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Oh Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakaatuh people all of a sudden become on my heaven Fri people of right let me just check first of all always just to a quick because I'm always fidgeting with some of the oh I can I can hear myself I can definitely see that the volume is working now as you can see before as people right here the profile picture of

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the esteemed guest for tonight the guest of honor the one and only ready revlon abdul kareem AKA people even a bottle of rice oh yes bringing right on right ready Allison Allison and Salam aleikum walekum Salam Hamilton library captain all right let me just also just check whilst we're doing this that this volumes coming through fine on Facebook

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as well just bring them Facebook and they are Friday saying it's all good Oh fries trying out a different mic those of you that can see this thing right here that's not just that's a blue Yeti people that's what it is Rudy welcome back this in the house people this is a very an auspicious an opportunity that we have to to have with us tonight to share thoughts to share these experiences open up a Papa and

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Marcia Monica the Mamluk a people so those of you that don't know what the mum look at is it is the kingdom that's what it means and if it's used on its own it means Saudi Arabia so how are things really man what's going on what's going down I'm the less so good the only thing going on in the lockdown wasn't a 24-hour lockdown but they've kind of eased it up a bit now

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right so what's the what's the current you know the situation in Saudi Arabia tell us what's the how tough are these guidelines the lockdown guidelines are people abiding what's what's going down where people are biting well what happened as a lot of you may know the lockdown the Masjid so the lockdown the harem and the lockdown massive number we as well because a lot of the cases are coming from Mecca Medina Jed there and Riyadh that's what we have in a lot of these are coronavirus cases obviously it's gonna be in Mecca Medina and Jeddah

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that's where you get a lot of people coming from rau mainly a lot of the foreigners they enter into that into that port so about 85% of the cases are from my expats and only 50 percent are from Saudis and so due to that due to that they have like one a lot of the areas and put people under 24-hour lockdown at one point 24 I like that merely you can come out to go to the supermarket to the pharmacy between 9 a.m.

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and 5 p.m. and then you gotta go straight home if you are caught out it's after this time or you're not going away supposed to be going then the fine was 2,000 pounds exceed your car again and

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that's the there's some prison sentences as well or something ain't they what's the sketch with that what's the prison sentence well at first what it was it was a 2,000 pound fine they need your core again then it would be prison for six months today they reported now there anyone breaking the knock down rules regulations there'll be a fine between a thousand Ryo which is like about 200 pound two hundred thousand real which is about ten thousand pound and up to six

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months in prison and if we knowingly or if you give someone coronavirus on purpose like you just try to expect people and purpose then fine fine is a hundred thousand pound this is what I'm

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saying are they just addressing Bill Gates and the billionaire community of this world or the guy making a hundred pound a month no they know they can't afford it so what happen with them they'll have to stay I'd have to spend ten years in prison full stretch these are some of the perks people right these are some of the perks of the Monica people the Monica so how

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long have you been in the Monaco now six years now six years mine realistically how you find any what's what's going down my spill the beans man what's realistically really I'm moving here serious okay it's not forever yeah it's not for everyone yeah yeah it is a bit strange and it's not it's

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not how everybody you know it's very far

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very different this is the romance

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I mean in between different cities in south so or different places you've not just one place yeah I mean I'm around around a lot of places in Saudi Arabia and most of the major cities also been in yeah okay and the experience in between different places like that and real how different is it with with

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casinos very closed the people are what they what they say they could embed new people so many people from the desert in like this open minds are very closed they're not open to any kind of change and we had it's very open you know we are benign London yeah so it's very open there's a lot of free mixing at one point it wasn't when I first came here because you had like as you know he had the matura and the higher religious police around

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[Laughter] okay but thanks to MBS and the whole new setup a lot of change in this country and a lot of people they appreciate that

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and they're very happy for me too okay [Music]

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[Laughter] some people asked what is it that you are teaching over the in stuff you know maybe you've told you talk different things have you stuck to a particular subject or what's when I first came here I was teaching English teacher and then I transitioned over into IT I was teaching my classes now to be back to

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English again your previously a teacher here secondary and college in the UK in the Midlands in pretty much Birmingham and around Birmingham so yeah so you've been now that's a long stint though in Saudi Arabia you know six years well yes that I've been stating so because I previously I talked in Egypt talks in the UAE in Dubai the Saudis the trade off State my heart is at home here a little heavy

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bill Oh Willie right some people may be wondering I know this is probably a bit of an old story for you now Reedy but what's the whole conversion story in everything people are probably wondering what's what what's going down man this with this yard he how did he end up with Islam and then in the Mamluk ah what's the really big star I think one of the turning points for me was like one of my friends he got locked up after a street robbery all you have to do free lock up and he went a big deal Ali when he was

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when he got laptop what I view so that kind of made me look at light and think what am I doing with my life you know if I carry on down this road I'm rather than end up in prison or you know worse I could end up dead so then I just started looking into better start looking to different religion I started reading you know all kind religions Christianity Judaism Buddhism everything

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you know so I just went on that journey just asking people different questions and at that time some people can answer then quite a few because obviously you get some people who are just born into Islam you're asking questions they don't know the answer so that's people especially like now about Ramadan like why do you fast so no one could read

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answer that question a lot of people does it all because it's Ramadan I said yeah I know it's Ramadan but like but widely why do you have to fast in Ramadan what's the purpose what's the point of it so someone say oh so we know how how poor people feel they were hungry Allah said well you currently know how they feel because you'll you'll be able to eat but they should never Cory ready if that time is hardly the way to identify with poor people there's someone answer the question for me then

