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Memri
16-04-2025
- Business
- Memri
Michigan Real Estate Investor Saumik Amin Discusses Plans For A 'Muslim Village' On Podcast: We Raised $6.8 Million In 40 Minutes; 75% Of Resident Service Fees Will Go To The Mosque; Streets Will Be Named After Islamic Conquerors; Christians Will Be Advised Not To Live There; I Hired Unbeliever Lawyers, With Names Like 'John Smith' To Submit The Applications (Archival)
Saumik (Sam) Amin, a real estate investor and broker based in Warren, Michigan, discussed plans for a "Muslim village" — a real estate development catering to Muslims — in a March 4, 2024, episode of the Righteous and Rich podcast. He mentioned that the project would begin with 250 houses built around a mosque, with 75% of the association fee allocated to the mosque, which would also serve to keep non-Muslims out of the development. He did not specify where the planned village will be located, or whether the project is connected to the Islamic "Epic City" housing project in Texas. Amin further stated that the streets would be named after Islamic conquerors. He explained, "Now, I am going to use the kuffar [infidels]" as lawyers and engineers, who would submit plans and proposing street names, adding, "You've got to play it wise." Abubakr, the podcast co-host, said that this is a form of "verbal manifestation," Islamophobes keep saying that Muslims are taking over, now they are actually going to do it. Munir Ibn Mansur, the podcast host, who previously went by "Dawah Man," moved from the U.K. to Dubai, UAE, in 2018. While in the U.K., he advised listeners to move to Islamic lands, claiming that in the U.K., hijab-wearing girls get abortions, and children come home saying, "Mom, Dad, I believe in evolution." In 2020, he stated that the kuffar in the U.K. are so "filthy" they don't care how many people they sleep with. In December 2023, he warned in a London mosque, against joining non-Muslims' protests against Israel following the October 7 attacks, because they might find themselves standing near someone who "takes it in the backside at night." Munir Ibn Mansur: "You've acquired land where there's a mosque in the middle? And there are 250 properties that are going to be built?" Saumik Amin: "Yes. Probably more." Ibn Mansur: "Around the mosque?" Amin: "Yes." Ibn Mansur: "You're going to have gyms that are like..." Amin: "Yup, segregated." Ibn Mansur: "Segregated." [...] Amin: "So like you said brother. Mosque, homes, a total Muslim village. So we're still debating on the name, but it's going to something Muslim name and a village attached to it, right. The names of the streets Khalid ibn al-Walid, Tariq ibn Ziyad, like, all the great conquerors. Like, people need to google those conquerors and know what we're made of." Abubakr: "Islamophobes. Islamophobes, they're burning bro." Amin: "Google Tariq ibn Ziyad, you know, and we want to have different sections, like, Andalusia, this, that. Like, all our past glories. And we want to bring it back. The way what we're doing, brother, like, you cannot make it exclusive, like, non-Muslims not allowed, kuffar [infidels] not allowed. We're doing, there's something called a cessation fee. I don't know what it's called in Dubai. Like, your maintenance fee that you pay yearly..." Abubakr: "Yes. Service fee." Amin: "Service fee. Cut the grass, to remove the snow, and whatnot. So that service fee will put their 75% of the service fee you're paying goes to the mosque." Ibn Mansur: "So they will automatically not want to come." Amin: "Automatically. If you are a practicing Christian, I would advise you – Why help the Muslims, you know? [...] "We're putting in applications now where we're selecting the names of the streets in United States of America. We're putting the subdivisional laws, like, hey this is the law. One of the laws being, your yearly contributions, 75% of it goes to support the mosque, it's going to be there." Abubakr: "That's so funny." Amin: "We're making these laws, we're putting these laws. It's unbelievable what a law can do for you." Abubakr: "You know they say if you, it's called verbal manifestation. If you keep saying something to someone, they'll become like that. If you keep telling them they're a villain, they'll become a villain. If you say these Muslims are taking over... If you keep calling, if you keep saying it..." [...] Ibn Mansur: "Allah give success to this project. Allah protect this project and give it success." Abubakr: "And there's no leeway involved. No haram [forbidden], like..." Amin: "We're 6.8 million [dollars], we raised in 40 minutes. Now I'm like, okay this is happening, this happened, right. This is another thing. Like, people fear too much brother. Now you've raised it, now I have great attorneys, now we're going to use the kuffar, where their talent comes in. You have the great attorneys... So I hired everyone that the township knows. So they've dealt with, this is 'their boy,' their attorney. This is their civil engineer, this is their planning commissioner. I have hired all of them in our team. Now they are submitting the application. "Because now comes the real work, you've got to play it wise, right. So now the township is going to see an application coming from, I'm not going to name these names, like John Smith submitting this application. It says Khalid ibn al-Walid street... oh my God, what is John Smith thinking, right? But, you know, this is what you make John Smith do when you got the money. You hire John Smith and say, 'hey, submit an application as I tell you to submit.' Yeah." Ibn Mansur: "Are you sure this poor guy's not going to get you in trouble?" Amin: "No, nothing about that, I don't care. What are you going to do? So this is another thing..." Ibn Mansur: "I want the project to manifest." Amin: "Of course." Abubakr: "We've got to use their principles against them."
Al Bawaba
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Al Bawaba
Mia Khalifa reflects on Hijab scene: "I Accidentally Became Notorious"
ALBAWABA - Mia Khalifa opens up about the controversial hijab scene that led to her unexpected notoriety. Also Read Kanye West hints at split from Bianca Censori in new song "Bianca" After being convinced to do an explicit scene while cosplaying as a Muslim woman, Mia Khalifa left the adult film industry, reflecting on her time spent working as a prostitute. When the 21-year-old Lebanese-American sang in the viral video while wearing the hijab—a head covering and modest garment considered sacred by Muslim women—she instantly became well-known. After being named the top actor on Pornhub, the video went global in a matter of hours, and Khalifa received death threats from both ISIS and Islamophobes. Raised as a Catholic, Khalifa, now 31, remembers the incident and the reasons it led her to turn away from pornography. miakhalifa Instagram "At first, I didn't have much control over my brand," she told the New York Times. "I accidentally became notorious." She clarified, "I started working in the adult industry in October 2014, and I was immediately pressured to appear in a video where I was an Arab woman wearing a veil. "I carried out the plan to take advantage of the fact that I was Arabic and could speak Arabic. The avalanche began shortly after, perhaps a few hours after its broadcast. Every news outlet covered it, and everyone had an opinion. I had total control over my reputation and appearance. Many people, in my opinion, go through sexy stages between the ages of 20 and 21. Unfortunately, mine was captured in 4K. miakhalifa Instagram When the incident happened, Khalifa claims she heard "whispers in the waiting room" at her place of employment, a law firm. She claimed that she had to change her job path to one as a social media influencer since she started to feel "uncomfortable" and "like a distraction." "I realized at that point that there was no chance for improvement or change," she said. "I dislike the way the women I work with look at me, and I particularly dislike the way the men look at me because it's like they're observing a zoo animal." "I decided to try to be an influencer and a public figure if that was the fate I had sealed for myself, so I reopened social media."
