Amazing video I think I agree with basically everything he said and he says it very eloquently very like I said very matter of factly very confidently and he’s he uses Western language and he’s able to get himself into that Western perspective and speak speak to the West from the Islamic Viewpoint assalamu alaikum
What’s going on guys it is Daniel and we are back here again today today we have a video where I’m going to be reacting to a man he’s a Muslim he’s from America his name is Shaheed Bolson and some of you may have heard this name before
Um he is a writer he’s a thinker like I said he’s a Muslim and um I would say he’s he’s quite a political he’s quite political binded uh he’s very well spoken I find he has a lot of good takes I haven’t checked out a lot of his stuff very
Deeply so that’s going to be more what we’re doing in this video I’m gonna I’m gonna listen to some of the more longer form content where I’ve mostly just seen kind of short clips of him speaking okay I know maybe some of you are thinking this guy’s had some um
Kind of scandals or some kind of things in the past and yeah he if you look into his uh history there are some things you can find on him I think he was charged with manslaughter and the UAE um some so many years ago and uh yeah but I mean
I think when when people see that I think a lot of people will then discard everything that he has to say but I’m an open-minded person I like to listen to what people have to say and judge from there I think people can change I think people make mistakes
Um and regardless I like to I like to hear what people have to say especially this guy I mean he’s American Muslim River like myself and I think he’s a great thinker at least from what I’ve seen so I want to see more about what he
Has to say and I’d like you all to join me so let’s check out this video you’re very critical of Western Civilization would you say that you are an Islamic or Muslim supremacist yes of course good answer Muslim supremacist of course Islamic supremacist of course and there’s
Nothing wrong with that there’s not a thing wrong with that you’re a western supremacist you believe in the supremacy of your values you believe in the supremacy of your belief system you believe in the supremacy but your belief system so much that you want the whole world to follow it
You try to force the entire world to follow your belief system because you believe it’s so right you came up with the what Universal Declaration of Human Rights you took it upon yourself to decide what are the human rights for the entire uh human race well all right but I mean it’s that’s
Supremacist you believe that you have the authority you have the right to decide what uh what are the rights of human beings everywhere in the world forever and your belief in your right to do that uh has been brutally manifest all around the world for centuries not for years not for decades for
Centuries but the difference is that in Islam to believe in the the supremacy of Islam includes uh everything about Islam meaning that one of the things that we believe in is that we don’t have the right to compel you to follow our beliefs but you don’t have that
You absolutely believe that you have the right to compel others to follow your beliefs see right off the bat we’re what a minute and a half in this guy has absolutely obliterated This Woman’s question I mean the way that he responded is very good I say and the entire 20th century and forget
That the 19th century and as long as anyone can remember is testimony to the fact that you believe that you have every right in the world to force all of the people in the world to follow your belief system that you have the right to impose that on people
And people all over the world in Africa and Latin America and Asia and the Middle East everywhere in the world can testify to the fact that you don’t believe that you don’t have a right to compel people you absolutely believe that you have the right to compel people through Force
Through Invasion through occupation through colonialism through imperialism now well I will say that he is kind of projecting this idea onto this woman where in fact most western people don’t actually think like this I think it’s it’s mostly just this is just like kind of a governmental thing
And the you know the the industrial military complex you know going around and spreading democracy through dropping bombs um so he’s projecting this onto this woman whereas I I think that the majority of especially American people don’t really care about invading foreign countries you know to spread their ideals
I think that most people would only be interested or only support invading a third world country or a foreign country for that matter if there were people in danger and there was perhaps a chance that we could help those people or something like that through extremely coercive economic policies
But most things we don’t believe that we have the right to impose that we believe to you your way to us our way to you your Dean to you your your belief system your way of life your lifestyle your approach to the world and to us ours
That’s that’s part of our belief so our supremacist nature about Islam includes uh the fact that we don’t have a right to compel you to follow our way we believe that our belief is superior and we believe that anyone who follows that belief uh is following a superior
Belief system and of course I fully believe that following Islam is the is the best way for any human being to live their life and the perfect set of laws the perfect set of Ethics the perfect set of morals for any individual to follow and for any state to follow
I just really like how clearly he communicates these ideas and like in a very matter-of-fact way um but at the same time I think he so far he’s giving an accurate representation of what Islam is and especially I like how he mentioned that you know we believe that for other
People is their way of life and for us it’s our way of life we we don’t actually have the right to to compel you to follow our rules because that’s not our job no being a Muslim supremacist isn’t racial Muslim is in a race it’s not an ethnicity it’s a belief and we
