Jordan Peterson's Message To Muslims | Mufti Abu Layth

i want to say a few words on jordan peterson's message to muslims um what are my thoughts on it well okay i'm sure you've all watched it by now i i think it's about seven seven minutes long jordan peterson made a bunch of messages to different people to ceos a message to christian i think to christians to other people and to muslims and because he has a very strong muslim following as well right his message to muslims

you know for someone i i am a fan of jordan peterson but i have to say his message was abysmally appalling and it just i don't know what on earth was going on the it seemed so um artificial it seemed it was very condescending it was just so ill-informed and it was it wasn't even it's not even i mean it's ill-informed but it was so superficial which was completely not like jordan peterson this is the the shocking thing i mean he's somebody

so profoundly intelligent that when he's asked questions he'll say well that's an incredibly complex and complicated question because he has a lot of moving parts and and he goes into all of so his message very briefly was that look muslims um i mean he was grateful that muslims have this dynamic in this relationship with him and follow him

but he felt that um right muslims need to stop fighting amongst themselves they need to stop this sunni shia divide or sorry sunny shia fighting sectarian hatred and fighting they need to start loving one another they need to extend start loving the people of the book the christians and god forbid start loving the jews and you know we have uh the abraham accord which you know he mentions the abraham accord and and so and we need to perhaps take pen pals from

different sects and different faiths to realize that the true enemy is not uh the people of scripture but the enemies the enemy within and the whole and that was the gist of the message and the message was so condescending yeah it was like it was just so what are you what read and it felt like he was reading it out this is what it felt like it wasn't like how he normally speaks with just just a natural vibe it was very artificial it was imposed i personally

felt that maybe it was written for him and he just read it and i think part of that may have been because i know he is moving towards he has joined the platform the daily wire and i'm sure there's certain agreements with things like this because you see joining these platforms that then extend to you a an abundance of wealth see they give you let's say

millions potentially i don't know exactly how much they've given him but i wouldn't be surprised if you know we're talking in the millions i'm assuming um which then frees him up to do or at least in you know what nears these kind of astronomical figures which is to free him up from relying on other source streams of income but then like anything it comes with a price you know there are no free lunches so you have to pay these prices to to just do certain things and i think

maybe part of that was to say this to um it just you see i guess the underlying message um one could say well the underlying message i guess sure i mean that's just a message of saying look people have less discord and disunity amongst yourselves and let's move towards compassion and love which i think is a wonderful message but it's just the way it's being said with such super simplicity and not simplicity simplistic means well for example um the sunni shia

divide the way everybody knows that the it is less so about sunni shia and it is more so about politics it is about iran it is about the neighboring states it is about iraq it is about the vacuum that was created it is about it's more political the issue i i don't mean the sunni shiite issue is political sure i mean that's a different kind of politics we're talking about historical politics but i mean the that the tension that is in certain parts of the world is more a consequence of

politics than it is of theology so that there's been isis and so on and all these things and it's not it's not about oh hey it's sunishia sure i agree that you know there should be more harmony but to say well guys you know stop it now behave oh stop it oh no you know this this is what the hell are you on about and to say look come on you know christians ate your enemies and jewish people ain't your enemy but muslims have never felt

i'm not saying there haven't been times when people have been warring but by being a christian you are not an enemy of islam the quran says they are al-kitab they are accra in terms of compassion to you from the scriptures of these people the people of the book muslims have always had a very close um a very close um bond of a societal bond with jews and christians right from the time of bernal abbas

there's they've been very close sure there's been argue you know there's been there's been differences as well there's been wars as well between christendom and islam let's say the you know the islamic cut so to speak but this but there's also been close ties of friendship there's been intermarrying there's been the quran says you can do these things you can eat you can eat their meat you can intermarry these things have always been there even with the jewish people there's been for hundreds of years jewish communities still living today in morocco that migrated from muslim space that muslim spain chose to migrate to the muslim lands these uh

you know centuries-old jewish communities living in iran the issue with the jewish muslim dynamic is not faith it's israel it's political it's the israel-palestinian issue that's what it's been it's not been so if you went back let's say into the 19th century backwards you retrospectively you wouldn't find this issue because the nation-states hadn't fully been divided and and israel hadn't been created so okay

right so for somebody so intelligent surely you understand because it you know there's there's the geopolitics the sensitivities the the complications it's not just about hey let me write to a pen pal say oh you know hey my uh christian brother hey my jewish brother hey my shia brother this this is not what it's about that that's not the issue isn't that they don't have sure i mean maybe some people don't have a medium to connect but that's not the issue you could easily find you know if a person want to find a christian

community you could just go on facebook and type in christian communities near you it's not that that's not difficult to find you don't need a pen pal system it's these things are so that there's so much sub uh strata to all of these complexities which are deeply nested in power structures and nested in uh in abuse and long history of of of this kind of turmoil which is also which the consequence of colonialism so to say for example the

muslim world needs to you know a lot of it needs to pull its act together the muslim world is in a state that it is let's be i'm not saying entirely not saying entirely but undeniably a an an element that must be factored into that equation that today where muslims are is that their resources were robbed and stolen and they had the you know that their territories uh pillaged and raped by colonial powers for between one to two three hundred years

that's it's you can't deny that that's not i'm not saying that's the only reason that's not sure you know since independence muslim these countries some have done well and some haven't and once again politics plays a role but some and then there's a lot of corruption and people i'm not so i'm not saying it's solely but it's an undeniable element that we can't just ignore this element and say well the only reason why uh let's say muslim countries are in a mess is because ha they can't get over somni

shia that's stupid i mean you could take many tribes in iraq have been they in fact i was speaking to someone about the um jabul tribe in iraq that's apparently one of the large tribes that that is a um a a synthesis of uh sunni and shia inter marriages for centuries and this is why it's it's a very noble tribe um i was being told and explained to so it's not that sunny these are the issues

