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Why does Mufti Abu Layth compare the Palestinian situation to facing a knife?

qiyas qiyaas muftis jahannam jahanam jahannum shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam greeting

The knife rule from escrima: run from a fight you cannot win; the UAE deal did nothing

LessonRecorded 17 May 2021Segment 6 of 7 in the recording2021-05-17-S06

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His escrima teacher's rule was to run from a knife and fight only when running is impossible, and he applies it to an enemy that will not back down. He repeats that the UAE deal has brought nothing and that Bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf should not be blamed for it.

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Mufti Abu Layth restates clearly that Israel is behaving as a terrorist state, then draws an analogy from the escrima stick-and-knife fighting he once trained in: his teacher's first rule when confronted with a knife is to run, and only if that is impossible to use the skill to defend and deflect, though Mufti would charge someone with a gun. The point is that these people will not back down and will butcher relentlessly, so he hopes his suggestion does not upset people. Returning to the UAE deal, he says it has achieved nothing and brokered no peace; the UAE's ruler has done it for his own deal, perhaps paid by Israel or promised something by America, with many backhanders. He repeats that it is unfair to place the price on the shoulders of Bin Bayyah and Hamza Yusuf, who in his view had nothing to do with it even though he signs off for the ruler and is stuck in that position, and says his sources tell him Hamza Yusuf is not happy with the decision either. A question about Kashmir is then put to him.

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and and realize that these tyrants israel is a tyrant terrorist state it is not going to back down it is going to butcher a missile children so and there needs to be some kind of this needs to stop but how do people stop it they're never gonna it doesn't seem like they're gonna stop so this is my suggestion but you see the irony is i bet you people all of a sudden wouldn't care about the palestinians because they were they only care about them so long as they're in palestine they wouldn't care about them if oh yeah let's get them relocated and living in a another place in another nice city

18:42

somewhere they wouldn't all of a sudden all of a sudden that care would just go away you'd be like stay in palestine and die ah that's my thoughts on it mine i don't know um and i'm very look and this is not and you can rewind and watch what i've just said in case you've missed it i'm not saying i'm being very clear that israel is is it being a terrorist state that's what it's doing but we have to realize like if there's a person here and you know it's look i

19:19

i did a while back i did uh escrima yeah which was uh it was stick knife sword kind of fighting but there was an emphasis on stick and knife but i remember the teacher he told us look there's a simple rule in life he said like if you ever confronted with a knife right he said look the first thing don't look he said that listen to this the first thing is run do not it's not look you have to realize that there's certain things that are not

19:57

they're not it's it's not it's a handicapped thing it's too easy to be stopped he said however if that's not an option that's where this skill comes in to try and defend to try and block to try and turn the attack but by the first means is you're not an equal option here don't try and punch the person and do like if you can get away that's because if a person a similar if person has a gun obviously now he's going to shoot he'll have to do some zigzags but the point is so actually if they've got a gun i think it's better to fight them

20:37

i would actually charge them if they had a gun but i would run if they had a knife so the the point is that look you've you've got to understand that this these people are not going to back down and they're going to butcher relentlessly and mercilessly so i would say that yeah so i hope that doesn't upset certain people but yeah but this uae thing i don't think it's done jack okay i don't think he's broken any piece and i do think that the king of uae is just doing it to kind of he just got his own deal maybe israel's

21:16

paying him a bunch of you know you must definitely be getting a huge whack for doing that maybe america said to them look if you do this we'll broker a deal with you so there must be so many backhanders going on with that and i think it's unfair to put the sh the the price of that on the shoulders of sheikh abdullah bin bay and sheikh hamza yusuf because i don't think they really had any hamza yusuf i don't think had anything to do with themselves even though he does kind of like sign off for the king and stuff like that but then you know he's kind of stuck as well you know you got to be honest it's not

21:55

like i don't think he would be happy with that uh and now i've heard from my sources that he's not happy with the decision either cool right all right let's uh mufti what about the kashmir issue yeah i feel that look the kashmir issue similarly if that is an option um if it is an option that they were to relocate them all then fine you know but then personally i would say that it's slightly different i would see some differences

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  date = {2021-05-17},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
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