For the 10th, 2021, it's Wednesday, it's 11 o'clock. Give me only one thing. Time for Rediscovering America. I'm Tim Appichelle, your host. And the title of today's show is Trump's Second Impeachment Trial, that speaks for itself. With me today is Jay Fiedel, Stephanie Dalton, Winston Welch, and Cynthia Lee Sinclair. Good morning, one and all. Good morning. Thank you for joining us at Rediscovering America. Aloha. Good morning, Tim. Well, if you've been watching the last two days, what really comes to mind is front and center is the difference between looking at something in context versus something out of context. And if you're the GOP and you're looking strictly at the video, and that's the only thing you're really considering as a basis for impeachment and conviction of impeachment of Donald Trump, you're looking at things out of context. If you're looking at the evidence today and things that transpired before January the 6th, and certainly things that Donald Trump said after January 6th, you're looking at things in context and it's a completely different show. Jay, to you, different show or not a different show, in context or out of context? Well, that was my reaction this morning listening on HPR. It was really amazing. I was just blown away by the presentations of the Democrat managers. They were just fabulous. They were completely prepared and they were completely brilliant. And you're right. It was all about context. We may have heard a certain percentage of these facts before, but we never heard them lined up this way. And it shows you that a presentation by somebody who is well-prepared and has his bucks in a row can explain this to you in context is so much more important. The press goes day to day. It's ad hoc. It's like what's happened today. And rarely except maybe in the best media in the country where you find a story which tries to put it together. But they did that this morning and it was shocking. It was way beyond my understanding of this point. And my reaction was, my God, this was much, much worse than I thought. I thought it was pretty bad, but it was much, much worse when you hear it. And it's all authoritative. They're not just blown smoke here. This is what happened. This is really what happened. And what struck me is that I'm listening and maybe 74 million people in the country are listening and would convict Trump in a nanosecond. But what about the Trumpers? Are they listening? And more directly, what about the Republican senators? Are they listening? And the sad part, and we'll see what happens here in a few days. The really sad part of this, the tragic part, it's out of an opera, so tragic, is that those Republican senators are likely not to vote to convict him. And that is disgusting, but that is the light. And under this presentation this morning, I asked myself, could it be that they will change their minds, but then my other self said to me, self, don't abuse yourself, they're not gonna change their mind. Yeah. You know, two things come into my mind is, one is, again, how I forgot so many things that transpired.  So I forgot a lot about him, but you're right. The presentation of the evidence was in logical, chronological order. What really kind of got me is, I forgot about Gilbert Sterling. He was the manager of Georgia. He's a general manager. And remember, he got up to the microphones and implored Donald Trump to stop his rhetoric that someone was gonna get hurt, someone was going to die. How prophetic was that? And that's exactly what happened. And then, of course, the story about the school bus and how they tried to chase off the bus and how Donald Trump the next day applauded it with, you know, music and applauded the video of someone trying to run that bus down. So, you know, these things add up and if you forgot about them. Well, you know, one thing about it is we thought, based on the reporting over the article of impeachment, that the case that Democrats were gonna make was essentially limited to what happened on the day of the insurrection. And we didn't think that, you know, Democrats would bring in other things, but they did, and brilliantly. And it fits. It is part of the continuum of what he was doing. It is totally relevant. That's the point of what happened on January 6th. And so they could and should and would, you know, it was absolutely necessary for us to understand what happened. The context, as you say, on January 6th, to understand all these things that led up and all these things afterward, it's a kind of an inquiry into his state of mind. He says, oh, I didn't mean it. I didn't mean to have these people ride on the Capitol. Well, that's a crock. When you start looking at all the things he said to lead up and all the things he approved afterward, he meant it, every bit of it. And he's personally, completely responsible and that is so clear. And the Republicans who vote for him now are really distinguishing themselves in history. Let me go to Mitch McConnell's late night statement yesterday that he is releasing the GOP senators to vote their conscience, regardless if they voted against the constitutionality of this impeachment trial. What do you think, Jay? What do you think is behind that? Is there a political motive or is Mitch McConnell trying to really say it's okay to impeach Donald Trump? I think it's a caricature. I think he wants to straddle the issue. For him, it's not about the right thing and it's not about encouraging them to do the right thing. It's about staying out of harm's way politically for him. He doesn't wanna be the guy who led the charge for Trump, so he backs away. But at the same time, I wouldn't count on him voting against Trump in that vote. I think he's given us lies and misdirection many times and I can't believe all of a sudden he's found honesty. Well, I have to agree with you. Thank you, Jay.  Bruce Casper is one of the first defense attorney for Donald Trump and not to be an attorney or anything but if you watched his defense of Donald Trump, your job must have hit the table. He meandered, he brought up irrelevant things and then the points that he did try to make that would basically say that this trial was non-constitutional were silly. And one of them being that this was gonna create a division of Americans and it was only gonna add fuel to the fire by impeaching Donald Trump. Why don't we call that being in the constitution as a basis for not proceeding with a trial? He also said that if you were going to impeach Trump, you should have done something when he was in office. Well, that did actually occur. He wasn't impeached as a sitting president. Is this that the trial is taking place later? But also he said that you should have convicted him of a crime while he was president. Well, I guess the thing that it comes to my mind is we've been operating for four years under the DOJ opinion that no sitting president can be charged with a crime. So here he is saying that you should have charged him with a crime. Am I missing something or is Bruce Castor kind of out there on a limb by himself? Yeah, I'm not sure what is, I think it really doesn't honestly, it doesn't matter what he says. It didn't he say he should be arrested too? You know, the arguments were incoherent from all reports, but the reality is this. Stephanie asked last week, who is the base? The base is the half of the nation that voted for Donald Trump. The base is the 70% of Republicans who say they would consider joining the Donald Trump party. The base that was in Newsweek and Vox had a similar one that said something to that effect. Donald Trump apparently has been sitting back and just enjoying this because he knows he's gonna come out of it stronger. Emboldened and just with no rules and no guardrails because the Republican party as we have understood it or that we've been talking about doesn't exist anymore. And I think we need to disabuse ourselves of the notion that it does. That idea that maybe- Well, let me chime in on that point. I mean, what I'm hearing is something very disconcerting that is Donald Trump comes out of this stronger after the evidence of this deplorable insurrection on the government and the democracy of the United States and he comes out stronger. Yes, and that's just it. So there was an interesting article and as regular viewers to this show would know I have encouraged people to tune in to Fox News and give yourself 48 hours watching Fox. Now I would say you gotta move over to one American network or something else because as in Politico came out yesterday I spent 11 hours inside the MAGA bubble. It came out, it was the one American network and it was to show how the completely different source of news that might as well be in another language. This is fueling the 70%. This is fueling the conspiracy theories. The Republican party has decided it's like, what we've heard is that it's decided it's the big tent. It can have Q and on conspiracy theorists and people calling for the murder of Nancy Pelosi inside of the same room as people calling for fiscal conservatism. That doesn't work. And so the Republicans now, the olden days Republicans that we used to understand a principal conservative party, it may be down to 30% of people right now but honestly in the heart of hearts of Americans I think they might just be saying that yeah, it's just still the thumbing of the nose at the system for those 70% who said they would join Trump's party but I think we also have to take it seriously and whatever is gonna remain of the Republican party if it's a rump party or if Donald Trump actually splits the Republican party which is a very real possibility coming out of this. I think we need to plan on it and that this is impeachment theater on some level and I don't disagree with Jay that the Democrats have laid out a brilliant strategy or that this is vital for the nation but it's not the reckoning that we need. It's not accountability. We're not going to get the addressing of the near overthrow of the government that we had a month ago.  