Dear Love Island,
What exactly do you offer to the six million plus viewers you drew in the last years? What do you wish to celebrate? Feminism? Women empowerment? Or do seek to take a stand against the rampant racism? Does the cost of living crisis affecting millions concern you? Does the country’s corrupt elite and their interminable deception coupled with the deafening silence of the sycophantic media not pique your curiosity?
Yes. Yes, indeed. You are a social, not political, show.
So let’s talk about your social messaging. What rancid depravity you are!
How far have Muslims fallen for them to salivate over the idle talk of ten immoral and mind-numbingly ignorant individuals. What does the show offer, except to glorify lust, promote hedonism, and lend a veneer of credibly to a life separated from God and Abrahmic traditions.
What does it say about the spiritual standing of our souls that we find gratification in the pointless daily doses of moral lapses of nudity, slurs, and the now routinely libidinous scenes that define the show?
Muslims are not alone. The show draws millions of viewers from the broader population. It is telling of the state of Brits today that Love Island has replaced the old British habits of summer reading, nightly walks, and family gatherings.
The show is not innocuous. It lends credence to a life without thinking, a life without worry, and a life distant from reality. On the face of it, Love Island is the diametric opposite of a life anchored in spiritual meaning and traditional moral values. But beyond the shallow surfaces of senseless talk and inane gossip, Love Island is a visible trait of Western secularity. It is far from the harmless and innocent nightly television it claims to be. On the contrary, Love Island drip feeds its credulous viewers with new secular values and liberal insights. Think about it. Do the contestants not proffer moral perspectives on love, friendship, family, and a host of other issues? Granted, they are skin-deep and risible, but they are perspectives nevertheless, which, like it or not, will find traction with empty souls and irreligiously committed Muslims. It is in other words slowly but surely chipping away at your soul.
The new secular and implicit “preaching” does not stop with morality. All television is an attempt to sell you a lifestyle, a way of living, and, as we have seen recently, a way to belong and acclimate to the new liberal order (think of films and serials loaded with manifestations of whiteness, such as the intolerant LGBTQIA+ agenda and the radical feminist critiques of traditional religion).
It is awfully sad that for many Muslims today the idea of nightly entertainment does not translate to a turn towards the divine; instead, we have sunk so low we ended up at the rock bottom of the ocean of irreligiosity.
For shame.