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the final kind of question that I really had was like what's inside the Kaaba okay there must be something inside that so for there must be something inside there why are you people walking around this thing for you now I mean ago it must be definitely something inside there right no there's nothing inside there have you been inside there there's like no so how do you know this I know what other people have been the inside and then eventually they got some videos when I view then the video is showing that inside the Hobbit and some people bone inside and to show that there's nothing here in there so and then good

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luck but no one of the main things was I was listening to a tape a talk by an imam cerrado hajj and it was about earthquakes and like national natural disasters like remember I was lying down in my bed I listened to that and kind of like I kind of got shook got kind of scared of that whoa I go you know what I need to embrace Islam and that was like the final you know stringing a bow as they say that kind of like made me to say okay that's it and then I went and had a good like a circle of friends at that time like Amir Amir Karim and you have just not banal

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was around when I wasn't a Muslim then but you know with my friend least we know known by now for a long time since we my child Cheerilee so we childhood friends so handily he embraced not too long after I did so maybe a year or two I remember but yeah there was a very good support network like there wasn't much of a support network for Weaver brothers you know that means as well cuz I live kind of way out from the main was lean community so it was quite difficult so attitude to myself had to pray and to teach myself the cellar and how to stay and everything but never really had that

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kind of support well I got my god that's very you know it's very good to to kind of hear that and obviously it resonates with maybe other people that will watch this maybe some point in the future they'll take inspiration from really that's it people that's it so look at that yes Billy's somebody ruined Billy's got a shout out yes of course mine Billy's the man we need to get billion among liquor but so what is it like

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teaching students over there I mean compared to teaching people back here in the UK it's very different could the a group we work with because I'm working with like a quiz that more of a technical college so it's kind of like people remember like the white es scheme that you thought back to the day they will come to us they'll do two year English Program and then they'll move on to the technically apartment so basically we work for the railway industry in Saudi Arabia so all the students are guaranteed a job so they

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want to be there that's not the kind of work hard it's very different to like a establishment and like over schools or colleges where you get quite a few refresh students so the first place that I wear that the first college the words are those for the students who couldn't get into university so you getting all the next over the where you call the dregs of the society nothing else to do okay go there and go to that College you'd like they said just let anyone in so you got students that couldn't speak a word of English you said okay what's your name you say ABCD efg what sure make him so the student understands

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anything so then only comes because they get paid by the government to come to college so you make how you get the EMA I think you whatever it's called in UK so they would get a spite I'm afraid they get like formed a pound a month something either so sometimes I go I'm a sama teacher and goes all I did my money I get it in a boyish [Laughter] you like generally do they is it like you know you have in some places this

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most all for a teacher and disrespect of like is it like that not really easy what is it no no perhaps that do you have respect for the for the teacher there they do have this place some of the it depends not is the depends are you coming from or which country you're from okay so we from the UK they got that respect if you're from maybe the Indian subcontinent have you been mistaken as a

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savvy as like a local yeah yeah quite a few people there so they shrink all yeah describe the Saudi so you happen to nothing one story how its met at the airport so I was going to the boy and I all won so I'm waiting the queues I really don't you so the guy at the immigration he goes me in Arabic he goes what you doing you go into the front was were you waiting in the queue with these people

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for because come to the front so come to the front now and then I pulled out my passport and it's like Intifada because they you Saudi Brittani I only let you come to the front because I thought you was a Saudi of course also what gokula mean Adam Adam in Toronto

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did he send you back man it's not it's like no forget about it kind of thing so he stamped my passport I'm gonna sat down then that same guy he's coming the police gone salam alikum walaikum Salaam you'd like me no Anand where you from no listen I just I speak in English you have a listener from England UK very

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good number one from Mauritania dhania they said oh okay if you think this is a nice that's another finger and I in terms of like where you from they don't really understand is alike I've been

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lied to the hospital and because like the kind of lazy they just put like you know your nationality they'll just put the first fingers on there instead of like putting where

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you're from China

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that's crazy yeah I'm surprised you know you suck when I studied in Damascus they have this thing whenever whenever you say Britain or England they would always say leather awesome so we write so what would you get that quite a few and then you'd be like okay Nobby I've been in a taxi and the taxi driver I hereby follow you can speak I could speak English as well she's my colleague from my home from England because really because England England ago wives are different England

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played me just being honest he goes are for only white people confirming them I mean lady parent from England well some people have asked me things like racism have you have you experienced that over the internet connections kind of run all over the place I'm just fixing so yeah no yeah racism you don't you don't they're not racist in terms of like your

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colored the more racist in terms of wearing where you're from yeah okay and in terms of yeah I was gonna say you know this this big the whole thing here this that all over they they really make you if you go there for work that is like us you know this mentality that they will make you work for each pen he is it is it like that always it children

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what's the no unfortunately I were brothers from Bangladesh and we argue in India they're like they made them work extremely hard for life I mean I first came I'm not driving for the example would be like me in UK driving on the m6 and then you see someone in a fast lane picking up rubbish it'll be like what's this guy doing in the fast lane taking rubbish up on the

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motorway so you'll see people doing screams out in the middle of Norway as well like you know your trip might be like 500 kilometers and in disguise in the middle of nowhere and there's nothing as far as your eye can see and it's like 45 degrees so you'll get people grasping like that would you advise people to to come out to Selby if they're looking for teaching or things like that quite a few people that have been into teaching that I have asked that kind of question they've asked me

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sometimes I've been like I got no idea mate what would you say glory days have gone now and especially now with this virus in terms of like your pay that you'd get on what I view so like people wouldn't get that same kind of pay that people used to get by it some years ago well for the experience and you can save money because obviously the tax free country everything's paid for your accommodation your travel everything's paid for so it's a good way to save money and lock up so she can go home bra if you want to go do many homeless as you want and you have the opportunity to do the Hajj and what have you and even

