Syria that's what we're going to be
discussing that's the evil dictator that
we just armed militants uh Israel armed
militants I'm going to show you guys
that again we're going to give you proof
of that time this guy was celebrating
events in Syria we saw the Mass
Slaughter of Christians and a refugee
crisis that destabilized Europe after
reading some tweets from Candace Owens
you think that Christians are about to
be done in Syria what tweets let's have
a look she says here Christians are
about to be Mass slaughtered pray for
Syria Candace Owens goes on to say
Christians after watching their friends
and allies celebrate and or dismiss the
pending Slaughter of Syrian Christians
is providing a much needed wakeup call
God's chosen people the Jews who
followed Christ and became Christian are
about to be Mass slaughtered in Syria
pray for them brothers and sisters we've
all had loved ones that passed away a
mother a father a brother sister a close
family member but one of the mercies of
our Dean is that with the right
intention we can go ahead and continue
to do good deeds on our loved ones
behalf and what greater of a continuous
Good Deed Sadia than investing on their
behalf in the deed Center a mid and mewa
Center that will benefit generations to
come inshallah so click the link below
donate right now may God Almighty Allah
reward all of
you now who best to tell us the reality
on the ground then a native born in
Damascus the capital of Syria he'll be
translating what what some Christians on
the ground are actually saying to the
latest latest
[Applause]
developments be also giving us some
history on how Christians have lived
alongside with Muslims how Islam has
protected the rights of Christians
you're also in for an incredible
surprise hear what he has to say and the
message that he has to send to Candice
Owens with my next guest Nazar Shen born
in Damascus he studied with many
scholars in Damascus has served as an
Imam here in America he's also a Muslim
chaplain the Cook County Correctional
Facility he graduated for from the
Northern Illinois University and
industrial engineering get ready for an
incredible show here on the dean showan
this is the
the is
the this is
theam alikum wum Brother EDD how are you
doing I'm good alhamdulillah you
have you have an impressive resume here
it can go I mean I can spend like uh
long time reading this uh you're
somebody but the main thing I want to
focus on is uh not only have you spent a
great portion of your life studying this
Dean Islam getting your um education
also in in engineering is that right yes
along with Islamic Studies you're also a
Muslim chaplain you also you were born
in Damascus yes we're we're we're seeing
about it now in the news yes tell us a
little bit about your history a little
about
yourself well I'm born in
Damascus and uh uh actually I live not
far from The umad Mask about 10 minutes
walk from there 10 minute walk from
walking from the umad mask yeah uh and
uh it's common that's at least I mean
even though we pray in our local
neighborhood mjid but uh we will visit
umad mask at least once a
week for different reasons and uh Subhan
Allah the umad mask take you in history
uh and tells a lot about the history of
the City by itself so we know in our
calendar we read we are in the year 2000
2024 but some of those columns right
there by the entrance of the Mask they
date back to 4,000 years 4,000 years wow
so about 2,000 years before Christ so
the idea is uh there is so much history
and being born there I feel like blessed
to to to uh to be raised
in a city that has so much diversity so
much diversity
uh we go to school we have friends and
Neighbors from literally every every
background we have the Christian the
Jews The Armenian The Atheist and
everyone in between mhm so this is
Damascus the Mosaic and for it's amazing
that Mosaic is is
one tradition of
Damascus uh where they put all different
shapes the art of
Mosaic be it from glass or stones and to
make all beautiful artwork now there's
uh there was a lot of Christians
unfortunately not as many as we think
because because of the Zionist
propaganda that's out there so you have
a lot of Christian Zionist but you also
have a shift happening that you have a
lot of Christians also who are speaking
out what's happening in in um angaza
this this genocide but then when things
started to unfold now with Syria what's
happening there was uh I'll give you an
example there was a very well-known
Christian lady her name is Candace Owens
I use her example because she's very
well known but others kind of followed
in that lead and people are seeing right
now this uh tweet that she put out she
said Christians are about to be Mass
slaughtered pray for for Syria and in
another tweet she says Candace Owens
Christians watching their friends and
allies celebrate and or dismiss the
pending Slaughter of Syrian Christians
is providing as much needed wakeup call
another one she says in this tweet God's
chosen people the Jews who followed
Christ and became Christian are about to
be Mass slaughtered in Syria pray for
them when you when you see that when you
hear that what goes to your mind as
