Ayaan 'Hirsi Ali' Gives it Her Best Shot Against Islam (2022-03-03) ​

0:00:00 okay thank you in in your experience
0:00:05 is is islam innately misogynistic
0:00:09 the answer to that unfortunately is a
0:00:11 clear cut yes
0:00:13 okay islam is misogynistic in its
0:00:16 approach to women i know that by saying
0:00:18 this
0:00:20 i
0:00:20 offend a lot of people i know that
0:00:23 people's feelings get hurt the feelings
0:00:25 of muslims i know that that is the case
0:00:28 but setting feelings aside and just
0:00:30 looking objectively as what it is
0:00:35 that islam says about women
0:00:38 and
0:00:39 where it positions us
0:00:42 the answer is yes it is misogynistic
0:00:45 and i'll give you a few examples that
0:00:48 would be good yeah
0:00:49 and i think the best example
0:00:51 because it's so factual
0:00:53 is the law sharia law islamic law
0:00:56 islamic law declares
0:00:59 that a woman has to have a male guardian
0:01:02 at all times
0:01:03 that's not required of males
0:01:06 in sharia law a man is permitted to have
0:01:08 four wives
0:01:10 she's not permitted to have four
0:01:11 husbands
0:01:13 in islamic law in sharia law
0:01:16 a woman's testimony in court is worth
0:01:19 half
0:01:20 of that of a man it's not the other way
0:01:23 around
0:01:26 a sister inherits half of what her
0:01:28 brother inherits
0:01:31 wow
0:01:32 and
0:01:33 this goes on and on and i think to be
0:01:37 because these basic tenets of law
0:01:41 sharia law when they're implemented and
0:01:44 where they're implemented
0:01:46 you see a huge difference between the
0:01:48 way men and women are treated girls and
0:01:50 boys are treated and i would say that is
0:01:54 misogyny
0:01:57 and
0:01:58 because i'm not i'm not that familiar
0:02:00 with
0:02:02 islam is sharia law something that's in
0:02:04 the quran directly
0:02:07 sharia law is derived from the quran and
0:02:09 from the teachings of the prophet
0:02:11 muhammad the prophet muhammad is the
0:02:12 founder of islam
0:02:14 and his legacy is a body of law and
0:02:18 norms
0:02:20 that are implemented where there is a
0:02:22 theocracy like saudi arabia or iran or
0:02:24 any of the other societies that try
0:02:28 to establish
0:02:31 legal systems that are based on islam
0:02:35 so another example on the misogyny side
0:02:38 is
0:02:39 women are expected
0:02:42 to cover their bodies and there is some
0:02:44 kind of discussion on how much of that
0:02:47 in some cases they let you show their
0:02:49 face and the hands
0:02:51 and in extreme cases you have to be
0:02:53 covered from head to toe
0:02:55 and confined to the house
0:02:59 your male guardian
0:03:01 chooses or at least you need his
0:03:03 endorsements to marry someone else and
0:03:06 all of this
0:03:07 is
0:03:09 in uh based in sharia law if you're a
0:03:11 woman and you're not happy in a marriage
0:03:13 it's almost difficult almost impossible
0:03:16 to divorce your husband uh and
0:03:19 the other way around for a man to
0:03:21 divorce his wife all he has to say is
0:03:23 declare in front of two witnesses three
0:03:25 times that he divorces his wife and
0:03:28 that's done so
0:03:29 on the question is islam misogynistic
0:03:32 i think these facts speak for themselves
0:03:36 uh is islam inherently misogynistic
0:03:39 well first and foremost of course
0:03:43 there are misogyny needs to be defined
0:03:45 because if it's defined definitionally
0:03:47 as it is in the kind of dictionary the
0:03:49 hatred of women then the answer is very
0:03:50 clearly no because the quran very
0:03:52 clearly states
0:03:54 in more than one verse you know in
0:03:55 chapter three verse 195 in the la liga
0:04:01 god does not let to waste any action of
0:04:04 any doer among you men or women and that
0:04:06 both of you are from one another
0:04:09 that uh in chapter 33 verse 35
