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A Quick Reflection on the Nicholas Khoury Model

٢٣ أبريل ٢٠٢٢
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Greetings

Peace be upon you.

A Quick Stop with Nicholas Khoury

A quick stop with Nicholas Khoury. Okay, how is a quick stop? What do you mean, are you standing or walking? No, it's a quick stop then we walk. Otherwise, the model of the slick news program, Nicholas's program, and the use of comedy to change constants and convictions among people, this needs a longer stop, not the last ten days of Ramadan.

But my dear brother sent me a picture of a tweet by Nicholas Khoury that is very suitable to title: "How to fool people in fifty seconds?" In the style of "How to lose your liver in fifty...". If he said it to me, I wouldn't be able to respond to him. What is this word? We will say it at the end of the episode, God willing.

Nicholas Khoury's Tweets About Child Marriage

Let's go back a bit before the tweet that our friend sent me. A few days ago, Nicholas Khoury tweeted to us: "In Egypt, marriage under the age of 18 has been banned. Bravo Egypt, an important step in combating child marriage. May all Arab countries follow." Excellent. So Nicholas approves of banning marriage for girls and boys under the age of 18, and applauds the Egyptian judicial system that banned this marriage.

Not long after Nicholas's tweet, he tweeted again, and pay attention because this time he tweeted a long one: "Everything that fights against child marriage brings out a group: the Messenger did this, why don't we follow him? Why do you criminalize something the Messenger did?"

  1. "Do not compare yourselves to the Messenger."
  2. "The time of the Messenger is not our time, you cannot compare customs from 1500 years ago with customs now."
  3. "The Messenger would not be pleased to know that there is a wretched and low father who, for money, sells his daughter to a lustful man in the name of marriage, so do not compare this filth with what the Messenger did."
  4. "The Messenger married a woman older than him, so why not do that? Go ahead and marry women older than you. See? You are not the Messenger and you do not resemble the Messenger, so do not imitate your situation, which is different."

Of course, some of you will say: "Brother, he is talking sense, his words are convincing." Nicholas tells you: "The Messenger would not be pleased to see child marriage." So he is calling him the Messenger. This means Nicholas is not a Muslim, brother, he respects my religion, and he loves and respects the Messenger. Also, Nicholas says: "The time of the Messenger is not our time." So he is not attacking Islam, he is telling you: "Be a Muslim but take into account the changes of time." Open your heart to his words, and Nicholas will be indignant to you that "there is a wretched and low father who, for money, sells his daughter to a lustful man in the name of marriage."

Dissecting Nicholas Khoury's Speech

Let's dissect this convincing speech and see together how you swallow the mouse and you don't even know it, and this framing settles in your mind and subconscious: child marriage is vile, low, lustful, and filthy, and of course, Islam and the Messenger are innocent of that. And Nicholas's heart opened to insults, so he wrote in the comment on his post the words I left for you on the screen to read for yourselves.

Before we start, let's agree on some things:

1. The Purpose of the Discussion

First: My topic is not just what is called child marriage, but rather to show how consciousness is falsified and psyches are charged in a way that eliminates reason, which is a matter that has dimensions much broader than the topic of child marriage.

2. The Term "Child Marriage"

Second: And you hear Nicholas, you might think he is talking about the marriage of little girls. No, pay attention, he uses the term "child marriage" and knows what term he is using. He did not say "marriage of little girls" because he would have people say: "These are not little girls, you are talking about girls for example 15 or 17, not little girls." No, he said "child marriage." I will not delve into the marriage of little girls until someone says to me: "Okay, but there are Muslim scholars who have forbidden the marriage of little girls, not just Nicholas who objects." No, pay attention, Nicholas knows that a minor is a girl under the age of 18.

Okay, what is the age of puberty now? The Arabic website of the "Independent" newspaper published in 2020 what researchers reached, who collected data from 38 studies that included tens of thousands of girls from all over the world, and found that the age of puberty has recently become 8 to 13 years for girls. Pay attention, the "Independent" is a famous British newspaper, not a Muslim newspaper. According to Nicholas, marriage of girls from puberty to 18, meaning in these five to ten years, this is considered vile, low, lustful, and filthy, and it is great that Egypt has banned it. And we will discuss this proposition together.

