Abdurraheem Green – Megan, Harry and Imperialist Race Theory

			Kareo race theory what is Imperial race theory? Let me start by putting the proposition and defining
the terms, right. And everyone, welcome to the big thing. Okay, please join the Club. And, you know,
please do follow our speakers as well in sha Allah so you can know about future events. The whole
idea of this is to get us thinking, get us thinking deeply beyond the superficial.
		

			And yeah, I guess the whole foundation of this is the use of reason. We believe it. So I believe
it's a great tool, I think it's probably the best tool that we've got to try and understand the big
problems of life, the universe, and everything, is the best thing to start with any way. I do think
we need other things to help us along. But anyway, so this whole thing has been started by Megan and
Harry. And obviously, the whole issue of racism has been very, very much on the forefront. With
George Floyd and like countless numbers of other things. This is something that is a problem that is
plaguing Western society. And I'm going to put the forward that argument or their contention that
		

			this is endemic this, you know, when we talk about systemic racism, when we talk about
institutionalized racism, I want to trace this back to what I think and this is my opinion, based
upon, I guess, my background, let me tell you a little bit about my background. For those of you who
don't know me, my Muslim name is Abdul Rahim green. I was named of birth, Anthony green. Anthony
Botswana. Gavin green. My dad was a colonial administrator
		

			in the, you know, in what was then Tanganyika was to I was born myself in Tanzania and dar Salaam in
Tanzania. Right. I went to a private school, that political ampleforth college. So you could say
that in some way, shape or form? I'm from the ruling elite. Okay. And that my you know, my dad
himself was born in Singapore. My grandfather was a governor in Malaya in Malaysia, Malaysia at the
time, right. So yeah, we have some deep colonial roots. And so I'm, I'm talking partly from my own
experience, and partly from my study of history. And I'm very upfront that I believe that
fundamentally, that yes, Western society is institutionally endemically racist. And because that is
		

			built into the actual fundamental, philosophical,
		

			philosophical underpinnings of Western society. Could this change? Is this open to change? What
other systems could we have? This is what we're going to hopefully continue the discussion on
clubhouse. For those of you who are just listening on YouTube Live, I only have three invites left.
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iPhone, you will not be able to join Club House at the moment. Okay, so here's my proposition, guys,
my proposition is that, as Great Britain,
		

			they began to develop a massive empire, hand in hand with this growth of the empire of the British
Empire, which is arguably the largest empire the world has ever seen. No Empire has
		

			ruled over so much of the Earth's surface as the British Empire, as they said, The sun never set on
the British Empire.
		

			It was absolutely massive and encompassed many, many different races, many, many different cultures.
		

			And it imposed its ideas, maybe not imposed, but it's certainly
		

			influenced, and put these ideas
		

			in the nations that it ruled over. So what are these ideas? I think the fundamental idea is actually
capitalism. That's the first thing right now, just because I'm gonna make it some, you know,
critique of capitalism. It doesn't mean I'm communist, right. Okay, there are alternatives, right?
I'm far from that. But the point about capitalism is unrestricted, unrestrained capitalism.
		

			This is the first thing with the idea of capitalism inevitably develops a belief system that is
connected to the value and the importance of money and finance. And so I would argue that from a
worldview perspective, from what you might call a philosophical perspective, the idea of materialism
		

			Capitalism go hand in hand, because the capitalist ultimately is going to be motivated by making
money. And I know I may be reducing this to very simple sound bites, I don't think that's a problem.
By the way, it doesn't deep thinking deeply doesn't mean you need to know lots of philosophical
terms, right? But it does mean you need to search deep within yourself to come up with some answers.
So this is why I would contend that capitalism and materialism, they are ideas that go hand in hand,
because ultimately, the purpose and the objective of a capitalist economy a capitalist society is to
generate income. And the way that they generate income is by getting people to purchase them to buy
		

			their goods. That's what the interest that's what capitalism is. They want people to buy their
product. And they will do that by hook or by crook. And I've argued for years, for years, I've been
arguing this, that spiritual truths
		

			are fundamentally going to be diametrically opposed to capitalist ideology. This is why I believe
that materialist materialism and capitalism, whether it's in China, or whether it's in the West,
really can't tolerate a
		

			thorough adherence to any spiritual tradition, right? It's not just Islamophobia. Its religious
phobia, right? Because any type of religious truth, right, even if that truth, in my opinion, may be
confused with some other misguidance. But the fundamental ideas are rooted in some fundamental
spiritual truths. All of them really seem to share a common theme, or religions seem to share a
common theme. And that common theme is, it teaches ultimately Self Mastery, self control, and that
happiness is fundamentally not to be found in essentially materialistic things.
		

