Disclaimer: I loathe to link a Daily Mail article. I am suspicious as to the motivations in publishing this article, I’m not convinced it’s to highlight the exploitation of women but rather to be sensationalist and spread islamophobia.
Please keep this in mind if you read the original article. I’ll be providing my own TL;DR below.
Nonetheless, it’s distressing to me that that Munaf has been allowed to star in two BBC programs (Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice) whilst being so blatantly sexist on his social media.
My TL;DR:
A former NHS doctor turned Apprentice star has been branded ‘vile and sexist’ for spearheading a ‘foreign bride service’ to help British Muslim men who are ‘sick of feminism’ find wives abroad.
In a resurfaced video he claimed there was ‘a real problem in the UK’ where women ‘absorb a lot of masculine ideals in terms of competitiveness and being blunt’. He also asked in another clip ‘have you ever met a beautiful feminist?’
He said: 'We actually set up a service in the summer, my friend and I. It is called the University of Masculinity — Muslim Passport Bros.
‘It is going well because there is a huge gap in what the women offer in the West and what the brothers want.’
'Being in the corporate world as a woman all of your life, you are going to rub shoulders with a lot of men.
‘That is osmosis — you are going to absorb a lot of masculine ideals in terms of competitiveness, being blunt — it is a real problem in the UK.’
The University of Masculinity account on X previously retweeted a series of posts by the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate.
Speaking of women living in the UK the doctor said: 'You know women who have very high testosterone levels — corporate ‘boss babe’ mentality. Brothers are like, '[stop] I am done with this mentality, I am going to Morocco.
‘I have noticed that part of the world is probably one of the least prone to feminism at the moment because even in the Middle East I have seen remnants of feminism coming through.’
A spokesman for The Apprentice said: 'After filming had taken place, we were made aware of concerns over social media posts that Asif had made after he had left the process.
A source added that the contestant would not have been able to participate on the show if his comments had emerged before filming took place.