American Erosion | Part Four: Message to the Muslim Diaspora

You're in that part of the movie right before the disaster strikes. And if you're Muslim if you're Muslim, you ought to see it. If you're Muslim, you ought to recognize what those dark clouds on the horizon mean and what they are carrying for that country. You don't have time for nonsense. You don't have time for foolishness.

You don't have time to numb yourself with the anesthetic of American culture because it only is that way. That American culture only is that way precisely so it can paralyze you and tranquilize you. And as a Muslim, you ought to bear witness to what that country is. You ought to bear witness to what that country has done. You ought to bear witness to what that country has been, and you ought to bear witness about what is coming to that country.

So while I'm talking to my brothers and sisters in the diaspora, because first of all, that's what you are. That's what you are, and that's how you should understand yourselves. You are the Muslim diaspora. You know, we've got around fifty fifty Muslim majority countries in this world. Around 50.

It's a little bit more than that, but just say 50. There's a combined landmass between all of those 50 countries. There's a combined landmass of over 40,000,000 square kilometers. That's around 20,000,000 or so square miles roughly. Okay?

That's more than double the size of America. That's more than double the size of America and Europe put together. The Muslim lands are spacious. You understand? You could take all of The United States, you could take all of Europe, and then you could actually add another North America on top of that, and it would still be smaller than the Muslim world subhanAllah.

But for whatever reason for whatever reason, that narrow sliver of the earth is where you all choose to live. So you understand you're in the diaspora. You're in the periphery. You're in the periphery. You're not the center of the Muslim world.

You're on the fringes. You're on the fringes of the Muslim world. That's the first thing that you need to understand about your position vis a vis the rest of the Muslims. So there's something that we need to talk about that involves our brothers and sisters in the western diaspora. Now this is sensitive.

It's a sensitive topic. So I wanna be a little bit careful as I talk about it because you are my brothers and sisters in Islam, and I love you for the sake of Allah. And in fact, I'm only talking about this because I love you for the sake of Allah. It's only because I love you because loving someone means telling them the truth even if that truth is uncomfortable. I don't mean to hurt your feelings.

I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but I know that I probably will. And that's actually part of what we need to talk about. That's part of what I wanna talk about. That's part of what we need to talk about because it's your westernization that makes this a sensitive topic. Or rather, it's your westernization that makes you sensitive about it.

You know, at Middle Nation, we talk frequently about psychological colonization. We talk about the way that the colonized peoples have internalized the colonizer's worldview, how they begin to see themselves, through the colonizer's eyes, the way they adopt the colonizer's metrics for success, the colonizer's frameworks, the colonizer's paradigm, the colonizers way of understanding the world, the colonizers definitions, definitions of what civilization is, what backwardness is, what progress is, what primitivism is, and so forth. Colonized epistemology. Okay? So this is something that we need to work through as an ummah.

And all colonized formerly colonized people need to work through this. But when we're talking about diaspora Muslims, there's a whole other element involved. There's a whole other dimension to this, Not just psychological colonization, but what you can call psychological colonizer ization. You understand? Not just being colonized in the mind, but adopting the mind of the colonizer.

You understand not just being infected by the inferiority complex of colonized people that we all know about, but actually adopting the colonizer's sense of supremacy at the same time. The colonizer's hubris, the colonizer's sense of entitlement, the sense of entitlement to dictate to everyone else, the colonizer's unearned sense of authority, the colonizer's arrogance, the colonizer's main character syndrome. And we see this. We see it very clearly in a very significant portion of diaspora Muslims in the West and in America specifically. Now, is an incredibly complex and peculiar phenomenon.

I don't think anyone has ever addressed it. But we have to address it because it is a serious problem. It's a serious problem for you. It's a serious problem for you because it directly impacts how the broader Muslim world looks at you. How the broader Muslim world deals with you and how the broader Muslim world thinks about you.

That's why I say it's a serious problem for you because your westernization is alienating you from your brothers and sisters globally. It is. You are increasingly becoming unrelatable to the rest of the because you have this dual personality. You have this psychological split. You have this fractured psyche.

You've got two contradictory disorders operating simultaneously. The colonized mentality and a colonizer mentality at the same time. You know, on the on the one side on the one side, you've got the inferiority complex towards the westerners. I need to be accepted. I need to be seen as compatible with them.

