Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

I'm not trying to be funny here but he seems unhinged

So I definitely won’t be watching it then...I don’t need more aggravation in my life

He says a lot of fallacious things and contradicts himself

Ok, despite my advice to myself I watched it. There were a few unsettling comments but yes, most personally unsettling were his comments re women in niqab. I’m glad he said some are forced or just want to have a unique identity and some are extremists-that’s true. /1

Saying niqab is are the filthiest etc was most definitely not ok. First of all, insert any demographic there, and that’s just a terrible thing to say. If someone said ‘Men who wear turbans are the filthiest’ he wouldn’t like it. I wore a niqab. I didn’t like it. 2

And lastly, of course, those women are dealing w enough shit in their lives already without him telling potentially telling hundreds of thousands of ppl that they’re filthy. It’s not only hurtful, it’s dangerous as some ppl will take that as reason to disparage them further 3

One more: The inside out abaya was a movement in Saudi for women to resist the mandatory abaya...conflating it w sex workers in Iraq wasn’t helpful. It’s such a localized thing. He didn’t need to broadcast it. Instead broadcast about the women that wear it inside out in defiance