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Middle Nation Content Talks: Western Misconceptions About The West

Middle Nation · 13 Oct 2024 · 103:08 · YouTube

Assalamu alaikum. Assalamu alaikum, everyone. Welcome welcome to another session, Another session of our content talks. Yeah. This content talk today, inshallah, will be about the video that brother Shahid did, like, four days ago.

Maybe he did it earlier. Right? But it was published, like, four days ago, and it was titled Western Misconceptions About the West. And in the video, brother Shade specifically focused on in the first part, right, he spoke about this interview, then he tried to address, right, the role of women, the misconceptions that are related to the role of women in the West, the perception of women in the West, their role or how they view their role. Right?

The freedom that are associated, what is the understanding of freedom in relation to women's rights, in relation to how they portray themselves into society, how they should portray themselves, the freedom of violence, the freedom of regulation, right, the freedom of, you know, economic superiority, all these illusions, all these misconceptions. So I don't wanna go too much into detail now because, you know, I'll let the video speak for itself. But, after we listen to it, we will try to address the specific parts of it and try to expand on them, just as we usually do. So without further further delay, I'm gonna now play the video. So I'll play it at 1.2 speed.

I'm sorry, you know, but just because it's, nineteen minutes so that we can spend more time talking and discussing it, inshallah. So I don't think it will be too fast for you, inshallah, we'll see.

I was invited recently to participate in the panel discussion about Western misconcepts about Islam. I was probably disinvited because apparently, I'm controversial. I did hesitate actually to accept the invitation in the first place because I I told the host that I'm not I'm not strictly speaking a religious speaker. He had a number of values and comparative religion debaters who were gonna be on the panel, and I figured they would be sufficient for their discussion. But, anyway, I did accept the invitation, the momentary invitation, because, frankly, I wanted to redirect the whole inquiry.

Because in my opinion, this whole proposition is misguided. I don't see any point in correcting Western misconceptions about Islam generally when, in fact, their misconceptions about their own so called civilization are much more debilitating for them. I think that's much more serious. If you can correct these misconceptions, then I think Islam can pretty well speak for itself. And the whole idea of explaining Islam to these people while they are living in a state of abject confusion and abject ignorance about their own society, well, it just doesn't make sense to me.

In fact, I think it just contributes to their delusions about the West because it presupposes that they are in some sort of a position to judge another civilization, another another belief system. And we're supposed to explain to them in a way that will align with their completely inaccurate understanding of who they are and what kind of a society they live in and what kind of a subcultural civilization they come from. Like, for example, we're supposed to convince them that Islam respects women's rights as if they respect women's rights. We're supposed to assure them that Islam does not oppose liberty as if their society does not oppose liberty. We're supposed to tell them that Islam is not violent when they are the most violent civilization that has ever plagued this Earth.

So it's always seemed to me that step one is getting Westerners to actually understand what the West is and what it isn't. I don't think you should ever take an approach to them that affirms their delusions in any way whatsoever. I mean, how are you gonna how are you gonna get someone to understand the truth about your civilization when they are completely immersed in falsehood about their own so called civilization? Like, I'm supposed to convince you about the moral rectitude of Islam while you are the least moral so called civilization in history? No.

You need to know yourselves. You can talk to each other about women's rights, but you can't say anything about that to anyone in the global South when you talk about respecting women. Whereas like Diddy talking to his mother or something, you know, talking to someone who doesn't know that man, who doesn't know what he does, who doesn't know how he behaves, and who just thinks the best of him. No. The global South knows what you did and they know what you do.

You wouldn't get to know the BTK killer by talking to his wife and family or his coworkers or the people at his church. I mean, they'll tell you how wonderful and mild man he is, how decent he is, how respectful he is. No. You need to talk to the people who he tortured. You need to talk to the victims who survived his attacks.

That's how you'll know what kind of a man he is. If you wanna know how the how how much the West respects women and how much they believe in human rights and dignity and so on, then you need to talk to their victims and see if they agree with their propaganda. Did you believe in equality in women's rights when you were raping Congolese women in public, When you were committing mass rapes in Algeria as counterinsurgency tactics? You know? Did you believe in women's freedom and equality?

When you locked women in Namibia in concentration camps and raped them en masse? When you basically decriminalize raping African women because you thought they weren't actually even human. When you rape Angolan women in refugee camps or forced Indonesian women into sexual slavery or committed widespread and entirely routine and approved of sexual violence across Vietnam, across Cambodia, Laos, and so on, and in Burma. What was that? Feminism?

And when you raped Filipinos en masse, writ large, where were your sophisticated values then? And I'm not talking about ancient history. Yes. You did it in colonial times, and you've kept doing it ever since. You never stopped enslaving women, raping women, murdering women in the global South.

You never stopped doing that. You were doing it in Iraq. You were doing it in Afghanistan and in Haiti and in Bosnia and in Syria. Yes. In fact, when you all calculate your rape statistics, as bad as they are, the way you calculate them, you fail to include all of the rapes that you commit overseas.

When you put together how many of your own women get raped and assaulted in your own country, you should actually add to that all of the women that you rape and assault in other countries. You know, you talk about immigrants coming to the West and being criminals, but you never sent anyone but criminals to the global South. All your Western enlightenment colonizers, all your praise the lord and pass the ammunition missionaries, all your god bless America soldiers, all your degenerate businessmen, your so called best and brightest that you sent over to our countries, who came to our countries to civilize us and Christianize us, to save our women from oppression and misogyny and our backward ways and our backwards cultures. You only sent over rapists and torturers and murderers. That's who you sent over to civilize us.

Well, I don't know how you can even have the gall to pretend that you ever cared about women's rights when all that you ever showed us in terms of women's rights is that you think you have a right to our women. And that's not even mentioning the misery of the woman over there in the West, why you raised her from childhood to be an object, just a decoration to be enjoyed by all and sundry. You teach her to conform to the ever more degrading show societal standards, to wear revealing clothing, to be a sex object, to be eye candy. And then you have the audacity to claim that you believe in women's rights and equality. I mean, even your your female Olympic athletes, with the best of what they do, you require them to dress like pole dancers in their competitions.

And all you do is argue them, look at them, gawk at them instead of appreciate their discipline and hard work and training and skills. You know, you created OnlyFans and taught your women that what you truly value is degeneracy. You know, she could go to school. She could get degrees. She could become a doctor.

She could become a lawyer. She could she could become an engineer or a CEO, but she'll never get rich faster than if she gets naked on camera and defiles herself for strangers. That's what your society rewards women for. You know, a stripper can make more money than an executive. You're teaching them what you want them to do, what you want them to be because your whole system denotes value exclusively in terms of pay packages.

So you are implanting in women's minds and imposing on women's psyches that this this type of behavior is what makes them valuable in your society. You know, more than half of the women in your society, more than half, feel pressured into performing abnormal sexual acts that they're not comfortable with just because their partners have worked their brains on pornography. So now they expect their wives and their girlfriends to act like porn stars. Meanwhile, most of those porn stars out of their minds on drugs and numb from childhood trauma. But you want normal women to act like that.

And no matter if they don't, eighty seven percent of college age women report being compelled to do these types of abnormal things sexually that they don't want to do because of your great feminist society. Girls as young as 13 say that they feel pressured to try to look and behave just like women in pornographic videos. 13. And because you dismiss the necessity of marriage, promiscuity has become normalized in your culture, making women feel compelled to become sexually intimate much earlier than they're comfortable doing. And they may just feel like something's wrong with them if they don't do it.

And then you gaslight them into thinking that this is freedom. You gaslight them into thinking that this is women's liberation. You're psychologically abusing the women in your society on every level. Sixty nine percent of girls in the fifth to twelfth grades report that magazine pictures influence their idea of what they're supposed to look like. Forty five percent of women report feeling pressure to try to achieve a certain body shape or a certain size.

And one in five women report that because of this, they experience body dysmorphic disorder where they think that there's something wrong with how they look. They think there's something wrong with how Allah's automata if they don't look like a supermodel in some magazine or look like a porn star in some video. You know, you claim to believe in women's equality, but the data shows that women in your society are still objectified and still marginalized. Sixty percent of women report feeling pressure to try to dress in a way that is socially considered to be attractive or sexually attractive by societal standards, which just means showing men more of their bodies, exposing more of themselves to men. Forty five percent of women report feeling that they need to show more skin and show more skin that they're comfortable showing in order to be considered attractive in your society.

Look at what you're doing to women. The media perpetuates this culture of objectification with women being depicted in revealing clothing in 70 of advertisements. Now women are exposed on average to 5,000 advertisements per day, And 70% of those advertisements feature women in revealing clothing, meaning you are constantly messaging to women that they have to be as undressed as possible if they wanna be socially acceptable. That's your society. So, of course, your women are suffering.

