Middle Nation Content Talks: Liberating Americans from America

Okay. So as usual business, we will, inshallah, start with the video, and then we will try to go through the different sections of it and try to take the best out of it, inshallah. And we have a special guest with us today, brother Turabi. You know, he's a beloved brother of ours, and he has great insights, especially related to religious insights and, of course, like, overall. But, you know, he can add to us a lot in this aspect.

So we are very happy to have him here with us, and we all hope that it will, inshallah, be very beneficial for all of you. So thanks a lot, everyone, for joining, and enjoy listening to the video inshallah.

Well, I'll tell you, the American people really need to stop thinking of themselves as Americans, honestly. This is a mental trap. It's a trick actually to make you feel invested in a system that does not invest in you. If you're part of a so called minority community especially, then you only think of yourselves that way because you're an American or you think of yourself as an American. So you're a minority in American society, but it's a lie if you look at the bigger picture.

Obviously, you're not minorities. You're members of the global majority who happen to live in The United States. You're a diaspora community from the global majority. The majority in that country is a global minority. But as long as you think of yourselves as American, well, you will think of yourselves as a minority because you believed in this society, in this system.

You have invested in it, and you believe yourself to be a part of the very society that tells you you don't belong in that society. You see? It would be like inmates in a prison thinking that they're actually part of the staff of the prison administration. Like, you aren't incarcerated and abused in that jail. You just work there.

Except that the other people who call themselves prison staff get to go home after their shifts while you just get to stay there. You have to stay there in your cell. But you pretend, you imagine that there's some equality between you and the prison guard, between you and the prison staff. That's what it's like if you're a so called minority in America. You're a prisoner who thinks that he's a guard, but the guards will never hesitate to remind you which one of you has the baton, which one of you has the club, which one of you has the rights, and which one of you has freedom.

But even then, you seem to think that the prison works just like a seniority at a company or something. As if as a prisoner, the longer you serve, eventually, you'll get to be the warden. That's how delusional you are. Doesn't work like that. No.

You're not an American, and you're not a minority. You're a member of the global majority who just happens to be in The United States. And I'm telling you, this applies whether your your so called minority status is based on race or color or ethnicity or if it's based on religion or even if it's based on your economic status because most of the people on Earth are not white, they're not Christian, and they're not rich. So you need to think of yourselves as part of the rest of the people in the world who look like you, who believe like you, and who struggle financially like you. Those are your compatriots, your comrades, your brothers and sisters, that's your nation.

If you think of yourselves in any other kind of way, then this is just a tactic for for for reducing you and cutting you off from the power that comes from numbers. Do know how foolish it sounds to anyone else, anyone who looks at the at the totality of the world when you say something like Asian minorities, black and brown minorities. Right? It's absurd. Over 85% of the population on the planet is either Asian or African or Latin American.

You think that you're a blade of grass in the desert, but the desert is just a little tiny sandbox in the middle of a field of grass. So don't think of yourselves as minorities in America. Think of yourselves as representing the global majority that encircles that country. So if you can readjust your thinking along these lines, then you might also better understand that as a part of the international majority, you're supposed to redress your grievances to international bodies for justice. And you look at the crimes and the violations that are committed against you in that country as breaches of international law, which they are.

The same way that there are crimes and violations of international law when that country does the same things overseas, when America does things overseas. Because your rights are profoundly violated in that country. And the worst part about it is that the indoctrination system has normalized it for you and has made you think that your only recourse when your rights are violated is to go to the ones who are committing the violations. You know, they cut you off from the international community, from the global majority, and made you think that when, for example, when the police murder innocent members of your community, you're supposed to turn to the police for justice. You're supposed to go to the very security forces that are targeting your community for extrajudicial killings and ask them for justice.

No. You're supposed to go to the United Nations. Supposed to go to the International Criminal Court, to the International Court of Justice. I mean, tell me, why the so called police officers and the chiefs of police and the police commissioners and so on, all of those police officials who are involved in any extrajudicial killing in The United States, Why were they put on trial in Minnesota, in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Texas, or Kansas, or what have you? Why not at The Hague?

I mean, you say it's systemic, don't you? You know it's systemic targeting of so called minority communities. You can't look at the mass incarceration numbers and not know that this is systemic targeting mass incarceration of members of the global majority in The United States who are then forced to work as slave labor for private enterprise in prison often for the rest of their lives. This is systemic population reduction of so called minority communities through extrajudicial killing and detention. Well, that's nothing but a form of ethnic cleansing.