I need to belong with them. I need to prove to them that Muslims are not the barbarians that their media says we are. You understand? I need to show them that Muslims are just as modern, just as rational, just as liberal, just as reasonable as they are, that we have a right to sit at the table with them. And all of this is according to their definitions.

All of this is accepting the falsehood that they themselves are modern, that they themselves are rational, that they themselves are liberal, the falsehood that they themselves are reasonable, and the falsehood that they themselves even have any kind of table manners in the first place that would make us want to sit at a table with them. So that's on the one side. That's on the one side. But on the other side, on the other side, you've got that superiority complex towards the Muslim world, towards Muslims in the Muslim world, towards Muslim rulers, towards Muslim scholars, towards the actual lived reality of Muslims in Muslim majority countries, in Iraq, Islam. And you feel an entitlement to opine about places that you left or in many cases that your parents or your grandparents left.

And in many many cases, places that you've never even been to. And you talk about them with the same confidence and the same detached and uninformed certainty as a western colonizer talking about our people, like at some sort of anthropology project or some orientalist lecture at Oxford or something. You understand me? Both sides of that fractured psyche have the same root cause, not two different causes. One cause, they have internalized western supremacy as legitimate.

That's it. That's the whole thing. That's the whole thing. Western supremacy and, yes, white supremacy. Yes, I'll say it.

A whole lot of you over there, a whole lot of you over there are infatuated with so called white people. That's why when I talk about, for example, America being responsible for the genocide in Gaza, you all rushed to start reciting right wing talking points about the Jews, about APAC, about how all these poor manipulated white Americans and Europeans have either just been fooled or they've been bullied or they've been blackmailed or they've been extorted into supporting the slaughter in Gaza. Because you just can't bear to think that those precious white people, so called, could ever possibly not love you. You can't bear it. You can't bear to think that they could ever possibly not be moral people, not be upright and upstanding and decent and humane and civilized people.

So it's just got to be the nefarious Jews. Right? Never mind that the Israelis themselves are nothing but white Europeans in the first place anyway, most of them. But you can't stand to think that your host country that your host country is barbaric by nature. And not because anyone ever forced them to be that way or coerced them to be that way or blackmailed or extorted them to be that way.

No. You can't face the fact that America has never been anything but brutal and savage to the indigenous people, to Africans, to Mexicans, to all Central and South Americans, to The Philippines, to Korea, to Vietnam, to the Japanese, to the people of Hawaii, to the people of Puerto Rico, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Syria, to Somalia, to Pakistan, to Yemen, to Libya, to Iran, to the Palestinians, to their own people, to their own people, and to their so called allies in Europe. I mean, you can't find a country on this planet. You can't find a country on this planet that has not been victimized by The United States Of America and that's a fact. And they've been doing it for a very long time.

They were doing it long before Jeffrey Epstein was ever born or APAC was ever formed. But you rush to exonerate them, to absolve them, to blame shift on their behalf, to find any kind of a way to let them off the hook for what they've done and for what they are doing to your own brothers and sisters. All around the Muslim world, not just in Gaza. And I know why. I understand why.

I know why. You live there. You live with them. You're invested in that country. They've got you and they keep you on the hot seat.

I understand that. And you don't wanna be on their bad side. Because if you ever admit to yourself that they don't even have a good side to begin with, it puts you in a very awkward position. Because that would make you complicit. That would make you culpable.

That would mean that you are cozying up to the enemy. You understand? You're in his house. You're wearing his clothes. You're eating his food.

And you can't feel good about yourself if you acknowledge the reality that that means that you are trafficking in stolen goods and you're benefiting from a criminal enterprise. So you have a vested interest in defending white innocence. Now I say white, so called white not because this is any kind of a legitimate concept, it's not. But because it means something in America. Obviously, Islamically, it's absurd.

The whole concept is absurd. But you're living in a society in which the whole societal system is governed by this absurdity and it always has been. And most likely you or your parents or your grandparents come from countries that were colonized by barbarians who inflicted this intellectual atrocity on the people there. So it was beaten into generation after generation after generation that these people, these white people run things. They control things.

These people are superior. These people are powerful. These people are smarter than everyone else. These people are better than everyone else. These people are more advanced than everyone else.

These people are more civilized than anyone else. And if you question that, if you question how civilized and wonderful and decent they are, well, we'll go ahead and just lynch you and set your whole village on fire. And that's probably how most of you even ended up over there in the first place. Because all those wonderful decent moral upstanding so called white people ransacked your country. So you have to love them.

