FEMINIST LASHES OUT ON ISLAM & REGRETS IT
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the concept of lowering your gaze and why it is considered a misogynistic practice in Islam. We also discuss the importance of a woman's right to choose when to look at another's body.
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I don't like Islam. Why not? I think it's very sexist and misogynistic. What parts? And the fact that like women have to cover up.
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I need to cover up. I mean, I think it objectifies woman, you know, I have to cover up my, like, I cannot wear this and I think by covering myself, I'm essentially
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sexualizing my body because I say that, okay, I have to cover up because men will look at me, men can rape me, I'm just going to cover up. Why can't we teach men to be decent?
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So the Quran, if you look into the Quran, sister, I came to, I'm from Turkey as well, I'm from Qaysera. So I came to Islam, I only believed in God, I didn't have any religion.
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But if you think about it, the biggest sexual objectification has happened to the Western woman. Let me tell you why. Because for example, in the Quran, Allah tells me that as a man, I have to lower my gaze, meaning I shouldn't be looking at women, doesn't matter how they dress in a bikini.
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Then why are you looking at me? Because out of respect, because I'm looking at you, speaking to you. If I spoke to you, like this, you'll find it rude. If I look at you, you say to me, why are you looking at me? I can't win. So usually I should lower my gaze, but even if I do it, you will say, oh, why are you not looking at me? Am I not a human?
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Yeah, which proves my point that Islam is medieval.
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Okay, so sister, if I look this way, you will say to me, you don't treat me as a human. If I look at you, you say to me, why are you looking at me? What do I do?
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No, I'm not going to say why you're looking at me. Your book says that you should lower your gaze, but when you're talking to me, you're not lowering your gaze.
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Okay, so what I'm saying is, usually, the reason why I'm not doing that is because if I've done that, you will find it rude when it's not.
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So sister, do you prefer me to sexually objectify you or not?
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Good, so what I'm saying is, as a man, I am created to have attraction to the opposite gender.
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So do I look at them or not look at them? What's better? Do you think, as a man, should I look at women or not look at women?
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Well, you don't sexualize women. Just treat me as, like, a colleague.
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No, no, no. One second, sister, I'm saying to you, look.
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Do you know when I'm walking, do you think, as a man, I should be looking around or just not look around?
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But a minute ago, you just said, I shouldn't look.
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I never said that you shouldn't, your book says that you should lower your gaze.
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That's what your book says, but you're looking at me.
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So when we're talking about lowering the gaze, it's also an understanding.
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It doesn't mean that when I'm talking to the opposite gender, I do this.
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It says that if you have a desire in you or whatever, etc.
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But what I'm saying is lowering the gaze applies to however a woman is dressed.
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Even if a woman covers her face, I should lower my gaze.
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So because I'm having a dialogue with you, I'm trying to tell you about Islam,
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But obviously, you don't see me looking elsewhere.
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So now I'm saying the sexual objectification of women is done to the Western woman more.
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So are you, okay, do you choose to look pretty or are you told to look pretty?
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It talks about the sexual objectification of women,
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how women starve themselves to look the perfect way,
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how they go and sleep around with men to get validation.
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And why is there so many women coming to Islam?
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Okay, the average Western woman does not sleep around.
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Do you know how many sexual partners a Western woman has in her lifestyle?
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Okay, well, good thing that you're not a woman.
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What's the woman got to do with a chocolate bar?
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Islam is misogynistic because you have to cover from heck to everywhere.
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Because you're essentially sexualizing your body.
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The reason why I'm covering my arm is because men can get horny from it.
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There's nowhere in Islam that says that you should cover up because men get horny.
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Because Allah tells us that a weakness for a man is that he likes to look.
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And it's a test for a woman to cover her beauty.
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Now, okay, so what I'm saying, look, if you, are you married?
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Okay, so if you had someone in your life, he'd be jealous of you.
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He might come and say, look, I don't like men looking at you.
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A man has this natural inclination to be protective of his woman.
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So medieval atrocity is that, for example, would you like a man that cares about you and doesn't care about you?
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If your husband was doing something that you didn't like him to do, is that you're controlling him?
