Last year, Andrew Tate announced that he was a Muslim. But some claim it is nothing more than a cynical move to rehabilitate his reputation.⁠ ⁠ To a growing number of men, some even as young as 11 or 12, Tate, with his unabashed espousal of male supremacy, is an appealing throwback to another age when feminism was an aberration still far in the future⁠.⁠ ⁠ “Very quickly they come across extreme misogynistic material - that women should be subservient,” says Lewys Brace, an academic at the University of Exeter who specialises in online extremism.⁠ ⁠ 🗣️ Yousra Imran author of Hijab and Red Lipstick and a commentator on Islam and contemporary society, says Tate may have been tempted by “the stereotype that Islam is a religion that condones violence against women”.⁠ ⁠ Imran suggests Tate’s Christian and Islamic followers are prepared to overlook their differences because “misogynist men are willing to overcome their different beliefs and religions to ally themselves together in their hatred against women"⁠.⁠ ⁠ 🔗Read this investigation in full at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ #AndrewTate