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12 answers in 9 recordings, 2020 to 2021. 5 with a checked position in his own words.
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· Can we call coronavirus the UK virus?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab and was manipulated there, though not released on purpose.
“I do believe still that it was um it was the kind of result of laboratory kind of work. I think that the corona virus came from the Wuhan lab.”
22:27TranscriptCite 2021-01-05-S07corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes Covid-19 came out of a laboratory and was bioengineered, citing reports that it spares children and relies on cholesterol to infect.
“when i read this kind of stuff i feel um this definitely came out of a lab and it was definitely it was you know bioengineering tweaked”
14:31TranscriptCite 2021-01-26b-S03corrected
· Did Covid-19 come from the Wuhan lab?
Mufti Abu Layth says Covid-19 escaped, in his view accidentally and not as a plot, from the Wuhan laboratory where it had been engineered.
“i think it accidentally kind of came out somebody accidentally got infected and it spread but they definitely were engineering it”
19:34TranscriptCite 2021-01-26b-S05corrected
· Is it haram to have an anal swab test for COVID?
Mufti Abu Layth says that a rectal swab test for COVID is permissible if that is the test, and that it is not haram.
“So but the question is can is it is it permissible to to do that to have a swab test like that and the answer is of course if if that you know if that's the test that's the test”
53:22TranscriptCite 2021-02-02b-S09corrected
· Is it wrong to joke about people who are seriously ill with covid?
Mufti Abu Layth says he advises people not to make fun of those who are hospitalised or ill with covid.
“this is why i i advise not to kind of make fun or this a lot of people who are hospitalized and or ill with this”
4:41TranscriptCite 2021-11-29-S01corrected
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