Refuting CRITICAL RACE THEORY - Islam: Left or Right? (Day 4) Abdullah Al-Andalusi 

MashaAllah! This was a profound lecture 😊! May Allah bless the Ustadh for his work and give him much Barakah in it, Ameen 🤲🏾! A phenomenal breakdown of the theory and how it fails to measure up to our Islamic tradition - as with all human ideologies as well-intended as they could appear to be. I especially agreed on his point about the punishment for both the “oppressed” and the “oppressor” - the “oppressor” will get punished for their bad deeds yes, but the oppressed will also get punished for attempting and sometimes replicating the same oppression for the sake of “justice” and “equality”. Being African-American myself, I believe this is vital for my community to understand. We must remember and believe in Allah’s (SWT) Qadr - both good and bad. Everything that we encounter and endure in this life has been preordained and has Hikmah in it. InshaAllah, I believe if many people in my community remembered and accept this, then we could obtained TRUE success, InshaAllah.

First, MashaAllah another great lecture. Waiting for this all week.

Abdullah you truly have some of the highest quality work out there. I know a lot of effort goes into all of your work and I want you to know that it is greatly appreciated. At the end of it all there is a large reward waiting for you with Allah (if the intentions are pure). May your content live on and benefit many Muslims/non-Muslims for ages to come.

Appreciate you sharing these amazing lecture brother Abdullah. Jazakullah. I will be eagerly awaiting the finale!

Really intrigued about the next lecture

I can vouch for the claim that touching unfamiliar hair is purely out of curiosity. I'm black, so when I first came in close contact with someone with a different grade of hair than mine as a kid, I was so interested in it that I did try to touch it. It's okay to be interested in our differences, we just need to understand to respect people's personal space when doing so.

@AbdullahalAndalusi Is there going to be a video for Day 5?

Excellent work

JazakAllah'u khairan brother 🤝🏻

‏السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته يا أستاذ جزاك الله خير

As salamu alaykum, I know a few years back you had a exchange with Professor Shareef Muhammad concerning CRT etc, he is surprised to hear you are still speaking on this subject seeing that you failed to respond to his last article directed to you. Are you aware that Shareef and Attorney Hakeem Muhammad esq have a book on the subject of systemic racism entitled "The Muslims guide for Understanding Structural racism and its impact on Black America"?

Issue attendees of this series of lectures certificates please.

Excellent lecture ustad Abdullah. May Allah preserve you amin. I would love to hear your Islamic reaction to UFO or aliens allegedly visiting earth.

Salaamualaikum from South Africa. Brother Abdullah, just dropping a note to advise you that it is preferable for you to lecture rather than be interviewed. It is highly irritating when you have a host that keeps interrupting you and you are unable to complete your explanations

Great stuff!

Assalamu alaycum. Can you talk about James Lindsay's work and the cult origins of hegel amd marx a la Hermeticism and Gnosticism? Is what he is saying is true?

Can someone summarize this lecture?

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:03 🧐 Understanding Left and Right Wing Politics 05:46 🌍 What Defines a "White" Person? 16:29 📊 Critical Race Theory vs. Other Explanations 25:19 📜 Critical Race Theory aims to expose the origins of racism in society as structural, systemic, and institutional, with a focus on inequality leading to harm. 30:23 🔍 Critical Race Theory's name is derived from its roots in Neo-Marxist thinking, particularly the works of Antonio Gramsci. 34:36 🎨 Critical Race Theory criticizes liberalism for its colorblind approach to racism, arguing that it fails to address systemic racial disparities. 46:54 📚 Origins of social construction of race 50:11 🧿 Whiteness as a form of property 51:47 🤔 Interest convergence on material determinism 55:01 🌐 Differential racialization and negative stereotyping 58:15 📖 Counter narrative campaigning and storytelling 01:00:08 🧠 Raising racial consciousness 01:03:57 📜 Standpoint epistemology and the interpretation of knowledge 01:07:29 🔄 Microaggressions and reinforcing group superiority 01:08:10 📚 Understanding Critical Race Theory 01:17:20 🔍 Intersections of Critical Race Theory 01:29:57 📚 Critical Race Theory and Neil Marxism Explained 01:31:06 🌍 The Definition of Racism in Critical Race Theory 01:33:40 🕌 Islamic Perspective on Kibar and Asabiyyah 01:45:03 ☪️ Islam's Role in Addressing Racism 01:50:58 💬 Addressing the concept of racism and unequal power balance 01:59:55 💡 Examining historical views on race and slavery 02:07:08 🗣️ Addressing the challenge of debating critical race theory with non-Muslims 02:10:56 🌍 Discussing disparities and addressing historical disadvantages 02:12:09 🧐 Understanding Stereotypes and Suspicion 02:22:36 💬 Discussion on Stereotyping and Microaggressions 02:31:34 🤝 Assuming Good Intentions within the Muslim Community 02:32:16 📜 Stereotypes and utility 02:34:02 🧐 Responding to accusations of racism, sexism, or homophobia 02:34:30 🤝 Engaging with non-Muslims on ideological debates 02:34:57 🙏 Encouraging prayer through wisdom (Hikmah) 02:41:54 💬 Responding to claims of being "spiritual, not religious" 02:49:31 🤔 "Check your privilege" concept 02:53:30 💡 Understanding privilege in critical race theory 02:57:26 🌍 The importance of cultural and religious identity 03:00:29 🌍 Cultural identity and pride in ancestry

Though it wouldn’t be uploaded 😂 eagerly waiting

MASHALLAH

what's the next topic on? 👀

Following this set of lectures and benefiting from new knowledge, may Allah reward you. Ameen. I really love your comprehensive destruction of the secular belief systems. I do however have a contention on this subject: Critical race theory suggests the idea of institutional racism, where there is an underlying tone of racial bias throughout institutions. Are you denying this is the case? I know it's anecdotal but i have experienced racial bias where the persons doing it are unaware they were inconsistent on how they apply the law but there was no other explanation. A good example of this is the banning of the hijab / abaya in france. Whats the difference between CRTs explanation and Islam's explanation for this?

Baraka ALLAHU fik

MashaAllah

mashallah .

Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹

Should visit the other campus of UBC as well

People with transparent skin and people with opaque skin

01:46:18

My name is Shareef Muhammad and I'm the one who popularized the term in a series of article refuting Mr. Andalusi's characterization of CRT in particular and the black American protest movement in general. He did not respond to my second article years back but is here repeating the same stale, debunked arguments here. I wrote a book entitled The Muslim Guide to Understanding Structural Racism in which I lay out all of the data on race in America along the history and tenets of critical race theory (CRT). In short Andalusi's association of CRT with Marxism and postmodernism are dogwhistles that born of right-wing propaganda and have no basis in fact. Since CRT is clearly integral to his work it would be beneficial to have an open discussion.

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Salamualakum Akhi Abdallah, Not every Muslim is an indigenous Indian but majority of them are. 10% are of African, Arab, Afghan and Iranian origin.

The curse of ham is actually in Genesis.

CRT is 💯 "REAL" ALL OF IT

Gonna be honest, as an American this neo Marxist view on race makes a lot of sense.

47:36 There were also Muslims who justified enslavement with the “curse of ham” teachings

Anti CRT Muslims ... is this that ahk right movement I have been hearing about?

lol the catholic thing 😂

murji'ah-ash'ari-madhabi-salafi-khawarij. far left-left-centre-right-far right.