@OloriOfOloris@DrMel_ Your thoughts don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. There are many things they’d deem inadequate about you too. It’s all about choices.
@Abubakar0743 @Alien_AV@nxt888 By all measures, Muslims remain the largest victims of extremism. This ideology erupted from Muslim countries, and its major targets have always been Muslims. Other religions and countries suffer the least harm.
@Abubakar0743 @Alien_AV@nxt888 The Quran already says you can never please them, no matter how hard you try. If you want to know what they want, they want you to renounce Islam, because you live, work, and study with Muslims, yet you judge them based on the actions of terrorists you only know through the media
@Alien_AV @Abubakar0743 @nxt888 The problem I have is every other sects holding me accountable for what just a few extremists are doing. Nah! I will never carry their blame nor let it weigh me down. everyone should learn Islam in its purest form, because Muslims are the most affected by this calamity.
@Alien_AV @Abubakar0743 @nxt888 It happens in all fields of life—religion, culture, politics, and more. Everyone has their own opinions and understandings or misunderstandings about everything. That's one reason I choose to enlighten people to the extent of my knowledge while continuing to learn every day.
@Alien_AV @Abubakar0743 @nxt888 Yes, not only did I condemn it, I take every opportunity to enlighten people about their atrocities and how they don’t represent Islam, but since I haven’t sent Alien_Av my criticisms, it means nothing. Maybe you need to work on your algorithm to see thousands of condemnations.
You do not realize it but your comment is exactly the thing I’m describing.
You say "No I see Muslims as humans" and then in the next breath complain that they are "elevated to the top of the victim hierarchy," talk about "moderate Muslims" like they are a customer-service department for 2 billion people, and demand that they perform public loyalty oaths to make you feel better.
That is not what you do with people you see as equals.
That is what you do with a suspect population you think owes you reassurance.
You are "sick" of them being at the top of the victim hierarchy.
Where exactly is this hierarchy?
Is it in the refugee camps, in the rubble, in the drone-strike statistics, in the sanctions, on the watchlists, at the airports, in the prisons?
Because from where most of us are sitting, they are not at the top of a victim hierarchy.
They are at the bottom of an empathy hierarchy.
A Palestinian child has to be perfect, unpolitical, and preferably dead in a photogenic way to receive ten seconds of conditional sympathy.
One accusation of "extremism" wipes all of that away.
That is the hierarchy.
You say you are sick of "so called moderate Muslims refusing to name and shame the extremists in their own communities."
Do you apply that standard to anyone else?
Did every white American hold a press conference to "name and shame" the soldiers who massacred Iraqis?
Did every Christian "name and shame" Clinton, Bush, Blair, Obama, Biden, Trump?
Did every Israeli "name and shame" the pilots dropping bombs on apartment blocks?
Or do you understand, in every other case, that individuals are not a collective spokesperson simply because they share a label?
It is only Muslims who are told:
Your dead are suspicious.
Your grief is conditional.
Your safety depends on how loudly you condemn someone you have never met, in a country you have never been to, for a crime you did not commit.
That is what dehumanisation looks like in polite language.
You also say, "Stop with the dehumanising narrative."
Yet your whole comment is exactly that narrative.
You take people who are being bombed, occupied, surveilled, banned, and demonised, and your first instinct is not:
"How do we stop this."
It is:
"I am sick of how central their suffering feels to me."
That is the war on terror working as designed.
It did not only teach people to fear "extremists."
It trained them to experience any serious attention to Muslim suffering as an annoyance.
As "hierarchy."
As "special treatment."
Saying "I see Muslims as human" means nothing if the moment their dead are mentioned you pivot to your irritation.
It means nothing if your first reflex is to turn their graves into a debate about your feelings.
You are not being asked to put them at the top of a victim hierarchy.
You are being asked to admit that their lives are not a footnote to your comfort.
If that already feels like too much, then my thread is not the dehumanising narrative in this conversation.
