Discussion on Western and Eastern Mindsets

Someone says, “You think like a Westerner.” Of course, my outlook is one hundred

percent. I’m not saying the West

gets everything right, nor that they’re angels.

Every system has flaws, strengths and weaknesses.

But at least

Europeans emerged from the Dark Ages.

They emerged from the Dark Ages

and developed their intellectual system. To this day, we see religion

as a personal matter. Religion belongs only in places of worship.

It doesn’t enter real life. It doesn’t. It doesn’t turn

into condemning another person. How—when did you pray?

Did you pray? Did you fast? Didn’t fast? Why didn’t you pray? Why

didn’t you fast? Why didn’t you do it? Why are you like this? Forbidden.

Permissible. God forbid. I seek Almighty God’s forgiveness.

Major polytheism. Minor polytheism. Fear God. What business is it of yours? I

fear God or I don’t. I pray. I don’t pray.

Brother, it’s none of your business. It’s absolutely none of your business, nor does it

concern you. It doesn’t concern you what my thinking is. What

I do. Whether I pray. What my intellectual inclinations are. What my

mental inclinations are. What my religious inclinations are. What my sexual inclinations are.

It's none of your business, brother. It doesn't concern you, nor is it any of your business at all.

Stick to your worship, your beliefs, and stick to your freedom

of religion and thought. That's it, brother, go to your temple, worship whatever you

want. Don't interfere—don't interfere in my life.

That's the difference between the European mentality and the Eastern mentality in the Middle East.

The Eastern mentality in the Middle East is a twisted mentality,

an ideologized mentality, ideologized by religion, by religion

and a mentality ideologized by religion that judges others.

I wish, I wish he would judge himself. I swear, I haven't prayed.

I swear, my relationship with God is bad. He doesn't judge himself.

He doesn't judge his own self. He's a lying hypocrite.

He wants to project his fake, hypocritical,

false religiosity onto others, brother. Oh, look at what that guy does.

Oh, look how that guy doesn't pray. Oh, that guy's sexual inclinations.

Yeah, that guy looks gay. That guy looks like he's homosexual.

I swear, that guy isn't right in the head. Yeah, I swear, he's a womanizer.

I swear, this guy

Everyone watches everyone else. No one fixes

himself. Everyone has sins, good people.

Everyone has sins and shortcomings. We're human,

and we're sinners. We fall and get back up. We fall and get back up.

That's only natural. Everyone on Earth makes mistakes and gets things right.

But you call yourself religious. You bear witness that there is no god but

God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God. You fear God, go to the mosque, and fast.

Fine. We don't say anything to you or

oppose your religiosity.

We oppose your hypocrisy, lies, and showmanship. You want to impose

this religiosity on others. But what is right,

rationally and logically, is to apply it to yourself.

If you fix yourself, you will have fixed society as a whole.

But we see a corrupt society built on hypocrisy and

lies. Because everyone wants to change someone else but doesn't want

to change

himself.

You are a hypocritical nation. A senile nation. A lying nation.

A hypocritical nation. A nation with hypocritical religiosity. This is

the problem that we, I mean, face with you.

We have nothing to do with your religiosity, nor with

your religion. Worship as you wish, pray as you wish, and fast

as you wish. But do not impose your worship on others, and do not

judge others. Do not judge, lest you be judged.

As Jesus Christ says, do not judge. Do not judge others.

Everyone has shortcomings in their life. Focus

on your own life. Do not concern yourself with others' lives.

That is why I say European thought. Even if it has

shortcomings, it is nobler than your way of thinking. Your way of thinking

A toxic mindset, harmful to others, even

to Muslims. I mean, many Muslim friends tell me

"Man, these hypocrites have worn us out." Within the Islamic community,

there's a problem, there's a problem. A problem

where the devout want to impose on others, even the

nonreligious, until the nonreligious become hypocritical machines.

They judge others because that's cultural too.

I mean, that's cultural too. They've given us headaches.

They've given us headaches with this religiosity of yours. Your religiosity is unhealthy and...

Spiritual. Your piety is hypocrisy, showmanship, and lies.

Something, something, something. It hurts the heart and the mind.

So many people are oppressed, so many.

I mean, I'm one of those people whose father, may God have mercy on him, they destroyed him.

They wouldn't leave him alone. "You didn't pray, huh?"

"Why don't you pray, huh?" I mean, my father, may God have mercy on him,

he was someone we could say was irreligious, he didn't acknowledge religions.

That's what I know about him. I used to sit with him and talk to him.

He didn't acknowledge religions. He'd tell you all religions are lies and hypocrisy.

So they drove him crazy, drove him crazy. But of course, my father didn't… he didn't have the

strength or ability to rebel against the herd, to rebel,

because he was a simple man. My father, may God have mercy on him, didn't like

problems, and he had a family, and he was afraid for his family.

And you know the culture, your wife, your family, the children, the girls and boys,

and all that. So he set priorities.

But they persecuted him, they wouldn't leave him alone. They called him an unbeliever, man.

They'd tell his wife, "Leave him because he's an infidel who doesn't pray."

Wretched people. People with no shame or morals.

They say they know God. By God, you don't know Him.

By God, you don't know God, you liars. You don't know God.

You have no spirituality, no morality, and no humanity.

Even though my father called himself a Muslim.

Yet they called him an infidel because he didn't pray or because of, you know, religious things

he didn't do. They called him an infidel. They incited my mother to leave him.

"He's an infidel. You're not supposed to marry him. You shouldn't be with him."

Look at that mindset, that depraved mindset. They have no humanity or morals.

By God, it'll take you a thousand years to become like the Europeans.