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Do you want your husband to have female friends?
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Well, surely my boyfriend wouldn't want me to dress up like a ninja, like cover from a hit the toe.
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It's better, well, to me, there's nothing wrong with that.
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Would you want your boyfriend to have female friends that hangs around with children around with?
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Because there was a study done and research showed that men and women cannot be friends.
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Call him now and say to him you're interested and see what he says.
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It's nice if I just call him and say to him, I have feelings for you.
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Because I promise you, you will say, you know what I'll say to you.
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Oh my gosh, I've been waiting for this all my life.
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I'm saying because of that, don't put a label on everybody.
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Because what you're doing now, you say Islam is Muslim.
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I have to cover myself from my navel to my knee.
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I know, but why should I cover my wrists and my forearms?
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Let me tell you why we cover up or why I grow the beard
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You would agree that everything that we look at around here has a purpose.
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From the TV, to the buildings, to my watch, to your trainers, to your dress, to your bag.
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Now, the bag that you're wearing, does it have a designer?
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Oh my God, I haven't even finished my sentence.
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No, but you didn't say, I don't believe in God because I don't see him.
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So I'm seeing, have you seen the design of your bag?
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Is your eye more complex in design or your bag?
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Well, you can't prove or disprove that God exists as something emotional.
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I mean, I have friends who believe in, it's something emotional, it's something in your
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Because I'm seeing, is your eye more complex in design or your bag?
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Therefore, if the argument follows, your bag has a design, you haven't seen it, it
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Your eye has a function, it has a purpose, it has a pattern, and it's designed.
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Okay, if God exists, how do you know that Islam is his religion, but not Judaism, but
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Because, let me tell you why I'm making this argument, and it relates to the hijab, and
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If God exists, and he's the one who created you, he's the one that makes your heart beat.
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He's the one that feeds you, looks after you, he's giving you this eye, this heart,
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We were talking about the sexualization of women.
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Look, I'm saying, if God exists, if God says to me...
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You have been watching and affected by the Western system to dress up like this.
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All of the philosophers, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, they're a Western.
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If you hate the Western world, why did you move here?
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Just because I'm challenging the views doesn't mean I hate it.
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Okay, you're saying basically you're here, you shut up, you don't talk.
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I'm saying the way you dress, how you dress, it's not because you choose to.
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You are programmed to grow a beard if you think about that way.
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Okay, before you're in a hurry, just a quick question.
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Who's told you that dressing like this is okay?
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I'm just saying, what's told you to wake up and say, you know what?
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I'm going to put this dress on rather than wearing something wrong or something shorter
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Well, I picked a longer dress because today is a bit chilly.
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The only difference between me and you or a Muslim woman and you is the following.
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You are affected by the movies you watch, Netflix, Instagram, social media, peer pressure
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Are you telling me you wake up and say, I'm going to dress like this because of no influence.
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So you can't come and say to me, I made my decision to wear this dress today or tomorrow
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wear a bikini or a miniscuit or a long dress or whatever it is.
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You are influenced by something that makes the decision factor for you.
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I know, but that's why I try to put good into this.
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What's wrong with being influenced by the society?
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Because Allah says to us in the Quran, have you seen the one who has one master compared
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Tomorrow they'll come and say, fashion is wearing this.
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Me, God says to me one commandment for men and women.
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Whether they want to wear the hijab, whether they want to wear this.
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If you are so feminist, then why are you against a woman wearing a hijab or a burqa?
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But I believe that, in theory, it's sexualized women.
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I know for someone, it empowers them to go out wearing the hijab or burqa.
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I'm not against it, but I think that it sexualizes.
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You know why it's there in the control of sexuality?
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Because they don't want to show men what they look like.
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They are saying, talk to me as a human being, to my face, not somewhere else.
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Not only that, it also protects you from men falling in love with the wrong way and breaking your heart.
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When you are dressed up in a certain way, men will come to you and give you false promises for one thing.
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What Islam does, sister, is protect you as a human being and your heart and your soul.
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Look, do you know how I met my wife and I married her?
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Because Islam says Islam protects her heart, number one.
