i once heard someone say “if there are 12 Nazis in a room and they ask you to have dinner with them and you agree, then there are 13 Nazis in that room” and i think a lot of people fundamentally don’t understand that. but it’s 100% true.
Last thing I’ll say on this topic, because it’s time to move on:
A number of Muslim scholars were rounded up and imprisoned over the last decade, especially in the Gulf, precisely because they were major advocates of global Muslim unity.
That matters because if the idea of the Ummah were as fake, sterile, or politically meaningless as some of you claim, these regimes would not spend so much energy crushing the people who call Muslims back to it.
One example is Salman al-Ouda in Saudi Arabia, who was arrested in 2017, placed in solitary confinement, and had travel bans imposed on members of his family after he refused to obey an order from Saudi authorities to tweet a statement supporting the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar. He is still imprisoned to this day.
But that barely registered outside Muslim circles, because at the time Western secularists were too busy praising MbS for his supposed “liberal reform” of Saudi Arabia.
So you’ll excuse me if I don’t take seriously critiques of Muslim political imagination from people whose geopolitical worldview seemed to revolve around judging states by how lax they were on alcohol, nightclubs, and Western-style entertainment.
leftist western atheists just don’t have the aura of a random Muslim kid in flip flops who stands fearlessly on the frontlines against the imperial war machine with nothing but the Quran on their tongue and faith in their heart, and it bothers them I think
They'll call him a "decent man." He is not.
He oversaw one of the most aggressive assaults on British civil liberties in generations, all to protect Israel's genocide and Britain's participation in the crime of all crimes.
He shouldn't be resigning. He should be in The Hague
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You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.
Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.
Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.
So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.
This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1
EXCLUSIVE: More than half of former Labour voters who intent to back a centre or leftwing party in the next general election have cited the government's record on Gaza as a reason for abandoning Labour, new polling shows.
BREAKING: A court will seek to sentence four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage as terrorists even though they were not convicted of terror charges, in a move kept secret from the jury.
The Arabic word for "jinn" and the Arabic word for "baby" come from the same root.
So does "paradise." So does "madness." So does "shield." So does "heart."
Three letters. ج - ن - ن
One meaning: hidden.
Let me show you how deep this goes.
UPDATE: Dr Eastland Staveley, the zionist jewish GP who said he didn't shoot enough babies is reportedly back working for Leicester out of hours DHU (@DHUHealthCare, @Leic_hospital).
Meanwhile, myself and other doctors are suspended by @gmcuk for opposing genocide & supremacism.
Everyone has focused on his headline take but the radically enlightened bit is when he compares Hamas and October 7th to slave rebellions and raids against colonists by indigenous Americans. Different level
🚨 12 British universities have paid a security firm £440,000 to monitor students & academics’ social media inc those who have expressed solidarity for Palestine
The unis:
• UCL
• Imperial
• KCL
• Oxford
• Sheffield
• Leicester
• Nottingham
• LSE
• Manchester
• Cardiff
Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing.
I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean.
https://t.co/hivzYl1N0Z
Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵
If Mamdani invited genocidal war criminal Netanyahu to read stories to preschoolers the American left would be up in arms. But of course this war criminal, who dropped 26,000 bombs in only *one* year, massacring several children, still gets an inexplicable pass