Jun 23, 2025
"DOES MY FAMILY'S LIFE MATTER?" Cenk Goes NUCLEAR On Anti-Muslim Media
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian call out the medias bias against Muslim lives on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take?
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Yes, Muslim lives matter.
I'm so sick of our lives not mattering.
And American media, you are guilty.
You're the ones who got the whole country
my whole life to hate me.
To hate my Muslim family,
to hate all Muslims across the world.
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You're the sick sons of bitches
that called us terrorists.
Does my life matter? Does my life matter?
Does my family's life matter?
So Constantine Kissin today
referred to me as woke after I talked
about the difficulty in engaging in polite
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conversation and debate with a man who has
a smirk on his face as I talk about
the slaughter of innocent people in Gaza.
And that man was conricus
I forget his first name.
Don't care about his first name.
But unfortunately I had the displeasure
of having to debate him
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on Piers Morgan's show.
Jonathan.
Jonathan. Conricus.
Okay, so how is that woke?
He quote tweets that I say polite debates
with men who smirk as I bring up the
slaughter of innocents is nonsensical.
He says woke is so back, baby.
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Yeah. No, no.
And of course, being anti-genocide
is woke like the Non-woke position is.
Genocide and holocaust are awesome,
which I'm sure constant Casin agrees with
because he just said it.
He just said that being against
the genocide is woke, so he's so not woke.
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He probably loves genocides and holocaust.
So let me understand something.
If I decided to quote tweet him on October
7th when Hamas slaughtered innocents
in Israel and claimed that his complaints
about that was woke, would that be okay?
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Of course it wouldn't be okay, right?
No, that's against Israel.
So you better watch yourself.
Because innocent people, civilians,
should be and must be protected.
I look at Israeli civilians as human
beings, and when they are targeted,
the way Hamas targeted them
on October 7th, it's freaking disgusting.
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Anyone justifying it
should absolutely be condemned.
But for some reason the humanity of the
Palestinian people doesn't matter at all.
They just openly mock the idea
that anyone would be upset
at the slaughter of innocent people.
Okay, I see who you are, Constantine.
I see who you are.
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Wow.
We think Israeli civilians
and Palestinian civilians are the same.
They're both human beings,
and their lives should be protected.
They don't believe that.
They think Palestinian civilians
are to be murdered by the IDF
under the guise of self-defense.
Oh, I had to murder 17,000 children
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because Hamas made me do it.
And I was defending myself against
three year olds and five year olds.
And by the way, that's why 100 American
doctors came back from Gaza and said, wow.
We saw an extraordinary number
of headshots on children as young as three
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and five snipers shooting children
in the head because of self-defense.
But to people like Constantine,
Palestinian lives, Iranian lives, etc.
They are nothing.
They because they are inferior
to the Israelis.
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Listen, I know.
Israelis are superior to all of us,
so how dare we complain
when our superiors are in the room?
I know it's really difficult
for the Israeli government
and the defenders of the IDF
to hear about what they really are.
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To hear the truth about who they
really are, their genociders.
They revel in the slaughter
of innocent people, including children.
They're literally shooting
and killing Palestinians, including kids,
as they're trying to get aid
at these humanitarian aid hubs in Gaza.
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And then they turn around and say,
oh, that's just Hamas propaganda.
Except investigations show that
the bullets and weapons are consistent
with the weapons that the IDF has.
In fact,
CNN did one of those investigations.
Of course,
the IDF is a bunch of murderers.
The reason they're running. I'm sorry.
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- Hold on.
- Daily.
Daily.
The reason they're running the food
centers and they stop the UN from running
them is so they could murder more
Palestinians coming to the food centers.
This is exactly what they did
in the genocide in Srebrenica.
In that case, it wasn't Israel.
It was the Serbs.
They would set up food,
they would starve the population
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and then set up food centers.
So when the civilians showed up,
they would get to shoot them easier.
And you know what?
The Israeli excuses
for murdering people at the food centers.
Well, they got close
to the Israeli troops.
That's because the Israeli troops
killed everyone who was
distributing food outside of them.
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And they're like, come here,
little Palestinians.
