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The war on terror is essentially a war on Muslim manhood. If Muslim men are awakened, educated and empowered, they are seen as the greatest threat to the neo-liberal capitalist system & those who profit from it...
Islamophobes & their agencies are conducting psy-ops on the Muslim community. Muslim women for example are used as a key tool in the process of emasculating Muslim men to render them useless. Same tactic colonialists used in Algeria -use Muslim women against Muslim men...
Narratives introduced within our own communities of Muslim masculinity being ‘toxic’, barbaric, the most backward, the most violent, the most oppressive...
(This was one of the pretexts for going to war in Afghanistan - saving Muslim women from their barbaric men.)
(This was one of the pretexts for going to war in Afghanistan - saving Muslim women from their barbaric men.)
Even some scholars afraid to speak plainly about matters to Muslim women due to fear of backlash.
So slowly the duty of men as being responsible for women, the leaders of their families, husbands being in charge of the tarbiyah of the family is eroded.
So slowly the duty of men as being responsible for women, the leaders of their families, husbands being in charge of the tarbiyah of the family is eroded.
Female scholars/academics are cheered on when they selectively quote & label Muslim Male scholars and books of the past as ‘misogynist’....
We need to be careful not to be used as tools against our own men & our own scholarly heritage.
Despite the flaws and problems of our Ummah (which we should work diligently & wisely to solve), the best men on this planet are the ones who bow their foreheads to God.
Despite the flaws and problems of our Ummah (which we should work diligently & wisely to solve), the best men on this planet are the ones who bow their foreheads to God.