They're suffering from psychological consequences. The psychological consequences of these types of pressure, this type of gaslighting and manipulation. At least one in five women report experiencing anxiety or depression due to the pressure that they feel to wear revealing clothing that they don't want to wear. And they're obviously more likely to develop dissatisfaction and low self esteem about themselves and how they look. And you pressure them into looking and acting like porn stars.

Pressure them to have sex before they're ready, and pressure them to do things in the bedroom that they don't want to do. Not to mention the real physiological detrimental repercussions and the ramifications and the consequences of promiscuity on a woman mentally and emotionally and physically. That's why your women are the most depressed, the most neurotic, the most medicated, why they have the most anxiety, the most stress, the most mental and psychological illnesses because they live in the most woman hating society in the world. And you still have the nerve to expect us to assure you that we care about women. Everything about your civilization declares your utter content for women.

I'm telling you, you don't know who you are. You don't know what you are. You don't know what kind of a society you live in. You live in a world of lies. Forget about trying to correct your misconceptions about Islam.

You have nothing but misconceptions about your own so called civilization. It's not a civilization. It's a hallucination, and it's absolutely comical. The extent of your lack of self awareness about your own culture, about your own society. You know, when I lived in The Middle East, I had Americans back home worried from my safety because they thought that every place in the Arab world was nonstop bombs going off, violence and bloodshed all the time.

Meanwhile, you've had over 650 mass shootings in America just last year. Not to mention the fact that most of the bombs going off in The Middle East are American bombs being dropped from American war planes. Whatever violence we have in the Muslim world, you brought to the Muslim world. America's number one export is violence. Of fact, it's one the only things that you still manufacture over there.

It's one of the only things you still excel at better than anyone else. Is Islam a religion of peace? You must be joking. You've dropped 500,000 bombs on us in just the last twenty five years and killed over a million Muslims in just the last twenty five years. That's not even including the current genocide in Gaza that you're committing.

Again, this is like the BTK killer wanting someone to assure him that they don't subscribe to violence. What are you even talking about? Your whole society, your whole so called civilization is violently extremist, more than anyone else has ever been. You'd like to threaten your enemies with bombing them back to the stone age without it ever registering in your mind that this is a stone age mentality. The only difference between you and a caveman is that you have gadgets, but you're the land of the free.

Right? Islam is so strict. It's so rigid. You know? Muslims don't have any freedom.

Meanwhile, America has more laws and more regulations than any country on Earth. You have more laws and more regulations than Saudi Arabia, more than Afghanistan, more than any Muslim country. You can't even remodel your kitchen in America if you're a homeowner, which you probably aren't. But if you are a homeowner and you have a kitchen and you wanna remodel your kitchen, you can't even do that without a permit. You have to get a permit to remodel your own kitchen.

The government decides what food you can eat, what food you're allowed to eat, what food is legal for you to eat. Meanwhile, they allow genetically modified foods, fake foods, foods with all sorts of additives and chemicals and what have you. And a a a farmer, you know, who grows food on his own land, he's not even allowed to sell food to you right from his land, right from his farm, right out of his crops fresh without FDA approval. Even needs government approval to give you an apple from a tree. Your government even decides how hot your shower is allowed to be.

It's absurd. But, of course, you'll defend all of those laws. You'll defend all of those laws because you'll say they're there to protect you. Okay. If you say so.

But you don't have a choice, do you? You don't have the freedom to not follow those rules, do you? We have a comparatively miniscule set of laws, most of which are self imposed with no external monitoring, no external enforcement. We follow them by our own conscience. But what you mean by how strict and how rigid we are, what you're talking about is basically all the sins and the debauchery that your government does allow.

So that's actually the freedom that you're talking about. You're talking about the freedom to be uncivilized, the freedom to be primitive, the freedom to be hedonistic. And that's what makes you, in your mind, more civilized than us. The freedom to be uncivilized. You think that makes you more civilized, and somehow that makes sense to you.

I'm telling you, your society, your so called civilization is playing you for a fool. They're even fooling you about your own prosperity. I mean, take The United States, the richest country in the world. Right? But just look at different states in America.

Take a state inside of America, any of the 50 states, and look at it as if it was a country. Look at its GDP. Look at its standard of living. Look at its quality of life. Look at its infrastructure and so on.

Say if you took Mississippi. If Mississippi was a country or Idaho or Montana or New Mexico or Kentucky. If those states, those American states, if those were countries, well, they'd be equivalent economies. Economically, they'd be equivalent to an Argentina or to a Columbia or to Thailand. They'll be low to middle income countries.

Those American states, there'll be low to middle income countries. That's the reality of your life. Most Americans live in conditions. They live in economies within their state that are exactly the same as countries that you would regard as third world countries, as developing countries. That's how you're living in real life.

I know that you're among the the so called coastal elites. Your state is basically a third world country. And even in those coastal elite states, you know perfectly well that there are cities and neighborhoods inside of those elite states, those rich states. There are cities and neighborhoods that are just as poor as any poor city in the global South. But they've got you thinking that you're better off than people in the developing world.

They've got you thinking that you're better off than people in the global South. While most of the states in America were countries, they'd probably be trying to join breaks. And the same goes with The UK. If you're not living in London, if you're in, say, the North Of England, it's the same. It's a third world.

You're in the third world. If you're in in the North Of England, you're in the third world. You're in a developing country. You are deeply and comprehensively misled about your society. And you still expect Muslims to answer you about anything?

You're standing there butt naked in a cowboy hat telling us that our suit is out of fashion. No. There's no point in trying to make you understand us when you don't even remotely understand yourselves. The whole world has been indulging you, has been indulging the West, and what they want to believe about themselves have been indulging you for far too long. It's time for you to start justifying yourself to us.

We're not gonna pretend that you're in any sort of a position to demand us to justify ourselves to you when the reality is that no one is and no one has ever been as violent, as oppressive, as misogynistic, as restrictive, and as opposed to liberty and to human dignity as western so called civilization.

Okay. So So, you know, misconceptions. Right? That should be the summary of this whole video. The whole western civilization is built on misconception.

Right? Like, you know, the West, it often, like, portrays itself, right, as this sort of moral compass on the global stage. Right? It projects itself as the height of democracy, of free speech, of human rights, of equality, of freedom, of, you know, of all of these ideals. Right?

And then it tries to export these ideals to the rest of the world. Right? And it portrays them as sort of universal truth one can say. Right? And this is basically if we try to, you know, translate it into objective language, that's basically western supremacy.

Right? They like, I remember in one video, brother Shahid, like, gave the example that they even named it, like, universal declaration of human rights. Right? That they decided that it's universal. Right?

They believe that they have the right to do that. Right? And then they hold the other cultures of other countries, other societies. They hold them accountable to these, you know, self established standards. But what happens when we try to critically somehow examine this perception?

Right? When we try to uncover the fallacies that they might have. Yeah? The reality is that the Western world is submerged in these misconceptions. Right?

It's submerged in misconceptions about its own identity, about its values, about morality, and everything that was spoken about in the video. Right? And brother Shahid usually in different videos, he mentions that the basis of all of this is that they cannot assign value. Right? The West does not know how to assign value to things, to people, to anything, basically.

And even their own values that they hold so dear, right, this freedom and democracy and equality. You know, there was this video. Right? I think it was the video about Western supremacy, but like, Islamic supremacy versus western supremacy. Right?

But, you know, basically, you can see that whenever times get a bit tough, they just throw these values below the bus under the bus. Right? You know, whenever there are too many opinions that do not confirm with the mainstream, they label it as misinformation. They label it as propaganda. When there are protests, they start banning protests.

Right? It's incoherent. Like, you know, even in their civilization, there is no agreement about what's right, what's wrong. They're this is a failed society. Right?

This is a failure of a civilization. Right? It's a civilization of misconceptions. And as brother Shahid mentioned in the video, you know, it's not a civilization. It's a hallucination.

Right? They have misconceptions about belief systems. They have misconceptions about the values. They have misconceptions about morality, misconceptions about women, about democracy, about violence, about free speech, about race, about, you know, capitalism, liberalism, economics. Every think single thing that you can think of is a misconception.

Yeah. They presented it some way, but when you try to uncover the reality, try to look at it objectively, you will see that they never cared for these values that they, you know, say they care so much about. So it's like, one can say that it's hypocritical. Right? And there is an extreme lack of self awareness for the West.

You know? Like, they keep on mentioning this liberty. Right? This freedom. And this is at the same time while they're, you know, like, overseeing the most complex and most oppressive system of control for from, like, these corporate driven policies that do not care about the workers.

They not do not care about the population. They have institutionalized violence, right, as we will speak about. So, Inshallah, in today's talk, we will try to delve deep into how, you know, the West misrepresents its own civilization. We'll try to uncover all of these mentioned delusions and expose the contradictions, basically, right, that are at the heart of the Western society and how it portrays itself. Like, just think about it.