Absolutely believe in the Perfection and superiority of what we believe in sure we have absolute conviction about that absolute commitment to that certainty about that yapine about that but do you have that about yours do you have that conviction about yours you’re very busy trying to impose it all around
The world but when times get tough for you your so-called Enlightenment values go out the window don’t they I mean when there’s too many uh diverse opinions in your Society then you start creating bureaus and departments in the government for uh combating so-called disinformation freedom of the press is
Out the window when times get tough Freedom of assembly out the window when your belief system becomes difficult to maintain difficult to preserve you throw it under the bus without hesitation but that’s not the case with Muslims Muslims throughout imperialism throughout colonialism throughout the Crusades throughout poverty throughout War throughout Invasion throughout occupation have maintained their belief
Even without the hilafa even without the Islamic State any without the Islamic empire Muslim societies are still strong and committed to Islam we’re still committed to our belief system nothing can change that maybe we have failed States but we don’t have failed societies we don’t have failed cultures
Our governments may fall but our people remain the same our people remain uh committed to the same values to the same morals to the same moral laws regardless of whether there’s a government over them to enforce that but that’s not the case with you even though you’re trying to impose your
Value system all around the world When Things become difficult in your own societies you abandon your principles you abandon your values that’s what is so you know subhanallah what’s so amazing about Islam is that it’s so all-inclusive it’s such a complete world view where your religion also includes your politics your
Religion also includes your laws and and how your community should govern itself where yeah that these Christian nations like there’s many different ways you can you can there’s many different laws you could have in a Christian Nation that yeah I guess I guess my point is that in the west like he’s saying
They don’t when things really get tough they don’t really know what to do they don’t really know what’s right and wrong see what I mean but for Islam it’s quite clear it’s quite clear what we have in our Quran and in the Sunnah it’s pretty clear and so people at an
Individual level can govern themselves in this way instead of having to rely upon the government they’re insufficient for uh preserving the security and the stability and the Tranquility of your societies they’re insufficient they’re inadequate for that so that alone along with many many other things that alone shows me
The inferiority of your value system the inferiority of your belief system and the superiority of Islam and your belief system your Enlightenment values are extremely selectively applied in your Society throughout your history they apply to some people and not others it’s like in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Some people are more more equal than others in your Society your value system is not evenly applied I mean there’s obvious examples everyone knows about But just look at democracy for example you want democracy all around the world supposedly you say that you want democracy all around the world so cold but you don’t even apply democracy let’s just let’s just for the sake of argument let’s pretend that you have a democratic
System in the United States and it’s a an actually healthy functioning democratic system which is obviously not the case but let’s just for the sake of argument pretend that it is you don’t believe that democracy is important for example in the private sector you don’t believe that businesses the
Companies the corporations should be democratic your uh your belief in the supremacy of democracy does not extend to the private sector that’s true corporations don’t have to be Democratic do they in fact corporations are sacrosanct it’s sacrilegious to say that there should be any intervention in the private sector to
Make it actually accountable to the population accountable to the public accountable to the workers and anyone who even talks about something like that anyone who even suggests that companies and corporations should be democratic uh will be persecuted I mean look at look at the struggle that organized
Labor had in the United States they were coal miners were literally bombed from the sky when they tried to organize and have and and secure their rights and have some kind of democratic representation with the uh coal companies when just now just now when the railroad workers Railway workers were wanting to strike
For better wages for more Humane working conditions uh more rational and reasonable and fair uh workloads that would actually help to guarantee the safety of those trains uh Joe Biden in the government uh prohibited them from hey baby come here no I this video has still got like uh almost 15 minutes left
You want to just take your laptop and go in the bedroom or or okay thank you I gotta pause now so you can get a B huh me too this video is great by the way my berry okay baby love you see you soon hey you know what will help zany is if
You take the microphone and speak into the microphone like this it will help him it will sound much more clear but don’t don’t hold it in front of him up hold it just under your mouth that way he’s only one here you need the charger yeah oh this won’t work
Why don’t you just use your phone baby or iPad for zoom oh no no headphone jack I’m not on that okay you want to use my phone you sure it’s easier and you don’t have to okay yeah yeah bigger screen huh okay baby bye-bye Joe Biden in the government