You have to love them and you have to believe that they are worth that love because otherwise, if they're not worth that love, then it just means that you're terrified. It means that you're terrified and you're cowardly and you're obsequious and you're pathetic. So some of you, yes, some of you, not all of you, some of you are actually more white supremacists than the KKK. You're more invested in white supremacy than a Nick Fuentes. SubhanAllah.

Sometimes I think that the only people who are gonna continue bearing the banner of so called western civilization in the near future is gonna be from among our own people. It's gonna be from those people, our own people who have been indoctrinated because of the complex mixture of incentives that are inherent in being an immigrant. Increasingly, we're gonna find ourselves at odds with you, with members of our own community in the diaspora. Even more than we're at odds with non Muslims sometimes, even more than we're at odds with so called white people sometimes. Because as the global transition progresses, as it progresses, all of those people that you can call actual westerners, people of European descent, so called white people, they're gonna drop the banners of western so called civilization so fast it'll make your head spin.

And they're already doing it. They're already doing it. And you're gonna watch them book a seat on the next flight out of The United States Of America, out of The UK, out of the EU. If they think that they can find a better quality of life somewhere else, they'll do it. But our own people, for many among them, they drank the kool aid so deep that it runs in their bloodstreams.

They have the mentality of an American or a Brit from 1920, wandering the empty halls of a of a of an old colonial mansion that they're just happy to be inside of and they don't even notice that it's derelict and empty. But it's precisely because they believe in the illusion. It's precisely because they have swallowed the western supremacist narrative about the West, about western so called civilization that they have an inferiority complex towards the westerners. And it's exactly for that same reason that they look down on the Muslim world because they're measuring the Muslim world against that same false western standard, that same fraudulent yardstick. They're measuring the Muslim world against the West delusional self assessment.

You understand me? And the Muslim world measured against a fraudulent western yardstick is always gonna fall short in your eyes because that yardstick was always designed only for one purpose and one purpose only, which is to make the West look superior and everyone else look inferior. That's the whole point of it. But if you dare to measure the West by their own yardstick, I'm talking about freedom, democracy, liberty, right, human rights, reason, rationality, you know, so called high civilized moral values and whatnot, well, you won't find any country, You won't find any nation, any people that's farther away from that standard than they are, than the ones who came up with that standard. I told you before, you are not measuring the Muslim world against an objective standard.

You are measuring it against a propaganda poster. Now, like I said, there's a mechanism here that drives this. There's a mechanism that drives this, and it is the desire to assimilate, the desire to be accepted. And I understand it on a human level. I understand.

I'm not mocking it. I understand when you're a so called minority in a foreign country, you're visibly different. Right? When the media is always constantly telling a story or telling a narrative about you and about your people every single day, twenty four hours a day, that's hostile and dehumanizing to you. Sure.

I understand you feel the pressure to prove that that's not what you are. You feel the pressure to try to distance yourself from the caricature that they're drawing of you. I understand. You feel the pressure to perform a reasonableness for an audience that starts from the position of suspicion about you. The audience starts from a position of hating you and thinking that you're a barbarian, so you try to prove how reasonable you are.

You try to perform modernity for them. You perform liberalism for them. You perform separation from certain parts of Islam that make westerners uncomfortable. You perform compatibility with so called western values and western priorities and so forth. And the easiest and the fastest way to do that, the cheapest possible ticket to western acceptance is to adopt western criticisms of the Muslim world.

Call for democracy in Muslim countries. Attack the Muslim rulers in exactly the same language that Washington think tanks criticize and condemn the Muslim rulers and the the Western mainstream media. Signal to them that you're not like the rest of us. That you've evolved beyond us. That you understand what we in the Muslim world don't understand.

That you have a a more enlightened understanding of Islam than we do in the Muslim world. You become a tool for Western priorities, sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously. And you spread Western propaganda, you spread Western talking points, you spread Western geopolitical priorities, and you think that you're engaging in brave independent commentary, but you're not. You're actually just lip syncing colonizer rhetoric. That's all you're doing.

You know, I saw one relatively popular diary recently doing a livestream online and he was answering questions. And someone asked him, what can we in the West do? Us Muslims in the West, what can we do to help Palestine? And after saying that Muslims in America, you know, should teach their kids the original Palestinian Arabic names for the different towns and the different cities in Palestine instead of having them learn the Israeli names. That was all they could think of.

