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Reply to Abdullah al-Andalusi: the 'white saviour' and the caliphate
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth mocks Abdullah al-Andalusi's call to establish the caliphate as a 'white saviour complex', while praising converts who devoted themselves to study.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Abdullah al-Andalusi, a convert who takes his name from his European, Portuguese heritage, has tried to refute him over the caliphate and Imam al-Ghazali. He mocks what he calls a white saviour complex, comparing him to Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese empire in India, and asks whether such converts know Arabic, the Quran, hadith or the basics of prayer, fasting and zakah before wanting to bring the caliphate to Muslims who have had Islam for generations. He says this is not aimed at converts in general, praising Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Nuh Keller and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, who studied and inspire people. He cites Abu Sufyan's answer to Heraclius about whether the Prophet's ancestors were kings, and says such people have not lived a day in the Muslim world and are put forward by Muslims with a white saviour inferiority complex.
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I've had once again Absalon andalusi right Abdullah andalusi has tried to refute me again right those of you that don't know this person he's a convert I don't know what his actual name is but Abdullah fair enough would go with Abdul others fine I have no problem Abdullah andalusi andalusi he's using because of his mother his heritage his European heritage and the loose is to do with the kind of al-andalus the Spain Iberian Peninsula and it's because he's from Portugal his
mother's from Portugal and he likes to kind of present that and boast that kind of heritage so Abdullah under Lucy has tried to say well Mufti Abu layth right you know oh and Imam has early and and basically what this our brother Abdullah who wants to do is basically establish the Caliphate he'll tell me something what is it with these Europeans man what is it with this white Savior complex you
know they want to save the brown people I of Dalal Andalusia hiya Portuguese you were too easy you Vasco de Gama Vasco de Gama those of you that don't know Vasco de Gama you see many years many centuries before our brother Abdullah one of his ancestor for chookies ancestral ancestors called Vasco de Gama he also came to our land
of the brown people he came to India and shortly after him came the Portuguese Empire and they did the usual you know the the killing the the the torturing the raping the pillaging they did the in Kerala and go on the Muslims nearly but anyway centuries later now mashallah now first it was in the name of the Portuguese Empire now the offspring has come mashallah he's embraced Islam and he's come to bring the the Khilafah to
us all that's gonna come on back that sounds about white to me our white privilege I've gotta give it to these like converts man no sooner do they embrace Islam but they want to go and save the entire Muslim world huh they want to bring to us who've had Islam for generations that they want to bring to us
lava Oh God honestly you couldn't make this stuff up this is what they want to do these people have they you know do they first of all do they understand Arabic no no no have they ever read the Quran in their entire life with its actual meaning no no no no no have they ever understood any hadith or so now or anything in its actual meaning no no no no have they ever studied fifth I could ask these people certain questions on they pray and I guarantee you they
wouldn't know the answers on they pray what they're supposed to pray every day no no no they don't know the answer do they know about fast no it's a cat Hajj no no no but what do they where do they want to begin Oh white saviors yes sir [Laughter] you know Mahadeva Sharon in Harlem a lagoon curry this is not like this is what an angel yeah leave us people in peace man they want it they start off they want to start by saying food
of all we want to bring the Halawa to you a cha-cha-cha very committee I of a squad agama bienvenido a nuestro conquistador this is our conquistador our knight in shining our white knight in shining armor you see this is the issue and I don't mean this against by the way against of the Congress I looked as many people who do amazing work they convert to Islam the surprises Wow that
they embrace this theme and legends like Sheikh Hamza Yusuf shares no Hammond Keller share Abdul Hakim Murad amazing people turn you know thinks sure I mean this was specifically I was because I was giving White's examples I mean there's are obviously many any convert from any race but I'm just here saying and they they go they study the Deen they commit themselves to learning they inspire people Wow and this other you know I've got many Facebook friends and people converting who i holding great war and you know many of them online here probably I've seen dubrow's on
their Robin is usually amazing human beings you know people who you know I think like this is what people should be like you know if they convert to Islam but then you get these others you know you know you know it's like the person asked what is the Abu Sufyan when he wanted to know about the Prophet he said did he have in his aunt's ancestors anybody who was a king who was power-hungry and Abu sofyan said no and he said okay fair enough because I would have said that they just wanted to return to the legacy of the ancestors
and here we have our Portuguese Vasco de Gama I of the la vie de la vie please come here to establish you come who's come here to establish the Halawa and to bring us a white hey leave a la da da da da me amor go establish the Khilafah for us please and this is the kind of nonsense we have to deal with honestly these people haven't lived a
day in in the Muslim world I'm serious and they want to establish for us the brown people a Caliphate system they haven't lived amongst Muslims all Dollard guarding in code these these guys will they'll eat them alive in a single day Abdullah go back go visit Pakistan spend the day there or in the Middle East you realize that you know this all better still go establish the Caliphate just go establish it just go
call us to this white and bright Caliphate once it's established hum be there Kenya had all these people they want to help us so bad huh Allah how about giving back what your ancestors spoke sorry well your ancestors told you no Imran Khan has has asked the British government to return what they looted whilst they were in India well you get all these people how wanting to help Vasco da Gama
Queen Victoria Donald Trump of the la vie you know this a poet he says her more familiar to him that has our own that on every corner I bump into somebody who wants to help me shiet mary busty my other car bought now this is maybe there's a lot of people who know drama who know how to act where I live this is the the problem we have today and why you see
because he's white so he becomes the face and many deluded Muslims obviously we have that white Savior inferiority complex so we think oh yes all subhanAllah mashallah this white brother this this brother Vasco de Gama he's going to recapture the Caliphate for us I mean yes Salaam and this is what really this HT in this this is just a way this is why I'm against our seriously this is why I'm
against Dawa because this is what it causes it brings these kind of attention craving nut cases to Islam who is then coming they become deluded with these groups like Hezbollah hurried and these people who by do you know what these people believe by the way let me tell you what they believe they believe that all co-firing this on this earth are not only nudges are impure and have been created to be subdued and ruled over by muslims they believe that the whole world today is living in Kufa in this
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