Uh prohibit for better wages for uh more Humane working conditions uh more rational and reasonable and fair uh workloads that would actually help to guarantee the safety of those trains uh Joe Biden and the government uh prohibited them from striking where’s the Democracy because you don’t mean you
Know he’s talking about this and I actually remember learning in in school in old there was an old incidence it was like an old agriculture like a farmer strike maybe in the 20s or the 30s in the United States and I remember there being some kind of violent um
Reaction from the government but yeah what he’s what he’s saying here makes sense to me as an American I think it holds true actually it’s it’s it I’ve never thought about this before how people say that democracy is good in America but actually the corporations that basically Run America are not Democratic
At all that’s it’s kind of funny how people see those two things as separate but they’re actually not I think the things that you say you don’t mean the values that you expose you don’t mean it if you meant it then you would apply it across the board you would apply it to
Everybody in all institutions and all uh dimensions of your Society they would it would be applied everywhere but it’s not democracy doesn’t belong in the workplace democracy doesn’t belong in the uh company in the business in the corporation I agree and no one’s even supposed to suggest that it should I I remember
Having my first issues with the idea of democracy even as a teenager it didn’t make sense that just because the majority of people think something means that everyone else has to do that like that just doesn’t make sense what what if the majority of people are wrong
Just because the majority won it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing it’s clear obviously a five-year-old could tell you that you know what I mean in fact usually the thing that’s right is the thing that’s supported by the fewest people in the class think about it if if intelligence
Is based on a bell curve right the IQ bell curve that means most people are not that smart the smart people are are few so why are we listening to most people because if we listen to most people we’re gonna be off things are going to
Go wrong for sure so he’s making a good point here that’s an inferior belief system it’s inadequate it’s inadequate uh for building a civilization for building a a cohesive Society because look the only group identity the only sort of group identity that makes any sense at all
It’s not racial it’s not ethnic it’s not nationalistic not even based on language or shared culture or uh shared Heritage none of that makes any sense as a shared group identity the only thing that makes sense is shared belief system that’s the only thing that makes sense as a group
Identity uh from which you can build cohesion and camaraderie and Brotherhood and solidarity between people only belief system you can have a certain skin color and have nothing whatsoever in common with other people with that skin color you can have the same language and certainly have nothing in common whatsoever with someone who
Speaks the same language it’s true you can I’m German Irish what do I have to do with all of the other people in the world who were German Irish just because we’re German Irish we have nothing in common and yet I have more in common with a Muslim from Mali with a Muslim
From Indonesia with a Muslim from Morocco with a Muslim from China just like myself I live here in Thailand in southern Thailand everyone here I don’t really speak their native language that well I of course don’t look like them at all but yet I still feel like this sense of
Brotherhood with the people in my neighborhood because we’re all Muslim and I pray next to them every day because we believe in the same one God and it gives me an actual deep sense of belonging and family even though we’re not genetically related at all we don’t and we don’t
Have the same Hobbies most of us a lot of you guys are way older than me we don’t dress the same you know what I mean but we have the same belief and that like he’s saying is deeper than anything else could be of course that’s actually a logical point
From chechnya I have more in common with them immediately instantly effortlessly we have the same frame of reference we have the same moral code we have the same belief we admire the same people and sorry to keep interrupting but this also reminds me of when I went to um
Alhamdulillah when I had the opportunity to go to Mecca and Medina and seeing all these people from all over the world and feeling like these are my people these people have my back and I have their back even though I don’t know their names I don’t know where they’re
From they could be from anywhere but I know I have their back and I know they have my back it’s a very deep thing our heroes are the same Heroes Our role model is the same role model I have more in common with them than I have with someone whose belief system is different from mine but who looks like me or who speaks my language or who comes from my country that doesn’t create solidarity and there’s no reason why it should
Yeah solidarity should be based on shared belief people who share class identification that makes some sense but it’s very narrow it’s not deep it’s not that meaningful it’s sort of ad hoc you can have a class solidarity on an ad hoc basis meaning you can have solidarity with other people in the
Working class other people who are poor or if you’re on the other end of the spectrum other people who are rich because you have shared material interests those things are not identity markers that make any sense for Building Group solidarity group cohesion group identity and sense of Brotherhood and
Fraternity and togetherness and unity and you know this is why in the west you have you know popping up all the time all of these various identity groups instead of well we all believe in Western values we all believe in Enlightenment values yeah right you don’t have any set of