Right? How can a society that claims to stand for free speech? They just suppress voices, you know, whenever someone challenges it, you know, hegemony. Yeah. It breaches racial equality, but there is systemic racism in every part of the society.

They try to say that they are liberating women. They're giving them freedoms while they objectify them and exploit them every day in every aspect of their lives. But at the beginning of the video, right, brother Shahid mentioned that he should have been in an interview, that he should have been in part of, like, trying to correct from the Islamic narrative, but, you know, it was rejected. Right? In the end, he was, you know, somehow, due to some circumstances, not invited anymore.

So we will try to make up for this part inshallah and, you know, have a much better interview. Right? So we will not only try to expose this hypocrisy, but we will also try to illustrate because we have many sisters here from the Muslim world. So inshallah, you know, who better can say it than them. Right?

You know, there is no one else who can describe how it really is, you know, because we're not gonna be doing some mansplaining. Brother Avi, you know, mentioned this word. So, exactly, I will not speak for them. I'll let them speak for themselves, inshallah. Yeah.

You know, as I said, we will not just try to expose this hypocrisy, but we will try to show how Islam and Islamic values are and always will be superior to any other system. K? So before I shut up, inshallah, to give space to my, you know, great speakers, the video starts with the misconception about women. Alright? So we'll try to address that inshallah.

Okay? And then we will move forward to other types of misconceptions. And there will be, like, six different groups, maybe five of, you know, general misconceptions that they might have, yeah, about democracy, about capitalism, women's rights, violence, extremism, and so on. K? So my question to my beloved speakers will be this one.

Yeah. It's a bit longer question, but just to encompass different areas. Of course, you know, anyone can add whatever they feel like. So, you know, western societies, women are often portrayed that they are so liberated. Right?

They are so empowered. We have this gender equality that we are fighting for. Right? This is, you know, at the center of our western identity. Right?

But this same society, it's responsible for it it can be, like, said that this is a systemic exploitation. Right? This is a systemic objectification of women. Right? Commodification of women.

You know? And we can see this, right, basically in the normalization of pornography where we have these platforms like OnlyFans. Right? All of them basically, even the movies, the TV shows that we see nowadays. Right?

It really is just degrading women. Right? Stripping them of their dignity, of their humility, of and they call this freedom. Right? So I would like to ask, like, how can the West reconcile this in its head?

Right? You know, the like, their claim of championing women's rights, while there is overwhelming evidence of the psychological, emotional, physical, all kind of suffering that the women face, right, within the West. K? Also, brother Shahid, you know, in the video, he hinted at the media's role, right, how it perpetuates this objectifications through advertisements, through marketing, through entertainment. And just as I said, right, in these TV shows and movies and music, like, imagine the music videos.

Right? Like, WAP, right, and stuff like that. It's really crazy when you think about it. Right? And this you know, children are watching this.

Right? What effect does this have on children? What does it have on families? What does it have on society in general? Right?

Okay. So maybe just let's just try to tackle this part, and then inshallah, I will continue asking more questions to delve into it. So if anybody wants to take the mic, feel free. Raise your hand or, you know, type it here.

Assalamu alaikom, everybody. Thank you so much for coming today. So regards to, you know, the entertainment and not just entertainment in general, just anything. Anything. When it comes to degrading women, you know, everything said in this video is so spot on.

And we've we've we've normalized the term half naked, but these women are not even half naked anymore. They're naked. And that is so terrifying because as the years go by, it becomes even more and more and more, like they say, the shock factor. But it's only for women. It's not even for the men.

Men still get to, you know, most of the time cover the elders, but women are literally naked on stage in an advert 05:00 in the afternoon when a children are supposed to be, you know, at home or whatever watching people, whatever the case may be. Then you see this woman on a sports car in her bikini, whatever the case may be. So it is about degrading women. You know the the term of what what is it called? No.

Women's rights and and and and feminism. Sorry. I have no idea why that why I couldn't get to that word. But feminism is is it's a lie. Because, like I mentioned now, 05:00 in you know, your kids are watching, TV and an advert comes on a sports car and a woman in a bikini, but it's because you as a mother have to be traveling from work at that point in time.

So you are not even there to raise your own kids. And that is because you, you know, of economy or whatever the case may be, you can only have a two income household. You know, these are lies that they that they tell you and all ways that they manipulate the family structure so that it is that you need to succumb to the way that they want you to live. And that is a very scary thought and people are buying into it. It's it's become the norm where they believe, oh, well, it's it's our it's the the life that we need to be living right now because that's how it is.

And that is the main problem that we are not saying we shouldn't be doing it or stepping or stepping against it or that type of thing. And that is what we all should be saying is we need to go back to how it is meant to be where a woman is supposed to be raising her kids. A man is supposed to be the one that is providing and not be sucked into these ads about I must have that sports car. You know what I mean? So it it has a lot to do with programming as well.

Thank you.

No. Thank you, sister. Like, you know, but this contradiction. Right? You know, they claim that they are championing women's rights.

Right? But all of the evidence points to being not the case. Right? So I wanna, like, ask how do you think like, what is in their head? Right?

How they can claim these things when in reality, no one upholds these things? Right? Like, what is this psychological state that they're in that they're able to say, yeah. You know, women's rights, and we are fighting for it. But wherever you go, women are being oppressed, being objectified.

They're just, you know like, it's crazy, right, in the workplace, in the street, in the marketing, in the advertisement, everywhere, women are just being used as an object. Right? If, you know and even, like, this was seen very much, right, when they bent the for example, in France. Right? Basically and they say that the, you know, makes the women invisible in a society.

Right? Like, basically, when, you know, you don't show your legs or you don't show your breasts, you are invisible for them. Right? Whenever you hide yourself from the eyes of you know, from the pleasure of my eyes, right, you start to be just invisible. Yeah.

That's, like, what they tell you. That's, you know, what actions speak louder than words.

Everyone. I hope that hear me because I'm literally traveling in a car. But so I'm only going to speak very briefly, and I just felt I had to say this. I live in The United States and have for sixty six years. And in this country, you must realize that the Valium and other mood altering, mood stabilizing drugs that are marketed primarily to women, it it's a billion dollar business.

So you must understand that it isn't that women with clear minds are accepting the objectification. They are drugged just to get through the day. I am not exaggerating at all. I have been in rooms full of women in which I was the only female who was not on a drug like Valium or some other relaxant prescription medication. I kid you not.

It it it's just considered normal. I am considered abnormal because I don't take any. And you cannot expect people who are on these kinds of mood altering drugs to have a clear thinking, or even clear choice. Their natural outrage has been tamped down by the fact that they need these drugs in order to go to work and make it through the day. We are indeed corporate slaves.

If you need to drug your workers, if you need to drug your mothers, if you need to drug your female politicians, something is terribly, terribly wrong. And Allah bless Usdin for speaking up on behalf of what is being done to us in the Western world.

Sister Wakida, thank you very much, especially you are in the center of it. Right? So we are very happy that you can share with us, you know, your experience, what you see, what you hear, what you ex like, what you live through. Right? So brother MG or sister Nisa, if you wanna go and add something, please.

Or brother MG and then sister Nisa. Sorry. Okay. Brother MG, he was waiting. So let him just add some points that he would like and then

sister Nisa. So I I will I will I will look at it from my own angle or and my own area of expertise. I mean, I agree with a lot of what sister Wahidah said. But again, at the at the end of the day, this is what I call the this isn't the cause. This is the effect of of of the of the current situation that western society is in.

You have to go back to the roots. And the roots here is again, we're talking here about the environmental factors, the social evolution factors that are involved. Just as we said before, we're talking here about the way the origins of of Western society is actually from, ancient Europe and even more specifically, not Mediterranean Europe particularly, but actually Nordic Europe. And, you know, when we're talking about Nordic Europe, we're talking about also a harsh climate, a harsh environment, also the way values were also the way the the the the religious values were were taught were a bit different than the rest of the world. A lot of it is a lot of these values are emphasized on survivability because of the harsh weather conditions.

And so the emphasis on a lot of societal norms that we find normal because we are Muslims, because we we come from particular parts of the globe where we grew up, is can be considered from their angle abnormal. It was only when Christianity came to the continent, and then even later, Islam came to the continent, that things started to be more, how you say, more disciplined within their society. But at the same time, if you go to pre pre Christian Europe, and particularly the Nordic part of Europe, it's at at that time, was very survival oriented. Also, culture of, how you say, nudity and not being modest, it was prevalent there. So this is not something that is, how you say, it's not something that is novel.

It's more amplified as a result of the hijacking of the the planet economically by the OCGFC who were more oriented towards the West. But it is not something unique. It is something that has existed, but it has been suppressed for quite some time. And, yeah, that's all what I can contribute with.

Shokra, Haribi. Sister Nisa, please go ahead.