0:04:12 the believing men and the believing
0:04:13 women and the you know and so on and it
0:04:15 mentions
0:04:16 a list of attributes mentioning men and
0:04:18 women specifically and then says that
0:04:21 god has prepared for them a reward in
0:04:23 fact the quran explicitly mentions that
0:04:25 we cannot have hatred towards any
0:04:27 believer because it's mentioned in
0:04:29 chapter 59 of the quran
0:04:34 god do not put any hatred to the
0:04:36 believers in our hearts and that of
0:04:38 course includes women as well so from
0:04:40 that perspective it's impossible to
0:04:41 postulate it is
0:04:43 impossible to postulate that islam
0:04:45 is misogynistic from that definitional
0:04:47 perspective but what we will say is of
0:04:49 course misogyny is a label that is
0:04:52 used haphazardly and arbitrarily between
0:04:54 people in the west in discourses to mean
0:04:57 different things so of course
0:04:58 neoconservatives or people that are more
0:05:00 right-wing or alt-right are
0:05:02 accused themselves of being misogynistic
0:05:04 to uh by um third-wave feminists and so
0:05:07 on and so it really depends on who is
0:05:10 the one making the claim and what the
0:05:12 robust definition that they have of
0:05:14 misogyny is sometimes that can be
0:05:16 ideologically um
0:05:18 kind of inspired in the case of
0:05:20 third-wave feminists i would say it
0:05:22 certainly is that's why unfortunately
0:05:24 uh even your father has been accused of
0:05:26 misogyny i mean people in in in the west
0:05:29 uh credible intellectuals and academics
0:05:31 have been accused of misogyny just
0:05:33 because they believe in a traditional uh
0:05:36 value of traditional values of family
0:05:38 system a complementarian family system
0:05:41 and for this reason the accused of
0:05:43 misogyny but one has to say this and i
0:05:45 think this is very important michaela
0:05:47 that we believe that there is an
0:05:49 equality of value between men and women
0:05:51 we do believe that there is an equality
0:05:53 of value between men and women the
0:05:54 prophet himself muhammad he said
0:05:58 that certainly men are equal to women
0:06:01 in front of the law that is the general
0:06:03 rule that is a statement of the prophet
0:06:04 muhammad however
0:06:06 we do believe in exceptions and we don't
0:06:08 believe that equality of value means
0:06:10 identicality and roles
0:06:12 and so of course people that are
0:06:13 detractors from the other side
0:06:15 like the academic charlatan ayan mcgann
0:06:18 actually means refugee in the somali
0:06:20 language of course an ironic reminder to
0:06:22 herself
0:06:23 she would say that islam is misogynistic
0:06:25 because of practices such as polygyny
0:06:28 which means that a man can marry more
0:06:29 than one wife and that is a practice
0:06:31 that muslims believe in
0:06:32 all practices such as that muslim men
0:06:35 can marry christian and jewish women of
0:06:37 course that is something that muslim
0:06:39 women cannot do in islam as well
0:06:42 and various other inheritance things or
0:06:44 aspects where there is a differential
0:06:46 there between how men
0:06:48 are treated to women
0:06:50 but we will say that equality of value
0:06:52 does not mean identicality and roles let
0:06:55 me say that one more time equality of
0:06:57 value we believe does not mean
0:06:59 identicality and roles and therefore
0:07:02 just like aristotle said that like
0:07:04 things should be treated like likewise
0:07:06 and that different things should be
0:07:08 treated the same we do believe that
0:07:10 women have a collective female
0:07:12 temperament on certain aspects which
0:07:14 need to be tailored for in legislation
0:07:16 which need to be tailored for in social
0:07:18 and political life and so therefore if
0:07:21 someone wants to use second wave