Civilizational values that actually build real solidarity and cohesion among your people because even the beliefs that you have even the the values and the beliefs that you have uh are incoherent and are divisive by Nature they breed division by Nature you don’t have a a standard of beliefs that everyone can
Follow for what is moral and what is immoral what’s right what’s wrong you don’t have that what what kind of a society doesn’t have an agreement on what’s right and wrong how can you have a cohesive civilization I mean you’re not even all in agreement about what’s right and what’s wrong
That’s true what’s good in bang this guy’s on point man I’ve been I’ve been talking about this stuff like I was trying to explain this to my dad my dad was talking about how like Muslims and and and Christians should like join forces more and I’m like yeah but like
Also Christians especially Western Christians they can’t even understand they can’t even agree on what’s right and what’s wrong like strategically speaking to take an ally that doesn’t that that has such a glaring issue as that is foolish it’s foolish if that’s like uh that’s like taking a a
Schizophrenic man as your teammate in 2v2 ping pong like he’s gonna be all over the place you can’t you can’t really trust people that you can’t trust a nation that can’t agree within itself what’s right what’s wrong you just can’t and he’s man he’s saying this way better
Than I could ever say this guy’s very well spoken I mean if you want to you know if you don’t want to put it in the religious terms of what’s what’s righteous and what’s sinful it doesn’t matter what’s moral and what’s immoral you know there’s no agreement among you people
So how can you have cohesion how can you have real Brotherhood and and solidarity as a people you have all of these various uh fake identity groups on on superficial identity markers popping up all the time you have you know white nationalists you have uh male supremacists female supremacists
Feminists red pill you know and then you have even beyond that you have people who identify themselves literally by the brands that they buy I’m an apple person I’m an Android person I like Nike better than Adidas I support the Knicks I support the Broncos I support you know the the Dodgers
Whatever it is because you don’t have anything else to build a real sense of community among your people that it’s so funny man to think that and and the US is is probably the best example of this and it’s so funny because the it’s the United States of
America it’s literally named the United States of America yet people there are are more divided than almost anywhere else in the world it’s like a it’s like an ironically funny name it’s and nobody realizes it that’s the weird thing you you go to the US and you really pay attention you’ll get this
Weird feeling like everyone’s just walking around and it’s like do you people not realize what’s happening here like there’s absolutely no Unity everyone is so divided and everything’s polarized to the extreme it’s really crazy among your so-called civilization because you’re not in agreement about anything so how can there be cohesion
And you can say you know that there’s cohesion in the you know the the beautiful diversity of beliefs but okay you can have that’s that’s where you’re confused you could have cohesion you could have Brotherhood you can have solidarity among uh diversity of races A diversity of ethnicities the diversity of skin
Colors A diversity of Heritage diversity of cultures as long as there’s a shared belief a shared belief system shared moral values but you can’t have a diversity of moral values that’s not going to work that will only create tension and friction in the society yeah true there’s no way that that can work
That’s a civilizational failure but this never happened in the Muslim world alhamdulillah the Muslims are solid we’re all agreed the only people that you’ll ever find at the Muslim world who are confused about what’s right and what’s wrong are people who are influenced by the West doesn’t that tell you something doesn’t
That tell you about your culture but doesn’t that tell you about your beliefs doesn’t it tell you about your values doesn’t that tell you about your civilization that anyone who was influenced by your civilization becomes confused about morality but any normal Rank and file Muslim from like I said from Morocco to China
To Brunei you know to Bosnia to Turkey to Saudi Arabia to Lebanon to Egypt to Sudan we’re all in agreement about what’s right and what’s wrong we’re all in agreement for the most part I agree I mean unlike little stuff like uh how exactly you do wudu or um
You know how you sit When you pray or like stuff like this people will claim oh no there’s there’s for sure like 100 correct opinion on this but at the same yeah maybe that’s true but still there’s some people that disagree with that opinion so it’s like yeah what are you
Saying yeah is true yes on a in a broader sense of like Akita like what we what we actually believe in but it’s like little things like uh is it okay to drink with your left hand or not you know this stuff like this but does that
Stuff really matter that much it depends who you ask in my opinion it it doesn’t really matter about what’s moral and what’s immoral what’s righteous and what’s sinful we all agree right exactly the rank and file the normal average Muslim has no confusion about what’s morally right and what’s morally wrong the largest
Single cohesive identity group in the world with a shared identity that’s actually deep and profound and meaningful that’s not the case for for people outside of the Muslim belief system it’s not even the case among Christians among Christians there’s a wide variety of beliefs among Christians maybe you’ll find that among Jews
But even then you know there’s a there’s a serious question about who qualifies to even be called the Jew among Jewish people for example there’s many Jews who are atheists which doesn’t make any sense to me but what do they have in common with an orthodox Jew