3. Selling the Daughter

Third: If someone sells his daughter for money as Nicholas says, this is a behavior forbidden by religion and vile, whether her age is 12 or 18 or 28 or 38 or older.

4. Failure of Marriages and Preparation for Marriage

The fourth introduction before we delve into the topic: Many marriages have become failures before the age of 18 and after the age of 18. And I tell young men and women, graduates of universities and higher studies: "You are not qualified for marriage because you have not prepared for the institution of the family." And this is thanks to the wretched educational system. Rather, what we call for is that girls and boys follow the path of preparation psychologically, mentally, intellectually, emotionally, and socially, and then after that, marriage. And if they are qualified early, they can marry as long as they are from the class of legal qualifications, and age is not looked at, otherwise, they should delay.

Of course, since the global system and its tentacles in the lands of the Muslims are stealing the wealth of the country and the money of the people, they make marriage difficult. In fact, early marriage has become more difficult. And we must work to facilitate marriage and its costs, this is our call based on our religion. These are the introductions, and now let's discuss.

Challenging Nicholas Khoury's Reference

But before we discuss, let's ask Nicholas: You, Nicholas, as a person who comes to tell people what is right and what is wrong, can you define your reference for us, please? What is your criterion by which you distinguish right from wrong? He who has no criterion, as our Egyptian brothers say, is "slippery like a ball." This is not an insult to an idea, it does not mean like the rubber ball that we call the crazy ball going from one side to another, how? You can't hold it.

Is His Reference Christianity?

Is your reference Christianity, which you originally believe in? If it is Christianity, let's discuss child marriage in your books. Unless you do not respect your religion, in which case speak clearly and ask Wikipedia to delete that your religion is Christianity.

Is His Reference Reason?

Or will you tell me that your reference is reason? Whose reason? American or European? Or who exactly? Or do you see your own reason as particularly sacred, the one that knows right from wrong?

Is His Reference Western Laws?

Or is your reference Western laws? If so, can you specify which country exactly? If America, according to the "Washington Post," around 248,000 children and girls were married in just 10 years between 2000 and 2010, and they mean by children here under the age of 18, and some of these girls were 12 years old. Also, in the state of "New Hampshire" in America, a girl can legally marry at the age of 13 with parental consent, and in "Massachusetts" at the age of 12 with parental consent, and in "Texas" at the age of 14. So, is America your reference, Nicholas? And if it is not your reference, go tell them: "This is vile, low, filthy, and lustful." Or must we Muslims alone hear this disgusting talk?

Muslims' Reference Point

We, as Muslims, have a reference point, and praise be to Allah, a preserved revelation from the Lord of the Worlds. It is the only thing that has not changed throughout the centuries, while everything else has changed in recent years. Adultery, perversion, and gender transformation—all these things that were once universally rejected and criminalized have now become permissible, and many deviant religions have come to terms with them. Because Islam is a revelation from the Creator of mankind, its laws regarding marriage are not stupid, rigid molds for 18 years, as if some cosmic event happens to this girl at this exact age that makes her eligible for marriage. Islam sets standards for the boy and the girl, and if these standards are met, marriage becomes suitable for them. These standards take into account individual, geographical, and temporal variations; there is no single mold.

Marriage is not like putting on shoes, Nicholas, to fit a certain foot size. When the mold is rigid and stupid at 18, its proponents may say, "Because the girl will be psychologically and physically ready." Well, if she is psychologically and physically ready before 18, by what right do you deprive her of marriage if she desires it? Islam requires that the girl be psychologically and physically ready, and what? The instinctive relationship is harmful to her regardless of age.

They may tell you: "No, the girl after 18 will have mental capacities, so she will not be deceived." Well, there are boys and girls who remain with low mental capacities, understanding, and comprehension until the ages of 28, 38, and even 80, and they are deceived by the likes of Nicholas Khouri, as we will see. No, the reason her age must be 18 for marriage to be with her consent. Well, whether she is above 18 or below 18, it is forbidden to marry her without her consent. The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: "Do not marry off the virgin until she gives her consent." So, Nicholas, have we passed the age of 18?

Is Your Reference Point the United Nations?

