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Good afternoon and welcome back to the Tashline on Y2fa, my name is Maksova Sikerova Tosoro, he is still with us and of course joining me is a superb duo of players, former players who prominently featured for the national team Arambe Stars before and in 2004 they represented the country during African Cup of Nations that took place in Tunisia, though the national team Arambe Stars was eliminated at the group stage but they did spectacularly well representing the nation and it's been 15 years down the line since the country qualified to the continental showpiece. This time around it's happening in Egypt and Kenya will be among the 24 countries participating, joining me James Omondi, former Taska strike country, former Arambe Stars strike as well alongside Titus Mulamma, gentlemen good to join us, Jemo how have you been man? Pleasure coming back to the show. What's good? Life is good. Life is good. Tito how have you been? I've been okay and people mistaking you with Simon Sepe Mulamma, he's a twin brother to Sepe so this is Titus Mulamma, he featured in 2004 while Sepe did and of course he was away in states for some academic scholarship. Titus how have you been? Oh things outside there. Everything's okay, just working with the young boys still in the game. Giving back to the society of course of course. Osoro Robert is also still with us but he is saying that you know the draw is tricky for the national team Arambe Stars, Pulsi, Kenya, Senegal, Algeria, Tanzania. What do you think about the draw? Manageable or tricky one? It is manageable. It depends with the preparations and the psyche of the players. If it is right they can perform. Tito you played again in Senegal at the group stage in 2004 this time round Kenya has been pulled alongside Teranga Lions of Senegal. I know during those days the likes of Elhaji Diofi was in Cairo last night during you know the draw and what do you make of the squad right now and the squad then? Well I think Senegal has been a good country football wise and I think they've been having a very strong team especially during these qualifiers but then of course you cannot compare to that to that time but of course I've been following their qualification matches and they are they're really having a good team and they had a good run in the qualifications I think they almost had the perfect record in the qualifiers. Yeah actually it's true they never lost any match they won five draw one. Senegal is the best ranked African country and we've been pulled alongside them. Algeria you know Kenyans on social media platforms immediately after the draw they're saying that you know Kenyans to collect three points from our neighbors Tanzania then force a draw against Algeria then probably if we get beaten by Senegal well and good as long as we make it to the next stage that's round of 16. I don't know from your assessment what do you make of Kenyan chances to progress? Fortunately or unfortunately football is not mathematical. The key is the preparations and there's no doubt Senegal have a very good team they have very good players Sadi Omane does it every week we we and our best player is struggling for form so it will depend on the preparations that we have so hopefully we prepare well and then face the challenge. Tatas is it just me or could I be wrong to say that it is a rambestaz that needs to work hard because from the qualifiers themselves Senegal were on top of their group Algeria were on top of their group so people can say manageable but Kenyans to really work hard? We really have to work hard and my take is that if we have not only working hard but if we have a good squad selection then we will definitely make a mark because you know these teams like Senegal have many of their players playing abroad and you know on african arena these players have been struggling over the years you see the likes of Drogba he could not make it really really shine in the african arena so I think that yes we have to work hard but we have depending on the squad selection I think we can give anyone problems at any time. Sebastian Mini of course the dilemma now is the selection that Tatas Mulama is talking about what is he supposed to do in terms of getting his choices right to make a three months code that will be superb enough to represent the country and sparkle at the connetual stage considering that what he's just said is very important as well the likes of D-Drogba in as much as they did well overseas in Chelsea football club coming back on african soil they didn't replicate the same show do you think now that we have plenty of players playing in our local leagues that will be the key is on the players that are playing you see like for example like Jesse Were yes very good striker plays probably every week for Zesco when he comes to the national team there's a problem he doesn't give or he doesn't replicate the same form as the one he has in for his club so the coach has to look at his pool of players that he has been using all this time for the qualifiers then look at the players who play week in week out like Were they should not forget about him for what he's been doing for his club playing constantly in the cap champions league confedations cap scoring left right and center they need to give him another chance so that we go with that team that is acceptable across board okay and that is key the selection that is going to be done then they go for that training camp get the team spirit right get the right mentality in that team they can be done Titus I've got a question in 2004 when you went to Tunisia you had seven players from Madari United you are actually considered the engine of the team today we don't have many players from one club in Kenya primarily go can make it but from the most conversation you can realize that we've got good players in Kenya playing in the african continent to actually understand african football we've got to just say where we've got David Calabo we've got Antonia Kumu we've got Denny Suiza Tinkana if these players are given that chance as african players who understand african football can we have a very good engine for the show please yeah of course of course it's a big advantage to give this this larger chance and I think it's a very huge motivation also to them because they know that this is the stage where they can even further their careers maybe get a contract in Europe but they do understand the african terrain well and I think in terms of motivation it's only important that these guys have given a chance Osoro Robert how outzikare transanians because in their last clash it was a low die fixture against Uganda claims they needed to win so that to qualify to the african cup of nations and they did that beating Uganda claims 3 nil should Kenya approach its game cosiously because there's this attitude from Kenyans especially on social media platforms who think that you know Tanzanians might be awoken the park and like you know other group challenges how outzikare they they they have got a good squad but I think for Tanzania they struggled in the qualifiers and that much against Uganda even if people say that it was a correct score and everything I think for me in my own understanding and everything I'll still say that much was thrown away that's an individual position that is my own individual position I think that much was thrown away Tanzania finished at position 2 at their group level they won only two matches and they had a group that had Lesotho and Cape Vard you realize that with Uganda so if they were competitive enough they could have been top of their group or second in their group with a formidable type of number I will actually go ahead and say Tanzania is among the lucky teams that made it to the shop is katesi of the shop is being expanded not because the shop is was competitive enough of the 16 teams and we want the creme de la creme I think Tanzania what the lucky ones to get into the shop is because the shop is nice 2014 and we needed to be they qualify on merit and they deserve being at the continental shop is I think they deserve because they defeated Ghana at home they defeated Ethiopia at home and gave them problems away so you cannot take away that from Kenya and Ghana was a big team and they deserve to go and fight for themselves and get there for Tanzania I think it was just Uganda creme say let's also have this Africa let's have the Saqafa region getting into the shop is but not good enough and I think if my director can do me a favor just put the entire draw on the screen so that we can go pool by pool us we look into what happened last night in Kairu the African Cup of Nations draw conducted 2014 taking part in continental shop is later for Egypt later this year in June of course group A has got the hosts Egypt automatic inclusion and that's the draw on the screen Egypt alongside DR Congo Uganda crems and Zimbabwe arithmetically does Uganda stand a chance to progress to the next stage considering that