# Is Mufti Abu Layth a feminist?

*Is Mufti Abu Layth a male feminist?*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/32/
- Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:45:32–2:48:08)
- Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/23/; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=9932s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/

**Topics:** Women in Islam; The Mufti and the channel

**Question as asked:** Mufti, are you a male feminist?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says he would like to think he is a feminist, though feminists seem not to like him.

## Longer summary

A chat question asks whether Mufti Abu Layth is a male feminist. Mufti says he would like to think he is, since he advocates women's rights in Islam and speaks against people shunning women, but that feminists seem to dislike him the moment they watch him. He wonders aloud whether he gives off a vibe of toxic masculinity, and responds to a chat remark calling him a male chauvinist that he does not think he is one.

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:45:32–2:48:08)

[2:44:52] uh too many shovels in the chat yep it is it is um i was feeling like a simp to ava who's ava and they hope they'll get laid [Laughter] see that's the thing that people don't get you see that kind of an attitude of sucking up nobody likes it and women don't generally it's it's it's such a anti-appeal factor so it's counterintuitive like they people think oh by sucking up and becoming this kind of like a lap dog that somehow that they they'll get a chance to be in with

[2:45:31] but that's actually seen as such an anti-attractive feature especially coming from a man you know oh you gotta be a man you know man have some then people nowadays will be like but what does it mean to be a man this one gender neutral you know gender neutral society yeah but anyway mufti are you a male feminist yeah i'd like to think i'm a feminist i just think the feminists don't accept i don't know you know that's weird because

[2:46:08] i advocate women's rights and i speak about women's rights in islam and i'm always trying to speak against people shunning women in islam or stuff like this but i i think i don't know why like feminists that are like the moment they watch any part of me they just don't like me um i don't know like even though i'm not i mean is it my joke so is it is it do i just give off this this vibe that they they think i represent male toxicity no sorry toxic masculinity

[2:46:47] ah your toxic masculinity but yeah so i don't know what it is it must be just my kind of the way i am because they see as too you know old i don't know i wonder what that is i wonder what people's thoughts are why do they why why do i give a that kind of why do i have that effect on feminists so people write what is going on i want to be a girl huh i wanna something i wanna be a girl who's not oh i want a girl i want a girl who is not afraid to be worshipped this is in the

[2:47:27] chat mufti is a male chauvinist am i i don't know i don't know right so i don't think i'm a chauvinist but is that the impression i give right let's move on to all right so what is going on all right okay so people right let's move on let's move on right so yeah you know we remember people

[2:48:07] remember that our below it are below it we've got let me see peoples what this one not this this is to warm us up right people get ready we need a bit of that so [Laughter] i just can't get over this you know ever

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment l4n4wD2jjps/s/32. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/32/

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