Youssef Soussi: Another weak and hypocrite preacher of Islam?

All Muslims, whether you are liberal, conservative, or extremist will admit this ummah has strange preachers of Islam. Every single Islamic scholar receives criticism and hate from other Muslims, there is no doubt about this. Even Salafi scholars receive hate and insults from other Salafi's; this is just the chain that exists. I mentioned in my previous post how conservative Muslims always try and show they are on the true path, and they try and show how united they are with their orthodox interpretations of Islam, though they fail to prove this when they themselves are always criticizing their own conservative scholars. 

All kinds of scholars exist in Islam. They may be liberal, they may be conservative, they might be liberal on some things while conservative on others, and there's extremist/incredibly retarded ones. Like the Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan refuses to accept anti-honor killing laws, domestic violence laws, and wants to have little girls married off. Then there's the Saudi scholars who say it is haram for women to drive. Then there's the Afghan scholar Nazir Ahmad Hanafi who opposes women's shelters. The list goes on and on. This post will be talking about the conservative and lesser known scholar, Youssef Soussi.

I talked about in my last post why conservative Muslims are problematic (while also criticizing liberal Muslims, but the point of focus here is on conservative Muslims). They are judgmental, have very rigid mentalities, have very aggressive attitudes towards other Muslims, and always use the excuse of "colonialism" for everything. They also heavily target "modern" Muslims. Youssef Soussi is the latest edition to this horrible camp.

A few days ago I had never heard of this guy. I found his Facebook page through some people, and it is on there where he posts his ideas/sermons. Scrolling through it, I found several posts about hijab. He was arguing how Muslims today see hijab as Arab culture. Before I go on, let me link to the several posts on hijab that I have done that show scholarly and historical evidence for it not being mandatory, or just not in Islam at all:

https://mymuslimthoughts.blogspot.com/2015/05/trying-to-understand-womans-dress-in.html

https://mymuslimthoughts.blogspot.com/2017/04/no-hijab-is-not-islamic-requirement.html

https://mymuslimthoughts.blogspot.com/2017/09/some-more-islamic-scholars-who-say.html

https://mymuslimthoughts.blogspot.com/2017/04/dear-muslim-women-you-are-not-sinning.html

https://mymuslimthoughts.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-awrah-of-man-is-not-from-naval-to.html

https://mymuslimthoughts.blogspot.com/2018/06/hijab-is-not-in-quran-whether-you-like.html

The thing about weak and insecure preachers of Islam, they don't like any criticism of their work. They tend to have superiority complexes. When this happens, they will automatically block/ban anyone who has an alternate view. And that is what happened to me when I went against Soussi's post about hijab. On these posts, you had horrible men making disgusting assumptions about hijabless women, and Soussi was right there liking these comments. I objected to them while telling Soussi he wasn't correct about hijab. He was making the argument that hijab has always been agreed upon by all scholars and cultures. Not true (i.e. the women in the Mughal empire hardly wore hijab except for prayer). So he blocked me.

Something I noticed before he booted me off his page, was that he had NUMEROUS female friends. His list showed countless Muslim women in hijabs caked with makeup. Also, there are pictures of Soussi standing next to Muslim women, all of them smiling at the camera. Umm, so how can he be so hypocritical? As someone who belongs in the Muslim community (especially the Pakistani/Indian Muslim community), I see how most women who descend from the Indian subcontinent are without hijab (and this is nothing new). I see Muslim women from other cultures who also don't wear hijab. Yet I always see them ONLY interacting with females. I NEVER see them having numerous male friends and posing with them. I never see them sharing the same space with men. So compare the two types of people: Muslim women in hijab and makeup who are married and send (or receive) friend requests to (or from) Youssef Soussi, and then Muslim women who aren't in hijab yet only interact with females. Even if you are a die-hard conservative Muslim who believes in hijab, you be the judge and tell me who is doing it better Islamically?

We see Soussi is not only wrong about hijab, but he is a hypocrite. I mentioned in my previous article how conservative Muslims tend to be hypocrites. Soussi is just proving my point.