the first two automatically qualify to the next stage then third placed for them to make it at the round of 16 yeah comparing Uganda with Kenya the way they've been playing for the last like three years yes Uganda they have a fighting chance in that group yeah because Ugandan like Tito just said they have a lot of players spread across Africa they have the African terrain they know how to go about it so they have a fighting chance they can get a result against Zimbabwe they can get a result against Congo and even Egypt they can get a result Tito do you read from the same script with Jamu that Uganda crems on me but really can get a point against DR Congo and Egypt yeah over the years I think for the past four five six years Uganda have been playing very tough opponents and producing good results so I think in this group maybe Egypt should give them problems maybe but Uganda is a very strong team I cannot see them having any problems with DR Congo or Zimbabwe remember DR Congo is not the same as of five years ago they have they have like a generational change and Zimbabwe I do not give them many chance against Uganda so yes I think Uganda has a big chance I think it's one of the toughest groups because you look at Zimbabwe they also finish the top of their group in the qualifier so you cannot take that away from them and then Zimbabwe and Congo were in the same group in the qualifiers so that one might say who is going to be better against the other one then come Uganda Uganda I think the moment they qualified the last time the last time round after 39 years not cool I think they finished the finals in 79 Uganda was the final team in 79 then they lost then now they come back they don't get into the show piece but they fight to get there from then on they have been amassing a great pool of players not actually outside of Uganda but in Africa we tell us they have got like people in kaza teams like Walu Sim but they have got Dennis Onyango with ma melody the likes of Batambuze back here in Kenya and when you go and play against you can more so in Nambole or at their home it's not a team to joke around with you let's go to the group B which is got Senegal's group B sorry which has got the super eagles of Nigeria alongside Algeria alongside Guinea Madagascar and Burundi manageable group and I walk in the park for the super eagles of Nigeria guaranteed to qualify Osora robot to the next stage I think Nigeria that they have a big chance to qualify into that group considering Madagascar is a debut team coming on to this side Burundi they have not been tough enough in the African continent or also they are making I think the second time they are making into the showpiece but Guinea and Nigeria are teams that you can give a chance to go there and then Nigeria have got this problem of not being in the last afghan not winning the last an afghan showpiece for I think 10 15 years because the super eagles that people know the dream team of super eagles of 94 96 the moment it died out we have not seen any other super eagles no matter how good the players tell us about the super eagles you met in the 90s in the 70s the likes of Mukachi you play them here in Nairobi and the super eagles of today's different it is how tough how tough were super eagles during those days because last night when the draws getting conducted I saw you know players getting interviewed Ahmed Musa you know laughing looking very happy because he thinks that you know the group is is is well managed but it's easier for them how tough were the super eagles of those days and the super eagles of nowadays well you can tell from Musa's reaction that he's not been in the game for long but that is your he's only thinking doesn't think beyond the group because any serious player would not be happy about just qualifying or getting a weaker group to qualify to the quarter finals but I think the super eagles then had had great players and most of them were leaders and you can see you can tell from after after their career after the playing career they've gone into coaches or management so yes the the super eagles then was very tough very organized very talented and very committed players as compared to these super eagles that we just saw like playing the in the world cup the the players really really uh struggling are not are not that competitive as if I can say jamu the super eagles that played Kenya sometime back I think towards early 2019 98 what the standout names that you know cost sleepless nights to Kenya there was overfemi martins uh there was the likes of no uncle kano no uncle jj ukoja the dribla yeah but you you have to understand every country every footballing country uh there's a time the that generation has to go yeah then between that generation and raising another team yes there's always the there's always a period that you suffer yes so Nigeria have suffered yeah so they are rebuilding now they are back in the cup of nation yes so uh it is wrong for players like musa to start smiling laughing yeah that they are in a good pool because for i'll tell you for free this broody team you can spring a surprise yes watch them they play very well they play very well they have very good technical players so they should not write off anybody in that pool and their president has been quite supportive of their football activities good motivation enough to actually finish the second group yeah of course we done with group C that has got Kenya alongside Nigeria Senegal and Tanzania and we go straight to group D that has got Morocco alongside Ivor Coast South Africa and Namibia what a pool Osora Robert well that's a pool that I'm of the idea I've been following half renaud the former Zambian coach and Ivor Coast coach he's the one coach who understands the Africa cup of nations you so what it went to Zambia gave them atrophy went to Ivor Coast gave them atrophy went to Morocco took them to the welcome so it tells you that this is a coach who understands african football and with the resources that Morocco has this is the team to watch for the all of the shop is not just qualifying to the knockout stages but it is a team to watch for Ivor Coast I think is the same scenario as the way James has said it your staff players are gone the yaya turis are done drop bars are done Solomon Kalu yeah and those players actually won after half renaud has come there and it was I think a fighting time for them no matter what we have to get this trophy but now again it's a new pool of players and you need to show that you are there for merit and to win the trophy so it's a tough pool but those are the two sides that can make it to the knockout stages Tito South Africans are also struggling despite boasting of you know well equipped facilities they hosted the coveted showpiece workup in 2010 and I think that they think first host country getting eliminated from the group stage they have not been doing well as far as football is concerned both african and even at the international stage are they also suffering from the problem of transitioning because since the days of beni makati kwinton fortune nothing much has been witnessed in terms of growth and development of south african football as a country do you give them an edge over the opponent in group d I cannot but south africa I so the south africa that I can remember is the likes of McFish and the base you know and they they were really a good team you could see from their display from their organization but this south african this south african team has been like cold warm you know they can sometime when you expect them to win they lose a match so they they are they are a team that can spring a surprise anytime but you cannot bank on them what I can say about them is that we we should expect anything from south africa yes we should expect maybe to lose against moroko then they spring a surprise and win you should expect them to win against madagascar in south africa then it goes to slumber and they get beaten so they cannot give them such a night from the qualifiers we realize that south africa actually never lost any match tells you that they are good defensively going into such kind of a tournament they were in the same pool with nigeria so they can they can see they have measured themselves against nigeria and they can go out there and fight but the problem with south africa most of the time is you've got a good league in africa and the sports immigration getting into afri in south african good players and getting into south africa but south african themselves don't take football very seriously the way they do rugby and cricket and other sports events if they were to concentrate their resources on football and everything they can win it because at the end of the day it's 96 they won this show please the faster the last they have done it so far from then on they have not even made it to the quarterfinals they have not even made it brought a serious theme into the competition that can can actually fight for the competition so it is tricky for