This is all gonna make him more powerful. Well, I like to go to the road of the problem that is the message and the messenger. And two weeks ago I would have said, you know it's high time that Joe Biden points someone at the FCC that's gonna crack down on false reporting and basically conspiracy as far as its news format and then something happened. Dominion or I forget the name of the parent company of Dominion Voting Machines started suing Fox News and individual news hosts. And I thought, well, gee, what's more effective either FCC trying to slap you on the hands that you're just putting out false information or is a $2.9 billion lawsuit more effective? And I'm starting to think that a punitive lawsuit maybe is the way that we square things around with those media agencies that are totally irresponsible. So this food for thought, Stephanie may go to you. Can I respond to that food? That you're playing fiscal? I think that is such a good point, Tim. It's so important to see the consequences that can be brought to these people to get them rethinking their situations or preparing to defend them if they can. But I was watching the Fed this morning on Boomburg and Larry Summers, the chief was on talking about our situation and where we are with data and unemployment and all the other factors of the economy. But my point is that the Biden proposal for the stimulus for the new CARES Act is gonna have a major impact on the economy in a positive direction as have had the other stimuli. And so it makes the point that bringing the fiscal data and actions to bear on what's going on in this country. And we need to pay attention to those because those have and the corporate concerns they have more impact now than our politics. Our politicians are just toothless, it's useless. So I'm so excited because that's why I understand better now why the Republicans are pushing back on Biden's package. And of course they want it smaller because this sucker package is gonna hit the rails here and it's gonna be a charge forward for this economy in a way because it's so huge. And it's gonna be- Well, I might take issue with that statement because if Americans are gonna get their $1,400, I'm sorry, but that's maybe a month and a half worth of rent. I don't see how that propels the economy. It's not gonna matter whether it's a thousand or two. That is the minimum, I mean, yes, that's 300 billion or something, but that is just one little part of it. That all of the other support to all of the other topics in that bill are just gonna kick this economy back going. So I'm very hopeful with this fiscal really taking us over the top based on the effects of- Well, if you're a consumer economy, if you're a consumer economy, which we are, I suppose that some of this being an introduction of these funds back into the economy on a consumer basis, you're probably right. However, until we get our manufacturing sector back and the things that make an economy stable and has longevity, that's where it's really at. Your gross national product, low unemployment, those are the staples of a strong economy, not consumer spending. But that's what his point was. And he went over the 20.9 billion or trillion of the GNP last year and the year before was just a little under that. And that this year with the stimulus package, we're gonna do that and better and it's gonna make a really big difference. All right. And it's not just as far as people are concerned individually. And I am so concerned about them, but then we're also not gonna have a bunch of homeless people on the street increased by having our renters kicked out or having property owners go bankrupt because they can't pay their mortgages because their renters aren't there. I mean, that thing was gonna cascade on us. So I can understand better. Yeah, those are two very good points. You're right, because that would trickle that would actually trickle into Wall Street too. Because that means the banks aren't getting paid. So that's why the Republicans are just stop this package and or make it a lot smaller even here. Yeah, no, good point, good point. Hey, Cynthia, good morning. So tell me, how is Donald Trump's defense doing? How are the defense attorneys taking care of Donald Trump because the rumor is Donald Trump was fuming mad last night after he listened to Bruce Caster. What do you think? What is his appointment? But oh my goodness, what?  Yeah, he's very close to me, but who's side are you on? Because he was saying things that the whole part about arresting him and I knew where he was trying to go, but he sure didn't go there. And then, you know, Shown, he looked like he was on drugs. I honestly, he was making fun. At first I thought maybe he was just nervous. And then you could tell when he wasn't shaking quite so much that he was still, you could hardly follow what he was saying. He was talking so fast. And that's what made me think, dude, lay off the water all. Oh my gosh. And then to make this big show about how we had to pause for the Sabbath for a show, right? And then, so they decide to give in to this big demand that he has made.  What's wrong? Yeah, do you have an explanation for that? Cause I certainly don't either. I mean, I thought it was very, they accommodated his request and then he said, forget it. I don't, I'm not sure I understand that. I don't either. I'll give you a theory on that. Go ahead, Jay. Yeah, Trump told them to reverse himself. Why? But whatever, you know, whatever Trump was ailing Trump, he had his own strategy and he dictates what the lawyers do. And he tries to get these stuges to speak for him. And both of those guys were stuges. It was clear. Did you see Donald Trump's strategy in play yesterday? I think God gave him a special dispensation to skip the Sabbath. You know, he's probably got a hotline. Well, I thought- I think he had a hotline to Trump. And the reality is that both of those guys were hired, you know, like hours before the trial began, they had no preparation. They didn't have command of the law, the facts or the arguments that Democrats are going to put forward. They were a complete disaster by any means. Let me go to that point with you, Cynthia. I want to go to Jay's point. Is there due process? That was one of the criticisms by I think Caster was, hey, we're not getting due process here. Is that a process or a problem of the process or no one wants to work for Donald Trump and he can't get an attorney well in advance and so they can prepare for a case? That's what's happened. He's lost. How many attorneys already that he hired and then they quit because they wouldn't do what he wanted them to do? Well, not only that, but he won't pay him if he doesn't like him. Who would want to work for you?  He likes Rudy Giuliani. He hasn't paid Rudy Giuliani either. So, you know, and this whole thing about Kevin McCarthy going down to kiss the ring of trying, I don't think he went down there to kiss the ring. I think he went down there to get the story straight before the trial started in ways that weren't going to be over the air since people might be listening. So he just- Well, let me, I don't understand. What story is straight? What do you mean? They were all in this together, all of them. And it was for quite a while. And, you know, watching this again as I watched the guys, the Capitol Police just get massacred, they were hung out to dry. Well, are you alleging that this is a full, a full throated conspiracy? That many of the senators and members of the house were all conspiring for this event to happen? That's a big, that's a bold statement, Cynthia. I know. I've always been making bold statements. And I might be making some sense by now. But, you know, and these are some of the things that make me think that, okay? Not just what's happened in the past, but what's happening now, okay? There are senators, the Republican senators, rude as you can be sitting there, going, reading the newspaper, going through papers like there's something more important than what's happening right now, you know? Not paying attention while they were showing the video. Not paying attention through most of it. I understand they were nonchalant and ignoring it basically, but I'm gonna go back to your point because you raise a good point. Now, this is not just an insurrection of our government, the Capitol and democracy, it's a crime scene. Yes. So if you are correcting it, if it would be proven that there was a conspiracy for this to happen and people died, we're now talking about a criminal conspiracy, not a civil one. Yes, exactly. That's a pretty big deal. So one of the things that makes me think that is that they showed, okay, during the attack, there was people, okay, sorry, they showed pictures of the senators dueling and whatnot during the impeachment, but they were talking about this during the break. And one of the people were talking about it, said they were doing the same thing on January 6th. Okay, that's what, it was Claire McCaskill, that's who it was that said it.  