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Abigail dunking on quoting the Dictionary will literally NEVER get old
Send Bitcoin lol
*[angry cat noises]*
Nobody likes a cherry picker.
I don’t mind it tbh, because some people have their own made up interpretations of what real words mean, and their whole argument is based on a misunderstanding that would be solved if they read the definition for once, instead of going off from their (very wrong) preconceived notion.
@@janmelantu7490 is that a toki pona username?
as a bilingual Russian girl, honestly, Natasha learning perfect English and forgetting most of her Russian pronunciation is a BIG MOOD
no
It's hilarious
Ok, you can hang out, but NO SPYING! ;)
Bilingual gang
haha, jokes on you, i forgot BOTH russian and english
As a muslim, I would like to say that criticism of religion is the only true way to find truth... unless you question you cannot find answers. Personally, I have had many thoughts doubting my religion, doubting my faith and then I read the Quran, listen to sermons and soothe my heart. Hazrat Ibrahim, questioned god, the existence of god, and then found him. Criticising religion is not hate of a religion. Lots of love to my brothers and sisters, and to the people of the book ❤. May you faith persevere!
You are just brainwashed . Stop praying 5 times a day for a month and u will understand the changes . And start listening to music more .
@@user-og9nl5mt1bYou’re obsessed with hating on Islam because you have nothing better to do in your life 🤡
Ibrahim didn't question
He just wanted to be more certain because no prophet went to the point of "questioning"
But I got your point
@@EE-xf3tr he did question God, the Gods his parents and neighbours worshipped
@@Aksarallah
Ohhh, I got it thanks
25:58 when she said "instead of spying on me" a person walked past the window. The attention to detail is very appreciative.
lol, that wasn't deliberate but it was a happy coincidence!
@@PhilosophyTube yeah. I kinda guessed that. But still most of the things are working in your way. I wish you more success and fulfillment in life❤️
As a Bosniak Muslim woman, I cried when you mentioned our experiences with islamophobia. It so often feels like we are hated on from the West for being Muslims and ignored by the Middle Easterners for not being the "traditional" Muslims. No one seems to understand that. I feel seen. Thank you Abigail.
As a "traditional" Muslim (no such thing really, but I understand you) all I can say is I'm sorry and don't stop being you and practicing your own flavour of Islam. ❤️ I also recently translated a Sufi Bosnian dhikr on my channel so feel free to check that out if it's something you're interested in.
I mentioned this on another thread, but: I got to know some Bosniak Muslim refugees in my teenage years, and nobody should have had to go through what your community has. Never Again, Never Forget.
The left needs to support non-traditional muslims.
The curse of every half-blood, really. I've heard this speech exactly, save the geography/nationality details, from Half-Japanese, Half-Korean, Half-Black,
Half-Russian, Half-Armenian, and many other half-s.
As a religious Muslim myself, it's not that you're being ignored by middle easterners; it's just a hot mess over here that we can't really do anything to help Muslims around the world. We have more than enough problems here (economy is very bad + civil wars + Israel&America...etc). However, we really care about y'all. All that aside, I've never met anyone having a negative thought on Bosniaks, but I've met so many who supported them during the Yugoslav Wars.
With Abagail I never know if the chess board is set up incorrectly by mistake or whether it's a brilliant metaphor for how we're "playing the game the wrong way."
I've seen her consistently pay impressive attention to so many smart little details, I'm convinced it's on purpose.
Ohh it's the latter mate
@@Ingydar_ missed opportunity to say ladder mate
@@dumbledalfthewizard9486 based and rook a1 queen b2 rook a3 queen b4 rook a5 queen b6 rook a7 queen b8# pilled
@@ryanreyes4622 nice try.
This triggered me. I was bullied so hard after 11/3 in Spain. I was so young and even my parents were going to take the same train that exploded. It never went away I got bullied for yeaaars by teachers and students. Thankfully I moved to my country of origin. Even I was born in Spain still was treated as an outsider and my parents worked hard legally for years and still nothing. My mom while pregnant with me her boss throw a hot casserole at her, but she dodged it while screaming racist stuff at her even before all the terrorist attacks took place.
Yup Spaniards truly don't like Muslims. I'm definitely highly biased against middle-easterners by and large. Wasn't that funny to go to a school with a bunch of bullying, aggressive teenagers wh thought they had to "Own" everyone that looked German. It goes both ways really, but obviously the once at the longer end of the stick are usually the Europeans. Still, shall I be honest? I don't think that immigrants that come from muslim dominated countries are our biggest threat, I'm not blind to the all the other, bigger issues.
Still, do I prefer "Chrisitan" immigrants over muslim immigrants? Absolutely.
Shitty human beings are gonna be shitty, no matter their country, religion, political views, or habits.
Normal people only become bigots when they blindly follow bigots, without question or repulsion. This usually happens when a specific group is demonized on the one hand, and when groupthink is promoted and widely accepted on the other hand.
It socks hard to be on the receiving end of bigots. I hope you won't have to find out how ubiquitous they are by becoming a group member of your current country's bigots' favorite scapegoat.
Stay strong and see past bigotry, not everyone is a dickhead. In fact I'd argue most people are just normies susceptible to be influenced, but not necessarily so.
islam has earned this reputation, by being a violent religion.
Honestamente, si que es verdad que para esa época absolutamente todo el mundo era imbécil, sobre todo los chavales que actuaban como en una peli chorra americana.
Y bueno, sobre todo las pasiones estarían a flor de piel tras el 11M, teniendo en cuenta la manera en la que por mucho tiempo se mitificó la "Reconquista"
I went to a catholic school (i am not catholic), and during 2016 after the terrorist attacks claimed by ISIS out teacjer of religion organize an visit to the mosque of the neighborhood so we could see islam from what it was, and not what we were hearing in the news, they prepare the visit expslining us things about islam and responding to questions that we had
Maybe we should use the term Anti-Muslim rather than Islamophobia. It is not a fear but rather a prejudice.
And anti zionist and remove antisemitic because the majority of zionists are European a d not actual semites (which the Palestinians actually are)
not true... about 60% of isrealis are Mizrahi jews ex Iraqi, Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Algerian, Yemenite, Iranian, Egyptian, Afghan, Pakistani, Indian and Turkish@@user-bd7hn3dd3v
phobia can also mean an extreme or irrational aversion. That's why it's also called homophobia.
This is something I've also thought about
Most prejudices are fear
I really appreciate Abigail's dedication to keeping the Arsonist thing going.
The word F stands for in ANIFA is not a word UA-cam likes. Very creative way to get around the censors!
I'm so against fires, you might call me antifi--
Also the "never had a secular enlightenment" runner!!
It caught me a bit off guard. I feel dumb for not finding the analogy easy to understand intuitively. I'm just like oh god. This confusing shit again.
@@QueerJunk me tooo can someone explain? i’ve tried to rewatch but don’t
I'm astonished that Ivan's been able to keep himself in business with the current state of petrol supply in the UK. Unless...
"Supply and demand. Isn't it a wonderful system?" - Ivan
It's because spines in brine are so cheap... god I hope someone gets this reference.
Let’s just say his business is on fire right now
@@Tamburlaine1 fish?
"At least wE cOnTrOl oUr bOrDeRs *something something* WE CONQUERED THE WORLD.. WW2.. CHURCHILL"
As a man who grew up in a Muslim country, within an atheist family, and being an atheist myself, this video highlights many issues that Muslims face, in my opinion. First of all, why do we call it Islamophobia, and refer to prejudice against Jews as "antisemitism"? Isn't Arabic a Semitic language, like Hebrew and Aramaic? Although I am not a religious person, by education and then by choice, I still have a lot of respect for Muslim people and admire many of their strong ethical principles, which can be enviable when we observe them.
Hello! Israeli here. Just want to answer your question about why prejudice against specifically jews and not muslims is referred to as "antisemitism".
This is simply because historically this is the term that was used to describe prejudice against jews specifically. If you asked someone today "what would you call someone who is prejudiced against jews?" they would answer "antisemitic". If you started using the term to describe prejudice against muslims all it would do is confuse people as to who you are referring to.
It will make discussion on the topic very difficult both when looking at past texts that used the word differently than what people nowadays know it for. It'll also make it difficult in the present as there would no longer be a clear way to define a prejudice against jews, which IS necessary (jews are the victims of over 60% of hate crimes and have been historically the most persecuted group - yes, even more than their muslim cousins).