Yours is.
You do not realize it but your comment is exactly the thing I’m describing.
You say "No I see Muslims as humans" and then in the next breath complain that they are "elevated to the top of the victim hierarchy," talk about "moderate Muslims" like they are a customer-service department for 2 billion people, and demand that they perform public loyalty oaths to make you feel better.
That is not what you do with people you see as equals.
That is what you do with a suspect population you think owes you reassurance.
You are "sick" of them being at the top of the victim hierarchy.
Where exactly is this hierarchy?
Is it in the refugee camps, in the rubble, in the drone-strike statistics, in the sanctions, on the watchlists, at the airports, in the prisons?
Because from where most of us are sitting, they are not at the top of a victim hierarchy.
They are at the bottom of an empathy hierarchy.
A Palestinian child has to be perfect, unpolitical, and preferably dead in a photogenic way to receive ten seconds of conditional sympathy.
One accusation of "extremism" wipes all of that away.
That is the hierarchy.
You say you are sick of "so called moderate Muslims refusing to name and shame the extremists in their own communities."
Do you apply that standard to anyone else?
Did every white American hold a press conference to "name and shame" the soldiers who massacred Iraqis?
Did every Christian "name and shame" Clinton, Bush, Blair, Obama, Biden, Trump?
Did every Israeli "name and shame" the pilots dropping bombs on apartment blocks?
Or do you understand, in every other case, that individuals are not a collective spokesperson simply because they share a label?
It is only Muslims who are told:
Your dead are suspicious.
Your grief is conditional.
Your safety depends on how loudly you condemn someone you have never met, in a country you have never been to, for a crime you did not commit.
That is what dehumanisation looks like in polite language.
You also say, "Stop with the dehumanising narrative."
Yet your whole comment is exactly that narrative.
You take people who are being bombed, occupied, surveilled, banned, and demonised, and your first instinct is not:
"How do we stop this."
It is:
"I am sick of how central their suffering feels to me."
That is the war on terror working as designed.
It did not only teach people to fear "extremists."
It trained them to experience any serious attention to Muslim suffering as an annoyance.
As "hierarchy."
As "special treatment."
Saying "I see Muslims as human" means nothing if the moment their dead are mentioned you pivot to your irritation.
It means nothing if your first reflex is to turn their graves into a debate about your feelings.
You are not being asked to put them at the top of a victim hierarchy.
You are being asked to admit that their lives are not a footnote to your comfort.
If that already feels like too much, then my thread is not the dehumanising narrative in this conversation.
Yours is.
@nxt888 This storytelling is powerful and an eye-opener for anyone sincere. After so many agendas and attempts to paint all Muslims as terrorist apologists, if you ask them what they want, they never have anything to say.
@Abubakar0743 @Alien_AV@nxt888 Exactly.
They don’t care about anything else; they just want to keep the hatred going. What exactly do they want the rest of the Muslims to do?
@collinsbajayi@Iam_smeezy I can't count the number of times I've deleted X. It's becoming so depleted and losing its value due to the rise of dumb "influencers" and the monetization of the app, which is stripping away its originality. You can hardly spot a sensible tweet these days, it's really sad
“(Sovereign) nations should not be able to do ‘whatever’ they want to do. The United States cannot allow a (sovereign) nation supply (their own) resources to our enemies, and not to us. In the future of the free world, the United States must assert its authority as a Super Power without apologies”
This the United States Homeland Security Secretary, Stephen Miller.
Is anyone still in doubt?
@SadiqMaunde The problem people have here is that they think the United States is coming to steal our oil, when in reality, they are already stealing it but just trying to protect their interests.
@hunter_chief01@SadiqMaunde Venezuela wants to sell oil to the U.S., but the U.S. demands it for free. With enough oil to supply other countries, why didn’t Russia or China take it by force? Keep pushing for hegemony until you become the victim.