them in this pool also namibians of course they qualified arithmetically i remember after their last clash you know players slept on the pitch thinking that they had been bundled out of you know the qualification only to realize later a few minutes later than the other game that played in the same pool had ended in their favor now they qualified mathematical what do you make of their chances to sparkle in that particular group i think uh for me they'll make the number and therefore my top goalkeeper was also last night at cairo kanalelo yes yeah i was a very good keeper then i think they'll make the numbers in that pool as you rightly put it uh osoro i believe muroko is the thing to beat in that pool uh south africa uh they they they blow hot or cold so you you can never say uh quite unpredictable yeah and kodivo they are on the rebuilding process it's good they're back in the cup of nations so hopefully uh there'll be interesting matchups between kodivo south afrika and amibia uh to fight for the second slot straight to the next pool that is group e tunisia mali uh alongside mauritania and angola osoro yeah tunisia i've got an up advantage in that particular pool to make it to the next stage yeah considering that tunisia won their group actually they want their group winning five matches and losing only one tells you that they are ready for the african shop is the only team that is getting baptism by fire there has got to be more tenure it is the first time they're getting into the afrika cup of nations so they actually do not know what they are going to expect but between maali and angola those are teams you cannot write off they are actually good good teams that play in the african cup of nations and for them they have been a main stay in the afrika cup of nations so it is one tricky pool which you are not sure of who is going to win because maali on top of their group in the qualifiers tunisia also top of the group in the qualifiers so it's a group that is going to give people tito talking about maali they had a formidable striker in the name of redrick kanute who featured for severe in spanish football for quite long do you think they have managed to replace such kind of you know players so that they have proper transition getting into this particular showpiece well maali i think they have they have a good team at the moment but now they is like the maali playing now does not depend on big names but they depend on not not on individuals but in teamwork and that is what has helped them through the qualifiers i know they have like players like kita but then they they really depend on on teamwork because not not not the it's not the whole team that has big names so i can say they have been able to replace him as a team but not in the from individual players but from that from that group i think teams like moritania they are making debut into the tournament but they are not under any pressure and there are there are teams that can cause problems playing without any pressure that's playing because they know it's a festival qualifying already is enough for us so just playing and making um uh oraring the fixture is in uh it's it's an honor in itself for them those are the teams that might spring surprises in in this tournament you see the maalis the senegals the nigerians they went back to youth yes just have a look just look back they went back to youth football they've been consistently at the top yes in african youth football and these are the graduates that are moving to the senior team now they might not be known they might not be big names but this could be a game changer for them and like totia just said moritania is an unknown quality yes they are coming there with no pressure they are coming to play football so uh it could be interesting very interesting it could be interesting we go straight to the last pool that is uh group f that as good all west african countries kami rune the itomi table lions alongside black stars of gana four time african champions benin is also in that particular pool alongside gini bisaw kraka especially between between that clash involving kami rune and gana it is a tough tough group because now the pressure is also on kami rune you are the defending champions you have to win your group and everything and they are coming with one of the best players the world had to offer clarence doff is the coach and being assisted by patrick loubert so he has come in a very experienced technical bench the pressure of defending the trophy is on new so you have to come back and show people that you are really good enough into this tournament gana is also there you have got the best players in the world but you are not winning anything you come into africa cup of nations almost everybody is from european based clubs playing football in europe but when you come back home there is nothing that you are going to do so it is going to be tricky for them don't forget gini bisaw because gini bisaw was top of your group in qualifying so this is a tough tough team that is by virtue of name we are not big enough but the caliber of the players we have we have the strength to take on anybody so it's actually a tough pool and kami rune and gana they have to be 100% sure that they can pay the other two teams tito how tough were kami rune and during those days when kenya used to play against them well i think kami rune have always been tough i've been very physical then but now we can see a technical kami rune for the last maybe five four five years but kami rune is i can say sometimes they are unlucky in this competition because they have good players they have good scores but then just when you expect them to maybe make it to the quarters of the same is they are just beaten by a slim margin unfortunate maybe in penalties so i think kami rune uh now they are still strong but not compared you cannot compare it to the yester years as far as gana is concerned asamo agian is not guaranteed to be included in the national team for the black stars the coach spoke last night and he says that every player has got equal opportunity i don't know from where you see do you think he deserves a place or is an old guard right now i think the coach the back stops to the coach so if he is made a decision maybe he is a human being he might change his decision later but he look at the the coach when he was reappointed he tried to bring some of the core players that brought gana to that level uh then the performances that is stabilizing now they've qualified uh he has had problem with some players though are you brothers yeah he has had problems with them so he's trying to replace them but albeit after qualification and you look at kami rune uh from long time between kami rune and kenya uh they never beat us we always draw with them uh despite them having those those good good good players but currently they have very technical players not physical like before technically they are good they have uh good good good tactics when they play and um i think the surprise in this pool could be gini bisaw gini bisaw review of 2019 african cup of nations has been the segment on the touchline on y25 this particular afternoon happening every saturday one two three max olasika is my name of course alongside robot osoro joining me status mulama from internationally played prominently for the national team before and featured and you were guaranteed of all matches at the group stage in 2001 that goes to mulai right playing on the wing how was it man the best play in the world don't don't don't take it away from him he scored the first goal we hope we scored in open play yeah cup of nations when we lost against mali 31 but you you were tied to group back then we can remember you had the man uh okay the dreadlock the guy francis on you i think i can get this quote you miss the you miss the group yeah we do we were at its unit jamies we had like a chemistry built because we we had worked for so long together and we we had the same vision we knew what we wanted in the long run so yes we missed those days and how was the squad in terms of transitioning even technically jack up goes to mulai he's been at the uh at the helm of kenyan football uh in charge of you know an academy that has produced uh engineer michael olunga comparing with the current squad and the current taking cold bench how do you see things fair i can see that having qualified so we can just see things are going okay they're in the right direction looking at the team or in the at the squad you can see young players coming up or coming through the ranks so i think it's a bright future for us and this can only serve as a moral booster for the for the young generation in kenya and much of it is unfair to compare that team in the current team how unfair it is unfair ghost had his time he had that cream of players that group of players having worked with them for he understood the players he had and we have to appreciate now we have another team in place they have qualified they have another technical