somebody who was born in Damascus
studied in Damascus raised in Damascus
here in this I wish Miss ows can go to
Damascus visit her firsthand because she
will realize how wrong she is in making
those
statements uh uh the chosen people of
God the Jews who became Christian and
many of them became Muslim as well after
that uh they are in good hands because
they are in Damascus I believe people do
not know Syria is a very special uh
place in this world uh with the history
of all different struggles and all of
those Invaders who came and they wanted
to settle there and we all know all of
those who wanted to settle there they
tried to to divide and conquer but uh
the the richness in this and the spirit
of syrians I believe always rejects all
terms of extremism and does not allow uh
any Invader to to to to uh put their
propaganda and their agenda to divide
and conquer Syrian people always come
back together stand together and we know
50 years of the past regime they were
trying to do that they were trying to ma
make uh the Christian be afraid of the
uh uh Muslims and the Muslims afraid of
others etc etc but in the end they
failed and they failed miserably and if
you see now in the squares all over
Syria those are not Muslim sunnis those
are Muslim sunnis Christians some Jews
and uh uh atheist
and Greek Orthodox um Armenians all type
of syrians so they took to the Street
and from day one of the Revolution they
were against that regime because
of the propaganda of making them be
afraid of each other but one of their
slogans throughout those demonstration
for the last 14 years they have been
chanting all together
[Music]
that we are all one the whole Syrian
people are one we are all one and this
is not just a slogan that we can use in
demonstrations this is reality I lived
in in in Baghdad Street as I said not
far from the umad mosque and uh I had I
had Christian friends and Christian
neighbors and we never really felt that
we have't issue we never felt there was
a problem we are all syrians we are all
neighbors and we exchange gifts in in in
in Muslim uh feast and in Christian
Feast uh and I believe H today Syria is
enjoying the Christmas spirit this
Christmas will be very special for
Syrian Christians and I believe all the
videos that are coming from there is
assuring that
because they are celebrating Christmas
for the first time under free Syria
where they can express their uh joy and
their celebration without the
limitations that the previous regime uh
used to uh put on them and I believe
Christians will be a lot happier a lot
more successful and a lot more free just
like all other syrians so are you saying
that Islam gives them the the right to
go ahead even though if we don't agree
with certain the the theology God being
a man Trinity and all that's another
discussion absolutely but they have a
right under Islamic law to go ahead and
practice their religion they're
safeguarded of course of course this is
why there is special treatment for
specifically what the Quran calls the
people of the book the Christians and
Jews first of all recognizing their
books as
legit source that originally it was the
word of God and put them in a special
status for example when when Islam allow
Muslims to get married to a Christian or
Jewish uh wife what what what Islam is
trying to teach us we can if you can
make family with this person who is not
following your religion if you can make
family and we know the value of family
in Islam what do you do when you make
families you become so close to that
other family you call them family you
share with them all the good and
difficult days you defend each other you
support each other that by itself is a
message from Islam to how we should deal
with uh specifically here we're talking
about Christians and Jews I believe
Christians and Jews in Syria they have
nothing to fear but look forward with
all optimistic
because actually throughout history
we look at the history
throughout the history in Syria and in
the rest of the Muslim World there was
no blame or worry about uh uh about
minorities and specifically Christians
and Jews uh their Golden Age often they
say it was under the Muslim
ruling and that is clear we hear it from
our Jewish friends who talk about
andalus
and the Muslim ruling in Spain uh we see
it very clear in Jerusalem Jerusalem the
heart of Christian world for a lot of
Christians but when uh Christians
entrusted Omar with the keys of the CER
uh church and they knew that he will
take care of it and it's a tradition
where Muslims and Muslim family always
kept that church
as a symbolic it is for all Christians
and they kept it open for all Christians
and they made sure that the friction
between different Christian group does
not affect or let anyone take this uh
important church and deprive other
Christians from it so uh yes it was
taken when the Crusaders came uh to
Jerusalem but with Saladin he went back
and gave the same keys to the same
family the Judah family in Jerusalem
till today they open the church Clos the
church and give the make sure that all
Christians have equal access to the
church so there is there is history here
