peace be upon you, and welcome to eye on islam, the show where we look at current affairs through in islamic plans. unfortunately, the world still finds itself with a front row seat to the genocide of the palestinian people. this reality is being enabled by the malicious use of propaganda, by the child murdering state of israel and western governments and their media complicity. by disseminating. equivocally false information that has contributed to the deaths of thousands. western media has abandoned the charters and codes of conduct for ethics in journalism. let's take a look at some of the lies and narratives pedalled by politicians and media personalities shamelessly attempting to justify these obvious war crimes. western media have come under heavy fire from large segments of the public over the one-sided coverage of israel's. ongoing aggression against gaza,

double standards, dodgy headlines and dehumanizing words are just few of the complaints from pro-palestine activists who complain that much of western media is taking a side in the fighting, breaching impartiality rules. a prime example would be the viral story of alleged beheading of israeli babies, which originated from israeli media reporting. do you care about the babies that were beheaded? the babies, they were never beheaded, that was a made-up story, it's not true, it's show me the pictures now, a so what about show me the pictures? we're actually still moving through the community, starting to exit, the claims were widely circulated by major western broadcasters without verification. the claims were later debunked, with one israeli journalist issuing an embarrassing clarification distancing herself from claim elsewhere, british state

broadcaster, the bbc was forced to issue a public aplogy after they wrongly described pro-palestine activists in london as pro hamas earlier on bbc news. we reported on some of the pro- palestinian demonstrations at the weekend. we spoke about several demonstrations across britain during which people voiced their backing for hamas. we accept that this was poorly fray. and was a misleading description of the pro- palestinian demonstrations. the bbc's website have performed almost as poorly with one viral example highlighted by palestine's london ambassador, who called them out for referring to death palestinians as died, but israeli casualties were named as killed. many more examples exist. the coverage coincides with blatant one-sided approach from western.

governments a stance which palestine activists say makes western media complicit in israeli wor crimes by providing a safe space for israel to conduct its crimes free of serious scrutiny. joining us today on the show are two very special guests. sister fahiima mohamed is life coach and muslim media personality that uses her extensive experience and credentials to facilitate difficult discussions on mental health. wellness in the mainstream and we're also honored to be joined via skype by dr. mcbride, a former health and physical education teacher and certified strength and conditioning specialist with the nsca. he's the author of two books, who is right, who is wrong, and why and god's healthcare initiative. he's also a former catholic who reverted to islam after being exposed to the beauty of the quran. now, sister fahim, if i can address this question to you, as a visibly. muslim woman, are you being

challenged on your pro-palestinian stance? well, from personal experience, i get called in for majority of social issues, not necessarily political, and recently i've noticed that there's many um sort of uh, i would say bame community or i would say muslims that are not actually on the mainstream as much as they used to over the last period, um, especially on this topic in particular, even if it's not myself that would be normally speaking about political. issues, there are much more um uh highly qualified analysts and political sort of uh commentators that usually are on mainstream have not been seen in the last few weeks and um that for me even if you have a stance for a particular group they are being heard but uh we're not being represented i feel generally and just looking as as as it um maybe as as leyman as someone who's just you know looking at the main stream generally as

to who's speaking and who's coming out and who's actually giving their voices, it is definitely a disparity of that equality of representation, definitely. that's very interesting, dr. mcbbride, in your book, i know that you've alluded to the weaponization of antisemitism, kind of something that um, i feel like fahimo was mentioning, that they are not putting out people of color in the mainstream because they don't want them to say certain things, you know, in this propaganda that zinists used to advance their narratives, including their use of birthright trips, can you take us through these tactics? yes, the idea is that. the non-muslim has, this has been the narrative that has been going on for centuries. you got to understand that this the the birthright idea and the emphasis on someone being entitled to that land is is a skewing of what the jews and the

christians have in their old testament. there's a a verse or there's the idea of the birthright, and if you talk about the birthright from abraham. through his children, it it clearly talks about um the firstborn, and if i can, i'll reference the you can even look it up, you reference deuteronomy 21, 15 to 17, the right of the firstborn, and then that is certainly validated with genesis, and if you notice the numbers, it literally goes in order, genesis 43:30. 43:33, 49:3 and exodus 13:2 and 22:29. what we have here is an explanation of how the firstborn of everything gets double portion of whatever inheritance right the father brings about, and that would be from