why we're so behind sure maybe some people they are behind because of this but this is not why the countries are behind so for example pakistan as a country so you will get let's say some mad mullahs and some movie kind of people that are like totally uh obsessed with sectarianism and dogmatism you will get that but that's not why the country pakistan is stagnating for example the country is stagnating because of other reasons and amongst it you get these elements as well so i did find the message overall very condescending very simplistic

completely misplaced and it was if anything it was such a disservice to the legend of a genius who i feel jordan peterson is so yeah that's my my thoughts on it i did see some people reacting saying look come on look jordan jordan peterson uh you know is a you know you get some people jordan peterson is racist like i i don't i don't know i've not seen him ever say anything race i don't personally believe that he's racist i don't believe that um

some people say oh my god he's far right i don't personally believe he's far right although people on the far right naturally may find some some meaning take meaning from his words but we take meaning from his words everybody takes meaning from his word to me i think the reason why jordan peterson is who he is today there's a number of reasons one the man is undeniably gifted by god for his expression and articulation nothing i mean you watch that debate with uh susan blackmore and jordan peterson she is clearly

mine like that you can clearly see her body language expressing she recognizes her inferiority in front of this guy i mean he he's just like a juggernaut to debate with you could you could not i mean you could you'd just feel a person would feel so inferior just speaking being on at loggerheads with this person just because of the genius that he's gifted so okay this is one reason sure this that but i don't think that's that's for people who appreciate that but the main

reason that that he's so popular amongst people one is he's empowered people who have hit rock bottom he has empowered them that he's told them to make something out of their lives especially men who are um who feel so undervalued and this comes to the next most important point him you see people like why and you you're getting you have andrew tate for example who's arguably people may say a walking meme but he's a genius marketing genius why is he

so popular why is he so popular there's a there's a theme that is shared amongst these people like um jordan peterson andrew tade and some of these people there's a theme and that is that they have stood or they have argued vehemently that in defense of or whether you want to say in defense but for for the importance of being a man now this you see

don't under value these words we are in an age where men are increasingly being silenced and that that that is a catastrophe because ultimately whether look whether people like it or not ultimately men will be just as a workforce will be the backbone of a society now the fact that they're 50 of the civil off of civilization a point aside but they are they will be

the the people that are working you know doing all these kind of difficult jobs obviously they'll be doing the other jobs as well but i'm just saying this now to especially those that are lower down which are the majority of the people majority of the people are you know they don't have a voice so they're being silenced even further now this is why jordan peterson is so valuable to these people because he's become a voice for what it means to be a man that you sh that they stand up for some meaning to be a man now this is and i think this is what people are missing the mark we are in an age where things are

becoming so wishy-washy that way you get leaders stand up even if they'll say ridiculous things then like and rotate he'll say the most absurd thing but it doesn't matter because he's standing up for something and he's exhibiting leadership qualities in an age where other people are not so there you go people flock around them they gravitate to them so these are the reasons and the final part that why i cherish jordan peterson is that truly jordan peterson is the door stopper for modern militant atheism

you know new age atheism met its march in jordan peterson and this is perhaps maybe not appreciated by many people but those who followed the scene the atheism scene um they know that i i followed it very closely i uh followed sam harris i watched most of all you know we've got all of his or most of his things i had followed christopher hitchens watched all of his materials richard dawkins danny you know dan dennett uh these four horsemen of atheism i'd really closely seen that

movement rise from you know 2010 onwards that the figure the strength at which it came nothing could stand in the face of it and people you know what i'm just being honest people don't approve they don't acknowledge the genius of people like sam harris the guy is a formidable machine you know you you just truly haven't you know it's it's like i guess well you know it's like a person saying oh well he's nothing what does he know the guy had it was he he was shredding people of

faith that he was an unstoppable machine of he's he's nothing but a genius it's true i mean you have to give credit to to the man even if he is against faith and he gave in this day and age one of the toughest these people gave the toughest they maybe look maybe people weren't watching this scene closely so to them they don't realize it because they don't they weren't following it but if you were following it these people ma they've really you know they gave such a tough time to faith

and the only kind of door stopper to that in the last three four years was jordan peterson he turned that around it was a copernican moment in our lifetime where faith all of a sudden is not embarrassed on the non-muslim front not to muslim muslims kind of had their faith and they were like a community within an insular community so people don't really you know they don't mix with with us we're just within ourselves but on the greater platform within the west it's now not embarrassing to say you believe where it was

but with the rise of of the in the last four or five years only and it's interesting even in a a discussion where jordan peterson is asked that who is your has been your toughest uh adversary and he says i don't think of them like that but then he says well you know if i had to use that word he said i'd probably say sam harris because he says that the man is a genius and he truly is but you can see in that debate it was like wrestlemania 6.

when i was a kid it was like hulk hogan versus ultimate warrior it was like that so these these are the reasons why people celebrate these figures that said his message like i mentioned to muslims was completely just it was embarrassing as hell it was so patronizing and it was offensive if anything you know but it was what it was people say oh my god boycott jordan peterson boycott him boycott i'll grow up you know like look he's gonna say whatever he wants to say he's a grown man who's independent sure you know most likely he was fed what to say and he was reading it

and it was probably stemming from some agenda that was people say it's linked to ben shapiro and it's linked to the normalization kind of efforts between israel and the gulf states and the arab states and it may well have been as in at the very periphery of that so he's just being paid look you've got you know many muslims watch you here say something like this and because he's getting money from them he has to say so so it is what it is and people say well but i would just say look you take the good you leave the bad and we don't need to be as reactionary that's all

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