Honesty Starts With Moral Clarity

Yes. I've said that many times. Westerners can't tell the truth. Okay. So let's talk about how and why they can't tell the truth.

I've said it many times. Westerners are incapable of honesty. They're incapable of telling the truth. I've explained many times. I'm not saying it's deliberate.

It's not necessarily on purpose. No. You know, that would be like literally like saying someone who has no legs is on purpose not playing basketball. You understand? I'm talking about incapability, not deliberate intentional dishonesty.

I mean, obviously, there are plenty of people who are just straight up liars out of the West and everywhere else, but I'm not talking about them. I'm saying that honesty is not their language in the West. Truth is not a dialect that they speak. They don't know how to speak that language. I know people get mad when I say that, but understand, I'm actually telling you something that has been done to you.

I'm telling you something that you have been deprived of. You understand? I'm telling you something that that you that has that you're a victim of by your culture, by your so called civilization. They victimized you in this way. This is the most graphic and the most literal form of kufr, of kufr, covering up, concealing, burying the truth.

And this is all they do. It's the only language they know. Truly, this is the only language they know. And this is why everyone around the world is quickly coming to the conclusion that you simply can't be engaged with. The Westerners simply can't be engaged with.

It's just not productive. It's not productive. It's not useful in any way whatsoever to engage with you. Like I've said before, in these interactions, no communication ever actually takes place when we talk to you, when people in the global South talk to you, when Muslims talk to you. And that's a shame.

It's a shame what has been done to you, but it has been done to you. It's a shame what you've been deprived of as a human being. This dysfunction, this dysfunction that has infected intergenerational dysfunction that has been inflicted on your culture. Now of course, some of what I'm talking about could be dismissed as their ignorance or their misunderstanding, you know, or some sort of a personality disorder, like you can't pay attention, you have ADHD or what have you, or you're aggressive, you have a problem with your temper and so forth, this is why you can't be engaged with it, why you why there can't be productive, normal, healthy, rational conversations with you. But for me, I characterize all of these behaviors under the overarching label of dishonesty because that's how it pans out.

That's the practical impact. That's the practical outcome, You know, you inject falsehood. You muddy the waters of discourse. You distract. You derail.

You deny. You deflect. You sidestep. You know, you bring in irrelevancies into the conversation. You bring in fake issues.

You do anything and everything. Well, like, you do anything and everything to try to stop honest discussion. You always try to obscure reality by hook or by crook. And so the practical impact of all of that, that all comes out to the same practical impact as if you we're just lying. I mean, it goes much deeper than just false narratives, it's deeper than propaganda.

We're actually talking about a culturally ingrained reflex against truth, a culturally ingrained reflex against true and honest discourse. This is a civilizational pathology. And in fact it comes down to foundational morality, you see, because you have that insistence, on moral relativism which is nothing but nihilism for beginners. It means ambiguity, moral ambiguity. They're morally agnostic, you understand?

That's the heart of their dishonesty because, honesty, truthfulness, it's not just about words, this isn't just about what you say or what you don't say. Dishonesty isn't just calculated lying or deception, you know. Honesty is not actually fundamentally an intellectual, or it doesn't, it doesn't originate in the intellectual sphere, if you understand what I mean. Because before you choose to distort reality through deception, you know, before you string together words to speak a lie or to obscure the truth, you have in your heart already rejected reality and in fact the creator of reality and your inevitable meeting with that creator when you will be held account for whatever you say and what you don't say. You have imagined in your heart that you can actually weave an alternative reality, you can create your own fictional world and that this fiction this fictional world is is possible for you to somehow superimpose that upon the objective truth of the real world and then you get to operate in your own version of the world according to your own rules, and and you think that you can get away with it.

You have internally convinced yourself that truth doesn't matter. So lies aren't lies, they're just equally valid alternative versions of reality. But existence is not a narrative. I said it's a civilizational reflex because it's both ingrained in the culture and because I think you can trace it back. You can trace how it grew out of the conditions, like I've talked about many times in Europe, in the West, you know, centuries of hard winters, thin soil, volatile harvests, recurrent scarcity.

