In a lecture to Muslim teens at the Dearborn Community Center on October 11, 2024, Islamist influencer who goes by "Way of Life SQ" criticized Western and American culture, calling it "backward." He claimed that despite their technological advancements, philosophy, and ideas, Westerners remain "uncivilized" for using toilet paper in the bathroom. Way of Life SQ emphasized that Muslims were sent by Allah to bring civilization to these nations, moving them "from darkness to light." He also stated that Christians are "jealous" of Islam and that the Christian religion is "dying," and therefore it was forced to bring LGBTQ values into their fold.
The lecture was streamed live on Masjid Al-Salam on YouTube. In July, Way of Life SQ said in a New York City sermon at the MAS Bronx Muslim Center, that Christians Cannot Fill Their Churches With 'Regular People', So They Are Letting Homosexuals In; Do Not Fall Victim To Zionist Plans; Hollywood, Music, Disney Are Zionist And Satanic. It is noteworthy that on October 12, Way of Life SQ delivered an Islamic learning session for high school and college aged young men at the West River Academy, a public charter school in Dearborn, Michigan.
Way of Life SQ: "And you start fixating yourself on the American culture, the Western culture.
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"You see the Shaitan [devil] tricks you with all this advancement in technology. Yet, they still haven't figured out that when you go to the bathroom, they're still wiping themselves with paper. All this advancement! Think about how advanced they've become! They're trying to go to Mars, they're trying to take over Saturn. They're trying to do all this stuff. Their cars are trying to be self-driven. Yet when they go to do the most lowest form of human nature, the call of nature, they're still wiping themselves and cleaning themselves with paper. They're uncivilized. Do not be tricked and deceived by the technology. Do not be tricked and deceived by their philosophies and their Westernizations and their ideas. At the end of the day, they're still backwards.
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"Allah has sent us to these nations to civilize them. That's why Allah has sent us, to civilize these people. Yet the media makes us look like the barbaric ones.
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"The reason they don't want you to be successful is because they're jealous of what you have. The Christians, jealous of what you have.
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"Their nations, their religions are dying. So what they had to do, they had to change their religion. You don't believe me? We went to churches and they're now having the LGBT flags over there. Imagine, your business, your religion is dying so much that the only thing that you can do is go and get help from the LGBT, that's the condition you've become. Because their religion is dying. Allah, the praised and exalted, has sent us into the nations to guide these people from the darkness into the light."