# Are mosques in America at risk from far-right anger?

*Hate groups, scapegoating and the case for mosque security in the US*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/9/
- Date: 2020-07-10 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Omar Baloch | Cynicism, Consumerism & the Catch 22 of Riba | Mindtrap with Mufti #30 (33:13–36:13)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCe73zqCi_I&t=1993s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/

**Topics:** Race, nation and identity; Current events commentary

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest warns that rising white supremacist anger in the US, fed by scapegoating and Fox News, means every mosque now needs security.

## Longer summary

The guest says that during Barack Obama's presidency white supremacist hate groups rose to their highest level, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center's count of more than a thousand, and links it to the housing collapse that cost millions of middle-class Americans their homes and left them looking for someone to blame. In the conversation the scapegoating of migrants is compared to the time of Hitler and to Brexit. The guest says that is why every mosque in the US needs security now, citing a Fox News presenter named Tucker [?] who asked why protesters vandalise churches but not mosques when Muhammad also believed in slaves, which the guest says gives people the idea of what happened in New Zealand. The guest says it is a miracle of Allah that attacks have not happened more often, given the anger of Bible-thumping America, which Trump represents. Mufti Abu Layth then asks whether the guest sees the trajectory spiralling out of control.

## Sources and names cited

- Shaykh Omar Baloch
- Barack Obama
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Adolf Hitler
- Tucker Carlson
- Fox News
- Donald Trump

## Transcript (machine tier, 33:13–36:13)

[32:35] can't you can hardly absolutely I mean I I obviously I completely condemn as a person Trump and I I don't like his views at all actually I I but I'm saying that I kind of admire I admire his you see his ability to be able to you know the kind of power he he kind of wields you know this from he knew he would win the elections when when people and you know the the the biggest power nowadays

[33:12] some people would argue is data okay and when the data was showing that more people are watching Fox News and no one is tapped into this like as properly emotionally authentically right after Obama right so Obama is like the first black president okay and during Obama's presidency you had the highest rise of white supremacist hate groups that had ever happened in the history of its its existence is that so okay yeah yeah just go to the Southern Poverty Center the website for the Southern Poverty Center Southern Poverty Center will show you that

[33:52] they're more than a thousand hate groups that are white supremacist groups that have happened that that had been a result of during especially Obama's presidency that are the result of his presidency and they were there were a lot look the 2007 housing collapse had happened right so you have 40 million people that have become displaced they've lost their houses we're talking about middle-class Americans and they have to blame someone right here and these banks they come out as you know you know we're gonna we're good so who is there to blame you have to blame

[34:31] someone for losing your house and and these white people see these people are coming across the borders they're taking our jobs no it's true I mean that kind of scapegoating has always worked I mean it's like you know from the time of Hitler we've got it up until now the way bricks it kind of one on the back of these the way our US politics Center on on race if you just go even to the to the front page of their their website it becomes very clear that this is that this is one of the big fears I have right now and and and that's why I've been talking every must should needs to

[35:08] have like security now because just the other day this guy named Tucker that comes on Fox News was like how come these black people are demonstrating in front of churches and in front of you know vandalizing churches when Mohammed also believed in slaves and you haven't done any damage to mosques he's saying this on national TV right so he's giving him the idea of what happened in New Zealand and and and so so any if any of you are listening to me I mean if you're in the u.s.

[35:36] listening to me this is it's a matter of time you know it's just amazing it's a miracle of Allah that it hasn't happened that often but considering the amount of boiling that's happening under the waters right here the underbelly of the US right the bible-thumping America is angry and Trump represents that anger he has to play the role of black angry do you see this as I mean I do see a lot of these things that you're saying even though I'm not in America but through social media and other mediums i but do

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment wCe73zqCi_I/s/9. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wce73zqci_i/s/9/

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