Not the one- Okay, all right. They were almost eating something else. Why weren't they scared? That was my big question. Why weren't they scared? Now, if you can answer that for me and it doesn't have anything to do with conspiracy, good on you. But for me, that's, okay. So Jay, you alluded to something on your first comment and that was the effect that this trial will have with all the evidence that's now being presented, a clear case of what happened and who was responsible, yet the impact to the country will be what? I'm not talking about the 74 million Trump followers, Trump voters, but what about the other half of the country? What impacts will this trial have upon them and will it change things more dramatically? Well, there's so many questions built into that, but let me try to go to it directly. Okay, he's going to be acquitted. That's the great likelihood. I mean, it's pie in the sky to think maybe they'll all cross the aisle, but there's no basis for that conclusion. So what happens if he's acquitted is he's emboldened and his base is emboldened. You know, he said that if he was convicted, his base would rise up and there'd be more violence. But we've seen that in the social media also. But likewise, if he's acquitted, his base would be emboldened and he will be emboldened. He'll do the same kinds of thing again. And he will cause them to insurrections and violence and state capitals, what have you, the kinds of things they've been doing all along, but there'll be worse. And I think in 2024, he will run and he'll be president if he keeps on doing all the things he was trying in the past election. And if he wins in 2024, I think we all have to look at foreign countries because it's a statement of, it's an analysis, an examination of how to hold onto power regardless of what the rule of law is. If he wins and there's a chance he would if he's acquitted. In 2024, the country's in the same kind of risk of worse than it was before the election. So I don't know if that answers your question, but I feel I'm not. Let me actually counterpoint on that one that he may be president in 2024 because my theory is the house and the Senate and the president will sign a law that says, before you become a presidential candidate, you'll have to go through a full mental evaluation, Donald Trump will fail. I'm not gonna do that. I said it was a theory. I said it was a theory. I didn't say it was a fact. Well, I think he's gonna begin his campaign against Congress almost immediately. You don't have to wait very long. And there'll be death threats to the Democrats and all the stunts he's built so far to be right back on it. And the proud boys will be right back on it. And you'll have the sporadic violence around the country if he wins. If he loses, there's also a chance that exact same thing will happen.  The founders could never have imagined. Well, maybe Mitch McConnell finally realizes that. Maybe that finally sunk into Mitch McConnell. Who knows? Maybe you're getting too much credit. I think I do. Okay, Jay, thank you. Hey, Winston, same question to you is what is the impact of this trial not only to the 74 million GOP voters that voted for Trump, but also those that didn't vote for the Democrats? What impact will this have on them? And how does that move forward with changes in either how we elect a president or the requirements that we demand from a president? Great question. Look, we've got a sane adult in the White House today. You didn't wake up and check his Twitter feed or anything else. You just knew that you got a man getting the job done, repairing the enormous damage and task reform that this nation faces. The reality is the nation is still entranced by Donald Trump for whatever reasons. Scary article that came out, Washington Post said Republicans came with the 90,000 votes of controlling all of Washington. And I think we need to, they're not Republicans. That's the party, but it's the vehicle of Donald Trump. It's re-trumplicans or it's something else. 90,000 votes, just 43,000 max on some sides in the right counties. We would have ended up with very different results. Christian Science Monitor has, and that one on Washington Post was yesterday, I believe. Christian Science Monitor comes out, was January 6th the end of an era or the start of a new dangerous one. Radical extremism has been rising and has deep roots. This is really important. I think people should read up on that, which leads to the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, signing a military stand down memo to address extremism on February 6th. This is in the United States military. And as I thought Slate had an interesting very short article by Fred Kaplan on February 3rd, which called this the GOP's Bolshevik moment, comparing it, which in an unfair way, but it said that the party's no enemies to the right strategy could destroy it from within. Of course, the Bolsheviks had no enemies from the left. I think that what we have to do is realize this is just gonna happen. This trial's a sham. We already know the conclusion. We will have facts for historians, assuming that they aren't purged in some future dystopia. But right now we have to focus on getting the country back into shape. Hopefully that will wake up people. And the people like Mitch McConnell, he may be running under a Democratic ticket in four years or six years because his party doesn't exist anymore. So we don't know what the future will look like, but I think we have to just buckle down, do the work that we can, rebuild the nation and just pray that people wake up and understand the damage that has been done to our nation and that it cannot be repeated again. Well, there's nothing wrong with prayer. Thank you very much, Winston. Hey, we're out of time, but I wanna go around for last comments. Stephanie, I'm sorry that we've run out of time here. Cynthia, same as for you. But last comment, please. Well, yeah, thank you, Tim. It's been a great program. Thanks everybody, I just agree with you. But I think Winston's points are very good and how can we support our leaders to rebuild our structures? I mean, we've got all this gerrymandering. We've got to get the DC in as a state. We've got to change things. That's got to be taken on by Biden once he gets this package through. Certainly he must see that. Maybe it's our responsibility to remind the people that represent us, there's Maisie and Shad. So I mean, we need to work on getting information forward from citizens, yes. All right, okay. Thank you very much. Cynthia, last words. There was an opinion piece in the Washington Post by Adam Kinzinger. And I want to pull a quote out of that for you guys that said, my fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America. That's my closing thought. Thank you very much. Yeah, well put. And he really is an American hero. He knows he's going to bear the slings and arrows of GOP wrath and he doesn't care. He's out for America first, not his party. Thank you. Jay, last words. Yeah, I think that some Republicans will come over, but not 17. So I think we'll have an acquittal. I also think that the notion of conciliation that Joe Biden has been trying to advocate for in the past few weeks, there's a chance of greater conciliation going forward because of this trial. And he may have greater control of the Senate and therefore a lot of the things that happen in the Senate. But on balance, my prediction is that Biden is going to have to get tougher and that's too bad because it would have been better if this had been done on a completely conciliatory basis. And I think we're going to see some bisticuffs from him. And I welcome that because that's the only way you deal with a pathological party. Could agree with you more. Thank you, Jay. Winston, last word. President's Day, 15th. I'm really looking forward to celebrating the current president of the United States and other great presidents who've come before him. But he is our man of the hour. He is leading us out of this morass. And we each have to look within and work with our family and friends on having them understand what we need to do together to recover our nation. Alrighty, I want to thank you, Winston. Winston Welch, Jay Fiedel, Stephanie Dalton, Cynthia Leeson-Claire. Thank you very much again for joining Rediscovering America. I'm Tim Apachele, your host, and we'll see you again Wednesday at 11 o'clock. Aloha and be well.


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It's such a pain when it's so heavy and they are both charging right now. So that is cool.  Miss Money Quaint. Where are you? I miss you. She doesn't miss me though. Let's see who we got today. I don't know. I feel like I just want to use either of these today. I swear I don't like do anything harmful to them. Like they look really ratchet and scary. Girl, look a little better. You're on camera, please. Please. Here we go. See, she loves her life. And then we got our Miss Bangy Bang over here. I love her hair. I don't know. I just think it's so fun. We're going to do both.  Woo! Miss Money Quaint number 643 and 644. Little matcha latte. Mm, mm, mm. I'm ready.    It's not going to happen. I don't want it to happen. I don't want to deal with real people.  The chance that I get to not have to. Why is my hair gray today? It's aging me like 20 years. I don't want to deal with real people. That's all I was trying to say. Hey girl, you're going to have to pop down on the floor for a second for daddy. Okay. Welcome. Let's do a little testeroo with the Scoobadoobadoo. I've only actually owned one other wireless curling iron and it has not been a battery pack sort of thing. You charge it and then you can use it. Which now that I said it out loud, it's the same thing, right? You charge it, you can use it. However, these batteries, you can buy multiple of them. When this one dies, you can take it out and grab the other one. So you just have endless battery life, which I have never seen before.  So let's see how fast this baby goes on. It is on. We are cooking. I'm putting it up to max, baby. I love a good max heat moment. Why do I say this to you like that? I love a good max heat moment. Why does that even mean? I can smell it heating. And it stands. That's a plus. Five stars for standing. I'm gonna give it like three stars for appeal. I don't personally like this color. I would rather it just be black or silver or white or something just super plain, but that is Harry Josh's brand. I don't even like everything. It is fully heated up. That took like a minute and a half maybe. Let's try this baby out. Let's give a first opinion on the wireless moment. It worked. Let me just do a few more curls and see what opinions I have forming here. I already told you this. I don't like wands very much. I just think I constantly burn myself and I like the way you can get a more flat way when you have the clamp on the iron. I think these waves are a little bit too bubbly for me. Personally, I like that more like lived in look. So I wish there was a clamp. I mean, it just seems like an easy fix to put a clamp. Guys, just not having the cord on here. It is a savior. Oh my God.  