of coexistence of Tolerance that Islam
mandates Islam I say mandates from its
followers to treat Christians right to
protect Christians to protect Jews and
to protect all others who might might
not be Muslims so I we are very
optimistic we look forward inshallah
Syria without Assad regime will be a
free Syria a successful Syria a Syria
that is uh that welcomes everyone and
take care of all of its citizens
regardless of their religious
affiliation and background uh before we
get into to consistency because if
you're some person one person on one end
who's like we are if these were
Christians being persecuted whatever the
case whoever they are we're going to
stand up because God tells us a la to be
just even if it be against ourselves
absolutely so now but you have to be
consistent so before we get
into um the examples of what was going
on in Syria I like what you said so uh
you talked about the the previous books
believing in the Torah this was in its
original form we believe what was given
to the NG was given to Jesus peace be
upon we believe but obviously as Muslims
we believe the books were changed that's
why God Almighty Allah sent the final
Revelation the Quran yes and in this
Quran we have a deep love and reverence
for Jesus peace be upon Him peace be
upon him right so this is something that
many Christians don't know there's a
entire chapter named after his Blessed
Mother Mary medium so now when you when
you look at how
historically uh Christians and and Jews
Like You Gave that beautiful example the
musl Muslims many Christians don't know
that the holiest place for the
Christians is Jerusalem the uh sepra
which you said it's in the mus Muslim a
Muslim family has been holding those
keys this is so powerful and holding the
keys just to guarantee their freedom of
access to that church that's really that
no Christian is deprived from that yeah
so it is very powerful I want to play
this video it's in uh Arabic and I want
you to translate what this Christian
lady is saying
she's Christian lady yes she is
Christian lady from the neighborhood of
slania in in
Alo that is that neighborhood is
majority of
Christians and she is praying for for
the fighters who just opened ELO that
they right away made it accessible for
them to go down
and do their shopping for Christmas and
prepare themselves and she is talking
how she is getting ready to to build the
tree the Christmas tree
and that she got all of her supplies
needed for the celebration of the for
the holidays and she's inviting actually
the interviewer to come over uh to
celebrate with him and
she emphasized that we are all syrians
and
we you and I Christians and
non-christians we are syrians and the
country is for all of us Syria is for
all of
us is this another Christian lady and
this is another Christian
neighbor she is greeting him her name is
wa
from the slman
neighborhood she's
thanking the army that they open the the
they got rid of Assad yes that they get
rid of Assad
yes yes and she's saying my tree is also
small I don't have a big tree and she's
praying that this holiday will be a
blessing for all people for all sings
and she said please help us get the
water
back because water was disconnected by
the regime before they left
Alo uh but I believe this is from the
first day after uh the opening of aleo
all right that just that's just a couple
examples I mean we we see um the other
video where it was chanting 111 syrians
are one those were Christians in front
of their church I think cace 's got it
totally off I mean you can see
Christians these are people on the scene
so in not what would maybe people hear
because they were talking you were
translating what were they both saying
again in both were saying that we are
Christians from the Suman neighborhood
uh which is the mainly Christian uh
quarter of the city in aleo and that
they were grateful for the free Syrian
Army that opened the markets right away
next day after they took over Alo and
they made that effort to uh uh to enable
the Christians in their uh neighborhood
to be able to go down to the markets and
be able to do their necessity shopping
for their holidays in this season of
Christmas so and they were talking about
their preparation and how they are ready
and that they decorated their trees in
their homes for this season so it
doesn't look like they're running for
their lives it looks like they're
actually
welcoming uh what's happening why I said
I wish Candace and all she goes down to
Syria go and visit Not only aleo would
you host her down there you got family
down there I have a family in Damascus I
will say you're welcome our home is your
home Candace you got uh now an invite
from a Muslim down in Damascus who's
right there next 10 minute walk from the
main mosque there 10 minutes from the
and you can walk another 10 minutes to
Bab Tuma the the Christian quarter in
Damascus and you will see firsthand
firsthand how Christians are celebrating
their holidays enjoying their their
freedom and
uh we would love to host you in Damascus
as well as any anyone who's concerned
because it is legit concern let's be
honest it is legit because people are
