Western Supremacy is Unsustainable

The whole use of, the term, modernity is is just really a trick. It's such a trick because it has nothing to do with anything except for power, and the and the ability to enforce their own culture and their own standards on everyone else. And by saying modern there's there's a few tricks going on. There's more than one. One of the tricks, is of course to say that, everything that isn't, the the, in line with the culture of the dominant power, that everything that isn't in line with the dominant power, the culture of the dominant power, that it is therefore primitive.

And it's backwards and it's old, and it's obsolete and doesn't doesn't, doesn't have a place in today. It's all yesterday or before yesterday or, you know, primitive. That's one trick. And then the other trick is to say that, we used to be another kind of way and now we're this way. So it's a it's a trick to try to implant in your mind this idea that the dominant power, the culture that we're talking about, which is the dominant power, it's the dominant power making a claim about themselves that they used to be different, and now they they've changed, and they've evolved.

I mean, it's also based on this on on their whole concept of of evolution, and the idea that by by by claiming that their culture and their standards are the are the modern up to date evolved standards, then they're also implanting in your mind this idea that they that they have progressed and they have changed, whereas they haven't. So if we're actually in in reality, if we're talking about, what modernity means in terms of, in so far as that means westernization, in terms of being western, and what what the what the moral standards are, the cultural standards, the value standards, and so on of the West. If that actually if if we if we're to say it honestly, then that means that modernity is primitivity. Because it means being the way the West has always been, which is because again, if we're if we're looking at it from our true perspective, from from our own standpoint, from our own stance, we don't actually see any significant moral development in the West. They're just as violent as they always were.

They're just as immoral as they always were. They're just as licentious as they always were. They're just as selfish and as greedy as they always were. And if that then equates to modernity, then we're talking about actually peeling away, in order to be modern, you have to peel away, all civilizing aspects of human development that we've seen in, for example, in the Muslim world, and in other and in other cultures. I won't just say it's only the Muslims, but, in in other cultures that have actually, legitimately, genuinely civilized and changed over the course of time, you have to peel all of those things away.

And we because if if we're if we're gonna look at the West as it actually is now from a moral standpoint, from a value standpoint, well, they don't mean anything they say, and you can you can see that just by, the the, the speech of Netanyahu, at the at the, Congress the other day, where he got standing ovations for a war criminal. Standing ovations for someone who is facing arrest for war crimes, applause, and and and accolades, and, it was a triumphant speech. Everyone was happy to shake his hand. Okay. Well, where's the moral progress then?

Is that the modern standard? If that's the modern standard, then we have to then we actually are going backwards in human development, in human in in in in human evolution of of morals and values and so on. But they wanna make you think that being any other kind of way is to be primitive, to be backwards, is to be unadvanced, unevolved, so on. When the reality is that to to try to be like them means that we have to, give up and and and and just drop all of the things that we have become as civilized human beings, especially, for us speaking as Muslim, what Islam has given us to become evolved and disciplined and, moral people. We're actually required to, to abandon all of that if we wanna be modern.

Everything that has has actually helped to to to develop and evolve and civilize human beings, now in order to be modern, we have to throw all of that away. So in other words, being modern according to if if we're accepting the Western the the West's claim that modernity means being like them, then being modern means going backwards in reality. What they actually mean when they say modernity is to accept their supremacy, to accept that that power gets to determine what's right and wrong. Because, as I said, what what what they actually mean or what determines what modernity is is whoever the dominant power is. So if they're the dominant power, then they get to decide what's right and wrong, what's moral and immoral, and so on.

So morality and values and right and wrong and good and bad are determined by might makes right. And this is supposed to be a modern way of approaching the world. I'm telling you this is a primitive way of approaching the world, but this is what they mean by modernity. It means might makes right, the West determines. And if you're any any kind of a way other than the way the West is, then you're primitive.

Well, this is this in and of itself is an incredibly primitive way of approaching the world and an intolerant way of approaching the world. It's the same way that they always did approach the world and they haven't actually progressed or evolved or modernized, so to speak. They didn't they didn't they didn't rise to a position of dominance on the on on the merits of their values. They they rose to a position of dominance by pushing everyone else down. That's that's the way they rose in the first place.

And now, while, brother Karim was talking about how, they're losing their power, they still have power, but it but it's relative to the power of others. Whereas so so what I mean is, previously they were able to keep everyone down, which made them look more powerful than they were. But now, their relative power is declining. While they still have power, their relative power is declining. So that so that is enabling the rest of the world, the global South and so on, the Muslim world, to to rise up and that is making them look weaker and weaker and weaker.

And in terms of, the sustainability of their dominance, Well, it's it's inherently not sustainable because as I was talking about, their idea of of, modernity is to throw away all of the things that have actually enabled the human race to even continue on earth, family, marriage, moral discipline, self control, what what are now called conservative values. Well, does conservative mean? It means to conserve something. If you're if you're if you're not conserving it, then what are you doing with it? You're wasting it.

And their whole, approach with this so called modern approach, this so called liberal approach, this, this, worship of the individual where everyone gets to do whatever they want and it's moral anarchy, well, that's self destructive. That becomes cannibalistic. And even this this idea of of, what was the word? White solidarity? Well, there is no white solidarity.

