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Why Don't Muslims Just Leave? | Imam Tom Weekly
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Israel is Losing - and They Know It | Imam Tom Live

How to Fight the Israeli Backlash | Imam Tom Live

How to Fight the Israeli Backlash | Imam Tom Live

On the Gaza Ceasefire | Imam Tom Live

On the Gaza Ceasefire | Imam Tom Live

Courage in the Face of Israeli Censorship | Imam Tom Live

Courage in the Face of Israeli Censorship | Imam Tom Live

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How To Become A Strong Muslim Leader | Imam Tom Live

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How to Develop Better Habits | Imam Tom Live

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Michigan Mosques Say NO! | Imam Tom Live

Michigan Mosques Say NO! | Imam Tom Live

Musk's Take, Columbia's Skunk Surprise, Islamic Unity, and India's Ram Revelation | Imam Tom Live

Musk's Take, Columbia's Skunk Surprise, Islamic Unity, and India's Ram Revelation | Imam Tom Live

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The Lives of Imams, Hate Crime in Texas, Israeli Humiliation, Ceasefire Resolutions | Imam Tom Live

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Unveiling Truths: Aaron Bushnell, NYT's Agenda, & Stopping Military Aid to Israel | Imam Tom Live

Unveiling Truths: Aaron Bushnell, NYT's Agenda, & Stopping Military Aid to Israel | Imam Tom Live

Biryani Diplomacy: The Illusion of Political Influence & the "Flour Massacre" | Imam Tom Live

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Live Revolution: The West Rallies for Gaza | Imam Tom Live

Live Revolution: The West Rallies for Gaza | Imam Tom Live

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University Raids, Fake Negotiations, Holocaust Remembrance? | Imam Tom Live

Do Influencers Owe their Followers Advocacy? | Imam Tom Live

Do Influencers Owe their Followers Advocacy? | Imam Tom Live

Israel's Ceasefire Rejection, Nurse Fired for Gaza, and the Law of Sacrifice | Imam Tom Live

Israel's Ceasefire Rejection, Nurse Fired for Gaza, and the Law of Sacrifice | Imam Tom Live

Muslim Influencers Profiting from Apartheid | Imam Tom Live

Muslim Influencers Profiting from Apartheid | Imam Tom Live

The Real Guise of 'Islamophobia' | Imam Tom Live

The Real Guise of 'Islamophobia' | Imam Tom Live

What France & UK's Electoral results mean for Muslims | Imam Tom Live

What France & UK's Electoral results mean for Muslims | Imam Tom Live

No Limits: Israel’s Growing Atrocities and Global Indifference | Imam Tom Live

No Limits: Israel’s Growing Atrocities and Global Indifference | Imam Tom Live

Falsehood is Bound to Vanish | Imam Tom Live

Falsehood is Bound to Vanish | Imam Tom Live

Hypocrisy at the DNC | Imam Tom Live

Hypocrisy at the DNC | Imam Tom Live

Empowering Student Activism | Imam Tom Live

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Remembering Aysenur's Courage | Imam Tom Live

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All Praise Be to Allah in Every Situation | Imam Tom Live

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Allah Will Ask: What Did You Do With Your Freedom? | Imam Tom Live

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Surah An-Nas & Atomic Habits | Imam Tom Weekly

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Why Don't Muslims Just Leave? | Imam Tom Weekly

When Did Ramadan Become a Festival | Imam Tom Weekly

When Did Ramadan Become a Festival | Imam Tom Weekly

Muslims Are a People of Principle | Imam Tom Weekly

Muslims Are a People of Principle | Imam Tom Weekly

The Dark Truth About Secularism | Imam Tom Weekly

The Dark Truth About Secularism | Imam Tom Weekly

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The Secret Cost of Individualism | Imam Tom Weekly

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How Islamic History Was Frozen and Forgotten | Imam Tom Weekly

The Ummah or the Nation? | Imam Tom Weekly

The Ummah or the Nation? | Imam Tom Weekly

Debunking the 'Islamic Dilemma' | Imam Tom Weekly

Debunking the 'Islamic Dilemma' | Imam Tom Weekly

How Music Impacts Your Brain | Imam Tom Weekly

How Music Impacts Your Brain | Imam Tom Weekly

Malcolm X's Legacy We Forgot About | Imam Tom Weekly

Malcolm X's Legacy We Forgot About | Imam Tom Weekly

Hajj is the Great Equalizer | Imam Tom Facchine

Hajj is the Great Equalizer | Imam Tom Facchine

The Multi-Million Dollar War on Islam | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

The Multi-Million Dollar War on Islam | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

How Islam Completed what Christianity Began | Imam Tom Facchine

How Islam Completed what Christianity Began | Imam Tom Facchine

Why the Islamic Calendar Matters | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Why the Islamic Calendar Matters | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

How Colonialism Hijacked the Muslim World | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

How Colonialism Hijacked the Muslim World | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

What Activism Is Missing Today | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

What Activism Is Missing Today | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

How to Stop Chasing Validation | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

How to Stop Chasing Validation | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Representation Isn’t Working. Here’s Why. | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Representation Isn’t Working. Here’s Why. | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Is This Da’wah or Entertainment? | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Is This Da’wah or Entertainment? | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Islam Isn’t Just Therapy | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Islam Isn’t Just Therapy | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

The Hidden Bias in Every History Book | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

The Hidden Bias in Every History Book | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

How Your Victim Mindset is Destroying You | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

How Your Victim Mindset is Destroying You | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Modesty Is More Than What You Wear | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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Will Recognition Help Palestine? | Snapshots by Imam Tom Facchine

