Luai Ahmed
@JustLuai • 210,789 subscribers
Yemeni writer, content creator, journalist — born and brainwashed in Sana'a deradicalized and disappointed in Stockholm.
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Dear Muslims, The world is scared of us. The world is laughing at us. The world is worried about us. And there are legitimate reasons for their worry that we cannot keep denying. It is time for us to flush the word ”Islamophobia” down the toilet and start looking in the mirror and ask ourselves: How did we get here? How come the largest and most thriving terrorist organizations in the world are Muslim? How come terrorists successfully use Islam to mobilize thousands of Muslims? What is the problem with our leaders, our Imams, and our religion? Why do we keep repeating these stone-age traditions that have failed us and continue to fail us? The world has left us behind. The ”kuffar” that Imams tell us to hate have traveled to the future while we are still stuck in the Middle Ages reading stories about Mohammed and his flying horse. You are reading this with your phone, tablet, or computer, which was created by the ”kuffar.” The same ”kuffar” that we hate so much have created medicine that cures diseases. Medicine that our religion’s crystal balls failed to bring about. The ”kuffar” have moved forward and traveled to space. Meanwhile, we are stuck on Earth in the Middle Ages, going to our poisonous mosques every Friday, reciting the same chapters and the same stories of Mohammed. Why haven’t all of these books and teachings led to any scientific, technological, or medical advancements? 1,400 years of us, stuck, debating: ”Which is the correct sect?” ”What is the correct interpretation?” ”Who is a real Muslim? And who is a kaffer?” ”How can we convince people to become Muslims?” Why on Earth would anyone want to become Muslim today? They are all scared of us. They are all laughing at us. They are all worried about us. Delete Israel and the West from the world, and we would still be as ignorant as we are. We would still be stabbing each other. Stop blaming them – and look at yourselves instead. The enemy is not out there. The enemy is within.
Luai Ahmed7,696,421 views • 2 years ago
To those raising the Palestinian flag, Where were you when ISIS was launched and beheaded tens of thousands of Arabs in Iraq, Libya, and Syria in the name of Islam? Why didn’t you take to the streets and raise their flags? Why didn’t you condemn the terror and call for a ”ceasefire”? Where were you when Arab dictators and terrorists killed hundreds of thousands of Arabs in Syria and Libya? Why didn’t you take to the streets and raise their flags? Why didn’t you condemn the terror and call for a ”ceasefire”? Where were you in the last decade when Saudi Arabia, backed by 8 Arab countries, killed 400,000 Yemenis, my own people? I didn’t see any of you take to the streets or raise the Yemeni flag. I did not see any of you condemning the terror and calling for a ”ceasefire” while Arab countries were slaughtering my own people. This must lead to some self-reflection. When millions of Arabs are slaughtered by other Arabs, you say nothing. But when 7 thousand of Arabs are killed by Jews defending their right to exist, you revolt, you get angry, you storm the streets in the East and the West, you raise the Palestinian flag, you condemn the terror, you call for a ceasefire, you turn the world upside down. Why is that? Why were you so silent then but SO LOUD now? Can it be that you are finally raising a flag and creating chaos because you only hate that the perpetrators are Jews? Because you obviously don't care when millions of Arabs are killed by other Arabs. Can it be that you storming the streets is just you venting out your hatred towards Jews? The same hatred we learned in our mosques and schools? You speak of ”numbers and proportionality.” But by the rules of proportionality, you should not be raising Palestinian flags. Unless, there is another agenda at play: Jew-hatred. Or as I would call it: Hatred.
Luai Ahmed4,432,615 views • 2 years ago
Dear Arabs and Muslims, I just back from Israel, and my life will never be the same. I thought I was going to be met with pure racism, and then came to see that half of Israelis look just like me. I thought I was going to be treated as a terrorist, but I was met with kindness and hospitality. I thought I was going to experience apartheid, but I saw people from different backgrounds co-existing in peace together. I thought I was going to see hatred against Muslims, but I met dozens of Muslims who love Israel and are proud of their country. I thought I was going to meet angry Jews who hate all the goys and want to manipulate them, but I was met by a kind people who are struck by grief and terror. Every street I visited in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has a story of a terror attack. In every cafe I sat in, I was told ”A Jew was stabbed right here”, and ” A shooting happened on the other side of this street a few months ago.” Throughout this trip, I have been ex-communicated by close-minded friends and family members. But you know what? It was worth it. Because I got to see Israel and experience the truth about the country that I was indoctrinated to hate for myself. I wish that my friends and family members would also be able to visit Israel and see the beauty and hospitality of the country like I did. I was able to swiftly visit Israel because of my Swedish passport – I won’t deny my privileges. But I also have the elusive privilege of humanizing both Israelis and Arabs. I had the greatest privilege of meeting, and seeing and talking to Israelis, whom I had learned to hate since I was a child. I am so happy to have cleansed the hatred out of my soul. I wish that the Muslim and Arab communities could do the same. Nothing good can ever come out of hatred, violence, and terrorism. And now, having been in Israel, I cannot stress enough how much it saddens me that my culture and my people have learned to hate this country and these people. To all the Israelis who have opened their hearts and homes to me and showed me their beautiful country - thank you.
