Western confusion is not our problem
Because the Internet and social media are dominated by English language content; specifically Western-based creators; I find that a lot of English-speaking Muslims are producing their own content in reaction to, and reflective of, what Westerners are talking about. So, there are brothers and sisters online talking about gender issues and masculinity, femininity, Red Pill type stuff, that has really very little relevance in the Muslim world. The West’s confusion is not our confusion. We are spectators of the dumpster fire the West is becoming; we are not in the flames. It is important to remember that.
If you want to talk about these issues that are engulfing the West, ok, but do it as a critique of their failures and a recognition of the superiority of Islam, because what applies to them does not apply to us. Western masculinity may well be under assault, because of course it is. Western women may well be running amok; because of course they are. Misguidance and unbelief have consequences. But the Muslims are fortified. People who preach hysterically that OUR men and OUR women are being swept up in the West’s madness…or that they inevitably will be…are conspicuously overlooking the crucial difference between us and them — we have the Guidance of Allah. And this Guidance has sufficed the Ummah over centuries of exchange and interaction with the West — including the Crusades and colonialism, imperialism, military invasion, and globalization.
What made the West vulnerable to what it is going through now, we have been inoculated against it.
I am tired of seeing Muslims online berating and dishonouring their fellow Muslim men and women, using the same hysterical criticisms that conservatives in the West use against Liberals and feminists, and the like. Yes, ok, THEIR civilization is eroding, ours is not. These people just like the arguments, like the posturing, like the celebrity gained by those Western critics, so they duplicate their content and apply it to us…but it does not apply to us.
Muslim masculinity is fine, Muslim femininity is fine. The relations between the sexes are fine. I mean, have you been to Turkey? Have you been to the Arab world? Have you been to Peshawar? Have you been to Aceh? Do you speak Arabic or Urdu or Malay or Bahasa to know what the Muslims in the Muslim world are talking about? Because it is not what the West is talking about, our views are not the views of America and Europe. Al-Hamdulillah.
Red Pill theories and Alpha Male-ism, as well as Feminism, are responses to problems we do not have, and if you start trying to push those “solutions” among the Muslims for problems that do not exist, you are just creating fitnah for us.
And as a side note, here is a truism for you: Anyone who is trying to convince you that the Ummah is falling to pieces and everything is horrible — they are selling you something. It is the old shaytaanic trick used by marketing agencies and advertising professionals all the time –convince you that you are inadequate, that life is terrible, so they can sell you their solution. No. The Prophet said whoever says the people are ruined, he is the one who is ruined.
The Muslims are good, Islam is spreading every day, and spreading fastest in the West. All the problems they are having are creating the conditions for da’awah. So if you happen to be a Muslim in the West, and you see all the madness around you — hang in there. Their sickness is not going to spread to us, we are going to bring the cure to them.
