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Supporting women's rights while rejecting hostility to masculinity

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LessonRecorded 14 Aug 2019On Current EventsSegment 2 of 2 in the recording2019-08-14-S02

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Mufti Abu Layth backs women's rights and condemns abuse, but rejects what he sees as a campaign against masculinity, while accepting men who are naturally soft.

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Mufti Abu Layth says he supports women's rights, has spoken for equal rights in Islam on matters such as wills and inheritance, and holds abuse unacceptable in all circumstances. He says he seriously does not understand what he sees as this age's hostility to men being men under the label of toxic masculinity. He says femininity is among the most attractive features of women for him and, he assumes, for most men, and assumes masculinity is likewise attractive to women. He says people who are naturally soft or effeminate are fine and that men should be encouraged to express their emotions, but objects to what he sees as American social media pushing hatred of masculine men, closing with joking asides and a call to condemn abuse and the deprivation of rights while stopping the hate on men.

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Mufti Abu Layth says he seriously does not understand the hostility of this age against masculinity.

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“I seriously do not understand the problem of this age against masculinity people seem to there seems to be this hatred against men being men”

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that you have to write on Valentine's Day a letter to a love letter to the Sun a friend of the same gender if that be true that is disgusting that is abuse you can't do these kind of things you can't say you have to write a lovely you can't a look it write a lovely even if it's to the same gender that's your choice but you can't say write a lot everybody today's exercise we're going to everybody is going to be gay and we're going to write a letter to you that you can't be forcing these kind of things on children and confusing them

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or telling them things like this creating doubts so that's something I think that needs to be tackled so I agree with this I I'm against that kind of that intensity of confusion another thing I want to pick up on here okay is you know in this day and age people I don't know what it is look I'm all up for women's rights I always support women's rights as much as I can I've always been about empowering women wherever they need to be empowered I feel that Islam empowers them I've always spoken out for equal rights

5:49

Islamically that whether it's going to be in the will whether it's going to be in terms of inheritance I've spoken I've given the kind of diversity the different opinions whether it's on things like that abuse is unacceptable under all circumstances that so on so I spoken out and I continue to do that because I believe in that okay that said I seriously do not understand the problem of this age against masculinity people seem to there seems to be this hatred against men being men

6:27

and I don't know what that is about like why do you why do people hate on men like they call it toxic masculinity why is it toxic like if you ask me what is the one of the most attractive features of women obviously apart from I could obviously list out all the other side wait here's images obviously apart from like all men you could list all the physical attributes I'm sure but one of the most major attractive features for me as a

7:03

person in a woman is femininity most I'm assuming most men if not all men are so overwhelmingly attracted to femininity like they just are like without they just program we're just obviously programmed to the physical features as well but we're programmed to be attracted to and I'm assuming it must be vice versa I'm assuming I'm assuming and some reports show that even these very you know man-hating feminists kind of women are still attracted to men like that that are very kind of masculine but

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I don't look whether you like it or don't like it that's up T I'm not saying everybody has to be very kind of macho or they have to be like that everybody can just be their natural selves but why hate on masculinity like why hate on it what's wrong with a man being a man should be a man for God's sake you know not a half an excuse for like I don't get that like and people are like or what men should be always kind of soft and should be kind of like a feminine and look if you're naturally like that

8:21

fine I've got nope you know I've got no problem with if you're naturally all kind of soft and how and very kind of effeminate just stop just don't hang around don't hang around the gym changing rooms don't end up in prison and whatever you do don't go to madrasah be aware of that Trinity no but I'm saying look if you if you if a person is naturally like that that's fine but what is this push on hating on men who are masculine like oh

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this is you know Oh like men okay they say but why do men have to like like I say men like this kind of persona of being tough or being kind of like strong or being or they have that kind of macho they they look up to that macho thing oh that's wrong this evil why is it evil why that's but that's men don't say all but men should cry more they should be more in touch with look I'm not saying that you shouldn't be in touch with yourself and true some men many men find it difficult to express their emotions sometimes and I'm all for encouraging people to do that you know trying to be but you don't need to say like oh let's

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everybody should just be like all kind of honestly the more every time I read this it's like I see online so much and I see American kind of like movements very strong in this you know I see a lot of American social media that is pushing all this old toxic masculinity toxic masculinity toxic masculinity and I feel like we're like a dying breed thought of the main I'm not men anymore they just

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like just half an excuse for one so so I don't know man like yeah like very camp you gotta be camp to be like a man now you know this should be gender fluidity you know it doesn't really make a difference and it's like get out of here man I'm sure that women must find real men attractive not like like I mean like they must do because if men find that femininity attractive then it must be by the laws of nature vice versa I don't buy that they find this camp nestled very attractive I mean maybe they do but I find it very difficult to believe but

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uh I just think look if you're naturally like that fine but stop hating on men but yes condemned abuse wherever it happens can the deprivation of Rights and things like this I'm all with you and I support you wholeheartedly but yeah that's my so what if somebody said what is a real man would choose Esau boy don't worry yo what is a don't worry Ibrahim you'll find out just go to mother esada they'll introduce you to a

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few real I'm joking and joke it's a joking I'm the joking right

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