Ed Husain

Meanwhile, from the Arab countries, both the Egyptians, but more recently and I think more directly and consistently and strategically, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the president of the United Arab Emirates and deputy prime minister and the foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, both have been

consistently raising this agenda from Barack Obama here as the president in those days, to David Cameron, to Boris Johnson, to Theresa May, to Liz Truss, and now with the current British Prime Minister, whose name escapes me.

Keir Starmer.

So here in New York, is it so irrelevant?

You just don't think about it?

Yes, somehow that has been lost in the rest of the world.

But so with Keir Starmer and his cohort, Yvette Cooper and others.

And the response is always twofold.

One, that they're not a terrorist organization.

And two, we know better.

to which the Emiratis and the Saudis and the Egyptians feel offended and refer to this long history that these guys start off, as they did, by the way, in Gaza, which is an excellent example.

Ahmed Yassin goes to Gaza and in 1971 starts a charity.

So why would the Israelis oppose a charity?

Why would the Brits oppose various charitable organizations functioning in the UK?

Similarly in the US, same model, they run charities.

So Ahmad Yassin throughout the 70s runs charities and then he,

expands into running a few mosques and a few schools, a few universities.

And he's just like a provider of welfare where the status failed.

Why would you be opposed to him?

But within 15 years, he had created an entire network of teachers, doctors, medical practitioners, and dependent families on him, ranging in the hundreds of thousands.