That was all sitting there in the imperial command center of the genocide. Right? Sitting in the country that arms, that funds, that defends, that provides political cover for the Zionist genociders and without whom Palestine would have been liberated fifty years ago is in that country After saying that he could that that that you should teach your children the Arabic names of Palestinian towns, he said that the main thing that we need to do is to end all those dictatorships in the Muslim world. Imagine. Imagine.

The best thing that you can think of to do over there in America, in the country that is responsible for the entire catastrophe of Palestine, the best thing that you can think of to do is to come over and try and topple the Muslim governments. Bring down our governments. Bring down our governments. Destabilize our countries. Bring turmoil and upheaval to our lands.

You understand me? Undermine the authority of our leaders. Create discord, create disunity, and create rebellion in the Muslim world. That's the best thing that you can think of. All in the name of so called democracy when you don't even have that over there.

I mean, he jumped straight to attacking the Muslim rulers right away. They're sellouts. They're dictators. They're only interested in money. They're they're hypocrites and what have you.

Meanwhile, the country that you're sitting in right now doing this livestream is the one that's making the bombs. They're making the missiles. They're making the drones. They're making the attack helicopters and all the aircraft, and they're sending those all over to Israel to massacre our people. And you are paying for it with your tax money.

You're paying for all of that with your taxes, and you're sitting in that country. You're sitting in the very country that subjugated our land that you're criticizing now and overthrew our governments, sanctioned our countries, impoverished our countries, economically strangled our countries, organized armed, vicious, armed mercenary groups, militias, extremist groups that they organized, that they created just to murder us, mass murder us in our own lands. The country that forced agreements down our throat, that forced deals down our throat, that vetoed every ceasefire resolution, vetoes every condemnation of Israel, sanctions ICC judges, demolished Iraq, demolished Libya, demolished Afghanistan. Right? Commits drone strikes and targeted killings all across the Muslim world.

That's the country that you're in right now. And you think that the only thing that you are supposed to do about all of this is to teach your kids to say instead of and instead of. Just teach your kids the names of all of the towns that your tax dollars delivered to the Zionist. But the Muslim rulers are the problem. You must be joking.

You must be out of your mind. We're talking about the Muslim rulers who are the main ones standing up whether you would like to believe it or not, who are standing up at great risk and at great cost to insist upon a Palestinian state. The Muslim countries that provide the most relief and the most aid and the most, medical assistance to Gaza. The Muslim rulers who have now spent hundreds of billions of dollars to try to gain leverage over Washington. The Muslim rulers who have been trying to navigate the impossibly fraught and dangerous conditions that your country created in our lands, in our region.

And they've been trying for years to inch their way out from under that American boot that your taxes pay for. And who have been working to try to stabilize the region as much as they possibly can. They are the problem. They are the problem. Because what?

They're not a so called democracy. They're not so called democratic. Meanwhile, the least so called democratic countries in the Muslim world, Talking about the monarchies in The Gulf, the monarchies in the Khaleid, the GCC, the ones that you hate so much for purely western ideological reasons. Their people have the highest standard of living in the Muslim world, the best quality of life in the Muslim world, the most prosperous economies in the Muslim world. Because who else are you talking about?

You must be talking about them. You and I both know that he's talking about The Gulf. He's talking about the G C C, where their citizens have free education, their citizens have free health care, they're given land, they're given property, they have their debts paid off by the government, and they have access to literally sit down and meet with the ruler of the country on a regular basis in the Diwan. Yes. Those horrible terrible tyrannies.

You must be joking. Or maybe you're talking about Egypt. Maybe you're talking about Egypt as if the poverty and the hardship in Egypt is not the direct result of American and western colonization and neocolonialism and meddling and coercion and neoliberal economic oppression imposed upon them from your side. See, that's what I mean. Always blame shifting.

You're always blame shifting, always exonerating Western criminality. Malaysia has a democracy. Indonesia has a democracy. That's the most populous Muslim country in the world, by the way. They're democratic.

Turkey has a democracy. Bangladesh has a democracy. Senegal has a democracy. Tunisia has a democracy. Algeria, Mali.

I mean, I could go on. I could go on and on. But what democracy is only what the West says is a democracy? We've got elections. We've got elected parliaments, elected legislatures, elected presidents, all subject to popular vote all across the Muslim world.

