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[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

Salafists have long rejected Prophet Muhammad’s Medina Charter (Sahifat al-Madina)—the world’s first written constitution, which established a pluralist, multi-religious civic state (Ummah) based on equal citizenship rights that allowed Jews, Christians, and Muslims to coexist.

[azadivian @azadivian]

So basically $500m is just an upfront collection of government's own 10% future revenue share. Meaning eagle hills effectively gets a concession period to recoup the $500m.
The only commitment we asked, 5k housing units - actually fully funded by us.

what terrible negotiators!

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

Pulling our children from shared classrooms into unchecked, insular homeschooling feeds them directly to ideological shadow networks. They prowl those quiet voids beyond state oversight, waiting to erase pluralism with intolerance.

[azadivian @azadivian]

@ibrahimsasaki @aizik6654 @MMuizzu true and multiplayer effect in the economy would have been truly diversed.
example; shipping, bunkering, logistics

[azadivian @azadivian]

@ibrahimsasaki @MMuizzu @em_saeed Very true. Wouldn't need an army of ministers defending the project the whole time. People would have backed it on their own. In fact it would have been a massive PR boost for building a more diverse economy.

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

@azadivian @MMuizzu It’s not too late for @MMuizzu and @em_saeed to pivot Ras Malé from a foreign luxury real estate enclave into a high-yield crude oil service hub for Saudi Aramco and monetize its location for hard dollars.

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

Maldives should make a counter offer and pitch Ras Malé to Saudi Arabia as crude storage and global bunkering hub. @MMuizzu

Hosting Aramco storage guarantees our fuel security, expands our bunkering trade, creates new jobs, and brings massive USD revenue inflows beyond tourism.

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

Tyrants forge their own gallows with draconian laws.

Muizzu forgets the oldest rule of political hubris: the iron cage built today for others, tomorrow becomes your dungeon. He just pre-ordered his own lifetime sentence.

[Midhuam Saud(米渡）🇲🇻 @Midhuamsaud]

Biological memory fades. Digital memory doesn’t.

Welcome back to X, Rumaalu2.

Seven years later, under a new name.

[azadivian @azadivian]

Midhuam has stayed more faithful to his own beliefs than the usual political puppets who mostly serve higher-ups or chase personal gain. He has changed positions on some issues, but that doesn’t bother me because politics shifts and his shifts still come from his own ideology rather than outside pressure. You can disagree with him. Thats separate matter.
What matters is being you able to tell the difference between someone speaking from genuine conviction and someone acting out of self-interest or just repeating the party line.

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

A sovereign nation's foreign policy and defense ties should not be viewed through the lens of regional rivalry. Engagement with one neighbor does not undermine relations with another, nor does it compromise our national security. No one gets to dictate terms of engagement for us.

[azadivian @azadivian]

speaking as if this is like cutting off social security is a false narrative. salary gap is not justified. constituents expect a return because they know the disparity between their own earnings and MPs. to cut a problem at it's root is to to reduce exorbitant disparity. then the issue will resolve itself.

[Educate_MV @Educate_060285]

Readings …

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

Finally, it’s happening! @MaldivianAero will soon fly directly between Malé (MLE), Maldives, and Karachi (KHI), Pakistan, passing through Indian airspace. 🇵🇰 🇲🇻

A 3 hour/30 min direct flight between Malé and Karachi is so much better than a layover in Sharjah, Dubai or Muscat.

[azadivian @azadivian]

@ibrahimsasaki @maumoonagayoom True.
🇲🇻 GDP per capita is higher than SA combined.

[Ibrahim Sasaki @ibrahimsasaki]

MDP has lost too many elections due to its overt alignment with a single regional partner.

Without a recalibration toward a balanced, non-aligned posture, the party will continue to tie its political survival to external dynamics beyond its control.

[azadivian @azadivian]

In 2024 the official numbers showed 5,170 marriages and 3,368 divorces.

That’s 65 divorces for every 100 marriages.

But this does not prove that most Maldivian marriages fail. That's a pure statistical error.

From those 3,368 divorces and 5,170 marriages are not the same people.

A divorce registered in 2024 can come from a marriage that began earlier. Most of the 2024 marriages had barely started by the time the year ended.

This misleading statistical error is visible here. Look at Hulhumalé in the same year:
- 421 marriages.
- 422 divorces.
A ratio over 100 %.

That is mathematically impossible if the divorces belonged to the marriages formed that year. The divorces came from earlier ones.

The official figure simply counts every legal event that happened in twelve months.
- It does not count unique couples.
- It does not count first marriages.
- It does not tell you whether the same two people divorced, remarried each other, and divorced again.

Why it's important.

Because Maldives law allows a form of divorce that can later be revoked. The marriage can be revived through the court. The same couple can also divorce, remarry, and divorce a second time.

The 2022 census confirms this happens:
- 62 % of ever-married people said they had married only once.
- Yet 71 % said they had married only one distinct person.

What the gap really means is some people had more than one marriage ceremony with the exact same partner.

And every time that happens, the official records add another marriage and another divorce. But the number of unique couples stays the same while event count keeps rising.

Therefore a small faction of couples that keeps remarrying produces a large number of marriage and divorce (events) registrations every year.

That I suspect is the main reason behind the headline rate.

To claim that the Maldives has the highest divorce rate, the claim should clearly distinguish remarriage/revocation events and identify only those unique couples who end up in divorce. Isolating this number would drastically reduce the currently considered divorce rate. Without this, this claim is statistically false.

[sun.mv @sunbrk]

Maldives sees biggest marriage dip in five years in 2025, highest divorce rate
https://t.co/twGgJNPyrF

[azadivian @azadivian]

@ibrahimsasaki 💯