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for like non-muslims kebab of over light metal are non-muslims here and they'd love it here a lot of them have said from the UK it's a decent I don't wanna go back to England like what would I go back to England for well they've got everything that I need ya cut the fingers if you need if you live in a compound the compound life is very different to outside and the compounds is like a it's like a mini village so you'll have a compound but with mine kilometres so and you've got everything Canary by the gym you got a restaurant you've got swimming pool you got everything can accompany need to leave

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the gate to the city but it's only if it was just for expats the Saudis are not allowed to come in a compound in the compound

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[Laughter] somebody said what about for women are they as liberal towards women in these compounds many women in the compound I mean yeah the women can wear what they want like for a woman coming to the compound you're not allowed to wear an abaya she has to take it off within the

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compound compounds they like in every place or just select syllabus all in select cities I mean in beret that we had one but only one compound like in Riyadh your front-loader comparison Jed there on the most bill so only the main cities you'll find them not like the smaller villages I'm alive you know we're major cities yeah you'll see women walking around in their bikinis and

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things like this they made like cinemas and everything inside that place all and shopping malls cinemas in the shopping mall now oh camon shopping malls so think before that before the cinemas were actually segregated so you have family times or family and then you have anyway because some of the the stats

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show I mean I wouldn't know if it wasn't for people like be pointing it out for me the stats shoulder that gay porn is the highest one of the highest places it's sought-after online is Saudi Arabia also Billy tells me I don't know if that's if that's the case baby but it's true but what it is you have this kind of strict kind of society yeah yes I and everything is Haram Haram Haram so what they say when you make the allow difficult then the

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Haram becomes easy so it is difficult for people to get married so a lot of my students a teacher I can't afford to get married it costs too much get married but to get married here you need to have like fifty sixty thousand pounds seriously for the Saudis and I know but yeah when you say they need is that like Maha they need to pay maha because I spoke to a few sorry women in terms of marriage you know and they try to commit these kind of figures the most

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likely said when don't pay them figures of all this is supposed to be easy easily this this whole thing cuz I remember years back this is years back now when I was in Damascus I remember them mentioning it there is some of the locals how difficult it was then they were saying that you know for Maha they want like an apartment they want this they want to cook you know they want this much money they want and so by the time the guy saves up that much money he's like in his easily in his mid 30s

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towards maybe even coming towards his late 30s which is crazy for you know for and so it was causing a huge number of women to be left unmarried in at that time in Damascus because they because what it was was when those guys did get that money they were there looking for younger women that they weren't looking for like because if the guy was 35 he wasn't looking for a 35 year old he was looking for some

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it's like it's okay

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those of you that know a famous traveler were every traveled you always got my read this is the living legend right that what Hindus would call the reincarnation I think it was from Tangiers in Morocco so somebody's lost here that really are you married many enzymes many time currently even but I'm looking looking always always

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it's like I used to do this coronavirus it has put me you know I mean at a crossroads at the moment they come with the compounds compounds right so I've been to like I've been to Indonesia Indonesia Philippines Philippines yeah

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Saudi Saudi no UK oh god chat no charter yep medicham Morocco Libya under cards and I'm sure you'll keep circling around to that one no potential Somali you know when all of these people at some point you know maybe 200 years from now some some people are gonna be on like DNA

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ancestry com1 of Wrigley's kind of future offspring and he's gonna be like well how can it be that we've got I've got all these cousins first cousins but in all these different parts of the world that just can't be they'll be like sit down my child let me tell you the story of your great-great-grandfather

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right currently Somalia is on there it's on the day I've got the winter I've been to every country means I'm topped America South America somebody said any children as well loads I'm sure well this is increasing my five five children

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masha'Allah masha'Allah brother masha'Allah so you see and some people may question that look you know that wait a minute is that you know what's all this going to different places getting married going you know in this day and age in these kind of societies that's not very common people haven't really that kind of well but speaker from the it's not common but unfortunate or is that small Archana is that it's not common and it's not and it's not Haram and the thing is is that it's better that than me going into

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sleeping with this random women but maybe you think written on is he said you know even if he was 80 and it goes you know if my wife died because I wouldn't live another day yeah unless I got married again look these are the kind of stories that they they brought up people like yeah I mean why not why not I I accept that in this

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part of the world it's not part of the lifestyle but I think why not though you know it's it's it's a I would say uh you know it's to the the envy of many people I think many people would probably especially many men there probably be very envious of this of this escapade they accept this you know I mean I don't like them and trick them and what have you this is how it is blah la-dee-da see

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there must be something special about really that me and you and you Marie do you almost got married difficult Saudi Arabia or what's the you can it's just the whole paperwork really long you know I mean so you have to give

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up on me check you have to like am please check Hasek ship yeah please check it you have to get a health check blood test to go meet this guy called under so he's like the when you call the village out there and he has to give permission to you to marry soul I know my friend went to him because he could basically go with two witnesses two people that know you can vouch for you yeah yeah so they go to the lumber and he goes I don't know you you don't know

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anybody that comes to you obviously you know them maybe just affair I think they obviously they have like you know the henna party then you have like the the when you called the habit okay and then you have the hustler let the party only different bits to it

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okay but also DS generally are they more protective when it comes to let's say the women marry outside non salvie's or is it not yeah I don't like I mean I mean they're protective if they're marrying outside of their tribe nevermind I gonna be and then I mean so I remember I asked the shoot at one time like you got these tribes like some tribes are more you say they'd say higher than another tribe so he was like well call them materi which is like a different idea so city more would you marry someone who's

