Thee Jerusalem Gangster - The Life Story of Emad U. Deen

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5 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Prior to October 7th, the only bulwark against Israel’s complete strangle of the narrative in America’s culture was the Black liberation movement and the stories of American Palestinians. The story behind every Palestinian who immigrated to the US is often a story of tragedy and resourcefulness. What makes Emad’s life story so unique and powerful is that it connects the struggles of American street life with the struggles of Palestinian oppression by the Zionist state through ironic parallels. Emad was born in Jerusalem a year before the ‘67 War to a strong mother of faith, a father who was a resistance fighter abused and tortured by Israel and in turn became abusive to his family. After immigrating to the United States, Emad gets involved in the notorious gang life of Chicago, is incarcerated into a brutal prison system and finds Islam. Emad U Deen is harnessing the wisdom he has accumulated from his tumultuous but fascinating life as a Palestinian immigrant and Chicago Saint to fight for his people facing extermination and ethnic cleansing and helping young kids find purpose in a world deprived of integrity and infested with top-down hypocrisy. We discuss the cycle of abuse, how the legacy of trauma is imposed on the innocent from the abused, making the abused the abuser and the importance of breaking that cycle. We also dive into the glory of Islam’s legacy throughout the world and the coming revolution which appears to be on the horizon in Muslim nations who are under regimes corrupted by Western empire. Link to Thee Jerusalem Gangster: https://www.amazon.com/Thee-Jerusalem...

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0:00.0	All right. Hey, family, welcome to Colonial Outcast, the outlet for all things that disturb the intricately designed system of abuse and power that we all live in. I'm Mark. It is August 29th, and Israeli terrorists are currently launching an assault on the Holy Cities within the West Bank as we speak.
0:28.6	Today we are going to be taking a journey through the context of an inspiring man, in my opinion, Imad Dean,
0:34.6	a Palestinian American who authored an autobiography, The Jerusalem Gangster,
0:39.0	in a book about his homeland, My Land is Palestine.
0:42.1	Imad is a very powerful voice on the subject of Palestine with a very unique life story,
0:46.5	which gives his perspective even more power and inspiration due to its unique nature.
0:50.7	Issues that we would not expect to be intertwined, but yet it illustrates how unpredictable
0:55.2	and dynamic this world is. This is an episode that I've long anticipated since I met Imod on TikTok
1:00.6	lives months ago as I watched him debate Zionists with a fierceness and justified rage that
1:07.0	represent his people who are suffering in unimaginable torment as the Israeli death machine marches on in its efforts to erase the memories of an ancient people from its land.
1:17.2	What's striking about Imad is that he pulls no punches when it comes to standing up for his people,
1:21.9	and he also lives by a diehard coat of honor that I rarely see in most Americans.
1:26.7	This may have to do with the environment
1:28.1	he grew up in in his life's journey from his birth in Al-Quds, Palestine, also known as Jerusalem,
1:34.2	having an abusive father, a strong and faithful mother immigrating to the United States,
1:38.8	getting involved with Chicago gang life in his early teens, and eventually being incarcerated
1:43.1	into our sadistic prison system,
1:45.2	which, like the prison state of Israel, needs to be completely gutted.
1:49.2	And ultimately, him coming to Islam and how that changed his life and goals while also empowering
1:54.2	his sense of morality and justice when it comes to his fight for Palestine.
1:58.2	Ahmad, thank you for coming on, man.
1:59.9	How you been?
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