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Okay, I'm not saying that women who are covered up, who won't get raped.
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There are women who are covered up, who get raped.
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My argument is that what does Islam tell you to follow to protect your heart for the betterment for your well-being and the well-being of the other?
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Islam has come to protect your rights and my rights.
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So it says there shouldn't be, for example, how many women have psychological issues because they meet men who only want one thing, dump them like a piece of, like they're rubbish.
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Islam is saying, no, you can't go and abuse women, be with them like they're toilet.
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They're not toilet for you to go and have intimacy with them and chop them away.
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If I walk down the road and someone says something, I will put my life on the line to protect my wife.
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Don't look at Islam with what goes on in Turkey.
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If there's any religion that honors women to the level of Islam, there's female scholars in Islam.
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Then why can men take three wives and I can't take two husbands?
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Do you know how many non-Muslim men have side chicks and mistresses and girlfriends in the workplace?
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Islam says, if a man, if a man has the ability, and if you talk about atheism, evolution...
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In evolution, polygamy is perfectly fine because it is procreating.
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And me, one man, can impregnate 50 women and then have kids from them.
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So evolutionary perspective from the atheistic world view, you can't have a problem with polygamy.
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As an atheist, you believe in evolution, correct?
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In evolution, they believe the survival of the fittest.
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Islam may be feminist for its time, but it's not feminist right now.
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Islam says the greatest inequality is to give...
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It's basically a woman has specific rights and a man has specific rights.
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For example, when a woman is pregnant, you can't treat that woman the same.
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So what I'm saying is Islam gives rights to protect the woman.
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You as a woman, if I was your brother, in Islam, the man who wants to marry you, number
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If he leaves you and goes, you have security for you and your kids.
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He has to provide and protect for everything and he's your full-time bodyguard.
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We don't come and say, no, if God said it, I will do my duty.
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Believe me, as men, it is very difficult for me to be the provider and protector.
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Look, I come and say, why is my wife sitting at home?
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But at the same time, I do it because God told me to, sister.
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The Western system has degraded women to such a sexual object that they think...
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Then why is, under Sharia law, a man's testimony is equal to two women's testimony?
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The reason why there is, sister, is because in certain circumstances, women, generally,
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Like the Prophet's first wife of Khatija, she was a businesswoman.
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So in certain circumstances, for example, also women can be more...
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Do you agree women are more emotional than men?
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So what it says is that, for example, if a murder happens here, two people get shocked.
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As a man, I have got instinct of, bruv, I'm like, I'm going to get involved.
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Women might be like, oh my gosh, run for my life.
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It says, for example, in certain instances, when it comes to business, when it comes to
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certain instances, for example, if a murder happened here, as men, the way we are
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You, as a feminine woman, you would be like, oh my gosh, survival.
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In certain circumstances, Allah says, let them have two witnesses, certain circumstances.
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Because Aisha, the Prophet's wife, he was talking about, she was one of the biggest
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Business, for example, if a woman is not involved in business dealings, she needs another
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But how is that relevant to giving testimony in court?
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For example, if I'm doing a business with my friend here, yes?
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It will be such a shame if I went to court and they said, nah, you got to bring one more
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Her testimony was enough on her own when she talked about who she suckled.
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Okay, so for example, did we have female soldiers in Islam?
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Yeah, but then why do you generalize like that?
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I said generally, it is woman's witness is equal.
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For example, in a court, a sharia court, it might be that a man who has bad memory is
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fully rejected and a woman who has good memory is accepted.
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Yeah, but by default, by default, you say two women equal to one man.
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I said to your sister, in specific situations, generally, for example, I gave you the instances.
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My cousin that's consulting, will she need another?
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If she knows in that specific instance, it will change.
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I'm talking about generally women's testimony is the same.
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A woman's testimony is the same as a man, generally.
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Why can it never be two men equal to one woman?
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You don't trust men, so you tell them to lower their gaze, yet you trust their testimony.
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Because Allah doesn't trust how men should behave, so that's why they say lower your gaze.
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It also tells a woman to lower her gaze as well, but it tells the men first.
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Do you believe it exists or you say it doesn't exist?