Early version. Transcripts and tags are labelled by accuracy tier. A position is shown only after two independent reviews have found it in his own words.
Mufti Abu Layth ArchiveBeta
Subscribe on YouTube Support on Patreon

Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth #176 *Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted!* 🤣 · 4 Aug 2020 › Segment 19 of 31

machine

Don't madrasas expel students for sexual abuse?

muftis riba ribaa sood usury madrasah madrassa madaris madrassah religious school

Pushback: madrasas expel abusers; why abuse responses have changed

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 19 of 31 in the recording2020-08-04-S19

Play from 1:30:51 The video loads from YouTube only when you press play. Click a time in the transcript to seek.

Watch the answer

Open on YouTube at 1:30:51

The player starts at 1:30:51, where the answer begins.

This segment1:30:19 to 1:33:13 · 2 min 54 sGeneral teaching

The answer in brief

machinesummary, machine-written

Mufti Abu Layth says madrasas now respond to abuse claims more because they fear the police and the press than from conviction.

In more detail

A viewer objects that madrasas are strict on sexual abuse and expel students for it. Mufti Abu Layth replies that he had said there is now a culture of clamping down in the UK and that his stories were mostly about abroad. Mufti says he thinks the teachers' heightened response in recent years comes from fear of the police, of being shut down and of the press, not from personal conviction, compared with the outrage at a shaved beard. Answering a further comment, Mufti remarks on the irony that some mullas are harshest against homosexuals, likening it to homophobes in psychology who were hidden in the closet.

Question as read aloud · questioner not identified

Madrasas are strict on this issue and have zero tolerance; students have been expelled for these acts. Is that not the case?

Position stated

correctedChecked by two independent reviews, not by the channel

Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks madrasa teachers' heightened response to sexual abuse in recent years comes from worry about trouble with the police, not personal conviction.

In his words

“they're worried they will get into trouble with the police. It's not because of their personal conviction.”

▶ 1:31:30Open on YouTube at 1:31:30

Category: other

Report an error

Kind: general teaching

Transcript

machine1:30:19 to 1:33:13 · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossary
1:29:59

You're doing it. You're doing it. So, what is going down people? What is going down? When you going to debate, ass [laughter] wars are back on people.

1:30:19

I don't know if you noticed that the uh I've personally been to students being expelled from Madrasa for these filthy acts. Madras are strict on this issue and zero tolerance. Yeah. I mean uh Sakib Khan just saying you know the point you made about the Islamic institutes for not showing interest in sexual harassment. Um he's you see I did say I did say that uh that there is now a culture here for clamping down.

1:30:50

So it's I did state that that it's less so here although I think it still exists but less so I did say that and most of what I was saying was abroad but it does still happen here maybe less so now I said with the culture kind of developing so yeah I wasn't saying what you know my stories of how the teachers were abusing was not about here so but here as well I do think that in all honesty, if I'm going to be honest, I think the teachers attitude towards sexual abuse in recent years has only become heightened because

1:31:30

they're worried they will get into trouble with the police. It's not because of their personal conviction. They would be much more exacerbated if somebody like the example I gave shave their beard off. They would be on it. [laughter] But the reason they do now respond to some of the these kind of claims of sexual abuse, not so much because they are that riled up and angry at the the thing.

1:31:57

It's because they fear that oh my god we might get shut down you know the police will investigate us and the press will investigate. So it's more an external pressure. But I agree I did state then as well. How are they against gays? Khadim Razi says and so much yet the [laughter] it is true you know it's it's interesting isn't it that the moolas are the harshest sometimes against homosexuals but ironically they seem to have a very

1:32:36

especially I'm talking about in that part of the world uh a very kind of um a uh [laughter] a bisexual past one may they but yeah so that's but that's the thing isn't it that's you know in psychology you see that quite a bit I mean Edgar Hoover and these people who are known homophobes yet hidden closet kind of um yeah so people let's move on to this um all right let me share this with you folks I came across this on social media this as you can see here was a picture

Paragraphs overlapping 1:30:19 to 1:33:13. Full text on the recording page.

Cite this segment

Stable id, transcript version and tier are part of the citation. Every change to a transcript is logged.

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-08-04-S19, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/19/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

APA 7 
Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, August 4). Don't madrasas expel students for sexual abuse? [Video, segment 2020-08-04-S19, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/19/
Chicago author-date 
Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Don't madrasas expel students for sexual abuse?" Video, segment 2020-08-04-S19, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded August 4, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/19/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-2020-08-04-S19,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Don't madrasas expel students for sexual abuse?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {8},
  date = {2020-08-04},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/19/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr4-gh0qez4/s/19/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-08-04-S19, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
Something wrong here?

Tell us what is wrong and it will be checked against the recording. Nothing changes until a person has reviewed it.

Sending a note needs JavaScript, which is off or unavailable in this browser. Nothing has been sent.

No name, email address or account is asked for or stored, and the inbox does not store your IP address. For rate limiting it keeps an unreadable fingerprint of your connection for 48 hours, and our database provider's own logs record connections as every website's do. Only your note, its kind, the page and the moment in the recording are kept, for review.