Internet personality Sahil Adeem’s controversial remarks during his appearance on a private TV show with Khalilur Rehman Qamar have sparked outrage on social media.
During the show, Sahil Adeem made derogatory comments about women, claiming that 95 percent of the women in Pakistan were ignorant. He stated, “You will find 25 men out of 100 illiterate, fifty men would be 50-50 [neither educated nor illiterate], and 25 would be educated. And if you take a sample of 100 women, 95 out of them will be ignorant not knowing anything. This is reality.”
Adeem made these comments in response to a query about mobilizing mosques for women’s rights. He argued, “These women have awareness about dance, cooking, and makeup but they have no awareness of Islam and wondered how mosques would mobilize them.”
During the Q&A session, a participant named Azba Abdullah asked Sahil Adeem to apologize for his anti-women comments, a clip of which went viral on social media. Instead of apologizing or clarifying his statement, Adeem deflected by asking the participant about the meaning of “Taghut.” He remarked, “Today, you got to know about taghut, which is the biggest sin in Islam.”
Azba Abdullah reminded him that the discussion was supposed to be about women’s rights, not Islamic sins. In response, Adeem asserted that it was an obligation in Islam to call an ignorant person ignorant. He reiterated his claims and suggested conducting a sample test to prove his point.
Adeem then sarcastically apologized, saying, “I ask for forgiveness from him because my daughter [referring to the woman who asked the question] is ignorant. This is my fault that my daughter is ignorant.” Azba Abdullah countered that he was avoiding the topic.