I think one of the things we're seeing in recent months is an attempt to make English.. just.. harder.. People are literally waging war on English itself in order to limit free speech and this has to be stopped. If we are no longer able to understand each other due to conflated terminology we will never be able to reconcile.. I can give a bunch of specific examples of conflated terminology and other forms of dual meaning if you'd like, but I feel this comment is already long enough as it is @_@
The same word was used against '' Aramaic '' speaking people and arabic too. As a Moroccan with jew ancestry, I believe antisemitism should be used for both. I am not saying, antisemitism doesn't exist, or jews weren't persecuted. Just that using the word phobia for muslim people isn't right. @@YLivay
Anti-Muslim Bigotry is one contender for a replacement term @@aminossemementomori2878
Islamaphobia is usually directed towards the religion of Islam not the hate for Muslim people
Because the term antisemitism comes from Europe, and the Jews were the Semites Christian Europeans had as neighbors for the past two thousand years until recent times.
I despise those who hate on others, specially if the others are a minority, but what do I do when the people committing hate crimes on me ARE the minorities? I’m a lesbian girl who was subjected to death threats from my muslim classmates (and Christians), I can’t help but see the two religions as dangerous to my safety. When I try to explain this problem to others, they label me as Islamophobic for “criticizing” and “not supporting” their beliefs. How can I respect someone who wants me DEAD? How can I feel safe around someone knowing that they follow a belief that allows them to humiliate and hate people?
Your just expected to shut up and deal with it
I'm ex muslim but I'm unable to even discuss the trauma I've experienced because muslims cannot accept that their religion lead to my and others suffering
This is what kind of annoys me about leftisists and philosophers, it's easy to explain why being racists to Muslims, a minority, is bad, that's easy and I agree with it
But say what if an ex muslim or a lesbian don't make friends with Muslims and keep their distance because of their religion, is that bad? I'd personally say no, even though they are undoubtedly good Muslims, some of my best friends but then again the Quran literally demands for me and you to be stoned to death.
This video is not really all that great as it skips over a lot of the discourse, like womens rights under Islam. It's horrible. So people just ignore it to make the discourse easier.
The sooner religion is consigned to the dustbin of our collective, horrific history, the better! Stay strong!
ive always been of the mind that the problem isnt religion; its conservatism. you cannot know what someones opinions are based on their religion (or lackthereof). ive been called slurs by atheists and one of the more helpful people in my coming out was a muslim. you dont have to support people who want you dead, but that isnt part and parcel with islam because there are gay, progressive muslims.
as a muslim i feel bad for you tbh
@@glxrybxy8484 That's cool. You can let us live in your head rent free and cry about my 'Demise' or whatever, whilst I live my life and not even remember who you are in a few hours lmao.
So many characters in this one. The Abbyverse just keeps on expanding and I love it. It really is unique on this platform.
Always love her characters
@@alexshane5713 Yeah it adds a lot of flavour to the videos. Jumping around between a KGB agent, a cynical conservative woman and a British aristocrat is fun as hell.
The ACU - the Abigail Cinematic Universe
into the abbyverse
Atun Shei films does something similar. Good channel, deserves more views.
Unstopable sexual charisma had me in stitches.
If Labour really wanted unstoppable sexual charisma, they should make Abi leader. But that would honestly be beneath her dignity.
i don’t want to to be mean but i’ve genuinely never seen a man less photogenic than keir starmer
@@Everysinglepersonismyenemy He's like somehow if Ben Affleck looked almost the same, but somehow was less handsome, and still came off looking like knob.
@@mayathepsychiic Because if there's any group of people who are famously disinterested in sex, it's teenagers.
That term is goals tbh.
The problem with the word "Islamophobia" is, even when you are criticizing oppressive, misogynistic ideas, you still get lumped into with people who criticize Islam with racist or religious intentions, and will be attacked by privileged, self-righteous Westerners for being "racist", while I personally am not Muslim or from an Islamic country, with me being an apatheist Taiwanese from a Tibetan Buddhist family, I have many friends who are former Muslim or from Islamic nation, just recently an ex-Muslim Saudi friend of mine who escaped from a fundamentalist family was labeled as racist and was basically fired from her job for speaking against Iran on Facebook, even when she had the history of her aunt was stoned to death in front of her when she was 8, and she herself was physically assaulted and almost killed by her brother for being gay.
Western progressive Muslims being willfully ignorant and keep defending oppressive fundamentalist Muslims of their actions, all the while racist pricks hijack the plight of those who suffered under the religious opression is the reason why the word "Islamophobia" becomes as problematic as those people the word is targets against.
You really don’t know things about Islam
I dont understand all the last sentence Can reformulate
Me when i don’t watch the video
@Barry Dexter exact, islamophobia should only concern people and not the religion itself
islamphobia is born of common sense imo
For me… i dont like islam, but that doesn’t mean i dont like Muslims. I went to a school where around 70% of the students followed Islam. The religion promoted homophobia towards me. I had students I didn’t even know verbally and physically assaulting me. I understand that there people aren’t inherently aggressive or violent, i understand that those ideas where implemented by Islam. So that’s my personal belief, I will be very cautious around Muslims, but that’s for my own safety not me thinking they’re a threat to society.
PS: There were many Muslim people at the school I loved, I never once treated a Muslim differently because of their religion… even though around 60% of them treated me differently for my sexuality. 40% of them were genuine angels and amazing!
@@aasilkhan9936 that has nothing to do with what I said. Islam is homophobic and I think that’s wrong
"i dont like Nazism, but that doesn’t mean i dont like Nazi people"
@@CedricLlwydeven other religions are homophobic
@@CedricLlwyd😂😂even non muslim don't like LGBT community 🤣🤣
@@CedricLlwydso are other religons lol
It’s honestly depressing that the level of censorship on UA-cam has reached a point where it’s basically impossible to talk about serious political issues and not be demonetised and penalised by the algorithm - referring to the subtitles in the outro where Abigail explained how she couldn’t even explain 7/7 or “The big G” properly.
Because the west is becoming more authoritarian slowly
@@zooropa414 If only it was just the west...
How you go from "UA-cam is overly restrictive with what it allows to be monetized" to "the west is getting more authoritarian" is beyond me
Maybe UA-cam has never been the proper platform for these discussions. Js.
@@David12scht Becuase "the West" is a nebulous and kinda stupid term that encompasses a wide range of countries, cultures, and is really just a holdover term from the Cold War that has been appropriated for political means.
A private company curtailing speech about serious topics and using demonetization as a sledgehammer to keep advertisers happy is still authortarian. Authoritarianism is not limited to Governemts.
20:42 this exactly describes me reading Sam Harris when I was younger. I was nodding along and then thought ... "did I miss a page?" Like, how did we go from 'religion causes a lot of problems' to 'torturing Muslims is quite a good idea actually?'
You're watching Abby as well? Cool
Islamophobia (or any other kind of bigotry) is almost always used as a tool to dehumanise a certain people (the unruly) in the eyes of the public to justify their oppression (imperialism, colonialism, genocide etc) this was used by Europeans in their "civilising mission" when colonising the Americas, native Americans were considered uncivilised and barbaric and thus any atrocity against them is deserved, and later in India Africa and Australia.
The same mechanism was used in nazi Germany and is used today to justify imperialism and interventionism in Muslim countries but rather than the civilising mission, it's the "spreading freedom and democracy" mission
I was into him for a while a few years back (before JP and the sorts), liked his podcast for a bit. But actually dealing with his ideas through his books made me feel similarly and made me start to question what I was reading. Glad to hear I wasn‘t the only one.
Also: hi from someone who gets by with only bike + public transport in Switzerland. it‘s great and I love your content :)
Nice to see one of my fave UA-camr also enjoying the same content.
Yeah, I had exactly this response as well. I never read any of his books, but it did feel odd that this guy who had (seemingly, at the time) reasonable takes elsewhere would go so obviously off the rails when it came to Islam.
As a Muslim, I hope you understand that we are human beings like you, and Islam does not prevent us at all from being brothers, friends, and one family, whether you are a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, an atheist, a Buddhist, or whoever.
We are all one thing
I hope you Muslims take constructive criticism
@@saisanjanagurram1423 your comment made 0 sense
@@ArlecchinoAKAFather the thing is so many Muslims can't digest if we criticize the 7th century crackhead book so start taking criticism when pointed out
@@saisanjanagurram1423i bet your not even able to offer critizism due to your brainrott
@@saisanjanagurram1423wow. They made a plea to be seen as human and this was your response? What were you hoping to accomplish with such a stupid, irrelevant, and unkind comment?
I just wanted to say that I really appreciate you bringing up the topic of Islamophobia in your video. It's great to see someone using humor and a light-hearted approach to tackle such a serious issue. However, As a Muslim, I have to say that the aftermath of 9/11 has been really tough for us, it was a change of the world for us as we've faced so much oppression and discrimination that it often feels suffocating. It's unfortunate that we've had to face not only individual acts of Islamophobia but also systemic biases in different parts of the world, which continue to persist. thanks for discussing this and taking the time to shed light on this... Keep up the good work!
Well I guess you know how the millions of Arabs you colonized and murdered felt. Hopeful it gets worse for you (:
i feel bad as an ex-muslim that you have been discriminated against, but muslims on a regular basis do that against other marginalized group like the ex muslims, the lgbtq+ community etc. you have to become tolerant to them or else they will not support you either
@@aafeenshaikh4768 but it's only a minority that makes death threats. Even God say that killing one person is killing the entire mankind.