They're eating each other. You can see what they're doing to to to Europe. What America the what white America is doing to white Germany. What they're doing to white Europe. What they're doing to white Russians.

White Ukraine. They don't care about each other on the basis of skin. This is just a this is just a con game that they that they use on poorer white people, less advantaged white people in Europe, in America, and so forth, just to trick them into believing that there's some kind of a white brotherhood or white nationalism and so forth so that they won't recognize that they themselves are also being oppressed. They themselves are also being exploited. They themselves are also being persecuted in their own countries by the elite, by the rich.

But they but they they they want to divert your attention from that by by by making you believe in some kind of a white nationalism. And who who generally speaking are the most fervent believers in white nationalism? At least in America, it's poor whites. It's people who are who are who are themselves actually from the lower class, the the the working class or even below the working class, the the least educated people, the people who themselves are are deprived in society. Generally, that's who you'll find, who who are believing in this kind of a thing.

But the the the sustainability of this, we're already seeing in our life time. We're already seeing the self collapse of the the inevitable self collapse of their system and their approach to life. Because as I said, it it's based on the abandonment of all of those values that have enabled the human race to even continue. It's important to to recognize that, essentially, it's like like, for example, you're the you're the host of the space, so you can mute anyone's microphone. The person on the other side who's who's talking might still be talking and not realize that they've been muted, but you can mute them so no one can hear them.

That's what the West has been able to do. We've been talking about the West for a very long time, for decades and decades, if not centuries. We've Muslims have recognized what they're doing and colonized people have recognized what they do and how they are. But they muted our microphone so no one could hear us. But they're they're losing the ability to mute our microphone.

So now we can talk and we can hear each other. And the more we talk, and the more we hear each other, the less we'll have to hear them, and the less they'll be able to speak over us, and the less they'll be able to drown out our voices. And one of the reasons why, they're losing their, their relative power, is at least partially because they they created a system, or they geared their system, they directed their system, towards the increasing importance of economic power. Well, economic power is something that we can compete with them in. Sheer violence is not necessarily something that we're capable of competing with them in for the simple reason, and I I don't mean in terms of technology.

We can come up with the technology. We have our own weapons industries. We can compete with them in that sort of technology. Pakistan is a has a is a nuclear power, so we can compete with them in violence. But morality prevents us from doing so.

So we can't compete with them in savagery because we're not savage. But when they when they give their power towards economic power, well, we can compete with you in economic power. We can be more productive than you. We can trade better than you. We can trade with each other.

We can have, intra global South trade and trade agreements. And this is what we're seeing with BRICS. This is why the the decline in the West's relative power has been happening so rapidly just over the last few years with the rise of BRICS, with the rise of China, and and with the, the boost that was given to BRICS just over the last, what, two, three years since the Ukraine war and the sanctions against Russia and the sanctions against Russia proved to be a major boost for all of the BRICS nations and all of the BRICS economies. So there's there's many strategies that we can do, but in terms of, as you say, we we have to avoid if we're gonna compete with them in in economic power, we can't do it the way that they achieve their economic power, which is just sheer materialism, consumerism, exploitation, and so on. Obviously, we're we're we're restrained from doing that in the same way that we're we're restrained from being savagely violent, the way that they are.

So we can't also be savagely materialistic. So this has to do with for us anyway, for the Muslim world in Islam returning to a sense of the the trying to put materialism in its proper place and and pursuing the dunya, chasing the dunya, putting that in its proper place and and returning to what actually was supposed to in fact be sort of the original idea of capitalism because again capitalism, this is another one of those examples where they pretended that they invented something that already existed, which is free trade and and and free markets and so on. This this Adam Smith didn't invent this. This is just something that he wrote down to try to codify it because they're always trying to put rules on things for their own benefit. But obviously, this is something that already has pre existed for centuries and millennia.

But it but previously it has operated according to actual need. It's operated according to making an informed decision about what you buy and why and so on Rather than basically hypnotizing people with advertising, hypnotizing people with marketing, and inculcating people with this brand loyalty to where they're they're for example, just for example, buying a new phone every six months or every year when their phone is perfectly fine and it works. There's they they've removed any sense of utility from consumerism, and it's and it's become like duty for you to buy even when you don't need. And when you when you impose upon people or implant in people this idea that that it's a it's a duty for them to buy, it's a duty for them to be consumers, well that removes the duty actually of producers of goods to even make goods that are worth buying. Because you make you make people just filled with this sense of I have to buy, I have to buy, I have to buy, I have to upgrade, I have to update, I have to get the new one every season, every year, every six months or what have you.

Well, that that removes any burden on the on the producer of the goods to even make quality products. And then they can also charge whatever they want. So we have to we have to try to return as as Muslims, and I think throughout the global South, Muslim and non Muslim, return to us. And I don't think this this should be difficult, to be honest. Because anyway, you've already impoverished us, the West.

