Western leftists will tweet out the laziest anti-Islam snark imaginable, and then, when Muslims call it what it is, they’ll hide behind “critique of religion.”
Buddy, if that’s the level of your critique, it’s no wonder you now find yourself living out your revolutionary fantasies through a people whose struggle is openly rooted in a faith and worldview you clearly resent.
You romanticize their resistance, borrow their imagery, chant their slogans, and cosplay their courage, all while sneering at the very Islam that sustains so many of them under siege.
And that would be bad enough on its own, but it’s even more pathetic coming from people whose entire political posture depends on being geographically, materially, and psychologically cushioned by the same empire they claim to oppose. You mock the ideology of people facing bombs, prisons, starvation, and extermination while clasped tightly to the teat of the enemy dropping those bombs.
So no, this isn’t about Muslims being unable to handle criticism. Islam has been critiqued by far more serious minds than yours for centuries. What we’re not obligated to entertain is your Reddit-tier contempt dressed up as intellectual courage.
But hey, keep at it. The pinnacle of your ideological achievement is always going to be cosplaying revolution from the safety of the imperial core while outsourcing every real consequence to Muslims you secretly resent, and that’s a ceiling you’re never going to shatter.
Not a single left wing government in all of South America could send a single barrel of oil to Cuba and Mamdani could not stop Smotrich from walking the streets of New York but these people want to lecture you about how islamists show selective solidarity
@nonregemesse That’s literally GRRM intent with Fire&Blood but ofc these millennials and their constant reimagining of everything wanted to create their own girlboss Daenerys Targaryen
Had Israel remained larping with it’s Kibbutznik maxxing and socialist identity, you’d have waves of western communists proudly proclaiming Am YIsrael Chai
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.