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adversary he looked at me like disgust people used to be slaves anyone okay is this do you feel that this is marriage in general is a social kind of crisis they or not or Edison lorry was or it still is what are your thoughts

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thinking still is because even back in the day when you had like when they had their scattered like hoof they mean and been bad they said to the people that the matter make them no price don't make it this kind of extreme prices the people don't be listen to them when they just said we don't care listen cuz here is the tribe that really

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kind of counts and opinions like his

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[Laughter] fasting what some of these questions going on man let's see somebody said I heard one mom died and forgot to get married question is life screws us all eventually nurses saying okay mostly is

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this niqab Monsieur I don't know is this it doesn't have to be in New Hampshire Monsieur no doesn't normally crap no I mean I didn't made that intention that ok I'm gonna marry you and then you know later on Celia the olamide's I do have my wrench here now I was on my back with the mommy say normal ooh just uh yeah II just wasn't kind of working out like they just don't because somebody might say well okay what why if it's not Monsieur not that I'm saying is necessarily wrong I'm just saying somebody may ask well how they

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come to an end is it doesn't work and then you gotta see some people through them I brought them here to Saudi Arabia inside paper yeah yes I did not you Nana mean they come here don't like it you know I mean and especially at that time is that it was a bit more restrictive and where I

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live in it's a place where many people can't live then I mean so it's very hard harsh glare is that your feed of you find in Pereda all the women wearing niqab today just standard they wear that it's a cult Rafi no religious thing it's a cultural thing but if you know if you don't not wearing that you're gonna kind of stand out and people look at you they stare at you people point at you women will start them making these kind of noisy that you

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accomplished profile and still does this caused the conflict sometimes with with with other wife so I have you oh is it you know the ones that are currently standing because people might be wondering they might be thinking I want to follow in release footsteps how does this work and next thing you hear of all these murders he tried is this this kind of life is not for the faint-hearted

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anyone to follow my think 10 times before you dare take one step in his footsteps that's it I'll tell you now it does not end well mmm and well so right so I mean people maybe still when I want to point out as well that I'm that I'm in the process of setting up a website okay yeah what's this website this website is

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called halal erotica seriously okay miss misunderstanding hello erotica Oliver and cater for the needs of the needy you know I mean the needy Muslim you know in terms of these sexual kind of needs in animal not the are be providing them sexual needs for them people people people need clarification here what does that mean what sir why are you providing his his services it goods is it so what

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is Ruby providing goods some like handcuffs chains whipped cream Billy if you need it hello then get it right from our guy right here but somebody might ask why do I need to go to a Hallel erotica to get that why can't I just get that from you know just local R&R wherever it is online I obviously wouldn't know but maybe maybe Billy Omaha you've got a website our website hopefully fella will be a big difference it's where a place we can ask questions and get clarification on certain finger

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a lot of Muslims don't know what they can do sexually or what they can't do sexually so they have a lot of queries about this I currently got this situation so okay so people are not sure what can they do or what they can do what they can't do what kind of tools tools what kind of goods they can use they can't use what

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they can't use so this will be clarity for it use anything oh man somebody's asking can they get a whip making it I'm sure plenty of the service oh hello yah together though just wait right they will send a delivery we'll send a delivery guy around that's interesting so do you feel this a need for that within the Muslim community do you feel that this is that people are little

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bleep it's a big nice trip ok you know what I wish I wish it was already set up because it is locked down there have been a great demand for these products people are stuck without going to all this stuck up but wherever they are all right postage service man get it out there to them I'm pretty sure that it's people are kind of like stuck and they're fed up there like I'm short divorce rates are gonna be like booming

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once you get your rights oh okay so that's the so you think a bit of this

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kind of adding a bit of flavored kink to the whole lifestyle would would fix a lot of common you know this kind of subject people people look at them I'd like taboo and I we should not really speak about these feelings and no no we should speak about this week why not it's a natural thing people enjoy people not pop singer gonna enjoy it people like doing these things so wine I haven't had a little flavor to me and a bit of spice to it change it up do something different you know I mean so turn off of this car no sir no service obviously you've got dogs regular like sex shops but there have been you know be under CD sorry the study needs videos and yet we don't even need them in in nowadays you got like you pornhub is free anywhere at the

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moment you can get all these things if you're watching this okay you are right though these kind of topics are taboo within Muslim you know the whole Muslim scene this is like super tip you people will be like what the hell is even talking why is he even talking about these things yeah people get shy in that Oh shouldn't talk about this solidarity or you know

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why dimension in that mm but especially within the Muslim world this is like a huge you know even like you mention let's say fantasies or things like this this is an absolute kind of utter like people that stuff for last uh for long you know people this is the kind of the attitude isn't it yeah I'll tell you a

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story and this is a true story than bring it on bring it off man there was a guy my friend are annoying you into Bahrain and we'll talk about Bahrain so he was in Bahrain and he was you know how it was in his hotel room you swim I knocked on his door you opened the door he's gotta block a big beard the woman screamed and ran off

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okay anyway he saw the woman later and he goes to listen I don't looking from you but he goes why did you knock on my door and then scream and run away and she goes I'm sorry she goes you reminded me of someone she goes basically it was a guy that had a big beard like yours and he must have paid for her services she came he done what he'd done with her then he beat her up and it was like a structuralist a philosopher you know whatever done in that they not be dropping me mate mate Toba he proceeded to have another round and then beat her

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up again so so people do so people do have these fantasies I want to carry out these kind of feelings so much just you don't want to say out loud this kind of statistic you have a lot of people that