That trained whole societies to survive first and justify later. Dishonesty is a trademark of being completely dunya centric or what you can call materialistic, meaning that you are inordinately concerned with material things, with material survival, with accumulating resource and so on. Very western. When material well-being feels threatened, then truth just becomes negotiable. You start to make up the rules as you go, you know, to get what you want and not feel that you've done anything wrong.

You wanna be able to get what you want and not feel that you did anything wrong in doing so. Europe went for long stretches of history inside that sort of pressure cooker, environmental pressure cooker, low fertility soils in the North, repeated foods food crises and so forth, literally centuries of bad weather. This isn't folklore. This is the climatic and agrarian record of Europe from the Middle Ice Age, and it's, you know, the agricultural shocks of that to the grim sequence of famines from, you know, 1315 and and onwards, rotted crops, starving livestock and so forth, they had a rough existence. I'm not kidding.

And in my opinion, they resented that. Under those conditions, a pattern set in mentally, spiritually. First, normalize getting by through extraction. If the crops fail, then you raid the next village. You know, you pivot to raiding.

Pivot to external predation. This wasn't born out of adventurism. You know, scholars of of European history described all of the pressures that they were under, the resource limits, demographic problems, political opportunities. That catalyzed the Viking turn to organized acquisition abroad. That's what made them do that.

The method was violence, but the ethic was necessity, their version of necessity. The narrative was glory. See that template, the template of basically externalizing the solutions to internal scarcity. This became a very durable habit and it became your culture. You even did it on there was even a domestic version of extraction, enclosure, enclosing, in in in closing the commons.

They were fenced off. Customary rights were dissolved, and it was all done according to the, the language or the rhetoric of improvement. You know, they laundered the disposition of the people with the rhetoric of, productivity and efficiency. It was a new moral grammar in which legality could sanctify harm and policy language or the language of policy could bury the truth. You know, case histories from England show how communal governance communal governance of the land was completely dismantled and peasant rights were extinguished under these banners of productivity inefficiency and order and so on and and so on.

Once that moral software was written at home, well, they exported it. You know, mercantilism that framed the whole world as a finite treasure chest to be seized and to be hoarded. The point was not reciprocity, it was extraction. Extraction justified as national strength. This is the textbook doctrine of early modern Europe.

Monopolize trade, bar rivals, drain the peripheries and called all of that prosperity. And language did the heavy lifting on that, you know, recoding seizure as commerce and subjugation as civilization. Well, they've been lying for a long long time. They've been lying for a long time and they've been dishonest before they could even write it down and they never got honest. This is what I'm telling you.

If you move on to the modern era, well, obviously, you have the emergence of what we know today as propaganda. During the first world war, America, they built a whole system. They built a whole government department for shaping public opinion. It was called the the committee on public information. And they pioneered methods of propaganda.

They pioneered methods of indoctrination, really a brainwashing that would later even be used by the Nazis. Okay? So this was sort of the, you can say the official beginning in The US of state corporate orchestration of public sentiment. Out of that milieu came someone like Edward Bernays and the concept of engineering consent. He understood that mass psychology could supersede public deliberation, deliberation of individuals, and then he had someone like Walter Lippmann, who suggested that slogans could replace actual thinking processes.

The technique matured not only to sell products but to sell versions of reality. If you don't know about Edward Bernays, you should look him up. He was quite ingenious. He's quite he was the the the epitome of an evil genius, diabolical. By the nineteen eighties, you created what they called in academia, the incredulity towards meta narratives, which is just a sophisticated way of saying that there is no binding story.

There's no final account. There's no objective truth. There's no overarching reality. There's only language games and power. But, you know, if truth is just a contest over framing, the framing of narratives, then what's conscience?

Conscience has lost any coherent meaning in that in that world view. You have intellectualized a rationalization for just being the way that you've always been. You know? It's just like shoot first and ask questions later. Right?