Luai Ahmed3,658,905 views • 2 years ago
My speech at the UN Human Rights Council about their recent report on Israel on behalf of the UN Watch : I ask the UN, the Arab League, and everyone who had waving the Palestinian flag since October 7: Where is the flag of Yemen? In my country, half a million people have died in the last 10 years. The biggest famine and humanitarian crisis in modern history. Why does no one care when half a million Yemenis die? What about Sudan? In less than two years, more than 150,000 people have been killed. Where is the Sudanese flag? What about Syria? Half a million people were killed. Where is the Syrian flag? High Commissioner, why is it that when Arabs kill millions of Arabs, no one bats an eye? Where is the outrage? Where are the protests? High Commissioner, may I ask why your report mentions Israel 188 times — yet fails to mention the Islamic Republic in Iran even once? How can you speak about the conflict while ignoring the party who armed, trained, and funded the terror proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis — who have been bombing Israel thousands of times? Why don’t you mention that the Houthis in Yemen have spent millions of dollars firing missiles at Israel, instead of feeding my starving people? And why is Qatar sitting here as a member of the Human Rights Council when they host the Hamas terror leaders in luxury hotels? ——— Their response? Silence.
Luai Ahmed1,723,148 views • 1 year ago
As Arabs, we need to understand that Israel and the West are not our oppressors or enemies. We, Arabs, are our own worst enemies. We, Arabs, are our greatest oppressors. We, Arabs, have killed and oppressed a million times more of our people than the West and Israel can ever do. It is not Israel that married off my mother when she was a child. It is my people who did. It is not the West or Israel that has been bombing Yemen for the past decade and killed 400,000. It is us, Arabs, who did it. It is not the Israel that implanted Islamic extremism in the East and the West. It is our mosques, it is the books we worship, it is the Imams we follow, it is what we learn and what we teach. It is not the West that forces us to treat women like commodities. It is our people. And most of all, it is not the West or Israel that doesn’t value Arab lives. It is us, Arabs, who do not value human life. If we do not admit to ourselves that WE are the problem, that WE are refusing to progress, and that WE need to change – then change will never happen, blood will keep flowing, and we will never know peace. How do we expect the world and the International Community to respect us, when we don’t respect ourselves?
Luai Ahmed2,984,822 views • 2 years ago
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In the past few weeks, many Arabs and Muslims have discovered that I am not heterosexual. Since then, they have weaponized my sexuality against me. Words like "gay" and "faggot" are hurled at me every day now. So let me get this straight. I am gay, and I am not ashamed of who I am. I was ashamed of myself in Yemen; for twenty years, I was taught to hate myself. As a child, I learned in school from my Islamic Studies teachers that I should be killed for something I never chose. Every night, I prayed to God, asking Him to cure me from the gay ”phase”, to make me "normal" so that I could go to Heaven as a good Muslim. My culture and my people convinced me that my very existence was a sin, that I was sick, and that the only cure for this supposed sickness was the death penalty. And honestly, I stand with Jews today, not as an act of defiance against my culture, as some believe. But because, as a gay man, I know what it feels like to be hated and loathed for something that I did not choose. Gay never occupied a Muslim country, yet we face death penalties in 13 Muslim countries and jail in 43 Muslim countries – simply for being gay. I stand against this. It’s called self-preservation. I am not ashamed of my sexuality. I am ashamed of my culture that seeks my blood because of something I did not choose. So, go ahead, call me gay, a faggot, a murtad, a kaffer. I no longer fear your words or knives. And most certainly, I am not afraid of the "Hell" that you keep speaking of. I lived through hell under Sharia for 20 years, where I was forced to conceal my identity so that I wouldn’t get killed. For simply exiting. For being different. I am privileged enough to say that I no longer fear you and that I no longer live under Sharia anymore. But I do fear for my gay brothers and sisters who still live among you and must endure a life of fear, denial, and taught self-hatred. Who are told in schools and mosques that they are sins and that they should be killed. I fear for their lives and I aim to be a voice for them. Because when I grew up in Yemen, I did not see a single person speak up for my rights and my right to existence. I wanna be the person that I wish 14-year-old me watched on the internet after coming back home from Islamic Studies classes, where my teachers taught me to be fearful of God and to believe that I should either conceal my identity or be killed.
Luai Ahmed2,241,113 views • 2 years ago
Dear Iranians, I am sorry. I am sorry the world has failed you. I am sorry Muslims and Arabs have failed you. I am sorry you are executed for speaking out in Iran and get called Islamophobic when do it in the West. I am sorry the West thinks Iraq is the same as Iran. I am sorry they use Zionism and Palestine to silence you. I am sorry the word sorry is not enough.
