I sympathise with a lot of Shahid Bolsen's takes but I believe ignoring the belief systems of those who have more power right now is foolish. Instead of acknowledging and interacting with western thought, he closes his eyes and pretends Islamic revival is guaranteed because of Saudi and Malaysia. Yes decolonization can be important beyond leftwing virtue signalling, and yes we hold the objective truth, but has the final prophet ﷺ not commanded us to retake our lost property(knowledge) wherever we find it?
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I’m not sure I understand the objection being made.
The only thing I kind of struggle to accept with this video is what’s being eluded to that this is a western thing. I don’t see any of the kuffaar acting any differently tbh. Hindus, Buddhists, etc. they pretty much all exhibit what’s being mentioned in this video. So for me it’s just a manifestation of kufr and where shaytaan ultimately take you without guidance.
But if you could elaborate further on what you mean, that would be useful.
I was doing a more general critique of Bolsen's rethoric, so not specifically this video. In one of his videos he said that the west "can't possibly teach us anything" in the context of western thinkers of the last 3 centuries. Bolsen usually repeats his points and makes enough videos about the same topic to the point where it's hard to pin down what is in a specific video if you want to look it up again. I also agree that bolsen leans a little too much into leftist tropes, whether pan African or Asian.
Well, what part of what you said there do you not agree with ? Including the ‘leftist’ things.