revisionist in chief

a woman from among the wretched of the earth; everyone you're looking at is also you. لا إله إلا الله

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@mysttme What's more is they've already decided, by virture of you being Muslim, that you are not as capable of reasoning as they are, that you are inferior in understanding, and that your worldview is highly subjective while theirs is completely objective

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@femailment The potential of a highly unprecedented and underdiscussed unmanageable reality where a teenage girl and her mother tend to clash and argue lol

[Huthaifa | حذيفة @Shack_Rat]

Everyone’s piling on this guy, but I actually appreciate his account because it’s a reminder of what parts of the “pro-Palestine left” were, and in some cases still are, when Islam itself is part of the conversation.

That matters when people keep having this right vs. left debate about who Palestinians, Muslims, or anyone committed to Palestine should be willing to ally with.

Like, no, I don’t want to ally with wannabe neo-Crusaders. But I’m also not interested in allying with wannabe revolutionaries who, up until October 2023, had little tolerance for Islam, had nothing good to say about Hamas, and were openly expressing Islamophobic views during Saif al-Quds in 2021.

People can change their minds. That’s not the issue. The issue is pretending the past never happened and expecting everyone else to have amnesia.

And if we’re going to distrust people because of their past positions, then let’s at least be consistent. I still remember, just days after October 7, seeing a video of a Palestinian man taking off his shirt so a woman pulled from the rubble could cover her hair (which she wanted), and even then, while Palestinians were being massacred, the comments from some “allies” were basically: look, misogyny still prevails.

For some people, Gaza is not a people, a place, a wound, or a trust; it's a utility. The Western left, much like the Tucker Carlson right, is perfectly capable of, and fine with, reaching for Bush/Cheney GWOT rhetoric when it suits them. Hamas’ conservative, unapologetic Islam is simply an inconvenience they’re willing to overlook for now because Gaza currently serves their ideological project.

That doesn’t mean every leftist is an Islamophobe, just like it doesn’t mean every conservative is a neo-Crusader. But it does mean Muslims should stop pretending that either camp is automatically safe, principled, or worthy of trust just because they happen to be saying the right thing about Palestine today.

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@femailment She replied to someone saying "some women go through it early" so why should anyone have children at any age then if they'll go through menopause eventually lmfao what kind of point is being made here exactly

[Soureh 🟩☫🟥 @Soureh_design2]

Iran's Team Melli commemorating Ashura in the United States

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@armandistic There's an unreasonable defensiveness I don't understand when it comes to people pointing out she's despicable. Seeing a soundness in some ideas very frequently does not correspond to a moral backbone or consistency in the person presenting them lol, theory is not religion

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

It’s easy to criticize the Iranian team, and I do it often, but each time I remind myself that the majority of this squad didn’t play in a domestic league through months of a criminal war and that their World Cup journey has been the most unfairly politicized one in history.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

Close the Strait until VAR reverses that decision.

[🧘🏻‍♀️ @eightandtwenty]

usa had a man a mile offside and it counts but iranian man gets punished for having a fat ass

[Sa’eed Jiddan @mish_aderr]

Throughout all the years I’ve learned that not everyone who disagrees with me politically is a Mossad agent, some are also CIA others are MI6.

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@lizgrana It's a banned word for me now. If I see it online I'm hiding whatever it's in right away idgaf

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@zchishtii Tbh this is even more so the case because the burden on upholding tradition is placed on women while men do a globalised form of social climbing and DO become westernised themselves. A patriarchal territorialism is activated when women reject this role

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@zchishtii I was saying because it's viewed as cultural, there's pushback in criticising it because that criticism is unfairly accused of advocating for westernisation. A lonely position to hold as an anti-imperialist, which is why some people tend to migrate to a more willing audience

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@mysttme What's more is they've already decided, by virture of you being Muslim, that you are not as capable of reasoning as they are, that you are inferior in understanding, and that your worldview is highly subjective while theirs is completely objective

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@BombBombNYC @armandistic You are missing the point. Discarding and criticising one's cultural theology is not comparable to systemically censuring it, firstly, but the point is that secular Christians and Jews have global imperialist projects attached to their theology that they do not disown in practice

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@BombBombNYC @armandistic Westernisation projects to emulate progress defined by the leading Euro-American powers (secularism in the public sphere, religion in the private sphere) is an established pattern. Notice you said anti-hijab. You mean secular Muslims are capable of being just as Islamophobic.

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@armandistic Today most secular Christians (from European Christianity) don't even think of themselves as such + instead think they're somehow separate from this socialisation while they unwittingly operate much like secular Jews, with the last vestige of their theology being imperialism

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@armandistic In Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott she writes how in discourses on secularism, Christian religiosity became the 'nature' of the European woman and a mark of balance in secular civilisation in contrast to the 'backwardness' of Islam and African spiritualities.

[revisionist in chief @atlantickitsch]

@mish_aderr They think they fell out of a coconut tree