@@aafeenshaikh4768 it's up to you if wanna be a Muslim or not. However it doesn't make sense scientifically that you can choose your gender.thats totally illogical and dumb af.Why will anyone be tolerant towards lgbt shit when they clearly don't make any sense
We all know, we'll be hated either way. Whether the incident happened or not. We will always be hated.
"I'm putting on the combination Joker makeup and Guy Fawkes mask" is one of the most iconic lines in video essay history
Also, possibly a combination-pizza-hutt-and-taco-bell reference>
I need to see fan art of this immediately
@@edslushie570 the one on Jamaica Avenue?
@@edslushie570 my first thought haya
but does the Joker make-up go under the Guy Fawkes mask, or on top of it?
Abigail pulling her best cosplay of the Ukrainian singer at Eurovision Song Contest 2021
I see a person of culture as well :))
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Oh my god yesssss
@Vivitan I've been living in a "majority Islamic" country for 27 years and never heard of that happening, but whatever, *Muslims bahhd*
@Vivitan I know and I agree with you (I'm gay myself) but most of the time I hear these arguments made is when someone tries to justify hatred against Muslims and dehumanise them "haha Palestinians have no LGBTQ rights thus they deserved to be ethnically cleansed" and it's often hypocritically made by right wingers.
A quote from a video called "can Trump supporters and immigrants find a common ground" by jubilee:
"Muslims often not only they have to defend their religion but their humanity" and it hit me like a train because in my teenage years I had the mentality of "don't hate me, I'm from the good ones not like those baddies you hear about".
Also take the fact that I'm gay with a grain of salt because our response to hate shouldn't be to disassociate ourselves from a targeted group "A- Muslims are terrorists and cockroaches.
B- I'm not Muslim" but to call out the bigotry and racism.
On the subject of manufacturing capacity for PPE during COVID, we had it. We were exporting N95 masks, aprons, gloves and other PPE. Manufacturers were literally calling the government offering their stock and to increase production, in return for a guaranteed market. But the government, because those manufacturers were small businesses and not their mates, said no. So the manufacturers sold their stock to other countries whose governments called them..
Really what about 1400 years of christophobia in Islamic states and their subjugation and discrimination system based on teachings of Islam
Great whataboutism. Christians are mostly fine in the middle east now. We are talking about islamophobia.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 "mostly fine" """mostly""" you can't even deny it lmfao you're fucking pathetic
see the thing is that, oldest churches are still standing in the muslim levant but I can't remark a standing mosque in iberia
@@Wowyouexist1234 Agia Sophia of Istanbul...an architectural wonder,the greatest church for east christianism ...from museum....now is a mosque.
Islamophobia is just a joke for stupid people.
1400 years of Christianphobia in Islamic state u are literally so funny and liar, why we leave the church's until now why we let Christian eat pork in every Muslim country!
Whenever the arsonists sister or the arsonist is in one of the videos I have to think about that book we had to read in school where the plot went somewhat like this: there are fires being laid all over the land, always at night, always by two strangers asking for shelter in the night. And then two strangers appear at the door of this couple and ask for shelter. The husband is suspicious but not to the point to turn them away, the wife seems not to be suspicious at all. And the two starngers are very charismatic and make jokes about them being the arsonists. Then as the evening goes on, they ask for matches. The couple gives them to them. Then they ask for petrol. The couple gives it to them. Then they ask if they can sleep under the roof, where the wooden structure of the house is bare. The couple allows it. Everything they ask for something the husband is suspicious and the wife says something like "if they really were the arsonists, would you really think they'd ask so openly?" And then the husband goes "well you're right on that". All the while the strangers make constant jokes about how silly it would be if they were the arsonists. And predictable enough, they are and the house burns down. But untill the house litterally lit up in flames, the couple held to the notion that the arsonists were their friends and not actually the arsonists.
The book is called (Biedermann und die Brandstifter)
And now I always have to think about the book with the context that Abigail has given arsonists and and laying fires and all that.
Fun fact, that was the actual play that inspired Abby to make the Arsonist and Ada! She confirmed it in the opening titles of her video on Steve Bannon iirc
@@sunainahussain I didn't know that! That is so neat
When someone tells you who they are
Listen.
i read that play in my german class and i noticed the similarities too! even as i was reading your paragraph i was like "huh, that sounds a lot like biedermann"
Oh yeah before you actually named the title I had a sneaky suspicion that it would be this book. I read it in school too.
The point she makes at 17:20 is actually a really big issue in how both antisemitism and islamophobia are categorized in hate crime statistics. Both are described as anti religious types of hate crimes, when in reality both are most often perpetrated based on racism not religion.
And honestly because of that it's what turns both of those terms into sticking points for lots of people. You'll get atheists saying Islamaphobia is not a thing when they say all Arabs "Do a little Stoning" and you'll get an Apologist cry Islamaphobia when someone quite rightly says that the death penalty for homosexuality when practiced in Islam is something that's abhorrent and should never happen.
@@theonlylunarmage But like..who the hell do you think you are, to say that the death penalty for homosexuals shouldn't exist in Islam? Just because you live in a society that embraces homosexuality, and find it OK, doesn't mean that all socities and cultures approve of this abbhorent behavior.
@@theonlylunarmage You are absolutely right but the only solution to stoning in a country where that happens is war, actual war, not a cultural war. Definitely not discussing the metaphysics and "It's totes backwards to do that, we're in 2021 ok?"
@@Axxxel_in_Harlem Who he is? Someone with more brain like you.
@@Axxxel_in_Harlem Yikes
So are we supposed to just not criticize ideas? Ideologies aren't ethnicities and it really sucks that people conflate the two and make accusations of racism. Either point to the part that invokes race or don't use the term 'racist'.
the problem is that the overwhelming majority of islam critics are ethnophobes in disguise, they use the cartel and drug excuse for mexicans, and islam for brown people coming from anywhere else.. because they're not brave enough to say what they really think, more often than not they have to resort to lying and saying things that make no sense, because when they really dig into it their ideology aligns with islam more than it does with liberalism, it's just the aesthetic that's not right enough, replace muslims with blue eyed blond looking people and they'd be praising it as the savior of the west, the same way they praised eastern european orthodox christianity as the savior of europe when they'd side with muslims in wars against them in the past
u can always criticize ideas 🤔 but most criticism is literally "MOHAMMAD AISHA !?!?" "KILLED PEOPLE IN WAR BAD"
"TAX ON NON MULSIMS" which are literally things aren't related to the idea of islam just attacking actions 1400 years ago
The tax on non-muslims was equal to the tax on muslims. @@unleak64
But fact is that u people never criticized islam but always hated us like see wath u have done in middle east .
@@IrfanKhan-dt7ck You and txl3046 are both assuming things in order to fit 'criticisms of ideas/ideologies' into the category of 'racist'. You can be critical of Islam without it being about race. Many people are. You can't conclude that a person has racist sentiment if they criticize Islam as a way to immunize it from criticism. @txl3046 To go with the points that you raised (yet there are obviously many valid criticisms of Islam). Was the Aisha thing justifiable because it happened 1400 years ago? Is unjustified war bad? (not actually sure what war your referring to but a caliphate is only justified from the perspective of people who believe in Allah). Same thing with jizya. If it was just about things long long ago then people wouldn't care. People do care because harmful effects from these ideas (add in FMG, Apostacy punishable by death and sharia law imposed on people). If you can find an instance where I demonstrated 'racism' then when can investigate that I guess?
My ape brain, derived from that of a lizard, is always amazed to see well studied people communicate complex things so eloquently that my simple processor can keep up. I love this channel.
I may disagree with some opinions(across the channel, not necessarily this episode), but ultimately I'm fascinated, entertained, and learn so damn much from this. I'm very appreciative the spokesperson and production team have come together to make such an amazing production.
Beautiful.
Evolution is childish nonsense. It’s for those who couldn’t handle the math in real science like chemistry and physics
@@Vishnujanadasa108 what does it have to do with the comment you answered bro?
@@Vishnujanadasa108 u sure?
@@Vishnujanadasa108 lmao wow you're so deep and profound . I bet your mom thinks you're soooo cool.
@@Vishnujanadasa108 i bet you thought writing this would be so cool
As a Bosnian, very glad you brought up the Bosnian Genocide, many forget about it and brush it off.
@Марко Живковић when did that happen
Prayers for Bosnians who died of genocide
Greeting from indochina 🇮🇩
@Марко Живковић I really don't understand Serbs. Half of them claim that Bosnian Genocide didnt happen and other half claim that Bosniaks too committed genocide ...
@@nono-lp7qd The serb counter argument for the genocide boils down to "The bosniaks killed serbs to". Althought nowhere near as orginised and methodical as the serbs.
