Responding to comments from a transperson

In the last video that I made in which I talked about the social debt that was being accrued by liberal Muslims in The United States and how that was gonna be leveraged against them by non Muslim liberals, particularly over the LGBT and trans issue. That video, received a series of short comments by a self identifying transgender person. So I thought I would respond in video form. So first of all, let me say don't expect this to be deferential in any way or for me to use sort of nuanced language to try to soften the Islamic position on this. In Islam, we recognize hermaphrodites or what are now called intersex individuals, and we have a whole area of fiqh of jurisprudence, addressing their situation.

But that is distinct from transgenderism and from transgender individuals because that is connected to a psychological disorder, gender dysphoria, not a naturally occurring anomaly at birth. In Islam, a man who presents himself as a woman or a woman who presents herself as a man has removed themselves from Allah's mercy, I e they are cursed if they are doing that while not being clinically insane. If they are doing that because some mental disorder has overcome them, then they need to seek treatment for that disorder so that they can overcome it. That's the basic view on this issue for Muslims around the world and it is consistent with the teachings of Islam. Furthermore, if a person mutilates their body to make it more closely resemble the opposite sex, then that is its own egregious sin on its own.

But of course, the most egregious sin is kufr, is disbelief in Allah, disbelief in his prophets, in his books, in his angels, in the day of judgment, and in the divine decree. So any sin after kufr pales in comparison to that and basically makes all of those sins possible anyway. So that just gives you a basic, framework from the Muslim perspective of how we approach this topic. Islam requires that we submit to the commands of Allah regardless of how we feel about them because we are merely his slaves, and we do what we're told. And part of what we are commanded to do is to tell the truth and to oppose falsehood and to speak plainly.

Which brings me to the first comment. You said that, trans people are less likely to commit crimes than people without gender dysphoria and that I am deeply misinformed. Well, neither of those statements is true. Members of the LGBTQ community, which includes, of course, trans people, are 1.7 times more likely to commit domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, than heterosexuals. So, yeah, trans people are disproportionately, victims of violent crime more than heterosexual people.

But disproportionately, that violence is being perpetrated by their own intimate partners. And since only roughly 3% of the heterosexual population finds transgender people attractive, We're talking about members of the LGBTQ community. Because again, if only 3% of heterosexuals are willing to be in a relationship with a trans person, then that means that 97% of the relationships that trans people are in are relationships with members of the LGBTQ community. Meaning, most of the violence that they are suffering is from intimate partners and most of their intimate partners are from the LGBTQ community. So this is queer on queer violence, not transphobes.

Trans people, LGBTQ people are both the victims and the perpetrators of most of the violence in their community. Means the violence and the crimes that are being committed against you are largely being committed by you. Fifty eight percent of the inmates who are in prison today who identify as transgender were convicted of violent crimes resulting in death or serious harm with fifty eight percent of their victims being women and children. Forty eight percent of trans women in prison were convicted on homicide charges versus only twenty one percent of male prisoners who do not have gender dysphoria. About forty four percent of trans women inmates are sex offenders, while only sixteen percent of other inmates are sex offenders.

Now roughly only three percent of the population identifies as LGBTQ, including trans, but they constitute around eight percent of the prison population. About seven percent of young people identify as LGBTQ, including trans, but they comprise as much as 20% of the people in youth detention centers for crime. Statistically, about thirty percent of people in the LGBTQ community, including trans, abuse illegal drugs, while less than three percent of heterosexuals do. Illegal drug use, by the way, is a crime. Trans people are also more likely to be addicted than anybody else.

Roughly nine percent of transgender people are involved in prostitution, while only one percent of women, who do not have gender dysphoria are involved in prostitution. And again, just to clarify, prostitution is still illegal in most places. It means it's a crime. So no, transgender people are not less likely to commit crimes than people without gender dysphoria. And no, I am not deeply misinformed.

Now on to the next comment. You said that you have found Muslims in America to be more accepting than Christians. I don't doubt that to be true, but this requires a little bit more explaining. First of all, tolerance and compassion are also things that Muslims have been commanded to practice. It's a component of our submission to Allah.

Means we're doing it for him, not for you. This is important to clarify because our compassion and our tolerance are not a blank check. They're not limitless. They can extend only so far as the religion allows. Now this protects us from being manipulated, and it protects you from never being told when you've gone too far.