Harry, if you're here, can you come out? Can you see I just burnt myself? See what you did? Because there's no clamp. It comes with a glove, but I just can't use it. I don't want to. Anyways, I was saying if you could come up with a blow dryer that is cordless. I will literally, I don't know, do anything. All right, five stars for like functionality. It's like I have no swivel cord going to my elbow and getting around my arm and moving all around and being annoying. I will say I would give it like a two for like not having a clamp because that's like annoying. Honestly, she's getting some great waves here. Whoa, I'm actually like really enjoying this and I just keep going and doing more curls because it's like fun. Ooh, whoa, it looks so pretty on camera. Obviously it's not ideal that there is only one curling iron size. In an ideal world, I would love if this could pop off this part of the iron and it could be replaced with different sizes. Like that would give me, wow, this is incredible. I think with one side it's not giving too much versatility. This little bristle tip we saw before, it is in fact to hold the ends of the hair like that as you curl. All right, I just did the entire side of her head because I got bored and like just started doing it. This goes right back into the charger is charging now and that was pretty dope. You can put it down in between curls and let it charge and she looks stunning. Obviously they're very, oh, I missed a piece. Happens to all of us, huh? Wow, I'm so silly. I will say the fact that there is only one size. I'm gonna get like a two out of five stars. I don't particularly like a one inch curling iron. I feel like it's just really, really curly on most hair and yeah, I like a more relaxed, chill look. So I wish I could change that out.  You can tell that the heat distribution on the iron is very even because from roots to ends you're getting amazing curl and a lot of shine in her hair. Like her hair doesn't look damaged or dull. It looks really beautiful. That was so quick. I didn't have to plug in anything. I didn't have to switch the batteries out. This has 40 minutes of charge on one battery pack. So that's pretty incredible. The only other hair tool I have that is chargeable is the Dyson Corral and this only lasts for 30 minutes. And this tool costs $325. So is it cheap? Absolutely not. Is this like a luxury purchase? Yes, of course. You know, hopefully these things last you 10 years.  So these are our investment pieces. This is gonna make your life a lot easier. I'm gonna give it like a four out of five stars for price. I feel like we could bring it down. I think in the $275 range is something that I would probably, if I was just an average consumer, I would pay for this. $300 is pushing it for a curling iron for me. Let me show you an example of what you could do if you did have both of these items and say your client or you or anybody just wants to curl your hair. So basically what you would do is, oh, this is dead, my next client's here. Let me take that out. Whoop, put a new one on. Whoop. And then once this one dies, you switch it back out for this one. They just keep going. It's never ending battery life. Oh, like I just need to have a second to myself. Thank you. I'm just so grateful for chargeable tools. I could cry.  That is what I want in life. Thank you for allowing me to have that moment to myself. All right, the flat iron. I don't know. I think I'm gonna have a few minor issues with this one just because I'm doing on the same client. I'm not using Miss Brown hair because she is a mess and I don't feel like dealing with it. Sorry, but this is all you get today. All right, let's pop my battery in here. Lock it in place. Let's turn this on. As you know, the competitor to this is clearly the Dyson Crow. A few things I want to point out here. This is longer, which whatever.  The biggest problem I have with the Dyson Crow is that it is so chunky, so heavy. It literally hurts my arm.  And I'm not a fan of that. The heat up time, it seems to be very similar to the Dyson Crow and it has 50 minutes of power on this and it has 30 on this.  I need a comb. Com, I need a comb. I definitely like flat irons that are on the thinner side. Because I just feel like I can get close to the root and it's easier. Let's just give it a go, all right? Okay, let, oops. Ooh, see that's annoying. I accidentally touched the button. I'm gonna give that a one out of five stars. It is in a very inconvenient spot. My finger is always right here when I'm flat ironing and the corral has the temperature gauges and the insides, you do not accidentally touch it. Like I just turned the iron down accidentally and that drives me nuts. I will say it is not snagging on the hair at all. That is beautiful. It is definitely gliding through. It does not have the bendable plates like the corral has. Do I know for sure that these are like super beneficial to have? No, but it's like nice in theory, right? These do bend wherever there's like a big chunk of hair. They kind of surround that hair no matter if it's an uneven amount of hair or it's an even amount of hair. That was the worst way of explaining that ever. So this just has very ordinary plates. It feels like an ordinary flat iron. It does feel much lighter and it's doing a great job at making our hair nice and smooth, which I also love. All right, let me finish this out of her head and I'll give you some more opinions. Boom, look how sleek and shiny. Am I seeing like any kinds of huge breakthroughs when it comes to the flat iron? No, it's pretty much like a standard flat iron from what I can see. Like there is no new innovative technology when it comes to the plates like the corral. They're a bit different than the corral.  This one looks ceramic. I can, I guess I can check. They are ceramic and the Dyson is like, fine, I'll look it up. Jesus. They're a complex Magnes copper alloy plate, bougie. Okay, I don't know if that's better or worse, but it is innovative, a bit more than ceramic because ceramic is like the classic, the one that everybody goes with and this is a bit different. I do think on the corral there is a bit more attention to detail when it comes to the buttons, the functionality, the way this locks, the look of it, the feel of it. I think it's very beautiful. I like that the plates come to the edge of the iron whereas this one falls a bit short from the edge, which is kind of annoying when you're trying to get up really close to the roots. So overall, I think it works well and I still love the concept of switching these out. The biggest issue with the corral is I've had this die on me many times and then I have to use it with the cord.  You can't switch a battery out. This could be charging while I'm doing the other person and then I switched it out and I can keep going forever. Five out of five stars for having the battery be interchangeable. That is a huge advantage over the Dyson Corral. I love this charging dock. To have this in your bathroom or on your station at the salon, I think it's super convenient and there's just no mess. There's no cords. The amount of times a day you have to rattle up your cords and make sure they're all organized and so nothing gets all tangled together literally makes me want to die.  I'm quite impressed. Plus price. The Dyson Corral is $500 whereas the Harry Josh flat iron is $350. So $150 savings. We just gotta think, is it worth it?  So let me put my thoughts together and give you some closing statements about these two Harry Josh tools that just came out. So Mr. Harry Josh, let's talk. These are my final closing thoughts if you should spend $300 plus on either of these items. Let's start off with the curling iron. There is really not many other tools around to compare it to. I would give this tool overall four out of five stars which is really great, right? I think the things that it's lacking is, well first of all, the price is just a little high in my opinion. The other two major things are the lack of a clamp and the non interchangeable sizes of the wand. That's a pretty standard thing nowadays and I really enjoy changing out my wand easily and not having to bring multiple with me to shoots or anything that I do outside of the salon. So that's my only critique with that. I do think that the idea of having this be interchangeable batteries puts it out of four out of five. Like there's nothing else like it so there's nothing else to really compare it to and I would definitely purchase if I had the extra money laying around, if I were you, it'd be a great investment and I think it would last you a long time. Now the flat iron, we gotta compare it to the corral, right? I would give this also a four out of five stars. The on and off button needs to move. That is my number one thing. Super annoying to have it there. It's just an ordinary flat iron. There's nothing like totally special about it. Besides the biggest special thing about it, which is the interchangeable battery. I keep saying it's over and over again, way better than having this thing die. This lasts nearly twice as long on one battery pack compared to this one. Once this dies, you can replace it and you can go all day long without having to use a cord because I often have to plug this one in, which nobody ever tells you. Based off of that and the fact that it's $150 less than this one, I might grab for this one first. It's hard because I would also give this one a four out of five stars. So you kind of gotta think what is best for you. Both of these tools have great things about them and not so great things about them. It just depends on what you're looking for and what your needs are. Having an interchangeable battery pack for me is the most important part of all. So I would probably choose this over the corral. For you, it might be to make sure that your hair is as healthy as possible and there is no pulling on your hair and maybe the battery is not as important to you and the technology is more important then maybe the Dyson crowd will be better for you. Do I like these tools? Hell yeah. I think Harry Josh, she did a great job with you and your team at creating these tools. I think they are, let me get the branding in there for you. I think they're innovative and awesome and they will definitely be a part of my toolkit from now on. So that is it. That is my fabulously chaotic review of these two new gadgets that I just bought. If you wanna check out my hair color or my hair color line you can do so with the links right down below or go to xmodohair.com. That is all for today. Thank you for watching.  And I'll see you next time. Bye.