I actually like that sister Wahida brought up the issue of, drugs. Obviously, that is, you know, the so called legal side of it, you know, Valium and all these mental health medications. But if you are not on those drugs, it's yes. Especially in America, you know, there's this culture of consuming or over consuming intoxicants like alcohol and and and illegal drugs. In fact, they have, I think it's called a needle exchange program where drug addicts can go and exchange their dirty needle for a clean needle because they need to be safe.

And, you know, the the fact of the matter is that they're not putting emphasis on solving the actual problem, which is drug addiction. That already says that they don't care about their people, that they don't care that these people are hurting themselves. So that is is is is is the the mentality with that is actually sick to think that they don't want their people to become healthy or happy or whatever the case may be. They want them in a state where they can control them and drugs is the first thing that allows you to control somebody.

Can you hear me? Yeah. I mean, the question was about if I recall, the question was about how how they're able to get people to believe this that they're, you know, for women's rights and women's liberation and so forth when the the data and the the observable reality is the complete opposite. I mean, this this isn't something new or unique with regards to women and the way they treat women. They lie about everything.

I mean, literally lie about everything. Everything that they say that they're doing, they're doing the opposite. You can look throughout any any aspect of Western society, especially American society. They call oligarchy democracy. They call war peacemaking.

They call oppression, liberation. You know, the way the power structure, views the domestic population in America, the way they view the domestic population isn't any different than the way they view, and the way they treat populations abroad. The way they view them and what they want from them, which is degradation, humiliation, exploitation, and subservience. This is what they want from people, from the population, whether it's populations in the global South or whether it's their own domestic population. This is what they want.

The methods and the tactics and the techniques might change, but the objective is the same. And so they they have to lie about what they're doing. They can't just say openly, we want to degrade women. We want women to objectify themselves. We want to maintain our primitive lifestyle that we've always had just like brother MG was saying, we want to maintain all of that.

No. They have to cloak their their subjugation of people, whether it's women or the rest of the population in one form or another. They have to cloak that policy of subjugation in the garb of liberation. And they have to cloak their dark age mentality, which has never been updated. They have to, cloak that dark age mentality, in the the the words and the ideas and the, terminology of the enlightenment.

This is what they do. They just gaslight their population all the time, and you have all of these factors that that have been mentioned, like with the drug abuse, whether it's illegal illicit drugs or legal drugs that are abused, or it's the drug of propaganda, it's the drug of indoctrination, it's the drug of, imposed cognitive dissonance on the population, It's the drug of, an incredibly poor, educational system that that, undermines the ability of people to think critically, and so on. So you you have a population that is in a permanent state of disorientation. And they need to be told, they need to be assured that everything is good. Everything is fine.

All of these things that we're doing to you and all of these things that we're making you do, you actually want, and it's actually good for you, and it's wonderful, and and and and beneficial, and enlightened, and civilized, and advanced, and what have you. And you're not supposed to ever look objectively at the at the real data and at the real situation, at the real world that you're living in. You have to be, you know, it's like it's like a Plato's cave, you know. They just they just project something on the wall and you think that that's what reality is because you can't bear to face the reality that you're actually living in.

SubhanAllah. Exactly. Sister Iman, I saw your hand up.

Yeah. Assalamu alaikum everyone. I wanted to agree with brother MG and brother Shahid on what they're saying because I wear the hijab. I'm I'm part of the global South, but I live in The UK. And I see this happening as a young woman.

I see this type of indoctrination not only reaching Western women, but also reaching women of color, women from the global South, women who are Muslims and everything. And I do believe that we can always link it back to absolutely everything, and it doesn't have to only be about women. Because when you see this type of indoctrination and propaganda, you realize that the biggest tool that the West uses is the manipulation of language and the manipulation through language. So like brother Shahid was talking about making you feel like you're free when you're not actually free and all this kind of stuff, what they do is they use antonyms the definitions of antonyms to tell you you're free or you're desirable or you're this or you're that. And I think the general idea is that hearing the same language all the time since you're a child will form an idea of what your life should look like as you grow up.

So I've seen a lot of I I've had quite a few hijabi friends who have taken off the hijab because they feel completely and utterly undesirable because the idea of being desirable in the West means to be unclothed, to show your hair, to show your beauty, and that's the only value that is assigned to you. And it's it's detrimental to Western society. Well, to society as a whole to the fact that women have no value in any way, shape, or form, but believe they do, but realize that the only way they can actually get this value is through taking off their clothes. Like what brother Shahid was saying in the video especially, he was saying the quickest way to make money is to go on OF, to go on OnlyFans. Right?

And so no matter how many times they say women in STEM, women have done this, you know, the the first person to create a commute computer was a woman. The end point is that well, the the end goal is always gonna be well, you're gonna have to objectify yourself first. To get this good job, you're gonna have to objectify yourself. And I think that's why women are indoctrinated to believe that they cannot be good. They cannot be valuable in any way, shape, or form unless they objectify themselves.

And that's why you see people doing it to themselves and no longer only listening to what people are telling them online. Oh, you have to do this new makeup trend, this new hair trend, this new outfit trend. People are starting to make their own saying, well, I wanna be the best out of these objectified women. I wanna be objectified even more than men because that's how they assign value to themselves now because of this deep seated indoctrination.

Sister. Yeah. Like yeah. I have nothing to add, to be honest, but brother MG, please, I see your hand raised. So

Yeah. I will also I will also like to add that, especially to what sister Rahman said is the reason also the way the the landscape when it comes to how women are presented and how women are how basically the general behavior of of of women in within society changes over time. A lot of it has to do with capitalism as well, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that we have a a a capitalistic system that makes the margins of doing others other activities that are not noble bigger than act than than activities that are noble definitely within the corporate sphere, but also outside the corporate sphere. And that has to do also with, the way the system has has, taken control of the media and emphasized and given attention to the masses on what they should be, focusing on. So instead of, for example, scientific innovation, engineering, the media has shifted that into more hedonistic activities.

So there's that. The second thing also is that a lot of it has to do also, with how, western media portrays, women. But also, I would say a big almost the the biggest the biggest the biggest as well, as much of responsibility is shared with what people call the Daoist fear or the the Muslim televangelists. The way they the way they they they they market Islam to the communities drives a lot of people inside the community away from it. The way and the method and and how they do it, unfortunately, it doesn't it doesn't bring people to Islam.

It does the exact opposite. So they share they share a very, very big responsibility on that, and that's all I have to say.

Yeah. And exactly. And this brings me to my next question, which is like, you know, how does Islam because you mentioned this and so on. You know, Islam gives us a balanced approach, you know, a balanced role for men and women. Right?

How does Islam provide a solution to this crisis of women's exploitation in the West?

Yeah. When we talk about American on a on a political level, we always say the words, usually their accusations are confessions. So they accuse Muslims of being oppressive to women at all time. And once again, the same applies here. I mean, Islam has had the Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has legislated women's rights via Islam nearly fifteen hundred years ago.

I mean, have the right to inherit. They have the right to vote. They have the right to choose their husband, the right to choose what to do for work. All these things were legislated in Islam. Women used to go to the battlefield and carry arms and help nursing.

And it's always been always been held in high regard and respected in Islam and all their rights in place. The very first instance of of any legislative rights in a so called western democracy, I think, was New Zealand in 1893. Women in America had to fight for the right to vote as early as the late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds. Once again, all their accusations are confessions that feminism didn't come out of our world. Feminism came out of the West.

Our women had been pleased. Our family unit has been held together. Our society has been cohesive and functioning, and women are very respected. If and they tried to export feminism to us. They tried to and instead, we're looking and we're seeing their woman turning to us and their woman putting the hijab on.

And look at what feminism has done. It's it's it's gotten once again, with the extreme mentality of Westerners, with the lack of self awareness, it's come full circle where it's created resentment between men and women. And now we've gone from feminism to Red Bill. So if they go and look at Islam, they actually have the grounds for everything their society needs to flourish. This is why we always give Islam as the medicine to everything wrong with Western society.

This is this is another example of you think something about yourself. You think something about your society because you've been fed a line. You've been fed a line of propaganda about how liberated and how wonderful your society is for women. It's such that you can't even look in the mirror. But let's look at the actual reality of the societies that we're talking about.

You know, in in, 2020, there was a report by the global entrepreneurship, monitor, which said that women in The United Arab Emirates, women in Qatar, women in Saudi Arabia have some of the highest rates, of entrepreneurship in the world. In The United Arab Emirates, in The UAE, women make up 42% of all entrepreneurs. Now you tell me about your place. You tell me about your society. Are are women 42% of all entrepreneurs?

In Qatar, they're about 40%. In Saudi Arabia, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship rates among women have, increased by 50% in just the last five years. In 2019, there was a report by the, Boston Consulting Group that found that women in The Middle East, the oppressed Middle East, and the oppressed North Africa control an estimated $1,000,000,000,000 in wealth. With women in in The UAE, in Saudi Arabia, and in Egypt holding significant of, a proportion of those assets. Women in in in The UAE have an average of 30 they hold an average of 30% of the country's wealth.