bench in place so uh they also have to show what they are made of yes visit they go out there uh our team we scored from open play we won our first match yes as i can't as i can't make up of nation yes so they need to be again it's so they need to work they need to do whatever they have to do to get a good team that will cut across board there will be no acribony how yeah i know it is very difficult to please a lot of people yes but you just be fair they are a good team it is our country we want our country to go to get a couple of nations and better what we did in 2004 yes definitely looking forward to that and james omond of course also speaking from a task striker now in charge of ligindogo academy you guys are passionate about youth football how is the progress at ligindogo jamu currently we are not very very badly the kids are growing we we just took two categories to spain in valencia to another tournament so we are on the up and i believe this is the right way to go we need to get this young man playing technically very good players the tactics and this other things they'll be uh given when they grow older before just before i wind up someone is telling me that ask james omondu how was it competitive up front you know with that squad of jacob ghost mule that had my koko the father to you know divoko rigi in manu ake deni solij how competitive my man you have somebody like tito when you make a run it just gives you the ball what else do you have to do so it's it's just it's he was to lose yeah it's if you don't call blame yourself you have tito you have john mo you have mambo you have gaza in that middle my man then at the back you have muso jeno jero you have jojo you have uh jojo is uh jojo away yeah so then you have isakasim why why can't you score my man then in kul francis onisu there was francis nankan there is there was so much cream delacrim my man so you have somebody like tito you have to score looking forward to that of course the african cup of nations later for later this year in egypt kenya amongst the 24 countries that will be participating and of course have been pulled in groups alongside the best ranked african country Senegal alongside algeria north african representative and our neighbors tanzania and both status mula man james omondu from international say that you know kenya that police manager band they can progress to the next stage always a pleasure having you on board jemo thank you for the time all the best looking forward to hear from you soon tito thanks for coming through man how is your academy they're doing good at the moment we're in nakuru playing and some tournament kuzaki page tournament they are with the youth another youth coach over there but we are doing good you mean youth football is now the core it is all over the the world not the country only all over the world youth is the is the core cheers man coming up next fans on where we focus on international football a lot of headlines review of ufa champions league and european league matches that happened in midweek man united fans trying to be happy after being beaten by basalona saying that they tried so much of course that will form the basis of our discussion and also the games coming up next tomorrow liverpool against chelsea don't go away stay tuned it's the touchline on y25


What's up with the running backs here? I think that Damien Williams is viable both in Chief's Dominator lineups and neutral game scripts, whereas Mostred I think is not out of play in a neutral script, but his appeal is a lot lower in that script than Damien Williams is. Williams in the playoffs, he's played 96.9 and 85.3% of the snaps, 14.5 carries per game, 6 targets per game. He's gone nuts because they just decided to focus in on him, and Mostred's gotten nuts too at least he didn't in the conference championships, but I think that the scenarios in which Williams is set up to succeed are more abundant than Mostred. Williams is 14,000, Mostred is 13.5. I think that having Williams in a lot of my neutral script lineups is attractive and I can get there with Garoppolo in the Homes too. Which means that I'm ignoring Hill and Kelsey, which is uncomfortable, but I'm okay with it. So what is your view on Williams relative to Mostred and then Williams in neutral scripts too? I prefer Williams to Mostred because he's just game script agnostic, he's going to get targets. Mostred doesn't get the targets that Damien Williams gets, and also it's small by one and a half points, but the Chiefs do have a higher implied team total and again we're expecting the Chiefs to score more points because we think the win and that means that I should by default prefer Damien Williams. Well actually I should ask you about that. Are you in the same boat as me where you think the Chiefs win this game? Yeah I think that that's where I'm leaning. I actually at first was leaning toward the 49ers, but I think I'm back over to the Chiefs. So yeah I mean I prefer Damien straight up in a neutral script, I think that there's enough work for him as a rusher because he's the only one getting carries, especially the high-leverage carries and as far as the receiving goes he can get work out of the backfield. So I actually don't think that he's, I do think that he stacks quite well with Patrick Mahomes because the receiving touchdown is very much in the card. So you mentioned it's pricey, but you can do it. You can play Williams, Garoppolo and Mahomes. Is that going to be, if you're building one lineup, do you think that's what you would want to do? I would strongly consider it. The one thing that might push me off is I want to be, try to be pretty bullish on Tyreek Hill and using Williams in that scenario means I'm not using Hill. I think I'd be more inclined to dump out of Garoppolo though than I would be out of Williams and using Mahomes, Williams Hill is pretty easy honestly. So I think I would, if I had one I'd be more inclined to just load up on the cheese and forgo Jimmy G, but it's not because of Williams. It's just because I really want to get Tyreek Hill in there because I like him. I will talk more about that later on.


Hey, what's going on coach? Hope you're having a great day Today, I want to answer a question that I saw on Instagram And if you're not following me there, I'm there every single day Posting content that you won't see here on YouTube, but the question I saw Was from a coach. He's a basketball trainer. He said hey Ben should I have parents? sign a contract when they train in my program and If you asked me that question about seven or eight years ago when I was new to To training and I really didn't understand that much about business back then. I would have said nah As long as they pay You're good to go and my mindset has really changed on the subject because I know That when you have clients in your program if you don't have things set up properly to protect yourself as the as the business owner then Ultimately you end up getting screwed and I'll give you one good example. This is something that personally happened to me This happened about five years ago. I Had a player that I was training. It was a group actually was a group session and There was one parent who told me he would be responsible for paying for all the players and It was probably around like I think like $500 a month that I was supposed to make And I would train them twice a week and the dad was a very successful guy had a really nice car I thought he was good for it I thought he would ultimately pay me back and there was about I think four or five months where I kept training these kids I kept thinking that he was gonna pay and Nothing ever happened and I remember when the the last time I was supposed to train them I showed up to the field and They didn't show up and I called the dad and he bought my number So didn't get to collect any of that money if I would have had a contract back then I wouldn't have gone a month Without getting paid. I wouldn't have gone one session without getting paid that's because I ran things like a coach back then not like a business person and This should show you. Yes, you do need a contract. Yes You need to have that set up when parents are paying because if you don't they're going to run over you like a little speed bump and I've run into so many problems in the past. That's just one story. I could give you a hundred stories of things that happened to me when I was just starting my business and and I know that Because I've gone through those experiences It taught me how to do things the right way and the whole purpose of this YouTube channel is To show you how to avoid the mistakes that I've already made in the past these that mistake alone You know losing five hundred dollars a month if you have a contract in place that will save you thousands of dollars in the future if you implement that and I know what you're probably asking yourself right now is well Do you have a contract sample that you could send to me? The answer to that is yes But I only reserve that for coaches in our consulting program I have it set up to where if you are a member you will receive Access to that. I will basically set up an entire website for you I have so many different things In order for you when you are a member of our consulting program And having a contract one that is signed by parents That is something that I supply you with and if that's something you want to learn more about shoot me a comment below Here on YouTube and let me know if you're interested. I would love to chat with you over the phone to see if that's something That we can plug you into hi. I'll talk to you soon