@Марко Живковић you think that was only done by muslims?
I love the spy character. The fact that she’s jealous of other people being spied on KILLED ME
the person walking by the window too...👀
It reminds me of the german film Das Leben der Anderen, which is about a Stasi agent in East Germany who spies on a couple and becomes emotionally involved with their lives. I highly recommend it!
She is my new favorite character. I really hope we see her again, and she gets the chance to be spied on!
In Soviet Russia, you spy on spy!!
@@duman_isa_cat4955 *she
I love the ongoing use of a chess board in your video thumbnail and in the background.
Chess is a game that was brought to Europe and the West mostly *through Muslim-Christian diplomatic relationships*
Over a 1000 years ago, in the Medieval Age, it was a virtue of peace & conversation. In times of peace Knights, Mullahs, Kings, they were expected to learn chess, and it was a game frequently played by both sides against each other.
Chess is a sport; about surpassing an opponent by wit and intelligence, not by violent means/physical power.
Abigail, you really ought to warn a bloke - "Natasha Orchidectomy" nearly resulted in a schnoz flushing with diet soda. 🤣🥤
As a Muslim woman, I can attest that patriarchy is a problem in many Muslim communities. But Islamophobes like to pretend that patriarchy is something unique to Muslims or something that Muslims invented, when that's simply not true. Patriarchy is almost universal across cultures and religions -- that doesn't justify or excuse patriarchy, but it puts things into perspective. And within Islam there's a wide variety of opinions and doctrines, some that are favorable to patriarchy and some that are very anti-patriarchy. I think that part of what distinguishes Islamophobia from genuine critiques of Islam is that Islamophobes believe that Islam (and by extension Muslims) is this monolithic Bad Thing that is fundamentally opposed to everything that "The West" holds dear. Whereas good faith critics of Islam actually engage with the religious texts and recognize the existence of different perspectives.
Edit: Looks like I’ve started a war in the comment thread. 😅 Some of the ppl replying are just proving my point by embodying the exact kind of attitudes I’m criticizing. I appreciate the more nuanced and thoughtful responses, tho! 😁
Yh, and then the same right wingers try to frame that leftist support the patriarchy in Muslim communities. Like wtf? I don't even have to look that far to know that narrative is horseshit because the feminist movement in Pakistan is being leaded by leftist. And a lot of the leftist intellectuals here became leftist by the 'evil sjws who support Islamist' while studying in western universities. While on the other hand the western right wingers who try to act as 'the white saviors' are more then ready to make deals with Saudia Arabia, the country which has been funding for Islamic extremist salafi ideology since the fucking seventies.
Yh, and then the same right wingers try to frame that leftist support the patriarchy in Muslim communities. Like wtf? I don't even have to look that far to know that narrative is horseshit because the feminist movement in Pakistan is being leaded by leftist. And a lot of the leftist intellectuals here became leftist by the 'evil sjws who support Islamist' while studying in western universities. While on the other hand the western right wingers who try to act as 'the white saviors' are more then ready to make deals with Saudia Arabia, the country which has been funding for Islamic extremist salafi ideology since the fucking seventies.
Agree, per my comment above.
Indeed. I think Islam is extremely interesting to study and Islamophobes often like to act like it's some sort of vague "bad thing" with the label "Islam" neatly stuck on the lid to a big box where all of Islam is magically stored.
I learned really nice things about the religion in studying, but also a lot of things worth of criticism. Many people practice the religion in many different ways and many countries have different cultures surrounding it. I'm irreligious as of right now, but I sincerely really hate the somewhat patronising trend of fellow secular people where they feel the need to convince every single religious person that they've been powerless victims all this time. That's no way to engage with anybody.
I'm a gay ex-muslim and I'll always be against islamophobia because it's never about Islam but about being a bigot against Muslims and expecting everyone to appreciate it since obviously we agree that Islam is a bad thing Thus being a dick against Muslims is a duty... Right (?)
Islamophobia (and any other form of bigotry) was and is always used to justify the oppression of the target group, in this case Muslims, to justify imperialism, interventionism in Muslim countries without your people sympathizing with them, and I'll never agree on that, I'll never agree to be someone else's scapegoat to make money through war or loot.
Actually commenting on the video and the point about racism, I was talking to a coworker about how I joined a gym in the “Muslim” part of town, to which she corrected me to “Middle Eastern” which for a moment gave me a sense of cognitive dissonace, before realizing how intertwined in mind, and in the mind of probably many people that middle eastern=Muslim, despite non Muslims living in the Middle East and European ( ex. Albania) Muslims existing.
Just like Elon Musk is the most famous African American
@@mymaster416 no lol, us non-muslim middle easterners (who have often been uprooted by islamism & other extremist practices) are indigenous to the region ethnically, linguistically and religiously. 😂 You attempting to make that comparison is actually flipping the anecdote on its head.
@@Aber_Sbeel how many Levantine, Egyptian/Coptic, Assyrian, Armenian Christians, as well as Yazidis, Mandeans, Bahais, etc left in the Middle East?? What's objective as ever is knowing that the numbers dropped from over 30% to less than 8% over the span of 100 years, and those drops happened slowly over the centuries because caliphates treated non-Muslims (ahlul kitab/ahlus dhimma) like literal second class citizens causing intense persecution over the centuries. In the 20th-21st century, islamists, enabled by the English, French, and other colonial powers, committed pogroms, g--nocide, explosions of civilian areas, as well as countless other crimes against humanity from the late 1800s until today. Would you like a comprehensive list of the m-ssacres and other crimes committed against native/indigenous MENAs by local fundamentalists since this time period?
I'd love to indulge you on this, as it would be especially humiliating. You know who are not victims or minorities and never will be?? Islamists and their enablers. You aren't victims in the West, and half the time in the East are your own fundies harming your own (Muslim) communities, the other half is colonialism/wars. Denial of this persecution is tantamount to a denial of history, and what you're not going to do is historically revise the persecution committed by vicious ideologues on the auspices that "other countries are crude as well." Your whataboutism failed to establish any new information and disprove the information listed here. Btw, zionists and islamists are the same. :) Both advocate for political/legal religion, militarism, and defining a state religion. Both have resulted in persecution, and both are raggedy as hell. You islamists and sympathizers/adjacents are simply mad that a pack of brutes that are just as destructive as you are more cunning about the way they go about it. Scram.
Moslim or Middle East are both not a race. So how is it racist?
@@bakker071 again, it's the association. We have a very specific image of middle easterners (brown muslims) that are generally shown more hostility then Muslims that have European features. Let's be real here, when most people think Muslim, they are not thinking about my fair-skinned blonde-haired coworker
I never thought about islamphobia as a real thing mostly because I am an ex-muslim in a Muslim country, however with the recent war between hamas-isreal I started to think why the western countries who always talking about human right, aren't stoping this barbaric genocide? What if the people who are in Gaza were Jews and Israel were Palestine instead, wouldn't western countries stop Palestine right away?
Bruh the Palestinians are at fault
@@deadoreu don't know anything about what happened so shut up
yeah a population of 50% children are at fault and not the genocidal israelis lmao..@@deadore
@@deadoreyou really thing this war started at 7th of Oct
Yeah, western countries would stop them right away. If the roles were reversed, and Hamas had the power of Israel, while the Israelis had little power in the Gaza strip, you can expect there to be a lot more dead Israelis. This is something Sam Harris talks about. Imagine the Israelis were utilizing its population as a human shield. Imagine they were utilizing hospitals for military purposes. Imagine they were telling their civilians to not leave the north. In what world do you think Hamas would be deterred by such conditions? As Sam says, this would be a goofy Monty Python sketch where all the Jews die. The western countries would recognize the impending genocide, and step in. Hamas wouldn't be trying to avoid civilian casualties, but would explicitly be targeting them. If Israel is doing that right now, they're doing a shitty job of it, and that's why the west hasn't stepped in. That's the crucial difference.
Instead, the Israelis are in power. I'm not saying what they're doing is okay. But I am saying that they are deterred by the tactics that Hamas is using. The fact that Hamas is utilizing hospitals as they are and telling civilians not to leave is clearly a result of their expectation that it would deter the Israelis from bombing certain locations. Hamas knows the Israelis have a particular moral compass that they can exploit. Their actions make that clear. Say what you want about how either of them are going about doing what they're doing, their mindsets are clearly not morally equivalent.
Criticism of religion is always acceptable as it is a vital part of social evolution to engage in uncomfortable topic and to get new perspectives but vilifying the people for simply being different is definitely not on.
People question religion is akin to people questioning outdated tradition that are no longer in like with modern life/morality and are physiologically more harmful than good. People being gay (even if the idea is uncomfortable/weird) is perfectly natural in nature and have been observed in 97% of different animal species. It has been studied and it is not a taught behaviour. The reason there is more gay people now is the same as why there is more left handed people now... when society stopped vilifying people more of them feel comfortable enough to not be anonymous.
