Lauren Booth – Western Brain Drain I Muslims Are Leaving

			Why did you leave London? Why did you leave Britain generally, as it's such a great country to live
in? And why would you go to somewhere like Turkey, I have to say that I have very little attachment
to the social behaviors that are now so common in my country. I think when Muslims come to London,
or to the Lake District, or to Edinburgh, we can float through on a cloud of beautiful tourism. But
what you don't realize, oh, brothers and sisters, is the deep, ingrained social rot, that the people
of my home country, my people, my original heritage people, what their suffering, do you know what
it's like to walk down a road, walking your children to school, and every 10 or 20 meters at any
		

			time of the day, you are inhaling clouds and clouds of drunk smoke? Can you imagine what that feels
like? I come from that background. I used to smoke I was a biller, and I'm telling you this, because
I reject it now. It's so harmful to the psyche, to, to rationalism, to, to good governance in our
own lives and homes. SubhanAllah. So you're walking your kids to school, and you smell a load of
smoke, drugs smoke. And that's not the problem. The problem is that if you were to complain to a
teacher about it, they look at you as if you're the problem the extremists, because the end of the
day, why shouldn't people smoke drugs in public? I remember a few years ago, actually, it was in
		

			2012. It was the Olympics. And the Palestinian team had come over to London in order to take part in
different events. And they asked me several of the competitors. Can you take us out for a day
somewhere nice. And so being a Londoner, and although I was Muslim at the time, you know, being used
to that environment, I said, Let's go to Hyde Park. It's a beautiful park. Not too busy. It's
summertime.
		

			Guess what happened in the park and this was in Ramadan. They were fasting the poor things, almost
complete * amongst some of the women SubhanAllah. We had these young men and women from Gaza,
looking at their hands going out was a billows Villa trying to keep their fast in the park. And
that's not the worst of it. Because people just showing their flesh is neither here nor there in a
non Muslim country. But what about when they're pressing against each other? Kissing, fondling,
again, in front of children, again, just in front of our eyes again, that in much worse. It's very
unpleasant situation. So the parks you can't really go to in the summertime. Unless you can kind of
		

			switch your eyes down and try to ignore the smell of the marijuana smoke and the Lord behavior law
wake bar. That's a lot of our space gone. And right now it's 40 degrees in London. So it's not that
easy. It's not that beautiful. Subhanallah What about evenings in the Muslim world, the evenings are
for families. Families are everywhere, right? We're in the streets, where by the beach, where we've
got balloons. We're on the Promenade. We're having fun with our families going for desserts and ice
cream. In London. It's quite rare or Manchester, or the other big cities to go out in the city
centre after dark. Are you crazy right now? You'd never take your kids out there. You don't know
		

			what you're gonna see what you do know what you're gonna see. I come from a family of alcoholics,
unfortunately. And I was formally married to an alcoholic. I was before Islam, I would say
borderline alcoholic myself maybe a high functioning alcoholic, which meant I could keep on working
but I binge drank I would drink myself into a stupor. Maybe just once or twice a week. That's okay.
Right? Do you reckon you drink too much? On a night out? Probably yes. But what else can you do? On
the weekend?
		

			I probably do drink quite a lot. So I would say binge drinking occasionally. Do you drink to get
drunk? Yes. I think we all drink too much. Don't show my mom. What does that do to families. The
smell of alcohol makes me sick now. And so with all these different social factors. I'll give you
one more teaching children that they are any gender and no gender. Saying to Muslim children, a
Muslim boy called Muhammad you don't have to be a boy. Don't tell your mommy and daddy. But if you
want to be a girl, we can take care of you. And young girls getting sent things through the post to
strap down their teenage growth and make them insecure, more insecure than they already are. But now
		

			doubting that there is even such a thing as a woman
		

			I'm not the only one moving to Turkey, although it's got a lot harder now, the families here from
Canada, Australia, UK.
		

			Yeah, those are the main ones SubhanAllah. But there's also some Polish sisters, and some Latvian
sisters. But mostly, it's the big Western countries. They just want to save their families. So I was
living with my family, and it was just so toxic, and it was really beginning to affect my mental
health. So I thought my best option would be probably just to move out and get my own space. They
want to be able to speak to their children about having principles, Faith principles, and ethics in
the way that they want to speak to them without that being undone or being branded, you know, wrong
or extremists. SubhanAllah. So yeah, here we are in Turkey. It's imperfect and perfect. We have to
		

			respect the home nation. We have to respect our wonderful hosts here in all their arrays
SubhanAllah. And I hope that we can do that in Sharla. So would you would I would I recommend making
Hedra to Turkey. Well, I would definitely recommend living here if you can, what I call it Hijra.
Now. Would I call it moving to a Muslim country where you can hear the event?
		

			That's true. Where you can get slammed in the streets, but I do pray that there's a big gathering
here of minds for the good of the Ummah in the world and that we find our peace and our places to
rest and be safe, away from marijuana smoke, the lies about transgender the difficulties about
alphabets Subhanallah protect our children into the next century inshallah protect our planet. And
look after one another. If you are in a Western country, I really I pray that we can all get through
this difficult time together in sha Allah, and that you find your space and please, wherever you
are. My dear brothers and sisters don't negotiate with the truth of Islam. We have something to
		

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