Ahsan Y. Chaudhary 🟪

Founder @theconstorder | Interests: world peace; constitutionalism | Host @ccnorder

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Books on Democracy

I'm finishing my graduate course on democracy this week. These are some of the books we discussed that I think make important contributions to the debate about the nature and value of democracy, and what explains why democracy emerges, endures and declines.

[The Constitutional Order Institute @theconstorder]

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Disorder in the world is not accidental. It is manufactured—by laws that entrench injustice, institutions that betray their mandate, and individuals who treat the state as a private property.
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[The Constitutional Order Institute @theconstorder]

States Must Be Regulated Too: Meet the Constitutional Order Institute @elonmusk
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[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary @ahsanych1]

Alert: @ICEgov @Sec_Noem @SecRubio @POTUS. A guy Shahid Anwar, originally from Pakistan now resident of the U.S. is cursing America and those who stand for peace. It is utter shame that individuals like him enjoy the fruits of liberty, build businesses here and hate the republican values upon which this great nation stands. I have provided a transcript below for your attention.

Engineer M. Mirza: "Iran must accept America's terms and surrender, otherwise it will be crushed, God forbid"

Shahid Anwar: "[cursing Mirza with inappropriate words], they [prophet's companions] would go out as 313 [reference to Ghazwa-e-Badar] and defeat thousands with the help of Allah [sic]. This [Mirza] dog-shaped knows neither religion nor reason, why should Iran accept America's terms? Who is America? America is sitting in the other corner of the world. What problem has it in the ass to go to Iran and attack it? None of its business. Everybody has a right to self-defense, but dogs of Israel like you [Mirza], is teaching religion. I had said it earlier that Ulemas [scholars] of Pakistan are not Ulema, they are sons of bitch...they do not know how powerful is God. You [Mirza] must be crushed, son of bitch."

[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary 🟪 @ahsanych]

Pakistan is a Walmart of terrorist organizations: LeT, JeM, TTP, you name it. Generals and politicians profit from them. It is true that #Pakistan is a victim of terrorism, but the product is homegrown.

[Shubhangi Sharma @ItsShubhangi]

Pakistani information minister Ataullah Tarar just went up on Sky News. It didn’t go as planned. Incredible work by @SkyYaldaHakim 👏

[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary @ahsanych1]

پی ٹی آئی ایک اور قبضہ گروپ ہے جس نے پاکستان میں جمہوریت کو نقصان پہنچایا۔ یہ جماعت نااہل اور بنیادی طور پر بصارت سے عاری ہے جبکہ اس کے حامی بیوقوف ہیں۔ درحقیقت، نہ تو پارٹی اور نہ ہی اس کے حامیوں کے پاس کوئی آئینی اصلاحات کا ایجنڈا ہے۔ وہ ڈرائیور کو تبدیل کرنے پر یقین رکھتے ہیں نہ کہ گاڑی کو ٹھیک کرنے میں۔ پاکستان 24 کروڑ عوام کا ہے جو حقیقی جمہوریت چاہتے ہیں۔ اور حقیقی جمہوریت نچلی سطح پر چلنے والی تحریک کے ذریعے ہی ممکن ہے۔۔ افسوس کہ پی ٹی آئی نے عوام کو مایوس کیا اور اب عوام کا وقت اور توانائی دونوں ضائع کر رہی ہے۔

[Noam Titelman @NoamTitelman]

Are you studying polarization, democratic backsliding, and/or representation gaps?
Come join us at Queen Mary University London for a workshop in preparation of a special issue. Scholars researching Latin America are especially welcomed!

https://t.co/lBJUpGTehM

[The Bush Archive @TheBushArchive]

State of the Union Address 2004.
Bush well clear. Terrorism will be fought. For the peace of the World.

[Ian Hurd @ian_hurd]

As scholars argue about how int'l order is changing, I wonder what they mean. Order isn't a mechanical, objective condition. The language of mechanics has gone too far.

New article 'The Science of World Order' in International Politics @SpringerNature

https://t.co/NMItBrLg1H

[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary 🟪 @ahsanych]

A journalist and Youtuber in Karachi #Pakistan is severely beaten up by unknown individuals [state agents]. Unless this country is brought under law by punishing politicians, bureaucrats and their supporters, I have no hope that he and those like him will get justice ever.

[Asim Siddiqui @Asimtv9]

ملا کے بارے میں کچھ بول دو تو ملا ناراض حکومت کے بارے میں کچھ بول دو تو حکومت ناراض یہ بغیرتی پاکستان کے اندر سندھ کے اندر کراچی کے اندر کب تک چلتی رہے گی
معروف یوٹیوبر نور العارفین کے گھر پر نامعلوم افراد کو حملہ، شدید زخمی
نورالعارفین سیاسی سماجی اور مذہبی شخصیات پر غیر معمولی تنقیدی پروگرام کرنے کے حوالے سے شہرت رکھتے ہیں @KarachiPolice_

[Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social @MaraRevkin]

Excited to share my new article with Megan Stewart @fordschool & @JonPetkun @DukeLaw in the July/August issue of @ForeignAffairs: https://t.co/Ua9YETZb64

[Stuart A. Reid @stuartareid]

I’m so proud of an amazing new collection @ForeignAffairs articles: “The Real Rules of International Relations.” We wanted to take a fresh look at the old chestnuts of IR theory, and explain what we know about them now, and how they influence policy. So we asked top scholars.

