Emergency meeting of influential voices
Contempt for women never goes out of style.
An independent candidate standing in Birmingham said “70% of hell will be women” and joked about domestic violence on a podcast earlier this year, it has emerged, as polling suggests he is closing the gap with Labour.
Akhmed Yakoob, who came third in the West Midlands mayoral election in May with just over 10% of the vote, is standing against Labour’s Shabana Mahmood in Ladywood, one of the most deprived constituencies in the country.
Shabana Mahmood is a woman.
In March, Yakoob appeared on an episode of the Minted Minds podcast, hosted by the Birmingham-based entrepreneur Abdhul Zaman. Other guests on the episode included Shakeel Afsar, who is running as an independent candidate in Hall Green and was one of the lead protesters in the row over LGBTQ+ equality teaching in Birmingham schools in 2019; Dr Asif Munaf, a former Apprentice contestant recently suspended by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service pending an investigation by the General Medical Council into allegedly antisemitic social media posts; and the Coventry-based restaurant owners Mohammed “Sunny” Sarnwal and Waqas “Vic” Mohammed.
All dudes.
The podcast episode was advertised as an “emergency meeting” of “influential voices” to talk about Palestine, but over the course of the two-hour conversation the subject turned to masculinity and women.
Munaf said the majority of followers of Dajjaal – a false messiah or liar in Islam – would be women who had been “empowered”, and Yakoob agreed, saying that “70% of hell is going to be women”. One of the guests can be heard saying: “We don’t want to get cancelled.” Later, during a discussion about women making money by dancing on TikTok, Mohammed said: “Getting back to masculinity, I personally would give her a backhander. I’m not joking.”
Shakeel responded: “We do not advocate any physical violence against anyone.” Sarnwal said: “He’s right, though, what he’s saying.”
Yes yes yes but is he a friend to the LGBTTTTTT communniny?
70% of hell will be women, eh? I do hope so, because that’s where I’ve often been told I’m heading. As the old saying goes, Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Good old Mark Twain. He always knew the right thing to say. (Okay, maybe not always, but a lot of the time).
Well they sound like a particularly toxic bunch of men. I know it’s potentially unfair to draw conclusions from their names, so let’s just say that theocratic arseholes are theocratic arseholes.
So if almost all the women are going to hell, where do the martyrs get their 72 virgins? Does Allah manufacture them on demand??
As an aside, such is the stupidity of religion, each of those 72 virgins would have to be stoned to death after she has sex outside marriage.
They must be metaphysical virgins, surely? Created and only existing in heaven, for the use of the immortal souls of the righteous, as opposed to being the immortal souls of women who died as virgins? Otherwise there would need to slaughter young women just to ensure the supply doesn’t run out. Ugh, I’ve just found a way to make Islam even worse – human sacrifice.