But, again, they make you think it's normal. It's not normal. It's criminal. It's a crime against humanity. It's a violation of international law.

And you are members of the international community whether you realize it or not. Your government, your system has got you believing that international law doesn't apply to you. But why do you suppose they made you think that? Because they want they don't want you to know that their treatment of you is not normal, that it's not civilized, and that it's not legal. They have you thinking that you have the most rights of any people on earth, the most freedom of any people on earth, and so on.

That's precisely because you don't. You're like an abused spouse who's been browbeat into thinking that you're married to the most wonderful person on earth. Meanwhile, that same person treats you like a monster, treats everyone else like a monster, and is viewed by everyone else as a monster. The mass incarceration prison industrial complex ethnic cleansing system is a violation of the International Labor Organization's convention number 29. The The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

And, of course, it's a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is nothing nothing short of modern day slavery, and it's a shame that you don't even know that there are laws higher than the laws of your city, your state, and your federal government that exist to protect you. The same goes for every manifestation of racism, of white supremacy, and every form of discrimination in your country. These are all violations of international law, and you have you should have redress to that. You know, they just made homelessness illegal in America.

Can you imagine that? It's illegal to be homeless, but not illegal to make you homeless. Criminalizing being poor when you are made poor by a criminal system. You're not allowed to not have enough money to pay for your own survival, but they're allowed to make your survival too expensive to pay for. And if you have any blotch on your credit record, well, you you it may as well be a criminal record.

You can't rent. You can't get a job. You can't secure housing. You can't get a car or anything. And they talk about China's social credit system.

Well, you invented it. They've got your Social Security number around your neck like an iron collar. Everybody in that country has debt collectors chasing after them like bloodhounds after an escaped convict. Well, you know, there's something called the international covenant on civil and political rights, and that's supposed to protect you. But they don't want anyone to know about it.

They want you to think that your only recourse is to go to the government for help. When it's that same government that puts you in debt, keeps you in debt, and is itself in debt. The same government that is bought and paid for by the very predatory parasitic companies that make life too expensive in America, that make it impossible to get an education without drowning in debt for the rest of your life. The same government and the same courts that have taken all the rights and protections away from you and given them to corporations and given them to the super rich. They don't want you to even know about your rights under international law.

This is the dual purpose of American exceptionalism. They don't respect international law. They think that they're above the law, and they want you to have that same attitude. But the difference is that you're suffering because of it, because they don't respect international law when it comes to their own people. You think that they defy the law everywhere else but adhere to it at home?

No. There are criminals outside and there are criminals inside. And the thing that enables them to be that way is their domination of the United Nations. You have as much at stake as the rest of the world does when it comes to the invocation of article six. The only difference between you and the and America's victims all around the world is that at least they know that they're victims.

You think you're privileged. If we can get The US expelled from the UN for their persistent violations of the principles of the UN Charter, I'm telling you, you can't even fathom how different this world could be, how different your own lives can be. The Article six campaign is fighting for a day when The United States will be held accountable for its crimes against humanity, both abroad and at home. This measure would be the most decisive blow imaginable to the American tyranny that you and I have been living under and suffering under for our whole lives and what the whole world has been enduring for as long as anyone can remember. We can foresee a future with the Article six campaign in which the United Nations is once it's liberated from US domination control, it could actually impose accountability on The United States, something that is practically and procedurally impossible right now as long as America reigns on the Security Council.

We can envision a future where the world unites to impose economic sanctions on America, to cut the empire off at the knees and force it to reckon with the blood they have on their hands. But this struggle isn't only about liberating the oppressed people of the world. No. Like I said, it's also about liberating the American people themselves from the chains of corporate tyranny and state oppression. Because The United States is not just a global oppressor.

It's an oppressor of its own people. The American people have been deceived. They've been manipulated, and they've been dominated by the private sector, by the corporations that control their government, control their economy, and control their everyday lives. These corporations, these faceless entities of greed, have built their empire on the suffering of the working class, the exploitation of the poor, and on the backs of all of those poor people who believed in the so called American dream. But it turns out that it wasn't a dream at all.