So even for you to believe in the supremacy of your belief system is already irrational your belief system does not lend itself to solidarity your belief system doesn’t lend itself to cohesion it doesn’t lend itself to a group identity and that’s why it’s never really been enough there’s your your belief system
Cannot actually create a cohesive identity for a large group of people everybody in this Society is looking for some way to find an identity and then to to to expand that into some identity group so they can have some sense of belonging that’s the type of struggle that Muslims never experience
Because we have a sense of belonging wherever we go in the world because we can go into any Muslim Community and belong I could go from China to Latin America and find Muslim communities where I would belong and where the people there would resonate with me and I would resonate with them
And we would understand each other and we would be able to relate to each other and we would feel Brotherhood for each other you can’t say the same you couldn’t fill a room with random Europeans from France from Germany from uh Romania from England and then from America from
Australia from Canada you couldn’t put you couldn’t fill a room with random westerners and have them all agree on what’s morally right and what’s morally wrong that’s true on any issue and those and the people and whoever agrees whatever two people agree on something will disagree on something else
If it’s a moral issue because your basic moral belief has become that nothing is right and nothing is wrong well how are you going to survive as a society how are you going to survive as a civilization when you have a belief like that alhamdulillah this is not a
Problem that we have in the Muslim world we have close to two billion people it will soon be two two billion people the overwhelming majority of which all agree on basic moral values all agree on basic definitions of morality and who again overwhelmingly agree on the purpose of life
Uh and what kind of a lifestyle you should live what what your way of life should be what your conduct should be in the world what your conduct should be in society what your obligations are what your duties are in society the overwhelming majority of close to two
Billion people in the world are all in agreement on that that’s cohesion that’s a basis for solidarity that is an actual civilization no matter what we’ve gone through no matter what difficulties we Face unlike you when times get tough for you you throw your values out the window
When times get tough for them I wonder what This Woman’s face looks like right now just must just be melting she’s like she hasn’t replied the whole time she hasn’t said anything he’s just obliterating her position Muslims they cling to their values even stronger their conviction in their beliefs grows
So yeah of course I’m an Islamic supremacist and that’s not saying anything wrong just as you wouldn’t believe that there’s anything whatsoever wrong with saying that the enlightenment values are superior and it’s not just the conservatives the so-called right-wing it’s the left wing to the so-called left-wing which you barely
Exist in the west an actual left wing the Liberals I mean wokism is like the ultimate expression of liberalism and it’s the most intolerant belief system in the world it’s incredibly intolerant it’s tyrannical because at the end of the day you don’t mean any of it you don’t mean any of it
It’s unsustainable it cannot actually sustain the civilization of society or a culture which is why it hasn’t it hasn’t you admit by your own actions that your beliefs are luxury beliefs when everything is perfect when everything is fine then we’ll go ahead and preserve those values we’ll preserve
Those beliefs but if anything gets difficult then for the sake of National Security we’ll suspend everything well if they’re if they’re genuine beliefs then you never have to suspend them if the things that you really believe in if those are things if those are actually Superior then you would
Never have to suspend them if they were actually Superior values then you would be able to apply them in every situation you would never have to suspend them they would be responsive and reliable in all scenarios but as soon as you get into any kind of a difficult situation you eject the values
Well Muslims don’t do that because we don’t have to because in fact our value system our belief system our moral convictions are always applicable they apply in any society in any set of circumstances in any situation and always will alhamdulillah amazing video I think I agree with basically everything he said and
He says it very eloquently very like I said very matter-of-factly very confidently and he’s he uses Western language and he’s able to get himself into that Western perspective and speak speak to the West from the Islamic viewpoint really amazing he’s like he’s like a translator he’s able to translate the
Islamic belief into Western language and and he understands the Western mind and so he’s able to kind of um answer the this questions that we have are that that they have with Islam I know I no longer have alhamdulillah this video made me feel very grateful to be a Muslim
Uh you know this this reminder of like I could go anywhere in the world and find a Muslim Community and be welcomed and be understood and be respected for what I am so alhamdulillah I think this this guy is awesome I if you if you ask me right now
That’s my answer I really like this guy I think I think what he’s saying is very important and I hope that more people from the West will would listen to this and I hope more people from the East will listen to this so that they could understand how to communicate with Western people
And and what what sort of problems the West really faces and how Islam can can solve that so yeah I think again this this guy I think he’s a very great thinker a great mind very sharp and um alhamdulillah I hope all of you enjoyed this video and
May Allah bless you generously for watching this video with me and inshallah we will see you all in the next one assalamualaikum
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