			And again, I don't think this is opposing the use of reason, I think this is exactly what reason
could lead us to write, okay. So
		

			inevitably, there's going to be a conflict between the ideas of capitalism, and it's linked. It's
linked beliefs and materialism, and spiritual truths. Okay. So like as so therefore, as the Imperial
domain of Britain expanded as the British empire expanded Christianity, although it may ostensibly
seem to have played a part, and maybe it did in the expansion of the British Empire, in reality, I
believe that Christianity was pretty marginal, pretty marginal. And it's interesting, by the way, if
you look at the conflicts that were going on, in terms of polemics in India, between some Muslim
scholars and some Christian scholars, right. So, the British Empire was not really interested in
		

			promoting the missionaries, the Christian empire was not really the British Empire was not really
interested in that, because it was mainly interested in business and in making money. Right? Okay,
so therefore, don't believe that Christianity, although it had a very, very important point, and
very important part to play in the formation of the psyche, that allowed the British Empire to be
driven forward. The British Empire, like human beings naturally want to rationalize what they do.
That's what we want to do. We want to rationalize it, we want to be consistent, does what we want to
do. So if we have a capitalist ideology, if we have this ideology of making money, and that's the
		

			path to success, and that's what defines success, we are inevitably going to come up with some type
of ideology, some type of theory, some type of rationalization that tries to make sense of that, and
tries to justify it. And this is where science comes in. And not only science, but particularly
Darwinism, or not necessarily the theory of evolution, but a particular branch of the theory of
evolution, Darwinian evolution. So my contention is that Darwinism is essentially racist. It was
there. And this is very important to understand the idea that science is somehow free of prejudice
is ridiculous, and it just does not face the facts. Right. Maybe as a discipline. idealistically,
		

			that might be true abroad. Abdullah heartbroke. Could you put yourself on mute, bro, could you put
yourself on mute? If you don't mind? There's a little microphone button if you could just press that
and put yourself on mute. I will
		

			Oh yeah, she's aka La Habra. Thank you. Okay, so and so therefore, it becomes an intellectual
rationalization for the idea that ultimately, as I've said it before, that the white middle class
Englishmen is the peak of human evolutionary development. So the whole concept of the survival of
the fittest, this is extremely capitalistic, even though there is plenty of evidence in the natural
world of empathy and symbiosis and of species cooperating with each other, you could come up with a
very different theory of evolution. But no, the predominant one is this survival of the fittest. And
that that which is the fittest, and therefore the strongest, and the most capable, survived, and who
		

			is the fittest, obviously, the white man is the fittest, the white economies, the white political
systems, and then by extension, presumably the white religious systems, and so on and so forth, is
the fittest because the white man is the fittest, we are the ultimate end of evolutionary
development. This is what I believe, Darwinism, ultimately, why it was embraced by imperialist
Britain. And therefore, I think that this idea is so deeply imbibed within the generality of the
white population of white people, because that's what we are educated with, specifically, by the
way, not just the generality of the people, but certainly most specifically, the ruling elites.
		

			Because this scientific theory is really in reality, more than just a scientific theory. It is an
ideological theory. It is a theory of in law, what I call Imperial racism theory. It's the rational
attempt to justify imperialism, and I believe it is still going on until today. It doesn't take even
deep thinking. And this is called the deep think, right? You don't need to think that deeply. You
don't even need to look that deeply. Right? You just need to be a bit brutally honest with yourself.
And you can see this all the time in the media. And I just guessed that this little interview with
Harry and Megan, with Oprah Winfrey is just another indication and another evidence of the Royal
		

			royal family racist, they probably don't think they're racist? Probably not. They probably don't
even realize it. They probably don't even know what racism they probably don't even realize how
racist they are. Because it is institutionalized. Anyway, support, I would like to ask you, my
brother, right? Of course, anyone can come along and say anything. And I have read plenty of times
that people are saying it's absolute nonsense. Darwin was not racist. But I think you may have some
evidence to support what I'm saying. So is there any evidence at all that Darwin was racist, and
that his theories had this what I call Imperial race theory connected to it? Yeah, that's a very
		