It's a drunken stupor. You're drunk from propaganda and indoctrination, and on top of that, you're punch drunk from enduring the relentless beating that that system has been giving you your whole life, and it's time to sober up. Don't you know that if the UN is allowed to do its job, America can be punished for its actions? America can be sanctioned. And what better punishment could they possibly be for a system that prioritizes profit over everything else?

Why America can't cope if they were sanctioned by major trading partners and by a 190 nations on Earth? You operate on a trade deficit every year, about a trillion dollars worth. That means that you import a trillion dollars worth of goods more than you export, and you're importing things that you can't produce yourselves. Yeah. I know it's it sounds like this is gonna make it make your life harder, but this is a process of struggle and sacrifice that you're gonna have to go through to wrestle your way out of corporate domination.

With article six campaign, we can envision a world where the power of these corporations is shattered. When the sanctions come, when American businesses lose their grip on global markets, the stranglehold that corporations have on the American people will weaken. Without the profits that fuel their domination, these corporations will lose their influence over the government, over the economy, over every aspect of American life. Look. The American economy, the military industrial complex has long been propped up by the exploitation of the world and the manufacture of conflicts across the globe by means of using the United Nations.

We'll wait until the the that system contracts. The collapse of the old system will make way for something new, something better, something moral, inshallah. We're working towards a future where Wall Street, that temple of greed and corruption, is brought to its needs. When the sanctions hit, the stock market will tremble and the dollar will weaken. This is not something to fear.

This is something to welcome. When the financial markets are in turmoil, the power of the corporate elite will be shaken. The American people will have the chance to demand a new economic model that serves the many and not just the few. We're pushing for a future where these multinational behemoths, which have robbed people of their livelihoods and of their dignity, get dismantled. We're striving for a world where The US no longer has the power to intimidate and to oppress.

We wanna see America forced to turn inward, to look at the rot within its own borders, to face the crimes that it has committed against its own people. The government will have no choice but to rehabilitate itself, to reform its institutions, the institutions that they have used to oppress their own citizens for far too long because those entities that control your government that control your government your government today, those private sector entities will lose their dominance. Our struggle is not just about the immediate effects that sanctions, for example, might bring, but long term change. We're fighting for a world where The US is no longer the center of the world, where the power of the dollar is diminished, when global trade is realigned with the people, not just the corporations. And within America, we're fighting for a future where the government is forced to serve its people to protect their rights, to ensure where the government is forced to rehabilitate itself, to end mass incarceration, to end police brutality, to end all of their domestic violations of international law, and behave like a civilized nation among all of the other nations of the world, not as a global hegemon that thinks that it is above the law and acts above the law even with regards to their own citizens.

Well, lucky, the day will come, and it won't be long when America is no longer the master of the world. We're just a nation among nations and will be accountable to the people that it has oppressed for so long. And on that day, the American people will be free, truly free, for the first time in their history. And that begins with you signing the petition, the article six petition for the invocation of article six, and it begins with the expulsion of The United States from the United Nations.

To everyone who has joined us during the video, I'll just reiterate what we, will be going through. So I wanna welcome you, first of all, to our discussion, and today, we were just listening to the video by our brother, Shay Bolton, titled liberating Americans from America. K? So in this video, instead of, you know, try to explore and highlight this disconnect between this identity, right, of being American and the realities of those people labeled as minorities, right, within The US. So, you know, we'll try to challenge this notion of American identity, right, arguing that, you know, most of the people are a part of the global majority.

Right? And they are misrepresented by being called Americans. Alright? Then we'll try to dissect, you know, the injustices in the system which are being normalized. Right?

So to start off, let us look at the first part. Alright? So, you know, in the first part and then I, in Allah, invite our host and calls to speak. So in the first part, brother Shahid, right, he delves into this psychological entrapment, right, which, you know, this entrapment can be, like, identifying as American. Right?

And this is particularly for minority communities. And, you know, this labeling doesn't just reinforce this narrow worldview, but it also obscures a broader connection that these minorities might have to the global majority. Alright? So, you know, by challenge by challenging these labels, we can try to decolonize ourselves from this. Right?

And we can break free from this colonial mindset that has been perpetuated through Western narratives. Right? So I would like to ask, you know, our speakers, how does this notion of being an American serve as some sort of psychological barrier, right, that's tries to separate individuals from their inherent belonging, right, to the global majority? And how can we deconstruct this, you know, American identity?