[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary 🟪 @ahsanych]

Rulers in democracies vs theocracies https://t.co/bZ2cSgxHAi via @YouTube

[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary 🟪 @ahsanych]

Good piece.

[Richard Albert @RichardAlbert]

📝 My new paper, still in revision: "Why Rawls is Wrong about Constitutional Amendment," to be published in the forthcoming Research Handbook on Constitutionalism and Legal Theory, edited by Jaclyn Neo and Yaniv Roznai.

Comments welcome! 🙏🏽

Full text: https://t.co/CAtebXCcz3

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

Islamized America...

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) held its latest terror event on Memorial Day Weekend (May 24 to May 26, 2024) in radicalized Baltimore...

"Notable" Islamic Speakers at the ICNA Conferences included...

Siraj Wahhaj: Imam of Masjid Taqwa in New York, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Yasir Qadhi: An American Muslim scholar who has called for an Islamic theocracy to replace democratic systems. He also has previously said that to “kill … the homosexual – this is also our religion,” and that “to make fun of Allah and his Messenger, the punishment is death.” (The list goes on and on...)

Suhaib Webb: The white convert to Islam previously outlined a three-choice approach to dealing with non-Muslims: converting them to Islam, subjugating them under Islamic rule with a tax (jizya), or waging jihad against them if they refuse. He has justified suicide bombings carried out by groups like Hamas (It is not surprising that he was previously associated with the Bloods street gang.)

For those of you who are not familiar with this terror-tied group, they are a New York-based Islamic organization founded in September 1968. They have been investigated by the FBI for ties to terrorism.
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee requested detailed information on ICNA and other U.S. Muslim organizations for potential links to terrorism in 2003.

ICNA's stated mission is to "seek the pleasure of Allah ... through the ... establishment of the Islamic system of life as spelled out in the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad."

According to the 2010 ICNA Member's Handbook, ICNA is preaching a global Caliphate and Islamic Shari’a law over America to its members.

As the handbook spells out, the organization’s ultimate goal is “the Establishment of Islam” as the sole basis of global society and governance.

It also encourages members to deceive people in its proselytizing campaign to help fulfill this goal. ICNA has been actively pursuing this aim as the group has set its sights on America’s constitutional separation of religion and state.

It’s not the first example of radicalism by one of America’s largest Muslim organizations. ICNA’s magazine has featured interviews with terrorist leaders in Pakistan, called on youth to fight abroad in Kashmir, and honored like-minded Islamic extremist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood and South Asia’s Jamaat-e-Islami.

Concerns have also been expressed about 5 young members of the group’s Virginia mosque, who were arrested and convicted on terrorism charges after attempting to link up with and fight for Pakistani terror groups in December 2009.

As the handbook explains, ICNA doesn’t just believe that religion is a private affair. “Establishment of the Religion” extends beyond the individual and family and into the society, state, and world. “These words [Establishment of the Religion] include not only practicing the religion in individual and collective life and propagating its true teaching to others but also striving to make this Deen [religion] a way of life for all,” the handbook reads.

ICNA’s charter is even more explicit. It calls for the “establishment of the Islamic system of life” in the world, “whether it pertains to beliefs, rituals, and morals or to economic, social or political spheres.”

For ICNA, this means being the American branch of a global phenomenon that they refer to as the ‘Islamic Movement.’ The 2010 Hand Book notes that branches of this movement “are active in various parts of the world to achieve the same objectives. It is our obligation as Muslims to engage in the same noble cause here in North America.”…

The handbook says working in an 'Islamic Movement' culminates in an Islamic superstate, the Caliphate. Believers have an obligation to strive to re-establish a collective body of Muslims worldwide, organized into the superstate under the direction of a Caliphate and Islamic law. The group wants "the united Muslim Ummah [community] in a united Islamic state, governed by an elected khalifah in accordance with the laws of shari'ah."

Why are we allowing these terror-tied groups, which despise the West and non-Muslims, to operate freely in our countries? It is time to send these soldiers to Gaza instead of helping them conquer our nations one by one.

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

China's shot across the bow at Taiwan’s new President, @ChingteLai, and Vice President, @bikhim shows how nervous Beijing is about an independent Taiwan. As tensions with China grow, know that the American people recognize your sovereignty and support your right to self-determination.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇹🇼🇨🇳TAIWAN CHIP MAKERS HAVE KILL SWITCH IF CHINA INVADES

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) revealed to U.S officials that it has a backup plan for its chip-making machines in case China invades.

Dutch-based ASML, which provides TSMC with one of its most important machines for manufacturing chips, can remotely switch them off and has run simulations to confirm that it would work in the event of China taking control of the plant.

ASML is the world’s only manufacturer of the machines, which sell for more than $217 million each.

Source: Bloomberg

[Ahsan Y. Chaudhary 🟪 @ahsanych]

True.

[Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton]

The @IntlCrimCourt has no jurisdiction in Israel.