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are like I like this so Billy's saying I'm sure I've seen this scenario in a

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film before I'm sure you happy maybe you made the film so yes hmm that is interesting because I definitely think that the way you see sex is probably what is the most preoccupying topic that is on the minds of people especially men and I would say people buying law by and large you know including men and women but maybe more so on the minds of men yet it's it's socially kind of portrayed as this very

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dirty oh you know nos oh my god that's so impure unclean you know this kind of nature's almost act too woodsy so you know yeah and I think that that kind of pushes a kind of neurosis in the mindset because it makes people you know that they live like split lives basically yeah all right but do you do you feel that the Saudis being in Saudi I'm assuming their mindset is no

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different this is just as much as a taboo over their job stuff just as much if you go to Baja rain on a Thursday Friday waha rain becomes an extension of Saudi Arabia cool because all you will see that are Saudis okay and Bahrain is like how can you detect me describe this place this is what I will call a mini Thailand tourism no way to put it okay

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that's that's the whole scene in the people this is probably not not well-known presumably I'm assuming yeah it's not one wrong please no it's not it's not one of those countries that like a tourist country where people will go there for a holiday it's not known like how the by is you know I mean so it's one of the Gulf country but not very well known but for Arabs it's well known so it's like you've been like me in UK saying to someone I'm going to Amsterdam them later on for tonight here you take of somebody burnt about her aim I loved her once about her info you must be going there to drink we must

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be going there for women that's like the main reason that people go there Oh drink as well drinks yeah yeah yeah all the Muslim countries is probably the most open well seriously yeah yeah just asking for asking for a friend [Laughter]

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right so the fingers close here so right from where I live it's like about a 40-minute drive to get the bar a 40-minute drive a bridge it's just a bridge at connected probably conveniently placed one mayor one notice for the shopping experience and before Saudi Arabia had cinemas I would go there for the cinema revelatory for

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somebody said especially Oxford Street Arabs love London Mayfair okay this is so is this part of the reason why MBS is making that island is this was from an economical point of view is seeing thousands of Saudis governor every weekend spending their money so it's like instead of them spending their what the little spendy here in army will offer them the same kind of entertainment just spending here instead

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which makes sense yeah I did I did I did my try to offer to my select the women could be that could be brought here I offered a solution I'll go to Russia and I'll sell it in the best seriously yeah it's that blood run hair blue eyes

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that's like kryptonite Russian Moroccan women okay that's oh yeah Russian very very much so but tell me that you know the mindset of the average person fear like the way let's say you can talk about these things will joke and laugh about them or does that

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reflect like an average mindset over there Saudi Arabia with the people if you could like with some of them like you know if you know them you can say about Bahrain you can joke with them and say yeah blah blah blah and they'll laugh about it and Joe essentially no you pick oh you you know on that level if you came there they didn't know you started joking either they're very they're very like protective of their peeps unlike in England like you someone said to you you know what you know English people I've seen that idiot Sarah people yeah most of them are you wouldn't really care but if he said that here and he said you know sorry but like this the tailor very offensively and

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that means they're very protective of their people and their culture I won't have you and they won't really have anyone say anything bad about you about their country or their people now right so what are some of the most kind of bizarre events that you've ever come across in Saudi Arabia or things like this because because this for many people is a culture shock because people have this you know this idyllic kind of image of the Islamic ideal in Saudi Arabia so what

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often I know that's far from that but what are some of the most bizarre things you might come across or read about the work is not now and from UK so this now is this first is telling us about his first like few days yeah okay and he's in a place called design design design is like near the Yemeni border okay he's

1:00:53

over there so he's walking and one of these has come in they're like pickup truck boom try positive and then hits the brakes and then he drives back around and then drives just a bit past in jumps I is like pick up and it goes over to him could this guy is a white guy as well Oh like obviously he's very intrigued like who is a Muslim his confidence yeah so like Sonny goes up to him and it's not hi man where you from you know the Trident speech in America and if he wants of America in the highway you ferment in his life I'm from anything because oh maybe nice England good good and he's asking that where do you live and he said I live in a

1:01:32

compound because all do you have nice room and this enough it says here you have a nice nicely more have you then the guy grabbed his penis shaking hand and he wouldn't go with hand Oh Agis and then he just grabbed these grab his penis in life because it just like squeezed it and those eaters like ran off because here I not described my mates you ran off and just right I went to some shops and

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do that guy grab it as well I mean I've been in the gym because sometimes some of the things they say is because their English is not very good okay I've been in the gym I was walking this guy walking next to me he goes I both you're beautiful you are how about you what do you say to smash your teeth [Laughter] like things about you don't say beautiful then I kind of realize or maybe the reason you're not good maybe maybe he's trying

1:03:04

it to see oh how do I respond oh no no no no no no no we don't really know when his mother dies in a car wreck or demova so he's gone to like speak to them and say okay how are ya oh [Laughter]

1:03:55

because I wanna thank you you do and I have asked the students are said to them why are you guys what why is there so much so many gays students he said to me he goes one analogy gave to me he goes teacher look you gotta understand because we don't see you mean yeah it goes with us with our mates all the time

1:04:34

and it's hard to get married she goes yeah we have to but we have to like basically shag a few guys in that here and there and I continue that means you're gay then he goes no I'm not gay he goes he's gay the one I'm doing the act on is gay but I'm not gay but that's their kind of way and then he goes to me

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hand in your pocket like

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so so they all go there like every night under weekend

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and it's just all guys and just chilling some of them are married and they will just go there and watch TV play playstation so it's just a place to get away from their house and their family and all your boys all your mates go meet up here and you just chill out of each other or it's like so be it is a bit weird he's like you're married what why are you sleeping here for running in go home you put your wife it's like and miss out