So now that we've gone through the process of mitosis and the process of meiosis, we're going to look at how they stack up against each other. So for the introduction of both, we talked about reproduction, how it's a characteristic of life and how it's often thought of on a macro scale and a micro scale. The first comparison between the two is that meiosis is responsible for macro scale reproduction, where offspring comes from the process of sexual reproduction. So people beget more people. This is really necessary when it comes to propagation of the species for creating future generations and allowing genetic variability within those generations. On the micro scale, mitosis is responsible for these processes, where cells divide to make more cells and these cells are genetically identical. It happens at an exponential rate and it's necessary when you talk about things like growth, not only increase in size, but growth of tissue, wound repair, and asexual reproduction. Another comparison between the two is that they both start off in interphase. They go through the same G1, S, and G2 phases that comprise interphase. During the S phase, there is duplication of DNA, so duplication of all of that chromatin from 2N to 4N. Mitosis is going to follow this 4N duplication with one cell division, meaning that 4N will be divided up into two daughter cells that will both be 2N in nature or diploid. Meiosis is going to follow this duplication with two consecutive divisions, meaning that the 4N cell that's created during interphase will undergo two divisions that results in four haploid cells. So you can follow the math 2 plus 2, 4, 1, 1, 1, all the way across four. Now both of these methods of reproduction are going to be necessary for propagation of the species and species survival. Mitosis is the avenue that supports life. It's going to be evident in daily activities like growth and wound repair. This is considered to be a conservative division. It's a conservative division because one diploid cell yields two identical diploid daughter cells. So you're conserving the number of chromosomes you have, not only the number of chromosomes, but also their layout, their organization, their genetic makeup. Mitosis is going to give us the avenue that allows our species to propagate from generation to generation by producing offspring. It also provides for evolution with the genetic variability and crossover effects that happen in prophase 1. This is where one diploid cell is going to yield four genetically varying haploid daughter cells. So this is considered to be a reductive division where 4N is going to be broken down and split up among four daughter cells. So the next comparison we have between mitosis and meiosis is that the order of the phases that they occur is the same. If you remember back, we have please make another try or I pass my anatomy test. Same order happens here. With mitosis you have PMAT, meiosis 1, PMAT, meiosis 2, PMAT. So it's the same order. Once you learn the order, it's going to be carried on through for the rest of cell divisions. The only difference is that with meiosis, there are two consecutive cell divisions versus with mitosis there are only one. So with meiosis, these two divisions have an extra notation that follows them as one or two so that you know what is happening in which stage. So next, the starting product of mitosis is the same as meiosis 2 but not as meiosis 1. Meiosis 2 and mitosis are going to be very similar processes. They're almost identical. However, the ending products for those will be different. With meiosis 1, it starts off with a tetrad of chromosomes. A tetrad is going to be one pair of homologous chromosomes, those two X's that we saw drawn previously. So meiosis 1 starts off with the tetrad, meiosis 2 and mitosis both start off with one chromosome which is composed of two sister chromatids attached by a central centromere. During anaphase of mitosis, the sister chromatids are going to split apart so they're pulled apart from that centromere and one sister chromatid will head to each pole. This is the same event that happens in anaphase 2 of meiosis 2. However, meiosis 1 remember was different. During meiosis 1 in anaphase, the tetrad will separate and a homologous chromosome will be pulled to either pole. So while you can see that mitosis and meiosis 2 are very similar, the ending products for all three are going to be different. For mitosis, the ending product is one starting diploid cell, two genetically identical daughter cells. With meiosis 1, you start off with one a diploid cell and you're going to end up with two genetically varying diploid cells. Those diploid cells then begin meiosis 2 and are carried on to form four genetically varying haploid cells. I hope that this really clears up some of the confusion that goes along with understanding mitosis and meiosis other than the fact that their names sound so similar. So I hope that you can go through now and create your own chart. Start off with detailing the differences between the two processes to really show how proficient you are with this topic. Best of luck. Thank you.


There is no secret that women are historically facing greater barriers than men when it comes to participating in the economy across geographies and income levels. Disparities between men and women persist in the form of pay gaps, uneven opportunities for advancements, and unbalanced representation in important decision making, aka leadership. What is the reason that is holding back women from achieving a high position? A major question that is always raised when it comes to the topic of women in Islam, when it's debated, does Islam promote or forbid women from achieving high positions joining us tonight? And once again, Sayed Hussain Al-Qazweeni, to discuss this topic and linking it to tonight's topic, which is Fatima the leader, respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome to the fourth episode of Zahra the Great with me, your host, Ahmad Ali. As-salamu alaikum Sayyidina. How are you? How are you? Now, before we begin for the dear viewers who are just tuning in, if you would like to view the previous episodes, you can visit our YouTube channel at Imam Hussain 3 TV. Sayedina, in the previous episodes we talked about Fatima the daughter, Fatima the mother, Fatima the wife. And tonight, after discussing the show, you wanted to mention or you wanted to name the title of this episode, Fatima the leader. What is your intention? What do you mean behind that? What did Fatima the Zahra contribute? What did she do? As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. There is no doubt that Fatima the Zahra, alayhi salam, although the period in which her role was featured, and the spotlight was on her, was, you know, several weeks. If we take from the death of Rasulullah till her martyrdom, and there's three narrations on her martyrdom, one is the 40th, meaning 40 days after the demise of the Prophet, another narration states 75 days, another narration states 95 days. Which word come already knows? Let's take the 95 day narration. 95 days means three months and five days. Yes. Fatima the Zahra was under the spotlight for three months and five days. No doubt that she did have a leadership role. Her leadership, you know, isn't the leadership of men as in entering battlefields, leading an army, becoming an army general, or the head of state, head of government.  No. Fatima the Zahra was none of the above, however, the role that she played. And her role started from the demise of Rasulullah, the same day, from the day of his burial, from the day of the attack on her house. Her role began. Fatima the Zahra, alaihi salam, had several achievements. One was after the physical attack on her house, and this is in several narrations, in Sunni, let alone Shi'a narrations. Of course the Sunni narrations do not discuss the actual attack. Sunni narrations, they stop short, they admit to the bringing of wood and fire. They admit to that some of the Sahaba threatened to burn the house. We'll talk about these things tomorrow. They admit to many of these things, but they stop short from actually admitting that the house was attacked. Anyhow, Fatima the Zahra comes out to the Masjid when Amir al-Mu'minin was dragged to give bay'ah to Abu Bakr. Fatima the Zahra followed them. She could have stayed at home. She was injured. Physically she was injured. She had to stay home. Rather she left with her injury. She came to the Masjid to defend Imam Ali, alaihi salam. She was afraid for his life.  And now I'm the daughter of Rasulullah. Rasulullah, his grave is still wet from burial. This was one of the first positions. This was a strong position against the authority at the time. Another very well-known position that Fatima the Zahra took was the incident of the speech of Fadik. Perhaps we might talk about this tomorrow night. When Fadik was taken, Fatima the Zahra came to the Masjid.  She was fully covered with full hijab. Some say that there was a curtain stopping men from seeing her. Others say no, there was no curtain, but she was fully covered. And she gave one of the most powerful political speeches of all time. It was a political speech. It was about Fadik, but she turned it into something a lot bigger than Fadik. A lot bigger than Fadik. Because as one of the Imams, one of the later Imams was asked, how big is Fadik? One of the Khulafa of Bani Umayyah asked one of our later Imams. He told me, tell me the dimensions of Fadik. He thought it's a land. It's like a garden. It's like a garden. He told him, do you want the numbers? Or do you want the real size of Fadik? He said, no, give me the real size of Fadik. The Imam told him Fadik starts from China, up to Morocco, from Samarkand. The Imam basically gave him the dimensions of the Islamic Ummah. He told him, this is Fadik. Meaning this is the real Fadik. Our argument is not on a piece of land called Fadik. The actual Fadik is the Khulafa. You see? It's the leadership of the Muslims. I got lost because many narrations state that's a piece of land. It is a piece of land. It is a piece of land. But what Fadimah Tizahara was actually arguing over was not a piece of land. Was the leadership. Was the leadership. Was the Khulafa. Why? Because Fadimah Tizahara saw that if she remains quiet on a piece of land, you know, she has to remain quiet on everything else.  Her point was not about Fadik. Because Fadimah Tizahara saw this, that today I will argue over Fadik. If I receive Fadik, tomorrow I'll argue over the Khulafa. I'll argue over the Khulafa. So Fadimah Tizahara's philosophy was that let's do this in stages. So technically she meant the land. Technically she meant the land, but her objective was much bigger. Yes. Was much bigger. In that speech, it was a very powerful speech.  Yeah. Buried. They were buried. They were abused physically, emotionally. They had no rights. They were enslaved. They were enslaved. Their inheritance would be taken. You know, all kinds of exploitation would occur with women. All of a sudden you have a young lady come inside the masjid in front of a lot of men, in front of an authority that just usurped power. She stands without any fear to speak and speak so eloquently. Fadimah Tizahara, it's not like she said and she memorized a speech. No, it was impromptu. It was impromptu and she gave the most powerful speech that you say that my father had stated that prophets, whatever they leave, is charity. The Qur'an says, wawaratha Sulaimanu Dawood. There's no inheritance for the prophets. The Qur'an says that Dawood inherited, that Sulaiman inherited Dawood. Zakaria says, wa habni milladun qawalia yarithuni wa yarithum min aliaqub. Grammy, a son that will inherit me. What you're saying contradicts the Qur'an. You, ya ababak, you inherit your father, but I don't inherit my father. These are powerful words. And this shows the beauty of Islam. Because if it wasn't for Islam elevating women and giving them rights and giving them their privileges, Fadimah Tizahara would not have been able to speak in such a way. But because she knew that through the message of her father and through the message of the Qur'an and through the work of 23 years, Rasulullah had worked so much to elevate the status of women that Fadimah Tizahara could speak freely. And she couldn't be, this is leadership. This was Fadimah Tizahara's leadership.  