It wasn’t meant to be easy to forget everything that had an impact on your life and subscribe to the cult of nothing. No obligations, no masters except oneself, a truly innocent life experience is the only thing to believe in given the nature of uncertainty among the minds of society which constantly turn and swish their thoughts ever so often.

How was I meant to follow people who claim to have such firm beliefs, who claim to have figured it all out, and claim I must follow their example even to go further with that bold assumption and state that I chose such beliefs and therefore must comply to a master’s intrusive demands? How can anyone claim to truly know what rests in my heart? Nobody.

Not too long ago, religion was assigned at birth. It entirely depended on what your parents do with their beliefs that would then be automatically yours, whether you were old enough to consciously think it or not. That wasn’t assigned by the parents, but by the whole of society, and this belief is still practiced globally today, with teenagers, children, and infants not exempt from the ridicule and physical violence that so-called rational racists who try to rationalize the word islamophobia as valid cannot seem to explain. A child is being punished for something they do not have the capacity to understand, isolating them from any sort of dialogue or the opportunity to have discussions out of fear.

Fear is such an important aspect of faith [see 17:57]. Fearing God validates his existence, not just love, simply because of the nature of the relationship with God being one of a master and slave. How is that any different from what power-hungry degrading exclusionists would want to say about Muslims? The encouragement from within the community to accept a degrading relationship with God makes those born into religion accepting the same ideals shared by racists, thereby accepting it as natural not as wrong. The key purpose to this belief entrenches racism be fought with racist ideas, attempting to unify all the “muslim cultures” into one unified struggle to appear on top, and not to eliminate it in the first place. As Nun Benson adds, racism is destroyed within true Islam, but the community seeks to create supremacist notions, thereby acknowledging white supremacy as a valid ideology that isn’t going to be erased, but rather replaced. Armin Navabi also mentions how true Islam is leftist in nature, despite that it follows the same track Christianity went through by aligning more with conservative exclusionary views.

The average western Muslim does not actively back this, failing to see how similar both ideologies are. The only two people who believe in this are the clerics fascinated by the example that Christianity achieved in Europe, trying to create a new form of Islam which is very politically conservative in nature, aiding the elimination of free speech in schools in Birmingham or using the victim card not just to trick gullible children into staying in Islam but also to get back at racism, which may seem like the intention of these channels in the first place, however it only validates the same victim mentality of white supremacists themselves.

Both sides are playing the same game, one that doesn’t allow room for the moderate or cultural Muslims to feel free or worthy as long as they are inside this narrative. It is a constant struggle whether one is a Muslim or not, and there is no way to be seen in any position other than one defending one’s faith or culture. Fear, both of God and of enemies, is successful at isolating today’s white youth into echo chambers as it is in Muslim youth from true integration and acceptance into society. There is no place to call home for patriotic western Muslims that will not be bashed by both sides.