Imagine going to Gaza on a humanitarian mission 5 years ago and witnessing what a Jewish American doctor described as slow genocide.
Fast forward to now: the same doctor says the gloves are off, it's full on genocide.
He saw the arrests of doctors, the targeting of medics, the destruction of life itself. This is a healer who can no longer stay silent.
Watch his raw testimony from the Doctors Against Genocide protest. Share this video everywhere if you believe every voice matters.
🚨HOLY HELL: The YouTuber “jOuRnALiSt” who became famous for Minnesota daycare centers looks like a deer in the headlights as soon as he is asked the most basic journalistic question. This is embarassing:
SHIRLEY: They came after me, they came after my family. They doxed my entire family.
RYAN: How did they come after you? Be specific.
SHIRLEY: Well, they tried to come after me. They tried to debunk all my whole entire story... They then...
RYAN: Who's they?
SHIRLEY: The... AII the news...
RYAN: Just get more specific.
SHIRLEY: CNN
RYAN: CNN, who within CNN?
SHIRLEY: CBS... Ummm...
RYAN: Who's the reporter?
SHIRLEY: I: l don't even know her name because she's irrelevant. Nobody knows who she is.
This is a mind-bogglingly ignorant take, and what that self-proclaimed Imam wrote does not align with the Islamic position on who gets to educate others in Islam, as stated in Qur’an 49:13. Islam reached Africa before it reached even Madina, the second holiest city in Islam. That may sound absurd at first, but it is historically accurate. Islam arrived in Africa in 615 on the Julian calendar and reached Madina (Medina) in 622 CE. Islam reached Africa through the first hijrah, the migration to Abyssinia, when followers of the Prophet were being persecuted in Makkah (Mecca) and sought refuge on the African continent.
The group of exiles were hosted and protected by the king of the Aksum Kingdom, present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea, known as the Negus or Najashi. This hospitality allowed for the open practice of Islam in the christian kingdom and led to conversions, and there are documented accounts that the king himself, known in Arabic sources as Ashama ibn Abjar, secretly accepted Islam.
So, yes, Islam was present in Africa long before the place known today as the UAE. It is also worth mentioning that the first Muslim to call the prayer was a black man named Bilal ibn Rabah, who was a freed slave from Abyssinia. The claim that geographical location confers primacy, supremacy, or qualification to teach Islam is therefore absolute nonsense. The Qur’anic verse mentioned above, which is an acknowledgment of our creations as nations and tribes, declared, with no ambiguity, that the most noble in the sight of Allah are the most righteous, not the Arabs, not the Africans, not the Caucasians, not the rich, and certainly not the Emiratis. We learn Islam from the most knowledgeable, whether black or white, Arab or African. Educated Africans have been teaching Islam to Arabs since the earliest days of the faith, which is precisely why Bilal, a black African, and not an Arab, was honoured as the first muezzin in Islam.
You can counter extremism or preach moderation without repeatedly bending history or pandering to a racist Arab, a charlatan of the textbook kind, whose prejudice towardS your own kind, evident in his post, I am surprised you failed to see.
Confirmed: Israel killed its own citizens on October 7.
Frm Defense Minister Gallant confirms the use of the "Hannibal Directive" in an explosive interview with Israeli broadcaster Ch 12.
We all knew this anyway, it's the Australia media, incl. @abcnews that's still in denial.