Transcript [00:00] So we are seeing violence coming out of [00:04] certain quarters of the Muslim world and [00:06] that's what I want to talk about in this [00:07] video. I want to talk about a few [00:09] incidents that took place in Pakistan [00:11] yesterday and and use that to explain [00:15] some of the dynamics happening [00:17] internally in the Muslim world as they [00:19] react to this uh devastating takedown of [00:24] the of the Iranian of the Iranian [00:26] leadership, the Iranian regime [00:28] hopefully. So let's take a look first at [00:30] what happened yesterday and then we'll [00:32] get into what it all means. Okay. So [00:34] this is um hundreds of protesters [00:37] marching towards the US consulate in [00:39] Peshawar, Pakistan to mourn Kami's [00:42] death. Security deployed on all roads [00:45] leading to the area. [00:59] holding pictures of [01:04] >> there. They're marching to the consulate [01:06] and here we have um an attack on a US [01:10] consulate in Pakistan. Okay, take a look [01:12] at what happens here. [01:15] breaking the windows. [01:18] It's not in the same [music] [01:20] city as [01:22] as you as [01:25] [music] [01:39] the American flag [01:42] and they're attacking the consulate. [01:44] And this turned deadly. Okay. Uh the the [01:48] Americans opened fire at this at the US [01:51] consulate. Well, people were actually [01:53] attacking it and getting violent and [01:55] they used open fire to disperse the [01:57] crowds. [02:05] >> One of the riders firing back, [02:09] >> running from the scene. [02:22] Now we're also seeing people who are [02:23] holding holding limbs of themselves [02:25] because they're injured. That guy's shot [02:27] in his arm. [02:30] But now we have someone who is being [02:33] carried out, [02:35] >> more serious injury. [02:40] And it reportedly there were 22 people [02:43] who were killed in this uh in this [02:47] interaction [02:48] on the ground. Get out there. Get out. [02:51] It's going down. It's going down. [02:58] >> They're trying [03:01] >> and they carry him off. Okay. So, you [03:04] see what happened here. This was a very [03:06] violent incident. Um, US Marines opened [03:09] fire on armed riers in Pakistan who [03:12] violently tried to infiltrate the [03:15] embassy there. Okay, [03:21] that's it for you. You get the idea. [03:24] Now, here's the news story from News [03:26] Day. At least 22 people killed in [03:28] Pakistan as protesters try to storm the [03:30] US consulate. Okay, now let's pay [03:33] attention to where this is happening. In [03:34] Karachi, Pakistan. Violent clashes [03:36] between protesters and security forces [03:39] in Pakistan's southern port city of [03:41] Karach and in the country's north left [03:44] at least 22 people dead and more than [03:47] 120 injured as demonstrators supportive [03:49] of the Iranian government attempted [03:51] attempted to storm a US consulate on [03:54] Sunday. In the north of the country, [03:55] they attacked UN and government offices [03:59] and it's a response to Kam's death. [04:02] President Aif Ali Zardari expressed his [04:05] profound sorrow over the martyrdom of [04:07] Kamayi and conveyed and conveyed his [04:09] condolences to Iran according to his [04:13] office. Okay. Um and then it says 12 [04:16] people were killed, 80 wounded in the [04:19] nor in northern Gilgit Baltistan region. [04:24] Thousands of protesters angered by US [04:26] and Israeli strikes on Iran attacked the [04:28] offices of the UN military observer [04:30] group and the UN development program. [04:32] Okay. And then later on down here, the [04:36] US embassy posted that it was monitoring [04:40] ongoing gener uh demonstrations. [04:43] It advised US citizens in Pakistan to [04:45] monitor the local news. [04:48] And now [04:50] look what we have down here. The clashes [04:53] prompted interior minister Mosin Nakvi [04:56] to issue to issue an appeal for calm [04:59] following the martyrdom of Ayatollah [05:00] Kamei. Every citizen of Pakistan shares [05:03] in the grief of the people of Iran. [05:05] Nakvi said in a statement, but he urged [05:07] people not to take