Loay Alshareef
@lalshareef · Gulf & Arab world
Loay Alshareef is a UAE-based peace advocate who learned Hebrew and champions Jewish–Muslim reconciliation.
🇦🇪 Thank God for the blessing of the UAE الحمدلله على نعمة الإمارات 🙏 https://t.co/8KLO1E2CCP
🚨 This is Dubai tonight. FULL AND SAFE 🇦🇪 200+ nationalities living together in peace and prosperity in one place. Arabs, Europeans, Persians, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, this is an example of what our beloved Middle East should look like. God bless the UAE. https://t.co/afpUREB0YY
I met an Iranian gentleman in Dubai tonight. He told me: “Thank you for supporting our people. Please know that we appreciate it. Your videos go viral among us”. Here is what I told him, and what I want to tell the Iranian people: “I love your people because you have a great heritage and deserve a better future in the Middle East. I love Iranians because when you receive love, you return it tenfold. I love Iranians because you are an ancient people with a magnificent culture, beautiful music, and, of course, incredible food. And Inshallah, one day we will celebrate together in a free Iran.” My battle for peace has never been against any people. It is against dangerous ideologies and extremist movements, the Muslim Brotherhood, the IRGC, Hamas, and all those who glorify death and seek to divide God’s creation. Extremism in all its forms must be rejected. The honorable and decent people of the Middle East, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and people of different faiths, want to thrive, prosper, and make our Middle East the greatest place on Earth. The enemies of peace want to turn it into a place of hatred, destruction, and anarchy. But we will prevail, with the help of God. And I pray that Iran will be free, and that the descendants of Cyrus will join hands with the children of Isaac and Ishmael. It is a noble battle worth fighting, with all our souls, with all our hearts, and with all our might. God bless the people of Iran. 🇮🇷♥️
Soon with the help of God 🙏🏼 David and Cyrus will reunite FREE IRAN GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF IRAN https://t.co/ju3Q3pHshP
🚨A message to the pro-Israel camp: I’ve known this community for a very long time. The overwhelming majority are amazing, kind-hearted, intelligent, and loving people in America, Canada, Europe, and Israel. Most are proud of their non-Jewish allies, including their Muslim allies and, of course, their Christian allies. I don’t think many Muslims have stood up against radical Islamists as consistently as I have, or faced as much backlash from them. But by the grace of God, I have the strength to confront their ideology because I know its sources and once had to expunge its influence from my own thinking. And I fight this battle as a Muslim, not as an ex-Muslim; as a proud Arab and a proud Muslim. Because I have always said: if moderate Muslims don’t stand up to the radicals, their silence leaves the radicals unchallenged (Agreement in silence). However, there is a small but dangerous minority within the pro-Israel camp that tolerates hatred against all Muslims, not just radical Islamists, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, or other extremist movements, but Muslims as a whole. And they need to understand the damage they are causing. What is the end game? To isolate Israel and the Jewish people even further? I want Muslims to love and accept Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, living side by side in peace with its Muslim and Arab neighbors including Palestinians, who deserve to live in dignity, security, and prosperity. I want Muslims to stand against the enemies of peace: Hamas, the IRGC, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and every movement that uses religion to justify extremism and violence. I want confused and misinformed Muslims to learn about the Jewish people, Jewish history, and the extraordinary common ground between Muslims and Jews. I want us to thrive together and build a future that would make our forefather Abraham and his sons Ishmael and Isaac proud. I want a Middle East where Israel is no longer hated and isolated, but accepted by all its Muslim neighbors. And this small, dangerous minority within the pro-Israel camp risks blowing that vision to smithereens. They are undermining one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern American diplomacy: the Abraham Accords. They are shooting themselves in the foot. So again, I ask: What is your end game? When I visited Israel for the first time, I met senior government officials who spoke proudly about their Muslim friends and Israel’s Muslim community. They understood something fundamental: a war against the terrorists of Hamas must never become a war against Muslims. That distinction is precisely what this dangerous minority in the American pro-Israel camp fails to understand. Don’t destroy what President Donald J. Trump and his team worked to build. Don’t destroy the hope the Abraham Accords have created in our region. And don’t become the mirror image of the radical extremists you claim to oppose. Because when hatred is directed at Muslims simply for being Muslims, we will call it out and stand against it just as firmly as we stand against Islamist extremism…without apology.
🚨 The IRGC terrorists are striking Jordan. May God protect Jordan and its great King and its people. Humanity stands with Jordan. Inshallah, soon Iran will be free. انشاالله به زودی در ایران صلح برقرار شود https://t.co/t3jIKCbpjU
🚨You want to know how ignorant some “Islamists” are? They are enraged over copies of the Quran in the UAE supposedly “renaming” Surah Al-Isra to “Bani Israel” (The Children of Israel). So why am I calling them ignorant? Because “Bani Israel” is THE ORIGINAL NAME which this surah was known in the Islamic tradition and in the time of Prophet Mohammed, it was not invented by the UAE. These are the same Islamists who pray day and night to visit Bayt al-Maqdis, without realizing the historical relationship between the Arabic name and the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the term for the Jewish Temple. Before getting outraged over history, learn it. You’re welcome. 🌹
It’s your fault Mr Mayor. You allowed this to happen. You should realize that your speeches against the one and only Jewish state that lives among 57 Muslim states fuels hate and incite violence.
Happy Birthday to the Abraham Accords! The Abraham Accords brought Muslims and Jews closer together and helped advance reconciliation between Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and Israelis across the region. God bless President Trump and his team for achieving this.
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