Cartoons of The Prophet & Boycotting France | Mufti Abu Layth

these people they can right now everybody is pretty much aware of the incident or the the backdrop there was an unfortunate a tragedy of a beheading that took place in france um [Music] i'm not sure if i've spoken about it already but a teacher yes i did in my last monday nights or the last q a that a teacher was beheaded for showing the cartoons depicting the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

right now i have mentioned that look people have the right to critique to criticize religion if if certain people want to draw cartoons of the prophet we should just ignore it okay they do it to provoke don't react don't let it wind you up that's exactly what they want to do

they want you to feel hurt you know your stuff is this is this is what they want this is exactly just put it out of your sight okay just ignore it it may hurt you as a person but it's the world you know we're not here to control the world we're not too i do think it's it's very silly of people to try to offend muslims by doing that but okay if they want to be silly they that's their choice

now this particular teacher samuel patty i believe his name is now he uh i'm not sure in what context he was showing the i think i could be wrong i think he was just discussing uh freedom of speech or he was trying to discuss the charlie hebdo case and showed them as a um is that i don't know if somebody had said that here but is that what um was he just trying to because the the trials are kind of ongoing and things like this so because it was relevant i assume

he was discussing the matter that's what i think or maybe he was just showing them because he was enjoying the satire but i i'm going with the former that he was showing it out of because it was relevant because the current charlie hebdo trials are taking place and this is what it's all about so he was kind of showing them nevertheless somebody apparently they get the message out some french chechen um who's an 18 year old finds out he somehow gets him i'm not even sure how he gets hold of this person

he gets him and he kills him the media was confused about whether he actually beheads him but he or he slits his throat or whatever but he tragically kills him i have expressed that this is utterly unacceptable from an islamic perspective you cannot commit these acts of barbarity okay this is unacceptable is as an honor as a statement he decides to one okay have a whole processionary kind of funeral for that person which is fine which is

you know that's absolutely you know if you want to do that that's fine um he wants to give him the utmost heist award for being a hero for the state personally i don't think really that's being a hero for the state um although i feel he was well within his rights to discuss the topic the charlie hebdo topic i also feel he is well within his rights to show the cartoons if i don't know the ins and outs if he was doing it just to provoke people not because it's relevant but just saying he is a big you know he has a big fu to all the muslims out there

if he was doing as that i don't i think it was just a very silly thing but he was within his rights to do it now being beheaded for or being killed for it i don't personally think that equates to automatically becoming a hero for the state but whatever france's you know their sovereign state they want to declare my hero fine you know it's it's it's absolutely fine uh it's their own executive decision then president macron what he decides to do is um he decides to

have the cartoons of the prophet muhammad projected onto uh massive buildings and billboards right i i take it from what i've read is right throughout the country i've seen video footage of it in in certain places but i've read that it's right throughout the country and he says that openly that drawing cartoons of the prophet is a right that we have and he wants to make this a statement now personally i think that is very poorly managed by the president of france i think

it's um a regrettable move because look i get the fact that what the person did what that this was a tragedy i get that i agree with that i endorse that i endorse the fact that look killing is never a solution and i endorse the statement that it was barbaric and it was wrong i even say i go a step further say has no place in islam right now however to say well let's you know okay well what provoked you was the picture of the prophet muhammad uh doing

whatever dumb silly things whatever it is so in your face what we're gonna do is put this everywhere on these huge buildings um that to me is just taking the you know it's literally it's just taking the mick like what i don't understand how oh and he says well if muslims don't like it tough are the muslims of france not your citizens as well you know don't they have a fundamental right as well like why why is this just and they say well you know so what it's just a look i'm i get the fact if some people want to do it

it's fine you know it's their right but government shouldn't get involved in these things this is not a government thing for the government to do it that's taking the mick you know for the government to do it like i understand a satirical newspaper doing it i understand a right-wing kind of organization doing it i understand even regular people doing it but governments are there to represent all the people they need to take all sentiments into consideration they need to take the ethnic minorities into consideration

who by the way are substantial quantity in france you need to take everybody into you represent the people you don't just represent non-muslim people you represent the french muslims as well you know if somebody tomorrow said i want to write a big fu all muslims are the c word this is my calligraphy logo all muslims are the c word okay i think that's an absolute dumb move to do and it's probably gonna you know some people are gonna get angry and

they shouldn't assault you but you're probably putting yourself up for assault but if the president of a country wants to endorse that logo now that's just taking this to a ridiculous height like what the hell like a president and a government a a monarch they shouldn't be getting involved in these things they should be always seen as people who take everybody's sentiments into consideration not just uh you know the majority so i think that is a very um

you know it's it's a shame what the french administration is doing i think that um it is very provocative i i i hope muslims do not react violently protesting is their right and they have reacted in the thousands and thousands worldwide with protests if they want to economically boycott france i can understand it i feel that if they want to do that that's fine

um if somebody doesn't boycott france i don't think they should be guilt-tripped i don't think you should kill trip like if you see a muslim buying i don't know what's what's french um i've forgotten what's french but if there's a french designer is dior i think dior is french chanel chanel is french so if you see somebody buying chanel perfume and you say oh my god you've got you know you just you know i think that's wrong don't don't pressure muslims into that

it's a personal choice if muslims want to do it but i totally understand it um i the fact that muslim countries are doing it at a state level is makes sense that like it's a state for state response like if a president of a country responds to a president with that response because that's where it hurts so basically they hit in the pockets because the pockets are what hurt and make no mistake that these you know the french exports they have a huge export to the arab speaking world

most of north africa it you know it buys so many french products it's several countries in the middle east by so because of the colonialization so you've got the whole thing still going on and i think that apps that is a justified response um absolutely but uh but i don't think it on the same token i don't think you have the right to guilt-trip people who don't boycott them so if they do buy french products ultimately i do understand that the french products didn't do that

so we have to make that distinction that i understand let's just say i i don't want to pick a particular one in case they did [Laughter] and i get it wrong but i understand all of those products i'm sure didn't necessarily support the charlie hebdo thing that said at a state level statutory level because the status got involved to say well we feel it's a right to disrespect the prophet muhammad which i think is so dumb i i can't believe you'd have to have the brain of a neanderthal to think like that because really people presidents and prime ministers are

people who are diplomats who know how to make the country prosper economically in this day and age they have to be diplomatic this kind of a you know thuggery response like our big fu to all the muslims here is you know if your president is doing that that is so such a a neanderthal of a president that you've got honestly that that is somebody that is going to sink that ship you really need to replace that president with somebody who's got a higher iq because you need in this day and age you need you always need the person in control

to be cool-headed having a hot head yes so i hope that um i want to share that and that that's my thoughts on it so i know when muslims start boycotting what happens is they start guilt-tripping other muslims that is wrong as well you shouldn't guilt trip people it's your own personal choice right somebody said we've trolled macron i am macroni macaroni we've trolled macaroni all day on twitter the whole government is on crack yeah man i do feel sorry for

um somebody said boycott french kiss this one borderline you know no no no no no boycotting right so by mexicans as mexico boycotted france okay i didn't know that they had

somebody said muslims should boycott french passports okay i'm not sure how that works how you boycott a passport but okay somebody said musty please debate hijab would hijab want to come on mine trap i don't think he would for the reasons aforementioned earlier on today move this up please don't forget my superchat ah right i know c boycott french fries no no no no french fries and the earlier french thing this one this one these two these two things we can't

no boycotting french fries and nobody cutting french kissing this one so these two things are okay what else is french on the that's on the sacrosanct list i think that's it isn't it is there anything else that [Laughter] all right so french fries are belgian are they oh rather