Sure. Your oligarchic fraudulent so called democratic America, you don't legitimize any of that. You don't validate any of our systems. But we don't validate yours either. We don't validate yours either.

And a majority of your own people don't validate it too. That's the truth. And most people around the world already know that your elections are a hoax. They already know that. So no one's looking for validation from you.

No one in the world is looking for validation from you. And, no, I'm not saying this to defend the concept or uphold the concept of democracy. I'm only saying it because the accusation is that we've got nothing but authoritarian dictators in our countries, and all of them need to be overthrown. Meanwhile, we've got democratic systems all across the Muslim world. But you see this is exactly what I'm talking about.

This is exactly what I mean. You Muslims in the diaspora, in the western diaspora in America, you feel way too comfortable talking about the Muslim countries without knowing one single thing about them. And all you do is parrot the Brookings Institute, what the Brookings Institute says about them or what the Muslim Brotherhood says about them. Yes. There's no difference whatsoever.

There's no difference whatsoever between the Brookings Institute and the Muslim Brotherhood. They're both colonizer organizations. They're both colonizer organizations. They're both western supremacist organizations whether you wanna believe it or not, whether you understand it or not. So when you talk like them and when you think like them, will Allahi you alienate the whole ummah from you because you are just repeating western narratives.

You're just repeating western paradigms in an Islamic font. You understand? For you, democratic means good and good means democratic and anything other than that must mean oppressive and tyrannical and corrupt. Which just means that you're a purveyor of the same false hollow western definitions and using it without any scrutiny whatsoever. So you can dismiss and you can derive and you can denigrate any Muslim government no matter how effective it may be, no matter how competent it may be, no matter how much good they may be doing, no matter whether the their people, the people who live under that government, who actually live under that government, no matter whether they might like it or not like it, you don't even care, you don't even know.

You can delegitimize them anyway because it doesn't have the stamp of approval from the West. You understand? So Western approval is your primary standard for judging the legitimacy of any government in the Muslim world. And that mentality completely delegitimizes you in the minds of Muslims globally. And this is what you need to understand for your own sake.

And see this reference to Western and American frameworks. You'll see that this runs through every layer of your thinking, every layer of your thinking. Now not all of you in the diaspora, but many of you. Not everyone, but many of you. You're using their frameworks, and you're following and you're adopting their narratives.

Whether this is from this end of the narrative shelf or that end of the narrative shelf. That's why you all fall for the so called leftists. That's why you fall for the socialist and the Marxist and what have you. All these camouflaged neocons. That's why you're all fanboys of the so called axis of resistance when no one in the region can stand them.

Because their anti imperialism is fake and so is yours. It's performative and yours is performative. You understand me? I'm sorry to tell you, their support for Palestine is superficial, is performative, and is rhetorical just like yours. I'm sorry to tell you.

You take those narratives hook, line, and sinker. Hook, line, and sinker. And you never bother to actually learn about the region, to actually study and research about the region. You never bother to learn about the history, about the context, about the real geopolitics at play, the real power dynamics at play, the real situation. And you never bothered to learn about what any of our countries or any of our governments are actually doing.

The default position for you is that the Muslim rulers are sellouts, the Muslim rulers are corrupt, and your default position is that the Muslim lands are all poor, they're all weak, they're all compromised, they're all suffering under ruthless regimes that violate their rights and violate their freedom. Your default assumption is that all of our people have been secularized, have been westernized, and we're all far from the religion, and that the ummah has been subjugated and devastated and emasculated. That's what you want to believe. Like I said before, because the converse side of all of these assumptions is nothing but an affirmation of western supremacy. You understand me?

You're upholding the idea that the West and that America and that Europe, that the colonizers, you're upholding the idea that they have successfully defeated Islam and broke the and subhanAllah. This idea is so dear to you. It's so near and dear to your heart that the fastest way to trigger any one of you is to tell you that the is actually doing just fine. The fastest way to enrage you is to tell you that the Muslims are doing better now than we were doing a century ago, that we've actually improved considerably, that the rulers are capable, that the governments are competent, and that they actually care about the people. Oh, you can't stand to hear anything like that.

Nothing makes you more angry than to hear that the Muslim world isn't broken. That the Muslim world is gaining in their sovereignty. That the Muslim world is gaining in their independence. You can't stand to hear that, that the Muslim world is actually becoming independent from the West and sovereign from the West. That makes you go red in the face when you hear that.