You've already impoverished us, and you made us get used to spending our money only when we have to. And and no one wants to go in debt, even though they are also spreading debt in in our in our communities, in our countries. But but people tend to live by their means, and we have to maintain that, and not not fall into the same trap as the West where you're just trying to buy and compete and be con be a, you know, basically compete with other people in terms of being a consumer. But we can we we have done that and we are doing that and we'll continue to do that to rise economically. And this is this is when you'll see even more the relative power of the West in decline, Insha'Allah.

The the IMF, what they do First of all, the West, you, impoverished our countries to begin with. You raped and pillaged and plundered our resources and our economies, so that we can't really survive and we can't compete. And then, like a loan shark, you come to our countries and say, well, we'll help you with IMF. We'll help you. We'll give you money.

And it sounds great because our people are suffering, our economies are suffering, and we want to develop. So you come like a loan shark with the money, like the mafia, saying we'll help you out. But then once you give the money, then you say, you have to restructure your whole economy, the way you the way your government spends, all of the services that you provide, and and and whatever assets are owned by the state, whatever enterprises are owned by the state, you're gonna have to privatize those. And you're gonna have to change all of your rules of investment and so forth so that foreign investors can come in who who already have an advantage. This is why we wanted the money in the first place because we can't compete, because our economies are suffering.

And then you you you come in and say that we have to now undermine our own industries, our own, companies, our own businesses, our own industry, to give, even more of an advantage and to put ourselves at even more of a disadvantage, so that we can, have the the privilege of having your company that's already stealing our resources, that's already destroying our economies. Now we have to welcome your companies, and your investors into our country to buy up more, of our market, to buy up more of our industry, to buy up more of our economic sectors. And the other side of it is now the government also has to spend less money on taking care of the population, which is what we wanted the money for in the first place. But now we have to spend less money on the population because all of our money has to be channeled towards paying off the loan that you gave us. It's exactly like a loan shark.

You you give us a loan, and then whatever whatever we do with the money that you gave us is supposed to be channeled to giving it back to you. And it's always obviously with RIBA, with interest. So they they they impose conditions that make it impossible, to pay you back without, imposing severe suffering on our own populations, without imposing severe austerity measures on our own populations, and without, undermining our own domestic industries. So these are they they they always this is another example of the, the the language of the West is deceit. They say that this is for development, but it's exactly for de development.

The whole point is de development. The whole point is to undermine our economic sovereignty. So this is another example of how they how they simply lie every single time they open their mouth. And this is how they work. So there there there's an example going on right now, in Bangladesh, where Bangladesh is is in severe debt to the IMF, and the IMF has been, ravaging Bangladesh for a very long time.

But intra South, economic, agreements and intra South economic, relationships, particularly in this case between Bangladesh and China, has been giving Bangladesh other options for financing. China has been giving them other options for financing, and Chinese investment doesn't come with the same conditions that IMF funding comes comes with. They don't come with demands of now you have to restructure your economy, in order to prioritize paying us back. The IMF doesn't give you the money wanting you to pay it back. They don't want their money back.

Because when they loan you the money, it's not a loan, it's a purchase. They're buying your economic sovereignty. But that's not the case with China. That's not the case with everyone. Everyone doesn't do it that way.

But this is the way that they do it. And so this is this is the big trick. And this is why it's really important for us to to to decouple as much as possible. The global South countries, the Muslim countries, Africa, Latin America, Asia, to decouple as much as possible from the West because they don't have any other approach except a predatory approach. They will always act like a predator.

They they're they're, the the IMF, the World Bank, and so forth, these are all predatory institutions. They're all colonizing institutions, and they don't know how to operate any other kind of way. And a number of countries have understood, and anyone who's had an experience with the IMF, if they didn't understand it before, they understand it after they've had an experience with the IMF. They know exactly what they're about. But the problem is that we haven't had any options, and this is what I meant about the the relative power, the the the relative balance of power, economic power is shifting because, you know, it's sort of it's sort of trite to say because it's it's always in the headlines, but it's it's actually the fact that the relative power balance is changing because of the economic power of China.

And because China has a completely different approach to the world than than the West, they're not taking a predatory approach. They actually have a a belief in in harmony. They actually want a mutual benefit. They actually they don't wanna just come in and and and pillage. They're not just pirates and marauders like the West is.

I mean, had we had, this this, this, train, this railway, that that was just, that just started, for Tanzania. That was that was from China. They come in they come in to to these countries, to the global South countries, and they invest, yes, and they get benefit, yes, and there's always going to be some degree of, you can say exploitation because that's just the nature of business. I want to profit more than you, but the but there's a but there's a a greater degree of mutual benefit. And it doesn't come with the political implications that western money always comes with.

Western money always comes with political implications because they're just using it as a as this this is what I meant. By channeling their, their method and their technique of power and domination, from savage violence to savage economics. The the the the western money, the western investment, the western aid, western loans, and so forth are always conducted in a predatory, savage, colonizing fashion. And and that's not the case with China. So the more we have this ability, the more we can actually free ourselves from these these predatory loan shark institutions like the IMF that do nothing but ravage our economy even more than the than the extent to which our countries were ravaged in the first place, which caused us to seek the loans.