Muslims are taught to feel helpless

Have you ever wondered why Muslims feel so powerless against the forces of oppression?

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We are the Ummah of low self esteem.

I always had these words in my mind… but I didn’t have a good way to explain it. Until now…

I’ve been writing about how Muslim thought is being manipulated to make us feel powerless. You should have already read some of the points in this newsletter—like the desensitisation that happens from viewing graphic images of Muslim corpses.

If I could sum up the point of this newsletter it’s to make Muslims realise we have all the tools to solve oppression at our disposal… we just need to shake off all the limiting beliefs piled on us from every direction.

It’s like we’re buried alive.

But I’m here to tell you there is a real grave waiting for each and every one of us.

The soil our potential is currently buried under is fake… and we can very quickly remove it if we simply know how.

But do we even know how we’re being buried by limiting beliefs?

In the case of mass sharing graphically violent images of Muslim corpses, most Muslims online have an allergic reaction to my call for sanity. I’ve been called every defamatory name and insult Muslims online have in their vocabulary (another technique of manipulated thought by the way).

Muslims in general seem to think sharing a graphic video of a Palestinian child with his head split in two is a good thing…

Because apparently after nearly a year of genocide we still need to “raise awareness”…

And we can do a really good job of it by sharing this poor child’s images all over social media after his brutal murder.

Most Muslims online would seem to think this is necessary and helps the Palestinian cause.

I don’t.

It’s just one of a whole string of behaviours Muslims have picked up over the decades I’ve been observing…

And I always felt deep down there’s a more sinister effect it’s having on the Muslim psyche. And I think I found it…

I watched a video showing a group of young adults sitting at their desks in a classroom.

The teacher handed them each a sheet of paper. On it was a list of three words.

Each word was an anagram. Their task was to rearrange the letters of each word to make a new word.

The teacher asked the class to solve the first word: Bat.

Easy: Tab.

The teacher asked them to raise their hand when they figured it out. As expected, students raised their hands right away, except…

Half the class were still trying to figure out the answer. Many were scratching their heads or looking like they were struggling.

The teacher said the first word was easy and shouldn’t be taking this long. But after a few moments and no more hands raised she told them not to worry about it and move on to the next word.

Again, half the students raised their hands and the other half were struggling.

And the same happened with the last word.

The teacher then asked the students who didn’t raise their hands how they felt when they saw their classmates finishing so quickly while they struggled.

They said they felt embarrassed, confused and lost confidence. Were the other students that much smarter than them? Were they simply too dumb to find the answers?

Here’s the thing…

The teacher revealed that she had given them two different lists. One list had easy anagrams to solve. But the first two words on the other list were not anagrams at all… there was no word to be made from the letters. But…

The last word on both lists were identical.

So why didn’t the class with the fake list at least solve the last word?

This is called “learned helplessness”.

It’s when you are conditioned to feel lesser. Less smart, less capable, less deserving, etc.

Because they struggled so much with the first two words and, crucially, because they observed their classmates finding it so easy, they became conditioned to think they weren’t capable of solving the third word—even though they all had the same word.

The effect was amplified by the teacher telling them they should find it easy. It was fake and they didn’t know it. All they “knew” was it was supposed to be easy but they were failing.

And this happened in the span of a few minutes.

Imagine what happens over a few years to a child who’s parents tell him how the other kids are so much better behaved. “Others are so good at it, why aren’t you?”

We know what it does to a child’s self esteem. And it will continue to hold them back through their life unless they remove the baggage from their childhood.

Now see this happening over a few decades to an Ummah who is told their blood is cheap.

We follow a terrorist religion and therefore must prove themselves in debates and content creation to please their haters.

The Jews control everything so anything we try is doomed to fail.

The Muslims of the so called “golden age” did it, why aren’t you doing it?

“The Ummah of low self esteem.”

It’s why Muslims turn to debate culture. Or conspiracy culture. Or fighting each other.

It’s all a coping mechanism.

Just like a person with low self esteem will gravitate towards self-destructive behaviours. Bad friends. Low confidence. Self hate.

It’s how Muslims are being manipulated to hate what we have and favour revolutions and destabilising our countries instead of working together on Muslim Betterment.

But now you know and I know it’s only learned helplessness.

So we can unlearn it, right?

This is why I write.

I sincerely hope you will stick with me because I’ll be writing more on how to remove your limiting beliefs.

We’re going to break out of this fake grave together.

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You can find the classroom clip on Instagram.