afraid of who's coming who's coming and
definitely we saw horrible examples
before with Isis what they did in Iraq
and in other parts of Northwest
Northeast Syria but this is totally
different this is the Syrian people
Revolution and I I want to assure you
that syrians will not allow
syrians by nature and from our history
and what we learned and the price that
we paid for the last not only 14 years
but 52
years syrians will not allow an
extreme entity to take over and make us
fear each other and hate each other and
if any attempt done to install such
a regime definitely it will fail Syrian
syrians will reject that and syrians
cannot live with that extremism we are a
tolerant Society we have we learned from
our history
the old and the current not to fall into
this mistakes uh now let's get into how
this all started um 2011 I believe there
was a young boy by the name of muawiya H
yeah
ham and he spray he he spray painted
something like free Syria yeah free
Syria and uh and and kids who who who
did those uh it's more like kids
expressing their their Longing To
Freedom after they saw people in Egypt
to go taking to the streets uh we were
under one of the most oppressive regime
probably in the human history probably
and I'm not exag this aad regime this
aad regime people do not know now the
world is getting a glimpse of what is
aad regime and how he dealt with his own
population when we see those uh uh
humongous
prisons uh that are open and we see he
did not uh
imprison Muslims or sunnis or but all
type of people Christians uh Jews
Sunni
Armenians alawi his own people it was
just an oppressive regime that wanted to
rule by
fire uh and making people afraid of each
other even of themselves so uh that
group of kids who saw the Arab Spring uh
started in uh Tunisia Libya and they
were hoping that Syria would get its
turn and Syria under such oppressive was
not ready and was not to take any
chances they know what kind of regime
they have it's totally different and its
brutality is on a different level of all
the other regimes in the in the area uh
even in the world so but the kids were
taken and we talking about great school
kids fourth grade and fifth grade they
were taken to the police stations where
they irrigated and they were H uh put to
torture put to torture kids at that age
their nails get pulled out uh very
graphic uh description very sick uh way
unhuman way of dealing
with uh any prisoner let let aside that
they are kids and that what uh sparked
the revolution because parents tried to
go and negotiate with the police their
release and the police told their
fathers forget your kids forget your
kids and if uh you can go and bring us
your wives so we bring you different
kids This Is How They this is how they
deal with their own population and that
what sparked the Revolution and the
start of
demonstrations uh and the anger of
people on this regime is is it true then
you had estimates around 49,00
protesters you had people now who came
out to protest and all these people
around 49,000 protesters they were
actually annihilated they were killed
yes unfortunately it's tens of thousands
who got killed and every for protesting
for their freedom protesting and
sometimes not for protesting I have a
friend his own son seventh grade he was
walking out of his middle school and
there was a protest in that neighborhood
but the the protest was over before the
kids came out of school but just because
he was walking there and the police was
still looking if there is any remains
from the protesters his son was
taken accused of being in the Pro
protest and definitely he was in school
just walking home and unfortunately the
family received that he was massacred in
the prison after 2 years and he was not
even a protest
so this is what kind of regime we had
and how they dealt with PE people who
protested people who thought about
protesting people who walked in the
street after the
protest what are the uh the numbers I
have here between the what is it U
before his father Assad was ruling for
about 13 years and estimates are between
during that time 600 to 800,000
people were killed I mean are those
numbers sound
right we have
estimates that exceeds a million uh exed
a million exceeds a million because all
of those estimates you are mentioning we
we take them
from United Nation agencies who are
trying and the human rights agencies but
I don't know if you recall
about that year 2000
16 or so United na Nation agencies they
they felt that this mission of just
tallying uh those who are killed in the
prisons of Assad is an impossible
mission and they made a statement at
that time that we stopped counting so
United Nation agency stopped counting
they gave up simply they felt it's
impossible mission and that's why
human rights agencies try to collect
data from parents even parents families
are afraid of reporting their missing
son or daughter because that might bring
uh more accusation and more arrest to
the same family mhm they've called this
uh SAA prison a human slaughter house
and we're seeing live im images this is
not something where now you can't get
near it now people are in it and they're
