Maryam Amir – Dawah bros and silence

			I made a video about Muslim woman
influencers, and many people have
		

			been asking, What about Muslim
menfluencers aid Inshallah, like
		

			to share with you why I think
Muslim influencers, but
		

			specifically Dawa bros are not
being addressed. The content of
		

			Muslim women influencers typically
focus on beauty, travel,
		

			lifestyle, clothing, and in
comparison to a genocide, those
		

			things seem frivolous, especially
when that content is not being
		

			used to advocate and amplify and
disrupt genocide, it then whether
		

			or not intentionally feeds into a
system of complacency with
		

			profiting and funding genocide,
and that is capitalism. Compare
		

			that to the content of Muslim
dalabro. Specifically, what I've
		

			noticed is that they typically
islamicize their content. And I
		

			have seen that when they are asked
why they are not speaking about
		

			the Liberation of Palestine or
Sudan or so many areas of this
		

			ummah, their response is that they
are focusing on fixing the sins
		

			from within, and typically those
sins, they are focusing on fixing
		

			our women. This creates a
dystopian reality. Is that you
		

			will scroll and see a doctor in
Raza. She is saving the lives of
		

			her patients under genocide. And
the next will be a Tiktok live of
		

			Dawa bros discussing whether or
not women should be doctor. The
		

			next may be woman after woman who
is recording herself asking,
		

			pleading for anyone to donate to
her GoFundMe to get her children
		

			safely out of Reza. And the next
will be a video of a Dawa bro
		

			talking about the fitna of a woman
who wears nakab and makes Dawa
		

			videos online. The third will be
video after video after video of
		

			the men in Raza saving women from
under the rubble, comforting
		

			woman, protecting women. And the
next will be a Dawa bro showing
		

			the pictures or videos of actual
women you can recognize in
		

			different stages of their hijab
journey. Sometimes they will blur
		

			out their faces, but you'll know
who they are, and they will talk
		

			about the downfall of this ummah
being their hijab of women. So in
		

			one you see women who are being
saved by men, and in another, you
		

			see women who feel unsafe because
of men. I receive these tiktoks,
		

			oftentimes from my teachers and my
colleagues who are Imams. These
		

			are men who send me the videos of
these brothers, and they ask, are
		

			they not embarrassed? And that
speaks to the point on frivolity,
		

			it's easy to point to makeup and
clothing and travel during a
		

			genocide and say those are
frivolous in comparison to a
		

			genocide, but speaking about women
in these ways is also frivolous.
		

			But it's not just frivolous. It's
also dangerous, and it can be
		

			violent. There are so many places
this discussion can go, but
		

			specifically on the point of the
Liberation of Palestine and using
		

			our content to push a tidal wave
of support when we islamicize our
		

			excuses when we skirt personal
responsibility. Now you could say
		

			that what you are doing is
forbidding the evil, but the
		

			problem is that the way in which
it's done is not one which
		

			encourages or inspires change.
What I have seen is it typically
		

			divides and it distracts away from
the cause. This is a time where we
		

			should ask ourselves, are we
islamicizing our obsessions? Are
		

			we islamicizing our trauma? Are we
islamicizing our insecurities as
		

			an excuse for our lack of actively
working for the liberation of
		

			Philistine and all of this ummah?