Marcus

Proud anti-zionist

[Dr. Jaan Islam د. جان اسلام @jaanislam]

The reading list for my Security and Foreign Policy in the Muslim World course with @AlQasasOrg
- I recommended reading as part of structured learning

1. Barry Buzan, Ole Waever and Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis, p. 21-48

2. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations

3. John Mearsheimer, "Bound to fail: The rise and fall of the liberal international order"

4. Darryl Li, “A Jihadism Anti-Primer” Middle East Report, no. 276 (2015): 12-17

5. Daniel Lake, "Technology, Qualitative Superiority, and the Overstretched American Military”

6. Jonathan Brown, Justice and Islamic Law Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform

7. Jaan Islam, Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya, Ch. 3 & 5 (Al-Hisba fi al-Islam & other works of Ibn Taymiyya)

8. Handout on Siyasa Shari’yya (Short Summary) from “‘Political jurisprudence’ in HTS, IS and Al-Qaeda texts: competing visions of Islamic government”

9. Abul A’la Maududi, “Jihad in Islam” (1947), Ch. 7.

10. Rashid Al Ghannoushi, "What is New about Al-Qaradawi’s Fiqh of Jihad?"; Sherman Jackson, "The Appeal of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Interpretation of Jihad”

11. Reza Pankhurst, The Inevitable Caliphate, Introduction, Conclusion

12. Mona El-Ghobashy, "The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers"

13. Amitav Acharya, “After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order”

14. S. Y. Ibrahimi, "Unipolar politics and global peace: a structural explanation of the globalizing jihad"

15. Marta Furlan, Salafi-Jihadist Governance, Selections

16. A. Ahmad, T. Bandula-Irwin & M. Ibrahim, "Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia"

17. “Justice for Agadez” Documentary (English subtitles available for this part)

18. Jaan Islam, “Divergent Statecrafts: Between Islamic Governance and Modern State Power” Ummatics

19. Jaan Islam, "Reform and Resurgence: The Transformation of Islamic Movements in the 21st Century"

20. Fatma Abushanab, A Muslim Realist: Strategies, Methods and Approaches from Türkiye's Experience, Ch. 1.

21. Hakan Fidan, “The Century of Türkiye: A New Foreign Policy Vision for Building the Türkiye Axis”

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@khantainer Browning doesn't understand the ills of complex interdependence & core-periphery dynamics. State apparatus in Global South is imposed by Browning's own state, yet Browning will resort to exposing these tiny scammers rather than asking his own govt to stop keeping periphery poor.

[ًً @kelevitch]

Muslim feminism is actually the most effective de-Islamization project in history, and it doesn’t even know it.
The mechanism is crystal clear

Classical Islam has a coherent internal logic. Fiqh, aqida, akhlaq they’re a system. Pull one thread and the whole architecture shifts. The why behind gender differentiation in Islamic law isn’t arbitrary patriarch. it’s connected to a specific anthropology, a specific theory of the nafs, a specific understanding of fitrah, and ultimately to tawhid itself. The rulings aren’t floating policy decisions you can swap out like furniture.

So when Muslim feminists go after inheritance law, guardianship, testimony, they think they’re renovating the house but in reality they’re removing the foundation.

Because once you establish that the methodology for deriving those rulings was wrong, that the Companions misunderstood, that the classical fuqaha were just products of their patriarchal culture, that we need a “gender-conscious hermeneutic” you’ve destroyed the epistemology.

You’ve told every Muslim that 1400 years of scholarly consensus is just vibes, and that your feelings about fairness, calibrated by a 21st century NGO education, are a valid override mechanism.

And once that’s established, once the principle is “we reread texts through the lens of contemporary moral intuitions” there is no limiting principle.

Why stop at gender? Riba? Hudud? The theological status of non-Muslims? Every ruling is now subject to the same “recontextualization.” You’ve handed secular liberalism a master key to the entire deen.

This is why Western governments and foundations fund this stuff enthusiastically. Not because they care about Muslim women, look at their silence on Gaza, on French hijab bans, on Uyghur women being sterilized.

They fund it because a Islam that validates itself through liberal frameworks is an Islam that can be perpetually managed, perpetually reformed, perpetually softened until it’s a aesthetic identity with no civilizational content. A Islam that produces good secular citizens and nothing else.

Muslim feminism is the Trojan horse and the feminists are the ones pulling it inside the gates sincerely, with full conviction, which makes it more dangerous, not less.