0:07:23 feministic collectivistic discourses to
0:07:25 try and attack the islamic narrative
0:07:27 then they must first establish the
0:07:29 truthfulness and the objective the
0:07:31 objectiveness of second wave feministic
0:07:34 discourses iron hersey's a feminist we
0:07:38 are opposed to feminism when we say that
0:07:39 feminism has now
0:07:41 almost certainly been cracked open as a
0:07:43 false ideology of course i think what i
0:07:46 think i should add to this in addition
0:07:48 to all that was aforementioned that i
0:07:50 and mcgann herself
0:07:53 was embroiled
0:07:54 in the most embarrassing
0:07:57 of public inquiries if you can call that
0:07:59 that whereby she herself was in a
0:08:02 preligious relationship she was a
0:08:04 mistress
0:08:05 she was a mistress to niall ferguson her
0:08:09 husband now and she was doing so at the
0:08:12 dismay of sue douglas who is his ex-wife
0:08:16 and
0:08:17 with the destabilizing effects of course
0:08:20 the destabilizing effect to his family
0:08:23 to lachlan ferguson to phoenix ferguson
0:08:26 the children of nile ferguson
0:08:28 so she attacks poligini in her books but
0:08:31 she practices in her daily life
0:08:34 and so this is
0:08:35 a serious hypocrisy
0:08:37 not just
0:08:39 in that what she does mcgann iron mcgann
0:08:42 but in that which she states as well
0:08:45 so the challenge really is and i will
0:08:48 repeat this if someone wants to quote
0:08:51 aspects of the islamic discourse aspects
0:08:54 of the islamic
0:08:56 jewish prudential tradition
0:08:58 and juxtapose it with the western
0:09:00 discourses especially here we're talking
0:09:02 about second wave feminism and expect
0:09:05 islam to correspond with those they'll
0:09:06 be utterly and bitterly disappointed
0:09:08 because clearly we believe our system is
0:09:10 superior we believe the system is
0:09:12 failing we believe that
0:09:14 nuclear households are being destroyed
0:09:16 in the west we believe that you've got
0:09:18 it wrong we believe that we've got it
0:09:20 right and so in order to defeat us an
0:09:22 argument you must first argue from first
0:09:24 principles and so yes we do have
0:09:26 differences with western especially
0:09:28 second wave or third wave feministic
0:09:29 discourses but that does not
0:09:32 that does in no way
0:09:34 show show indicates
0:09:36 that islam is misogynistic to the
0:09:38 contrary and one last thing i will say
0:09:40 is megan herself
0:09:42 is blissfully ignorant ayan mcgann i and
0:09:45 hersey mcghan
0:09:46 blissfully ignorant of the islamic
0:09:48 tradition the
0:09:49 under-qualified over-confident
0:09:52 ultra-crepidarian academic charlatan
0:09:55 right-wing apple polish-up
0:09:57 obsequious woman that she is doesn't
0:10:00 even know
0:10:01 that it doesn't even know the basics of
0:10:03 the islamic tradition mentions in her
0:10:05 book heretic in page 77 that we worship
0:10:08 muhammad she doesn't even know the
0:10:09 basics of the religion she makes
0:10:11 squandering mistakes one after the other
0:10:14 about gender in jewish prudence in islam
0:10:16 in her latest book at pray you can see
0:10:19 in page 151
0:10:21 where she makes a series of
0:10:24 unsubstantiated claims about muslim
0:10:27 women and their rights in islam saying
0:10:29 that their rights can be sold to
0:10:30 strangers and all kinds of nonsense
0:10:33 propositions which have no basis in the
0:10:35 religion of islam so if you really want
0:10:37 to know about women's rights in islam
0:10:39 one has to go to the source and this
0:10:41 ultra crepidarian academic charlatan
0:10:44 ayan is is just a failure who's who's
0:10:47 been uh embroi has been
0:10:49 let in by the most unusual types of
0:10:51 affirmative action program to the
0:10:53 neoconservative circles because she has
0:10:55 no academic uh acumen at all