1:06:55

on all these glorious beards to sleep overnight so KOCO five it said we're gonna sleep in a desert and like you're gonna sleep in again surprise this is the reality because of the kind of culture they've created and it's so it's so harsh these kind of realities that when two people who are not in them it

1:07:35

seems like now things can't be like that but they but they are in in these camp countries because I've seen in some parts of Pakistan as well exactly that kind of mentality to you know it's to the utmost but Saudi I imagine is even worse in so in many ways than you know places like that because it's pure like the woman is just missing just like she's just not there in society but but then you'll have women who are like cuz I've had women like kind of whistle at me you try to call me and say like you

1:08:07

know come here but you got to be very careful here because you don't know she could be setting you up before the police and then what's this thing about

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you know the parking the SUV on a highway and lifting of the morning what's this if you see that sometime just like the guy saying mister I want you to come in like basically do me over okay so this is the kind of dogging scene this is the green light okay look at Simon and you're like a green light come and just do me but where's the guy he's outside the cars inside the guys what was he doing he just calm in the car oh it's just parked up his car I just pulled up the the bonnet thing yeah but no but now they used obviously now now

1:09:22

they're just had like snapchat so you can just like you know be snapchat signs and you can just like put that up and then snapchat him and then meet them and there was some case or something wasn't there by some guy who had actually broken down legitimately I was stuck on the car or something he's broken down he got stuck under the car some people stopped it was gonna help him and they

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Rea probably thought that's the cute that's the green light that the car you know he's popped up the car he's lifted the body I'm miss keen has got stuck under the car so they've just come and [Laughter]

1:10:35

[Laughter] executed them good the racing was making record of executing them oh yeah he caught the registration or something good me because they pop the execution down that's I mean I mean that the

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here are a few 1 we cannot keep go and see you you can go and witness an execution still yeah you can watch it yeah they do it like on Fridays yeah after that you do it yesterday in Riyadh ISM Masjid from what is called people call it chop-chop square you'll see like people getting beheaded and whatever you can go and watch you know I mean they don't it near our College one time and they yeah executing a core group of

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people salute from terrorism like if you if you get caught for terrorism that also need to jail with an execution very straight away okay few years back on YouTube some execution videos of Saudi and there were some women and things like this and sometimes there was some that they were saying they were magicians I don't know that's what I said on the YouTube thing I don't know whether the people are you know just that's what's written I don't know whether it is true or not but it's like I saw it then and it was so honestly it kind of like it left me in a state of shock man like for a few you know cuz

1:12:34

they do it so fast on the thing if you get the sword they say something like will you forgive will you forgive or something in some cases I know time is learning and it's like they'll say he'll say something like the tips I saw I think he says it like three times but with the end of the you just not expecting it's like well he just drops his hand and see a head just roll and it's graphic it is disturbing to watch yeah because that that kind of thing is we've been certain families the

1:13:12

execution look to the the especially in Jedi no is one particular family that they've been doing it for life oh well they all the executioner's then then I think what happened was in some part Hemingway was they couldn't get no one so they advertised to an executioner yeah I was gonna say that because I remember reading about this in one of the Arab papers the Saudi is struggling to find say yeah these kind of like people that can execute with with the sword and then they were contemplating should we replace it with a different kind of like you know death by firing or should we there was some

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kind of discussion going on recently change it now there's no more lashing here no more gnashing their stock lashing this under stop yeah and they've stopped execution for like if someone was convicted before they were 18 years

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in prison yes that's the English ten

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minutes yeah so someone asked about being have I have I been to Riyadh season I haven't been to Riyadh season I went to the boxing event with Anthony Joshua okay go me movies I went to watch out for it's pretty good they've been a lot of entertainment we had like Chris Chris Brown we had like a con come here Janet Jackson these events mixed when they

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happen yeah yeah the mixed events yeah the boxing my trust in Exodus idea woman she was talking to me and I we exchanged numbers [Laughter] [Music] so if we find out that we DS being taken up - chop-chop square we learn do a petition in contact amnesty to save him [Laughter] okay so these events okay I don't think

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the events will mix them stuff so that's wow that's change change yes changed totally it's all things done a 360 so me from when I first came six years ago to now if somebody told me sadly Ava would have would be 90 students it never Norway the debate was definitely not well here we are [Music]

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what was this whole scandal with this you know Bill Tucker and I've been to Makkah did you come across that know that blacks out yeah she sang a song rose with Mecca girls with about they've

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gone she's like nothing nothing kind of

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like sexual or anything like that but I was reading some of the tweets against some supporting her something she doesn't represent much doesn't represent the culture why she's spreading this kind of Western influence culture over here but it was like wow it was a bit of a harsh kind of you could see that the the ante view was much more dominating the whole scene again but yeah yeah you gotta see Mecca Mecca Mecca is gonna vary like it's a very old place though and it kept it like that you know to me so it's not like it's modern a uniform like jet there or Riyadh or what have you and then it's

1:18:08

like that for a reason you know the me cuz obviously is the whole it is Mecca my abuse oh you can't we just start changing it and stop building like these fancy things we'll have you so you'll find the people there again they're like bedroom people and I mean a lot the people there so they don't run that change in by zones and doesn't wrap it if she if she was from Jeddah random map he probably be fine which is from Riyadh and she did not know they said Polly would mess at anything I think because of the unabie to Makkah and that was the thing that they were saying anyway did she say I'm the daughter off-mike and she doesn't represent Makkah and

