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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Oct 29

So it’s confirmed that American Psycho, the right-wing/straight male classic and Zoomer meme treasure, is being remade. I’m personally a big fan of the original — hilarious, predictive, and pisses off the right people who can’t stand its popularity despite its gruesome attitude. I originally wanted to talk about what I expect they’ll do exactly to ruin it as an F U to all the men who love it, but first I’ll have to explain, in layman’s terms, why it became so loved in the first place.

Brett Easton Ellis wrote the original novel as a frustrated young man (of fluid sexual inclinations) who couldn’t stand the vapid materialist consumerism of 80s yuppies. I haven’t read the novel yet, but read some passages and heard that it's far more graphic than what the film portrays in terms of Patrick Bateman’s killing. When the movie was made though, the novel, which didn’t have much of the now well-known “American Psycho Aesthetic” took on its modern flavor with Christian Bale and a female director who added an incredible comedic and philosophical punch (which I don’t think she even realizes she made in the movie.)

From the beginning, serial killer or not, Christian Bale shows an almost erotic care about his handsome looks. This opening scene was originally intended to be a parody of extreme narcissism, but today’s “Self-improvement” gurus make Bateman look very sane and tempered by comparison. Every day on Tiktok young men unironically get in front of a camera showing off their Bateman-esque routines filled with meticulously picked beauty products and a tailored fitness regime, 10 times more ridiculous than what anyone at the time envisioned. Reality beating American Psycho in insanity is recurring throughout the movie with just about every aspect of it.

After this, all young men see outside of Bateman’s crimes (and the admirable fashion/fitness) is a life they too recognize they would suffer from if subjected to, and in many ways are — just without the benefits. The unspoken view of young men who see and love the film, which I suspect drives its critics crazy when looking at it in today’s environment, is that Bateman’s psychotic inner life is in a way justified because of the insanities of modern urban "rich" life he’s subjected to. This is especially easier to think if you’re religious and believe in an afterlife; that this world is just a temporary abode and those who obsess over it solely are doomed.

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Apr 12

The ex-gangster/pimp turned Islamic speaker. The psychology major to “female scholar” pipeline. The redpill masculinity coach who converts to Islam because it’s “based”. The divorced single mother who wants to teach young Muslim girls “their worth”.

Any worthwhile islamicate will never come about as long as this type of Broken Muslim is allowed to even speak in public.

No one seems to talk about the undeniable historical fact that Broken Muslims with ridiculous pasts filled with degenerate behavior never cause any worthwhile change. At best they inspire some Muslims to cut out some sinning from their personal life and a few conversions, but that’s it. They never actually build anything yet we treat them like they do. It’s sickening.

They also won’t build anything if they’re psychological messes. I don’t care if their past was their fault or not. I regularly see looney toon proselytizers and “speakers” who use the story of Sayiduna Omar RA as an example of “THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS WAYS”, and it drives me insane how much they distort his story. Yes, his biggest and only glaring issue was his disbelief, but that was pretty much it. Other than that he was such a stand up guy to the Quraish that every Muslim in Mecca fantasized of the boon he’d be to Islam if he converted, which he lived up to and exceeded beyond their wildest dreams. He was elite stock, not a model for illiterate gangster MORONS

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Dec 18, 2023

Nobody talks about how many Muslim girls implicitly reject guys for being too good/outshining them in basic character traits

You hear a lot about the opposite, but no one talks about the fact that loads of these girls are actually terrified of guys who are hyper aware about deen issues or have a mildly interesting inner life. They just want an empty headed retard who fits the materialistic aspects.

Dont believe the lie diasporoid girls say that they want a guy who’s “religious” and “smart”. These are just affectations they say to make themselves look good. Actual religiously conscious men terrify these women to the core.

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Sep 13, 2023

🧵I haven’t made a “what I hate about popular entertainment” thread in a while, but regardless, this episode in Black Mirror’s latest season falls right into my “cultural sphere” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how utterly horrific it is

So let’s talk about it:

To preface: I’m sure you guys who follow me all know already, but almost all popular depictions of Muslims in media today all suck. Horrifically, gut wrenching levels of low quality trash. It’s libtard diversity token propaganda with cultural communist undertones and never delivers a positive message that leaves the audience fulfilled or having learned anything. You will always leave these productions feeling worse than before.

You might think: is this the usual case of white libs trying to write about cultures they don’t understand and failing as usual? Nope! Not this time.

These shows are made by — you guessed it — second generation “Muslim” diaspora. Where white and Jewish writers only seemed to portray Muslims as terrorists and tech support nerds, actual children of Muslim immigrants who were “traumatized” by such depictions decided to portray us as soy chugging losers “struggling with life” who don’t care about anything and are up for everything. Amazing!

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Aug 21, 2023

I decided to give this a read. I knew it would be bad, but I didn't expect this. Lmao.

Let's go through it:

The point of this, according to this lady, is to "preserve the Islamic tradition" whilst extrapolating it into modern contexts. It uses, as a primary example to detail her thinking, a "case" she got of a woman who was "ghosted" during the courting process with a man after an argument. There was no nikah contract done, they were doing this purely moving along with social expectations. Therefore, under the tradition's law, there is nothing legally binding on this man. He doesn't owe her anything.

This text however argues, that because we allegedly don't live in a time where this man would be accosted and browbeaten for ghosting this girl (a lie), and that we aren't in Islamically sanctioned lands (in addition to other factors), we can use the sharia to hold him liable in this case. What could possibly go wrong?

Furthermore, she concludes from these reasons that this somehow makes the argument for a need of "female jurists" (AKA Muslim Longhouse Commissars) to help in these cases,

Ah yes, please hit me with "The modern world brings with it a total loss of Sharia, women most affected"

I'm sure this narcissistic perspective won't creep into the rest of this text at all

She then goes on to make her case as to how in the made-up, fake legal issue she has, the man has violated the girl and the sharia. The first point just assumes, as if they could read the mind the male defendant, that he used the courting process as a way to "have access" to her.

Other than this being insane on its face, the implication is very funny. Many Muslim men above the age of 20 have been through the process of trying to court a girl through parents at least once - what exactly are you, a Muslim man in a Western environment, allowed to do with a woman you're courting that's any more than what the rest of the non-mahrams that witnessed her in her life are allowed up until that point?

Seriously, think about it. This point assumes that the woman being courted was just living in a perfect cocoon, having never gone to school, college, etc. Would be great if that were the case, but Miss Badawi just carries this implication along without realizing it.

The only way she can stay consistent after this point is if she also thinks that Muslim women going out in public without a mahram and attending educational institutions in non-Muslim countries is haram. Is she willing to come out with that fatwa as well?

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Aug 11, 2023

A few weeks ago, I finished watching The Sopranos. After some thought I believe it’s the best show I’ve seen yet that illustrates the decline of male brotherhoods, immigrant communities, and American society as a whole

This will be on an ongoing thread of my thoughts:

From the get go, Tony tells you what the series is about. He knows that even though he’s far richer than his father was, he feels his father “had it better.” Both were mobsters, but Tony believes he had the better life as one.

“I came in at the end. The best is over.”

This is one of the main themes of the show: decline. Decline of heart (family), mind (work), and soul (America’s)

Throughout the series, each character finds themselves torn apart and struggling with each. Sometimes they give up one for the other, sometimes they lose all 3.

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