Iftar

They have made such headways, aided and abetted by our leaders.

It was President Bush who initiated the Iftar dinner of, uh, uh, at the White House.

It was also President Bush immediately after 9/11 who started the Muslim Initiative Program and started hiring them on all levels of government, the Pentagon, the FBI, the CIA, the State Department.

So it was the leadership of President Bush and the Bush administration immediately after 9/11 that started incorporating members of the Muslim Brotherhood into our institutions, uh, uh, to the point that Stephen Coughlin in 2005 wrote a, a, a, a, a, a, uh, did a study about how radical Islam is infiltrating our country, and he actually got fired by a Muslim working at the Pentagon, a, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who got him fired because he was in a position of power at the Pentagon.

5 to evening 6.30, sir.

Iftar is 6.30. Iftar means? Iftar means breaking the fasting.

Break the fasting.

Okay.

So he understood from that, that when you're the first person to dig something or create something or split it open, that's what fatara is.

And when you have breakfast in Arabic, what do you call it? Iftar, or in Ramadan, you call it iftar.

Why is it called iftar? Just as the English language has dubbed it, you break your fast, you break.

So because you did not eat and then you start eating, that's a break.

We're on holiday all the time and eating different specialty foods all the time.

There is one dish here that's very typical to Ramadan, which is the Muslim fasting month, and that they have at Iftar when they're breaking their fast.

It's this delicious kheef.

It's page 262.

This is a guy who refuses to condemn Hamas.

This is a guy who brought Mahmoud Khalil into Gracie Mansion for Iftar during Ramadan.

And Khalil is someone who basically says it would be wrong for anyone to ask a Palestinian man to condemn Hamas.

So this is part of the ideology, and this is part of the ideology that New Yorkers have voted in.

I mean, the David's Sling, the, the US State Department had to officially formally notify Israel's defense minister of its approval, this is how the FMF works, which we're gonna talk about, before that sale could even proceed to Finland.

It's all IFTAR managed, all of this is, and people don't even under- They sit here, and they run their mouths about this stuff, and they have no idea what they're talking about.

I mean, it's crazy.

They're only allowed...

I've made the argument these are not the same thing.

That, that you can certainly be a person who, you know, has Iftar dinner and not be a terrorist supporter.

But Islam as a global force and as a governing force wherever it exists is an illiberal force that disagrees with the values of the West.

What do you make of that argument?

And it sounds great, doesn't it? Diverse, multicultural, harmonious.

People come and celebrate big Iftar here, where people come from different communities and come and fast and eat together.

We have people celebrating the festival colors, uh, for, for those people who are celebrating Diwali, and I was the first Father Christmas, the c- the Muslim Santa who dressed up, and I did that for 10 years celebrating Christmas, and that's what Luton is about.

In a lot of ways, this version of Luton is a version of Britain in miniature.