That's it.
Mow them down and slaughter them.
But we're the moral army
doing self-defense.
Now you're doing a goddamn genocide,
and it doesn't make you superior.
It definitely doesn't do that.
And I know you don't care about civilians
if they're not Israeli civilians.
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That's why you're monsters.
Total monsters.
It's amazing how openly they like,
mock, and laugh
at the slaughter of innocent people.
But okay, Constantine.
When you laugh at a genocide,
when you laugh at genocide,
you are by definition a monster.
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So don't tell me about any of this crap.
And I don't want to hear
about anything else anymore.
About how Israel's the victim.
Israel is not within a billion
miles of being a victim.
They are the first since 1948.
They have attacked all of their neighbors
and taken more and more land.
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That is an absolute certain fact.
But they lie to you and they go,
oh no, it was the terrorist
that they made us take their land.
They made us take Gaza.
They made us take
a huge chunk of the West Bank.
They made us go into southern Lebanon.
They made us go into western Syria.
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They meet us, attack Iran.
They didn't make you do any of that.
You're an aggressive imperial empire
slaughtering people, committing genocide
so you can have more land.
And you could easily do that because
you've manipulated all of our politicians.
You bought them through AIPAC.
And no, I don't care what you say,
you definitely bought them.
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That's exactly what AIPAC did.
It. And anyone who's a fool enough
to tell, you know, AIPAC gave out
hundreds of millions of dollars,
but it didn't affect our politicians.
You would have to be a moron
of the highest order to say that.
You'd have to be the dumbest person
in the whole planet to say our politicians
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took hundreds of millions of dollars
from AIPAC, but it didn't affect them.
Come on, who could be that smart?
Oh, I know every single mainstream
media reporter in America.
Every single one of them
lies to you on purpose and says, no,
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AIPAC doesn't have any influence.
AIPAC, how do you say anti-Semite?
Anti-semite?
No, no, you guys are anti-palestinian,
anti-Muslim racists and bigots.
You don't care about Muslim lives.
You don't care about Muslim lives at all.
So when Palestinians are slaughtered,
what is it going to take? 18,000 kids,
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180,000 kids?
You don't care about them at all.
Whenever Israel slaughters you, go.
Terrorists.
Terrorists.
They had it coming.
And you do their propaganda for shelter.
Two years later, self-defense.
They declared in their cabinet
that they're taking all of Gaza.
It was always about the land.
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Does anybody have CNN
or MSNBC or Fox News say that?
No, they never say it.
They lied to you on purpose to help Israel
steal more land in the Middle East.
And they claim it's self-defense.
Self-Defense, my ass.
It's a goddamn genocide.
And yes, Muslim lives matter.
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We're also human beings.
The only human beings
on this planet aren't Israelis.
They're not some
special benighted superhumans.
Oh my God, if they die, we all have
to say, oh, we bow down to you.
But if Muslims are right,
that's what American media does.
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That's what American politicians do.
I'm so sick of our lives not mattering.
I'm so sick of it.
I'm so sick of everyone
has to grovel to Israel.
But the minute you ask someone,
can you be a decent human being
and care about the Palestinians?
They go. Anti-semite!
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No! F you!
You're the one who hates Muslims
and American media.
You are guilty.
You're the ones who got the whole country
my whole life to hate me.
To hate my Muslim family,
to hate all Muslims across the world.
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You're the sick sons of bitches
that called us terrorists when it
was Israel attacking,
when it was Israel taking land, when it
was Israel slaughtering and slaughtering.
How many times?
Every war Israel
kills 100 times civilians.
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This time they kill
a thousand times civilians.
Doesn't count. Doesn't count.
What does the American media say
in their infinite racism?
They say it's always the Muslims fault.
It's always the Palestinians fault.
They say stupid crap like, oh no, no,
the Palestinians can't govern themselves.
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They're violent terrorists, savages.
They can never govern themselves.
They're inferior to the Israelis.
You don't say that,
but you imply that every time.
What?
The Palestinians are the only people
on earth who can't govern themselves?
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No, you're deeply racist if you say that.
Do you understand?
