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What Hamza Ahmed Tells Us About Modern Masculinity
Hamza Ahmed is a British Muslim and social media influencer.
He is part of the Red Pill community focused on male self-improvement and looks for ways to improve his own and other men’s success at the aesthetic level, as well as increasing the opportunity of having female sexual partners.
His ideology and viewpoint are heavily influenced by his Islamic background and Islamic culture, with his background from a community that urbanised much sooner than people in Europe.
Islamic cultures and Asian cultures were much more urbanised than their European counterparts.
This means that their beauty standards are very much guarded towards ascetics, which means that a person’s appearance in an urban environment is aimed at a good-looking woman.
For Europeans, when it came to finding a sexual partner or a wife, they predominantly looked for a woman to do manual labour and was capable of protecting the family.
A great example of this was looking at Americans who lived on the frontier of the United States, expanding borders in the 19th century, where photos of stout women with weaponry protect their families.
This was attractive to the Western man because Western men optimised for survival in the harsh frontiers and…