History of the Middle East. Lecture 3 Okay, last time we ended with the demise of the Golden Age, with El Ghazali's philosophy, a return to mysticism, a return, a denial of reason, a complete denial of reason. The only way, the only path to truth is through revelation. And I mentioned that that was the end of Islamic culture, at least in the Fertile Crescent, in the heart of the Muslim Empire. And I ended by saying that one last attempt at comeback was made. And indeed that attempt at comeback of Islamic civilization, Islamic culture, of philosophy, was made in Spain. Now the Muslims ruled parts of Spain from 711 to 1492, a date they should all be easy for all of you to remember. When they first arrived in Spain, the Christians welcomed them and easily converted to Islam. People from Africa, Arabia and Europe came into this area as it thrived both economically and culturally. As I mentioned last time, when the Umayyad dynasty was done away with by the Abbasids, the one remaining heir fled the Fertile Crescent. He fled to Spain where he ruled. He began ruling in 755 and started really a golden age in Spain. This Spanish civilization peaked with Ibn Rushd, a Veronaise, the famous Aristotelian philosopher who lived between 1126 and 1198. Ibn Rushd I think is probably the greatest Muslim philosopher and the purest Aristotelian of all Muslim philosophers. He believed that there was no, unfortunately he believed that there was no necessary contradiction between religion and philosophy when both are properly understood. But he rejected mystical revelation and believed that reason, logic, Greek philosophy were not necessarily contradictory with Islam, at least the way he interpreted it and the way he understood it. He wrote a book in which he criticized Al-Ghazali and showed that Al-Ghazali was not a thinker and was just being completely arbitrary. In many of his works he suggests that religion is indeed inferior to philosophy and places philosophy, reason, logic above religion. At about the same time as Ibn Rushd is writing, the greatest Jewish philosopher of probably of all time was doing his work, his name was Maimonides. My last statement probably was the exclusion of Spinoza who was I think a great philosopher later on. But Maimonides who was also an Aristotelian lived between 1138 and 1204. And again, all these Aristotelians are trying to do what Thomas Aquinas in a sense tried to do. And that is somehow unite religion and reason, somehow pliable reason to religion and somehow find a unity and integration. And of course they all failed just as Thomas Aquinas did. Now unfortunately for Islam, Ibn Rushd Maimonides were too late. The heartland of the Muslim empire had given up on philosophy, had given up on reason by this point and faced dramatic political problems at this time. So the Spanish, this Muslim Spanish civilization was too late in saving the East, but it saved in my opinion the West. The real impact of these Muslim philosophers, the real impact of the Spanish civilization was on the West, on Western intellectuals. Indeed Aquinas reads, Ibn Rushd, he reads the Muslim translations of Aristotle before reading them in the original. Ibn Rushd Maimonides and others are translated into Latin. Even Ibn Sina who is now in the libraries of Cordova and Codiz in Spain is being translated into Latin. In 1291, Roger Bacon wrote, and I quote, the greatest part of Aristotle's philosophy failed to have any effect in the West because manuscripts were hidden away and extremely rare, until after the time of Muhammad, when Avicenna, that's Ibn Sina, and Averonez who is Ibn Rushd and the rest brought back Aristotle's philosophy into the light of comprehensive exposition. Europeans, European intellectuals were traveling to Spain to study, to study science, to study philosophy and returning to the University of Paris to teach. I think the link between Greek philosophy and Western civilization travels through Spain. It travels through the photo crescent, through Muslim philosophy, through the translations into Arabic that are then taken to Spain. Further work is done on them then, they are further developed and the West discovers them, partially when their scholars come to study them and partially when they overtake Spain. When the Christians take Spain in the 15th century, starting in the 14th and then the 15th century, they discover all these libraries and they take these libraries and start translating them into Latin and other European languages. So in a sense the West owes Muslim culture a great debt and that is the debt of preserving Aristotle and a debt of preserving the Greeks. That is the last time that the West gains anything of substance from the East, unfortunately. So let us go back to the photo crescent to where the real action is going on in terms of Islamic civilization. As I said it was too late, politically the Abbasid Caliphate is already starting to deteriorate as early as the 11th century. Starting in 946 the Abbasid Caliphs become figureheads. Powerful tribes, primarily Persians control the politics, control the military. From 946 to 1055 there is an Iranian revival and I think this is part of what explains why Al-Ghazila has such an easy time because while all these Greeks are being translated in this culture of reason and learning, there is also an undercount of Iranian mysticism that is entering into the Muslim lands. And Al-Ghazila, while there is the struggle going on, there is an undercount of a struggle going on, and Al-Ghazila kind of swings it one way rather than the other. From 946 an independent state, a dynasty exists in North Africa, centered in Egypt that threatens the political power of the center at Baghdad. Baghdad is still the cultural, spiritual center, the caliph is still the spiritual leader of all of Islam, but politically we are seeing fragmentation into many countries or many empires. Baghdad becomes fragment of the weak, there is the undercount of eastern mysticism when Al-Ghazila stabs this culture in the heart and kills it. Now as I mentioned last time the Turks start entering the Middle East starting around 960. Now the first entrance of the Turks in is through something that the Egyptians do in setting up this North African empire. One of the ways in which they, their soldiers, their soldiers are raised as slaves.  This is a whole professional class of soldiers who are slaves. And the first such slaves are Turks. They are captured in Central Asia through the trade routes, they reach Egypt where they are trained from childhood to be soldiers and they are called the Mamluks. The interesting phenomena is of course these Mamluks become the generals because they are the professional soldiers. And once they become the generals it's just one more step for them to take complete political control. And indeed the Mamluks become the rulers of Egypt. So these people who are brought in as slaves, who become soldiers because they are the only professional soldiers now by necessity become the generals then take over the actual administration of the state, the actual political power of the state. The Egyptians receive a quota of slaves from the Persians. This is part of their trading agreements with both Baghdad and the Persian Empire. Now in 960 an entire Turkish dynasty converts to Islam, forming an Islamic kingdom in Central Asia. They surrender themselves completely to this new religion. They sink their entire national identity, ethnic slash national identity into this religion. And in the late 10th century a large migration of Turks into Islamic lands occurs. The Seljuks, this is named after the ruling family, entered during the 10th century. They slowly take over Persia and in 1055 they march into Baghdad. By 1079 they control Syria and Palestine. They then for the first time from Muslim army enter Asia Minor, which is modern day Turkey, conquering most of it from the Byzantines. This of course is where they ultimately settle and where the country takes their name, Turkey. Large numbers of Turks emigrate from Central Asia into the Middle East. Of course they are being in a sense pushed out of Central Asia by the Mongols. The Mongols play a role here in a little while. So while the Caliphate still exists and is centered in Baghdad, the real rulers now, starting from the 11th, the mid-11th century, are the Turkish sultans. They are very religious and they emphasize religious education. Again, notice