Rights cannot always be equal

I also wanted to say something about the video that I did on the equality of the sexes and patriarchy and so on. Because looking at the comment section, it appears to me that a significant number of people didn't really listen to me. Didn't really listen to what I said and didn't understand what I said. And I think that the reason for that is that people have become so ideological and so unthinking that all they do is listen for or or look in an article for certain keywords and key phrases. And when they see those keywords or hear those key phrases, their mind just auto completes the message without actually having to read or listen.

It auto completes based on all of the other instances where they've seen those words used or where they've seen those phrases used. And so they assume the rest of the message. You know? It's an auto complete function in their brains. So, for example, in the video I begin by saying that I don't believe that men and women are equal.

And I think that a large number of people stopped there, stopped listening at that point. And just took a took it that I was giving a sort of a red pill view on on equality. I'm telling you that the concept of equality is meaningless. The concept of equality that you're applying is absurd and inapplicable. And now some people have said, yeah, but it doesn't mean same.

You're saying in my in my video, in my answer to the question, they're saying that I was treating equality as if it meant same. And men and women are not the same, yes, but they are equal. So I'm misreading the question. I'm misunderstanding the question. And I'm answering a different question, is that do I think that men and women are the same?

The particular individual qualities that you have will make you superior or inferior to other people in any given situation or circumstance. So you can't actually make a distinction between there being differences between men and women and there being differences of equality between men and women. Because there are. It's connected. Simultaneously, We are all inferior and superior to each other at all times.

It depends on what is needed in that situation. And again, this has to do with the practicality of our value system in Islam. And this is why the the your conception, your very abstract, generalized, idealized, utopian concept of equality doesn't compute for Muslims and really for non westerners. It's like I said, your approach to values is unique to you. I wouldn't say that the Muslim approach to values is unique to us.

Our value system itself may be unique and the perfection of our value system may be unique. But our approach to what values are for, I think, is general. But the western approach to what values are for, their conception of what values are for, is unique to them. And that they seem to think that values are solely for something that you should aspire to, not something that you should actually practice. I think the rest of the world believes that values are what you're supposed to actually practice, not what you're supposed to espouse and aspire to, but actually practice in the real world.

So like I said in in that video, a woman may be superior to me in certain qualities, and that makes her more valuable in certain situations. She has more value in certain situations. And even that value and those qualities can increase or decrease her or my rights in a situation. In a in any particular given situation, even the rights are not equal, Which again is why I mean, I mean, a classic example is men going down with the ship and women women and children first. Women and children escaping first.

Because of the particular and unique peculiar value that women and children have in society. They are more valuable in that situation than a man. So they have more right to be rescued than a man in that situation. You can't actually say that rights are always the same for everyone, everywhere, all the time. That's not true.

That's not practical. Like, even on the issue of of for example, someone mentioned education. Well, in Islam, a man is obligated to provide for his family financially. He's obligated. It's his duty.

He doesn't have a choice in that. He must do that. So Muslims and in in Islam, women are not prohibited from getting an education, but the emphasis is placed on men to get an education. Because when you when you have an obligation to do something, then it's also an obligation to facilitate you in fulfilling that obligation. What is required for you to fulfill that obligation is also obligatory for you to have.

So having a job and having a good job and being able to pay for your family, to be able to provide for your family requires an education. So men have the so it's emphasized for men to get an education. It's not said that women shouldn't get an education, but the emphasis is on men for practical reasons. Because they're obliged to pay for their families. They're obliged to provide for their families.

And therefore, they are obliged to get an education that will enable them to get the kind of a job and have the kind of career that will allow them to do that. Now for women, they can get an education, they can have a career, and every penny that they earn goes in their pocket. They have no obligation to spend on their family in Islam. They have no obligation to spend on their husband. They have no obligation to provide for their family.

Every penny that they make is theirs. And we also know that a very large percentage of women who enter the workforce get married, have children, and leave the workforce, choose to leave the workforce. They're not forced. They choose to leave the workforce. So a woman will get an education, for example, at university.

We're not talking about primary education, but university will get an education, have a career, and use that education for five or six or seven years, and then leave the workforce. So all of the money that was spent on that education was useful in society for five to seven years or ten years. A man who goes to the university and gets an education, he stays in the workforce his lifetime to provide for his family. That's an investment by the society. You can spend the resources either, you know, depending on what society or what country you're talking about, education may be subsidized by the government.

Obviously, it's not in the West because they don't want people to be educated. They only want a certain segment of the population to be educated, which is the people who can afford it. They want that that's a way of consolidating class control. That only the rich people who can afford to go to school are the ones that we want to go to school. Everyone else, your only purpose is to accrue debt.

But so in a country where education is subsidized, the government only wants to spend money on your education if they're gonna get something back from you when you're in the workforce. Productivity in the workforce. So for example, in a country like Singapore, in some sectors, like for example, medical school, they have they only have 30% of the seats in medical school are for women. Because they know that a woman that they invest that money in a woman going to school, getting education, becoming a medical practitioner, she's probably only gonna stay in the workforce for less than a decade. Maybe a little bit longer, but generally somewhere somewhere around there.

But certainly not gonna be for her lifetime. Most of the time she's gonna get her education, she's gonna start working, and then within five to seven years, maybe ten years, she's gonna get married, she's gonna have children, she's gonna leave the workforce. And they're doing that by choice. So for example, the so the the government of Singapore chooses to give preference to providing that education for men because they know those men are gonna be in in the workforce their entire life. So you can say that there's an equal right to education theoretically in the abstract, but in certain circumstances, the rights are not equal, and they shouldn't be.

And in many situations and scenarios, you can imagine where women will have more rights than men because they should, because it depends on the situation. It's impractical to say that there are just a certain set of rights that everyone should always have forever, and anyway, you don't practice that in the West. Just like I said, freedom of speech is situational. Freedom of speech depends on what you're saying and depends on who's saying it, and it depends on when and to whom. These are aspirational and not practical values.

You're not gonna get anywhere as long as you have that approach, and you and you insist that that approach is right even though you can see all around you the chaos and the misery and the corruption that that value system has caused.