			good question. And I think we need to be quite fair, when we're looking at this from a historical
perspective. You see, the usual read about Darwin in this regard, is no one's gonna say that. He at
least didn't say things which could sound racist, no one is denying that that's I mean, even I mean,
in academia, even in the, I would say public discourse, No one denies he said things which could be
interpreted as racist. The usual defense is that Darwin was simply making a descriptive claim about
the world, rather than a prescriptive claim. So what I mean by that, is that, so when Darwin said,
the civilized races are going to wipe out the savage races. And he actually gave the analogy that
		

			just like dominating tribes would wipe out remote tribes, which were inferior, the Western
civilization is going to be is in the next couple of centuries is going to be wiping off the map,
the savage races and things like this. So they would say, Well, what he was doing was, he was making
a purely descriptive claim about the world. He wasn't saying this is a good thing. It's a bad thing.
He was just saying, this is just something that's that's going to happen. That's the way that they
try and put it. However, it's important to note that
		

			if you are going to be making claims like that, they will become prescriptive, because the might is
right principle, which as you rightly pointed out that there's a link between capitalism and
Darwinism is going to be applied and in fact, there's some academic works about the link between
British imperialism from 1870 to 90
		

			100 and social Darwinism, the works of Herbert Spencer, and others, which influenced British
politics. What's also interesting is in the early 20th century, I mean, people understood Darwin
best. I mean, it's kind of like this, the best people who understood Jesus. Other people who are
around him are the best person to understand Napoleon, other people around him. The best people to
understand Darwin, we could say, are his direct disciples. And they were pretty clear on what his
understanding was, in fact, we can, we don't even need to go as far as his,
		

			you know, colleagues, we can even go directly to Leonard Darwin, who said, you know, one of the most
difficult this is Darwin son, one of the most difficult questions for the future is what to do with
the savage races. So clearly, Leonard Darwin, who was the father of eugenics in this country, of the
United Kingdom, he understood very well, what Darwin meant. Likewise, Thomas Huxley understood what
Darwin said,
		

			and earns tackle in Germany. He very clearly understood what Darwin said, in fact, and here's what's
here's the link, if somebody's very confused, and is trying to make a defense, Ernst Haeckel, was
praised by Darwin to the level that Darwin said, after reading Ernst hackles book about race and his
racist ideology. Reviewing the book, Charles Darwin said, I wouldn't have published my book, if I if
I'd read this first. And he's referring here, not to the Origin of Species, but the Descent of Man.
So clearly, he understood, you know, Ernst Haeckel. Well,
		

			would that imply that even Darwin had in his mind,
		

			within his mind when he's writing the Origin of the Species? He has, in his mind as he's writing it,
an intellectual justification for why imperialism? Yep, that's the implication of it. Yeah,
absolutely. You're absolutely right. And just to add to the point, he didn't, I mean, he didn't just
say the white are superior. I mean, that would be a very,
		

			that would be a that would be too vague. For Darwin, Darwin actually said, the most sophisticated
and advanced and evolved of the whites are actually the British. And the proof is in the pudding,
that they are far more effective in colonization than the Portuguese and the French and the other.
So he even had a hierarchy when it came to various Europeans. And just to add another sort of angle
to this, someone can turn around and say, Well, why aren't biologists today? Racist? Why aren't
Western universities publishing racist journals today? Well, the answer is actually given by the
Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harare, in his book, sapiens. And what he basically says, and
		

			remember, he's an atheist. He's a liberal, he believes in Darwinism as well. However, he said, Well,
the reason was because Darwin's ideas were applied by Hitler. And the Best Western universities were
publishing papers. And the best scientists were publishing, not scientists with the best
		

			xenios a norm to publish stuff, peer reviewed stuff on on race, which was very racist. And once the
implications was seen by everybody in World War Two, it stopped, all of this publication stopped. So
he gives the argument in his book that the reason that these papers were no longer published is not
due to the scientific evidence was due to the sociological impact of Darwin's teachings. So we have
academics talking about this, this is this is not unheard of. Now, the other thing, which you
started off on, which I really wanted to just add a point there, you made the link between
capitalism and Darwinism. And some people may say, Well, they're not the same thing. Or, you know,
		

			there are differences actually know even the idea of natural selection. Darwin got from a capitalist
Thomas Malthus, and he used the principle that populations grow at an exponential rate. And the, the
food chain has a huge sort of strain on it. And that leads to mass competition and mass fighting and
all the rest. He used that to actually come up with his idea of natural selection. He applied that
to population. So you could even say Darwinism is the illegitimate child of capitalism. I mean, it's
Yeah. I mean, so it's, it's, it's more than just a tenuous link that, you know, the proposition that
I was making of Imperial race theory, is something that very strong and I actually don't think as
		

			someone who pointed out to me earlier in Sharla, you know, for those of you who are on clubhouse,
		

			I will type harradine I hope I don't know where he is I will type is his that
		

			is coming in and out. Hopefully he's going to pick up where we end because he was talking to me
earlier.
		