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stuff like that and yeah put you on edge ever thinking look I'm in this place and foreigners or foreigners foreigners on edge thinking what if we say something or do something is this is gonna happen he's gonna deport you back home never being there being expert here has been

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executed ever there have been I mean he took one or two only matched seriously I think what makes it worse is when you're from a DC background then they just look at you like this

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this miskeen satya this trash when I used to go on resume at the police station and I used to say like he'll come to see so and so the guy from UK no they say call that British Pakistani that's really Wow lashes but now they stop the lashes unfortunately for all those masochists ugly who enjoy that kind of stuff sorry you're gonna have to pay for it elsewhere now the Saudi soup

1:20:22

salaries will no longer be providing that service not at the state not at the cost of the kingdom anyway somebody asked a question what do you think of Lisa the rapper from Medina I've not heard of have you heard of Lisa oh Lisa or Lisa no okay somebody said how have you not lost your faith Abdul Kareem we've been here yeah I mean I've seen all of this and how have you not lost lenore-- is

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weighted looking they're human beings are we're human beings just because they're here in Saudi Arabia it doesn't mean they're the melodica or they're sahabas or happy they have like they're weak like how we are weak I'm saying so they're just normal people so yeah I expect that they're gonna do this and they're gonna do this kind of mad feel because they're just so just normal humans tomorrow nothing special you not I mean and to tell you the truth honest only saying you'll probably find more Islam and be able to practice your religion more in the UK then give them here

1:21:36

really wasn't from that kind of a I'm assuming you know before you went to Saudi you went from this because you used to come to my classes you know used to chill out in soon among certain friends you had a very kind of a realistic impression when it came to Islam and Muslims you weren't like from this you know some people you get sometimes let's say there they could be Salafi influenced or even on Salafi but they have this kind of ideal vision utopian vision of Saudi Arabia and Islam and everything is Puritanism and then they go over there and they would have a heart attack if they saw something like

1:22:12

that yeah I knew the reality for the professor even a foreign people here they probably never been to that never been to Mecca never been to Medina yeah people that live in Medina know they don't go to the magic number we don't go to those whom would never been and they live in Medina so and in in some in some place I can't understand because like you know you see something over and over and over again kind of normalize do you know what's interesting is that even from the tradition from he would actually people after the Hajj sometimes they would roll

1:22:52

around like they just stay settled let's say the height is finished it's been a few weeks now they're still here you know they just settle this thing of this thing he would he would kind of chase the people back out like people who are non-residence because he would say that what happens with this you know you just stay and loiter around is you become desensitized to the sanctity and that's what that is so true and even this is saying that's attributed to imam abu hanifa that he was asked that why don't you go and live in medina or live in makkah and they asked him about Makkah sorry why don't

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you go and live in Makkah you live in Kufa and he said that look I'd rather live in Kufa and have Makkah in my heart that live in Makkah have Kufa in my heart because once you live in a place you just want to be you know somewhere else you just wanna you get fed up with that whole kind of and it's no and it's a place of results could just like me when I first came to society I was going like to Mecca and Medina I was going there like every week every two weeks what I feel boom boom and then after a while it's like you don't even call that much anymore I mean then you go like once a month then it becomes once every three months

1:24:10

and once every six months like that Oh kind of dwindle down a bit only time so many times and slaw needs a bit of a tray but it's good now I'm glad I don't live in that area kinda quite far out so like to drive they would take me maybe 12 hours to get to Detroit do people catch planes generally you are they still driving there they do a lot of people drive it I mean I when I lived in Breda I also drive to Mecca eight hours and I never flew there once and it's always drive Medina was four hours and Mecca with eight hour drive

1:24:50

and they still always drive I mean I hear now I'm leaving now then I have to slide the police too far to drive a hard drive 12 hours too much it's just it's just the time if I'm going for a weekend I need to the slide umemura and then might get back somebody had asked have you been for hajj or umrah so when have you lost been for Hajj or Umrah of it one oh the last time I went on homra was in January well see look at that people look at that see don't don't be mislead just because you know if you've got

1:25:28

Mahalo erotica you've got these things have their own become in society the Umrah has its own the pump in society allah any other questions people what some something what's going on - fire away really right now los this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you've got imagine the hate mostly gonna get from Salafis no I'm not gonna get nothing from selfies man that just feels

1:26:05

like I mean wincing I tell you now you know you know these anything they give people like they've given people whose dream and this light kind of utopia about Saudi Arabia saying look this place you like this oh listen Brava looking your fault we're about the ankles blah blah blah this must be Haram Vida listener you come here I've never seen one side he would've stopped so before his ankles and you'll see nearly every Saturday we've at SP in his hand you know I mean so it's like what they've told people is nothing like that whatsoever so they were like yeah we're sitting with the scholars with this Kabara ulama and

1:26:43

these people anyone can go sit with the scholars you go hunter people this in a market and they do the talks about yeah anyone can sit in the market and listened to his talk do to mean you've got access the scholars are know them or who they are just like you just I feel that what happens is these people create a bubble over here and because within so within the let's say UK Muslims are within a kind of bubble anyway as just you know ethnically and so on and a community level and then within that bubble you've got micro bubbles of religious people who are like a bubble

1:27:21

within a bubble and then what selfies do is they just create their own niche microbubble and here and then this is kind of fake nostalgia all this fake you know oh the land of Islam felt oh he the land of you know Janet impediment that he'll and her I'm sure the guy stranded on the highway would beg to differ vehicle he's like I was expecting there