I’m about 24 minutes in and I just want to applaud the irony of “But that is exactly the kind of silencing remark that needs to be stamped out.” I’ve known so many people who think like this and don’t even realize it. I always enjoy the characters you come up with
I was about to comment about this line too, incredible work!
What does it mean?
@@Axxxel_in_Harlem she's saying that those remarks need to be "stamped out", or in other words, silenced. basically saying "the kinds of people who say shut up need to shut up!"
@@iamgod2063 if you're parrot-posting in search of acclamation, at least add more substance to your argument.
@@iamgod2063 god damn, you’re making Islam sound pretty rad
“That’s the kind of silencing remark that needs to be stamped out.” Is a beautiful line.
"I'm in labor, but I'm not working" Abigail is the mistress of pointing out the value contradictions of conservative ideology.
@Greg Kanowitz Do you speak Arabic?
@Greg Kanowitz It's a genuine question, not a sarcastic dismissal. It's a major part of Islam that since translations are imperfect, any translation of the Quran is not the Quran. So I'm wondering when you say she hasn't read it, it's because you have
"Orchidectomy" killed me. For those unfamiliar with medical terminology, an Orchidectomy is the surgical removal of one or both testicles.
Orchidectomy is also a fantastic word. There aren't many reasons to use the word orchidectomy. It's like the word hypogonadism. When was the last time you said the word hypogonadism?
Also, the flower name itself is derived from the Latin word orchis, which derived from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), which literally means testicle in English. It describes the root system, which has two bulbs!
@@sheogorath1524 ex veterinary nurse here, and I'm glad I got to use orchidectomy on a very regular basis. It's such a beautiful word!
Edit : it's also a beautiful word to threaten toxic abusive males with, as in "when I meet dogs with aggression issues like yours I recommend an orchidectomy"
@Erin Meow No wonder Islam keeps ya'll down 🤢
@@oldluke7653 lol yes. Veterinary staff need to be kept under the thumb, we can be dangerous with our words!
Edit - and I did love that the few times I've needed to use that "threat" it caused complete confusion, a pause, and the guys couldn't help but ask "what? What does that mean?"
I did not need a mouthful of coffee when she said her surname was "orchidectomy". I damn near choked.
Oh I know I loved it lol
@@Ldysith84 Heh, just looked it up. I did wonder about it when I saw it, because it clearly wasn't a name.
Oh man I was sure that was a joke but it felt inappropriate pointing it out, thanks for confirming I'm not being crazy or creepy lol
I laughed so hard I needed my inhaler. =D
SAME. I had a mouthful of cake and nearly didn't a moment later!
As muslims, our identity is somehow responsible for the arrogant misunderstandings of islam by many people, particularly from the west. I had a friend who was like this, despite me trying to explain to the best of my ability and despite him being raised in an internationally privileged highschool where open-mindedness was very much taught (we went to the same high school). However, such arrogance brings me closer to God and in a respectful way, also help others forge a relationship with God. Patience really is key and is also very much taught in islam.
non-muslims and muslims can never ever be true brothers/friends. They will always at one point criticize or alienate or simply make clear that you have your own way.
What were his biggest misgivings with Islam?
I honestly think Islamophobia is not a thing, rather muslimophobia.
A phobia is something irrational, either an irrational fear or an irrational aversion.
I don't see anything irrational in fearing/ disliking an ideology which leads to things like the death sentence against anyone who admits he's no longer convinced of the dogmata of Islam and the morality if its very founder, let alone a writer who dares to criticise Islam and its founder.
Exactly!!!
I just feel like you have no idea how the sharia actually works and how all of this is carried out? There's loads of conditions, including witnesses. Your dad can't just kill you because you denounce Islam. It would be the state. And there's no established Islamic state that rules by sharia (lots of them go against the sharia by encouraging things like clubbing, alcohol, etc). Therefore all of this stuff that ur scared of can't even be carried out in this age. But before even getting to the sentence/punishment there would be so much more before that, so much more leniency. I, as a muslim who has been and is currently being educated about Islam, can't even go through that with you though. That's left to scholars.
🤓☝️I honestly think Islamophobia is not a thing, rather muslimophobia.
A phobia is something irrational,
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@@daolamue1462you really got em huh...the second hand embarrassment i felt reading your comment, wow
@@nazninsultana9248what. What he's saying is true. Phobia is unfounded. Criticism of Islam is well founded. It's not irrational. Period
I wasn’t expecting the return of Sir Nigel Piss. Goes to show that Abi knows to keep a good character and that she’s comfortable enough in herself to drag up.
sometimes with a fishing net and some chum XD
Drag up hehhee
@@jvo1464 Sir Nigel Piss is a male character, correct. Would you like a trophy?
Much like the British empire itself (apparently, thus far), Nigel Piss is immortal in their everlasting impact and simultaneously transparently stupid *_*reification intensifies_**
_"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. Also Britain is fake, just pass the baton to the insane Americans already."_ - some guy on the subway
She do be smelling fire tho 😳
As someone from a Bosniak family, I'm honestly just shocked whenever anyone mentions the genocide of my people because I'm very used to it either not being included in things like this or outright refuted by people with a very particular narrative they want to put forth.
Same as someone who is a Lebanese Shia (given Shia's have been used to tokenize and justify islamaphobia) no one talks about the suffering we faced by the Falange ( a Lebanese openly fascist group who the US-funded).
people are incapable of talking about it with humanity, always reducing it to simple narratives, they twist it to justify the believes they already have. And everyone from all sides does this.
Thats because to the West these are not their problems. And they ignore things happening outside their "bubble" But as you already know, catastrophes like the 9/11 are spoken on every single day even till now. The media always wins.
(On the other side of the world a Chinese or Arab kid doesn't have enough food to survive while here in the west people are still racist towards them. That's the world we live in)
I studied it in highschool and I was shocked to not have heard about it before
My personal introduction was through Joe Sacco's work. Before that, due to my age at the time and my distance from the place, my knowledge of the matter could be summed up as "some places warring that got mentioned occasionally on the TV news years back."
Edit to add: The first time I ever heard the word "Bosnian" it was attached to the the word "refugee", but that was the extent of my exposure; I knew people were fleeing war, but none of the context or background for the the war.
I love the end credit closed caption, that tells some of your process!
What a fantastic way of delivery, informative and captivating to watch
This reinvention of the arsonist is INCREDIBLE and, if anything, even more chilling than the old one. Abigail, you do remarkable work.
I couldn’t agree more. He’s a sneaky villain now. And his sister is delusional.
@@pwesiti What do you guys mean by reinvention? The arsonist has always been a sneaky villain and his sister has always been delusional.
@@spacemanproletariat4279 he didn’t use to have a sister, but now that Abby doesn’t want to play a man’s role as a main one, she’s using the Sister as the arsonist’s place
@@kaydenl6836 Right, thought you were specifically referring to this video. Although, the arsonist has still always been a sneaky villain.
@@spacemanproletariat4279 true but because you could see him and hear directly from him he was slightly more sympathetic. Still a psychopath but more sympathetic.
"Ohhh, I miss the KGB" is destined for a 'Philosophy Tube Out of Context' video.
I'd be more than happy to have a "Soviet Union" with her ;)
@@ScorpionViper1001 Don't need to be weird about it buddy
@@juniperrodley9843 I apologize for my terrible pun. I will not apologize for the horni.
Please make a video on Qaafir-phobia in Islamic nations. Thankyou.
Plz tell me about sinophobia from India
Ok next time gonna make video of ved nindak phobia according to artherva veda 12.5.62
@@kafka1343
Atharva Veda 12.5.62
“Rend, rend to bits, rend through and through, scorch and consume and burn to dust, the one who rejects the Vedas”
WHAT A LOVELY RELIGION❤🤩
@@arhamakhyar3088 a beauty of filth from hating and calling out genocide of the people who don't believe in Vedas and call out for the massacre of buddhist ☺☺
All in one drama hindu religion ☺
so what the exmuslims and apostates are saying is false?
How are exmuslims words more credible then a muslims ??
@@bait5257 if someone promotes killing for blasphemy or apostasy over a religion, i think they loose their credibility.
@@beyonder7817 I mean, historically speaking Muslims have been the least genocidal empire in comparison , but that’s not the point consider the economic landscape of the mid world where Muslims countries have oil, and if you put two into together, you have will realize that in them in order to get the oil you have destroyed and stabilized their countries and steal their resources just like they did with South America and blacks in scramble for Africa. They literally put blacks in humans Zoos, they dehumanize them in order to to their resources.
No what we say is true
@@beyonder7817 what ???
Apostasy is punishable by death in an islamic State only and there are reasons why that's the rule .
Firstly , apostasy was a literal show of treason at the time of prophet Muhammad pbuh and people became muslim at morning and apostate at evening just to cause trouble.
