinic had a seven minute turnaround program that apparently was designed or one of the key pioneers in it was this motoring person so they could do a complete autopsy within seven minutes take out cut out the necessary organs do whatever they got to do and done and this person can now be buried or taken away that was designed

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for a judge for people coming on the Hajj once again directed or led by ma trip now ma tribe is the person that flies in he's seen as landing on private jet in Istanbul he's the person who turns up to the consulate he's the person who's allegedly on this recording drugging and then killing keshavjee in a seven minute ordeal as well so there's great parallels and doing so in a horrific way and he's saying sick things like he's saying things like to the team around him that guys he apparently he

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puts earphones in whilst he's cutting him and he says that this is what you should I should do his so he's talking to his team and he's telling them guys I always like to listen to music when I do this and he's kind of just like in a movie beep like him this is like some jigsaw stuff going on this is Saul on that scale in in real time that's what it is this is hostile people that's what we're looking at now that kind of horror genre in reality now so then apparently motive is seen leaving the country on a

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diplomatic passport dragging away some heavy bags did they contain the dismembered body parts of keshavjee is that what he did he flew out of the country with him because there is no trace initially this became a huge issue because it got leaked to the public the public there was a public outcry that what on earth is going on how are Saudi elite kind of people representatives turning up in our country in Turkey this is the Turks saying and calm and conducting such acts

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of extrajudicial killings and assassinations and torture in Istanbul initially the Saudi consular and Representatives denied any such action and said keshavjee came to the consulate and as far as we're aware he left safe and sound what happened to him outside in Istanbul it's none of our business Donald Trump is also weighs in on this and initially says yep that sounds that sounds plausible that's Donald Trump saying well the Saudi consulate is saying he came and left so that sounds plausible

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then people the pressure gets cranked up that wait a minute if he left the consulate then show us the CCTV footage of him leaving the consulate show us because he's coming in we can see that show us where he's leaving so because as the international pressure starts to rise and Britain as well withdrew from some of the deals with Saudi Arabia international pressure was being applied then the Saudi authorities say oh now following our investigation the recent thing they've said is right right they said our bad my bad we got this wrong

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you're right he seems to have died whilst getting into a fight with someone in the consulate that's all we know so far so it's like well okay because initially the Saudis had said if there is no body there is no crime and they had said where's the body we need a body we need cash ah geez body and there was no body so initially they were saying there is no crime because there is no body so this is now they've said well apparently he was killed we think but he got into some fight we don't know we're

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investigating further and the question is what wait a minute if he was killed in the consulate where the hell did his body go and then the question is that how could have this happened without Saudi authorization the next question is were the Turks in on it because how does this happen and then some claims that are being thrown around is America's in on it too because this so this leads to a greater question mark that why what was the reason to do all of these because it couldn't have mean those stupid

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it's that our old I mean they're not gonna do all of this over them some tweet so some new findings have exposed that there was a hacking software that was purchased in the recent past I think the company was a I think was a Greek company or they would say was it Cypriot but there was some it was a European company I believe but there was a hacking company that dealt in hacking a Deltan creating hacking software for governments that could then tap into persons of interest by sending them

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emails or doing things by which they could access their phone switch them on as as they will switch on the microphone they could copy all the contents they could see what's on the screen as recently Saudi Arabia purchased this hacking software the person in control of this transaction or that one of the people that kind of oversaw this transaction and was one of the representatives was this muttering character he is seen as one of the people involved in mine in managing that

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transaction the question then was using this software this is now speculation did the Saudis on earth uncover something that keshavjee or Khashoggi was doing on his phone was he about to reveal something he was a journalist was he working on something that they uncovered that would have been massively problematic therefore they dispatched an assassin team to assassinate him and torture him I mean because the torture as well I mean one is to assassinate him but one is the way they did it in such a brutal

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it obviously was to teach a lesson at the same time to other people that maybe that will come to learn of these to say well you guys this is an example that we're setting so what was all of this about so there's a lot of question that have to be answered and and this is all going on but I mean I'm finding it just at the same time shocking as whoa just like what on earth is going on here so I suppose we'll keep we'll keep tuned and learn but it is it is definitely very fascinating that I mean it's

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fascinating to see how such things are being done in the open it's crazy people it's crazy whoa that's the keshavjee Saudi did it gave us gave them help beforehand don't know why Turkey would exactly have no idea who wants a vacation in Saudi Arabia what kind of a vacation is that dasari Arabia that's something I've never want to do

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right cited that mud knee are I driving a right a right animal silent alamos on an MBS just wanted some entertainment I don't know you know I don't know I'm just so hmm I don't know I'm just so intrigued by all of this and I suppose time Motel what

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, October 27). Thoughts on the Khashoggi Case -Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/2gfd9nq2pku/
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
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