
Fitna
Clip: Season 26 Episode 4 | 15m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
A Muslim US Army chaplain must choose between serving his country or faith. (Musaid Abdullah/CSUN)
When American citizens are taken hostage in Iraq, a Muslim US Army chaplain must choose between serving his country or his faith to save their lives. (Musaid Abdullah/CSUN)
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Fitna
Clip: Season 26 Episode 4 | 15m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
When American citizens are taken hostage in Iraq, a Muslim US Army chaplain must choose between serving his country or his faith to save their lives. (Musaid Abdullah/CSUN)
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My family and I are here because we are enemies of Islam, but these men are not without mercy.
Release the inmates of Abdul Malik prison in five days, and we will be spared.
-In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
Peace and blessings be upon Muhammad and his Progeny.
Praise be to God.
Disbelievers, this is what happens when you challenge us.
For we are men that love death more than you love life.
Takbir.
-God is the Greatest.
-Takbir.
-God is the Greatest.
-Takbir.
-God is the Greatest.
[music] -God is the Greatest.
God is the Greatest.
-Soldier, at ease.
-Imam Ibrahim Al-Hadrami.
Agent Dutch McCarthy.
This is Colonel Joseph Blair.
-Well met.
May I ask what's the reason for this visit?
-A matter of national security.
-Hamza Al-Hadid, picked him up in a raid two nights ago.
-We've tried every method on and off the books on this guy, but so far, nothing's worked.
You, Abe, you share his faith.
You get him in a way that we don't.
-I can't question him.
-You swore an oath to your country.
-Respectfully, Colonel, I also swore an oath to my faith.
I'm an imam, not an interrogator.
-We don't need a soldier in there, Abe.
We need an imam.
Now, your holy book, does it not say that saving one life is like saving all of humanity?
-It does.
-You're saving four here.
The Wallens, yes, and also Hamza.
[music] -In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
[background noise] Peace be upon you.
-Peace be upon you.
-We both know how this is going to end.
The men out there think they have many ways of making you talk, but you won't break.
They'll just make you suffer.
Brother, for God's sake.
You've gone too far.
A mother and her child?
Do the right thing.
Tell me where they are.
-Where are you from?
-What?
-Where are you from?
-America.
-Where are you really from?
-My father was from Yemen.
-Yemen.
The Prophet of Allah, blessings of Allah be upon him, said the best of men are from Yemen.
May Allah bless your father.
-Amen.
My name is Ibrahim.
-Do you have children, Ibrahim?
-I have a son, thank God.
-I had a son and wife.
They became martyrs.
Allah granted me this honor.
-I'm sorry.
-Stop.
You may dress and talk like an imam, but you have the face of a soldier, like me.
Imam Ibrahim, did you martyr my son?
-Hamza, please.
-Do you think because you kiss their shoes that they won't clean their hands of you?
That they don't hate you and what you believe?
They hate you.
They hate you like they hate the rest of us.
-We're not talking about me.
You're the last person to speak about hate.
-True.
I hate traitors and dogs.
-Brother, I know you're in pain.
-You're both.
-Allah forbids us from-- -From what?
Fighting the army waging war against Islam?
-From using your family to attack the innocent, Hamza.
-Innocent?
Did they give my boy discretion?
Did they show my wife mercy?
No.
Why should I?
-Because we act for the sake of Allah.
I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan.
-You're running out of time.
-In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
Fight in the cause of Allah only against those who wage war against you, but do not exceed the limits.
Allah does not like transgressors.
You want to kill a mother and her child.
Did they invade you?
-What about my child?
His mother?
They invaded us.
I never picked up a rifle before they killed my baby.
You dare use this against me?
Brother?
You are not a brother.
You are a traitor.
You are a disbeliever and you will die a disbeliever among them.
-My Lord, forgive me.
My Lord, forgive me.
In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
Whoever kills a believer intentionally, their reward will be hell where they will stay indefinitely.
Allah will be displeased with them, condemn them, and will prepare for them a tremendous punishment.
If I am not your brother, then kill me.
Kill me.
[music] Again, come on.
[music] Kill me.
[music] [grunting] -I'm sorry for everything, I'm sorry.
Oh God, what have I done?
-Hamza, it's okay.
It's not me to seek forgiveness from.
You can still make the right choice.
Do not lose hope in Allah's mercy, for Allah certainly forgives all sins.
He is indeed the All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
-Brother.
-Yes, Hamza?
Yes?
-[?]
-Thank God.
Thank God.
It's a Hussain Company, warehouse B.
It's in a city in the west called the Nakib.
This is where you're going to find them.
Thank God.
Thank God.
[music] -A specialist team successfully extracted the Wallens, and Al-Hadid has been transferred to the Iraqi army.
You're a good soldier, Abe, and a better man.
-I'm as guilty as you and Claire and Hamza.
He found a way to save himself that no army could do it.
All what I did is just remind him how.
Perhaps it's our turn.
[singing] -Allahu Akbar.
[music]
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