Act first, then after you've acted, weave your rationale afterwards. But what I'm saying is truth does exist. Reality exists. The real world exists. The action is what it is in reality.

And no narrative is ever gonna be able to change the nature of that action nor the consequences of action because the truth is real. But the point is you've been doing this for centuries, you've been doing it for millennia and it has become a pathology. That pathology has become your culture until you no longer know how to interact, you don't know how to engage with the truth, you don't know how to be honest. Because again, as I say, truth is not just about the words you say, it's the it's a it's a posture of your soul itself. Truth begins long before your tongue ever moves, before the mind ever starts assembling the words to say.

Honesty is a covenant inside your heart. It's a willingness to face reality as it is because you know that you will eventually face the one who made reality. And when that covenant is broken, the lies that you speak, that's just the leakage. That's why the problem isn't just propaganda. Propaganda is just a tool.

It's a it's a it's a it's an outgrowth of an already existing dishonest culture, of a culture that already does not value the truth or even recognize that there is such a thing. The deeper disease is a moral habit. It's a moral habit that trains a person to treat reality as optional. Moral relativism, you know. It sounds academic.

Like I said, it's beginner level nihilism. Nothing matters. And that creates a sort of safe house of ambiguity where nothing is actually binding. No truth is strong enough to actually restrain your urges and instincts and appetites. No meaning is heavy enough to cause you to submit and discipline yourself.

So in that fog, deception doesn't feel like deception anymore. It's just an alternative perspective. That's the confusion they create. And accountability again just becomes another word game, a point scoring debate. You dodge and deflect and evade, you know, you throw counter punches, you throw curveball curveballs or what have you.

Anything that you can do if you can obscure the truth, if you can make the point of a discussion get lost in the quagmire of all your, you know, non sequiturs, your red herrings, your straw men, then you win. If that if you do that you win. You actually believe in a form of engagement in which it is possible to win against the truth, against reality. You think if you can dazzle and you can distract and you can confuse until the truth gets sidelined that means you win and if you win then that means that whatever you said to win is true. You're validated when your lie wins an argument as if winning an argument makes what you said true, makes it not a lie.

Do you understand? But that's how you think, that's how the West thinks. This is how estranged and alienated and disconnected you are from reality. How disconnected your culture has made you from reality. I mean, at the sequence.

Before anyone crafts a false argument, something inside them has already decided that the outcome matters more than the truth, meaning winning the argument by hook or by crook, that matters more, than what's actually real and what's actually true. Reflect on that. You know how dangerous that is? Do you know how dangerous of a position that is to take? That's a theological position.

You think that you're living in a reality where you will not be audited. You understand? This dismisses the day of judgment when speech and silence are both gonna be evidence for you or against you. Listen, this is why I've talked about how we in this life, Muslims in this life have to be witnesses as Allah told us. We have to be witnesses in this world with integrity because you're gonna face the bare bones reality, the absolute truth on the day of judgment.

Everything is gonna be audited, everything that you said, everything that you did, everything that you didn't say and didn't do. There are no alternative versions of reality on that day, no narratives, and there's no moral relativism on that day. You understand? So if you construct an internal fiction, a private universe where cause and effect can be defied or distorted, where you can repaint facts, where you're the arbiter of the truth, then you're denying the day of judgment. You are denying the day of judgment.

Look, you know the story of Cain and Abel. Right? Christians have their story. And so do Muslims. Habil and Habil.

So Cain offered a lackluster sacrifice, an offering, and it was rejected. But he spun a narrative that his offering was only rejected because God was unfairly biased against him and unfairly preferential to Abel, to Habil. Well, that's the story of the West because it was never about the material substance of Cain's offering. It was the deficiency of his intention, the deficiency of his sincerity, and he became envious of his brother, and he became angry at God, and he killed his brother in an act of envy and resentment. Well, that's literally the whole history of Western so called civilization.

