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Philosophy Tube | December 11, 2025



Following on from our analysis of race and racism in politics and law, here’s a discussion of the racialization of Muslims in Western societies.
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Falguni Sheth, “Toward a Political Philosophy of Race”
Sherene Razack, “Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Politics and Law”
OMFG: What is Islamophobia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpmJ8giVY1I&feature=youtu.be

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  1. @kiancuratolo903

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    As run the jewels out so elegantly

    "Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group
    So when that cage is done with them and you're still poor, it come for you

    The newest lowest on the totem, well golly gee, you have been used

    You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too (oops)"

  2. @Baszihter

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Funny, I prefer the old videos better (now 2024). They are more to the point, shorter, and contain less noise. Nevertheless, the acting and uniforms are so charming. Hmm, a tough choice that I don't have to make! Haha

  4. @HaQebc

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    [kindly remember that this is not bar far concise; i just woke up,]
    I am a "full" native or endogenous American from Pine Ridge rez ["reservation" or camps]. I now live in Pakistan. Here, unless you are essentially rich- it is as bad [or good – ever the optimist and i am poor by any means but still love the rez and desiland]- the rez in South Dakota for us "Siouxs" or rather Lakota – Oglala. I converted to Islam in part because it is the most logical religion. Aside from Shia and Sunni – we Muslims can also be divided by those who believe in freewill and those who do not. We Muslims are divided in many ways that the West -at least from various surveys, etc, etc by the powers that be whether puppet governments installed [the West really didn't have much to do with the West – it ended up being the brutes who "won" the revolution in Iran…these "winners" are not what they wanted but, as in many revolutions.]
    A lot of us Native Americans (we have all decided to just call ourselves by our tribe – those I know of) and remember there are… well hundreds and hundreds of tribes left and historically -we have never been "one people".
    Also I suspect a lot of fellow natives convert to Islam as it was much better than the missionaries and how they treated my …well family there in the States.
    My mom and father were both a victim of forced assimilation – an official policy of "adopting" out as many native kids to white parents. This didn't officially end until the mid 80s- the 1980s.
    We Oglala – only about 5000 of us left and I ended up knowing the Lakota language because my parents had that "savage" aspect beaten out of them when in orphanages and after.
    I converted to Islam because it was the most sensible yes but that is not why I am here [and none of your business but i suppose but i brought that subject up and welcome questions] in this extremely misunderstood country. Honor killings? more happen in the west- not that should happen at all…this is-sigh- cultural…and a long story about Kalashnikov culture to the west of me.
    All of this is a long story so I will leave with this: no one even mentions us anymore. At least the history and what is happening now [eg Pine Ridge had the highest homicide and suicide, not to mention other violence…] we have never mattered. As 1 YouTuber requoted: "they were just I'm the way".
    1. Endogenous people are usually marginalised with hopes of complete assimilation.
    2. Most folks in the East get Islam… well there is a high illiteracy rate so it is convenient to weaponize a religion.-
    3. It is indeed much easier to practice Islam in the West… because higher literacy, reading the Qur'an, the 5 pillars due to corruption… often by the powers that be in the West.
    3. Pakistan is specifically not anti-west. Are you anti-east? Muslims are by large the victim of violence rather than the Qur'an saying so [I love your channel a lot; I like your style and presentation, but you do presume some common misconceptions about Islam].
    5. It's a long story but one that still continues – just Google Pakistan and Nestle for example.
    6ish. It is a long story.
    7ish. "We" hate terrorism too. Even the Taliban 🙈🙉🙊
    8ish. The Taliban have no clout at least any quite some time when they became violent – why?
    9ish. Obviously there are parallels between what continues to we "Native American Indians" and the middle east – Pakistan is in southern Asia. [The middle east only has around 20% overall. The issues are not about Islam – nor Christians nor Hinus, nor Buddhist, etc etc that have had their faith weaponised. It is about power.
    10ish?… it's a long story.
    [kindly remember that this is not bar far concise; i just woke up,]
    O and again I really like this channel- as i said; great presentation, informative about concepts difficult for…to explain

  6. @unheilbargut

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I guess I am guilty of some points myself. I don‘t differentiate between any Religion, but find them all brutal, violent, barbaric, uncivilized, backwater, brainwashed, cult structures that have no reason to exist in any shape or form in the modern day. I have no problem with anybody, who has a belief in the supernatural and have some beliefs myself, although being an atheist, well even more than that. I not only don‘t belief in any kind of deity, but right out dismiss the possibility of one being there, but believe that there are things undiscovered by science so far that might be called supernatural. But an organized religious group only leads to the hatered of others, lead to wars, killing and many more atrocities in the name of magical sky fairies, as if Harry Potter Fans suddendly would start slaying muggles that say, wizards don‘t exist or if they exist, they are jedi. In my fight for religious freedom, to be more precise: the freedom from religions, I might fall into the pitfalls you lay out on the way and that is not good neither. It makes me pretty fast to be the person, I try to oppose and make a difference between me 8Atheist) and them (religious people). I need to be careful here and be more tolerant. Thank you for this video!!!

