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Turtles all the way down

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Bari Weiss' minions handling the decisive rejection of their Israel-loyal, anti-Muslim fervor about as well as you would expect:

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

When everything you say and do is motivated by trying to go scorched earth on anyone who criticises Israel, you end up sounding like an imbecile

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the left

Yet people still voted for it

Says a lot

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@Ayaan You know when you're at the dinner table with Niall, and you verbalise your thoughts. When he sighs and look off into the distance, it's because he's realised you're retarded but is in too deep now

Hating Muslims together isn't enough to sustain a marriage

[A.A. @pashadelics]

Arab turnout in Israel and Muslim turnout in US elections should be a resounding answer to any claims that Muslims in general don’t and can’t participate in electoral systems as citizens, even when conditions are hostile and, in the case of Israel, outcomes are bleak. The entire Free Press extended universe’s attempt to run War on Terror rhetoric with x10 the hysteria to portray Muslims as hostile freaks is in ruins.

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@nfergus @jamesmatthewsky @AbdulElSayed He's going to win. Maybe Bari will give you a chance to vent about it in her rag

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@MazMHussain The spectator has done the same thing in the uk

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@koreanscot I think you and your fellow gooks might be shooting blanks

[Bactrian 🌴 @ElegantiaeArbit]

Incredibly important intervention on behalf of one of the most misunderstood books of our time.

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

This is essential reading.

As Muslims and western critics alike continue to adopt the narrowest possible framing of what constitutes Islam, @Imran_posts
provides some much needed context

[Kasurian @KasurianMag]

What is Islam?

In When is Drinking Wine Islamic?, Imran Mulla (@Imran_posts) revisits Shahab Ahmed’s magisterial work that sought to answer this very question.

Some critics took Ahmed to mean that anything Muslims had ever done could be called Islamic. Others took him to mean that the word itself had no coherent meaning. Ahmed died in 2015, aged 48, and What Is Islam? was published posthumously. He was never able to answer his critics.

For centuries, Muslims from the Balkans to Bengal read the Persian poet Hafiz. In one of his verses, the ascetic longs to drink from the Fountain of Paradise, while the poet reaches for the wine-cup. Both hope for God’s mercy. A jade wine-jug belonging to the Mughal emperor Jahangir bore an inscription beginning, “God is Most Great!” At the Ottoman court, the traveller Evliya Çelebi recalled meeting Sultan Murad IV at a party where wine was served. Evliya abstained. The gathering ended with the afternoon prayer and a recitation from the Quran.

How do we make sense of this?

For Ahmed, the question turns on what Muslims understood themselves to know of God, and how they came to know it. The Quran directs its readers to look for God’s signs on earth and within themselves. Philosophers saw reason as one way to discover such truths. Sufis spoke of knowing them through experience. A reader of Hafiz could recognise in the wine of a ghazal both the cup passed between friends and the experience of intoxication with the Divine. The difficulty for a modern reader is that the poet could mean both at once.

Ahmed thought we did an injustice to Muslims of the past when we could recognise the Islam in a jurist’s ruling but scarcely recognise it in a poem that generations of Muslims had known by heart. We also, he wrote, did an injustice to ourselves.

For 14 centuries, in Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s words, the Islamic had been “one of the salient ways of being human”. Ahmed’s book closes with an invitation. “Let us understand, apprehend and benefit from the importance of being Islamic.”

Read more on Kasurian. Link in reply below:

[papa buri @papaburi]

phenomenal by imran, some of the most thought provoking and thoroughly against the grain writing you will read

[Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies @CeilNoyle]

Ironically he’s had to resort to the very identity politics that his characters were supposed to be “skewering.” What a tragic, unfunny boomer

[Matthew Petti @matthew_petti]

“We understand that we must live by the sword. And all of this is infinitely preferable to exile.”

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@FranklinVH2 He really thought this was his 'antifragile'

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@MhaskarChief He would still demolish a Pepe's chicken rice box at 11pm though

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

The electrodynamics notes in my files at home are photocopied from a girl who sat in the front row and wrote more legibly than all of us and used pretty colours.

I nailed that exam

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

Comments on what constitutes a real degree tend to come from humanities grads who have anxieties about their own academic calibre.

Highlighters are just a chick thing. When I was studying theoretical physics, the few girls all did this and their notes were way more readable

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

If you’re at university and using multicoloured highlighters you do not do a real degree and you should immediately drop out and learn plumbing

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

@Con_Tomlinson Stephen Miller is a lunatic who would happily sell his country to Israel. Zia is a patriot

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@TuckerCarlson @GovMikeHuckabee @SecRubio @davidamilstein Ambassador Cuckabee doesn’t seem to work for America. Time to open an investigation.

[Adnan Hussain MP @AdnanHussainMP]

Why the Sri Lankan team?

What happened to everyone being ethnically English?

[FA @FAnewsfeed]

More Hasbara slop from the Spectator

The name is appropriate; you, the goyim are mere Spectators

[The Spectator @spectator]

The Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Hatikva is everything Israel's critics across Europe fail to understand. This run-down suburb is home to many working-class Mizrahim: Jews who, save for their skullcaps, would not look out of place in a London mosque.

They, or their parents, came to Israel from across the Islamic world: Iraq, Iran, Tunisia, Algeria and Yemen.

Finally safe in the Jewish homeland, many have become some of Benjamin Netanyahu's most ardent supporters. These deeply religious taxi drivers, cleaners, administrators and shopkeepers still feel the trauma of life under the iron fist of Islamism.

Boycotts and finger-wagging from London or Paris will not sway them. They will vote for the strongman they believe most likely to launch the fastest and farthest-reaching rockets, quashing any possibility of a return to the Islamic world they left behind.

✍️ Noa Hoffman

Article | https://t.co/JK5a8acAFe | @hoffman_noa