Mohamad Nabil Hegab,[1][2](born: October 5, 1991)[2][3] better known online as Mohammed Hijab, is an English-Egyptian debater and public speaker who engages in discussions and polemics on a wide variety of topics including religon, politics and society. He is co-founder of Sapience Institute.[4]
Early life[]
Hijab was born in St Mary's Hospital in London to a family from Alexandria, Egypt.[1] Hijab failed to attain a qualified teacher status after being fired following his attendance at a counter-protest against far-right activist Tommy Robinson.[5] Hijab worked as a tutor and freelancer. He was a trainee teacher at Harris Academy Rainham.[1]
Personal Life[]
He has two brothers and two sisters. He married in 2011, to a woman whose name is not revealed. He has children and he occasionally posts pictures of them on social media, but he does not show or reveal their identity. He is of Egyptian descent. He lives in Townshend Estate, London.[2][6]
Content[]
He usually debates people of other belifes about religion on his videos, while defending the religion of Islam. He uploaded his first video in 16 June 2015, where he would show how you pronunce the arabic alphabet. All the videos after it were Islam related, where he would challenge and debate other YouTubers and people on topics about religion and politics. He would often try to disprove atheism on some of his videos and he is against liberalism.
In October 2023, he appeared in an episode of Piers Morgan where they discuss the Israel-Hamas war. One month later, he was invited again to piers Morgan where he debated Rabbi Shmuley on the Israel-Hamas war. He received a lot of attention from his Piers Morgan debates.
Controversy[]
Racism and hatred towards other Relgions[]
He has been criticised for his racist thoughts and beliefs about other religions. In September 2022, he preached in public in Leicster that hindus "If they believe in reincarnation, what a humiliation of them to be reincarnated into some pathetic, weak, cowardly people like that,” Hijab could be heard saying. He also falsely claims that Muslims were assaulted and people from the Hindu community were trying to portray themselves as ‘gangstas’ (gangsters). Many people took this he said as hatred towards Hindus. [7]
After the clash, old videos began spreading of him openly chanting antisemetic things and even threatening a police officer that he would kill a dog which the Jewish boys had brought along with them. A person narrating the video, however, claimed that Hijab threatened to kill the police dog. The narrator also said he along with others faced a violent assault while leaving a kosher restaurant. The video has garnered a lot of views after being shared and narrates the harassment few Jewish individuals faced in London. Those Jewish individuals were caught in a ‘Free Palestine’ rally where instead of proposing a peaceful resolution to the problems in that particular region, Mohammed Hijab is seen making antisemitic remarks and instigating Muslim citizens against Jews. The video shared by Henry Jackson Society writer and commentator Wasiq Wasiq shows Hijab saying: “We’ll find some Jews there. We want some Zionists.”[7]
Qualifications[]
His formal qualifications include the following:[4]
- PhD – University of Birmingham (Completing)
- MTH in Applied Theology – University of Oxford
- MA in Islamic Studies – SOAS University London
- MA in History – Queen Mary University of London
- BA in Politics – – Queen Mary University of London 2010 – 2013
- BA in Islamic Sciences – Al-Azhar (Completing)
Bibliography[]
- Kalam Cosmological Arguments, 2019
- Fifth-Wave Feminism, 2019
- A Treatise on Liberal Critiques of Ridda, 2019
- The Scientific Deception of the New Atheists, 2020
- Burhan, 2021
Trivia[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/24/islamist-preacher-accused-stirring-hatred-leicester/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/nRrDxpkWl0JAVCZy4smIHyHQ51E/appointments
- ↑ https://glamourbiz.com/trending/mohammed-hijab-wiki-wife
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://mohammedhijab.com/about-hijab/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H4BmmT5jps
- ↑ https://www.newsunzip.com/wiki/mohammed-hijab/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://www.news18.com/news/world/who-is-mohammed-hijab-public-speaker-with-an-anti-semitic-past-and-his-role-in-leicester-unrest-6003085.html
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcckk0tA3Ab/