We see that you are mocking the people of Hebron because they reject the United Nations Convention. If you allow me, I assume that your reference point in this matter is the United Nations, as it has also set the age of 18. If the United Nations, then the United Nations has no problem with sex, adultery, and homosexuality before 18; it only has a problem with lawful, halal marriage before 18. So, Nicholas, do not be like the United Nations. And I am genuinely interested in knowing your answer, because you only speak about marriage before 18, and we know that many countries in Europe and America allow consensual sex at the age of 14, such as Italy, Austria, and Hungary, while the age of marriage is 18 or 16 with judicial permission. So, sex before that is permissible, but marriage is forbidden. So, do not be like them, Nicholas; your problem is only with marriage.

Is your reference point the United Nations, which publishes curricula teaching both boys and girls in elementary school how to sexually seduce each other under the title of "sexual education," as in the documentary "The War on Children"? And we have spoken about it. The United Nations, which published a study that watching children's pornographic films is not always harmful to them, but sometimes beneficial to them psychologically, and thus depriving them of watching it may be a violation of children's rights. The United Nations has no problem with sex before 18, but it has a problem with marriage. However, at the age of 18, it has a problem with the girl practicing prostitution or what the followers of "Cedaw" call working in the field of sex, and it gives her humanitarian rulings. It then has a problem with prostitution under the age of 18.

Moreover, the United Nations and international organizations are completely indifferent to the crisis in Ukraine that we Muslims are facing. Just as we do not matter to them, they do not matter to us, and we do not care about their numbers or standards. Are you, Nicholas, a supporter of the Palestinian resistance? It is your United Nations that has betrayed the people of Palestine and conspired against them, while it has cared for the Ukrainians. Who set the age of 18? The democratic votes you used to boast about? And where are the votes? Or the closed rooms? Or the world politicians who have oppressed us as Muslims? None of these are a reference point for us.

Is this your reference point, Nicholas? If not, then I do not see any reference point or criterion for you, and he who has no criterion will be ridiculed if people see him as a joke. So, how do you expect people to listen to you when you have no reference point? Go and make your own reference point, "The Nicholas Teachings," announce it to the people, and then come and let's talk.

Nicholas Khouri's Contradictions

Nicholas Khouri, who comes to teach us right from wrong, what is vulgarity, indecency, lust, and filth, and distributes titles to people. Those who have disagreed with his words regarding the lawful marriage that Allah has permitted at the age of 17 years and 11 months are, according to him, committing a crime, vulgarity, filth, and base lust. While if a group of boys want to celebrate their 18th birthday by having sex with each other, or a group of girls do the same, this is right and not wrong; they are free. And if someone tries to prevent them, he is a criminal.

His Defense of "Leila Project"

No, no, where is Nicholas saying this? In Palestine, there is a human rights association called "Al-Qaws". This association is concerned with many human rights issues, one of which is protecting LGBT individuals from Palestinian police violence. For some reason I do not know, a statement was issued inciting against them and asking the people to report on them in secret. "Palestinian police violence, the Palestinian security concerned with protecting the people are inciting the people against the people." We at "Al-Sayyid Al-Ikhbari" have a shocking viewpoint regarding this topic, perhaps you will be surprised, perhaps you think that it is not right for the police to incite the people.

Of course, so that you can swallow the bait, the topic must be mixed with the disgust of the authority that is imposed on the necks of Muslims in Palestine, which every sensible person is disgusted by. So you run away from the authority to Nicholas who is wearing a shirt with a picture of a man with red lips. Either the mother of authority or the mother of supporting homosexuals! Can you specify for us, Nicholas, is deviance a lust or a freedom and a personal right? Or when lust is in marriage, it is a base lust, and if it is in deviance, it is a respected personal right?

Nicholas is defending the establishment of "Leila Project" events, and it seems he is upset that many of his followers do not know who "Leila Project" is that he is defending. And you must be made to accept these projects little by little, because if you heard what "Leila Project" is, you would be disgusted, and the ethics of my episodes do not allow me to show you any of the output of this project. But in extreme brevity, "Leila Project" encourages young people to work as prostitutes, and one of them sings with the music and talks about his condition that he is a "son of the night," meaning not only do females become night women, but males also become sons of the night and sell their bodies.