What about your society? Women in The UAE, the oppressive Arab world hold 30% of the country's wealth and the country's wealth is substantial. In, Saudi Arabia, the most oppressive country in the world against women. Right? They hold an average of 20% of all the wealth in that country, which is substantial amount of wealth.

Now in your countries, like in The United States, the top one percent control 70% of the wealth, And that's all men, almost almost exclusively men, in the top 1% or the top point 1% that control 70% of the wealth. You tell me about your society before you talk about ours.

Yeah. This just reminded me, you know, the video title. Right? They hate women. They truly do.

Alright? Sister Selma, I saw your hand up. Please, if you can just unmute and speak whatever you wish.

Yeah. I mean, like, there's a few, you know, things that I would like to add. It's, like, scattered as always with me. Like like like Shayed mentioned, you know, like, they can't even look at themselves in the mirror and and talk about who they've had as, you know, female heads of state, you know, when I mean, this this this the the first PM, prime minister female prime minister of the world who's I'm sorry. The female prime minister of the world is a Sri Lankan woman.

You know, Bandhara Nagy was the first world's first PM, minister. She was she was in 1916. Okay? The rest of the world have no issue with having their women take up leadership roles. It's just that the West has a certain projection and perception of their own women.

They have a they have a expectation and, you know, projection of women from their own, I don't know, misconstrued sick notion of women. And so if you don't if they don't recognize what they've always known about women, which is through the lens of hatred, then they can't recognize the virtues and values that that other societies attribute to women. Because it's they they just they're not capable of it. They're not capable of seeing it, you know. So it's just laughable for me as an Indian, Muslim, and, you know, someone who's been raised in the born and raised in the Far East.

It's hilarious when they talk about women's right. Like like with a clipboard, you know, going around judging everybody else except themselves. Like, they have the the the benchmark and and ideal pristine condition for women, and it's anything but. You know? And what about the fact that, like, women actually have agency?

They want to do what they want to do. They they don't recognize that, you know? Like like, okay, in the West. Right? Like, we have women, you know, you say, okay, you say how the the men oppress us. Right?

You say men don't keep us in the homes and they don't take us to, you know, they don't let us do what we want. So okay, we have women in the West and you are free, right? Okay, fine. We go to school, We study.

We get our qualifications. We get our degrees. And we also happen all of that has not diminished our religiosity. We still wear our hijabs. We still remain Muslim.

You know, we are in your western societies. We have retained our identities, and then you come and tell me that now I can't work because I have hijab. So who's keeping me in the home? Our men? That's really truly tremendous.

It's it's incredibly mind boggling to me. You know? Like in France, if you you you have a policy, I think France or Europe, you know, please correct me, you know, whoever who's more familiar with it. Like, if you wear hijab, you will not be hired even though you're qualified. You know?

It's just startling. You know? Just look at yourselves. Basically, really, the West they every Westerner has to look at look at themselves. And then for the for that person who's commented in the in the comment section here about, you know, Saudi women and and, you know, again, women in The Middle East not having had leadership roles or whatever.

I mean, your present form of feminism, you've you've seen all these waves of feminism. Your present form of feminism requires you to treat women like delicate flowers because you there's some something in the comment section about guardianship, you know. You're literally talking about women in that manner now, like the delicate flowers that need to be taken care of, you know, like the the every little thing must be, you know, carefully measured when in the way you talk to women or treat women in the West to the point where you can't even comment about, you know, basic things like, you know, if a woman looks like she, hey, you look pretty today, that's harassment now.

It's really ridiculous. No one has to answer you about anything because you don't even understand who you are and what your society is, and really how what a what a miserable state your society is in with regards to normal rights. I mean, you lie about like I said, you lie about everything, and you lie about everyone especially who's better than you, and who does all of the things that you claim about yourselves, who do all of those things better than you. Because they they come from a a a real foundation of belief, a real foundation of a genuine regard for rights, a genuine regard for human dignity. So we've been doing it better than you literally for centuries, and you just took a few pages out of our book, a few pages out of our civilization and tried to apply it to yourselves without reading the whole book, without taking the whole thing.

So you're doing it wrong, and you're never able to do it properly. So all you do is lie about everyone else. I mean, and again, it's not just unique to women, you're doing it for everybody. The same with the same with say African Americans. You pretend like they never did anything in your country.

Well, you wouldn't even have air conditioning in your country if it wasn't for African Americans. That was invented by an African American. Helicopters invented by by African Americans, but you lie about everything. You don't you don't wanna believe that any of the people that you're oppressing do things better than you and are actually more civilized than you. But the fact of the matter is that the very fact that you are oppressing them is in and of itself the proof that the people you're oppressing are better than you because they're not the oppressors.

Absolutely. And I just wanted to add on to that. You said that really perfectly, both of you. I do wanna add on to that the fact that a lot of Westerners associate Islam with being uneducated, which is literally a contradiction in and of itself since the first university was created by a Muslim woman in North Africa. So it doesn't make any sense for people to say that.

And not only this, is you find more educated people in the Muslim world than you do in The United States Of America. I mean, they have what? A seventy seventy eight percent literacy rate in America, which means people who can read. Right? 78%.

And then you have about 20% of people who can't even read. And then when it be when you go to Palestine who've been in an absolute, you know, terrible place right now this entire time for the last, I would say, eighty, ninety years, they have, like, a 99% literacy rate. So just talking about education in and of itself, not just for women. In Islam, education is really, really important. And the first word in the Quran was iqra.

Right? Read, study, learn, gain knowledge. Knowledge is really, really important in Islam. And the reason why I bring this up is because when there was this big uproar in what was going on in Iran, Everyone in the world was like, oh my god. Everyone should take off their hijab in solidarity.

And I wear the hijab like I mentioned earlier, and I was in my education center. And I was told to take off my hijab in solidarity with Iran, and people were telling me that I'm oppressed when they're the ones who are quite literally being violent towards me. The only time I'm ever the only time I'm ever oppressed by this is by the western people. So they feel threatened that I I don't allow them to tell me what to do with regards to my own body. I don't allow them to assign a value to me.

Just like you said, they don't know how to assign value. I don't allow them to assign that value to me, And they see that as a threat because I'm not conforming to this ideology that they have about what a society should look like because essentially, telling women what to do and how to do it and how to live their lives in the way that they do it in this sort of oppression of women that they have, which they disguise as freedom is quite literally the what I'm doing by not conforming to that is I'm not under their control anymore, and that is what is threatening to them. Islam actually provided me and all the Muslims with a framework that respects my own dignity and protected me from all this type of exploitation that we're seeing in this society. And so I I wear the hijab for many different reasons as a representation for Islam, as a modesty for modesty and everything. And we're valued as Muslim women.

And the reason why I wanna bring it back to education is because as Muslim women, we are valued for our intellect, for our for for our brains, for our character, for our piety rather than just our physical appearance. And that is what they find to be very threatening in the West because I choose to cover myself. I don't do whatever they want me to do, and this I see for myself is a rejection of their narrative and a rejection of their idea of liberation, which is quite literally a paradox in and of itself. Because I'm rejecting rejecting the idea of liberation, they want to oppress me even more, meaning that this liberation is in fact not liberation. It is quite literally control, and that's how and that's what it has always been.

So the West always sees what we do as Muslim women to be a a very, very threatening thing, especially now that they're seeing that women are joining Islam at twice the rate that men are joining Islam. So, essentially, they're the the western rulers, the leaders, the ones who create these concepts, these falsified concepts of liberation and freedom, they're afraid that their own women will realize that Islam actually liberated us through many, many different ways and allowed us to be our own people without assigning our value to our private areas that everyone else seems to be want to show seems to want to show to the entire world. So we, as Muslim women, when we wear the hijab I wanna I wanna tell all the Muslim women out there, when we wear the hijab, we are making Western women question their own self objectification, and I've seen this in real in real real time. I've seen this in real life when Western women would ask me questions about this. Oh, but I feel insecure.

I feel insecure unless I show myself in a really in a really extravagant way, and I look amazing, and I'm and I look like this and that. And that is the problem with these western rulers because they realize that western women are actually realizing and beginning to understand that Islam will free them rather than the western ideological western ideological agendas against the freedom of women. So women are converting to Islam twice as much as men. And so that is essentially what they're fearing in in in the West. And so, essentially, they believe we are oppressed just because they were told that we're oppressed.

But once they realize that that is not true, once they dig in, they're realizing that, no, they are in fact the ones who are oppressed by these heinous ideologies that assign value to their sexuality and nothing more than that.