Pause and reflect, brothers and sisters. Pause and reflect. The only Muslims that you're ever willing to uphold brotherhood with are the Muslims who are in fact being victimized, in reality being victimized. You know, the Muslims who are legitimately suffering in this world. Like you can't be a real Muslim in your eyes.

You can't be a real Muslim unless you're getting crushed by America's boot. Those are the only true Muslims the way that you see it. Allah forbid that they're prosperous. Allah forbid that Muslims be wealthy and stable and strong. No.

You're not allowed to have any security. You're not allowed to have any wealth. You're not allowed to have any success if you're a Muslim. You only like Muslims when they're bleeding and never when they're leading. You understand me?

The only narrative that you accept about the Muslim world is a narrative of victimization and weakness and suffering. SubhanAllah. You can't accept that Muslims can be doing well. You can't accept that they can be doing well, that they can be successful, that they can even have better lives in their countries than you have over there. That's the truth.

For you, only virtuous Muslims are the Muslims who are who are under attack. And by being under attack, that's what makes them virtuous to you. If they're safe, if they're thriving, if they're stable, you almost get offended. Like, who do these uppity Muslims think they are? Because what?

The only way that we're supposed to have any safety, the the only way that we're supposed to have any stability and prosperity and success is supposed to be if we go running over to the West for asylum, for sanctuary as refugees. It's like you need us to be poor. You need us to be suffering. You need bombs to be falling on our heads in order for you to feel justified being over there. You understand?

That's how it appears to us. Like you need to believe that you cannot live safely in the Muslim world in order to justify living over there. You need our suffering to be your rationale for living in Texas, for living in New York or Virginia or California or London. Oh, brother, I wish I could make Hijra. Truly, wish I could make Hijra, but there's nowhere to go.

There's nowhere to go. The whole Muslim world is miserable. No, it's not. Anywhere in the Muslim world is better than where you are. You've got a higher homicide rate in most of your major American cities than you even have in Syria right now.

See, that's what I mean. That's what I mean. Just propagating western supremacist narratives. Western supremacist narratives about the West and western supremacist narratives about the Muslim world. Now, this is dishonest.

This is dishonest. If you wanna be over there, be over there. That's fine. No one cares. Be over there.

Like I said, the Muslim world is spacious. The Muslim world is spacious and is diverse. And our countries are leading the global South in the pursuit of sovereignty and the pursuit of independence. That's the truth. Our countries are moving up the ranking in every metric, every metric of national advancement, in education, in stability, in prosperity, economically, in governance, in health, in life expectancy, in welfare, in safety, on and on and on.

It's no mystery why Muslim countries are not in the top 10 countries of people who are immigrating to The United States. You can barely find any of our people who wanna go over there. We don't wanna leave what we have over here. We don't wanna leave what we have over here for what you have over there. But you stay there if you want.

You stay there. No problem. No one is asking you to move. Nobody from our side anyway. I mean, you've got plenty of your fellow citizens who want you out of there.

That's for sure. That's clear. You've got plenty of those wonderful upstanding decent civilized so called white people. Your compatriots, your neighbors who are calling ice on you right now and wanna kick you out. But no one in the Muslim world is trying to tell you to leave America.

You don't need to rationalize it to us. You don't need to justify it to us that you're living over there. That's fine. That's your business. All we ask is that you mind your own affairs and that you do not mind our affairs.

You understand? If you wanna fit in over there, if you wanna be like those people, go ahead. But don't be like those people with us. Don't do what they do with us, not with us. Don't talk to us the way that they talk to us.

Trying to tell us how to be, trying to tell us what to do, trying to tell us what we need and what we don't need, trying to educate us like some colonial missionaries. Now don't reframe the white man's burden as the diaspora Muslim's burden, like you're some designated teacher for us. You're here to teach us and reform us and guide us in accordance with all those same old fraudulent western concepts. No. The best thing that you can do for us is to just handle your business over there.

They're the ones who need the teaching. They're the ones who need the reform. They're the ones who need the guidance, not us. They're the ones who need it. And you need to focus on getting them to accept Islam, not trying to get them to accept Muslims.

No. Your dawah should not be a dawah of compatibility and assimilation. You understand? Trying to get them to see how close what they already believe is to Islam and whatnot. Trying to get them to be pleased with you.

