Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 9 Feb 2021 › Segment 19 of 37
Why does Birmingham have so many different Muslim sects?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says Birmingham's many strong sects cancel each other out, which he thinks is a good thing compared with towns one sect dominates.
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Picking up a chat remark, Mufti Abu Layth says every sect has a strong presence in Birmingham, so that they cancel each other out, and recalls a line of Jaun Elia about fear cancelling out when everyone fears everyone. Mufti contrasts Birmingham with Leicester, which he says is heavily Deobandi and controls the religious narrative, and lists strong Barelvi, Deobandi, Salafi, Shia, Ahmadi and Jamaat-e-Islami mosques in Birmingham. He jokes that this leaves room for him to 'spread fasad', alluding to the verse on corruption appearing, and says he dislikes the Birmingham and Black Country accents.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that in Birmingham every sect has a strong presence, and that he thinks that is a good thing.
“you've got everybody here you know and and i think that's a good thing because there's certain towns like leicester is close to birmingham which is heavily diopandi”
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right unless you're starting my dad doesn't reason he just exercises authority and then he wonders why i left is it okay to slash eyebrows not pluck slash what do you mean like have a cut through them yeah it's it's okay if you want to do that there's nothing wrong with that kappa khan said as a wise man called ice cube once said they give us guns and drugs and then they wonder why we thugs some wise words right there rom is full of wobblers it you know the interesting thing is
that um in uh in birmingham every group every sect has a strong denomination which is very interesting because you see everything cancels out everything then see because that's the kind of art if you look at how you know from a scientific perspective you see if you get everything and it's all powerful you get nothing you know you know what's that poem of johnelia
you know now that you're afraid everybody's afraid of everybody it just cancels out fear it's weird it's ironic but yeah there's some philosophy to it but yeah you've got everybody here you know and and i think that's a good thing because there's certain towns like leicester is close to birmingham which is heavily diopandi and now because it's heavily the ubunti it then controls the narrative of religion whereas in birmingham you will have brilliance are very strong but then the ubundies have a strong presence but then salafis have their main center green lane
um cardianis have a mosque although they're not very influential but they they have a a huge mosque shia are you know have several key mosques in birmingham so you have jamaat islami mosques and so what it is is when you get everybody it it just leaves everything's up for grabs and then you get yours truly in birmingham [Laughter] spreading the fitting and facade people spreading the fitness as allah says [Laughter]
you know if allah is saying look facade has manifested then obviously somebody has to fulfill that divine proclamation so oh and the birmingham accent oh i hate the birmingham accent but that said you know what surprisingly ethnic people have their own variant of it they don't have the actual white uh bromi accent i hate that and i hate the west you know the black country accent oh my god on the bus get the bulls you know where they there was that poll
where he said would you rather have that accent or have chlamydia i would just opt for chlamydia i'd be like yeah hell don't worry about it i'm sure i can just take a pill and get rid of that [Laughter] so uh mufti what is your accent i i i don't have a set accent i don't i think i don't have a set accent but that might have been because i traveled a lot as well so i spent seven eight years out of the country and which were key years developing years where a person develops
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