This is definitely, to me, this is leadership. I mean, according to some, to many, they say that Fadimah Tizahara is an infallible. She built her courageousness, if you will, from her infallibility. So she was able to do that. We don't see any women in the history of Islam other than Fadimah Tizahara and Zaynab A.S. who actually play the leadership position, if you will. After the message of Rasulullah and after, we see Fadimah Tizahara and Zaynab. We don't see any women. In the history of Islam? In the history of Islam. Or in general. And, well, I mean, after, if she set that role model, why is it only her? First of all, I disagree. We see it, though. I mean, it's history. Right. First of all, we have other examples of figures that made political statements. For example, like Asya, the wife of Fara'un. She wasn't Muslim, although she followed Prophet Moses. But she followed him. From our history, from our history. Well, first of all, we have to realize that this is a male-dominated society. This is a male-dominated society. It wasn't easy for them to accept the equality between men and women. These are people that took women. They enslaved their women. The women were basically prisoners at home. They couldn't leave the house. They were treated the same way that a slave is treated. They were killed and infanticide. So first of all, you have to acknowledge this, that this was a male-dominated society. But despite that, we see several female figures. One, Musa Maka, who is this? I believe right now, if I have a mistake in her name or her name is Musa Maka, a female from the Sahaba, from the companions of Rasulullah, who was at the Battle of Uhud. She fought. She fought when all of the companions of the Prophet left him except five, except four men, and she was the fifth. Except five people. Four men and one female, and she was one of them. She took a stick and wanted to defend Rasulullah. And she defended Rasulullah. She came in the battlefield to defend Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, as a female figure. We have some companions of Rasulullah, some of the Sahabiyat who would come to the battles, but not to fight, to nurse.  Rasulullah would take some women with him to battle, but not to enter the battlefield, to nurse. To nurse the men. This was their jihad. The jihad of men was to fight. The jihad of women was to nurse those who were injured. These are, this is leadership. They could have stayed at home, but they decided to listen to Rasulullah and go out. Some of the wives of Rasulullah were in great leadership positions. Khadija, alaihi sallam. If it wasn't for her wealth and her leadership, Islam would have been in danger. Umus Salama. You know, we rarely talk about some of the other wives of Rasulullah. Some of the other pious wives of Rasulullah, Umus Salama. Umus Salama was one of the great wives of Rasulullah. She was knowledgeable. Sometimes she would answer questions. They would come to her to ask her questions and she would ask, I'm sorry, she would answer questions based on her knowledge of the Quran and her knowledge of the traditions of Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi sallam, and some of the others. So, but why don't we see more? You have to remember, it was a male dominated society. Women were not comfortable to coming out and being in leadership positions.  Now, one of the questions that is raised, and that comes to my mind, is that over the past few decades, and after many debates and many protests on the streets, women in the West have been given a chance, a small chance to lead. You can't say a chance, because a chance may have limits, may not have limits. A very small chance to lead. We see people like Hillary Clinton, we see like Theresa May, and... Angela Merkel. Angela Merkel. Now, these are a few out of how many leaders we have around the world. Does Islam give women the opportunity to lead? It's, this is a very sensitive topic. I mean, a lot of people in debates, as you mentioned, wherever you go, wherever the topic is women in Islam, this question has to be raised. Why are Muslim women always in the house? Why don't they leave? Why don't they work? They do work, but some people are, they're blind or their ego blinds them. I don't know, but this question's always raised. Does Islam give opportunities to women to lead? Or are they ordered to be followers? It's true. Today in the West, you'll find female politicians in Germany, in the UK. It was almost going to happen in the US. There have been female politicians that reached power or some were almost going to reach power. The West gave them that opportunity. Supposedly in the West, there's no gender barriers. A woman could reach wherever a man reached. However, you have to remember that this didn't happen from, this didn't happen a long time ago. In the US, couple of days, decades ago, women were given the right to vote. They didn't have the right to vote. In the UK, in the UK, less than 150 years ago, less. Women did not have the right to ownership. They couldn't own, they couldn't own. It's only been 150 years ago that in the UK, women are able to own and the US women are able to vote and they were given these rights. These rights didn't exist before. Some people will debate, Islam has been 1400 years. Islam has given these rights. Islam has given these rights. We should differentiate between what Islam has given women and what have Muslims given women because they're not the same. When it comes to Islam, Islam has given women the right to ownership from day one, women can own. In fact, we have law stating that a man has absolutely no authority, a husband, has no authority to touch the wealth of his wife. Even if she's richer than him, he has to spend. She doesn't have to spend on the family. She doesn't have to spend on herself. The husband has to spend on her. That means she can own. She has the right to own, own homes, lands, wealth, businesses. Sayyid al-Khadeegah was a businesswoman. She was a businesswoman. Also, Allah needed her for a loan. And then it was actually a mubarak, it was a loan. It was profit sharing. Anyhow, Islam has given women the right to own, to work. We don't have a single law that states women are not allowed to work and not allowed to enter the workforce. In fact, in the West, when women enter the workforce, when was it? Historians tell us that when women entered the labor force, it was after World War I. Yeah, in the factories. They entered the factories. Why? Because so many men, millions of men, had joined the war. These factories needed workers and they needed cheap labor. They brought women. These women were exploited. One, they would work more hours than men did. Two, they were paid less than men were paid. And when men, after World War I, when many men came back, these women lost their jobs. They lost their jobs. This is exploitation. And those who remained at work, they weren't able to receive promotions. Even, this exists till today. Till today in sociology, we learn about the glass ceiling. A woman, a man and a woman in the same company, in the same workplace, the man has more chances of receiving a promotion than the woman. Why? Because a woman might get pregnant, she might get married, get pregnant and have a child. She'll have to leave the work. So men, so these companies, they think they assume that having a man is more productive than having a woman. They'll give him the promotion, but not the woman. Can we continue this, but after a short break? Absolutely. If you want, insha'Allah. Respect the viewers. Do stay tuned for after the break, we'll continue our discussion. Stay tuned. Respect the viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam, as-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Once again, I welcome you to the second part of tonight's episode, where me and my dear guest, Sayed Hassan Al-Qazweeni, have been talking about achieving a high leadership position for women in Islam or in general. Welcome, as-salamu alaikum. Thank you very much. As-salamu alaikum as-salam. Before the break, we touched upon a few key points. We touched upon the Islamic history and the viewpoint of women being in leadership. And we also touched upon some of the things that have been going on through history that just up to a few decades ago were solved. The being in the workforce for women and them getting and the pay wage, the gap between men and women, it's huge. A study that was done in 2015 says out of the top 500 companies, fortune companies around the world, especially in America, 21 women out of 500 actually became CEOs of that. So the ratio is huge. So we find that even today, I mean, 2015 was just two years ago. So today we find that such idea still exists. Yet, I'm going to ask you the question again, does Islam provide women, Muslim women, the opportunity to work? Or be in a leadership position? Absolutely, absolutely. First of all, going back to the wage gap, in Islam there's no such thing as wage gap, Islam says you respect the person's work. Regardless of who they are. I mean, for inheritance, there is. For inheritance, inheritance is another issue. Inheritance is another issue. But when it comes to wages, Islam says we respect a person's actions, regardless of who they are. If they perform an action, they deserve that wage, whether it's a man or a woman, just because this person's a man, it doesn't mean that he should earn more than a woman. All the jobs, all the professions, wherever men reach, women can also reach. This is not something. Has this been proven, religiously, Islamically? There's nothing in Islam that stops women. Has this been implemented? That's our fault. That's the fault of Muslims. But we're talking about Islam now. Islam doesn't prevent, if men can become doctors and engineers and scientists, politicians, women can too. Wherever men reached, women have reached. We'll go on and stuff further. Some jurists, not just today, not just today. Please don't tell me they're leading. You know, over 400 years ago, al-Muqaddas al-Ardabili, al-Muqaddas al-Ardabili, who was in Najaf, his date of death is 993, I believe, after Hijrah. We're 1438 after Hijrah. His year of death is 993. All over 400 years ago. Over 400 years ago. In his book, his major compendium on fiqh, Majma al-Fa'idati wal-Burhan, he talks about judges, judges and who is qualified to be a judge and what are the conditions of being a judge? Do you have to be a male? So he says that most scholars believe that you have to be a male to be a judge. And he says, well, let's see what proof they have. He talks about the proof. And he says, this isn't proof. This isn't proof. This is not evidence. This is weak. This does not prove to me that women cannot be judges. And then he reaches the final conclusion that women can be judges in Islam, in courts. As long as they fulfill other conditions, such as being a much-tehid, having the ability to derive an Islamic law, they're religious. All the other conditions, a woman can become a judge. Today, there are contemporary scholars in Iran and Iraq that believe women can become judges. There are some that even went further to say we do not have proof, sufficient proof to stop women from becoming maraja. For example, the Sheikh Mohammed Hussain al-Asfahani, also known as al-Kompani al-Asfahani, one of the teachers of Sayyid al-Khoi. We're talking about 150 years ago. A hundred years ago, a hundred years ago. He said this a hundred years ago, that we don't have sufficient proof to stop women from becoming maraja. Sayyid al-Muhassin al-Hakim, Sayyid al-Muhassin al-Hakim. This was his opinion, that we don't have sufficient proof to stop women from being maraja. If they have studied, they are capable of giving an opinion, an educated opinion on matters of Islamic law. We'll take it from him. Just like we refer to a female doctor and a female engineer. We refer to female experts and professionals. We refer to them in Islamic law as well. This is a turning point. This is a huge step. Men can follow female jurists. No, I'm not here to issue a fetwa.  