Testimony

There's a reason why the word in Arabic for witness is also the same word for martyr because in order for you to be honest, to be an honest and truthful witness, you have to basically sacrifice yourself in your testimony. You understand? Remove yourself from it, remove what you think, what your opinion is, what you like, what you dislike, what you approve, what you disapprove, what you want, what you don't want and you just tell the truth as it is no matter what. You know in the West it's in their bible actually, they have that line about the truth shall set you free. But I'm telling you that in order for you to tell the truth in the first place and to listen to the truth in the first place, have to already be free.

You have to be at least free enough to be honest, free enough from your own subjective interpretations, free enough from all the ways that people bend reality to suit their own whims and their own desires and so forth. You have to already free yourself from all of that in order to even present the truth honestly and to see the truth honestly, and to receive the truth objectively. But you're dealing with the people who believe that there is, you know, my truth and your truth and so on. Well, doesn't free anybody. So it doesn't matter if in your culture, in the West, in your so called civilization or in your religion, it doesn't matter if they tell you that you should tell the truth because at that point the whole definition of truth is already so obtuse and so flexible that telling the truth is basically the same thing as lying, it's meaningless.

So yes, we defend Islam and we're partisan about it and yes, that is the only way to be objective and fair because that is what Islam dictates for us to be.