Their history with the global South. That's the history of colonization. Envy and jealousy about, the abundance of their resources in the global South interpreted in the western mind as an unfair preference by God, and then a centuries long campaign of violence and extraction and acquisition and pillage and plunder out of resentment, out of jealousy, out of spite and out of a total misunderstanding of the purpose of existence. Do you understand me? Because it's not like Europeans were the only ones on earth who were living in harsh conditions.

It's not like they were the only ones who were precarious, whose survival was precarious. But they reacted to their conditions the way they did and that's unique to them, it's peculiar to them. So you rejected the reality that you were living in on the basis of a wrong interpretation about it because you felt that you were being unfairly deprived by God. And then you decided to act out, you decided to lash out and to prioritize material acquisition above and beyond anything and everything else until morality and truth became afterthoughts. You see the chronology of this pathology in in in the western mind?

You form this view that you can weave your own system of reality that makes anything and everything you do, anything and everything that you do to win, that is the definition of what is right and true and moral. But notice what this habit does to language, you know, words stop pointing to realities and they start serving your own appetites and urges and what you and and your nefs. And and and any sort of precision in speech and any sort of fact checking is always treated as hostility or arrogance. Clarity is accused of being cruel. The aim of speech shifts from illumination to pacification and to justification.

You can always tell when you're in that sort of a a a discourse environment when every fact is greeted with deflection and evasion, you know, it's complicated. It's nuanced. There's many sides. I mean, of course complexity exists obviously, but complexity is not a permit to abandon the truth. Complexity should sharpen your honesty, not sabotage your honesty.

I mean, what does this do to a person? Well, splits you. You're forced to live in two different worlds at once. The real world that keeps intruding with consequences, and then the invented world of your own mind, of the western mind, where the consequences are denied or or or pretend that they either don't exist or pretend that they're happening for other reasons. But your own nervous system knows the difference.

Anxiety spikes because your soul is conscripted into a permanent cleanup operation, damage control operation. You have to seal up all the leaks in your alternative reality, patching up the holes in your fiction, explaining away the obvious. You're in a constant defensive posture. That's why so many people in the West are exhausted. It takes immense energy to keep the false world standing, you know.

It can't it can't bear the weight of the world, the real world. Your house of cards, mentality, your house of cards world view, your house of cards paradigm, isn't strong enough to hold the weight of the real world and is being crushed. I mean, the cognitive dissonance alone, the cognitive dissonance is torture. People start crashing out. You see it all the time.

And then of course you add to all this the fact that the West and especially America has deliberately, completely sabotaged people's thought processes, know, their capacity for independent thought, for critical thought and so on. Because again you need that, you need that as a so called civilization, you need people to be that way, you need uniformity, you don't want any leaks in the system. It's already hard enough to keep the leaks from flooding, from reality flooding through the already existing cracks in your system. You don't want people to themselves become leaks, you understand? So you need uniformity.

So then people become predictable. Because everyone is programmed. Like for example, in any given video that I do, and probably in response to this video, you'll see it in the comments section. You'll see the recitation of all the same trite arguments, the attempted rebuttals. And I'm sure that the people who are writing these comments actually believe that they thought of these comments, but they didn't.

These are programmed responses. Like, for example, if the West is so bad, why does everyone want to come here? Or, yes, the West has done bad things but everyone else has done the same. Well, you're using a computer, aren't you? You're using western technology, Aren't you being a hypocrite?

Or, my favorite, why are you wearing a suit and tie if you don't like the West? And of course, got the the just the blanket dismissal, oh, you just hate the West. You see what I mean? Truth doesn't matter. This is not honest engagement.

The substance of the arguments that are made in the post or in the videos that they're responding to are never acknowledged, never processed. There's just this reflexive deflection, diversion, misdirection and so on. Any of these attempted program rebuttals can obviously easily be answered. They can easily be answered, but that would mean diverting off the path of the original point in the video and creating just busy work as a tactic of distraction. That's all it that's all this is.