this new, these religious entities, this new religious tribe entering the Middle East just as Greek philosophy is starting to decline. Another element that is weakening the Muslim empire politically are the European Crusades, that occur between 1097 and 1291 and present a significant military challenge to the Muslims. This is the first significant military challenge they encounter from a non-Muslim entity. Now the Crusaders take advantage of two centuries of a lot of infighting among the Muslims in order to establish, in order to be successful with their Crusades, and they are finally defeated completely in 1291 and driveled out of the Middle East. In 1236 the Muslims suffer their first defeat, their first significant defeat by the hands of the Christians when Kodoba in Spain falls. We start seeing a complete fragmentation across their empire from Central Asia all the way to Spain. Now I want to talk about just a relatively small phenomena kind of historically, but just that I think it's an interesting anecdote and it has some implications to modern times. And that is the existence of a small group of Shiites in Persia, in a valley hidden away so that they are very difficult to defeat militarily. And indeed it's not until the Mongols invade that they are defeated. And they are called the assassins. Indeed the word in English, assassin, comes from the name of this group. And assassin comes from, originates from the word, some iteration of the word hashish. Hopefully you all know what hashish is, it's a drug of choice of many in the Middle East. And hashish comes from a word in Arabic meaning or I think a word in Persian meaning strange behavior because the drug induces strange behavior. And they were called assassins because they behaved strangely and the stories are that they used quite a bit of this drug. And starting at about 1090, these Shiites engaged in radical in basically in assassinations of Sunni Muslims, primarily Turkish leaders within the Muslim world. They engaged in campaigns of terror, of terrorism and assassination against kings and princes of Islam. In the name of Shiism, in the name of this hidden Imam, you know the Imam that's hiding, the Hussein, the son of Hussein is hiding and one day will return. This campaign of terror lasted 250 years. Looking for quality auto parts for your vehicle? Shop one of the 133 Los Angeles area O'Reilly Auto Parts stores. You'll find we have convenient locations, thousands of brand name parts in stock, extended store hours, everyday low prices and well-trained professional parts people. O'Reilly Auto Parts, better parts, better prices, every day. Hi, I'm the helpful Southern California Honda person and recently we've been doing random acts of helpfulness like surprising a deserving dad with a brand new grill and helping give back to our veterans. And during the Honda Summer Spectacular event we can help you too with a great deal on a reliable award-winning Honda like the Accord, the 2018 North American Car of the Year. Click the dealer locator link to find a dealer near you and go to SoCalHondaDealers.com to suggest a random act of helpfulness for someone you know. And this was the last attempt really until very recently of Shiites to overthrow a Sunni Caliphate that is a Sunni regime being threatened by Shiites. But it was a small group hidden away in a valley in Persia that engaged in this and that for 250 years the Sunnis could do nothing to rid themselves of them. Now throughout the Turkish Empire that was building up, new religious schools were being formed to replace the enlightened schools of the past. These schools were called Madrasas. Now you're probably all familiar with the Madrasas in Pakistan where the fundamentalists, Islamists were being trained as an incentive to Afghanistan to fight the Jihad. These were theological colleges focused only on religion and they became the center for religious power and authority throughout the Muslim world. Notice the change, the shift from schools of wisdom in which Aristotle is debated openly to Madrasas within a change that happens within 150 years. It doesn't take long for the dark ages to descend. The Caliph as I said is viewed as a symbolic and religious leader with a Sultan, the Turkish Sultan as the political leader. But there is a major new force out there in Central Asia. A major source intent on establishing its own new empire. In 1206, Jengiz Han unites the Mongol tribes. In 1219, after securing Northeast Asia, he starts moving into the lands of Islam. By 1240, his successors have conquered Western Iran. And in 1243, they overwhelm Turkish forces in Asia Minor. They even take out their assassins in Persia. In 1258, they converge on Baghdad. The city is stormed, looted and burned. The Caliph and his entire family are put to death. It is said that hundreds of thousands of people are killed. And their bones are piled up outside of Baghdad. The 500 year reign of the Abbasid Caliphate comes to an end. And this is an end of an era in Islamic history. Although many historians view this as the end of the Golden Age. Where in fact, the Golden Age ends about 150 years earlier. This is the consequence of the decline of the disappearance of the Golden Age. The weakness, the political fragmentation, the mysticism that makes the Muslim Empire so weak as to enable the Mongols to just sweep us through it. So the Mongol invasion is not the cause of Muslim decline. Indeed, it is the consequence of that Muslim decline. The Mongols even capture Egypt for a while. Which has become now the cultural center of Islam. But the Mamluks in Egypt and the Mongols now engage in warfare over dominance, over the photo crescent, the heart of the Middle East. What is really interesting in my opinion is that whereas the Mongols come to Europe and they sack the place and ultimately they are pushed back. The Mongols who enter the Muslim lands settle and convert to Islam. In 1295 the Mongols all convert to this new religion. They set up a new capital in Azerbaijan. Again, a place where we now have troops. Politically from this point on, the Turks and the Mongols, primarily the Mongols settling in Persia and Iran are the politically dominant groups in the Middle East. In spite of being Muslim, they use Arabic only in religious ceremony. Persian now becomes the dominant language in the East and Turkish becomes the dominant language in the West. Mysticism grows in power, Sufism. So a mystical version of Islam, an extremely mystical version, all about revelation, very passive, becomes the dominant form of Islamic worship. Now the Mongols and the Turks develop dynasties that will rule Iran and Turkey basically until the 20th century. Now there is a third power at least for a while and that is in Egypt. Ruled by Mamluks of Turkish origin. So notice that even Egypt is ruled by Turks just of a different origin, a different family. These are the slaves and they resist the Mongol invasion. They fight them. In 1260 they beat back the Mongols and the Egyptians occupy Syria. There's finally peace between Egypt and Iran in 1323. What's interesting about Egypt is that there is the existence of one dominant intellectual. His name is Ibn Taymiyyah. His dates are 1263 to 1328. What is interesting about Ibn Taymiyyah is his direct and powerful influence on almost all versions of Islamic fundamentalism in the 20th and 21st now centuries. He becomes from starting in the 19th century the central medieval philosopher in a Muslim debate over politics and religion. He is heavily influenced by El Ghazali's writings. He sees no place for reason. Now he was the last court philosopher in Islam of the Mamluks as they fought the Mongols. And he developed a war theology in spite of the conversion of the Mongols to Islam. He considered them heathens worthy of jihad. They according to him were apostates from Islam. Now apostates are people who are Muslims or Christians and then deny either Islam or Christianity. That's what an apostate means. For him, despite their conversion to Islam, they did not apply the Sharia, the Islamic religious law, consistently, but used many of their old Mongol customary laws when they ruled. Now traditional teachers in Islam recognize the difficulty of new people in adopting the Sharia immediately and gave them time, at least a generation, to slowly wash out those old traditions and convert. And I think the Christians were very good at doing this as well because they realized the long term benefits of getting them to convert completely to Christianity long term. Ibn Taymiyyah said no. You have to adopt the Islamic law immediately upon conversion.  