In addition to attacking Islam, as stated by the "Ru'ya" channel, which was one of the defenders of holding this event. The idea of establishing this project is to hold events for them in Arab capitals so that everyone hears their words and becomes part of the diversity in society that must be respected by law. Of course, Nicholas must show them as oppressed and wronged so that you sympathize with them.

"Leila Project" wants to hold an event in Lebanon. This event caused public anger for unknown reasons, and there were popular demands to cancel this event. "We at 'Al-Sayyid Al-Ikhbari' see that it is not right to demand the cancellation of an artistic event just because it does not suit your mood." Nicholas tells you: "It is not right to prevent this event." Let them attack Islam then, and let them teach young people to be sons of the night who work in male prostitution, why are you angry? It is not right to prevent pure marriage, but these events should not be prevented. This is Nicholas Khouri who comes to teach us right from wrong and what is vulgarity, meanness, lust, and filth, and distributes titles to those who contradict his words.

Accusing the People of Hebron of "Pedophilia"

He uses the term "pedophilia" to attack everyone who does not agree with him on the issue of marrying girls under the age of 18. And he allows himself to lower his manners and judge entire cities as mentally ill. Should we be required to detain everyone who objected and call them to a mental clinic to treat them for pedophilia? Ah, if he judges all the Muslims in the city as mentally ill, and labels them with "pedophilia" just because they stand against the Palestinian Authority on the issue of marrying girls. Do you not notice, Nicholas, supporter of the sons of the night, that this is vulgarity in description and vulgarity in generalization? Of course, this convention is the "CEDAW" convention.

So, have you, Nicholas, become with the authority that you once stood against with your homosexual friends? The authority that hands over Palestinian youth to the occupation and stabs them in the back. Have you started criticizing the clans of Hebron who object to them? Do you not notice, Nicholas, that you are applauding the Egyptian judiciary because it banned the marriage of girls, and it is the same judiciary that has 60,000 political prisoners in its prisons according to the "Washington Times"? Are you not, Nicholas, a supporter of human rights when they contradict you? And when someone asks, "What is the ruling on selling food to an infidel during the day of Ramadan," do you not like it? Meaning that you are talking about your condition as an infidel and asking, "What is the ruling on spitting on the owner of the post?" Well, can you tell us what is the ruling on spitting on those who describe the people of a city as mentally ill and pedophiles because they are adhering to their religion? And he does not respect diversity and difference here, but only respects them when they defend the sons of the night. And he allows himself to lower his manners in this way with people who are not of his religion, defending something from their religion. And he is the one who always talks about sectarian sedition.

And it is strange that Facebook does not delete this insult to the people of the city of Hebron, nor does it violate community standards. Are not the clans of Hebron themselves the first to stand in defense of Al-Aqsa, confronting the occupation, and the issues that you sing about and stir up people with, Nicholas? And do your words express a certain level of culture and morals? Do you understand that they apply to the people of Hebron, Nicholas? Is it not our right, when we see this contradiction in you, Nicholas, to ask what your agenda is? What are your goals? When you are so contradictory and colorful without a declared reference, can you not be an infiltrator working to demolish the nation, its creeds, and what remains of its morals and depths of its strength? Do you not follow resonant slogans against the Zionist occupation while working with it from below to dismantle societies and families and destroy their morals? Or are you not seeing that when "Leila Project" tours the Arab capitals and convinces young people to become sons of the night, they will be able to repel the occupier by shaking their hips and putting red on their lips?

What are your goals? Draw for us the image you aspire to for our societies: fornication, homosexuality, forbidden relationships, abortion, young men and women avoiding marriage, the end of the family institution, the filling of society with illegitimate children, the stoppage of lawful reproduction, the aging of society, and all these failed models existing in the West that you want to bring to us under the name of freedom and "it's okay" and "it's not okay." And draw for us your goal, Nicholas. If you are ashamed to draw it, then you are a person without reference, goal, or knowledge, only with acrobatic movements. Your opinion has no value to us as Muslims.