First of all, I'm honored to share this space with all of you. I appreciate our, hosts, facilitating the space to have this critical discussion, and and I, feel honored to to be able to even be here and to speak, on such a a tremendous subject. The notion of being a, quote, unquote, American, I mean, even so called American, especially when we look at how the title of America of being an American is essentially the label that reflects the complete elimination of every culture that led to people being a part of this nation. It's a psychological barrier insofar as that America could never exist without the global majority. Everyone who is here as citizens outside of the the mass extermination of the natives to this land, carry the title American, only through governance, but not because America in and of itself is a culture or is a place.

Nothing about being American is original. It is the compilation, in in many ways, is the cultural Frankenstein. It has taken components of of not just Western colonialism and and, European imperialism, where which caused people to run here in the first place and then became the very monster that it sought to defeat by replicating the same, hideous tactics that existed, where the so called Puritans came from and then replicating that there. But then importing people from all over the world to build the country. And then after the country was built, turning, everyone into wage slaves, reducing our cultural and ethnic identity to just colors as if you could be black.

I mean, I look at the screen here. It's my first time ever on the x space. I appreciate the brother who allowed for me to to log in to to participate in this discussion. I see the color black. I see, like, that the screen is black.

I've never met a human being that that's color that that that's the color that they are. So even even, like, the elimination of of identity by even pitting, you know, white versus black, good versus evil, that fair and lovely culture, if it's not white, it's not right. I mean, when we say America, the psychological barrier that inevitably exists is, first of all, saying that being American makes you better than everyone else, but then being American makes you marginalized compared to other Americans. And and and even the identity of the people who are American, the generations that allowed for them to be here in the first place is completely shattered. It's completely stripped from them.

This is the antithesis of of human nature. It's sub it you can't even say it's subhuman. It's it's inhumane at every single level. From a Quranic perspective, Allah the the creator, the fashioner, the sustainer of everything that exists that honored the children of Adam by giving us intellect, creating us from different tribes and different nations so that we could come together and to get to know one another. That is the whole premise of why we are different.

In Surah T. Rum chapter 30 verse number 22, verses 20 through 22, the the whole reason for different races and different languages, this is a sign from Allah. But then to reduce that and to say, you know, that that to be American and to speak English and just a complete bastardization of intelligence by limiting our ability to branch out to appreciate the vastness of the diversity of the world that Allah created for us to embrace as a means of knowing God. No wonder being American lends itself to godlessness. The fact that Adam, when Allah calls on us as a collective to remember our essence, our origin, Surah Tanisa chapter four verse number one.

He created us from one soul, then from two, and and brought out of the many men and many different women. So that what for what reason, for what purpose other men to to connect with each other as a means of connecting with God almighty. The disempowerment that comes from not knowing yourself because your identity, your heritage, your culture has not only been completely eradicated from from you, but then it's been replaced by football, basketball, fast food, and everything. I mean, the psychological barriers are manifold. It's multifaceted.

It's sick. You know? And it's scary. It's scary that although Allah had honored us with intellect, the Western propaganda of replacing the the mindset of of what makes a person a person and what makes that person happy while replacing all of the organic, beautiful attributes of humanity with all of these inorganic, artificial, pursuits of of secularist and hedonistic, goals as if our purpose in life is to just live, satisfy our stomach and our private parts, and then die. I mean, that is, at its fundamental core, what an American is.

That's the American dream as as, sheikh Shahid so eloquently described it as an American nightmare. You know? So I I don't want to rant too much more, and I hope I didn't go on a tangent beside the points, but that's just some of the components that come to mind readily on the notion of being a quote unquote so called American.

Just thinking about, you know, I haven't I haven't I haven't lived in America for, over twenty years now. And so, I'm I'm to a certain extent I have a a double view. I have a view as a someone who is intimately familiar with my own society where I grew up, but also view from from the outside. And then there's there's having lived outside of this of of The US for so long and having lived outside of the the culture and the society. It's a very different experience when you have when you have become used to dealing with people especially, fellow Muslims.

When you become used to dealing with fellow Muslims and then also just used to dealing with people from outside of The United States, It's a completely different experience when you encounter an American. I've talked about I've talked about it before that whenever I talk to an American, whenever I have to talk to an American, I kind of go into that interaction assuming that I'm dealing with someone who's not normal. That's a shame. And I think everyone outside of America approaches it the same way, you know? Even if even if they don't consciously realize that this is what they're doing, you have to make adjustments when you're talking to an American.