our perspective, it would be ishmael. now, if you look at that and what's taking place today, it's just the continuation of the skewing of the truth that is actually. happening on the ground there in palestine, everyone is skewing the truth and avoiding the inherent right that muslims have to anything, if that makes sense, it does, but talk us very briefly through the legitimacy that the zionists use of ishmael, in comparison to isaac, absolutely, based on the right of the firstborn with ishmael, ishmael clearly being the firstborn child, of abraham, sarah and abraham were married for biblically, we can talk about 80 years, 70 80 years before hagar in the old testament is given, ishmael's mother is given by sarah to abraham as his wife, in the hopes that she,

sarah will be able to have and help raise abraham's children, because she can't do it, so in that society have all of the family raising the child, so sarah, the the the non-muslims would emphasize the fact that ishmael isn't even legitimate, but when you turn to the chapter in genesis, and exodus, you see that sarah is clearly giving hagar as a wife to abraham in the hopes of having children, then we have ishmael is born, we have the covenant made with god. and the circumcision and all of this takes place before isaac is even on the same, so in that sense with the birthright verses and ishmael being the first born, we're all done with birth rights and inheritance rights to any land, and in particular, abraham's importance

to the world as a whole is not what land and numbers of people, the progeny, it is actually his religious inheritance of which the old testament tells us that abraham belief was so strong that it was perfect in the eyes of the biblical god, so we have to remember that abraham's inheritance is actually from a religious perspective and the message from allah. right, and pheno fa, so this idea of birthright, i'm sure you've been exposed to in your own spaces and that there's this plan to kind of create attachment to this ancient identity. you know and that land. um, why do you think they do this? it's very obvious if you understand human psychology and behavior, obviously we need a story to attach and obviously to build narrative so people will have a feeling of um actually supporting what is been out there whether it's in policies or governments, but

i also want to bring it slightly different, because that might be one issue for one particular group and individual, but at the same time we have to understand media, and in in the uk we can take it back to the 17th century where it could be... act and that was obviously um sort of set up by few uh individuals and then as we progressed to the 19th, 18th and 20th century, there was only few individuals that actually did um have these kind of... media outlets which was obviously um backed by policies and politics, so as we see now, um, as much as the narrative uh should be impartial and it should be set in a particular direction, and obviously ofcom came in only in 2003 to actually set these rules and regulations for people to have the right to not even be biased and not actually portray certain things in the media that we're seeing today, which is actually quite surprising due to the regulations that are out there, and again we're not just seeing it. national laws being broken, we seeing our own regulations and policies being set aside, and now they're backtracking, but the damage that's done in

between is quite alarming, especially when we've got lives at risk and people are obviously attached to story, they will even if the news is not really reported in the correct manner and way, then obviously there's repercussions of that in the same minute and second, and again it's costing lives as we know, so i think that we need to understand media that as much as we might we might think that oh you know is fair. it's just, but the people that actually behind the scenes that own it, if you go into the history and and understanding where it comes from, it is a political agenda, and we are there to basically sit there with you, presenters or journalists who are reporting in accordance to that as much as they want to follow the regulations, so um people that are streaming now and looking at media when it comes from a digital age, has got much more wider access to information if they are aware. of how to sort of separate their own biases and if they were open to different

narratives, i think we are definitely seeing different set of um people regardless of you know officials and governments and policies because of the digital age which is allowing um you know different types of people on the ground or from different areas reporting on current situation. you know what i completely agree and earlier this week we did go on the streets of london to see what the public thought of the media. and the way it's been covering specifically the israeli war on razza civilians. i think it's quite propaganda, the lot of propaganda in the media, they only want to show us what they want us to see, and i think the politicians are very smart at how they are representing the the british population because i don't think it's representative, um, and and i truly believe the um, the the the media is trying to brainwash the the population as to the truth of what's going on into the in the middle east, and it's a shame really and i think the the people should rise up, people should speak up, people should know the truth, and i think it's really important that

the middle eastern countries also speak, we should hear what they're saying is show you what they want you to see rather than what's missed, buse it's more like iceberg, they show you the tip with the bottom bit fairly just covered and hidden, so it can be with just anything, obviously we don't hear everything from all sides, that's what true new should be, and unfortunately. we don't get that and especially obviously what's going on now in the middle east especially on the mainstream news channels we don't get both sides of the story it's just a one-sided i want to say opinion but one sided probably coverage is a more fairer word to use your own opinion because in theory the media the news has to be neutral in terms of politics you can look at bbc and - it's changed over the past 50 years but you have to say depending on who's in government the... of course it changes, and also you got to think about who's on the payroll, in terms of funding, i'd probably talk about boris

