Maryam Amir – Muslim women influencers and apology or clarification videos
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The speaker shares insight from an public source about the impact of black creators on society, including their actions and their use of media. They also discuss the importance of being a cultural sh referendum and encourage influencers to engage with them. The speaker emphasizes the need for collaboration and sharing experiences to create a culture of permission and empowerment for everyone.
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Seen a number of Muslim women influencers make apology or
clarification videos recently. And while this video is not addressed
to any particular person, I'd like to share some insight from an
Islamic perspective. Share this with deep love whom I've noticed
in every video is when the focus on internal worship, private
worship. My intentions are sincere. I'm giving charity
privately. I can do and share with you a story of an influencer,
quote, unquote, from when the Crusaders entered aksah. The
Crusaders entered Jerusalem, and they slaughtered everyone. A small
group of refugees were able to escape, and they made it to Syria.
Al harawi, who was a scholar, was teaching, and he saw them come
into the masjid, tattered, bloodied, and asked what happened
when he learned that the Crusaders had murdered Christians, Muslims,
Jews, went to a local Muslim leadership, and they did nothing.
And so he actually went to beldad. Made excuses not to see him. And
so he thought, strategy, how is he going to help his words go viral?
Went into the masjid that he knew that the ruler was going to be
listening to Jumaa. It was at Ramadan. He went to the front of
the masjid where the khalib was speaking, and in front of
everyone, he started to eat, and you can imagine the uproar. People
jumping up, shouting, it's Ramadan. What are you doing?
Fasting is a private Act, which he didn't actually need to do at all
because he was traveling, but he took that private action and he
used it to mobilize people. And his response was, this is your
outrage to me eating the middle of the day of Ramadan, where is your
outrage for the blood of your brothers and sisters as you're
being slaughtered? That was the first cultural shift for the
ummah. When it came to looking at Palestine, it took 88 years for
Salah Haddin to enter and be able to liberate he was one of many
influencers of his time focused on cultural change for Philistine so
Ibn asakir, a scholar, he wrote about foil Aqsa, teaching people
about why aksha is important. Nila mukh created schools where the
curricula focused on why Aksa is important. So lahadin graduated
from those schools the people before sola, Haden, nurdina, Imad,
DEEN Esme, DEEN mufti, a Fatima, Samar, Pandya, her husband, all of
them, worked to create a culture of bringing back Aksa. You know
that influencers right now helped completely shift public
conversation on Palestine Muslim influencers. You're the first of
your kind. You're trying to navigate what it means to be an
influencer, what it means to be a Muslim influencer. And I invite
you to consider yourself as a cultural shifter. And number one,
the way that you navigate brand deals. If you have spoken about
working with brands that were on the BDS list and not knowing but
let's look at before 2020 Starbucks had a number of national
cases where they were racist towards black employees and black
clients. They still have lawsuits against them for this genocide. I
have seen so many Muslim influencers just like I'm going to
go to Starbucks right now. Prior to the genocide, Starbucks was an
upholder of systemic racism, whether or not you were being paid
by Starbucks. Your assumption of Starbucks, you are a tool for a
brand to make billions more. The Liberation of Palestine is not
just about Palestine. It's a liberation from systems of
oppression. It's a liberation for the people of Congo and Sudan and
from systems of oppression. And reaches out to you and they want
to work with you. If all influencers signed a code of
conduct, a contract that they were not going to work with brands that
were not established in ethical work, those brands would lose you,
and you are their access to us. You hold the power for them to
have to change their policies internally. Can aspect is
dystopia. Many of us have said it feels so dystopian because we're
going about our days and then on our phones, all we see are
literally the brains of children splattered we are either creators
of dystopia or consumers of dystopia, or we are breaking a
dystopia when you regularly create content and there's no mention of
genocide actively, what you're doing is creating a culture of
dystopia, because remember, there's no blueprint for what
you're doing right now. So you are the blueprint for other people,
whether or not it is intentional, you are creating a culture of
permission for other people to look towards you as a blueprint,
see that you are successful, and then choose to continue not to be
actively vocal on their own platforms, because they're looking
at the blueprint that gives them permission not to do so.
Disrupting dystopia looks like continuing your niche, whatever
your niche is, but ensure engage with us. Engage with us. Because
why are you separating your fashion and travel and beauty,
content and ads from our advocacy? You are creating a blueprint for
people now and the next generation to know how to use this tool. I
think a question we should with is, Why did Allah bless me with
being in this moment of time? How can I use it to be a tool of
liberation, for Philistine, for Sudan, for Congo, for the Uyghurs,
for people everywhere, but also for our own selves?