You you you kind of lower your expectations, you know? You go into it knowing, that you're not gonna have a normal interaction. I mean, this this isn't just this isn't just true of of Americans specifically, it's Westerners generally. But very specifically about Americans, it's it's it's very much the case that, like, for exam just for example, if I'm if I'm, talking to an American, I don't know whether or not the person sitting across from me is even sober or not because at least half of the population drinks alcohol regularly. One out of every five Americans is an alcoholic.

I think it's it's something like one in three do drugs. And at least, at least one in six, I think, one in six Americans are either misusing or abusing prescription drugs at any time. Not to mention one out of every five, one one out of every five Americans, has some sort of mental, psychological or emotional disorder. I mean, is a big thing that they talk about, the the mental health crisis. We've talked about that before.

So literally, you never know what you're gonna get when you sit down and talk to an American, you know, from from if you're if you're overseas and you encounter an American. The the these are people that don't value the sanctity of their own minds, their own cognition. They're willing to abuse their own brains, and they act like this isn't a major issue. Well, it it it is a major issue. You know?

This is a people who are who habitually inflict self harm on their own ability to reason and to think. It's it's no wonder that that that so many Americans, subscribe to some very strange ideas and beliefs and conspiracy theories and so on. Something like two thirds of of all Americans believe in conspiracy theories. Just under that just under half of all Americans believe in things like astrology and ghosts and UFOs and aliens and lizard people and what have you. Reincarnation, manifestation, all these quasi spiritual new age beliefs and whatnot, superstitions.

So this is the people who don't take their own mind seriously. And this is what their culture has done to them. This is what their society has done to them. You're alienating yourselves from the rest of the planet. You're this is this is the this is what you get, out of out of thinking of yourself as being American and confining yourself to being an American.

One third of Americans are are below literacy levels and haven't even read a book in the last, year, in the last twelve months. Not to mention that they're so heavily propagandized, indoctrinated, and manipulated by their own media and their own schools. And most most Americans don't even leave The United States. They like, I think it's less than half of Americans even have a passport. So the chances are very low if if you come across a random American.

The chances are very low, that that person is not under the influence of alcohol or drugs or, medication, mental illness, misinformation, disinformation, miseducation, or ignorance. There's the it's this is what your society has done to you, and it it doesn't make any sense for someone. Now I am talking about the issue of of someone being a a a a so called minority in The United States, whereas in reality, as I said in the in the video, in in in reality, you're part of the global majority. You know, it's it's very straightforward for us, for Muslims, as an ummah. We are a nation beyond borders.

So we have that sense of identity and that sense of belonging. And if you, as a Muslim, allow yourself to to to to lose track of that, then you're allowing yourself to be sabotaged in the same way that Americans who are so called minority groups and again, like I said also, we're not just talking about racial and ethnic minorities, although that's a major issue, but also even economically. But even for non Muslims, you know, even for non Muslims, they can actually define for themselves with whom they feel solidarity and a shared identity. It seems to me that many people in The US or in the West generally actually have more in common these days with people in the global South than they have in common with this this fabricated artificial American identity, except for the the symptoms of the and the dysfunction that American society has inflicted upon them. Like I said, I think in the video, most people in the in The US and most people in the world are financially struggling.

The global, what, is 0.1% and the American 0.1 have nothing to do with people's lives and and experience around the world and nothing to do with the lives and experience of Americans. We are locked out of power and you're locked out of power. We're oppressed by your elites and you're oppressed by your elites. And they don't draw borders on the basis of identity for themselves. I mean, the the the American power structure doesn't treat them treat themselves like they're American.

They think that they're, citizens of the world. They they think they think that they have a right to rule from The Philippines to Brazil. They think every country has is their business. What whatever any country does anywhere in the world is their business. They feel, entitled.

The connection that they feel to the rest of the world is an entitlement to rule all of these other countries in the world and to determine what their even their domestic internal policies should be. But, but the average regular American person, American citizen, rank and file American citizen, feels no connection whatsoever with people who are almost identical to them to them in their circumstances and their conditions, who's on the other side of the planet, even though the conditions of that person on the other side of the planet is being determined by the same people who are determining your condition. So it it you're really self sabotaging when you think of yourself and you put you allow yourself to be put in his box that separates you from the rest of the people of the world who have so much in common with you.

