Shahid Bolsen | Dissecting Western Dishonesty (Part 2/3)

So for instance, I got a I I got a comment on a recent video, a video where I was talking about the moral framework of Islam versus the absence of a moral framework in the West. And the person in the comment said something like, can women speak out in Islam? Or words to that effect. It's a good example. It's a good example, both because this sort of genre of comment is very common, but also because it contains so many layers of Western dishonesty.

I think it's worth it to break it down, break down the tactics and break down the mentality that's at play here. I think it might be helpful for Muslims to to break this down. It also might perhaps be help helpful to non Muslims to recognize what they're doing. Because I think many are not even aware of how abnormal their so called civilization has made them, to be honest. And I don't think that they're necessarily aware of the extent to which they they cannot engage honestly or communicate with other people.

So, okay, first of all, the it's an accusation framed as a question. It pretends to be an honest inquiry, but, of course, that's not what it is at all. It's an accusation. You know? The question presumes the answer, and it's supposedly putting me on the spot, you know, like a gotcha moment.

Because you've been told that, saying that Islam oppresses women is a truism. It's an argument with the most, with the most widespread validation in Western society by means of repetition. By means of repetition means that you have a a a baseless bias and you turn it into a truism by endlessly repeating it. Repetition becomes social proof, and social proof is evidence for you. So you imagine that you have just stated to me a fact of Islam's oppression of women, cleverly, you know, posing posing it in the form of a question, and you've now joined the repetition circle which gives you authority.

You see how it works? Like, okay, you say all of this positive stuff about Islam, brother Shahid, but what about the negative proofs that we have invented against Islam? How do you respond to that? Yours is so arrogant and so deluded that you actually think that the proof that you created through repetition is actual proof, you know, according to anyone's standards who who who doesn't live in your intellectually inbred cult. It's like something that you've told each other and you've believed, so that's supposed to make it a fact now on that basis.

You know, successful and pervasive propaganda becomes true by definition, by just being pervasive. But the pervasiveness makes it true. Ignorance is truth if there's a consensus on it. And you think that intelligent and honest people are actually supposed to treat it as true and treat it as valid because anything you say is automatically authoritative. See, so you're not asking, obviously.

You're passively passive aggressively making an accusation that you think is supposed to be accepted as a proven fact because it's an established feature of your narrative. You know? You're literally trying to refute facts with narrative, and you think that that's intellectually valid, and you think it's supposed to be taken seriously. And then there's just the fact of the of framing it, that tactic of framing it as a question. It's just a weaselly way of pretending to not be a hostile bigot.

You know, oh, it was a genuine question. I just wanted to know. Plausible deniability of your hostile intent. You're not interested in dialogue. You're not interested in learning.

You're only interested in repeating your narrative, having your narrative validated, again, your civilizational validation, self validation. You just change the word order and you change the punctuation to make an accusation look like an inquiry. But all you wanted to do was to inject your poison into the discourse. But you couldn't even do that in a straightforward manner, you know. What you wanted to do was just insult, but you don't have the guts or the honesty to just insult.

So you make the insult as a question. You you make it look like a question. And I'm supposed to now be put on the defensive. Right? That's the whole point.

I'm supposed to be on the defensive. And now I'm supposed to say all sorts of things to assure you that Islam does not lock women in the basement. Right? That's how this is supposed to go. It's supposed to now be my responsibility to disprove your baseless insult when your insult has nothing whatsoever to do with my religion or my culture or my people, but everything to do with your hostile deceitful culture and your people.

And you see, all this does is perpetuate your narrative if I engage because that just hijacks the whole conversation to make it about me disproving your false accusations against us, and not about you reckoning with the factual wrongdoing of your so called civilization. You see how how that works? You see what I mean now about how you are always always continuously, perpetually, preemptively engaging in civilizational validation, self validation, and it's very cunning. It's very sneaky. You see, when you lob that accusatory question about women being allowed or or or not being allowed to speak out in Islam, not only do you divert the conversation away from talking about your culture, your so called civilization, and your factual atrocities, not only that, but the question by implication affirms the myth that you tell yourselves and that you tell the world that the rights of women are actually important to you as a westerner because you're a westerner, and that women in the West have more rights than women anywhere else in the world.