I would also like to just just add something here. It's something that I have mentioned before, but I just I I feel like I wanna remind everyone about this. That some of the some of the the the the highest population, highest percentage of the population with university degrees, higher degrees, master's degrees, PhDs, The one of the highest percentages of populations in the world that has those, that has that higher education is in Gaza. Palestinians, are incredibly serious about education and that includes women. 25% of PhD holders in Gaza are women.

They have 25 of the degrees and you're bombing them and you're murdering them. You're decimating them. You're committing a genocide against PhD holders. You're committing a genocide against certified genius population. Population of people that are absolute geniuses.

I see, this, war criminal, David something, who served he's proudly saying that he served in Vietnam, and served The US, criminal terrorist forces around the world, and he's proud of that fact, and he's laughing. And that shows you what kind of person that is, and what kind of a society that is, and what kind of a so called civilization that they come from. That they're that they're mercenary criminals who terrorize the whole planet, and who's laughing now about his country being responsible for a genocide in Gaza killing some of the smartest people in the world. And he finds that funny. You're killing people that you you want your people to believe don't exist, which is educated Muslim women.

You're murdering them on mass. You're murdering them writ large. And and at the same time denying and telling your own people that educated Muslim women don't exist. And now you're trying to make sure that they don't exist. You're trying to make sure that that, educated Muslim women, women with high degrees, women with, master's degrees, university degrees, PhD degrees, get bombs dropped on them.

That's what we get. That's that's the difference between your civilization and our civilization. We actually educate women and you murder educated women.

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your brother name, please? Hello, Mohammed. Happy to have you here. You know, we haven't heard from you for a long time, so welcome back.

Yeah. Great great to be back. Can you hear me well? I'm just trying to You know, like, Muslims follow what we believe is ultimate truth. Okay?

So we follow the commands of God. Whether Westerners agree with our worldview or not, that's irrelevant. You see? That's our belief. That's our law.

And, you know, in Emmanuel was speaking earlier about her decision to wear the hijab in in the West. That's not because, you know, her father or her brother made her do it. It's because of her conviction in the law of God. Okay? Conversely, on the other hand, you have in the West the the worship of science.

So your society tells you that scientific research determines the best laws, the best policies for social cohesion. So your societies, they tell you, progress the more the so called science progresses. Okay? And they conduct these research studies in prestigious universities using your taxpayers' money to fund them. Okay?

And they tell you they tell you what to believe and how to behave. They are the elite of the society. You see? You could compare them to religious clergy. You know?

They have the high pedestal from which they deliver truths. Now let me just give you a glimpse of what they say could be a solution to the problem of rape in the West. This is an article I found by and from it was cited in the Journal of Law and Economics from 2022. And title of the article is Do Prostitution Laws Affect Rape Rates Evidence from Europe, from your society? The finding of the article, the brilliant conclusion is that the more prostitution you have, the less rape you have.

That's the solution they have for you. Like, now I I ask you, you know, for the woman who is listening to this, would you be okay sending your daughter to be a prostitute just to benefit the society so other men don't rape her? I mean, this is what your society tells you. So you you need to have a deep talk with yourself, right, to question the premises of your society before you start throwing stones. Okay?

Before you start, you know, raging about the so called oppressive stand. Okay? You need to question the foundations of your society, where your truths come from, and what are the practical implications of such findings. That's all I wanted to add then. I don't want to, you know, take more of your space.

Thank you.

You're not taking any space, brother. You're just adding, you know, great contribution. Thank you very much, Sister Hadil, I saw you request your mic. So if you wanna add something or ask something or

Hello, everybody. I I'm really happy to be with you. And before I start, I want just to greet Shahid because I'm a really I respect him very much and I follow him for everything and I learn from every video he is publishing here on XOAR on YouTube. Well, allow me to allow me to comment on that for two reasons. First of all, but I just want to answer Salma because she talked about France.

I'm living in France since years, and that's true. The the woman the Muslim woman in France, I'm not going to say discriminate because it's a very, very dangerous word. But, yes, that's true. If you are qualified, if you have a lot of certificates, if you spend many years in education and working on yourself and you are wearing hijab, you cannot work wherever you want, and they're not going to choose you. That's as simple as that.

And I'm going there is another thing. I'm going to give an example. For example, if you go to the to to to to have a passport or an ID in France, the Muslim women are obliged to take off their hijab because they are saying it's a liability and this is the rules for everybody. Maybe this is this is true. There is a rule for for other religions, but when it it it is very clear that when it comes to Muslims, it's more than any other religions, especially Jews or Christians.

Now what I want to add, I always say something that the misconceptions in general when it's happening here in Europe, and allow me to speak about Europe because I'm living in Europe. I don't know how it is in United States. The people actually are misunderstanding between the difference between the religion and Islam itself and the traditions. So most of the time when I talk to people, I I when they have a misconception or they have something false about and they believe that it's about it's it's coming from Islam as a religion, I start to talk to them very slowly and I let's let's discuss it. Tell me what do you think, and I will tell you if it's come it comes from Islam or it comes from religious, from culture or traditions.

Because this is really serious. I'm not defending my my region because I'm coming from the Middle East. I'm Palestinian from Gaza Strip. I'm not defending them. I'm not saying that they are not doing a lot of things, which is wrong.

Again, let's talk about women against women. But in the same time, you will see that in our regions, women are so much respected if we're going to talk about the the idea from religion concept. So it is really important that when people when I find and I'm doing that personally and then I really wish everybody who's listening here, especially women, to do that, that you need to listen to the other person in front of you to understand where is the mis misconcept conception is coming from. Is it from his misunderstanding of our religion or his is is it mixed with the what is happening with the culture or the bad traditions which are come moving from years year to year. Because this is really very important, and I really believe that there is no other religion in the world, whatever if it's coming from God or for for whoever believes in because some people has their own gods.

I mean, nothing is like Islam. Islam just gave us, as women, all our rights. It gave us respect. It gave us everything we need to be powerful and to be respectful in this life. And if we can, as women, defend ourselves and we believe about this about that, we will deliver this message.

I'm living here in Europe, and I'm doing my best to represent the Muslim woman as much as I can. I'm not wearing a hijab, and then I always say that. Maybe I'm not wearing a hijab, but I know my religion very well. I wish one day that I would wear it because I believe it's something very important for me. And for for example, when I go I'm gonna give you a very simple example.

What happens once with me, with one of my friends, and they I I was successfully able to change their minds, and then we were in the plage. And as you know, the the burkini in France is forbidden. So I I didn't swim actually because I didn't just want to swim. And they told me, Hadi, why you don't you're not swimming here because you're not able to wear burkini? And I said, no.

Because I really respect my body, and then and I'm a Muslim woman. I'm not gonna uncover my body. So you just go enjoy your times and do not think about me. So they said, no. But maybe you're wrong.

Maybe it's it's just you you have just to wear it and you go to swim and there's no problem with that. And I said, yes. Okay. I respect that you don't have any problem to go and swim with your swimming with your in French. So and please, I would just want you to respect that I am not going to do it.

Let's just keep it like that. Don't judge me for what I'm doing. I'm not gonna judge you for what you're doing. And life is going very smoothly and everybody is respecting that. I don't judge people for what they do and I really request them all the time not to judge me for what I believe in and for my for the way I I think, especially as a Muslim woman.

And then I thank God that I didn't have any kind of problems until now. And wherever I go, I find respect and especially in my cycle. That's

all. Yeah.

That's all. And I I really respect you all, and thank you so much for giving me the chance to speak. And again, thank you so much, Akhisha Ahid, because, as I said, at the beginning, I truly respect all all your videos, especially the last one you just published. Thank you so much all.

It it's really part of their whole propaganda of their own population to demonize the Muslim world and to propagate this idea that Muslim women are oppressed. So it's very difficult for them to maintain that propaganda when you have hijabi Muslim women professionals, educated women in the public sphere who contradict this this propaganda. It's just observably. Everyone can see and interact with educated, professional, non oppressed Muslim women who wear the hijab. So you need to try to get them out of society because it it undermines your propaganda.

So in a very uncivilized country like France, this is their approach. You know, with regards to what you were saying about their their whether their impression about Islam is based on some tradition or whether it's based on an accurate understanding of Islam or what have you, My position is that it it it always comes across to me like this. When when we get comments, when Muslims get comments from Westerners, well, what do you say about this and that and the other? Or or in in the Muslim world, women are this, women are that. They're the Sharia is this and that and the other.

What you're asking me is answer us with regards to all of the things that we tell each other about you. Defend yourself now against the propaganda that we tell each other about you. All of the ignorance that we spew between ourselves about you. Now you have to answer all of that. No, don't.