Yeah. I just want to, briefly add to that that point to what Barak Allahu Fikh. You know, as an American, we can relate to the impoverishment, to the marginize marginalization, the disenfranchisement. But the the the global community cannot relate or connect with the the drug abuse, the alcohol, the sex, the violence that is exported from here to their parts of the world and and and in in many ways, ethically, spiritually, morally rejected by everyone else despite the attempts of, you know, the propaganda to paint everyone else as exactly what Americans are. But even then, it's not all Americans that get to enjoy the fruits of being a so called American.

You know, I remember when I converted to Islam, it was, I I was with a few brothers, and one of them was wearing this white like a like a claw, the kind that you wear over your head or your shoulders as a man. And I was like, wow. That's, really beautiful. Like, what's that called? And he explains to me, like, kefir and, you know, these types of garments and stuff.

And I was like, I I've never seen anything like that. That's that's really nice. And he literally took it off of his shoulders, and he put it around mine. And I was like, what are you doing? He's like, here.

Just take it. I was like, do you have two of the same kind? He said, no. I said, then I can't take this from you. This is yours.

He's like, no. Now it's yours. Because faith is to love for your brother, what you love for yourself. So the same way I love for me to have it, I love for you to have it. I still have that clock to this day.

And that was over eleven years ago. But I remember it then, and I remember now when I wear it, that was the first time I truly experienced generosity from a stranger. And that generosity is a human trait. It is a human characteristic. But the superiority complex that so called Americans, experience is defined through this individualism, me, myself, and I.

When the global South, when Islam, when the global community is empowered through their collectivism, that's what gives strength to the individual. But to just be a part of this sort of, like I said, a Frankenstein culture where everyone is stealing from everything else, exporting all of the negativity to everywhere else, and then your strength is in being by yourself. No wonder no wonder, we, you know, are are sort of given this this notion that we are better than everyone else, but we have the types of issues that show just how lowly on a subconscious level we see ourselves. We have to drink our problems away, smoke our problems away, have, you know, we can't have real relationships with people, so the pornographic industry thrives. Everyone is dealing with some types of of of addiction or mental health issue, and and these problems are escalating with time despite us being the so called superior group.

Thank you very much, brother Shahid and brother Throbby. Like and I think this is highlighted in the video in this prison analogy. Right? This, like, psychological state that, you know, people feel in. Right?

Like, you know, in the video, it was essentially comparing, like, the experiences of these minority communities in America to inmates, right, who mistakenly believe that they are, like, part of this prison staff. Right? So, you know, there's this psychological manipulation experienced by these communities. Right? That they, like, make them feel as if they are an integral part in the system, whereas the system actually oppresses them.

Right? Like and I think this is very similar to, you know, the topic that was discussed in one of Ustaz's videos, which was called the pharaoh's palace. Right? Like, the the slaves in this palace, they deemed themselves as superior, right, to the people outside of the palace even though they had much more in common with the people being compressed outside the palace. Right?

So I would maybe wanna address this, like, there is this sort of cognitive dissonance, right, where you essentially feel like you need to please, you know, the ones that are keeping you inside the palace, right, as if these are your masters, but, like, they're the ones oppressing you. Right? And you can feel it every day and, you know, over the decades. Right? You know?

So, like, how to get out of this state? Right? How to get out of this mental state where, you know, as you said, right, there is this superiority complex of being American, but inferiority complex of being a minority. Right? So you have these two opposing things, I feel, like, that they exist inside.

You know? These minorities where they feel like that they're privileged to be American to a certain degree, but they feel oppressed in being in America. Right? So I think it's a very difficult state to be in. Right?

So I would like, how can we break free from this mental colonization, right, and reject the system of oppression that is essentially being perpetrated?

Yeah. You know, I I I actually made that comparison to, inmates based on my own experience in prison. As everyone knows, was in prison for seven and a half years. And in prison you have in in Arabic, someone who's a means an informer or a snitch, someone who collaborates with the prison administration. And they always think that they are They they they they really believe and and feel about themselves as if they work for the prison, as if they are are part of the prison administration.