And indeed you are worse than a pagan. Apostates are worse than pagans because they have been introduced to the truth, they have mauled the acceptance of the truth, and then they have rejected it through their actions. To quote Ibn Taymiyyah, it is a well-established rule of Islamic law that the punishment for an apostate will be heavier than the punishment of someone who has never been a Muslim. End quote. To quote him again, any group of people that rebel against any single rule of the clear and reliably transmitted rules of Islam has to be fought, even if the members of this group publicly make a formal confession of the Islamic faith. End quote. We will see that this notion that there are Muslims that are worse than pagans is a very, very important and fundamental idea within fundamentalist Islamic ideology. Within the ideology of bin Laden and the people who influenced bin Laden. And indeed that the real enemies of Islamic fundamentalism, the first and foremost enemies of Islamic fundamentalism are not so much the West as they are the apostate rulers of Islamic countries today. The leaders of Egypt, the leaders of Iraq, the leaders of Syria, the leaders also of Saudi Arabia who are far too Western. You know, we view this as an example of fundamentalism, right? And yet the fundamentalists view them as far too Western for their taste. So that is Ibn Taymiyyah. Indeed, the last Islamic intellectual of note lived from 1332 to 1406 and his name was Ibn Khaldun. He is considered the last great Muslim thinker. Even Muslim historians recognize this fact at least until the late 19th century. Ibn Khaldun was an historian and developed an entire theory of history. I'm not going to go into it, but he was very prolific. He wrote many, many books. He wrote history books and he wrote philosophy of history books that are very interesting within the context of the history of the history of philosophy. But he was, from what I can tell, he was an original thinker. He might not have been right, but he was an original thinker and an interesting thinker. Unfortunately for the Muslims, did not think very highly of philosophy. Okay. So with the establishment of the Turkish, of a Turkish dynasty in Asia Minor, in what is today Asia Minor, from the ruins of what the Mongols left over in Syria and in Baghdad, this Turkish empire, this new Turkish empire, was founded by a man named Osman in the first quarter of the 14th century. And Osman really established what we know today as the Ottoman Empire, named after him. Over a period of a century, they conquered Asia Minor, driving the Byzantines even further west. And indeed in 1354, the Ottoman forces crossed the dandelions into Europe.  This is later expanded into Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia. Let me put up a map, to get a sense of where this all is. That's what we're talking about. Indeed the conflicts today in Serbia, Kosovo, all originate from this Muslim invasion. And from the fact that Muslims, many of the people who lived here converted to Islam. And some did not. And the tension between those two groups, given collectivism, still exists to this day. The Ottomans controlled the trade routes to Europe, which were becoming more and more important as Europe was exiting the Dark Ages and into the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. They were demanding more and more products for the East. They had more and more wealth. They had more and more with which to trade for the silks of Egypt, the spices of India. And before the sea routes were established, this was the only way to get it, was through the Ottoman Empire. Now, there was this continuous struggle between the Ottomans and the Mongols. And only in the 15th century, did the Ottomans really establish themselves and their dominance over them at least. They consolidate their power in Europe and they start establishing a Turkish national slash ethnic identity. Now, they too have this practice of bringing in slaves, very young boys, and training them as soldiers. They don't use Central Asian slaves since their origins in Central Asia. They cut a deal with Central Europe. And instead of taxes and in exchange for not invading certain lands in Central Europe, the Europeans deliver every year a certain number of young boys to be taken by the Turks, converted into Islam, and trained as soldiers. Now, this sounds like a horrific practice. On the other hand, believe me that these boys had a much longer and more prosperous life in the Ottoman Empire relative to what was going on in Central Europe during this era. And indeed, most of them, or many of them, the more talented ones become generals, they become the administrators of the Ottoman Empire and become a real threat later on to the dominance of the Turks. And later in, I think, the 16th century, there is a civil war between these slaves who are now military, now third or fourth generation, and their children who have now raised into administrative positions within the Ottoman Empire and established positions of power that are very significant. Yeah. If it was so attractive for a young boy to become trained as a soldier, would it be clear that why did the leaders have their own children to follow them? Or why were you chosen to follow them? Well, if it was so attractive to go through this route, why didn't the local population just give their own children to do that? There are two reasons. One, life in the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th century relative to East, Southeast Europe was better, so that children who grew up in the Ottoman Empire just had a better life than children. Now, this changes, obviously, as Europe developed. But also because the Turks didn't want it. The Turks, this was a policy that the Turks had, and indeed the Egyptians had. They wanted an army made up of boys that they trained from youth and that they educated from youth. They believed that this way they guaranteed their loyalty so that instead of going to Egypt and getting some Egyptian troops and to Baghdad and getting local troops and then Turkish troops, each one with their own family and tribal alliances, they brought in people who had no family, no tribal alliances had been raised, educated, fed by the Turks and therefore would be far more loyal as soldiers to the Turks than they would be. And that way they guaranteed that there wouldn't be a lot of infighting within the army between these tribes. Now, you know, within the context of what they were trying to do it seems to have worked. Up until the point where these slaves became so powerful that they threatened the ruling class itself. And of course they had a problem of what to do with fourth generation, third generation, fourth generation and they ultimately freed them and these people became the key people within the administration which for a while sustained the Ottoman Empire with relatively well trained people. Now, the Turks also established a real Islamic religion institutional structure for the first time. A kind of graded hierarchy of professional and academically trained men of religion with territorial jurisdiction and defined functions and powers under the headship of a supreme religious authority that was recognized as the highest instance of holy law. So they tried to implement the Sharia. They tried to implement Islamic holy law throughout the land. Now, the Sultan was considered the Caliph as well. So he was both political and spiritual leader. But he had at his side a Mufti who was the religious leader one under him but who actually engaged in the religious practices and control over the implementation of religious law throughout the Ottoman Empire. In 1453 Constantinople falls and the Byzantine Empire comes to an end. The Ottomans go on to conquer Serbia and Bosnia and to dominate the entire southeast Europe. In Europe, the war is viewed as a jihad and Muslims start populating the areas under control. In the south, the Mamluks on the decline and the Ottomans overtake them. But note that at the beginning of the 15th century the economic viability of the Ottoman Empire is now challenged by what? By the Portuguese circumnavigating Africa and establishing trade routes to the Far East. Trade revenues start declining dramatically from the 16th century on and what surprises the Muslims before they ever get defeated militarily. What really surprises the Muslims is how quickly they lose the Far East in a sense of trade. The British, the Dutch, the Portuguese, all established navies that are now stationed in the Far East protecting the trade routes and the influence of the Muslims in the Far East in spite of all those Muslims having converted way out in the Far East starts systematically declining. However, militarily there was still about 150 years left of victories ahead of the Ottomans. In 1526 they shattered the Hungarian army and 1529 they lay siege to Vienna in the heart of Europe. Indeed, the Europeans throughout this period view the Turks as a major significant enemy. They are considered the terror of the world. However, this is really the end or the beginning of the end that their culture has died hundreds of years earlier. They are in economic decline and this is the beginning of the end of their military dominance. They fail to take Vienna after a long and inconclusive war with Europe. The war continues and in 1683 Vienna is laid the Ottoman Empire lays siege to Vienna for a second time. However, this time they are forced to retreat in utter and complete defeat.  