Ali Dawah - December 13, 2023PIERS MORGANS ＂APOLOGY＂ TO MUSLIM WOMAN - MUSLIMS REACT
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Why do so many women become Muslim these days because they want to be oppressed? Is that what it means to be a feminist? What does that mean and why does it matter to the West? Is it a good or bad thing that women who want to convert to Islam should do so for the right reasons or for the wrong reasons?
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Why do women in the world become Muslim these days?
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They seem to find it something that attracts them, Islam.
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I don't suggest for a moment that women who want to convert to Islam
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should do so for any other than perfectly good reasons.
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I have no problem with Islam as a religion or with Muslims.
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So here's where I have a problem with this guy.
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Here is the fact that why is there a connotation or an insinuation
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of oppression with Muslim women coming to Islam?
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Why didn't he say, oh, do you want them to be more happy?
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Remember he said, I know what Sharia law wants for a woman.
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And he saves himself with the question of, oh, is that what you want?
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Which would be absurd, really, because why would he want that as a Muslim himself?
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And then why did he mention those three things?
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When he said he knows about Sharia, is that what he knows about Sharia?
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Yeah, but even what he said is false because he said, I mean, what interpretation of Sharia law
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suggests that there should be no feminist in a polity that's run by it anyway?
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So, for example, let's think about it for a second.
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If you have a polity and you have women inside of that polity, whether they be Muslim women
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or non-Muslim women, would they have to be forcibly exiled for having those beliefs?
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Where does it ever mention that in the books of fiqh and jurisprudence?
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He says, I do know about it, but he's got a journalism degree.
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And he's made all these assumptions, asked all these kind of unjust questions, frankly.
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And he's coming back and saying, actually, I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-Islam,
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perfectly good reasons and all those kind of things.
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To me, I needed asking, what's the definition of oppression?
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Because I believe that if you can reduce women down to a sexual object,
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where the only thing that they have to offer is sex.
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Because if you think about it, at the end of the day, if I want to go and relieve myself,
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And if you look at it, the Western system has sexualized women to such a level,
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it's as if, to their worldview, as if they are walking toilets where men can just relieve
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themselves inside of them, like one night stands, using them and chucking them.
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So much so that they have broken down the woman to such a level that women do not feel
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Like, when we got over COVID, yeah, people was wearing masks.
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There was a study done that showed that women carried on wearing masks because they
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didn't want to be judged based on their appearance.
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Or where they were in America, in New York, their specific clothes that they wear so they're
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So when we're talking about oppression, if majority, like, when I talk about Western
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women, by the way, this includes Muslim women who are sadly inflicted by the Western system.
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There are women out there who are walking, who are getting butt implants, dying in the process.
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It's actually martyrdom in the process of beauty.
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There are billions of women around the world who have been affected.
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Because what's the theory of justice that you're using?
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I don't think he has a coherent theory of justice.
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He's so ambivalent when it comes to these ethical questions, because he doesn't know.
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He's always saying it's a quandary for me and all these kind of things.
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And he's undecided because he doesn't go to the biblical.
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Obviously, he says he's a self-proclaimed Catholic.
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Like, in Catholicism, we know what the, for example, biblical verses say about homosexuality.
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And we know what the popes have said throughout the years on homosexuality as a sin, which is the normative position.
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Because, in fact, what Ben Shapiro himself has come out and said, that he believes biblically that homosexuality is a sin.
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So all of these things, having been said, he doesn't have a theory of justice.
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That's why he resorts to looking at Winston Churchill as some kind of prophet, effectively.
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These great white Western figures have become the moral standard.
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You know, the Quran will ask him a question, which it does.
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أَمْ شَرَعُ لَهُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا لَمْ يَأْذَنْ بِهِ اللَّهِ
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أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ شَرَعُ لَهُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا لَمْ يَأْذَنْ بِهِ اللَّهِ
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Have they got associates with God who have legislated for them in the religion?
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In other words, where is your morality coming from?
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And why are you then imposing that upon other cultures and other people?
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And also, I've done a reaction video of how he treated Ben Shapiro
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when it came to this question of homosexuality.
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It's a whole different tone which I've reacted to.
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I genuinely believe what he said yesterday to Abdu Wahid
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clearly showed that this is what he thinks about the Sharia.
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And that's the reason why, bro, he cannot call the IDF a terrorist state.
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Because his loyalties are clear where it's with.
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Look, if you despise something, if you see the Sharia as something,
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an oppressing woman, do you think you are in favor?
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If the Palestinians were Christians, do you think you would have this tone?
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You don't even use the word acts of terrorism of what's going on.
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I think the problem is that his response should have been clear.
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I apologize if my words have been taken out of context.
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He should condemn his own words, frankly, because they've come at a very inopportune time.
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We were expecting a clear, decisive retraction.
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Now, for him to then say, oh, there's a context.
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What's the context of using a misogynist Islamophobic trope?
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At a time where the current ruling party, the Conservative Party, have just got rid of Suwala Bravaman, who has been kowtowing to the far right.
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So to be championing, you know, the tropes that have been put forward by them is dangerous and it needs to be dealt with decisively.
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Also, if there's a context, you can link oppression with Muslim women.
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The Prophet ﷺ said, whoever builds a masjid for the sake of Allah SWT, Allah will build for him a similar house in Jannah.
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On that day where Allah SWT tells us that our books will be given and every little atom weight of good deeds you've done will be there.
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And imagine you see a mountain and you're like, what a lucky person.
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I never had the money to build a masjid, oh Allah.
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And Allah gives you the reward of as if you've built it.