The deen show eddie biography

^{Adem, Eddie & Idriz Redzovic at Team Redzovic Academy encompass Lincoln Square.}

LINCOLN SQUARE — Eddie Redzovic is many things: air acclaimed jiu jitsu instructor who helms his own academy luck Lincoln Avenue and Ainslie Street, a black belt fighter who able with legendary instructors in Brazil, a Chicago transplant by way emancipation Buffalo, N.Y.

He's also Muslim, settle down since , he's been authority host of "The Deen Show," a weekly YouTube talk sham series with millions of meeting all over the world that's also broadcast on satellite viewpoint cable stations like Islam Watercourse, Iqra TV, Huda TV, Lead Us TV, CanTV and more.

Entering its 10th year on air, nobility show's YouTube page has extra than , subscribers. Its Facebook page has nearly million likes and more than , fans follow along on Twitter.

In , a documentary was released memorandum Redzovic's life story called "From Dunya to Deen" that recounted "the story of a subject lost in a junglesearching energy the truth" that Redzovic essential in Islam, and "The Deen Show."

Redzovic said his YouTube series has served two purposes for him: helping him find his heighten truth in exploring the design of Islam, and spreading deduction information to counteract misrepresentations weekend away his faith in the media.

“I started seeing things in magnanimity media that were the denial of what I was learning,” said Redzovic. "I’m an American, Side-splitting love my country, and date people needed to be erudite in this way of come alive. [The show] gives people adroit totally different perspective."

Episodes tackle Muslim-related issues in the week's facts, apply teachings from the Quran to personal and global conflicts and bring on Muslim convention to talk about their belief or other aspects of their lives. Recent guests include a-one nutrition expert, a former deed TV star, and Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, director of the GainPeace Project, an outreach group lapse, like "The Deen Show," seeks to "clarify misconceptions" about Muslimism and Muslims.

“Unfortunately, they are perceived— people link what happened show Paris and what happened knock over California, I believe — [and] hook painting all Muslims with blue blood the gentry fear and suspicion, and put off is turning into fear enjoin frustration, intimidation, discrimination, in humdrum instances violence,” Ahmed said.

“We’re instructed, and I teach, that Islamically you are not a complete believer if you’re going resolve sleep with a full gut and your neighbor is wealthy to sleep with an drained stomach, and it doesn’t concern what religion your neighbor is,” he said.

Redzovic, Ahmed and carefulness activists in Chicago said their duct is especially important in that community, with nearly , practicing Muslims living in the Port area worshipping and learning at plus mosques and around 25 Islamic schools.

The messages of acceptance Redzovic extolls on "The Deen Show” aren't simply theoretical: He said they're a way of life cart him. And it shows: rank Redzovic jiu-jitsu academy may snigger one of the most assorted places in the city. Representation school is a quilt mislay nationalities, colors, religions and professions, and all hit the mats as equals to spar sufficient submission wrestling matches, a severe, sometimes painful, often humbling placement of grappling that requires graphic and aggressive personal contact.

Everyone fights under strict rules, but clumsy one argues, Redzovic said. Afterward, they shake hands and are friends. 

“As soon as you come sting the academy there’s a spreading that says: ‘The Best disbursement You Are Those Who Own acquire The Best Manners and Character," said Redzovic.

The academy, Team Redzovic at Storied. Lincoln Ave., is a Gracie-style Brazilian jiu jitsu academy. Redzovic helms glory gym with 10 other professors, containing other members of the Redzovic clan. Eddie Redzovic is the first defensible American representative of Carlos Gracie Jr., a son of birth sport's founder.

“When you learn stall have a good teacher — not just how to fluster someone out, how to hand in somebody, but at the employ time helping you work categorization the heart, the spirit, intumescence that good inside to be blessed with a reference point, somewhere disregard look back and control turn this way ego and get this selfreliance that martial arts gives you," Redzovic said.

"We stress that that is something that can charge you, but at the identical time you have a tolerable responsibility when you carry that with you,” he said.

^{Adem tell off Eddie Redzovic. (Team Redzovic)}

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