No. Because Islam is not compatible with what they believe in. It's not. And they're never gonna be pleased with you. And you ought to accept that.

You need to accept that. Because listen, if they are pleased with you and they have not embraced Islam, then that just means that you're compromised. You've compromised yourself enough to become pleasing to them. And you all know which ayah I'm referring to. Now, know you're over there.

I understand you're over there. You're surrounded by them. You're submerged in that society. But don't you ever try to gain their acceptance by bad mouthing and by denigrating our people. Bad mouthing and denigrating our governments and our countries and our leaders and our rulers.

The very fact that you are over there, the very fact that you are surrounded, the very fact that you are submerged in that society is in fact all the more reason why you ought to try to connect with us. Connect with the rest of us. Align with the rest of us. Side with the rest of us. You understand me?

Affiliate yourself with the rest of the global ummah. You should be more cognizant than anyone else or at least as cognizant as the rest of us that we are in a confrontation. You understand me? We're in a struggle. And those of us in the Muslim world are confronting.

And those of us in the Muslim world are struggling to get free from the same people that you're trying to get close to. We're trying to get away from them. Do you understand? We're trying to get away from them and you're trying to get next to them. And the irony is that they are actually trying to get next to us and they're trying to get rid of you.

So I mean, read the room. You understand? Read the room. But you keep trying to avoid confrontation. You keep trying to get the struggle to end or at least you're trying to make it less of a struggle for you over there.

And you're literally at the epicenter of the struggle, brother. You're on the front lines of the confrontation, sister. You understand me? You're supposed to be the vanguard. You're supposed to be the emissaries of the ummah to those people.

And when I say confrontation, obviously, I'm not telling you to be aggressive. I'm not telling you to be hostile. I'm certainly not telling you to be violent or anything like that, shouldn't need to be said. I'm talking about genuinely speaking truth to power, genuinely bearing witness, genuinely telling them about themselves, telling them about their society, telling them about what they have done, telling them about what they are doing and calling them to repentance and calling them to Tawhid and working to try to bring benefit, trying to bring benefit to that miserable society, not just trying to bring benefit to yourselves by being there. You need to expose their paradigms, not absorb their paradigms.

You need to call them out for their falsehoods. Don't call others to their falsehoods. You need to prosecute them, not praise them. You understand me? When you call for Western so called democracy in the Muslim countries, you're not doing something Islamic, my brothers and sisters.

You are doing what every single American government official has done, every single western funded NGO has done, every regime change operation has done since the cold war. You're being their useful asset, nothing more, nothing less. And the only difference is that you have a beard or you have a hijab. And the only thing that you're gonna do is alienate yourself from us. And you won't even gain their love, you won't gain their appreciation, you won't gain their respect.

You understand? When you opine about MBS or about Jordan, GCC or about Turkey or about Egypt or anywhere else in the Muslim world, when you disparage the decisions that are being made by the leadership in those countries, by the rulers in those countries, by the by the rulers of the countries that you don't live in, decisions that are made within a context that you don't understand and you're trying to understand them through framework that you absorb from Western media, you're not speaking truth to power, you're speaking power to truth. You understand? You're laundering propaganda and you'll answer for that. You'll answer for that in this life and in the next life.

In this life, you'll answer to it. You'll answer for it through being ignored and through being discredited in the eyes of your own brothers and sisters in Islam globally. And you you already know that you'll answer for it in the next life and we pray that your reckoning will be merciful. I said you will lose us. You will lose us and you won't even gain them.

I said it before. It's like it's like thinking that proximity to a sports team makes you a part of the team because you're in America, because you pay taxes in America, because you have an American passport or a British passport or a French passport or what have you. You think that you're part of the friend group. You think you're part of the team. You think you're part of the society.

You think you're part of their civil project. No. You're the soccer ball. You're the football. Both sides kick you around to get their points, to score their points, both on the right and on the left.

When America wants to demonstrate how tolerant they are and how diverse they are, they'll point to you. When America wants to go to war with your parents or your grandparents' country, they'll point to you to explain why. When America needs credibility for some geopolitical position about the Muslim world that they're taking, then they just need to find a Muslim face to put in front of the camera to articulate that position because they think it's gonna be more believable. They think you're more useful. You're useful to them.

You're you're you're not a member of the team. You're a tool. That's all that they see you as. That's all that they ever will see you as. And as long as you're doing it, that's all that we will ever see you as.