No. Every cable news anchor, every
reporter at the New York Times, every
reporter at the Washington Post, you're
all deeply racist against Muslims, and you
have gotten this country to hate us.
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It's totally your fault.
And you've gotten the country to believe
that 1.6 billion Muslims are America's
enemies, that we're the violent savages.
You're sick. You're disgusting.
I can't stand it anymore. Can you?
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For once in your life, treat a muslim life
the same as an Israeli life?
And the answer for mainstream media
in America is hell no.
They're never going to do it. Never.
They hate Muslims,
and they drive hatred towards Muslims
because Israel needs more land.
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They need more guns.
Are you going to report accurately
that they voted to take Gaza?
It was never about self-defense.
They took Gaza.
They voted on that. Have you said it?
No. Oh, I mentioned it on page A17.
But I don't want anybody to find out.
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Israel's the aggressor.
Israel's a moral army.
Israel's self-defense.
It's those dirty Muslims
that are attacking.
I'm sick of it.
F all of you in American media.
F all of you for driving that hatred
against 1.5 billion people.
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All to serve your beloved Israel.
I know I'm the one
who's being terrible anti-Semite.
How could you say something
against Israel?
Israel is the Jewish state,
the greatest state of all right.
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I don't care that they're Jewish.
I wish they weren't.
I wish they had a safe haven for Jews that
didn't constantly attack their neighbors,
that didn't occupy their neighbors.
I want a safe haven,
but they don't want a safe haven.
They want more land.
It's called Greater Israel.
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It's a map that hangs in their cabinet.
It's not like they're hiding it.
Why don't you report it?
Because no anti-Semitic.
That's an excuse they use to drive
hatred towards Muslims so that Israel
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can accomplish their objectives.
And I'm just, as you can tell,
had all I could take.
You know what happened, and I'm sorry.
So one of our members,
History Speaks, wrote in about the story
that just came out in the last hour
in the Washington Post.
I couldn't believe it. So I looked it up.
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It's true. Sorry, guys.
Obviously, I'm enraged here.
I just I got to a point
where I can't take it anymore.
Does my life matter? Does my life matter?
Does my family's life matter?
Okay, here's what Israel did.
According to the Washington Post,
in Iran, there's an audio recording
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that The Washington Post has gotten.
It says in the recording that Israeli
intelligence calls Iranian generals.
And they say,
I can advise you now you have 12 hours
to escape with your wife and child.
Otherwise, you're on the list.
Right now on our list right now.
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And an Israeli intelligence operative
told a senior Iranian general
close to the country's rulers,
according to the audio recording.
The operative then suggested
that Israel could train weapons on
the general and his family at any moment.
Quote.
We're closer to you
than your own neck vein.
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Put this in your head.
May God protect you, he said.
So look, you want to do psyops.
You want to threaten
their generals, I get it.
You call up and say,
we're going to murder your children.
You know what? Who does that?
Terrorists do that.
Absolute stone cold terrorists do that.
And have they murdered their children?
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Yes.
I mean, in Gaza, there's 17,000 dead kids.
And in Iran, do you know
that they murdered their scientists
in front of a kindergarten earlier?
They have no qualms.
They murder civilians.
They murder scientists. They murder kids.
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They murdered over 200 innocent civilians
in their first bombing raid,
but it was American media.
It never matters because those are
just Muslim lives, and you could threaten
to murder Muslim children.
And as long as it's beloved
moral army Israel, they'll still say,
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oh, it's great, it's wonderful.
There are special ally.
So no, that is not a special ally.
It is a despicable government.
Despicable.
I wondered what I would have done
if I was around during the Holocaust.
I do not wonder anymore.
I would have fought it with everything
I had and as the media probably would
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have said, well, look, this is the Germans
had to defend themselves.
They had to defend themselves.
It's the it's the fault of the
other people that they were threatening
Germany's expansion.
And Germany had to expand
for self-defense.
And that is what they said,
that it was for self-defense.
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And so I'm sick of your expansion.
I'm sick of your wars, and I'm sick of us
having to pay for all of your atrocities.
Every time you ring the bell below,
an angel gets his wings.
Totally not true.
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