I don't. You have to educate yourself. And and like I said in that video, and I still maintain that it's much more important actually, actually, in in my my opinion, opinion, it's it's much much more more important important that you try to develop an accurate understanding about your own societies and your own so called civilization because it is abysmal, And all of the things that you accuse others of, and we're not the only ones by the way. We're one of the main targets because we do in fact have a real civilization that can resolve many, if not most, if not all, of the problems that are plaguing this planet. But but we're not the only society, we're not the only belief system, we're not the only civilization that gets attacked by the West.

We're not the only ones that get told that we are backwards and that we are unadvanced and that we are primitive and so forth. We're not the only ones. You say that about everyone who you want to exploit. You say it about everyone that you dehumanize everyone that you want to exploit, everyone that you want to subjugate, everyone who's who who has stuff that you want. You have to demonize and dehumanize all of the peoples of the world who aren't you, but who have all of the things that you want.

So you have to understand this about your own society. You have to understand this about your own so called civilization. And as I said in the video, if you get an accurate understanding about how abysmal and how immoral and how amoral and how oppressive and how brutal and how primitive your actual society really is in real life, we don't have to do anything to convince you about Islam. It will speak for itself. And again, if you if you accept it or you don't accept it, this is entirely up to you.

I'm not a diary. I'm not trying to invite people to Islam. That's not what I do. But just as an as an objective analysis, Westerners have a completely inaccurate impression about their own so called civilization, about their own societies, about the the the countries that they live in. And then they tell each other lies about everyone else, and then they expect us to treat those lies as true, then we have to defend against those lies.

No. That that's not how it works. You're you're telling lies continuously about everyone else and about yourselves. So you're not in a position to level accusations against anyone, especially not against your own victims. And your own victims certainly don't have to defend themselves against your false allegations against us when when the the the truth is known to the majority of people in the world because the majority of people in the world are people who have suffered at your hands.

Thank you, brother Shahid. Brother Omar, I see your hand raised, so please just continue, you know. You don't have to wait for me to give you the go.

Alright. Thank you so much, brother Karim. It's always a pleasure to talk after brother Shahid. So I just wanted to say, I'm I'm not sure if it's been already said when many of the speakers were talking. It's it's completely normal for a Western civilization that thinks of itself as the best civilization on the planet to feel that when they see other people making accomplishments without fitting within their civilizational mold to feel like that, okay, so how how can they possibly do that?

That's not right. Of course, they have to be oppressed or something. They can't be just doing that out of pure intellect and out of pure high Islam values. So they would say, for example, that the Chinese are beating their children up to win the Olympics, not that the Chinese are actually training hard or something. And the same thing, I think, applies to women.

So when they see Muslim women, you know, making advancements in science and technology and all this and that, So it's very normal for Western women to think that Muslim women can possibly be achieving that on their own. So we're going to say that they're oppressed. We're going to say that they are doing that out of pure pressure. And we're also going to say that they are although they have have made those achievements, but they haven't, you know, exposed their bodies. So they're not yet yet fully successful.

They're not yet fully achieved. So it's I think it's pure jealousy, and and it's pure, you know, I'm I'm I'm just better for the for the single reason of being better, not not for anything else. And I also wanted to say that they they they fall into the illusion of of convincing themselves of that that they had chosen this path, the path of, you know, exposing their bodies to to make advancements or to make achievements because they've already paid so much for it. Right? So they they had to to to to do what stuff that they didn't want to do to begin with to reach the point where they became famous, where they made whatever the hell they made.

And so they know very well that people will look down on them if if people knew what what sort of sacrifices they had to make to be to to get there. Right? And so the people who forced them to make the sacrifices also know that. And so they keep keep using them. And they the the woman, I mean, will will will always have to say that it was by choice because if they if they say anything other than that, they they know that they will be ostracized and that they and the people will will, you know, will badmouth them and will slander them.

So I just wanted to add those thoughts. And thank you.

I also wanted to just go back to what brother Shahid was talking about, saying that people are not gonna accept French ideology of anti Islamic agenda if they see women who are educated in like high places within the country. And I'm not contradicting what you're saying. I'm just saying that it still works even if women are in educated places because The UK London itself has a 15% Muslim population and more than a 40% immigrant population. And yet, we still face Islamophobia in this country. Even I am literally in a higher education institute, and that's where I face my Islamophobia.

And so you can see how deep this indoctrination runs regardless of they literally see the truth with their eyes. They see me taking an education, learning, and telling me, well, actually, you are uneducated, and you are indoctrinated, and you are oppressed, this and that. So what France France does it better because they prove to you that women can't be Muslim and in the work and in the workforce because people don't actually see Muslim representation. That's why you see French hate over there. It's worse than the hate in The UK.

But even in The UK when they see us in these high places and everything, they are so blind to what they're seeing that they are looking us in our faces and telling us that we're oppressed and just, in turn, just oppressing us, which just makes it even worse. Sorry. I just really didn't get to that point. Thank you.

I I would like to add that when it comes to the West and when it comes to women and women's rights and, you know, not specific about the hijab. I mean, they are sick because this the transgenderism movement where they they they want to make it seem that there's equality in the workplace, but then they put men in a skirt in that position. I mean, France that has banned the hijab, I I I'm not exactly sure what gender their first lady or not first lady, whatever it is. You know, the rumors that are going around. There's always this constant confusion that they cause within themselves, within the world, And that is what the problem is with them is that nothing needs to or nothing is what it seems.

They they need to always add some, like I said, confusion, and this is what is causing all the chaos within the world. So yeah. Thank you. That's all I wanted to say about this whole situation.

Assalamu alaikum, everyone. So I with there was a comment saying, so are women much better off and happier in Islamic nations? Absolutely. That's not even a question at this point. I mean, as a Muslim woman who is a Palestinian American, I have been wearing hijab very early on and I chose to even before puberty because I felt like it protected me from especially men and, you know, to the way they looked at me did not make me comfortable.

So I grew up in The US and because I was a hijabi who it was it was like I I chose to wear hijab. I was attacked growing up multiple times in The US for wearing my hijab. In The in middle school, was attacked. In college, I was attacked. In grocery stores, it was insane.

And then the fact that you I mean, who's hostile now? Who's violent? Western ideologies are so backwards and twisted and they have and they still have the audacity to attack us and expect us to always defend ourselves. It's not happening. We're not defending ourselves.

You should be you should have some respect for our choices. I mean, it's shameful at this point, honestly speaking. So, yes, to answer you, Sam Bailey, and, you know, whoever commented, Yes. I've been living in The Middle East for fifteen years now and I will never ever go back to The US. It's they they disrespect women.

They, like, it's just it's impossible to live in. Honestly, the West and especially America is impossible to live in. So, yes, we are living a very happy life in in in The Middle East. But lay your hands off of our country so so we stay here. So we don't have to come to your countries because we really don't want to.

We have absolutely no interest in the West whatsoever. So I just wanted to Yeah.

Say

I really do agree with you sister Haya. And my point that I want to make right now is most people who talk about The Middle East and Islam being exploitative of women are people who have never experienced Islam, who have never been to The Middle East, who have never lived in The Middle East, have never lived in a Muslim community, who've never interacted with Muslim people. And those are the people who talk from an outside biased perspective that they've been the the perspective that has been drilled into their heads to believe that Islam is a religion of terror, and Islam is a religion that exploits women and. And the thing is, right, what I I saw a comment saying, I'm all for Palestine, freeing Palestine, but I can't listen to this nonsense as acting as if Muslim women aren't exploited in the Middle East. The highest levels of sex trafficking and human trafficking are in the West.

The highest levels of domestic violence are not in Muslim countries. They are not there. Because when you see people without a moral compass, which is what you get a lot of the times in secular countries, When you see people with no moral compass, that's where you see the highest levels of domestic violence. The highest levels of domestic violence in The UK, like I mentioned in London, 40% of the people in London are immigrants. Right?

The highest levels come from white English people in London. Highest levels of domestic violence, men who are alcoholics, who have no moral compass, beat their wives and children. That is not Islamic. Right? And if you do see men doing this to women in Islam, you know that that is not Islamic.

Why is it that whenever we see any of this kind of stuff, everyone always ends up blaming Islam instead of blaming the perpetrator of the crime? When we see what happens in The United States Of America, when we see the levels of murders and I'm sorry. I have to talk about this. I know we're talking about women, but I wanna talk about the murders and the incarceration rates and the murders by police's hands. All of that, everyone associates that with The United States Of America with the government of America because that is perpetrated by the government of America, and no one seems to think, oh, yeah.

America is terrible. As an American, your people are being killed. A 120 people are being killed just by gun violence every single day, and you're not saying, oh, America is a terrible country. Why do not do that? Because you are indoctrinated to believe that the enemy is someone who is not even an enemy.

Someone Islam, a a religion that teaches peace, a religion that teaches women to value themselves within their knowledge and value themselves within how much they know and how much they help society, helping society and helping those in need and helping your own family. That is a very, very cool part of Islam. And yet when we look at The United States Of America, you guys say, America is the greatest country in the world. America is the land of the free. America is the America is that.