This is the first real complete defeat other than losing Spain. The Turkish chronicler writes and I quote this was a calamitous defeat of such magnitude that there has never been it's like since the first appearance of the Ottoman state. They lose control in Germany the defeated on land in Vienna but they lose control in the Mediterranean to superior European navies and they start losing control to Russia particularly with the rise of Peter the Great in the north. It becomes clear to them that Europe is far more advanced than they are militarily over the entire span of the Ottoman Empire to this point from the 15th to the 17th century. There is almost no advancement there is no new technology there is no new either military or otherwise there is no cultural progress there is no major innovation in any field there is complete stagnation except from military conquest there is nothing that they succeed at in particular during these two centuries. At its height the empire excelled at an efficiently administered administration government and military but nothing else they had a bureaucracy and they had a military and then military power their military defeats come to them as a complete shock because even in the one thing that they perceive in a sense their self esteem is tied to they have now taken a beating and it is obvious to them and they get credit for this that it has become obvious to them immediately that the West is superior to them technologically and that they have to do something now the context from which they are coming from that there is the house of Islam and the house of war the house of war to them is this uncivilized barbaric place Europe everybody who has ever come in contact with Islam before this has converted most of them willingly like the Mongols the Mongols had political control they dominated the whole place yet they converted everybody who didn't convert was considered a barbarian they considered lands of barbarians they had never been threatened other than by the Mongols who again then converted by any other power and particularly not in the West to them the Christians of the West were the infidel par excellence since they were only the only ones from the Muslim perspective had an alternative religion to their own a real what they considered a real alternative Europe was the house of war was the enemy to the Muslims but they did not fear or respect the Europeans and for the first thousand years of its existence Islam had a clear upper hand and losing that upper hand was indeed a shock and surprise they after all the Muslims had chosen people they had the right religion their prophet was the last prophet prior to the seventh to the eighteenth century the Muslims considered the Europeans as you know at best good with their hands the only values they had received from them were clocks and watches which didn't exist in Islam until they were imported and eyeglasses and telescopes but to the Muslims these were just products of the hand they were good at coming up with you know very finely tuned instruments but they viewed no role to the mind in coming up with clocks and telescopes even some crops arrived from the West prior to the eighteenth century tobacco being the dominant one innovation and technology was something for the Muslims to be bought when necessary they did not engage in any investigation regarding what made innovation possible knowledge in general they viewed was something to be acquired to be stored to be bought if necessary but not to be grown or developed internally so what did the Ottomans do when they lost what was the first thing they imported from the West when they realized that they were losing and this tells you something about the Ottomans but it also tells you about something about the West and something the West engages into this day well the first thing they said well we're losing militarily because the West has better equipment they have really good firearms they have cannons so they bought firearms and cannons from the West and of course the West sold it to them indeed the West had a long tradition of selling weapons to the Muslims even during the Crusades British and Italian and French arms dealers were selling I'm sorry bankers were lending money at interest to the Muslims to fund the purchase of weapons to fight the Crusades who were being waged by the Italians and the French and the British now in my talk about usury last year I explained that the Europeans were actually thought they were doing something harmful to the Muslims because they viewed loaned with interest as something detrimental to the borrower and they thought that they were indeed we know that that's not necessarily the case but the Europeans sold them lots of weapons during the 18th century they also the Ottomans used these weapons and still lost they said wait a minute it can't just be the weapons the Europeans also better trained so they brought in European experts to train the Ottoman armies and that didn't help they kept losing well the Europeans had better uniforms and indeed you notice that the Muslims convert their uniforms to western uniforms the culture doesn't only in army except for the headgear the uniforms become westernized in military marches they wear western uniforms with Arab headgear now let me note that the west made no attempt to stop this trade in arms and military experts this was what was called constructive engagement so Henry Kissinger didn't make anything up this has a long tradition unfortunately in the west of arming and training one's enemy now immediately after the defeat of Vienna and again this is to the Muslims credit although they come to the wrong conclusion a real debate begins within the Muslim world and the debate is centered on why did we lose why are we declining why is the west rising as time goes on through the 18th century and ultimately through the 19th century it is clear and evident that while the Ottoman empire is in the descent economically in every perspective they are losing ground the west is rising and they ask this question what is happening their defeats continue primarily to the Russians in the north and as I said the Dutch and the British are consolidating power to the east of the Muslim empires cutting the Middle East off from Asia the substance of and symbolic blow happens in 1798 1798 Napoleon then a young general the French army lands in Egypt with a very small French army and occupies it very little resistance he just takes over the entire Egypt country and starts administrating he leaves three years later but he doesn't leave because the Egyptians or the Turks are threatening him or mounting some kind of military challenge to his dominance of Egypt he leaves because the British show up so what this more than anything makes it obvious to the Muslim the complete and utter military superiority of the European they can take Muslim lands on a whim only the only entity that can push out a European country from a Muslim country is another European country they basically now control and the Ottoman Empire is basically has to do what the Europeans dictate to it they are at their mercy now in addition during this time the Ottoman Empire their educational system is falling apart and is completely still focused on religious education so any kind of science any kind of education to any sort of culture is completely lacking from any of the Ottoman institutions so we are at a point in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries where the Ottomans and Islam in general it is clear to them that they have lost it's clear to them that they were on the decline it's clear to them that there is a thriving incredible culture out there that is just dominating the world and they must try to explain this so let's look at some of the reasons they give for this and see the consequences of their mistakes so what are the reasons that the Muslims provide now one explanation that unfortunately is still popular in the Middle East and is indeed increasing in popularity today probably more than ever is that the failure is a result of Muslims abandoning their old ways the failure is a result of the Muslims being less Muslim being taking their religion less seriously this is the fundamentalist answer the problem was not only the problem though in explaining to the Ottomans that the fundamentalists have was that ok so we're deteriorating because we're bad, we're not religious enough but how do you explain the rise of Europe why are the infidels succeeding so much they're not Muslims they're not if you look carefully they're not even Christian right there's only one thing for God to punish the Muslims and this is by the way is a tradition that goes back to the Old Testament everything bad that happens to the Israelites or the Israelis in the Old Testament happens to them because God is displeased with the way they're behaving everything, every single 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