exposing everything that was going on
you're actually seeing how many how many
uh of the prisoners that were there
there were actually many women who were
now graped there um they had their
children born there CH people who don't
know what a what a child growing up
doesn't know what a bird is uh doesn't
know what an animal a cow is that they
actually they spent most of their
childhood in these uh all of their
childhood they know nothing they know
nothing from the world they know nothing
except those four walls and the Gate of
the the door of the cell or the tear so
it is very frightening the stories we
have been hearing and I want to tell you
that the regime from time to time from
his father's day made sure that he let
some of those prisoners who witnessed
those atrocities
to go out and tell the stories so the
average
Syrian realize how horrible it is and be
so afraid and not even think about the
change of regime
so every Syrian lived with fear we lived
in literally horror every time I go to
visit my family in Syria I will be very
anxious very afraid from the time I take
the airplane from Chicago to go and
visit my family I would be very anxious
and very afraid and I know I'm taking a
chance that even if I say nothing do
nothing in any way related to the
politics I might be a Target and uh I
will not feel safe till I I'm in the
airplane out of the Syrian uh uh uh
airspace
so it is a horror story that lasted for
52 years and we hear all uh different
stories uh from people who escaped or
survived those prisons and the torture
that they lived in definitely definitely
there is nothing in the human history
that match it we read what nais
did we read what stanan did we we we
read about all of
these authoritarian regimes throughout
history did and I cannot uh say but this
regime that fallen in Syria learned from
all of those experiences and added to it
its own uh spies to make it more
horrible so we praise God we are super
excited that the world not only
the
world has finished
this
uh horrible era in the human history all
right we as we conclude I think some um
some good advice to uh the canis Owen
who she's actually been for speaking out
and on other issues that are related to
Palestine Gaza and the people who are
responsible for this she's been speaking
out against them and because of that she
she's been barred from entering
Australia New Zealand I don't think
anyone now is going to stop her from
accepting your invitation to go to
Damascus and to see for yourself if
you're someone about who's about truth
get on a plane come down she'll be taken
care of you'll host her and she can see
for himself the Christian quarters she
really cares about the Christians there
come see them on the ground yes and uh I
will be happy to go with you if we work
the schedule uh uh I would love to go
and be with you to take care of uh your
trip from A to Z and uh uh I want to
thank you because you have concerns but
I do not want your concerns to become a
reason for anyone to be afraid because
syrians paid enough price of horror and
fear and now they are looking for
freedom and democracy and what comes
with that the blessings that we we are
looking for uh but we do not want to uh
uh be supportive of bringing fear again
uh but definitely it's all of us
responsibility to assure that every
Syrian find peace and
tranquility and hope and great future
with this change of regime inshallah in
Syria so I understand where you're
coming from at the same time I want to
tell you that on this point you got it
absolutely wrong and that you should
have no fear and I want to make sure you
and whatever we can do to help you H
alleviate those fears and be supportive
of the Syrian people just like you
supported other
uh uh uh uh causes and right causes
worldwide and and yes you paid a priz
for that and we applaud you for that and
we want you to support the Syrian people
in this period because they need our
support they need our support in their
transition and they need the the whole
world Community to come to Aid them in
this crucial moment uh uh after they
took down that oppressive regime thank
you very much for helping us uh develop
a better understanding what's the
reality on the ground how Christians
were treated are expected to be treated
under Islam in Syria my pleasure and I
thank you and your show for shedding the
light on on this issue because
definitely it's needed uh by all of us
Muslims Christians Jews and others God
bless you thank you thank you you're
welcome
thank you I cannot leave without giving
you a gift if you're not yet Muslim and
you're tuning in to see what these
Muslims are talking about and you like a
free copy of the Quran go ahead and
visit theen show.com we'll take care of
the postage and everything and get it
delivered to you and if you still have
some questions about Islam call us at 1
1800
662 4752 we'll see you next time until
then peace be with you assalam alaykum
and if you like this episode of the dean
show like this video share this video
far and wide and support us on our
patreon page so we can continue this
work thank you for tuning in peace be
with you assalamu alaykum