2nd islamic state is literally a religious state , denouncing your religion is like giving away your citizenship while also saying I want to live in usa but I am a Chinese citizen now.
These "Muslim world never got a secular enlightenment" takes are especially priceless, considering that the enlightenment in Europe was kickstarted by reintroduction of antique philosophy works into the culture. The same works that were preserved largely by the Muslim world...
It's much more than just transmitting ancient texts, there was a real period of enlightenment in late medieval Andalusia that inspired and influenced the Renaissance in southern Europe and beyond. There were no only scholars but researchers, and they had students from other european countries, that did a lot to promote a more scientifical approach to natural philosophy, including medecine.
@@jamiel6005 What is "Islamic culture", exactly? There are many different cultures which practice Islam in different ways, but Islam itself is not a culture.
Yea but the Europeans were able to progress in things like economics. Adam Smith was an original and brilliant man who was unmatched and no Muslim could catch up to. -Ibn Khaldun- please ignore the crossed out name like most European history does.
@@AJayTwo001 the Bengal subah had proto industrialisation in place and was extremely rich
I think the Muslim world should get its due, but those antique works already existed in Europe by the time the enlightenment emerged. By that time Christian Monks had already translated, and stored them in their archives hundreds of years prior.
"Anti-Fire Woke Brigade" kills me every time
This video hits a lot harder in 2024 given what Israel is doing to Palestine 🙃
Hey, guess what hamas does in Palestine and in Israel, and what muslim militias do all over Asia, Arabia and Africa?
@@airtale8725 bad things don't justify apartheid states comitting genocide.
@@unrated156 They aren't commiting genocide, nor is Israel an apartheid state.
@airtale8725 The UN has already made a ruling. What Israel is doing is Genocide. The total or partial killing of an ethnic, cultural, and religious group. They do it by bombing Gaza, preventing food and aide from entering (or when they do, it's just to lure Palestinians into deadzones), and other heinous shit you can learn just by googling the conflict.
i was once called a terrorist by a family member for wearing my hijab around my house all of this is difficult to hear
You know pigs are Haram in Islam, right? You'd better wear that Hijab.
Good luck with 72 virgins
Why you left your Muslim country then?
@@mikesteinberg5891 because i never did i am an American
@@mikesteinberg5891 if you just the British took your own advice and never left britain
Oh sweet, a new Philosophy tube video!
Oh crap, I'll have to wait 22 hours....
10h ago...nice that means 12 hours left
Does she always upload at the same time? I'm trying to remember when she uploaded her coming out video
It is time
mad respect for Abi putting in an 'orchidectomy' joke in Natasha's name XD
Reminds me of Famke Janssen's character in Goldeneye, whose last name was Onatopp
I had to stop, skip backwards, and put on the captions to make sure I hadn't imagined that. Abigail is a genius.
I burst out laughing!
I did a double take when I heard that, I was like "she did NOT"
Amazing and informative video! Thank you for making this!! ❤❤❤ I will share this so more people can learn about this topic!!!
00:00 Intro
01:13 Tinker Tailor Soldier Boy
11:00 Us & Them
21:53 Adelaide
25:27 State Of Decay
apparently abigail's role in our lives is to inform us about social justice and philosophy while also making us simp severely. ma'am i am so gay.
to the guillotine!
Fam your name has me creasing. Own the thiccness
and she's posting just in time for international lesbian day :)
@@The_Gnome_Chomskee theo is a gender neutral name and gay can be used as an umbrella term in the same way queer is. i'm a femme-aligned nonbinary person. please don't assume anything about me when you don't even know me. :)
@@The_Gnome_Chomskee Theo could be a nonbinary person and as such be lesbian or gay (in this case lesbian if they are into Abi)
tfw your philsophy professor shows up with gorgeous outfits and also *cinematography*
I'm waiting for the second part, done after Abigail lived in a Muslim country for a couple of years
So interesting. Thank you for shining a light
Abi is the only one in the group that submits her work on schedule and on time
Lmao
It's true tho
I felt that
I am unexpectedly feeling called out by this comment.
@@adam346 i literally had flashbacks to when I ghosted a project because idk mental health unchecked innit
And even mostly completed.
Adelaide is an extremely... haunting (?) character to me
She isn't the only such character you've created, of course, but there's something about her that really gets to me
I think it's how she always feels like she's just a single step away from seeing the truth - seeing how flawed and harmful her ideology is not only to others but to herself - but she just refuses to connect the dots
She's drowning, and even though the surface is just a few inches away, she won't swim any further, as if she's decided "at least the water is warm"
Same, I love seeing her as well
Literally same! All that plus the fact that the character is basically a spot-on representation of every British conservative and conservative-leaning person I spoke to, to the point that I could easily imagine one of them misreading the character as a self-insert protagonist, which is a little freaky xD
I see Adelaide as actively malicious and intentionally manipulative. She’s a journalist that knows her audience. Perhaps she didn’t know before, but I think she’s aware and complicit now.
Yes, she never realises that she's talking about herself.
She's comfortable in the hair of the rabbit. It's a Sophie's World reference.
Are im islmofob if iam homosexual and islam says homosexual shall be killed? Please answer
The problem is not on you its on the religion. So who cares if youre an Islamaphobe or not but Im sure the muslims would adress you as one
many major religions say similar things about gay people so as long as you are consistent with your criticism of religion and don't only focus on Islam no you aren't islamophobic
اذا اصبحت مسلم فا سوف تكره المثلية الجنسية
و عقوبة الزنة
اذا كنت غير متزوج فا الجلد 80 جلدة
اما اذا كنت متزوج فا الرجم حتي الموت
اما ممارسة الجنس ذكر مع ذكر او انثي مع انثي فا الحكم يكون الاعدام
لاكن يجب لتنفيز هذة الاحكام ان يكون هناك اربعة شهود
و يكون معروف عنهم الصدق
و فقط الخليفة هو من يامر بهذا
يعني اذا تريد تمارس الجنس افعل هذا في غرفه مقفولة
و ايضا الحكم ينفز في دولة اسلامية و اخر دولة اسلامية كانت في القرن ال18
The ruling is applied to you when you practice it publicly, but otherwise you are not punished, but this applies to a Muslim only as far as I know
You should respect other people if you expect to be respected
Honor killings, terrorism, antisemitism etc. are quite probable reasons to be analysed.
Arab aren’t antisemites, they’re usually referring to those in israel when they talk about jews in a negative way.
The part where you talk about what is and isn't allowed to be said following something like 9/11 reminds me of something that happened here in the Netherlands.
After 9/11 we had, like I assume most countries, a lot of well known people on television talking about their reactions and fears following the attack. They would say things along the lines of them 'being afraid of religious extremist' and how we 'should protect ourselves'. These people weren't really experts on the topic though. We guy however, Maarten van Rossem who is a well known, but not always very popular, historian. He was one of the only person on Dutch television who critiqued the idea that we should be scared and fearful of a new world war or a series of attacks in the west. He posed a more calm and nuanced view on the whole situation and as a result was not allowed back on television for months.
He still says that being kicked of television is something he is proud of though hahaha
if you have not figured out 9/11 was a psyop yet... i don't know what to say to you. if you think two planes can bring down three buildings completely and melt steal frame work. it's like expecting two wrecking ball swings to bring down three buildings expected for demolition, and that isn't even going into the fact that there has been so much predictive programming about the towers going down before i and you were even born, ODD TV DID AN AMAZING VIDEO ON ALL THE 9/11 PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING IN MEDIA. the earliest is 1949 with a porky pig and charlie dog cartoon. with charlie dog screaming "the towers their falling".
if you have not figured out 7 Eleven was a part-time job and was a massive psychological op yet... i don't know what to say to you. if you think two planes can bring down three buildings completely and melt steal frame work. it's like expecting two wrecking ball swings to bring down three buildings expected for demolition.
Maarten is great
Sounds like a boss.
@@yenanon6065 "...I don't know what to say to you" good! now don't say anything ❤
If anyone doesn't already, I would highly recommend watching Abi's videos with subtitles. There are a few extra comments and asides that you don't otherwise get and it just adds to what are already highly entertaining as well as informative videos
Good looking out!
Oh no now I have to rewatch them
It definitely helps, since the falsetto he goes in to maintain his "feminine" persona is about the most grating thing as possible.
@@meatrace why are you even here?
Thank you. This is the first video I've watched of her so now I can enjoy them without having to rewatch
As an Algerian Muslim guy, this channel is so delightful ❤ , Informative, sarcastic and artistic. thanks for talking about things that concern us.