And they get some kind of privileges as a result of them informing against other inmates. But it's it's important to point out that there are no inmates in the prison for whom the prison administration has more contempt than their own informers and their own snitches. They have no respect whatsoever for the people who are who are informers and who are snitches. They just use them, and manipulate them, and have no respect for them. And even if you have some kind of privileges, like for example, you know, the the prison guard, the people who actually work for the prison, they get to walk around the prison freely, obviously.

And as a as an informer, you might get the privilege of being able to walk between different wards of the prison and go to the prison library or go to the canteen or what have you, based on having, betrayed, another a fellow inmate. So you should be able to identify this difference. The only way that you get any privileges is by betraying your own. The people who are who are in the same condition as you, in the same situation as you. And by, serving the interests of the of the, of the power structure of that institution.

Whereas the people who actually, work for that institution automatically, they automatically have those privileges. And this is the case for for for so called minority groups, and also again for the, economically deprived in the in The US regardless of what their race or ethnicity is. You have to work to get the things that are supposed to be your rights. So this this just gives the lie to the whole concept of citizenship in America and the West generally. The fed the very fact that they even have the term minority in a country where everyone is a citizen, you're supposed to all be equal.

But if you're if you're if you're a so called minority or if you're poor, if you're from the underclass, you have to work to get the rights that the other people have just automatically. All of your rights you have to work for, you have to fight for, and you or or you have to, as I say, sell out your own people. You have to sell out your own community in order to get the rights that other people have automatically. And so it's exactly the same as as a in prison, as a as a snitch or an informer in prison. It's exactly the same.

You don't get it automatically. And as I say in the in the video, the the the the people who actually work for the prison, the people who are actually part of the prison administration, they won't they won't hesitate to remind you about what your place is if you step out of line. They are the ones who have the power to punish you. They have the power to remove your privileges. And that's the case in in in The US.

That's the case in in really all of the Western countries, that that talk about freedom and liberty and democracy and justice and so on, and equality. I mean, on on the one hand, like I said, on the one hand, they talk about equality, but at at but at the same time, they talk about minorities in their in their country. Why is this even a term that you have? Except that it it's very clear and very obvious that different people are treated different ways. So it's exactly like like in a prison.

I'm not sure how you can break out of it except for what I what I mentioned in the video is to stop defining yourself according to the way that they're defining you. According to the way that the that the that the power structure is defining you, according to the way that the elites are defining you. Because they're not defining you that way, for your best interest. They're defining you that way for their best interest. And just like, I was talking about and brother Torebi was talking about, they subject you to a culture and an and a and a and indoctrination.

Popular culture. Popular culture itself, mainstream culture, mainstream media, and what have you, popular media, music, movies, television, so on. All of that represents a form of indoctrination. And that indoctrination instills in you behavioral qualities, behavioral traits, moral qualities, or rather immoral qualities that do alienate you from the rest of the people in the world. Because nobody is like you people.

Nobody is the same way you are, like I said. And so when they when they when they do have to deal with you, they they're dealing with someone. They approach that interaction like I'm dealing with someone who's not normal, that that's not like me. Even though we actually share so much in terms of our circumstances and our conditions. But they have, created in you personality dysfunctions that make it impossible for anyone to relate to you, and that and that interfere with you being able to relate to them.

So I I think it's really essential for for for Americans and for Westerners generally, whether they're Muslim or non Muslim, to try to stop thinking of yourself in according to the definitions that are set for you by the people who themselves don't even look at you as a citizen of the country.

Yeah. Just briefly, what what comes to mind in the dichotomy drawn with Pharaoh's palace and this notion of freedom and inclusion, within the American society where there are marginalized citizens that are supposed to be, all equal to one another. Right? Freedom and equality and all of these things, you know, apple pies and bald eagles and American dream. You know, the first thing that comes to mind is the hadith, the the prophetic statement narrated from Abu Hurayrah found in the collection of Imam Muslim.

That this world is a prison for the believer, a person with faith, and a paradise for the disbeliever, a person who has no faith. And that analogy, I I wanna kinda just briefly draw a parallel between that and and pharaoh, Pharaoh thought that he was God. He literally said, I am your your creator, the most high. He saw himself as that over not just the slaves in his society, but even the elites in his society, Haman and Karun. Like, even the people who were not enslaved like the Hebrews were less than to him from his perceived and delusional sense of, grandeur, of of being above and and greater than everyone else.