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Ali Dawah is a British radical Islamist masculinist YouTuber spreading monetised hate about ex-Muslims, Jews and Israel to his more than 1.7 million social media followers
Ali Dawah (born Erdi Kiliç) has built one of the largest platforms in the radical Islamist Sunni da‘wa proselytization scene. The British-Kurdish YouTuber, active since 2013, commands over 1.3 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. His combined social media platforms including YouTube, Instagram and others bring him close to 1.8 million followers. From Speakers’ Corner in London to online debates, he has presented himself as a bold defender of Islam. Yet his record includes calls for the execution of apostates, a masculinist defence of child marriage and calls for women to submit to men, and amplification of antisemitic conspiracy theories — culminating in blaming Israel for the September 10, 2025 assassination of American conservative right activist Charlie Kirk.
Acccording to his online biography, Kiliç was born in London in 1989 to a Kurdish family of Alevi background from Turkey. In interviews he has described a youthful period of gangs and delinquency before a turn toward religion in his late teens. By 2012 he had embraced Sunni Islam and soon began uploading videos as Ali Dawah. His YouTube channel grew rapidly, featuring confrontational debates with Christians, atheists, and ex-Muslims, and today remains a central hub of the English-language da‘wa ecosystem.
Through his monetized hate and conspiracy spreading, Ali Dawah has consistently endorsed capital punishment for apostasy. In widely shared clips from an August 15, 2020 video, he declared: “We’re proud of that. Yes, apostates will be killed, and we’re proud of that.” When ex-Muslims object, he dismisses them as “Islamophobes.” This open advocacy of killing those who renounce Islam has made him a symbol of Islamist hardline intolerance.
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At Speakers’ Corner in 2018, Dawah was asked if he would allow his nine-year-old daughter to marry a 40-year-old man. He replied: “If she is menstruating, she is old enough.” In later exchanges, including one on August 8, 2020, he repeated that puberty defines adulthood and thus consent. Such statements, echoing medieval jurisprudence, have drawn condemnation for justifying pedophilia under a religious cover.
Dawah is a regular guest on 5 Pillars UK, a British Islamist media outlet that positions itself as an alternative Muslim news voice but in practice provides a platform for radical Islamist Sunni preachers spreading anti-Jewish hate and anti-Western diatribes. Its flagship Blood Brothers podcast has become a hub for conspiratorial narratives.
On Blood Brothers in August 2025, Dawah promoted the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile network was linked to Mossad, presenting it as “evidence” of Israel’s hidden hand (Five Pillars podcast page; see also coverage of Epstein–Mossad conspiracy). Jewish community organizations have long described 5 Pillars as a platform for extremist Islamist hate content, and Dawah’s contribution confirmed how the network amplifies conspiracism — aligning seamlessly with antisemitic tropes also popular in the Western far right.
The September 10, 2025 assassination of U.S. activist Charlie Kirk quickly became a magnet for conspiracy theories. and especially for antisemitic varieties. Kremlin-aligned and pro-Iranian media channels, joined by American far-right influencers, rushed to blame Israel. Within hours, posts claiming “the Jews did it” went viral (Haaretz; Jerusalem Post; Guardian). Antisemites dug up a month-old Infowars post by Harrison Smith alleging that Kirk feared Israel would kill him if he “turned against them.” Netanyahu’s condolences were hijacked by propagandists as “proof” of Israeli involvement.
On September 13, Dawah hosted a YouTube livestream with fellow Islamist Sheikh Ibn Hazm Idrissi. According to MEMRI’s transcript, Dawah suggested Israel was “indirectly involved” in Kirk’s killing, citing the 2024 “Pager attack” attributed to Israel against Hizbullah. He drew parallels to 9/11 and JFK’s assassination, conspiracies he said had long convinced him of Mossad’s role in global affairs. Idrissi invoked the Quran to say Jews had killed prophets, implying that modern Israel was acting in the same way.
The spiral continued when the former Fox News presenter turned podcaster and platformer of Holocaust deniers Tucker Carlson addressed Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona on September 21, 2025. He invoked the crucifixion of Jesus and sketched an image of men in a “lamp-lit room” “eating hummus” as they plotted Kirk’s murder. Carlson was widely condemned for his antisemitic remarks (New York Post; Times of India), referencing medieval blood libels still in currency today that casts Jews as Christ-killers and conspirators. Dawah picked up up on Carlson’s words and even featured a segment on September 20 of the Putin idolising pro-Qatar American Maga influencer's podcast video discussion with fellow Israel-hating antisemite conspiracy monger Candace Owens on his YouTube channel. "Thank you. Thank you. Alhamdulillah. The whole world is waking up to these scum bastards," declared Dawah. The cross-promotion underscored how seamlessly antisemitic imagery now travels between American right-wing media and Islamist preachers like Dawah.
Islamist da‘wa influencers and far-right conspiracy theorists, though hostile to one another in rhetoric, increasingly recycle the same narratives: Israel blamed for tragedies from wildfires to assassinations; JFK, 9/11, and Epstein pressed into a single antisemitic storyline; religious invective about Jews killing prophets paired with hateful narratives about Jews killing Jesus.
Ali Dawah’s record shows how conspiracy thinking functions as a shared language of hate across ideological divides — and how a radical Islamist Sunni preacher with a million plus-strong and growing, lucrative following has become a key vector of its spread.
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