Expecting transparency isn't slander @AliDawah

So has reacted to a video that I did a year ago where I expressed my anger over Dais using Islam as a money making enterprise. And where I said that, anyone who's asking for donations should provide full financial disclosure. And I mentioned him by name. I mentioned, Ali Dawah and a few other, well known YouTube guys. Well, he was right.

I said his name, when I met Dawa man. And I think that that mistake should be relatively clear from the context, since in that video, I was actually reacting to Dawa man's, weather club hustle. But yes, I confused the two names. I confused Dawa man and Ali Dawa. I'm not a particularly regular viewer of English language Dawa channels to be honest, and I got the two names mixed up.

I'm sure that that happens to both of them on a regular basis, as I think he indicated in his video. Again, this video is a year old. I'm sure he's probably only responding to it now because my my profile has risen over the last few weeks, so it maybe just now came to his attention. So if Ali Dawah, does not ask for money, then I don't say that he owes his viewers, or contributors financial disclosure. And if his channel is monetized, that's his business.

I'm not opposed to people making money. I'm not even opposed to people charging speakers fees. And I'm also not opposed to people raising money for a cause and then being paid from the funds that they raise, to compensate them for the service that they provided. All of that's fine. However, there should be transparency, and there's nothing wrong or slanderous or accusatory about expecting that.

This is standard procedure outside of the dawah scene, and Muslims should be even more upfront about this than anyone else. Frankly, it's gaslighting to act offended by being asked to disclose the use of funds that someone is collecting, from donations. And that's the specific issue that I was raising in that video, and I stand by that. So, again, sorry for confusing your name with Dower Man's name, but I'm not sorry for saying that there should be, transparency or for saying that, people who donate money have a right to know what their money is being used for. And, again, if someone is publicly asking for donations, then I don't see anything wrong with specifying them by name and and saying that they should disclose what they're doing with the money that they're collecting.

If transparency is going to be damaging to the, then we have a serious problem.