Exist, but when, for example, if I make a point, for the dear viewers, we have to clarify. And for example, if, say for right now, a woman came out and declared her scholarship. She says from now on and... Most scholars say you can't follow her. Most. But I'm saying that there are. You will find some decisions. For females or can she be for females or no? Well, if she could be, she could be for everyone. Not just females. In fact, in the biography of Shahid al-Awwal, Shahid al-Awwal, Shamsuddin Muhammad ibn Makki, Shahid al-Awwal from Lebanon. He had his wife and his daughter. His daughter Fatima Sittil Mashaikh. This was her name. Fatima Sittil Mashaikh. Shahid al-Awwal, she was a jurist. She was a much-tahda. The legal freedom in his book, when he talks about Fatima Sittil Mashaikh, he says she was a much-tahda. Her father would ask women, he would say don't refer to me. You don't even need to ask me questions. Ask my daughter questions. He would get women to refer to her. This is leadership. And his wife, meaning her mother, Ummu Ali. His wife, Ummu Ali, was also a jurist. Shahid al-Awwal would ask women to refer to her. I remember once I did a study, and I came across at least 15 female Mujtahids in our history. At least those that I came across. There's many that I don't know about. Mujtahids, they reached this position, this academic level of knowledge. Islam doesn't stop women from becoming leaders. Islam does not put a barrier on women. Allah says, man amila salihan min dhakkarin, wa untha fil anuhiyannuhu haiaatan ta'ibah. Allah swt doesn't discriminate between men and women. All the opportunities that are laid down for men, there are laid down for women as well. Yes. There are some details. There are some differences on the issue of inheritance, on the issue of witnessing. Even those are debated today. Even those are debated. It's not a discrimination. When Islam says that a woman's testimony is half of that of a man, it's not because of discrimination against her. No. There is a special context. These laws have to be contextualized. The verse that speaks of a woman's testimony is half of that of a man. It's a verse that discusses financial issues, seeking out a loan, buying and selling. Usually women, because they don't pay it back then, back then, today it might be a different case. Back then, because women did not deal so much with money, usually it's demand that buys and sells, they might not remember, especially numbers. How much did you buy? How much did you sell? This is something normal. People remember the things that pertain to them the most. Talk about the stock market. Even today, who will tell you if stocks went up or down? Men or women? Usually it's the men. Women tend to remember the things that pertain to them. Men remember the things that pertain to them. This is something normal. Islam says that if a woman witnessed, let her have another witness. Why? Because she might forget. She might forget. It's not a matter of discrimination against women. It's a matter of memory. Who remembers better? On this topic, on this topic, matters of money, business, loans, you bought this, you bought that, you sold that for how much? It's not a discrimination, it's not an issue of discrimination. After all the development that the world went through, is there a need? For example, for business or money, there's receipts, there's bank statements, there's various ways you can go about proving something that is right or wrong. I need another woman. For example, in Shari'a al-Islam al-Muhaqq al-Halli, he says that if you owe me money, and I only have one witness and she's a female, he says that's fine, one female witness, and I have to swear that you owe me money, that's enough. One female witness, plus swearing by God, that you owe me money, that's enough. That's enough. Today there's a lot of developments, of course, there's a lot of reform in Islamic fiqh, and there's a lot of laws that were previously accepted and were popular. Today they're being reassessed and they're being revised. My point is that women can be leaders. There's not a single fatwa that says a woman cannot be a president, or a prime minister, or a minister, or a member of parliament, or the head of a committee. No, no. We don't have any such laws. We don't have such narrations that say women cannot participate in civic engagement, in civic leadership, in politics. No. This time has given women that opportunity. But have they taken the opportunity? That's another issue. And I'm afraid that women for so many centuries, they've got used to being followers that today it's difficult for them to become leaders. Because when you get used to something, it's hard to change. It's like we, the Shi'a of Allah, for centuries, we've always been ruled, and not the rulers, that today that government has finally come into our hands, we don't know how to rule, because we've been used to being ruled. And I think it's the same case with women. There's not a lot of women coming out to lead, because they've been used to being led, and to follow. So to be followed is something new to them. And I hope that women will take advantage of Islam's rights for them, Islam's designated rights for them to achieve. Over the past half a decade, this is speaking in general, not specific Muslims or other races or religions, over the past half a decade, a lot of talk has been about a topic where do we need more women leaders? Would it affect our society? What does society have to change in order to produce more women leaders, female leaders? And as studies after being conducted, they see that women are more fit than men in some areas, in some fields. In your opinion, do we need female leaders? What can they achieve? What can they contribute to Islam or in general for the general community of society? I think we do need female leaders, not just because we're not giving into pressure to the feminist movements or so on and so forth. No. I truly believe, and there's many scholars today that feel the same way, that women have a lot to contribute. You see, men and women are different, not just physically, but even the way they think. Women will notice things that men don't. I don't know if you've noticed this or not. If a woman, if a man and a woman would tend to a gathering where there's a lot of men and women, they're socializing, men will notice certain things while women will notice other things. You can tell from their discussions when they go back home, did you see this person or that person or what this person was wearing or what was on this thing? A man might not pay attention to these things. The man might pay attention to the food at the gathering while a woman will pay attention to the details, the painting of, the color of the paint in the room, so on and so forth. The man will pay attention to the weather. It was really hot in there while a woman will pay attention to other things. My point is that men and women think differently. In leadership, we need that other perspective. We need women to come and give us their perspective because it's a male-dominated society. We men think, we've always thought in a specific way and we've ruled, men generally have ruled according to their understanding, but when a woman comes and gives her input on what she thinks, how she thinks, I think it will make a difference whether we're talking about in the field of politics or the field of religion. Even in religion, if we allow women to give their input of course after reaching a stage of knowledge, of becoming a jurist, of becoming a murshtana, if they put their input and they say, you know what, from this narration, I understand something else. While many men will read a narration and they'll get one thing from it, if a woman were to read it, she might understand something else. We could learn from that perspective. If we give the chance for women, no, but if we give them a chance to research, if we give them a chance to teach, if we give them a chance to write in journals, to write articles, to write books, about Islamic law, about any... We can learn from their perspective. They'll have something new to offer. And the same thing goes for politics. You know, that's one. Another point that I'd like to make is that women are... they're not aggressive by nature. Men are aggressive.  Women, on the other hand, they like romance. They like drama. Things like that. Movies in that sort of genre. This shows that women are not aggressive. They're not violent. We need that in politics. We need nonviolence in our politics. We need nonaggression. In our politics. When a woman comes and gives her perspective and calms things down, we need that into politics. Definitely. Not just into politics. Our Islamic centers in the West, even here, women don't have roles in mosques in Islamic centers. Very few. We only need them when we want to fundraise because women are excellent at fundraising. But when it comes to decision making, on the future of our Islamic centers, on our majalis, which speakers to bring in, which sort of programs to have, we don't give women their role. Even though when you go to some mosques in Hussainiyat and Islamic centers, you will find that women are more than the men. In the audience, you will find women are maybe 60% or 70% while men make up of 30% or 40% of the audience. This is a common future in a lot of places where I go. They make up more than half of the audience, but they don't have a say in decision making. This is not fair. This is wrong. We need to give women their place in the community, in politics, in religion, in all fields. And I strongly feel that women, they can contribute a lot. They can contribute so much, so much positive contributions they can make, but we just need to give them that opportunity. Yes, hopefully we can through... It takes something, a huge thing to change within the mentality of whether Muslims or any population and society to give the segregated segment of society the chance to actually breathe. Islam gave that opportunity to say the Khadija, to say the Zaynab, and to other females. Why can't we do the same today? It's unfortunate to see that how Muslims took the cherry pit out of the religion. They cherry picked what they want and left what's actually more beneficial for their religion. I would like to thank you very much for joining us tonight. My pleasure. Tomorrow we'll continue our discussion on Fatima the Murder. Thank you very much. One key point that we should leave and conclude with tonight is to always keep an open mind on what is actually prohibited and what is actually promoted for Muslim women in Islam. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you.