Do you see that trick? No. The accusatory question has multiple purposes. It's serving multiple purposes at once, and we're supposed to take that seriously. I mean, someone from the country that gave us Jeffrey Epstein, gave us Diddy, gave us OnlyFans, gave us Barbie, the country that ranks the highest in the production and the consumption of pornography, a country where fifteen hundred women are murdered every year in so called domestic violence, where homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women, where twenty four women per minute in your country are victims of sexual assault or some form of physical violence or stalking, that's over twelve million women per year, you know.

Over over a third of the women in your country are clinically depressed, and good night, how could they not be? Over half of all adult men between the ages of 18 and 45 have OnlyFans subscriptions, and almost 2,000,000 of your women are selling themselves on that platform. It's dystopian. You you people spend over $1,000,000,000 a year on breast implants because you drummed it into women's heads that their bodies are the source of their self worth, are the are the are the source of their value in your society, and that those bodies have to conform to a very rigid, pornographic, cartoonish male fantasy criteria. I mean, you've gone so far in defining women by their body parts that if a man gets those same body parts surgically manufactured and fastened to himself, then you'll make him woman of the year.

Did you know that the average age of first exposure to pornography in your country in The United States is 11? 11. Means you start training your boys on degrading and objectifying and sexually abusing women before they even reach puberty. I'm telling you, your whole society is a grooming gang. It's just one giant grooming gang.

Not to mention the vile and the vulgar language that you use about women, the derogatory words you use about women, the names you call them, you and normalize this kind of denigration of women to such an extent that women themselves have even started to use it about themselves. Your whole pop culture is a full frontal assault on the dignity and the honor of women. I mean I mean, I'm not even getting into your global crimes against women against women in the global South. Haiti, Bosnia, The Philippines, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, I mean, take your pick. Your soldiers in your contractors, trafficked women, raped women, enslaved women, assaulted women, killed women by the thousands.

Not to mention how your soldiers rape your own enlisted women systematically, female soldiers getting raped by male soldiers. You think I'm gonna just play along with someone from that country, from that so called civilization? I'm gonna play along with someone, from that country that's the architect of women's degradation in their country and around the world, the objectification, the exploitation, the commodification, you really think I'm gonna play along with any suggestion that you people care about the rights of women, that you care about their freedom to speak out. Right? Because when you ask slash accuse Muslims, accuse Islam of being oppressive to women, you're trying to misdirect and deflect away from your own monstrous treatment of women both in your own country and around the world.

And you're trying to make it look like you actually uplift, and honor women and their dignity and so forth when the truth is that no culture and no society in human history has ever been more comprehensively atrocious and more atrociously degrading towards women than your society and your culture. You see what I mean? Every time they open their mouths, every time wallahi, every time they string together words on a keyboard, it is always and only for the purpose of civilizational self validation precisely because of the outrageous invalidity at the very foundations of their civilization. Oh, I'm not done. Can women speak out against Islam?

Right? This is your question. Okay. There's another aspect to this, and you'll find this all over their discourse. This this aspect is all across their discourse, this whole speaking out aspect.

Speak out about what? Speak out against what? To whom? You see? Injustice is being assumed here.

Corruption is being assumed. Oppression is being assumed. And it's also assumed that there is no, that there are no mechanisms for redress except speaking out. No one cares. No one protects.

No one defends. There's no cultural, no religious, no social, no institutional safeguards, no institutional protections in our societies for women. Right? No avenues for redress. And on top of all that, women are even barred from speaking out.

They're oppressed and muted and alone. No one is with them. No one's on their side. And no one is interested in saving them from all of this misery, right, that we're causing them. No one wants to save them from that except for American and Western rapists and abusers and porn addicts and pimps and killers.

Right? They need a white, western non Muslim to come rip off their hijabs and their abayas and put them on OnlyFans because women's liberation surely must mean allowing them the freedom to finally be the sex objects that western men need them to be. You see how much is packed into that one little comment, that what, the five or six words? It's absolutely crammed full of hostility and aggression and bad intent, maliciousness, and false paradigm reinforcement. Like I say, civilizational self validation through misdirection, through deflection, through slander.

Speak out. You don't want women to speak out, You wanna turn them out, and then you wanna wear them out, and then you wanna throw them out. That's your culture. That's your approach to women. And if they do speak out, even in your society, your free society, they're feminazis.