johnson few years ago where he actually where did that his funding come from and from who and maybe that had fund in, you have to look at the bbc and his relation relationship there, so you could say that was definitely um bias there, it tends to have like lot of uh false narratives because it's uh pushing how like fallestines been under sie for over like 60, 70 years and just now there's a lot of attention because suddenly israel's under attack a little bit so they really want to get into it and they want to victimize israel whereas that's that's not really the case and yeah the media is definitely biased and i can tell from qatar the world cup the amount of disgusting narratives that were there about qatar and their people and their human rights record it's just terrible to be honest all my left always thought the media is the place you want to go to get your source of news or whatever but like in the last few years i've realized it's not the case at all i'm palestinian and the media bias is becoming completely unacceptable, i mean this has been

throughout the years of and generations of occupation that we've been under in israel, but the level that we got to now is that it became nonsense, it became illogical and it makes me wonder with the access to information and the access to the truth that the newer generation has now through so... media and other type of access to information, they don't need to depend on these organizations and corporations when the occupier is being... credited and the occupied is being blamed and ashamed, it is very, very shameful. well, it's clear from what we've just seen that the public are aware of media bias, with one member of the public linking it back to money. now doctor, it's no secret that the ownership of the big us broadcasters are owned by a handful of

men. these can you explain to our audience in by size format, why does the us continue to fund and the... 1500 years ago, approximately 1500 years ago, if you turn in english, it would be chapter 18, and if you look to verse 46, and i'll read it with my english transliteration, wealth and children, wealth and children are the adornment of the life of this world, but the good righteous deeds which were were were recommended for us to five compulsory prayers deeds of valz obedience etc. that last are better in your lord's sight for rewards and better in respect of hope and remember the day we shall come, we shall cause the mountains to pass away, and you will see the earth is level plane, and we shall gather them all together so as to leave not one of them behind, and

they will be set before your lord, in rose etc. the idea is, it's it's simple, it's it's... "if we pursue the money, if we follow the track of money, and literally with, thank god for the advent of social media, it can be totally skewed one way, as we saw in the birthright, i mean no one except muslims and western society would acknowledge the inherent right of muslims and the acknowledgement of muhammad, and it's in their book, and now like i said, in the quran we're warned." that this pursuit of wealth is not the way to go, but we have to remember why we're warned, because allah knows that this is going to be the path that the non-believers take and we will be judged at the end, so 1500 years ago we were warned that this wealth pursuit is going to be a problem for us and we're seeing that play out

today, you can actually see that on um social media too and i want to direct that to you for hima. you know um so many accounts, so many muslim and non-muslim accounts on social media aren't actually talking about palestine and you know it's it's very clear that they're worried about their funding, they're worried about their jobs, but on the other side of things because of this, because of the wealth of information, because of citizen journalism, journalism in palestine on the ground, we're also seeing all these pocketss of information coming through, alhamdulillah, um, are you seeing that the... like a shift online um with the information war to be more pro-palestinian than in the past? absolutely. i think this one has really highlighted it more than before and i'm normally not even active myself when it comes to uh politics especially on this particular uh scenario and circumstance, but i myself had seen you know the unfairness and the biasness and also the

misrepresentation and the one-sidedness of lot of the reportings and how that has an impact impact that i myself have taken a stance, which i wouldn't normally do, because like i said, i talk more mainly on social issues, but as i've learned over time as well that you cannot ignore the political side of things of life, and it is coincides and it correlates, so i've kind of dabbed into that sort of area even if i'm not um as like i said as aware and also able to as my political commentator colleagues. however, from even uh my perspective, i can see that these sort of uh narratives are not. spoken as much as we should and we could because of the actual thing that you've uh sort of raised that there is also uh we have to be understanding as well that people's livelihoods are at risk uh we've seen in certain um places uh which not even to do with any sort of like political event, but if people were representing the palestinian sort of flag or cloth or clothing they've been

taken out of those spaces publicly so there is definitely policies which is not la but it's been implemented so people that are at work in companies just like in europe for wearing and being in a particular way is slightly seeping through unfortunately in the uk as we see, but um we need to obviously be aware of you know the laws that does not um actually regulate that at the moment, but people are taking it into their own hands, so and one hand i can understand the fact that they will lose their livelihood from this, but on the other hand is what is our meaning and purpose of being here in this world in the first place, and we are seeing atrocities. like you mentioned, in front of our eyes, we cannot hold back, i really do feel from the bottom of my heart that you know everything that i do is for meaning and purpose, and if i'm going to ignore this then it does not align with my values and my beliefs, so i cannot ignore it regardless of the consequences and the circumstances and i wish that we have had more brave people out there because then we can outdoo some of the policies that are unfair so that we can actually bring it in line with what even the