People have been requesting for like a year that I sit down and watch RRR. Promise things like Three Hours Long, it's a Tollywood film, which I'm not familiar with, and I just don't want to dedicate that much time to something I might inevitably be disappointed with, but people kept prodding and pushing and pricking, and eventually someone stepped up and said, you know what, I'm gonna pay this guy to review this film, and really we could have just saved so much time and headache and started there, because I'm nothing if not a complete sellout. Let's talk RRR. I was joking about being a sellout, but not about someone paying me to review this. Special shout out to Greg C over on Patreon at Patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies, Gregory Booby, you're a hero right now. He became a Mithril member on Patreon, which is only 30 bucks a month, and you can cancel at any time, and you are guaranteed locked into a movie which I have to review and shout you out. I don't have to like it though. I do not have to like it.  That said, I did like RRR. It's not a movie you can say fast. I liked RRR. Right out of the gate, so I want to say this reminded me of a film I absolutely love called Kung Fu Hustle. Came out like over a decade ago, really fun slapsticky film with over-the-top effects, dramatic action. This is more serious than Kung Fu Hustle, and I dig it. I dig it quite a bit. This film is about friendship. It's about honor. It's about freedom. It's about love. It's about a million different things all wrapped up in a nice little package. It's about two men coming together from opposing sides. A man of order and a man of freedom. A Ramaraju wants nothing more than to be a special officer in the British armed forces. An honor that's eluded him one too many times. That's all about to change when he's presented with the opportunity to apprehend a known threat to the British, Kamarambaheem. He's an Indian revolutionary, and he's sly as a fox. He's cunning. He's not to be trifled with either. The dude can take down tigers with his bare hands, as we see in a scene fairly early on.  Before I go any further, I should note there are, are, are going to be spoilers in this video. The movie's been out for a while now. I'm behind the curve, per usual. Sure, for usual. Let's continue. We learn via flashback that he himself is a freedom fighter whose number one goal is to send guns back to his village so they can defend themselves in a way they never could previously. We're presented this history lesson via a beautiful flashback. As the film progresses, we find out that he's been working with his uncle the whole time to avenge his father's death and keep a promise he bestowed upon him when he was just a child. And might I just add, the actor Ramcharan who plays this gentleman? Maybe one of the most impressive-looking specimens of a man I've ever seen. Just a very attractive-looking male. Ray Stevenson plays Scott Buxton. Guy's trash. His wife's garbage. The whole place.  The dude kind of looks and sounds like Kelsey Grammer, which makes me hating him that much more difficult because Gram is such a treasure. Such a sweetheart in most films. So it was tough.  The film starts in a small village and we see these two jackasses going around with their parasol looking at some of the locals.  And this awful display is what's gonna set everything in motion going forward. Being vows to get this girl back, a sister to him, and nothing is gonna stand in his way. Whether beast, nor public beatings, nor a man so attractive, I hate getting up in the morning anymore. These two gentlemen will eventually meet and have one of the greatest bromances ever received on film right up there with Apollo Creed and Rocky Balboa. It even features a beautiful montage of these guys kind of skipping and frolicking across the land, having meals together, skipping rocks, and really just beefing as buds. All good things unfortunately come to an end and the same goes for these guys when they find out, hey, whoa, you're working for the wrong team, bud.  There's gonna be some hand-to-hand. There's gonna be some gunfights. There's gonna be some animals tearing up a small town square party. It's epic. It's incredibly epic. As I stated from the onset, this is my first introduction to Tollywood films, and I wasn't expecting some of the stuff I was gonna get. For starters, where did the musicals come from? There's dancing and singing numbers in this just out of nowhere, like I'm watching a Disney film.  And the dance choreography was just a delight. Everyone's completely invested. And man can these lead actors dance. And not just dance, but sing as well. There's a passion of the Christ whipping section of the film where our lead is not only taking these lashes and stride, bleeding all over the place, chunks of skin ripping off, but he's singing a beautiful song on top of all this. And he's rallying the troops. He's getting these people that are watching riled up, ready to fight back and fight back they do, baby. And there's lots of fighting, there's lots of action. The slow motion, they go all in on it. Think Zack Snyder with beautiful high res framing, shots going slow-mo speed up, animals jumping out of cages, coming right at the camera, people doing kicks, and the other guy taking the hit and going backwards and slow-mo. It's lovely. But although it works incredibly well, there's also the other type of slow motion, the puzzling kind, that I'm not sure why it exists. It's my least favorite technique in film. One of my favorite trilogy of all time, Lord of the Rings even utilizes this. Peter Jackson, amazing director.  And they have a lot of that in RR2. I find it cheesy, find it a little campy. And while this film is both, they could have toned that down or got rid of it all together, preferably. Since this is a foreign film, you get different Netflix options for how to view it. In Netflix, they don't actually have the native language of Telugu. Instead, it's translated to Hindi with English subtitles, which is of course the best. Oddly enough, if you do English and then also turn on the English subtitles, they don't match. The way they say things is often different, I noticed.  But then the copy below reads something slightly different. It's really beautiful outside or today is a very lovely day. Just doesn't match up and makes it even more confusing. Back to the action though. This director should do a Dragon Ball Z film, and I would be their day fun. Every shot is like a cinematic painting. Oftentimes, the hero is kind of framed up slowly, winking at the camera, throwing something over the shoulder.  I say boss now for that one time and then never again. Well, maybe one more, we'll see.  They're kicking dudes up in the air and then punching them across.  Dude's got a bow staff or a spear or something of that nature. And then of course, the slow motion will be as long. Could have maybe been tweaked a little bit, but honestly, there's a lot in this film that's worth telling and watching. So not too upset with the runtime. I did take two days to finish. I watched an hour and a half day one, another hour and a half the next, and it went by very nicely. So am I glad I watched RRR? You better believe a Buster. And if you're wondering what it stands for, well, it's clever. It stands for multiple things. RRR are the initials of the lead characters, plus it also means Rise, Roar, and Revolt. Lot there. There's some layer there. I appreciate that. I also appreciate you, Greg, for recommending this film, G-Money. Thank you very much. Thanks for being a patron and all those patrons out there. Look for more of these myth roll level reviews coming out in the future. And hopefully you had some fun watching this video. If you did, I encourage you to like, subscribe, turn on notifications, and hopefully I'll see you next time. Take care. And since you're still here, I will end this video as I end all videos with a musical dance interpretive number. Everybody's happy and dancing at the end.