Will Recognition Help Palestine? | Snapshots by Imam Tom Facchine

Israel’s Link to U.S. Anti-Terror Policy | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Israel’s Link to U.S. Anti-Terror Policy | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Living Up to the Prophet’s ﷺ Final Speech | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Living Up to the Prophet’s ﷺ Final Speech | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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How Should We View Gaza’s Celebrity Support? | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

How to Stop Falling for Fake Mahdis | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

How to Stop Falling for Fake Mahdis | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Columbus Wasn't Just After Gold – He Wanted Jerusalem | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Columbus Wasn't Just After Gold – He Wanted Jerusalem | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Why Some Scholars Critique Resistance | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Why Some Scholars Critique Resistance | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Why You Can’t Escape Organized Religion | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Why You Can’t Escape Organized Religion | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Kings Chased Thrones. He ﷺ Chased This Instead | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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What Islam Reveals About Socialism and Capitalism | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

What Islam Reveals About Socialism and Capitalism | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

What Real Masculinity Looks Like | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

What Real Masculinity Looks Like | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

Amazon's Kill System & the Network Behind Sami's Detention | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

Amazon's Kill System & the Network Behind Sami's Detention | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

The Truth About AI’s Intelligence | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

The Truth About AI’s Intelligence | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

What the Qur’an Says About Christianity | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

What the Qur’an Says About Christianity | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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How Does the Qur’an View the Bible? | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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Debunking the Myth of the ‘Oppressed Muslim Woman’ | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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Why Not Every Seat is One Worth Taking | Focal Point with Imam Tom Facchine

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What Sharia Law Actually Means | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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Does Islam Actually Oppose Science? | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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How ‘Taqiyya’ Became an Islamophobic Talking Point | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

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Who's Your Real Enemy? | Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine

The Promise and Paradox of the Islamic Republic | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 1 |  Imam Tom Facchine

The Promise and Paradox of the Islamic Republic | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 1 | Imam Tom Facchine

Iran vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Represents the Ummah? | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 2 |  Imam Tom Facchine

Iran vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Represents the Ummah? | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 2 | Imam Tom Facchine

Should We Show Solidarity with Iran? | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 3 |  Imam Tom Facchine

Should We Show Solidarity with Iran? | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 3 | Imam Tom Facchine

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Unforgettable Stories From Hajj | Imam Tom x Shaykh Elshinawy

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Why Don't Muslims Just Leave? | Imam Tom Weekly

"Why don’t you just leave?" It’s a question Muslims in the West hear all the time—sometimes even from fellow Muslims. If you believe in Islam, why not move to a so-called "Muslim country"? But is hijrah really the answer? Imam Tom Facchine unpacks the deeper issues behind this question, from the duty of da'wah to the reality of life abroad. Is the grass really greener, or is it just a romanticized illusion? And do Muslims have a responsibility to change the societies they live in rather than abandon them?

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
Why don't you go live in some country that practices Islam or Islamic law? Why don't you guys just make Hijrah? If you don't like it, why don't you leave? And if you guys, you hear, you're Muslims, you believe Islam is the best, you think Islamic values and Islamic guidance are the best,
why don't you go live in some country that practices Islam or Islamic law? We get this question from Muslims too. Everybody always asks, why don't you go to the Emirates or to Qatar or to any of these other countries that seem to be practicing Islam?
And that really misses the whole point. The whole Hijrah conversation, I mean, I'm a convert. Like I'm from this country, my family has been in the United States since 1905.
I have a certain duty to this place when it comes to wanting what's best for it. And certainly the Prophet (ﷺ), he lived this example, which is part of the Sunnah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
that He sends people as messengers to their own group, to their own nation, right? He doesn't outsource the job. So if you understand that one of the most important things is to have a da'wah mentality,
that you're not just an individual just trying to live a comfortable life, that you're supposed to raise the bar, you're supposed to carry Allah's message forth wherever you go. Then what better place to do that than in places where Islam is hardly known
or poorly known or misunderstood or misrepresented? And especially if you're from that place, then you actually have a duty to carry forth the da'wah in that place. Now, if you can't practice your Islam and you're going to be thrown into jail
just for the shahada and praying and trying to go to the mosque, but that's not the situation of most people. Most people, especially in the United States, most people across the world, you're allowed to practice your faith. You're allowed to do the basics, establish the five pillars.
And so, yes, there are challenges, especially if you're raising children here. There's acculturation and there's different forces of assimilation that you have to plan for. However, you have a certain responsibility to carry da'wah forth.
And the other thing is that Muslims need to be real. The places that you have imagined in your head from YouTube as being this great Hijrah place is not really all it's cracked up to be most of the time. You likely have a romanticized image in your head
that the grass is always greener on the other side. And so if anybody is seriously like, listen, I can't take it anymore or I'm worried about my children and I want to move, then rather than talk about vagaries and talk about ambiguity
and talk about things on such a high level that they're not even comparable, you really have to talk about specifics like this specific town over here and this block that I live on in this community I live on over here versus this community in this town in this country over here.
If you can't make that level of comparison, then honestly, I don't see that as a very serious Hijrah conversation. And to the non-Muslims who are wondering, why don't we just leave? Well, you have to understand, we believe you should stay
and try to persuade people and convince people to change a place for the better. I don't know where people got this idea of voting with your feet where everybody just leaves according to, oh, well, there's a regime over here or there's a country over here that espouses my values.
People have the right to live in the place where they're from and they have the right to attempt to persuade people to change that place or to change how that place is governed or how that place is organized. So this idea of, well, if you don't agree with what we're doing, then you get out.
That's ludicrous. I'm sorry. That, no, I'm going to stay and I'm going to try to argue and shoot videos and write books and write articles and try to persuade people and show people a better way.