values are off the west and let's just hold them up and accountable for what they say they stand for which differentiates themselves to being a democracy and having freedom of speech and having the non-bias and the non-judgement and the one-sidedness and being impartial and all of the rules that is in their sort of laws. um, doctor, if i can address this question to you, and if you can very briefly explain this because we are running out of time, like despite the relentless, heinous bombing of ghaza, you know, by the grace of god, alhamdulillah, pockets of information are still making their way through to the world, and despite the oppression, being so visible, the brazen lies, as we saw earlier, are continuing, you know, are you finding yourself to justify the pro-palestinian stances in your own professional spaces and for those watching? you know very briefly, what advice would you give them encountering this in their own lives? unless i'm with my daughters, i just look like another white guy, and lot of

people will express their true opions thinking that i would think the same way they do, and as i reference the sisters, by wearing hijab a regular basis, by being covered, you are clearly demonstrating your beliefs and in many cases, for us men, they don't know our beliefs except by our behavior, so that by the time i am talking about what's happening in palestine, or my opinions anything about religion or current events, i hope that my behavior demonstrates and prepares my patience for the answers i'm going to give them, um, and like you say like the sister was so clear, the idea that that the social media. can be used for good or bad, because we see it by the evil people, and we also see it by the people that are sharing the truth out there. we have to remember that in in neuroscience, which i do the functional neurology, the left brain will

make up whatever it can to fill space. so if we look at the goals of what's taking place with the bad people, they are going to make up whatever truth they have to to achieve that goal. and that's what that's that's what's taking place, there is an author from from britain, ean macgilst, he wrote a book, the master in the emissary, and he describes literally what is taking place from a neuroscience perspective, and how the evil people, left brain dominant tends to lean towards bad decision making, because there's no empathy on that side, and he clearly and accurately describes what's going on, today and that's why you in the social media arena should stay as active as you can, that's a very general answer to your question, but it

it really is, it revolves around particularly the sisters, because in my case, like i said, you can't tell unless i'm with somebody that looks the way we should. doctor, thank you so much for that, um, i've really enjoyed our conversation and um, i pray that you know... the views at home take something from it. um, i think it's been made abundantly clear not just through this conversation, but through israel's own actions and constant backtracking of statements that there is no war here, let's be clear, it's a genocide, there's no symmetry, there's only pray and predator, right and wrong, palestine, and the colonial settler apartide state of israel, and the way in which that we can rebel against these horrific crimes at home is by challenging their narrative online and also in our professional spaces. thank you to our guests. for having this discussion with me today and thank you at home for watching, join us again next week for another edition on ion islam.

the thought occurred to me one day, the idea that someone should be eternal enemy because they happen to be born 200 yards away from you or born on the other side of a street from is absolutely absurd, it's absurd, but that's a situation that we find ourself in here, so i thought of that. and again occasionally you see these little um inspirational quotes which may or may not be true, there's one supposed to be from martin luther king said that um hitting someone is

like um drinking poison and hoping they'll die. i could hit michelle all i want, you're probably not even gonna, but it's not going to affect your life, but it'll affect mine, and um, is it going to make me any happier? no, will it bring anyone back? no, is it going to make the future any better for people that are children now are unborn? no. it's a dire situation in in the ghaza strip that we're we're seeing evolve, we've got the israelis that have have clearly uh not followed uh obligations. particularly the

people in the ghaza strip, there's a huge amount of sympathy in the air world for palestinian, i think the israeli economy will have a significant hit just because the market uncertainty around israel based on where it is in the region and what its economy relies on. depressed will covered of this assassination of suleymani now entering its uh uh fourth day, we're looking at uh.

israel strikes on the besieged gaza strip, continues to claim more lives as the regime maintains its genocidal policy. the regime's bloody onslot has killed over 4100 palestinians since october the 7th. the number of injured is over 13,200 with more than 1,00 oters missing. the israel regime is craking down against palestinians in the occupied west bank where troops have raided the nuras refugee camp near the city of tokarum at least 13 palestinians including five children were killed as a result. that's according to the palestinian health ministry. fresh pro palestine rallies are held.