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7 answers in 7 recordings, 2019 to 2023. 6 with a checked position in his own words.
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· Supporting women's rights while rejecting hostility to masculinity
Mufti Abu Layth says he seriously does not understand the hostility of this age against masculinity.
“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”
5:49TranscriptCite 2019-08-14-S02corrected
· Can a husband or father force a woman to wear hijab?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that for men to coerce women into covering their hair is categorically wrong and does greater harm, and that the pressure to do so comes from male insecurity about women and from guilt imposed through fatwas, both of which he calls inaccurate and wrong.
“but to enforce that to kind of coerce people that would in my understanding be categorically wrong category wrong and you'd be doing much greater harm in my understanding”
11:49TranscriptCite 2019-11-03-S03corrected
· What do you think about men who 'simp' for women?
Mufti Abu Layth says he feels there is something distinctively manly that is becoming a rarer quality in the current younger generation.
“there is something distinctively manly that I feel is a a real it's becoming a rarer quality uh in the current younger generation”
2:38:02TranscriptCite 2020-10-27-S24corrected
· Why is it so hard to find real, honest people?
Mufti Abu Layth says the appalling attitude of some Muslim minority ethnic men in Britain unfortunately pushes many women into hardline feminism.
“you can see why it unfortunately pushes so many women into this kind of Hardline feminism you can see it sometimes why because the attitude of some of these men it's appalling”
1:28:14TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S20corrected
· What does Islam say about the red pill movement?
Mufti Abu Layth says he finds hating on any gender, whether men or women, to be ridiculous.
“but i i i find hating on any gender whether it's hating on men or hating on women to be ridiculous”
2:39:17TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S31corrected
· How did the Prophet balance gentleness and strength?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet combined compassion with firmness, being firm for the well-being of people and not in an intimidating way.
“it's not about you have the compassion but where the time comes a person is firm firm for the well-being of people not in a thugly intimidation kind of way”
12:30TranscriptCite 2023-05-09-S03corrected
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