I noticed something today while dealing with the supposed “copyright infringement” on YouTube that took down my video clips from two previous posts. The two-hour “Daawah Workshop” video that I originally downloaded from YouTube that was uploaded by Imam Wassim Fayed has been replaced by a new version of the video.
Now it’s not been edited in the way that you might think, the new video he uploaded is one in which the “hit your wife” quote is still in the video. What he did change is the view, now that’s a pretty strange thing to change, you’re probably saying to yourself, that’s what I thought too and the reason I noticed it. Now let’s go to a couple of screen shots of the videos.
Here’s a screen-grab of the new version of the video currently on the Imam’s YouTube account. At exactly 1:37:39
And here is a screen-grab I did of the original video I have downloaded onto my hard-drive. At exactly 1:37:39
Now this is very strange indeed, why would the Imam need to replace his original video with one that has a smaller more obstructed view? I wonder if it has anything to do with the Sheikh who is sitting off to the side in the video, or the fact that at this exact moment in the video the Sheikh starts to speak in Arabic about “jihad”, since I don’t speak Arabic this and a few other words were the only ones I could recognize.
It’s really starting to seem like this Imam is trying to cover up something maybe to protect someone. Well my interest is piqued! I guess I have a new project to work on… Let’s see, how do you spell the Sheikh’s name again?
TO BE CONTINUED…
October 10th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
The video was removed from popmodal today. Someone referenced it in a SeattleTimes.com comment and named the speaker.
http://www.popmodal.com/video/7382/US-Imam-Allah-is-clear-you-can-hit-your-wife
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?source_name=mbase&source_id=2016435195
October 22nd, 2011 at 3:19 am
It looks like popmodal.com has my video back up again, thank you for including the link to the Seattle Times comment.
I apologize for not replying sooner, but I only write up a blog post every so often. Thanks so much for your comment!
December 21st, 2011 at 12:38 pm
In the top screenshot above, Wassim Fayed is on the left. He’s a manager at Microsoft. See http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wassim-fayed/14/b4b/640.
The speaker on the right (the one who says he proselytizes at work) is Alaa Badr. He is also a Microsoft employee. See http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014077613_seattlerally30m.html (including the photo) and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alaa-badr/7/5a6/206.
Does Microsoft know it has employees who publicly endorse spousal abuse?
December 21st, 2011 at 9:25 pm
You were asking about the sheikh’s name. Sure looks like Sheikh Amin at the Redmond (WA) mosque: http://www.redmondmosque.com
Check out the video half way down the page. Same video is at http://youtu.be/WVnlLJoYCMA
He’s also at 2:28 at http://youtu.be/BJiFzzy3eKw
Listed as “Sheikh Amin Hussam — Redmond Mosque.” And note that “wfayed2” uploaded that video.
This would make sense, since Redmond is a neighboring city of Sammamish.
And notice that Sheikh Amin didn’t protest when Fayed promoted wife beatings. So we can conclude that local Muslims in Sammamish *and* Redmond are in favor of hitting women. Perhaps it’s not a minority of Muslims after all.