talks about you know the female genital
mutilation female genital M mutilation
he talked to aan hery Ali about it and
she gets labeled in islamophobe because
she talks openly about the problems with
the
ideology Ali you do not speak for us you
do not speak for us you don't speak for
us you are not our Ally you're not
interested in our lives or our freedom
you've described Muslim women as being
irrational those are have having no
minds of our own you've called us slaves
how can you claim to stand for our
Liberation when you simply repeat the
language of our oppressors this is not
the language of solidarity or
understanding or Freedom this is the
language of patriarchy misogyny this is
the language of white supremacy this is
the language used to justify Wars
Invasion and genocide you're not here to
help us or stand with us you're here to
profit from an indust
that exists to dehumanize us an industry
built on selling hatred misinformation
and stereotypes it's a lucrative career
appearing on panels TV shows big budget
events where people have to pay big
money to hear you you know what your
audience wants and you give it to them
despite globally recognized institutions
describing you as an extremist despite
your claims being debunked over and over
again by academics and experts all
around the world despite your closest
Associates being white nationalists and
farri right politicians it seems that
people never get tired of touring you to
repeat the same rhetoric over and over
again because there is nothing quite as
satisfying to a colonizer than a subject
who becomes the salesperson for their
ideology we're not here to say that
Muslims are perfect no one is but your
narrative doesn't support our struggles
it erases them like all women we resist
patriarchy and misogyny every day like
our mothers and grandmothers before us
we strive for dignity and equality
within our cultures and outside of them
but you don't care your livelihood
depends on pretending our histories
don't exist that we're simply faceless
nameless victims too stupid to escape
our Savage Traditions you collapse our
plurality into a single convenient
stereotype this is not intellectual it's
lazy this hatred you feed puts us in
danger every day it encourages fear
persecution and violence this is not
brave this is not Progressive this is
propaganda bravery is not selling lies
bravery is living through the Relentless
hostility discrimination and pressure of
a world that fears us a world that you
helped to create and now she's here
writing books and giving lectures FGM
FGM female genital M mutilation so this
idea of female genital mutilation um
most people have probably heard about
this it's it's cutting part of the
women's private parts out or or the
entire thing or closing it or something
like that basically this practice began
either in Sudan or Egypt 800 BCE 800
years before the birth of Jesus right
what does that say off the bat this is
not something that Islam introduced it's
not something that you know all of a
sudden Islam which came 600 years about
600 years after Jesus or the Quran
somehow introduced into this region now
where is this taking place primarily it
takes place in Africa Northeast Africa
and kind of spread across Africa this is
an African issue so Christians are doing
it there Christians are doing it there
let me give you some statistics here you
got uh
itria Christian country majority
Christian you got Ethiopia Christian
country majority you know Christian
population and the rates of FGM in these
countries are 90% And 75% meaning that
Christians are doing it you look at the
country of Niger Niger is an interesting
case 55% of Christians in Niger are
practicing FGM 2% of Muslims are
practicing FGM so what what's going on
here the Christians are doing and the
Muslims are not doing it so what
happened all of a sudden something
flipped around you look in itria you're
looking at level three FGM M which is
infibulation which is the worst type
right it's Tribal One Tribe will do it
and the other tribe will not do it you
say well why is One Tribe doing it
because it's a cultural thing right all
the evidence indicates that this is a
cultural thing right that yeah some
Muslims do some animists are doing it
people who are like you know have other
type of religions Christians are doing
it as well Coptic Christians in Egypt
are doing it as well right so this is an
African issue primarily few other
countries like Yemen Indonesia
because uh you know it has to do with
demographics of how people moved into
different regions and traveled this is
not an Islamic thing this is not an
Islamic problem it's not an Islamic
issue did the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him did he have it done to his
daughters no were his own wives had this
procedure done no there's absolutely no
evidence whatsoever so what it looks
like is that basically you know what
probably happened is that this was a
cultural practice and the Muslims in
that area were probably trying to use
their religion to justify that practice
even though it's not a very strong
justification the Christians did exactly
the same thing they were had this
practice as well and they tried to
justify it and what's really interesting
is when Christian missionaries arrived
in Africa and people were ex you know
entering into Christianity the Christian
Church many of these Christian
missionaries they said you guys got to
stop this practice you got to stop doing
it and they wouldn't stop so they said
okay we're going to kick you out we're
going to excommunicate you from our
churches you can't even be Christian
anymore if you continue this practice
and they continued it anyways and they
said okay fine so many people are kicked
out of the church which means that this
is a tribal thing are Muslims in
Pakistan doing this no are Muslims in
Saudi Arabia are Muslims in Syria are
Muslims in Lebanon Muslims in Palestine
Muslims all across the world like I said
there's there's 49 majority Muslim
countries one-third of the Muslim
population lives in other places as
minorities most the vast majority of
Muslims are not doing it you don't have
any solid evidence linking this to you
know to being a practice in Islam yet it
keeps on being tied somehow with the
religion of Islam and I don't understand
why why this keeps happening look like
people whatever they can get their hands
on either out of context to twist it to
cherry pick um any stone they can get to
throw that's it uh it's it just goes
back to being disingenuous and
misinformed and a victim many people to
that false prop that that's out there
but but Joe our friend Joe talks about
um he talks about being professionally
objective supposed to be professionally
objective professionally wise being wise
right uh one of those things is you know
to do what we're suggesting that he does
is why not have bring on your friend
bring on someone like you and let's go
let's talk let's have that' be a I think
that would that would really bring on a
lot of lot of viewership huh absolutely
a lot of people be in tune like now he's
got his his uh buddy who's making these
claims you know what I mean and now we
got someone who's going to fact check it
right there say you don't have to go
back to the internet on the spot
searching around right yeah all right uh
let's go to um to another one