  9. @mileskeller5244

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I understand that now you are transgender. See how far you make it in Iraq and Afghanistan as transgender with Muslim ideology (religion not ethnicity). By stigmatizing the scrutiny of religous claims you are hindering progress.

  15. @cmwork8870

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I Just love your video Aby, thank you so much for touching this subjects with such care and dedication…
    We must all understand race or gender are constructs, nothing else.

  16. @padraigmcgrath3876

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I agree with the main theses of professors Sheth and Razack, and post-colonial studies are a very important branch of academia. However, there is a crucial omission in the statement that "White European nations have a history of colonialism, slavery, genocide…." Yes, that statement is absolutely true, but many non-white, non-European nations also have a history of slavery and genocide. They didn't have the same logistical capacity as white European nations had. So when it came to slavery and genocide, the crux of the matter wasn't really that white European societies were any more genocidal or prone to slave-trading. The industrial revolution and its precursors had simply made them more effective.

    Throughout the later medieval period, the imperial systems of west Africa sold huge numbers of slaves to the Fatimid Caliphate via the trans-Saharan slave-trade. Then there was the route connecting the Songhai and Malian Empires' export of slaves to Ethiopia and the Indian Ocean. The slave-trade was booming throughout Africa and the Middle East, but there was scarcely a white European anywhere in sight.

    I used to live about 150 kilometres from a town on the eastern Crimean coast named Feodosia. During the 17th century, Feodosia had the largest open-air slave-market in Europe. That was when Crimea was a protectorate of the Ottoman empire. During the 17th century alone, Crimean Tatars captured and enslaved about 3 million people in cross-border raids. Just for comparison, over about 350 years, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch captured and enslaved about 8 million people in total in west Africa. So the comparison is remarkable – a very small political entity like the Crimean Khanate enslaved 3 million people in 100 years, whereas it took 5 European sea-faring empires 350 years to enslave about 8 million combined. The Crimean Tatars were major-league slave-traders.

    Okay, now I suppose you could argue that the Crimean Tatars themselves were white Europeans – Sunni Muslims, but at least some of their genetic stock had come from Genoans, Greeks, and some other European groups which had colonized Crimea in small numbers (trade, silk road) during the later medieval period. But they were mostly derived from Turkic and Mongol stock.

  17. @leyley_4220

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Amazing work! This piece reminded me a lot of Prof. Lila Abu-Lughod's writings. In particular, her anthropological novel, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? It was based on her experiences and studies on women in the Middle East.

  18. @doaimanariroll5121

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I know I’m 5 years late. I’ve been binging on your videos and loving them.

    I’m fairly new to lefty YouTube and h bomber, Shaun and you have really helped me understand your “sides” perspectives .

    I’m still a huge fan of Jordan Peterson and sam Harris although I don’t agree with everything they say.

    I find it really hard to accept the points about honour killings and veils. Sure a woman can “choose” to wear a veil so long as she chooses to wear a veil. And an individual killing a wife for adultery is called murder here and it’s called justice there. It’s not the same.

  25. @oxitocin7718

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    islam did colonization before UK they are the one's that actually claim to own science and rationality philosophy and basically everything else
    they look down at non-muslims
    islam is built on arab supremacy

  26. @nickfiggis6396

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I recently started watching your Chanel and I LOVE (you)r work. Bringing real depth and insight to the big questions of the day in a super digestible format. Thank you!!!

  27. @andrew_nayes

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Important and interesting chapters. Though, I feel that Sheths conclusion of racial self-identification (from part 1) could be a little problematic when related to religious self-identity. (I have not read Sheth or Razack, just watched your videos, so it might be that my objections are already resolved in their writings.)

    You said that "the distinguishing feature required to begin racialization could, in the right historical context, be … religion … because race comes from power" and "race is a tool of division and oppression created by the powerful". In part 1 you said (through Sheth) that "racial self-identity follows AFTER a population has already been racialized", because "the racialized population learns from sovereign power to identify themselves as different from [the powerful]."

    I think that being muslim is not, primarily, a post-racialized/post-colonial identity, in the same sense that Sheth would probably qualify a self-identified black person as having a post-racialized identity.

    I think it would be safe to say that muslim self-identification is non-racialized in a state where muslims are not oppressed. If we wish to retain the premise that being muslim is part of the distinguishing features of a racialization that causes racial self-identity, then I guess we could point to a sort of re-assignment happening to the non-racialized identity "muslim" by the oppressive sovereign, thereby creating an altered secondary identity that IS racialized. The non-racial self-identification are re-assigned to a racialized self-identity in states where the sovereign power racialize muslims, by using islam as a component in a cluster of distinctive features to separate a group.