The Muslim world stopped producing frameworks and started importing them. Muslim feminism is just one symptom of that deeper collapse.

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@KarishmaAziz_ T'is a consequence of what young Indians were sold in the name of Mirzapur, Gangs of Wasseypur and all such consent manufacture ops.

लगेगी आग तो आएंगे घर कई ज़द में
यहाँ पे सिर्फ़ हमारा मकान थोड़ी है

हवा चलेगी तो सब के चराग़ बुझ जाएंगे
किसी के बाप की ये साइबाँ थोड़ी है

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@MaeOfFable @UN_Women Despite your hatred, western women still don't deserve to be treated like this. You child of Epstein!

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@UN_Women Every woman can do it.
Every woman can do it.
Every woman can do it.

On y va!

[غادِ القدسِ @Ghaadi_AlQudsi]

Feminist culture ek taraf gender equality jaisi fuzool ideas ke zariye khud mard ko superiority ke ehsas se hatata hai aur phir jab mard us ehsas se hat jata hai to yahi feminism apne matlab k mauqo par kehta hai

"Earlier, man used to go to war now they..."

[Yūsuf al-Ash‘arī @YusufalAshari]

The secular “education system” is the antithesis of meaningful education

[Khushboo Khan (خوشبو خان) @Khushbookhan_]

These morons are so obsessed with Muslims and their infrastructure that even graveyards are not safe. Just imagine how their psyche works forget about living humans, they don’t even spare people resting in their graves.

Disgusting people with disgusting behaviour!

[Yūsuf al-Ash‘arī @YusufalAshari]

Employing 100 young men leads to 100 women getting married and building 100 new families. But employing 100 women leads to 100 young men being left unemployed and 100 women being left unmarried. Zina, consequently, now comes into the picture.

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@Levitt_Matt This might go as a blatant charge sheet against the Trump regime as well.

[بانکے میاں @bankay_mian62]

انڈیا میں RSS کے ہندو غنڈے مسلمان خواتین کے نقاب کھینچ رہے ہیں

انتہائی افسوسناک 😢

[DOAM @doamuslims]

"Oh Allah, save me!"

A Muslim man cries as police brutally beat him with sticks over allegations of cow slaughter in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Raees Hussain Sheikh was tied to a vehicle and beaten with sticks.

[S @Shirink_13]

A vulnerable Muslim senior is being harassed, and everyone is just watching in silence.

Why so much hate? At least leave the poor old man alone.

That guy is gonna get old too. Remember.

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@DrWaseemijaz @qaiseraraja میں نے قیصر بھائی کو عالم دین نہیں کہا لیکن آپ نے بات کے دوسرے حصے میں سیکولر حضرات کی اصل "جاب" کی بجا نشاندہی کی ہے۔

[DOAM @doamuslims]

NEW: Muslim Girl Kidnapped and Raped in Uttar Pradesh

A 14-year-old female Muslim student of Madrassa Mohsinat, who was kidnapped, tortured and kept hostage for three days, was repeatedly raped by Hindu men in Uttar Pradesh Kannauj’s district.

According to her father, Akeel, the girl stepped out of the hostel around 8 AM to buy food items but did not return. The Madrassa authorities immediately informed the family, prompting a desperate search.

Akeel told local news that on the day of the incident, the accused, Deepu, told his daughter that her mother wanted to see her. Believing him, she followed Deepu to a house. As soon as she realised it was a trap, she tried to run away, but Deepu and his associates dragged her inside the house, gagged her mouth and then held her hostage for nearly three days.

The victim was forcibly made to drink alcohol, after which she fell unconscious. Deepu and his associates repeatedly raped her and, applied sindoor on her forehead and a toe ring on her feet. A sindoor and toe ring are considered sacred symbols of a newly married Hindu woman.

Her family and other neighbours conducted a search and finally found their daughter tied to the rooftop of Deepu’s house. She was rushed to the district hospital and is currently undergoing treatment.

An FIR has been registered against the accused. While Deepu fled the scene during the rescue, police have detained one accused for interrogation.

[Qaiser Ahmed Raja @qaiseraraja]

Desi Seculars: Societies hit intellectual stagnation without debates.

Yours Truly: Sure, let’s have one.

Desi Seculars: 😡😡😡

[Qaiser Ahmed Raja @qaiseraraja]

ایک سادہ سوال، لیکن گہرے نفسیاتی مسائل کو عیاں کر گیا!
@m_asifmahmood

[Marcus @Being_Marcus]

@Champ4gneP4ki Gender Studies conferences as well...