Now as for Muslims who you may have interacted with, who don't appear to limit, their compassion and tolerance within the boundaries allowed by the religion, That's because Muslims in America, are incredibly vulnerable to coercion because of their existential need to be accepted in a society that fundamentally despises them. And this is the basis for the naive and gullible strategy, promoted by liberal Muslim organizations vis a vis the LGBTQ community. They see that you all have been phenomenally effective in pushing your agenda and bullying the population into acquiescence, reversing in a few years, just a few short years, reversing, American disapproval for homosexuality and same sex, marriage and same sex relationships. So for purely cynical reasons, they thought it would be effective and useful for them to align themselves with the, liberal side of the political spectrum, thereby gaining access to your community's remarkably loud and energetic activism in order to help themselves. So in actuality, this isn't about compassion or tolerance.

It's an alliance of convenience. It's mercenary, not merciful. And essentially, this is born out of those Muslims resistance to just accepting that they are despised in that country. Despite the fact that our religion makes it clear to us that there are always gonna be people who despise us. Now they rely on the constitutional protections of freedom of religion, in order to try to hold back that hatred.

But ironically, the very fact that they feel the need to align themselves with you all demonstrates how hollow that protection really is, which brings us to the next few comments. You said that you always show up to defend Muslims when they're being attacked, and you will continue to defend their right to practice their religion regardless of whether or not they ever reciprocate your goodwill. Okay. But it isn't goodwill though, is it? Freedom to practice your religion is the law of the land.

You're defending the constitution, not us, and that's for your own reasons. But you're trying to make it appear that you're sticking your neck out for Muslims so that we'll be grateful. This is a very passive aggressive form of coercion and manipulation. I'm always there for you even if you're not there for me. I mean, it'd be great if you could be there for me, but, you know, maybe you're not quite as decent as I am.

Maybe someday you could be as decent and as good and virtuous as me. Now this will work and has worked on some people, but not me. I know it's a ploy. It's transactional because in America today, principles and values have eroded to such an extent that nobody actually takes moral stands. They don't do things for moral reasons.

They do things for benefit. And this is particularly true in the realms of political and social activism. There's just a lot of deviousness going on here. You wanna play us off the Christians because the Christians are famous for being all about love and tolerance, and the Muslims are famous for being rigid and harsh. So if you can claim that, Muslims are more tolerant and more understanding and more loving and all of that more so than Christians, well, that's what they're famous for.

You can shame them for their uncharacteristic intolerance, an intolerance that they don't wanna believe about themselves as a manipulation. Like, how could you Christians, followers of Jesus, be more judgmental than Muslims? And, of course, it's not even true. Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians are all more accepting of LGBTQ than Muslims. But your target isn't the Catholics and the Protestants and the, Orthodox Christians.

Your target is the white evangelical Christians who hate us even more than they hate you and who are one of the largest and most influential political blocks in the country. So if you can persuade them to be morally superior to Muslims by being more accepting of your community, that's a big win for you. It's all just cynical maneuvering, both on your part and on the part of liberal Muslims. Now one further point. Gender dysphoria is a psychological disorder.

Islam is not. Gender dysphoria does not articulate a moral code and laws and a practice of worship that billions of people have followed for over a millennia. Identity confusion is not an identity. So pretending that you should have the same status and legal rights as a religious community is absurd. Mental illness should be treated.

It should not be stigmatized. No. But it should also not be applauded and celebrated and normalized as if it is an acceptable alternative to mental health. And no, it is not hatred or transphobia to want you to be helped to reconcile yourself with your biological sex. It is rather contempt for your well-being to do otherwise.

But of course, I expect this video to be attacked by your, radical, vindictive, and intolerant community, and it will probably be removed. So anyone who wants to access this video after that happens, you'll be able to find it on our Telegram channel, the the Telegram group that is related to this channel. But so in conclusion, in my opinion, the trans community and the LGBTQ community overall, is breathtakingly dishonest. But the liberal Muslims are too. And frankly, don't want anything to do with either one of you because I don't think that any form of engagement with you can ever be anything but futile.

But I'm making this response primarily for my Muslim audience.