    If this is sound, then there would be muslim NON-RACIAL self-identification in one state (where muslims are not discriminated), distinct from muslim RACIAL self-identification in another state (where muslims are discriminated). It would seem that the identity "muslim" ends up having some sort of equivocation, an initial non-racial meaning that has been appropriated by an oppressive sovereign, and re-assigned for identification and self-identification as a secondary racialized identity.

    (I think these equivocal identifiers also give rise to some interesting questions regarding diasporic identities.)

  28. @TomSmith-hu9eh

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    U rule man. I was a student in canada, postcolonial seems to be going out of fashion as a terminology, here at least, as we are still of course a colonial state. The term resistance, or decolonial was more endorsed by novelist critic and former country music singer Lisa Grekul.

  29. @alexsere3061

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I agree with a lot of your video. But I can't agree with your "let's change the definition" or "let's argue for a new definition". At least the way I see it, a definition is where you start a discussion. So when you are using adiferent definition of race from the one on the dictionary you should clarify such a thing. I don't think this stuff of changing definitions is even ethical or honest. Otherwise we end up like theoleogeans who redefine everything untill their arguments make sense.

  32. @TheSpeep

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Admittedly, I have something of a problem with Islam, but that is only with the bad ideas within it, and no more than I have an issue with the same problematic bullshit that Christianity, for example, promotes.
    I also think it's a very important distinction to make between the religion and the people.
    I have a big problem with their books and the ideas contained within them, I have no problem with the people themselves and will stand up for their right to practice their faith, even if I dont believe in it.

  35. @edge21str

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I don’t really see how “just build some shelters and safe spaces” is going to solve the deeply rooted and severe patriarchal systems in many muslim countries. Who will build and supply them? Who will protect them from attacks? How will this change the bigoted attitudes many muslim men have towards women, homosexuals and trans people?

  36. @johnmullins8204

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Last comment. If it wasn’t for colonialism, what would the world look like? Let’s say Eastern society did the things western society did based on their old and current values? Would you even have a channel? Would you be aloud to speak on certain issues? I say certain because your very careful in staying away from certain society problems in certain cultures. Is there anything that you won’t blame on western society?

  37. @johnmullins8204

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    😂😂 sounds like your perfectly fine with this treatment of women? Well as long as you can blame it on western society and not Islam. Oh progressives, The web you weave

  38. @johnmullins8204

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 honor killings are a result of patriarchy? Lmfao
    Oh my God this is hilarious. I can’t stop laughing…. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  40. @eug3nius

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Cutting edge philosophy: blaming morally defeated White westerners for racism and colonialism while they're the only group with no right to explicit racial interests and they're being colonized as we speak. LMAO.

  41. @nickmc1142

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I quite like your video but you're essentially redefining racism based on the work of a few scholars. That may fit in with their worldview but to change the meaning of the word in such a way would essentially make it meaningless.

  42. @nickmc1142

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Agreed that some people (like Sam Harris) simply refuse to believe that some Muslim women might wear religious clothing through choice. He's definitely denying women agency there. However, women who voted for Trump or who are pro-life are also denied agency.

  43. @theocean1973

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    “Honour killings are an example of violence against women that exists everywhere, because of patriarchy.”
    Well, you’re ignoring the fact that not all countries and cultures are equally likely to tolerate or excuse violence against women, and the tolerance of anti-female violence has many causes, including religious doctrine.

  46. @heinz091

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    It's been really helpful re-visiting these old videos. As a result, this morning I'm pondering:

    – Do we treat "homeless" as a race?
    – Is "homelessness" a form of camp?

    Would be interested to hear if anyone has any thoughts there.

  48. @endlessxaura

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    This seems to apply better to institutions than it does to individuals. Institutions may inculcate these attitudes for the purpose of preserving power, but I don't imagine individuals have the same motivations. While they might affected by that and that may be the subtext of their attitudes, their motivations much be far more proximal, e.g. "I believe black people are violent, therefore I will deny this black person a job." To put another way, evolution disposes us to like ice cream because sweetness was valuable and difficult to obtain previously, but that's not why I like ice cream: I like ice cream because it tastes good to me.

    This gets at a question of mine: if we put a white supremacist in a different country where black people are in power, is he no longer racist? I would think that he still is. I believe we ought to also hold moral opprobrium for the attitudes themselves, regardless of their consequence. In this way, I think racism, at least for individuals, really is this sort of prejudice. Sheth and Razack's points, however, seem to very much resonate for populations and institutions.

  49. @50043211

    December 11, 2025 at 4:02 am

    I dont despise the word Islamophobia. Its a thought-terminating cliche and should be abandoned. Its not like European languages lack the vocabulary to call things by what they are. The Catholic church would love to have something similar.

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