Cover up an actual issue, cover up an actual argument, cover up an actual point with a pile of non issues, a pile of misdirections. And this whole process obscures and it covers up and it distracts and it enforces moral relativism or a reality relativism. I mean, like conflating for example, an actively ongoing western genocide in Gaza with the alleged crime of hypocritically using a computer. It's absolute nonsense. What are you saying?

You don't even know what you're saying. Another version of this is something that happened the other day on the Middle Nation Telegram discussion group. Okay? We had someone who decided to rant his outrage about the Israelis, how evil the Israelis are, how anyone even trying to deal with them within the framework of legality. Well, they're just a fool.

They're a coward. You know? He talked about how the Israelis are just wicked, and how they steal children's organs, and how all they wanna do is to destroy Islam and so on and so forth. Okay? And he was basically inferring that the only proper way of dealing with them is what?

Violent annihilation, I suppose? He didn't really have a point except to delegitimize the strategies that are being employed by necessity by the Arab states and by the Muslim world. This was all being said in response to the Israeli strike in Doha. Okay? This was an emotional outburst, but we don't do emotional outbursts in our discussion because that's self indulgent, it's time wasting.

You are literally putting yourself and your feelings at the center of everything and I can't stand that. Stating the obvious, okay, is not analysis. Shock and outrage are not strategies. And performing your despair and your anger more loudly than anyone else does not make you more virtuous. And it does not mean that you feel it more than the rest of us.

And it doesn't make you right in your conclusions. And so when this person got pushed back as inevitably he did, he immediately reverted to, well that was hurtful, you're not being nice. You see the manipulation? They can't engage honestly. And of course this person is American.

Obviously, it goes without saying. Everyone in the discussion already knew that this was an American before he was identified as such because he self identified as such by his manner of discussion. I'm loud and I'm passionate and I'm histrionic in my outrage and therefore, I'm wise. Therefore, I'm right. Therefore, my views should be respected.

Because, in the West performance is everything. It trumps truth and reality. Performance is everything. No. This is dishonest.

This is dishonest. It's a dishonest approach to discourse. I've said it many many times. If you form and voice and argue your opinion, while it is not a knowledge based opinion, it's not based on facts and it's not based on any sound thinking, then you are identical to a liar in my opinion. You are someone for whom the truth does not matter.

So you won't even benefit by being told the truth. Because if you did care about the truth at all, you would have already researched facts, you would have already researched information before forming your opinion, much less before voicing it and much much less before arguing your opinion in public with other people. No. You don't care about the truth. You care about validation and you care about recognition.

You care about being regarded as moral more than you care about being moral. And this is the essence of so called western civilization. Okay? Say what you mean and mean what you say. We all know that.

We all understand that idea. But meaning what you say is not about feeling passionately about what you're saying. That's not what that means. No. Meaning what you say is about the soundness of what you are saying and that you are convinced of that.

That you're saying what is true because you know it is true based on sound reasoning, not based on passion and emotion. Like I said, this is something that has been done to you. You have been deprived of honesty. And Wallahi, it's a catastrophe. But this is something that has to be understood both by the Muslim world, by the people in the global South and so on, but also by westerners themselves.

Obviously, for us, for Muslims and for people in the global South we have to know that we cannot deal with you the way that we would deal with honest people. But for westerners, you have to know this so that maybe you can actually become honest people. Again, I've explained it many times before but I'm not just talking about lying. Understand me, I'm not just talking about lying. Because plenty of you don't deliberately lie but you're still dishonest.

You still cannot communicate with others in an honest manner. You can't stay on topic, you can't engage with the points being made, you can't, restrain your impulse to deflect and to subject change or to throw in false equivalencies or to divert or evade or start ad hominem attacks or be contrarian for purely defensive tactical reasons. You can't stop yourself from cherry picking or relativizing or or or or or. You have a tremendous amount of rehabilitation that you have to do before you can even start being honest, I'm telling you. Because look, again, honesty is also about saying what you yourself think, what you yourself thought of.

