Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #323 – Why 2022 NEEDS Islam

			2022 needs a snap.
		

			That's a whole different sort of angle to take, right? We look at our society here in North America,
but there are trends that exist globally. We see the opioid crisis we see, you know, drug abuse, we
see rampant individualism, we see the excesses of neoliberal capitalism, we see imperialism and
killing and all these things, environmental degradation, you name it, you know, that's why it cracks
me up, you know, when people, they talk about progress and being progressive, and they're kind of
hyper focused on what we're able to do, like individual freedoms, when the whole world around us is
like, is is collapsing.
		

			Like, we're not making any progress. We're regressing. And that's kind of a very, I think, pre
modern and an Islamic and a generally like religious sort of take on history is that we do believe
that generally, there's going to be an apocalypse, right like the end of the world. And we generally
believe that things are going to get worse and worse and worse until that happens. Right?
		

			Now we have a duty, that's not like a fatalistic sort of thing, we have a duty to establish the good
establish the just, and I guess that's the thing, when we look into all of the ills that society has
these days, yeah, I firmly believe 100%, that Islam is the solution to all of those ills. When it
comes to reconstituting the family, making the family something that is meaningful, and strong and
nurturing and nourishing again, that is something that Islam has a lot to say about when it comes to
the proper balance between the sexes, or the genders, male and female, and how they should rely on
each other, and take advantage of their kind of strategic advantages and not necessarily be in
		

			competition with one another or an antagonistic relationship with one another, or just trying to be
the exact same thing. That's something that Islam has a lot to say about. And that's something that
our society needs, how to strike the balance between being just and establishing justice, right,
sort of like righteous anger towards the unjust things that are going on. And also balance
forgiveness and mercy and these sorts of things. Islam has that completely in a way that I've never
seen any other sort of system have
		

			reining in sort of our economic activity so that it's not predatory. Look at the Mises a mess where
we have the housing crisis and, you know, the Great Recession and then the great resignation and all
these sorts of things. We're in the middle of a pandemic or the end of a pandemic, who knows, and
corporations are taking advantage of quote, unquote, inflation to rake in record profits and all
these sorts of things that are happening. They we need a snap, you know, Islam would not allow these
sorts of predatory practices to exist. So yeah, that's not the question is not is Islam compatible
in 2022. Is that is 2022 able to recognize that it needs help, and that it might need to turn to
		

			Islam for help.