			I don't even know I lost my train of thought
		

			between the British Empire and it's, it's, like you said the intellectual justification for their
policies, because one of the other historical aspects I just want to highlight is prior to Darwin,
someone can say, well, they were still going on colonizing. Prior to Darwin, the justification was
Christianity.
		

			Around the time of Darwin, they needed another new injection of justification.
		

			Because, I mean, obviously, I didn't go into this in detail, but Christianity was no longer able to
really hold a firm grip on the intelligencia. I mean, obviously, I mean, even since since the time
of Newton, right. And he was a Unitarian, he'd already pretty much rejected Trinitarian, as I mean,
makes makes it's very hard for someone to be, you know, to lay claim to a rational path of thinking
and then still be a traditional Trinitarian. Christian, right, because he offers too many
impossibilities. Right. And I think that in hand with that, obviously, the whole I, my argument
would be and to go back to my argument, that actually, you know, any spiritual tradition is going to
		

			be a hindrance to imperialism, it's going to be a hindrance to imperialism, it's going to be a
hindrance to capitalism. Because when it comes to guilt complex, right, you know, anyone reading the
sayings of Jesus would have a real hard time, you know, imposing imperial rule upon people and
treating them with, you know, racist tendencies. I mean, obviously, despite that we know in the
Bible Belt, and so on and so forth. People have used the Bible to justify racism, right? But to be
honest, I mean, you read those texts, and you read the actual things that Jesus was supposed to have
said, right? And, you know, you really, I mean, you know, it's harder for a rich man to enter heaven
		

			than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Like, how do you how on earth do you
reconcile that with a full on capitalist materialistic approach to life where the people who are
richest and wealthiest are supposed to be the most, you know, the most respected people in society,
right? It's just not compatible. So all in all, they had to drop it, Christianity was just not
suitable for them. And another contention that I often make is that people are not often atheists,
because it makes any rational sense because I believe atheism makes.
		

			I'll be frank, no rational sense at all. It's it's irrational, right? I think it's more irrational
than Christianity, actually. But people often atheists because they don't want to be constrained by
particular rules. They don't want to be on a guilt trip. I just, you know, if I put it bluntly,
people don't want to be in a guilt trip. And you know, when you have a religious tradition that has
some defined parameters of morality, especially how you should treat your fellow human beings, when
you don't do that, or when more I would say you're doing exactly the opposite. You're constantly
going to feel conflicted within yourself. And anyone that's a human beings, human beings always are
		

			trying to run away from self conflict, it's extremely painful, right? So you're going to either do
one of two things, you're going to face up to yourself and admit that you're a hypocrite and then
make changes in prove yourself as a human being. Or you're going to come up with something that
allows you to rationalize your prejudices and, and yeah, the point that I was going to make, that
you are touching upon bro is a wider point about science. And scientists, you know, the likes of
Dawkins and Sam Harris, and these people love to go on about, you know, how science is unprejudiced.
It's just nonsense. It's pure nonsense. The history of science and Darwin, Darwin's theory is one of
		

			them is littered with prejudice. You know, in the Soviet Union, for example, and I forget the names,
there were scientists who had come up with theories that were outright rejected by the Communist
Party, because they might lead people to believe in God.
		

			You know, anything that had a whiff of all that. Go on. You're referring here to the Big Bang, they
were very resistant to it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. So again, that the idea that science is free of bias,
		

			you know, yes, I would say that as a discipline in in the ideal way it actually is, right. But
what's the reality of the human condition, often known science until today, and I would say that
actually, although you're right after Nazi Germany, a lot of this racist rhetoric has been dropped
publicly, but
		

			But as I will try was making the point has anyone renounced it openly?
		

			Has anyone renounced it openly has anyone come out? Straight out, you know, well known scientists
and renounced openly these racial imperialistic biases, really using it is using the same narrative
until today. And we see it in the I would say, You're being too charitable there shake because
Francis Crick,
		

			and with
		

			James Watson, they discovered the structure of DNA in Cambridge in the 50s. Right, Francis Crick,
obviously passed away. Now, James Watson, and he obviously understands determinism quite well being
an atheist, Darwinist. He is. He actually a few years ago, didn't denounce it. But he actually
amplified the discussion, hence why he was cancelled. Even in his late age, he came out openly, like
old people do, and he didn't care about being woke. And he said, black and white people, of course,
are not equal. And we know anybody that has black employees knows this. This is what he said.
		