Ideas and perspectives that you independently built in your own mind, you know, and using expressions that are unique to you, unique to your own mind. And your society has almost completely destroyed your ability to do that. I mean, it's unwise for me to do this, for me to point this out and I don't mean to offend anyone in my comments section. I don't don't don't mean to offend anyone who supports Mule Nation and who appreciates our content but let's be honest, you can look at even the positive comments in my comment section and you'll see what I'm talking about. Where's the lie?

Protect this man. Let him cook. Truth bombs. No lies told. You talk in memes.

You're talking received slogans from a menu of quips. I mean, appreciate the support, don't get me wrong, but you do understand what I'm saying. Right? You understand what I'm saying? Use your own words, use your own thoughts but they have bankrupted your ability to express yourself.

They depleted your lexicon. All of this is poisonous to real honesty. And of course for the Muslim world and for the global South generally, we have to know this. We have to know this about the West and about westerners because it also means that the West cannot offer us any ideas, any systems, any theories that are going to be genuinely useful for us. Because you never believed in any of them yourselves in the first place.

You just come up with these things as packaging. You understand me? Your theories, your ideologies, your systems are all dishonest, false, fake and hypocritical. You just wanna do what you wanna do and then you wrap all of that in a package to make it look better, to make it look pretty because what you wanna do is ugly. That's why I say it doesn't matter, capitalism or communism, right or left.

Okay? Socialism, Marxism, what have you. I don't care. Understand, they are all driven by an irresistible overwhelming driver which is to cover up truth and fortify falsehood. You know?

You think that the leftists are the ones who care about the poor and who care about workers because they talk about for example income inequality, wealth disparity and so on, wealth redistribution. No. Look, I'll admit that you all had me fooled about that myself for a long time when I was younger. You fooled me about that. But the fact of the matter is both of these western economic theories are just bookends holding up a whole monetary and economic system that we don't have to accept in the first place.

You know, by giving us these divergent views of the same system, they fool you into thinking that that system is the only one there is. And it's just a question of how we're going to tweak it, how we're going to implement it. Listen, before colonization maybe 70% of the people on this earth did not operate in a money based economy. They weren't poor until your money system made them poor. You know, you can talk about places where people only earn $2 a day and it's a shame and it's a pity and so forth and you know, it's capitalism's fault and communism can fix it.

You say that they're in poverty but you have no idea how much of their sustenance, how much of their provision, how much of their daily needs are met outside the framework of money. But you decided that money is the exclusive measurement of wealth and well-being as the exclusive way for anyone to have access to goods and services, so then the only discussion can can ever be within this framework. Well, that's dishonest. There are other ways to run an economy, there are other ways to run a society, there are other ways to govern and so on. There's indigenous ways.

There are ways that most of humanity used throughout most of human history right up until just yesterday historically speaking. No. Communism and capitalism is just like Coke and Pepsi as far as I'm concerned. Meanwhile, we grow our own fruits and we can squeeze those fruits to make our own beverages. We don't need Coke and Pepsi because nothing that you're selling ultimately is any good for us.

I mean, just like Coke and Pepsi, honestly, because we've been able to actually watch you consume Coke and Pepsi for decades and we can see the outcome and it's not good. Neither one of those is good for you and certainly not gonna be good for us. No, thank you. So, the dishonesty, the civilizational pathology of dishonesty in the West, as I say, originates from, in my opinion, a deep and resentful, spiteful take on reality. According to their world view, they were less than.

So they invented an alternative narrative about reality in which they could be superior. And this again is based on a foundational fundamental dismissal of truth and reality and it grew into this pathology, this pathology that makes them allergic to honesty. So they poison every discussion that they're in, they poison every interaction, they poison every communication and then they build whole systems, they built whole systems, whole theories, whole ideologies and a whole culture whose primary function is to prevent truth from ever being acknowledged, from ever being known, from ever being understood, and from ever being accepted. Okay? This was done to you.

And because of that, you did all manner of atrocious things to us just like Cain did to Abel. And because of that, like I say, the rest of the world, is rapidly coming to the conclusion that you have nothing whatsoever to actually contribute. And that's the truth.