Here in Brazil we have a similar problem with the hate (and religious colonization) directed at indigenous peoples, and ANOTHER similar problem with hate directed at afro-brazilian religions. The "haters" also try to justify the murders, smear campaigns, burnings of temples and religious idols and etcetera by saying that has "nothing to do with racism"... Culture and Religion tend to be accompanied by Ethnicity, SPECIALLY when we are talking about hate
I'm a Muslim from Trinidad and I'm a grad student studying Gender and the intersection of Islam amongst Indo-Caribbean Muslims. Islam in the Caribbean has a very unique and long history, different from most other Western/Global North societies. Nonetheless, I found this video incredibly insightful and helpful and I appreciate you sharing your citations as I think I'll be looking into them for my own research. Thank you for using your platform to continuously challenge and disrupt harmful narratives!
woooow your subject sounds sick as hell!! Do you have books or resources to recommend to study Indo-Caribbean Islam ? :)
@@alteregoasmr2936 I'd HIGHLY recommend reading Aliyah Khan's "Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" as it's a very comprehensive text that looks at the contemporary and historical experiences of Muslims in the region, particularly Trinidad, Guyana and Jamaica, through literary analysis.
@@alteregoasmr2936 some other books worth looking into are ISLAM AND THE AMERICAS edited by Aisha Khan (and honestly anything by Aisha Khan); INDENTURED MUSLIMS IN THE DIASPORA edited by Hassankhan et al; CRESCENT OVER ANOTHER HORIZON edited by Naronba et al. There are tons more articles, theses and resources.
You can try researching the origins of Islam (it was non trinitarian messianic christianity) and the historicity of muhammad (he most probably never existed).
Ehhhh I love you
because of the Cyrillic alphabet, I read the preview as "islomornobia"
My bet: she's gonna talk about how islamophobia is a relic of the cold war or flourished during the cold war
i cant unsee that now
Islavophobia
@@Miraihi dammit. Good comment.
Since I started learning Russian the whole using the Cyrillic alphabet as aesthetic is ruined for me
So on point! nothing was left unsaid! Thank you for the accuracy...
Individuals should be judged separately from the ideology they hold. Not every Muslim or Christian necessarily hold the most extreme tenets of their religion. However, some Muslims or Christians being “nice people” does not invalidate criticism of the religion itself or even the people group as a whole.
In at least 10 Muslim countries as of 2021, apostasy brings the death penalty. Blasphemy is a criminal offense in 83, and unfortunately simple expression of atheist or secular ideas counts for that in many. Homosexuality is also illegal in many Muslim countries, and in some punishable by law.
I know kind Christians and good Muslims, but that doesn’t change my mind in the slightest that if their religion became intertwined with government in my country I would be extremely concerned. Homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny would be rampant. People would die for personal choices that harm no one.
These religions offer nothing of value that outweigh the damages they cause. We wouldn’t support a nice Nazi because they aren’t like other Nazis. Why be a Nazi at all? There is a certain point at which being affiliated with a group is no longer acceptable because the group has too many fucked up ideas. Christianity and Islam passed that threshold long ago.
Homosexuality is illegal ins all Christian African countries wonder why Christians don't mention it
then hold your „democratic free secular“ country to the same standard, when france, belgium, russia has hijab banned in some places and only 6 EU countries have not debated over a hijab ban, countries where muslims are killed, banned from attenting certain places, hijab being ripped apart what about that?
more muslim countries need to reject atheist ideas, lgbtq and islam does not go together, accept that
and misogyny? which one? because we dont want women to go be prostitutes or walk around naked on the streets? great feminism from your secular liberated countries aha
exactly being a nazi is automatically something bad and makes you a bad person and atheism has already passed the line
Voice of reason here. Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas, as Harris Sam said. Go and try making a comic about Mohammed and see how that goes. Or ask some ex-Muslims from Muslim countries how happy their families were when they found out their member wasn't Muslim anymore. Hint: they receive death threats, and many actually do get killed. No other major religion does that.
Islam is NOT good whatsoever.
This reminds me of the TED talk about what it was like for a Muslim post-9/11. I had genuinely never considered what it was like for Muslims during that time… It’s all incredibly eye-opening.
I'm not even Muslim, I'm just Iranian, and even I heard stuff as a little kid. I'm 100% white(passing? i ID as white).
Even Sikhs were being killed because they wear turbans and people mistook them for muslims.
Yeah, think of those poor Muslims who did nothing wrong the past 1400 years.
@@blacktigerpaw1 reported for Islamophobie
@@blacktigerpaw1 you're right I personally colonized Eastern Europe, Central Asia the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, cope and seethe runt😁
yes, criticism of Islam often comes from racists and is often rooted in xenophobia, but criticizing the ideas of Islam is not inherently racist. Any idea should be subject to criticism. As long as one seeks to understand Muslim and ex-muslim perspectives and makes sure to separate people from ideas, criticism of Islam can be separated from Islamophobia and anti Arab sentiments.
Thank you, most people don't possess the nuance you gave, I'm not relegious but that didn't stop me from the countless islamaphobic remarks. It seems to me most of islamaphobic rhetoric is used against Muslims.
Yes I agree I was kind of disappointed this video didn't touch on this, her other videos I've watched have given such nuanced views...
I absolutely agree that criticism =/= xenophobia, the issue comes when people are using the veil of criticism as a shield when what they are doing isn't criticism.
The reason why people are Islamophobic is because in Muslim countries criticism of Islam brings about death penalties, to imprisonment but mostly people are killed on streets literally there videos all over internet why don't some wannabe Muslimphillic don't understand this, I'm and exmuslim ik more then she or most people who've never been to Islamic countries, newspapers doesn't even scratch the surface of how terrible Islamic ideology is, i live in Pakistan so ik yeah
Yep. im acc non religious arab and im so defensive against islamophobia because it hurts many non muslim middle easterners since people often view them as the same entity
ugh I could watch your videos all day, you are so clever and make such big topics digestible, also you are so funny
Wit: cutting (literally choked on breakfast several times)
Characters: perfectly crafted and performed
Set & Costume: absolutely glamorous
The Philosophy: accessible
Production Value: through the roof
Fuck yeah! Nigel Piss is back! Though he's clearly been working on his skincare routine since we last saw him!
Great video as always, Abi!
He "borrowed" some skin care techniques from the "ethnic" africans
He was always knowingly a drag king look because Abi was already out to herself and transitioning at the point of the Confucius video but he’s so much funnier when we know he’s a drag king look imo
The concept of this Russian spy frustrated that she never gets to do any spywork because the Western State is caught up in bizarre backflip crime fabrication against innocent people is really delightful. (However, as someone who speaks Russian, I struggled to understand some of the Russian spoken here - Abi's pronunciation really isn't the best, sadly.)
Ms. Orchidectomy's pronunciation has been messed up by her sheer rage
Yep same here, another Russian speaker. I respect the attempt but it does hurt my enjoyment of the video a little
I thought it was a joke, that she had learned English and basically "forgot" how to speak Russian. That was just my interpretation, obviously
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I'm sorry they chose authenticity over your comfort
You are very insightful, and i enjoy your sense of humor! I appreciate your efforts!
Most admirable Abigail. Im learning to appreciate your fine work & passion. You & all you create are incredible. Thankyou. I'm learning so much especially in a time when there is so much noise out there
Why did I think sorting by new would be a good idea?
Watching a trans woman defending islam is... definitely an experience
then leave
Why?
@@ArlecchinoAKAFatherbecause if you know anything about ACTUAL Islam you wouldn’t need that explained and honestly a white westerner women should really not be making a stupid video like this
As a muslim we dont support trans nor gay but we are ordered to respect everyone.
And she wasnr defending anuthing she was more saying on why those people are wrong
NGL making a creator have to censor herself on subjects of international crimes against humanity in order to keep the lights on is pretty cringe UA-cam.
Don't you just love it when UA-cam decides that "please stop hosting misinformation on your platform" means "genocide and terrorism should never be discussed, ever".
Nuance would cost some money.
No
I know this isn't the point, but I can't get over how good Abigail looks in the femme fatal and executive spy outfits. I'm thinking about the heavy stuff she's tackling and then look back at the screen and have to rewind a few seconds because my weak brain stopped.
Same. My personal fave is Abby's lowkey makeup on the intro. Softness 100.
Chilll
@@cheesecakelasagna that whole look was beautiful but her blush had me weak 👀❤️
Yes omg I spent tens of minutes trying to formulate a not-offensive version of the “mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry” meme, to no avail
As an atheist gay from a muslim majority country (Turkiye) I am reluctant to fight against islamofobia. Because what people think of islam is mostly true. I am a secularist. I don't care what people believe in, but it is less likely to see a muslim being respectful of who you are. So I am phobic to not only Islam but also other religions.
That’s completely understandable, especially with the attitude of all religions to homosexuality. Most of what people think about Islam is FALSE. It’s important to remember people are different and unique. Enjoy your life and play the game of life. 🧳🥘❤️
I am gay Muslim and I am perfectly ok with the way Islam deals with homosexuality. Islam's values societal harmony over individual rights. Unfortunately us gays don't add much to the society by being gay. Either you hide it in that society or move to a secular country. I live in the West and I am a devout Muslim who is also gay and I keep on maintaining my relationship with God while asking him for his forgiveness if I am wrong. It would be unfair and selfish of me to ask a society to bend it's rules and traditions for my convenience.
