Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 27 Oct 2020 › Segment 19 of 33
Was it right to slap someone for insulting Islam?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth condemns the assault outright, but says provocative critics should be wary and take precautions, since some will not be as civil.
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A viewer asks what he thinks of a clip in which a woman was slapped. Mufti Abu Layth says he saw only a short clip, in which she was said to be insulting Allah and the Prophet and the man who struck her was said to be a Christian. He condemns any assault, saying humans are not set apart by brute force but by the mind. Mufti says she is, from the little he has seen, very provocative, and cites an analogy Mohammed Hijab gave from Die Hard about wearing a racist billboard in Harlem: it may be free speech, but one is likely to be attacked. He compares it to flashing cash where muggings happen, which he says is wrong for anyone to exploit yet likely, and advises critics of religion to be wary and to speak online or with security rather than openly in a park.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedWhat do you think about the slap?
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Mufti Abu Layth says he condemns any kind of assault.
“I condemn any kind of assault okay I look we are not look look at the entire animal kingdom”
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You don't have to agree with someone to always French toast. Absolutely. Uh is sing haram? [laughter] What do you think about the haton slap? Speaking about fights, this people was the first online fight we've had in the world. [laughter]
Watch out. Watch out. [laughter] [laughter] online fighting. Hatun, what do you think of the Hatun slap? Uh, right. I saw this clip where she I I don't know exactly because the clip was so short. I I I didn't know the exact context of what she was saying.
I know that she was um I take it insulting Allah and she was insulting the prophet. And where I saw the clip, it said that the person who assaults her is a Christian. This is what I saw. I don't know how accurate that is, but it said that the person who assaults her is Christian.
And at a certain point in the time stamp, uh, he says that's part of the actual clip, he says, "I am a Christian." And I and I think he assaults her because either one of the comments said because they also call God Allah. So he saw her as insulting God or I'm not sure what the reality was but um
right. So okay now I'm just saying right okay now yeah so look I condemn any kind of assault okay I look we are not look look at the entire animal kingdom we are humans do not pride ourselves on our strength.
We do not pride ourselves on our fighting. We do not pride ourselves as humans on our ability to swim in the animal kingdom on these things. We are only in the middle of a very long chain. You know, we can't fly. We may, you know, we can't outswim most uh predators that that swim.
We can't um on the land many creatures. We cannot outfight them. They would tear us to pieces. One tiger slap, one beer slap would completely devastate us. We are not, it is not our brute force that brings us to the apex.
It is this we have a mind that has unimaginable reach. It yields such power that we can subdue the entire animal kingdom. We can go, we can unveil the atom and look right into the cosmos.
This is the power of this mind. That is what sets us apart. It is not our force or our ability to hit another human being or you know these things are just this just acting like that is nothing special. It's just being an animal. I do not support assaulting people, okay? I do not support this getting angry and [laughter] what is this, you know?
What is this kind of like neanderal behavior? That said, that said, look, the same thing [laughter] the mind that you have, it teaches you common sense. Use it. This hat is a very, from what little I've seen of her, I've not watched I've seen some tiny clips of her.
very provocative. You know, this provocator, this who is quite rude uh verbally um abusive towards the religion of Islam, insulting. Look, you are setting yourself up, putting yourself in a hot spot. I watched that um clip of Muhammad hijab.
To be fair, he actually gave a very good analogy in that clip. Um, I can't remember which one it was. I mean, it's the one where he's speaking about apostasy and things. And he says and he quotes that example from Die Hard of Bruce Willis where he says that there's one where die where Bruce Willis one of his kind of tasks [laughter] daredevil or die you know die hard tasks is to go to Harlem full of black people and to c wear this billboard that says I hate the n-word
and to kind of walk around with it. It's a death wish, but that's what he has to do. And you know now and I and to be fair that is a a fair analogy that um Muhammad hijab gives in that particular video and I'm just quoting it because I thought oh the analogy actually fit that look it is freedom of speech and it's true it could be your actual sentiment you know it's not a a right sentiment it's not a justified sentiment but there could be somebody who's just racist and and they're just being true that look I hate all nwords or I hate all
whatever these people or I hate all brown people or I hate all in the UK somebody could say look I hate pakis and they could just go around alam rock wearing it but look if you do that you okay you might be honest [laughter] but there's too much honesty you know this not nice [laughter] This world isn't made for brutal honesty.
It might be freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of movement. But is it likely that some fool is going to come and attack you for it? It's very likely. I mean, if I was a betting man rather, I would bet that the odds are you're going to get beat up. I don't feel it's right for them to beat you up, but I feel you are going to get beat up like that.
You know, some things you have this comes back to this brain. You know, if you're going to wear flash jewelry and walk around a particular area that is known for robberies and for muggings and you're going to go and flash bunch of cash around. Now, I believe it's that it for anybody to rob you is categorically wrong and unacceptable by all standards.
But do I believe it's going to happen? I believe the likelihood if I was a betting man is that you're going to get robbed. So look, it's, you know, use that. It comes back to that same thing. What distinguishes us, criticize, critique religion, but be a bit weary as well. Like if you're going to go to a place full of all kinds of people and go, "Haha, God is this.
Allah is this. Haha, do this to Allah, do that to the prophet, do this to just be weary. That looks some fool, some idiot, you know, might not be as civil as you. So just take those precautions. You know, if you want to do that, then do it on YouTube, do it on, you know, on Google, do it on your website, or do it at a particular place where you have security.
But if you're going to do it just openly in a park where everybody just shouts and screams all day, you know, I I think, you know, I'm none the wiser here. There's no, you know, it's not it's a very foolish thing to do if you ask me. But hey, it's a free world, huh? [laughter] Where would the how would the intelligent be set apart if it wasn't for the fools?
You know, we need to distinguish. [laughter] So let's move on. Will Mui Abu debate any Salafi scholars? Bring any Salafi scholars to debate me. I will debate any Salafi scholar on their There you go. Open challenge. Open challenge. Challenge. I give the challenge.
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