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[. @FOOSA28]

@The_One1001 @asda The Glazer model applied to retail.

[Hasan Spiker @RealHasanSpiker]

About ninety percent of the Muslim presence in the West clearly does more harm than good.

Such a profusion of talk, about spreading the profundity and light of Islam. But you can’t give what you don’t have.

And yet embodying and thereby spreading that transformative light is the only possible justification for our collective presence here.

Far too often, our immediate objection to this is to invoke the cliches of pluralism that we have been trained in by our Western conditioning; the irony in this knee-jerk "hurt" reaction is that the justificatory logic of pluralism for its own sake is none other than the relativity of values.

And yet our ubiquitously experienced reality is that we are not welcome here as Muslims following Islam — we are only welcome here in so far as, signed up to that relativism, we are ultimately ready to concede that our Islam doesn't matter (and the sad reality is that for many, beyond defensive identitarianism, Islam really doesn't matter to us).

The answer, of course, is to make ourselves welcome, welcome, that is, insofar as we are Muslims following Islam, by actually offering something to those who adhere to the ascendant culture in the West, rather than situating ourselves defensively, in the terms prescribed by the ascendant cultural order, as a "minority," faithfully trusting in liberalism to grant us the right to be left alone to get on with safely representing our identity.

The reality is that Islam constitutes the only holistic spiritual path left on earth that can offer the spiritually bereft Western heart and intellect the genuine spiritual transformation that allows direct access to the numinous.

But ninety percent of the Muslim presence in the West clearly does more harm than good precisely because, again, you can’t give what you don’t have; the vast majority of Muslims today evidently have minimal or no interest in the numinous, nor in any form of transformative path.

In turn, the majority of Muslim educational and social initiatives in the West remain mired in a fixation on Islamic identity, which is prioritized to the detriment of authentic intellectual and spiritual content. To repeat, this identitarianism ironically plays into an assimilationist minority discourse; its overarching concern is the assertion of the right to hold a superficial “Muslim” identity without prejudice, discrimination, or disadvantage, instead of foregrounding, or even adequately acknowledging, the transformative nature of Islamic metaphysics and practice, and its ability to heal broken individuals and a broken society.

And so ours is the characteristically modern problem of quantity over quality.

Meanwhile, the Muslims who really impress are those who are not aware of their identity. They are too busy being in touch with spiritual reality and really seeing into the human condition of those around them, Muslim and non-Muslim, to be excessively concerned with the identity-political impact of their appearance. And yet those are the ones who really make a difference, and who are capable of opening people's hearts to Islam.

As Imam Abu Hafs al-Suhrawardi famously said "He who does not already benefit you with his sheer gaze and presence, will be unable to benefit you with his words and preaching." And yet we are so far away from reality now that we do not typically understand what that presence means at all. But it nonetheless remains the crux of the matter.

Because it is the cultivation of that presence, a state attained by the spirit accustomed to basking in the presence of the numinous, that overcomes the
1 formalism and legalism, the
2 narrow-minded ethnocentrism, the
3 economically-centred rationale for our existence here, the
4 intellectual fideism and conformity to default scientism and positivism

which all stand in the way of our ability to offer something, in so far as we are Muslims following Islam (rather than in so far as we are neutral Rawlsian rights-bearing subjects) to our non-Muslim surroundings.

But instead, we trust in the liberal sentiment of our non-Muslim neighbours to assure their goodwill; and yet sadly, because of our own insubstantiality and the darkness we project due to our inward distance from the haqa'iq of the din, that sentiment is beginning to wear rather thin.

[Paul Williams @freemonotheist]

Oxford informs us that birds masturbate and that it's "perfectly normal." But many things are perfectly natural in the animal kingdom: infanticide, forced copulation, cannibalism, and abandoning weak offspring. The fact that a behaviour occurs in nature tells us nothing, by itself, about its moral status. That's the naturalistic fallacy.

[. @FOOSA28]

@Tracking_Power The idea that "Israel" is going to vastly expand its borders and become a global superpower, is in itself a form of Israeli propaganda. It's a sick zio fantasy.

[. @FOOSA28]

@_TheUnknown007_ And India? Just instigated a hot war with Pakistan, starting losing badly and starting begging the Americans to end it??

A superpower in Bollywood movies, a laughing stock on the world stage.🤣

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Your granpappy was doing this yesterday

[Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 @KSAmofaEN]

#Statement | The Foreign Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Republic of Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates strongly condemned the Israeli occupying power’s enactment of a law in its Parliament (Knesset), that allows the imposition of the death penalty in the occupied West Bank and its de facto application against Palestinians.

[. @FOOSA28]

@archaeologyart Whenever someone refers to Aurangzeb as a tyrant, there are usually two explanations...
1. You're an orientalist
2. You're Indian
Pick your poison.

[Shahid Bolsen @ShahidkBolsen]

People think a war crime is just when you target civilians. No. Aggression is a war crime. It does not matter if you are attacking military facilities exclusively. The moment you launch an attack unprovoked, you committed a war crime.

It should not need to be said that the US attacks on Iran should lead to the prosecution of the entire Trump administration at the ICC.

Pete Hegseth does not open his mouth except that he indicts himself as a war criminal.

[Shahid Bolsen @ShahidkBolsen]

After 2 years of savage genocide in Gaza, defended by their leaders, the people suddenly discover, to their utter shock, that their leaders are immoral because of Epstein, and then they forget about all this when their leaders start bombing civilians in another country.

The evil is itself a balm for their shock about their own evil. It is stunning.

Like:

"Oh everyone is mad about the Epstein thing, let me do some damage control and blow up a school"

Obviously, that is not why America is attacking Iran. Nevertheless, it actually works.

No one globally should hold the slightest delusion that the American people will ever rise up to prevent evil.

Western 'sympathy' is a counterfeit bill that cannot be used as a currency of exchange.

[Shahid Bolsen @ShahidkBolsen]

Just the optics of it. I don't know how you can justify your military presence now anywhere in the world. All your 800 bases and whatnot. Least of all in the Arab countries.

You have your bases in our countries, ostensibly to protect us, right? That's the official script.

But in the lead up to war, you evacuate those bases. You neither defend us, nor even your own bases; and the presence of your bases is exactly why our countries get targeted. So...you are here why, exactly?

You literally draw fire to us, and when we get attacked because of you, you are nowhere to be found.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

@Malala Your moral bankruptcy was exposed by your 2 year collusive silence during the genocide.
Anything you say is meaningless

[Fettjebäck @yuppitreter]

Amerikaner sein ist eine Geisteskrankheit

[Faris Al Hammadi @FarisHammadi]

Who insults your religion, insults you.

Even worse, insulting your religion is an insult to everything that you stand for; your ethics, your identity, and your honor.

If you allow that, then you have no ethics, no identity and no honor.

[. @FOOSA28]

@RedCorner_MMA Craig Jones 0-3 against Khabib & Co btw. Never seen Din Thomas not hating on a Dagestani

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This happened everyday in Gaza and Charlie Kirk cheered it on.

[Juvairiya @zaazalz]

Western colonialism in the Muslim world lasted barely 150-200 years

Egypt under Britain ≈ 74 years (1882-1956)
India under Britain ≈ 89 years (1858-1947)
Algeria under France ≈ 132 years (1830-1962)
Average = less than 2 centuries

Colonialism was a short anomaly
#Day21of100

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Palestinian journalists are the bravest on earth. They know their work is a death sentence as Israel openly hunts them, yet they do it out of duty to their people and defiance of a world that ignores their suffering—heroism western media can’t fathom