the law into their [05:09] own hands. Okay, what's going on here? [05:12] Let me let me pull back the camera a [05:15] little bit and talk about [05:18] and talk about Pakistan. Okay, let's [05:20] talk about [05:22] um uh Islam in Pakistan. So worldwide [05:27] something like 80% of all Muslims in the [05:30] world are Sunni. Okay. And then the rest [05:33] are Shiites. Shiites are a very very [05:35] small minority. There are only four [05:37] countries in the world that have a [05:39] Shiite majority. Iran of course [05:44] and then you have um Shia majorities [05:47] exist in Azerbaian and we saw in an [05:50] update that I did yesterday that the [05:52] Aarbaani government was one of the only [05:54] governments to [05:57] issue issue a former condolence message [06:00] to Iran for the death of Kamayi. [06:03] Aarjanis are Shiites. Okay. Uh Iraq also [06:07] has a also has a Shiite majority. So [06:10] there's very few places where there's a [06:11] Shiite majority. Now Pakistan. [06:15] Oh, I just got a just got a notification [06:17] that there might be a an air raid siren [06:19] any moment now. So in Pakistan, if there [06:21] is, I'll have to stop this video and go [06:23] into the bomb shelter. In Pakistan, [06:26] there is a Shiite minority, but it is a [06:29] majority in the region of Gilg Baloistan [06:35] that I just mentioned there. right in [06:37] that Gilgit area the area where a lot of [06:40] the riots were taking place and in [06:41] certain cities Punjab is one of them [06:44] there are some pockets of Shiites and [06:47] here's the key Pakistan has the second [06:50] largest Shiite population even though [06:54] it's not a Pakist even though it's not a [06:55] Shiite majority country it's got a [06:57] massive population but it has the second [06:59] largest population of Shiites but after [07:02] Iran in the world so the fact that we're [07:04] seeing riots pro Kamana [07:06] riots in Pakistan should not surprise [07:09] us. There are a lot of Shiites there and [07:12] they're freaking out. And that's what I [07:14] wanted to talk about in this video [07:15] really, which is that the Sunni world [07:19] for the most part is not expressing [07:21] condolences. We saw that yesterday. Not [07:23] Qatar, not Saudi Arabia. I mean, Iran is [07:26] attacking a lot of these countries, but [07:27] even countries they're not attacking [07:28] like Egypt and Syria, no one's offering [07:31] condolences on the death of Kamaya. The [07:33] exception was Erdogan. And I suggested [07:35] yesterday that Erdogan was doing that [07:37] for diplomatic reasons because he wants [07:39] to play both sides because he sees [07:41] himself as possibly having a uh a [07:44] diplomatic role to play here down down [07:47] range. And I'm waiting to see if that [07:48] plays out. But Turkey really stood out [07:50] as a Sunni Muslim country expressing [07:53] condolences. For the most part, the [07:54] Sunni world has been silent or actually [07:57] hostile to Iran since this war started a [08:00] couple days ago. But you have these [08:01] Shiites in Pakistan who are absolutely [08:03] freaking out. Now people aren't talking [08:06] so much about what this war is doing to [08:09] Shiite Islam. But we have to think about [08:11] this because as I just said, Shiite [08:14] Islam is only a majority in a few [08:17] countries. The only large one is Iran. [08:21] And so much so that the second largest [08:24] population of Shiites in the world after [08:26] Iran is Pakistan where they're only [08:29] about about 15 to 20% of the entire [08:32] population. [08:34] You got that? In other words, Iran is [08:36] Shiite Islam basically. And Ali Kamayi, [08:39] the supreme leader, was the religious [08:41] leader of Shiite Islam. If the if the [08:44] regime falls in Iran, one of the impacts [08:46] that it will have is a devastating blow [08:48] to Shiite Islam. defeat. [08:51] It's more than a blow. A blow to a [08:54] branch of a religion would be, you know, [08:55] maybe one of their one of their [08:57] countries falls or something like that. [08:59] We're talking about the basically the [09:01] seat of Shiite