# Can critics cancel an independent preacher?

*Cancel culture as a delusion: speaking to the silent majority*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/27/
- Date: 2021-04-13 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #210 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:42:05–1:46:01)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuHMCz2N3U&t=6125s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/

**Topics:** Social media; The Mufti and the channel

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says efforts to cancel him cannot work, because he is independent and speaks to the silent majority of ordinary Muslims, not his critics' followers.

## Longer summary

Reading a comment that one critic made a whole trailer about him and fills Twitter with complaints about him, Mufti Abu Layth says such people are obsessed with him and will burn for years. He calls attempts to cancel him delusions of grandeur: he is independent, and his audience is not theirs, since he does not preach to the dogmatists who follow them but to the common Muslim, the silent eighty percent who do not follow what he calls Wahhabis and cannot relate to them. He says some critics are more tolerable than others, but some would embarrass anyone as representatives of their faith, and that his message is spreading even more.

## Sources and names cited

- Twitter

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:42:05–1:46:01)

[1:41:59] straight as i am i would just say look listen this is me these are my views and people may leave me but others will then come to me based on honesty and transparency and i think that's still his biggest struggle uh this fareed guy made a whole trailer about you and when i see when i search your name on twitter it's just this guy complaining about you he must secretly be in love with you [Laughter] there is you've hit it on the head you

[1:42:38] know the truth is that these people are obsessed obsessed with me honestly they they are really and and this is where i say that you know to my haters unfortunately i'm like heroine because [Laughter] and i say this in in the nicest of possible ways that you know by all means you know dying be my guest but you it will consume your life and the more you watch me the more it will be debilitating for you because you know it unfortunately i i think i

[1:43:16] don't know whether that's a curse or what but it just it is like that you know i find it like that and and they won't go away not for years for years for years they will just burn and burn and you see the the funny thing is there's these delusions of grandeur because you know this cancel culture like people think oh let's cancel must have late it's like i said last time you know if i if i sneeze

[1:43:46] we'll make a a kind of video or i'll make a tweet saying i'm going to end bulay's career [Laughter] but you see what these are delusions of grandeur they don't wield any such influence like i mean how do you even think like i i don't get what they think you know their worldview they must think i don't know like how do how does anybody cancel someone you know this attempt let's cancel him that's just so delusional

[1:44:23] it's like well okay well first of all how do you cancel me i'm an independent person yes okay so okay secondly my following or people who watch me are not your audience so you know i don't preach to the converted i don't preach to the dogmatists who follow them so your followers canceling me it makes zero difference to me because i preach i kind of spread my message to the common muslim that silent 80 percent of people who are just regular muslims and they don't follow people like you

[1:45:03] know these kind of wahhabis and stuff they don't follow them they don't they can't relate to these kind of people these people come across just looking at these people you know like i mean it's just so embarrassing okay some are you know slightly more tolerable than others but some are just like come on if you had to bring somebody like that as a representative of your faith you'd be embarrassed to death so yeah i mean i don't understand how people feel that they the fact that they actually think they can cancel someone [Music] it's so delusional and the fact that i

[1:45:43] my message is actually spreading even more yeah you know my message to to you all seriously is if i can if i can tell you that you know these are certain this is one thing you must do in life honestly it would be that i would say that try to have lived your life so you know so once you've reached the end you have lived your life in a way that as to the best of your capacity

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 8XuHMCz2N3U/s/27. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8xuhmcz2n3u/s/27/

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