Right? They're radical woke leftists. They're man haters. They're cultural Marxists trying to destroy good family values. Isn't that what you say?

Well, like, you've never had anything but an adversarial relationship between the sexes in the West. It's never been anything but that with you people. The audacity that you could actually think that anyone, believes for even a second that you respect women or that you care about the rights of women, The audacity is absolutely stupefying. And like I said, this whole speaking out obsession that you have, because freedom of expression. Right?

Freedom of expression, protest, democracy, power to the people, and whatnot, you're obsessed with this. And you're so fixated on your right to speak out. You're you're fixated on the speaking out part that you totally overlook the never being listened to part. Like I said, you assume that the power structure is going to oppress, whether we're talking about women or we're talking about anything else, you assume that the power is gonna oppress, your your power structure is going to oppress, that there's gonna be corruption and injustice. You assume that no country's leaders actually care about their people, and that the that the people's only possible, avenue for justice against the inevitable injustice is to speak out against the inevitable oppression of their governments.

Okay? That's your experience. That's your experience. Your experience in your so called democratic system, which if it worked as advertised, by the way, would never require you to protest. It would never require you to speak out because it's supposedly, already representative, isn't it?

Isn't that the idea? It's supposed to be representative. It's supposed to be the most responsive and the most attentive political system there is to the to the needs of the public, to the the wants of the public. Isn't that what you say? Right or wrong?

So when you don't see people rushing out into the streets and you don't see people protesting and carrying on and whatnot, well, you think that the people must be oppressed. The the only explanation is that the people are being muzzled. The the only explanation is that they're living under a tyranny. It never occurs to you that they might not be protesting in the streets because their government actually works, because their government might actually care, their government might actually be trying to improve their lives, and maybe they actually like their government. Can you imagine that?

Maybe they actually appreciate their system. Maybe they actually value their social order, and maybe they genuinely see that type of behavior as disruptive and damaging to their society. Meanwhile, you live in a country, where your government, your democratic government does not listen to you, where your vote does not change the direction of policy, in the government, where your protests are at best ignored, at worst are cracked down upon or banned at worst, where you get kicked out of school if you protest, you lose your job if you protest, you go to jail if you speak out, where you are continuously lied to, you're continuously gaslighted, and you are continuously sidelined. Oh, sure. You get to say whatever you wanna say.

You can say the president is a pedophile. You can say he's a human trafficker. He's a rapist. He's a murderer. You can say whatever you want.

You can call your leaders idiots. You can call your leaders criminals. You can say whatever you want. You can call them fascists. You can call them Nazis all day long.

So what? What's the outcome? Wallahi, you live in the most bulletproof, invulnerable tyranny in history, all brought to you by your beautiful, enlightened, superior democratic system. This is the truth. You can speak out.

Yes, you can speak out. Most of the time, on almost anything, you can speak out. No problem. But only because no one cares what you say. You know it and I know it.

So don't talk to me about how much you value, the right to speak out, the right of women or anybody else to speak out when you can speak out, until the cows come home and never be listened to. See what I mean? Your brainwashed, brain lost, passive aggressive, what about ism snide comment is not doing what you think it's doing. And watch, one of them is gonna come in the comment section on this video when it goes up. Well, someone's gonna go in the comment section and well, okay, brother Shahid, but you still didn't answer the question about whether or not women can speak out in Islam.

I mean, it's almost this is almost guaranteed someone's gonna say that. It's almost guaranteed. And then whoever comments that, they'll think they really did something because they can't help it. I'm telling you, the existential panic is too strong. The myth dependency is too deep, and the dysfunction is too incurable.

That's why I said, Wallahi, I'm I'm sorry to say, but you cannot beneficially engage with them. And it isn't because we're opposed to engaging with them. We're it's not because we're opposed to dialogue and communication and so forth. No. Like I said before, disengagement does not indicate any sort of threat by us or enmity from us.

We're not like that. But because of your pathologies, you will interpret it like that if we don't wanna have anything to do with you. Because being ignored or being decentered is for you delegitimizing of yourself. Because like I said, you think you have to be the main character. You have to be the most important.

You have to be the most interesting, the most loved, the most, admired, the one whose thoughts matter the most, the one who is always listened to. You can't just be normal. You can't just be one nation, one people among the rest of us, all the other nations, all the other people. No. You have to be boss.