Islam, its home base with [09:05] its supreme leader being taken down. [09:08] This is a defeat for Shiite Islam. So, [09:11] this is something to watch as we see how [09:14] how other pockets of Shiite population [09:16] behave. And in that Newsweek article [09:17] when it was mentioning I'm sorry that [09:19] News Day article that I was just reading [09:21] from where it mentioned a number of [09:22] places in Pakistan where these riots are [09:25] happening. I looked them up and these [09:26] are all these are all Shiite locations [09:29] and the interior minister who was quoted [09:32] in the piece. Okay. The interior [09:34] minister whose name was Mosin Nakvi. I [09:36] looked him up too. He's also a Shiite [09:38] even though they're a very small [09:39] minority. So he's the one who stood up. [09:42] the interior minister, not just because [09:44] he's the interior minister, but he's a [09:46] Shiite. He stood up and called for calm [09:50] that uh you know, so obviously this is [09:54] this is a crisis for the Shiites in the [09:57] northwestern city of Peshawar. It says [09:59] here the authorities also use tear gas. [10:01] Peshawar is one of the few towns in [10:04] Pakistan which is majority Shiite. Okay. [10:08] The protesters also held a peaceful [10:10] rally in Multan, a city in Punjab. These [10:13] are the Shiite pockets in in Pakistan. [10:16] And I think it's worth noting that for [10:19] years and years we've heard about this [10:21] tension between the Shiites and the [10:22] Sunnis, but they often get along [10:23] diplomatically and especially they tend [10:26] to get along when it comes to being [10:28] anti-Israel. But here we have this [10:30] upside down situation, this crazy [10:32] situation where Israel is attacking [10:34] Iran. Iran starts attacking Sunni Muslim [10:37] nations like the UAE, like uh like Saudi [10:41] Arabia, like Qatar, Jordan. They're [10:44] they're they're firing on them. And [10:47] that's turning these Sunni nations [10:49] against [10:51] against Iran who they hated anyway [10:53] because, you know, again, the Sunni [10:54] Shiite thing, they can't stand them. [10:57] And now with the regime teetering and [11:00] possibly, you know, falling, [11:04] they're not offering condolences. [11:06] They're not coming to their aid. But you [11:08] have Shiites pockets in other countries. [11:09] Another one of the countries that has a [11:11] majority Shiite population is Iraq. It [11:13] just basically borders on Iran. It's [11:15] right there. And we talked about the [11:17] Iraqi militias yesterday. They're the [11:19] only proxy [11:21] that has actually really gotten active. [11:24] Well, until yesterday fired a few [11:26] rockets and they and they they quickly [11:27] regretted that. Uh, Israel's been [11:30] bombing Lebanon today. We're going to do [11:32] a video, a separate video, an update on [11:34] the proxies where we're going to talk [11:36] about what's happened in Lebanon. But [11:38] basically, I wanted to focus in on the [11:40] fact that this war among everything else [11:42] and taking down the regime, you know, [11:44] regime change and the ballistic missiles [11:45] and the nuclear and all the other issues [11:47] we talk about, funding the proxies, the [11:49] geopolitical issues, Israel, America. [11:52] Let's also focus in on the fact that a [11:54] major branch of Islam is going through a [11:58] it's more than a crisis. I cannot [12:00] overstate this. We're talking about the [12:02] very seat of their religion. The only [12:06] large large population of Shiites, the [12:09] only large country with a with a Shiite [12:11] majority, [12:13] Iran, and the Shiite leadership is being [12:18] defeated right now and being destroyed. [12:20] So you could understand why these Shiite [12:22] Muslims in Pakistan are absolutely [12:24] freaking out and getting violent and and [12:25] going berserk. Their whole world is [12:28] crumbling around them. That's what I [12:29] wanted to share in this video. Um and uh [12:33] it you know [12:37] I want to keep following these various [12:39] plot lines that are happening around the [12:41] war. I