Luai Ahmed44,969 views • 15 days ago
”When Hamas attacked Israel, people went out to celebrate. When Israel started attacking Gaza, the entire Arab and Muslim communities went out on the streets everywhere to say "We need a ceasefire." I immediately thought, ”Why do you care about Arabs getting killed now? When you were completely silent and did not say a single word when hundreds of thousands of Yemenis were getting killed?" The main reason is the perpetrators being Jewish. Because in the Arab and Muslim world, there is absolutely nothing more disgusting than to be Jewish or homosexual. The only thing I ever learned about Jews and Israelis is to hate them. In mosques, I heard that Jews and Israelis need to be murdered. This is the consensus recitation by the Imams. We normalize the language of hatred and violence towards Jews and Israelis. I remember as a child questioning this and thinking to myself, ”But why?” So, I wanted to come here and listen to the Jews and the people. It is such a beautiful country, and the people are so kind and loving. As I see it, the reason for this Arabic hypocrisy of silence when Arabs are killed by other Arabs, and loud revolutions when Gaza is attacked, is anti-semitism. A hatred towards Jews that we learn since birth. Blame the Jews. Blame the others – and direct your anger and resentment towards the Jews and the Westerners, instead of looking internally and trying to better yourselves."
Luai Ahmed2,052,422 views • 2 years ago
I am a cultural Muslim from Yemen and I am both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel. I was born in Sana’a, Yemen, where I was taught that Israel is a demonic country that needs to be eradicated. In 2014, I moved to Sweden. One day in the student house I was living in, a long-haired guy moved in, who kind of looked like me. I walked up to him and introduced myself. I asked him where he was from. He answered: “Israel” - and I internally went crazy. I mean, all my life I learned that this guy was my enemy. While I was in a state of shock, he was telling me that his best friends in Israel were Yemenis and that he loves and knows how to make Yemeni food. He was telling me “I’m going to make you sahawiq and jahnoun” while I was still in a state of shock. We ended up becoming friends, and this friendship made me realize that Jews and Israelis are, just like me, human beings. I began to realize that behind the labels “Palestine” and “Israel” are the same human beings, who eat the same food, breathe the same air, and bleed the same blood.
Luai Ahmed1,948,302 views • 2 years ago
Everyone wants to talk about the Palestinian Nakba but no one wants to talk about the Yemeni Nakba. Or the Egyptian Nakba. Or the Syrian Nakba. Or the Iraqi Nakba. Or all the other Nakbas that forced almost 1,000,000 Mizrahi Jews out of the Middle East due to persecution, hatred, antisemitism, and genocides.
Luai Ahmed56,317 views • 24 days ago
A family member told me that I "should raise the Palestinian flag if I care about the innocent children and civilians who are bombed in Gaza." I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag specifically because I care about the innocent children and civilians who are bombed in Gaza. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag because innocent children are bombed in Gaza because of Hamas. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag because this flag is weaponized to exacerbate an antisemitic agenda that I will not stand by. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag because most people who raise the Palestinian flag scream, "From the river to the sea, the Jews will be eradicated.” I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag because I care for innocent Palestinian lives, but I do not care for terrorism. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag until the majority of Palestinians collectively condemn and ex-communicate Hamas. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag until Palestinians wish to live in peace side by side with the Jews. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag because I do not have to prove my humanity and empathy to those who do not seek peace. I will NOT raise the Palestinian flag until Palestine is free from Hamas.
Luai Ahmed1,703,789 views • 2 years ago
Yemen, my poor country, has decided to bomb Israel. My poor country is more concerned with killing Jews than feeding its starving population. This is the problem with the Arab world. Blind unforgiving hatred. Wrong choices. And psychopathic leadership. More than 75% of the Yemeni population is living under poverty, and yet our tribal leaders are determined to jeopardize the safety of an already malnourished and vulnerable society. Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis according to the UN. We cannot afford to feed half of our population, yet apparently, we can afford to fire missiles aimed at killing the Jews. Yemenis persecuted Yemeni Jews for more than 1,400 years. When Israel was established, Yemeni Jews finally found a place they could call home and be safe in. So they fled. Every single one of them. And now, the Yemeni Jews are under attack by Yemenis - again. I have received hundreds of messages from Yemenis telling me ”You are not a Yemeni!", "You are a Jew!", "You are a shame to Yemen!!” It is an honor to be a "shame" to my country today. Let me know when we start feeding our starving population instead of bombing the Jews. Let me know when we unlearn the Jew-hatred, the hatred, the misogyny, the homophobia, etc. etc. etc. Only then would I be a proud Yemeni. But not right now.
Luai Ahmed1,401,199 views • 2 years ago