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Recordings › Salman Rushdie & The Satanic Verses | Mufti Abu Layth · 19 Aug 2022 › Segment 10 of 21

Jokes about Rushdie's hairline and a mock hair-transplant offer

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OtherRecorded 19 Aug 2022Segment 10 of 21 in the recording2022-08-19-S10

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Mufti Abu Layth jokes about Rushdie's hairline and offers a mock hair transplant, repeating in passing that the attacker only gave Rushdie the limelight.

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Mufti Abu Layth continues joking about Rushdie's hairline, saying he now understands Rushdie's grievance since he would not know where to start washing his face in wudu, and that he would have paid for a hair transplant in Istanbul had Rushdie asked him. Between the jokes he repeats that the attacker clearly had mental health issues and only gave Rushdie the limelight. He then tells himself to focus and says he will take some questions before discussing the satanic verses themselves.

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i mean now i get why he hated muslims because it's like bachara didn't know where to do wudu from he's like at what point do i start doing masa of the head is it like from here [Laughter] do i start washing the face wrong

right i'm understanding his grief now it's like the guy is like yeah i can't understand the fake of these muslims the guy got lost in he was like ah you know if only if regain was out in his time

[Laughter] just think of the tranquility you would have brought to his heart he never know he might have been like uh yeah you know finally i've had peace no let's let's focus people let's focus right so now honestly i but that you know that said seriously i this person that attacked him clearly had mental health issues but all he did was just gave him limelight this person didn't really deserve that he

deserved a hair transplant you know if salman rushdie had had reached out to me and said look listen you know i've struggled here with this hairline that i don't know where to draw the line because of this non-boundary i've lost all boundaries

because of this the lines being blurred i've all values have blurred the lines in my life i would have said yeah you know what send this bachara to turkey istanbul i would cover his transplant costs just to help him out you know maybe you know you help him skin allah gives you allah would have seen it's all about love

[Laughter] it was uh you know let's move on let's move on uh let's not get distracted by uh by the by the runway i wanted to actually discuss the satanic verses themselves so before that let's just move to some questions um right what's

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2022, August 19). Jokes about Rushdie's hairline and a mock hair-transplant offer [Video, segment 2022-08-19-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/10/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2022. "Jokes about Rushdie's hairline and a mock hair-transplant offer." Video, segment 2022-08-19-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded August 19, 2022. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/10/

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@misc{abulayth-2022-08-19-S10,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Jokes about Rushdie's hairline and a mock hair-transplant offer}},
  year = {2022},
  month = {8},
  date = {2022-08-19},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/10/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/t0phqrnjjby/s/10/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2022-08-19-S10, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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