think it's very important that we [12:43] don't lose sight of the domino effects [12:46] that this war is having and the way it's [12:48] impacting other other countries in the [12:51] region uh geopolitical situations. We [12:53] talked about Saudi Arabia yesterday but [12:56] we we cannot ignore the impact that this [12:59] is having on Islam specifically Shiite [13:03] Islam. Now the flip side of that is that [13:05] it's not it's not going to have that [13:06] much effect uh in terms of demoralizing [13:10] Sunni Muslims which is the majority of [13:13] the Muslims in the world that you know [13:14] the Muslim Brotherhood who are the root [13:16] of so many of the problems we face in [13:17] the west and that and that and we face [13:21] from so many hostile countries in the [13:22] Middle East as well [13:25] they're not going to be affected by this [13:27] in terms of you know morally it's not [13:29] going to crush them but crushing defeats [13:32] have a way of moderating people's [13:33] ideologies and Shiites were not always [13:37] radical. We think of Shiites now as the [13:39] crazies because that's Iran and they [13:41] have this this type of Shiite Islam that [13:44] is, you know, that is uh, you know, [13:45] genocidal and and and that's where and [13:48] that's where the Iranian regime pushed [13:50] it. But here's an interesting point. [13:52] Azarbaian is a kind of a secular Muslim [13:55] country, sort of like reformed Muslims. [13:57] They're not that religious, but they're [13:59] Shiites. Um, the Iranian regime before [14:02] the revolution in 1979 when there were [14:05] daily flights from Israel to Tehran and [14:07] back, [14:09] the majority in Iran almost entirely was [14:13] still Shiite, but it was a different [14:16] type of Shiite Islam. It was a more [14:17] moderate, more pro-western Shiite Islam. [14:21] And it's this it's this radical what's [14:23] called 12 Shiite Islam. this branch of [14:26] Islam that that is the that is the sect [14:28] of the IRGC and of the Ayatollas which [14:32] became the dominant type of Shiite Islam [14:34] in Iraq in Pakistan in these other [14:36] pockets around Iran. [14:39] So it's that branch of Islam that is [14:43] really you know I I would say being [14:45] defeated. It's it's I I don't think it's [14:47] an overstatement to say that it's almost [14:49] being eliminated. It's being brought to [14:51] its knees in such a way that, you know, [14:54] we could see more of these outbursts [14:56] from pockets of Shiites in other [14:59] countries in the days to come. And it'll [15:00] be interesting to see how it changes the [15:02] dynamics of the Muslim world after the [15:04] dust settles from this war. All right, [15:07] thanks for watching. Um, it looks like I [15:09] didn't get an air raid siren. You see, [15:10] that's what we have here in Israel is an [15:12] early warning that everyone gets on [15:14] their phones if there's going to be an [15:16] attack possibly in your area just so [15:18] that you get near um a a bomb shelter. [15:22] Let's say you're driving or you're not [15:23] or you're somewhere where you're not so [15:24] close to a bomb shelter. It gives you a [15:26] few minutes to get closer to a bomb [15:28] shelter just in case the missile is [15:31] going to be close enough to you that [15:32] you're going to get an actual air raid [15:33] siren and have to go into the bomb [15:35] shelter. because when the missiles are [15:36] first fired, they're they're quite far [15:38] away and they don't necessarily know [15:40] exactly where, you know, where the [15:42] points of contact will be. So, we get [15:44] these early warning buzzers. That's what [15:46] I just got interrupting this video. And [15:49] and then later on, if relevant, you get [15:51] the air raid siren. So, it looks like I [15:53] didn't get the air raid siren. Maybe [15:54] it's still to come, but it's already [15:55] been a while. So, uh don't have to go to [15:58] the bomb shelter. Anyway, thanks a lot [16:00] for watching. Uh please, uh you know, [16:02] share this video, like, subscribe. 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