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Did the scholars now attacking Daniel Haqiqatjou once promote him?

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Mufti Abu Layth calls Daniel Haqiqatjou the 'Frankenstein' of those who once promoted him

LessonRecorded 22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 27 of 29 in the recording2020-09-22-S27

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Mufti Abu Layth says Daniel Haqiqatjou's critics in Omar Suleiman's circle created and promoted him for years, so they cannot now claim they did not know him.

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Mufti Abu Layth says Omar Suleiman's friends rushed to call Daniel Haqiqatjou a jahil, among them Jonathan Brown and others in the US and the UK, and that they are all one circle of friends around the AlMaghrib Institute. Mufti says he does not know why people take Haqiqatjou as seriously as they do, but that he is the product of these same people. He shows Haqiqatjou's profile listing his roles and a comment by Yasir Qadhi praising him as philosophically trained, says Omar Suleiman paid him for years, and says they promoted him in 2015 to 2017 while he attacked feminists and the left. Mufti rejects the defence that they did not know him, since Haqiqatjou worked closely with them for years, and says they created a monster and were happy for it to attack others until it turned on them.

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oil anointing ritual but he doesn't defend the oil ritual and he says participating in rituals like this is haram and he's also understating that it's not permissible to worship in the rituals of other religions not only is it impermissible it is actually kuffer now if a jai hill wants to come and argue that this is not kufar because we don't know the intentions of omar and what's in his heart i'll say this his intentions are irrelevant the action itself of pouring libations is a ritual of shirk it is a pagan

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koffer ritual right now so so this has been the event folks and what's happened is everybody has jumped out you know um on his side he's got all the the big boys amongst them you've got yes who's jumped out he said look anybody accusing him of this is just a jahil in islam he's just a jahil you've got in the uk abu

2:39:39

[Laughter] jumping out saying you know this guy's a jahil this guy is at this you know ha ha you know how can people take him seriously how can they do this uh and you've got a few others that they've had jump out obviously jonathan brown previously the other european people now you've got all of this going on yeah yeah the uh danny boy

2:40:11

he decides to come out as well you've got all these people who by the way are all still one group they're all a bunch of friends and all part of the maghrib institute now i want to bring something to your attention you see what i'd like to highlight is that danny boy is in my understanding more often than not a nutcase yeah he is somebody who i i don't know why people take him seriously the way they take him that's that's my understanding

2:40:48

but but but he is the product of those people he is what um have created who was danny boy nobody had heard of daniel hackley right let's take a look at his this is his own profile for you know his his website muslim [ __ ]

2:41:27

sorry i mean muslim skeptic right the muslim skeptic he highlights how he for many years was a key he had a key role he was playing as he as he mentions here that he's lectured he's been to many places he's held these prominent positions with who with aliyah let's not forget that i want us to take a look at this this is fascinating that this is daniel hakrikaju for many years people for at least three four years he was promoted

2:42:03

promoted by these very same people who put him as a great sheikh great usted great representation of islam yes look this is a comment by yasir khadi about him yasir khadi this is danny why on his own post saying look look what ya says about me that he says there's been a lot of discussion in the muslim community blah blah blah blah about legalization of same-sex marriages and here is a person who he feels is his contemporary uh philosophically trained he's a

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harvard graduate he's studying the classic islamic sciences uh you know he really tackles this topic so profoundly this guy's so amazing when danny why was out there saying anything auntie left anti-liberal auntie who was worshiping him semi-worshipping him

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promoting his thing promoting you know big d you've got all of these people omar suleiman giving paying him he had paid him for years you know this argument this argument right that this argument that they did not know is utter utter

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[Laughter] utter bs because look it happens to everyone it happens to everyone that you meet someone you you're not informed or you don't know somebody well somebody tells you they're a great person so you say some nice words about him turns out years later that they are a [ __ ] happens with everyone there's nothing new about that that is not the case with danny boy because danny boy worked closely with these people for years

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he and these people are one click you know they're not this al-maghrib that hosts courses and for years on end it raked in what would be millions of dollars by creating this kind of like neo-wahabite kind of clout for muslims because all of these people are the same background they are not wahhabis in that hardline wahhabi but they're like neo wahhabis which are like semi but they kind of relax certain things so that is what al-maghrib was brings out these flashy courses and fair enough you know i'm not but i'm just being honest this is what it was

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and you've got these people backed danny boy they thought he was their response to you know this well-spoken guy from harvard who is going to destroy the left they paid him they hired him for years he worked closely with them every time he wrote an article they promoted him during 2015 2016 i think up until 2017 he would say stuff like this would he would make these kind of uh if i find he would have these kind of profiles on uh where he's speaking about morality

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where he's dissing the whole body would once again support him you uh all the al-maghrib would support him now this is the problem you see now if now take a look at this these are his posts from 2015. what did the sexist misogynistic transgender man say to a psychologist i just feel inferior but i'm just saying look fine i'm all up for humor but at this time

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who made danny boy popular who gave him the clout who gave him that platform it was none other than omar soleiman then yes then uh you know these very same people are the people that brought him he is their frankenstein and he has now come back to haunt them so i want to say when they now you know when people like yes

2:46:47

all of a sudden now have gained vision and now they call him a jahil now uh omar suleiman can see he's a jahil now jonathan brown can call him a jahil three years ago four years ago when you all had lifted his his butt up in the air and you're parading him off paying him to say this kind of nonsense just because he was attacking other people you were all really good with it you know it's like it's all good but then you know all of a sudden it's like um

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hamari cat humpy attack you know that's the all of a sudden it so at one point he's the the you know the sun shining out of his rear end is somebody philosophically trained and then all of a sudden when he knows some when he starts turning on them

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so i would say that look this whole thing you know you can't have it both ways you guys create a monster and then you are happy for this monster to attack other people now this guy seems heavily i don't know he seems autistic now he seems to be just hinged on you guys [Laughter] well there's one bite you know this one so he's now coming he's not letting them go boy this is hilarious honestly and it's ultimately on honestly i hate to break it to some

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of the people but look some are better than others but everybody it is all a facade you know in the words of the poet it is nothing but a perpetual deception that i've seen this life and world from up close that is all it is even with these scholars with all of these people and you know what my analysis on this you see personally what is my understanding

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, September 22). Did the scholars now attacking Daniel Haqiqatjou once promote him? [Video, segment 2020-09-22-S27, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/27/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Did the scholars now attacking Daniel Haqiqatjou once promote him?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {9},
  date = {2020-09-22},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-09-22-S27, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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