After a year of interacting closely with the MSA and its avid goers , I must say that I don’t like it. Some people there are great and amazing people to talk to but there is a significant amount of people who are attracted to these spaces who are very problematic on every level. This type of people literally sound like Trump Republican types it’s very weird. They have a very supremacist bigoted mentality towards Muslims who are not salafi /wahhabi and then there are those who claim to follow the tradition but are so so so disgusting and rude and antagonizing towards Muslims who don’t follow their strict opinions or problematic dogma that they have accepted from the current status quo.

I find that these spaces attract the very ignorant and arrogant Muslims who are very quick to argumentations , making fun and hating of shi’i muslims , delegitimizing the soufis, ridiculing anyone who says anything remotely left wing and using liberal progressive as pejoratives and committing takfir on all the aforementioned peoples. I don’t know when Islam meant right wing conservative ideology , but somehow these people are truly in every sense of the word , married to the right wing and have turned their Islam to reflect literal right wing zeal.

These people don’t even take topics like racism, genocide, colonization as serious topics yet if they are to speak on them, they do so with the utmost confidence, ignorance and arrogance They dismiss them and treat them like nothing. It’s disgusting. I truly believe that these people only care about Palestine not because they are fundamentally against settler colonialism or against genocide or racism (heck some of these MSA zealots have objected to Israel as a racist state, they have objected to what Palestinians going through being racism, they literally rejected Israel as being a racist state) rather I believe these people only are vocal (somewhat) about Palestine because they view it as part of their identity as a Muslim because of Al Quds and Masjid Al Aqsa. These people also are quick to tell people it is haram to protest , and promote this blind worshipping of the ruler (and yes including in their immorality). I don’t believe these people in the slightest bit have any decolonial bone in their body like the scholars of Islam in North and West Africa had in fighting against colonization. These people are literally in love with right wing pundits and are only crying and complaining now because their right wing favourites have unleashed their explicit Islamophobia and have polarized their Muslim followers.

I truly believe that if it were not for their right wing faves expressing their ardent support for Zionism , none of these people would ever even be upset with them. It disgusts me the lack of morality that is exhibited in these very vocal MSA zealots. Heck , these people don’t even take Islamophobia seriously. They literally say Islamophobia is not racism. They literally don’t believe that Islamophobia is truly racism. How can they accept anti-semitism as a form of racism but be blind to see that Islamophobia is a form of racism too ??? I can’t understand how these people can be okay with legitimizing and dismissing the racism targeted against our own group.

It seems to me that these people only care about being evangelical Muslims , being bigoted against anyone who does not believe or agree with them and emboldening their egos of being “saved” “pious” Muslims. I don’t know why some of these people are so disgusting and arrogant. Some have this obsession on the “kuffar”. This very weird obsession that reminds me of Ali Dawah Mo Hijab fighting people in a park and degrading people in arguments (or “debates” as they call them). Some of these MSA zealots act literally like these people. Hot headed rude arrogant no manners and just looking to feed their egos at the expense of degrading the other.

As a Muslim , I must say that these people embody the least (if any) of the Islamic ideals I was taught.

Can someone explain why a number of Muslims attracted to Muslim spaces are so disgusting? Why is this behaviour acceptable to these people ?

Thank you in advance.