1:28:02

was a guy with one universities send a few guy he's decided to come into work he wanted to come in there sooner this comedy bulb on no they said to him don't you ever come here dressed like that again to go you're not sounding today because for Dan understand it's a culture thing it's not a religious thing to wear at Bob it's just a culture dressed so like I think we discussed this before must be if the purpose of Salaam was from the UK or what have you I'm sure you want to be wearing that bulb in the UK because that is not the culture dress of those people understand

1:28:40

except in in a raid where that was the cultural dress of the people select here you'll find women they wear in the car a lot of women wear makeup it's not a religiosity it's a cultural thing yeah it's a cultural thing were either very different we'll cut about women when within the carbon listening at me I'm shooting are very religious maybe she was just trying to whistle to remind you that it was time for the mix-a-lot that was like a mess yeah

1:29:17

right so people were getting pretty late I know musty knows when judgment or any if there's any final questions you want to throw in otherwise we'll start to wrap this up I know we've kept really up as it is okay in Ramadan yeah nobody got to like five six o'clock is that most people to speak to this yeah in Ramadan you sleeves because here by law if you're working then your hours are reduced if you only allowed to work five

1:29:57

hours in Ramadan you're not allowed to let more than there no policy with this with this whole virus thing everybody's at home anyway so it's kind of cool I like to fold on men's head scarf like Musti makes all perfectly ironed okay cool somebody said Birmingham City or Aston Villa I don't know I don't watch

1:30:23

they go don't swear and really have uxp and then they stop the question expired or know what that means experience experience have you experienced something have you experienced any people only like your friend coming on to you trying to check if everything is in fine working order [Laughter] have you experienced oh the question no

1:31:02

it wasn't have you experienced any sexual encounters that would have been more of an interesting question is asking I've experienced racism there have you experienced racism I mean like my

1:32:01

England was too busy this is the problem we bring a conversation

1:32:27

in front of you not for the faint-hearted gentlemen it's not it's a

1:33:00

difficult game brother I see big man's coming to the team because they hear it's easy to find Muslim women I don't think it is easy to find Muslim women from personally from I'm not saying that personally the charm of the but for more I get to hear from people he finally answered question a gas-guzzling SUV a CV do you drive an SUV they do you drive around a

1:33:37

droid no I have a Dutch Dodge Challenger 6.1 nanites a muscle car is cheaper than water [Laughter] what do you have for Soho already's had already had his kind of you know when we doing the tour cause eating one or two biscuit I don't know Papa Tunde then see

1:34:14

because the fact that it starts from half past three in the morning until quarter past 6:00 in the evening so it's not that long so by the time you get up for the hot you got like about six hours left if any of you thinking of traveling over there as a teacher or thinking of getting into that industry

1:34:54

that industry know any other industries but that industry then if you want to reach out to really he is on social media on social media on social media I mean I'm on social media to someone for the question tell us about the gym [Laughter] experience that if you haven't experienced anything with every tooth year there are areas they say that they yeah inside about haven't been to those places met inside I think one of the

1:35:30

areas that is the heroism in the old with the old kind of ruins and things like that somebody said are you forced to are you forced to pray while you're in Saudi are you forced to pray yeah you don't want to pray don't pray it's like because what you'll find what you're seeing is like if you're in a shopping mall the add-on will be going with a gunner and people the scene outside the shop when sweet opened we don't know how to pray some people yeah what used to happen you supplement over these two compounds in

1:36:08

salah sandhaya Shabaab the last no with Eli saying create time prayers aren't very I'm clear time and they're just driving around basically but they're not telling you you must go and pray no no no one portion to pray well people bought boy you find these people would do it out of habit you know saying some people get up coming I want to first like this printer bu people like Allah Allah formula and they just praying are that's it's become like a habitual things for a lot of people there please like okay everyone's prayed I might others pray as well or your mind people do it so that isn't some people [Music]

1:36:47

people who don't pray you'll find people here celebrate Christmas if I'm people here celebrate Valentine's and all these kind of things so it's not like our it's not like I said it's not how people come to this yeah there's a huge false impression of Saudi Arabia we've already year we were kind of saying that people are presented Arabia is not some kind of ideal utopian you know clip Islamic utopia I don't know if that would make a utopia but I'm just saying that representation but yes so right with

1:37:26

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1:38:43

weenies looking a bit we could be he's looking a bit small I can tell you it's in reality it's absolutely on the contrary really is a monster in the flesh yes so people do write somebody saying goofy looks like he wants to be a shareholder in a la erotica erotica means sex stories right so what six stories we give you six stories as well you want six stories you know to some people that might be their

1:39:22

thing is it you know it's not you copy her arm at the end of the days it's all your story Mabel from what was his name I'm building an opposing handsome nephew my uncle when I make love to my wife I make this kind of noisy that it's this is this wrong is this wrong because my nephew if you knew I did in my wife

1:39:59

you'd ask if I'm still a Muslim this with dile at the end he I was in that he was one of the teachers of Imam Malik so you've got him telling his nephew where there's a question where he asks him about making kind of erotic sounds during foreplay and sex and and he says look do whatever you want you know behind closed doors but he persists he says no I want to know did you do it and he's like look I've told you that look when you're on your own you know behind

1:40:38

closed doors it's a green light and he's like no no no I want to know do you do it he said if you saw me while I'm at work he says I know Jeremy he says lo yeah Bernie he says much I told my son if you saw I'm Mac no right I'm like what were you German whilst he's having the sex he said la Santa Ana who like minimal I loathe him you think this guy can't does he cook there's no way you can believe

1:41:13

in a God which I was thinking what the hell was he doing what kind of games was he getting here to prostrate to all the kinds of things that's it's been hilarious people right on that note right we're gonna wrap this up you can reach out to really monster on on snapchat on Instagram right likewise you

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