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White & Muslim: Privilege, Racism & Intercultural Marriage

White & Muslim: Privilege, Racism & Intercultural Marriage

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00:00 – With White Privilege Comes Great Responsibility: origin of the quote

04:47 – Racism is not just insults, it’s a SYSTEM

05:10 – It’s NOT ALL White people

05:39 – White Privilege in 30 seconds

06:10 – Intercultural Marriage; accepting a white husband as a Pakistani, and overcoming my parents’ racism and islamophobia

10:20 – Marriage Part 2: My mistakes

12:41 – Marriage Part 3: Using whiteness for my own gain?

14:36 – How did I realise I was privileged?

19:22 – How to understand racism: bell hooks’s model of domination

21:33 – How I was treated differently because not the “right” kind of white

24:18 – Using empathy to support others

30:47 – What if you’re white and poor?

32:05 – Working class white reverts vs Upper class white reverts

36:34 – Why do white reverts in France are not treated like demi-gods?

39:12 – Can white people be discriminated against?

39:50 – Are British Mosques “race temples”? Language barriers and white reverts suspected of being informants

44:08 – Decentering ourselves and working on the nafs

46:31 – People passing things for “jokes”

47:42 – What about keeping your culture as a white person?

49:06 – What about cultural appropriation?

50:11 – Credits where due and hiking a complex terrainSubscribe to my newsletter for Live conversations and events near you: https://william-barylo.kit.com/b11fac1fdc

WHO ARE WE?

William is a Sociology Researcher at the University of Warwick working on Muslim experiences in Europe and North America.Javayria works in Higher Education and has a History degree from SOAS in South Asian History

REFERENCESHadith about people withholding knowledgeSunan al-Tirmidhī 2649https://www.abuaminaelias.com/dailyhadithonline/2013/03/20/whoever-conceals-knowledge/bell hooks. 2004. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, Washington: Washington Square Press.Every one of you is a shepherd and is responsible for his flockṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 7138, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1829https://www.abuaminaelias.com/dailyhadithonline/2011/07/03/shepherd-flock/

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