You have to be central. You have to be in charge. You think that if you aren't everything, then that means that you're nothing. Right? If you're not everything, then that means you're nothing.

If you're not if you're not on the top of the hill, then you must be six feet under. If you're not the best, then you must be the worst. Again, it's that zero sum, all or nothing toxic mental disorder in your culture. Wallahi, you're a plague upon your own house, and it's too bad. It's too bad.

But talking with you, engaging with you, I mean, you can see look. Look at that little comment. Right? Just five or six words. That five or six words contains an incredible amount of malice and poisonous doc indoctrination.

What about a whole conversation? Nobody's got the time for that. No one's got the energy for that. And for what? I mean, when I say that there's no benefit, understand me.

I don't mean that there's no benefit for us, that's a given. We already know that. We know that going in. We know that anytime we interact with you, the only one who can potentially benefit from that interaction is gonna be you. See, we would interact with you to try to help you, to try to benefit you, to try to open your eyes.

But when it's obvious that you're only coming at us with daggers drawn, telling us that those daggers are flowers, well, why on earth would anyone willingly subject themselves to that? Right? Truly, subhanAllah. Allah told us about you and told us about us. He said that it's you who love them, but they do not love you.

Because yes, we do, and yes, you don't. I mean, truth is nothing would make us happier than if we could actually engage with you like normal human beings. If you were not so hostile, if you were not so aggressive. I mean, I'm not even talking about you becoming a Muslim and trying to make you become a Muslim. Obviously, we'd be happy if you did that.

It's better for you if you did that. I'm just talking about being able to talk to you in a normal way for you to just be normal or at least be less abnormal. Listen, Muslims have a vast capacity for tolerance and coexistence. You know, most people came to Islam throughout history. Most people came to Islam.

Islam spread to all parts of the world without us even intending to do that. It's just that we traded with people. So we interacted with them, we had conversations with them, we engaged with them, we were talking, we weren't doing it for dawah, we weren't trying to convert people, we were there for trade, we were there for business. But the people that we were interacting with with were normal, healthy, intelligent people. So many of them came to Islam through those those interactions.

And if they had not come to Islam, we still would have been fine with them. We would have been fine dealing with them and having good relations with them. That's how it started, and we would have kept on that way. But this is not your approach to things. No.

So, yes, we'll put out our ideas, you know, we'll write our books, we'll put out our content, our material, and so forth, and the non Muslims can look at that or not look at it as they like. They can look at that in their own spaces, you know, and we'll look at your works in our spaces. But no matter how much we might be open to talking with you, all you ever wanna do is joust with us. Imagine. Imagine.

Who wants to talk to someone when every conversation that you have with them is geared towards proving to you how great and how wonderful they are, and how everyone else is just a monkey. This is what it's like. I mean, can you understand how people would find that off putting? And, yes, this is mostly just the case with Westerners. Honestly, it is.

We can talk with the Chinese, for example. We can talk to non Muslim, Africans, South Americans. No problem. We can talk to people who have some sort of genuine civilizational grounding, even if their civilizational grounding is in Kufr. Even if it's radically different from ours.

We have no issues with that. We have no issues with them, and they have no issues with us. Because no one else is endlessly insisting upon their supremacy, and not everyone else is is in complete delusional denial about their own faults. I mean, again, are so many, many ways that this comes out. It never doesn't come out.

This contrived civilizational self validation that you do all the time, continuously. You can literally look at any issue that you like, and you'll be able to see their trickery. You'll be able to see the trickery, you'll be able to see the manipulation, you'll be able to see the dishonesty. Once you look for it I mean, I know I've talked about this many many times, but they do it so continuously, so nonstop that it never really ceases to be something that's necessary to point out even though it gets tiring. Because that's part of it.

That's one of the tactics to try to tire you out. Like I said, this the the the constant repetition as a method for truth creation. And so it's an endless onslaught, and it can become difficult to to uphold reality, to uphold your own proper frameworks without being completely overwhelmed, by the flood of their dishonesty, and you might, even, involuntarily make the mistake of falling into legitimizing their frameworks, their false version of reality. So you have to be constantly vigilant. That's what I mean.

It's exhausting.