AG Plus Channel and Its Support for Nicholas' Ideas

The AG Plus channel, under which Nicholas works and is sponsored, calls for not criminalizing the trafficking of sex, meaning prostitution, whether for males, females, or transgender individuals. Therefore, if a girl reaches the age of 18 and lacks money, especially with the systems stripping the peoples of their wealth, starving men and women, and humiliating them, or because she rebelled against her father and brothers and became free, these people come to tell her: "Work in prostitution, what is the problem? This is called working in the field of sex, and work is legitimate, the important thing is to be above 18 and it is your choice or his choice if you are a son of the night, as the owners of Nicholas say." This speech is on the English channel so that he can address more educated people. Nicholas is still not in his role because he is brainwashing the minds of people who still have remnants of honor, morals, and constants.

Halal Marriage vs. Forbidden Relationships

Alright, if a girl is 16 or 17 years old, meaning she is a minor according to Nicholas, and she gets married with her consent and her father's approval to a respectable young man who loves her and she loves him, then it is not forbidden. If a girl of the same age says, "I want to get married," Nicholas would say, "It is forbidden, this is a crime, disgrace, filth, impurity, and lustfulness." Why? Is a girl of 16 or 17 years old thinking about marriage? Of course, and this is a natural instinct in every male and female after puberty. I and others receive messages about cases and requests for advice in this regard. If it were not for the sensitivity of the topic, I would have published an example of such cases. Of course, Nicholas and his ilk can turn such cases into a mockery, even though they represent the pain of victims of their poisoned minds and their terrorism against the youth and girls who dream of living and finding comfort in halal marriage.

These young men and women under the age of 18, if they say, "We want to commit fornication," you will find Nicholas as the first one to understand their concerns and feelings and defend their rights to do as they please. You, Nicholas, who have painted a bleak picture of the marriage of girls under 18, if a girl of 18 years old is living in sin with a 50-year-old man in his apartment, and when she became pregnant with his child and her belly grew and her shape changed, he kicked her in the stomach to abort the fetus, and she did not succeed, so he threw her out. And she is holding onto his leg begging him to let her stay in his house because her father and brothers do not acknowledge or care about her. Despite this, he hit her with a shoe on her face while he was drunk and threw her out of the house. Do you think this happens in advanced countries? Of course, it happens a lot, but it is not a side that Hollywood exposes, and we have provided you with statistics and images of it in the episode "Beating the Woman."

If we ask you, instead of the model of this type, a million times, Nicholas, would you say, "Since unlawful relationships bring us a despicable, lowly, lustful, and impure model like this model, we must prevent unlawful relationships"? No, by Allah, you would not say that, because that is not your task. Your task is only to fight against what is halal and to mix in the fight against some of the social diseases that actually exist.

In the end, the support of the sons of the night, Nicholas, has nothing to do with Islam, but he tells you, "People, I am an infidel with a broad mind, and I speak to them that we must disbelieve, we must disbelieve." And yet, they come to listen to me to entertain themselves because my blood is light. What would you do if I mock the rituals of your Muslims and defend those who mock your Lord and your Prophet, and yet they love me and entertainment and laughter are more important and precious to them than their Lord, their Prophet, and their religion? Did I prevent the Muslims from reading the verse in your Quran: {And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and mocked at, then do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, in that [instance] you would be like them. And Allah will gather the hypocrites and disbelievers all together into Hell}?

Ya Iyad, it is true that sometimes I mock them about their religion in a way they do not feel, but this is my job. I earn my living from the money of the Muslims by working in a channel that brings disbelief to the Muslims. Sometimes under the guise of simplifying sciences like "Al-Dahik" and "Al-Ibtilalia," and sometimes under the guise of news like me or comedy like me, like "Shula." If your Muslims are not able to understand what I am doing for them? Is it not in your Quran that Satan says to his followers on the Day of Judgment: {And I had no authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me; but blame yourselves}? Do not blame me; blame them.

If Nicholas says this, then honestly, I will not be able to respond to him. Therefore, I address you, young men and women, and I say to you: {O you who have believed, if you obey a faction of those who were given the Scripture, they would turn you back as disbelievers after your belief. And how could you disbelieve while to you are being recited the verses of Allah and among you is His Messenger. And whoever holds firmly to Allah has been guided to a straight path. O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims}.

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.