No. No. No. We're looking at two different things. Right?

We're looking at Islam who isn't perpetrating the crimes against the people. It can be Muslims who are doing bad things. Right? But when we look at America, it is the government of America that's perpetrating these crimes. And yet, when we talk about Islam, Islam is a way to preach peace, a way to to make a good world, and then we look at The United States Of America and everyone's like, oh, yeah.

America is great in this and that. No. Right? You blame the person who was perpetrating the crime. In this instance, Islam is not doing anything wrong, but the United States government is doing something wrong.

And the United States government has been lying to you as we've we've established over the last two hours that we've been on here. The United States has been lying to you in every way, shape, and form, and they've been killing you and killing your people and doing all this kind of stuff, and yet you believe them. It's not just the United States government. It's the West as a whole that they create this idea that Islam is terrible even though they're the ones who are killing you. So perhaps don't listen to the people who are killing you, and listen to the people who have done nothing done nothing to make you believe that we're bad.

You're listening to propaganda and accepting it to be truth, and I I don't I genuinely don't understand how people can be so indoctrinated to believe something coming from the mouth of a liar. I'm sorry. Thank you.

No. I thought that I, by mistake, you know, increased the speed or something, but I don't think you can do that in spaces.

Thank you. I'm sorry, sir.

Sister. Ibrahim. I know you wanna say it also, you know, thank you very much. Brother Neo, I saw you have been waiting for quite some time. So

Yeah. Thank you for let letting me speak. Brother Shyid's a big fan. A big fan. So, like, I I see I see a lot of frustration here.

I'm I'm just gonna give you guys a quick backstory from me. I'm I'm from my parents are from Iran. They raised me to hate Islam. And now the last couple of years, I've done my own research and I've reverted two years ago. So long long story short, like, since since I was a child, like, all the movies, all the Muslims were evil.

All the all the propaganda I I even traveled to Iran. I was like, oh, the the these women are oppressed. Like, all their propaganda, I don't know if we can really blame blame the blame the Western people because, like, this this propaganda is so deeply rooted even like, I'm I'm gonna be honest. Even for me that I've been a river two years ago, even even now, it's subconsciously when I see women with hijabs, like, there is a percentage of me that still falls for the subconscious mind mind games and brainwashing that I think there are they are oppressed. I I am fighting that that brainwashing, but I don't know if we can really, like, be angry at the West because it's it's such a mind game.

This is this goes back, like, forty years. I don't know what what you guys' take is on that. Sorry for my bad. Horrible English, by the way.

Thank you, brother. This is what we are trying to disentangle. Right? It's all about this propaganda, how they are portraying themselves when the reality is completely different. Right?

This is what we are trying to show. We are trying to explain this hypocrisy. We are trying to, you know, hear it from our Muslim sisters, hear it from, you know, from the other side. Right? So even westerners can see what the reality is.

Right? Brother Shait, I see you have

Yeah. I I just wanted I just wanted to to sort of bring it back to what the the the main point was in the video, which is I'm not really concerned about trying to correct all of the lies that you tell about Islam and all of the lies that you tell about Muslims that say that we are bad and that Islam is bad. I'm more concerned, and it's much more damaging and much more dangerous, honestly, for Westerners, that you believe all of the lies that you tell yourselves about yourselves that you're good. That's much more dangerous and it's much more damaging because you have done some incredibly criminal, heinous, brutal, savage things all while telling yourselves how good you are, and how wonderful you are, and how peaceful you are, and how freedom loving you are. And and this is much more damaging and much more dangerous and much more harmful.

You have caused a tremendous amount of harm all around the world while convincing yourselves and convincing your own people about how good you are. So why would I expect or why would any Muslim expect that someone who lies about themself is gonna tell the truth about me? There's no reason why I would expect that. You have to get past all of these lies. You have to see through all of these lies about your own society, about your own so called civilization, about yourselves, and then maybe you will be qualified for me to talk to you about my civilization.

Maybe then you'll be on a on a level playing field with me where you and I can have a conversation about Islam and about Muslims and about all of the the misconceptions that you have about us that are the holdovers from all of the lies that you've been told about your own selves and about your own civilization. First, you have to get past that because there's no way, that you can listen objectively, that you can listen with any kind of, discernment, any kind of a judgment, with regards to Islam and with regards to Muslims, when you are so in the dark about your own civilization, so called, and your own society. So it's it's much more important. It's it's it's not even about, blaming them for their bad view of Islam. I couldn't care less about their bad view of Islam because they have a they they they make a bad propaganda about, like I said, a a demonizing, dehumanizing propaganda about everyone in the world who they want to oppress.

Everyone in Latin America is criminals and bad hombres. Everyone in so called Latin America are drug dealers and part of the cartels. Everyone in Africa is primitive and backwards and practicing voodoo or what have you. Everyone in China is a is just a a a robot bent on world domination. You have you you tell lies about everyone that you want to oppress, everyone that you want to exploit, everyone that you want to subjugate, and we're just one of those groups.

And all that is being empowered, all of that is being enabled by the fundamental lies that you tell about yourselves that you're virtuous and that you're advanced and that you're civilized when you are anything but. You're the most savage, the most brutal so called civilization that the world has ever seen, and you need to get past that. You need to understand this about yourselves. You're like a bull in a China shop, and you think that you're a gazelle out in the savannah. You're incredibly dangerous, and you need to understand something about yourselves before we even have to bother trying to tell you something about ourselves.

There's no way that you can even understand anything about a truly civilized culture, a truly civilized belief system, or any truly advanced and sophisticated civilization coming from the the the the mud pit that you live in?

Brother Omar, please, if you wanna speak up. I see your hand present.

Yeah. I'm not sure if I'm even supposed to talk after that, but I'll try to do my best. Actually, I think it's linked to what brother Shahid was talking about. Like, in order for the for the West to convince, you know, the rest of the world how good their civilization is, they had to oppress them. Like, they had to be extremely brutal to convince the rest of the world that they're better.

You know? I mean, you know, the removal of hijab in in the Islamic world or the in the Middle East, it wasn't even a a topic before colonization. Right? Muslims were sufficiently proud of their their modest wear and they were proud of their way of life. But, you know, they had to be colonized for, like, three centuries or two centuries.

Right, in order for their for the way they perceive themselves to be changed. But if they hadn't been colonized for so long, none of this would have happened. Meaning that, you know, the West's civilization isn't superior out of its own superiority to the to to to to to others. You you they have to force it. You know?

They have to kill people. They have to incarcerate people. They have to rape women en masse, they have to do everything in their disposal in order to shove it down other people's throats that their civilization is better. And as soon as they left, you know, it took on here about, what, thirty, forty years. So a generation or two tops for everyone to realize that Western civilization is is is a disease.

It's not something that you should be wearing and you should be proud of at all. And that's why many countries that were, you know, colonized either reverted back to their Muslim roots if they were Muslim countries or reverted back to their Confucius roots or whatever they believed in before colonization. Because they deemed Western civilization to be inappropriate for their way of life. So that's, I think, the point I'm trying to make. They had to force it upon people.

But unlike, you know, Islamic civilization, which hadn't had to be forced upon people. People loved it because it was simply a better way of life, and they didn't have to it it wasn't forced upon them.

Thank you. I don't know. I'm just so happy always when, you know, that we have these speakers. This is a blessing from Allah that, you know, we can come together here, and thank you to all my speakers, to not my speakers, to the speakers, to the listeners. You know, at the beginning, when we played the video, right, there were lots of things to cover.

Right? And, of course, the video did like, half of the video was about, you know, how they perceive women and what they assign the roles that they assign to them and so on. So I think we have, like, extensively showed, you know, what the reality is. Okay. I'm very happy that all my all the sisters that are here with us could speak and, you know you know, like, who else can tell us, right, what the reality is.

So and, of course, brother Shahid, you know, you always are so on point. Like, Allah bless you with a beautiful mind. So for that. And, yes, so there are some things that we could not cover today. You know, it's been for two hours, and we have sore throats.

So I think that, inshallah, the rest of the topics, you know, like the violence, the misconceptions about violence, the misconception about extremism, misconceptions about capitalism, economic freedom, free speech, you know, democracy, liberalism, all of these stuff, inshallah inshallah, we will try to cover it in the next week's content talk where, you know, inshallah, it will be just the same title with session number two. So anybody who is here and who didn't get a chance to, you know, speak, please and who is also interested in, you know, what will be spoken about in that content talk, feel free to join us. As the whole team, you know, Middle Nation team, I would like to really thank you genuinely thank you for being here, for spending this time with us, anyone who came to speak. Thank you also. Thank you to all my beautiful listeners, my brothers and sisters.

Yeah. So, looking forward to see you all next week again where we will cover the rest of the misconceptions. And, yeah, thank you very much. See you there.

Thank

you, Karim.

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