@@CosmopolitanCaliph you are a representation of being a conformist. You probably live in a society where LGBT activists fought for their rights in the past and you enjoy the freedom that they brought without any appreciation. Good luck in the relationship you have with your god.
@@CosmopolitanCaliphI’m Muslim and I don’t know what to say to this. I hope I get to your level of passion/love for Allah SWT one day.
Actually most of the things people say about Islam is a lie ☠️but alr
I mean as an atheist living in auslim country i agree with "the islamic states never went into a secular uprising...." this is so true
I'm a simple man. Mi see Philosphy schedule a video and I clear my Friday plans (of which I had none)
I too am a simple man. I see a video about Islam for Friday from a leftist and I schedule my hospice stay for Friday night
I wasn't gonna attend to my classes so I could watch the video, thankfully my class got cancelled
@@muhammadsaqeeb5298 underrated comment 🤣 alhamdulillah bro lol
@@alexshane5713 that's the universe at work!
@@ForeignManinaForeignLand Abigail's power is truly incredible ✨
I'm dreadfully afraid that "I'm putting on the combination guy fawkes mask and joker makeup" will be permanently entering my personal lexicon
"I'm at the combination pizza hut and taco bell."
That was one of the points at which I said "I love you" out loud.
Thankyou for actually citing muslim scholars in a video concerning Islam. I discovered you a few weeks ago and love your content.
So you will consider twice before stoning her, because of her gender?
@@sorryminati4719 you obviously didn’t watch the video, right ?
@sorryminati4719 Why would you think that? Did you even watch the video?
@@sorryminati4719 Please, pick up a book.
(I'm an ex-muslim living in Lebanon) While I think that Islamophobia is an issue in many countries, people have the right to criticize Quranic verses or Sharia laws such as those that encourage killing atheists, stoning adulterous people, and punishing women who commit sexual intercourse before marriage, without being called Islamophobic. Let's not forget that Islam is being used to justify horrendous crimes (especially in the Middle East); therefore, criticising the parts of religion that facilitate such crimes is essential. After all, the Quran does contain some pretty pseudoscientific claims and justifications for cruel actions. The verses I speak of are plenty, and you can find them on the internet or in any copy of the Quran. Consequently, respectfully criticising certain parts of religions should not be considered bigotry, as it is paramount to directing society towards equality and respect of human rights. That being said, arbitrary arrests of innocent Muslims and unfair trials should not be allowed and can be considered prejudiced. In conclusion, criticism of Islam ≠ Islamophobia.
Encourage killing atheists : the Quran didn't encourage killing atheists, the Quran doesn't encourage any killing {murder} at all. Pull up the verse that says that cuz I can't find it,
Stoning adulterous people: don't see the problem.
Punching women who commit s,i before marriage: I like how you especially said *women* as if it's okey for men to do that, I also don't see where's the problem in banning sex before marriage.
@@6we You don't find a problem in punishing people who practise sexual intercourse before marriage? Them having sex harms you in no way and you don't have any right to ban it. The Quran does order Muslims to kill atheists in many occasions, one of which is (4: 89: And they wish that you should disbelieve like they have, then you will be equal; so take them not as your friends until they migrate in the Path of Allah. And if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or helper.). And I pointed out adulterous women because they are the only ones falling victim of honour crimes, because it is more "normal" for men to cheat to "fulfill" their needs, therefore adulterous men "shouldn't be punished" unlike the women.
@@6we Also, why women specifically?
@@secularhumanistforever Are you streotyping islamic people? Because you said typical
I am doubtful you were ever a Muslim and even if you were you never studied Islam ...if you had even the slightest of idea about Islam or studied it you would have known that it does not encourage killings(murder) of any non believer or anyone ... so you were a kafir before and a kafir now ...being born in a Muslim family does not make you a Muslim ...
I liked this version of Sir Nigel Piss, mostly because you know how to convincingly act male, you did so for about a year (or most of your life so far depending on how you look at it), but you chose to very deliberately to look and sound like exactly what you were at that moment: a female playing a male. It's an interesting way to bring back old characters. I imagine it wouldn't work on the more serious characters, but it certainly worked for Nigel. I'm looking forward to hearing you talk about your thought process behind it on the livestream.
Nigel piss has drag king vibes now
it's weird though, maybe it's just the makeup but it feels uncanny, like it's not *quite* the same character even if the actor and the character are the EXACT SAME as when we first saw them
@@Lylybeebee Before it was a female playing a male playing a male, so the character might not be exactly the same.
She could even do Nigel Piss as a repressed Transgender Woman. (EDIT: I think she might be doing that, or she just really doesn't want to go through the discomfort of presenting as male).
He is a man
I once saw a meme in which there were Americans (and probably some european countries too, not sure) saying "ok, we won the cold war, now we need a new enemy". They're staring at the hammer and sickle plus the star which is the symbol of the USSR. Next panel, some parts of the symbol have been erased, leaving a crescent and a star; and the Americans are like: "OMG this is genius".
Oversimplified, but meaningful.
Way too many people and countries aren't happy unless they have an enemy. It's one of the reasons we'll never see a unified world.
@@futsurepolaris6304 Christianity has done serious harm to the global south, and we let evil hide behind a mask of religion and persecution.
@click click there is a literal document signed by Prophet Muhammad himself, specifying Christian rights and prosecution for Muslims violating them, which he gave to the Saint Catherine's Monastery. This important document was preserved by monks to this day and later transported to Constantinople by Turks.
Ideology is usually a semi-empty box. You can fill it up with a lot of things
Also oversimplified but, this sounds like that high school bully who thrives of off lifting themselves up by putting others down...
@@TheDanishGuyReviews well not with _that_ attitude! Carpe means of production/diem
This was very enlightening and a great explanation!
The way she present herself in a different look is pretty fascinating to see. Loved the videography a lot.
'If there is no crime, they'll just build crime around you' both calling out our racist terrorism policy and our racist war on drugs. A smashing video as always Abigail, much love.
"Racist terrorism policy" Oh Jesus Christ. And I hope you realize the "racist war on drugs" was partially spearheaded by Black politicians as a way to stop their communities from falling apart, right? Back in the day, it was argued that NOT being hard on drugs was in of itself racist. Ah, but that requires perspective and not crying 'racist' over everything, I suppose.
@Roniixx the war on drugs was a very direct and targeted attack to get rid of black people by altering the laws to make certain kinds of drugs more punishable than others(big ones being the wide difference between powdered cocaine which was used primarily by whites and crack cocaine which was used by non-whites as well as associating heroin and pot with black people specifically and indiscriminately to justify the stereotype of black persons being inherently prone to drug-taking and law-breaking). both nixon and reagan did it and with aplomb. nixon even admitted it on tape and reagan's head advisor admitted the same agenda was at play
the war on terror is the same. it is putting notions of fear in the public so they don't see that the real purpose is to ease in racist rhetoric and law without it looking like it is based entirely on xenophobia. it is the legal equivalent of keeping the pea in your hand while telling people to mind the movement of the cups
@@stephenjenkins7971 how come the drugs keep winning the war on drugs 🤔
@@NoReplyAsset Because it is impossible to stop the people from getting what they want ala the Prohibition age?
@@NoReplyAsset because being a junkie f**k up is rewarded by the government.
Serious problems aside, at least temporarily, would the joker makeup go on the guy fawks mask or under it? is this a stacking hats situation?
im wheezing lol
I guess the green wig goes under the Puritan hat fairly easily, but as for the face paint, I'm not sure. With any luck there will be fanart of this iconic line so we can see an artist's take...
Face paint underneath, red smile and cheek marks (optional) on top.
My 2 cents: The first problem is the terminology. Why is it islamophobia? The words itself facilitates a rational fear of Muslims. You can be afraid of them, you just can't be irrationally afraid of them. The word should be Anti-Islamic, like anti-semitism. It's not Jewaphobia for a reason.
@@hindugramsci Exactly, they hate everyone outside of their norm, but when we do the same to them it's "islamophobia" like shut up man.
same for "homophobia" or "transphobia" but again who cares
@@hindugramsci stop spreading your hate Modhi. You can believe whatever you want, how people think of you should be irrelevant. Just because nobody agrees with you, doesn’t mean they think “you’re the worst of creatures” lol wherever you got that from. They just think you’re an ignorant fool who doesn’t know any better.
@@justacat2 agreed
Islam is worse than fascism, the only ones spreading hate are the Muslims! You should tolerate intolerance (tolerance Paradox), that's why every decent human being has to be Islamophobic! @@mrproboi
I admire Abigail so much