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I will confess, I did something that I've never done before. I'm quizzing you. This, you weren't expecting this. I'm going to quiz you. The trend that is now known as Salafism, it has existed in its base form. Yeah, and the Aheel al-Hadith, from what you're describing, it seems like what they were trying to do is very similar to what the Salafi movement is trying to do, in that they're trying to get rid of all the noise you were once the Salafi. So then when you leave and people look at you writing a book, they naturally assume that, okay, this person must be criticizing it. So calling out to the dead and he said it is shir. Whoever doubts kufr becomes a kaffir.

The entire Ummah is guilty of shir.

And so I began preaching to Haid.

You said in the book that you were on the hit list for ISIS.

The modern ISIS movement would never have happened.

I feel much more safer at a Muslim convention

than I would at any, you at any shopping mall in the country.

The far right thinks I'm a stealth

radical fundamental fundamentalist

and my internal critics think I'm a liberal

Zimbiqqqafer, sell-out CIA agent

who's watered down.

We are here with Sheikhiyazir Qadhi.

How are you doing today?

Al-Hamda-a, are you doing?

Hamdur-Dur-a.

Very honored to have you. And congratulations on this very nice book.

Hamdri-Lamdurla just recently came out.

And I have to say first that this was a very impressive book for a couple of reasons.

The first reason I would mention is that there's probably been no book that's been written at this level from an insider, from someone who

was within the movement and also studied directly with some of the top scholars of the movement,

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