			And he said, our policies in Africa are based upon the assumption that blacks are equal to us. And
we will continue to fail so long as we have this assumption. These are what James Watson that the
person who won the Nobel Prize for discovering DNA who is alive right now he's in his 80s, or 90s,
this is what he just said a few years ago, so forget denouncing it. They've reiterated it, some of
them. Well, bro, like, it's been a fantastic, fascinating introduction to this topic. For Have you
joined us on YouTube. Like I said, if you just there's only I have three invites to clubhouse, you
have to have an iPhone, unfortunately, at the moment to join, if you leave me, if you message me, I
		

			will send you an invite. I think we would like to continue the discussion on clubhouse. But the
thought that I would like to leave everyone with is this. Is there an alternative? Is there? Is
there a foundation upon which we could build a society that is not racist? On which we could still
build a civilization? Obviously, some of you may know that we are Muslim, and that absolutely we
believe that there is there is a basis. And I think that 1400 years ago, the Prophet Muhammad came,
and he said some really amazing things. There is no difference between the Arab and non Arab, no
difference between the white man and the black weren't man except in piety. This is what the and the
		

			Quran tells us that God has made us into tribes and nations. Interestingly, it uses tribes and
nations that you may know one another not that you may despise one another, which is the you know,
the understanding of it, interestingly, that it says tribes and nations, because let's give credit
where credit is due to Darwin's black box, which is, of course, the unveiling of DNA, the unveiling
of the structure of the cell, right? And its complexities. And, and now, the whole examination into
DNA has pretty much shown that race has no scientific basis, there is no scientific basis for race
whatsoever, because the genetic variation between say two Nigerians right, is probably get greater
		

			that than between you and me, and another Nigeria, right. So if race had some genetic, some real
genetic factors, factors, as far as I know, that it has almost I mean, it has no foundation in the
understanding of genetics anyway. So that's a whole different topic. I believe that if society is
institutionally racist, and definitely racist, that means it is rotten to its core. It's not about
individuals. It's not about the royal family. It's not about you know, Prince Philip, it's not about
Richard Dawkins or any of the Sam Harris or any of these people, whoever they made. It's about
individuals. It's about the underpinning underlying ideological foundations. If we're going to build
		

			a society on ideas of capitalism and materialism, then and the the theory of the survival of the
fittest and evolution inevitably, in one way or another, it's going to end up I believe, being in
some way shape or form racist. So we need to find another foundation on which to build our
societies. So
		

			hopefully now we're going to continue that discussion on clubhouse. We've got brother Fahad tire
with us on the and suborder. You've just joined us there. We were hoping that Doc Dr. Abdullah Baker
would come up as well and I will tell you the Hydra Dean, I don't know where he's gone. We are
really hoping he was going to come in and add to the discussion.
		

			Maybe some good messaging. As for those of us who have joined us on YouTube, may Allah bless you. I
hope you're able to join the discussion on clubhouse, and anything else to add support before we go.
		

			Yeah, I just really wanted to highlight that we're not just here to just speak about this issue with
Megan and Harry and just just raise, raise up this issue. We're here for solutions. If you think
there's something better
		

			than Islam to solve it, let us know. We're open to it. But yeah, like you said, Islam is the
solution to racism. And that is evidence that it's not manmade, because it can solve something which
man itself has not been able to solve for 1000s of years. Yeah. If, again, on the discussion in
clubhouse, if any, if anyone wants to contender, we're gonna have a few more speakers, and then we
will be opening up the floor for you to come. Please remember the rules of the big thing, right? You
know, try and come up with a solid a cogent thought out, you know, point that you want to make don't
just like just brain dump, right.
		

			You know, it may sound like I was brain dumping, but these are issues I've been thinking about for
30 years. So quite deeply. Okay, guys, Soldier Sakala. Here. We'll continue the discussion on
clubhouse. I think sulla had the umbrella we could hand over to
		

			brother had to give us some thoughts in Sharla. On that, and for everyone joining us on YouTube.
Just before we do that, could you just make somebody in the mode? Because he can't. I don't even
know how to do that. Let me just click on his face. And then you make him one.
		

			I think I'm already a moderator. No, he's
		

			just kind of really interesting and insightful. So I know. Ty, is just fixing his car.
Unfortunately.
		

			He will.
		

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