Jamaal Diwan

Co-Founder and Resident Scholar of The Majlis. Married to Sha @muslemapurmul. Sharia from al-Azhar, Cairo. Third World Studies from UCSD.

[Jamaal Diwan @jamaaldiwan]

Manifest, filthy, disgusting oppression.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is Chelsea Koetter & her sons. A few years ago, she accrued a small property tax debt.

So the government seized her home, sold it—and kept the $102,636 profit.

The Supreme Court said this practice is illegal. But some states are subverting that. A thread.

[Jamaal Diwan @jamaaldiwan]

Thank you to the crew on our @AmericanAir flight from Charlotte to San Diego right now for making the right call and removing two belligerently intoxicated passengers before taking off. Was about to be a miserable flight for myself, wife, and kids if they hadn’t done it.

[Samir Hussain @TheUsuli]

Guys if you’re still in high school or university and you haven’t studied classical texts in Arabic with scholars for more than a few years, then you SHOULD NOT be debating controversial & complicated stuff about Islam anywhere - online or offline.

Get off your phone. Go pray your Salah. Read some Qur’an. Be good to your parents. Do your homework. Go chill with good friends. Go to the gym. Go learn some MMA. Go study Islam with your local mashayikh & scholars or join an online class.

It’s hard enough being a young male nowadays with all the nonsense going on in society/the world. Stop destroying your mind and soul even further by involving yourself in caustic exchanges online that you have no business to be involved in!

The Prophet SAW said, ‘From the excellence of a person’s Islam is to leave that which does not concern them.’ Unless you’re an academic, scholar or seeker of knowledge, you should not be concerned about these issues! Find something else to use your emotional energy in.

If I saw one of my own children posting this kind of trash and arguing online, they’d have one of the worst days of their lives. If it was one my students from school, they would get a fierce lecture from me, and I would be calling their parents to make sure they know what their kids are doing online.

- Signed, a parent, high school Islamic Studies teacher, and teacher of classical texts in the Islamic sciences

[Nancy Ko @nancykorifera]

As a polyglot proficient in 10+ languages — including the difficult yet critical dialect of "admin talk" — I thought it might be helpful for me to translate the email that our university president Minouche Shafik just sent to Columbia affiliates.

Here goes:

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

🧵1/ Thread on the Islamophobic and antisemitic disinformation about the #SydneyAttack . I downloaded X posts that wrongly stated that the attacker, Joel Cauchi, was either a Muslim or Jewish terrorist

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

1/ Why are Israelis dazed and confused? Because Iran demonstrated instrumental rationality. The Iranians, possessing limited capabilities, mounted an operation both psychological and kinetic. They ties Israel in knots for over a week. Then they fired. --->

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

[محمد توحيد مہربان @Toheeddddd]

AlFatiha for our dear brother sidi Mouaz al-Nass رحمه الله who sadly passed away one year ago today on 2nd Shawwal 1444 AH.

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

Israel and Haniyeh [Thread]
The composure of Haniyeh tells a very overarching story. The grandchildren aged 10, 8, and 4 were killed on Eid while meeting with relatives in Shati camp. Israel's brutality does not deter hamas. In fact, it empowers and motivates them.
-1/n

[Aamer Rahman @aamer_rahman]

After not touring for seven years, I put together 'Culture War,' a rough hour of new material that I performed over a week in London. Here's the video I used to start the show each night.
I'll be releasing clips and outtakes soon. Not a full comedy album - more like a mixtape of standup bits and reflections about growing up in the shadow of the War on Terror and the genocide in Gaza.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

As the tide turns globally, I see the effort to pin the blame solely on Netanyahu. The strategy is to resurrect Israel's image in the process of toppling him. But genocide is not a one-man show; the whole system is culpable. Zionism must be abolished. There is no going back.

[پوپلزی @JournalismPopal]

McDonald's to buy back all of its Israeli-owned franchise locations following boycotts of the brand in the Middle East and other key markets. The boycotts launched after some locations provided free meals and discounts to the IDF.
#Gaza

https://t.co/6oFC9FRhAS

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Israeli govt propagandist Mark Regev confirms reporting by me and others that burned bodies presented by Tel Aviv as evidence of Hamas atrocities were in fact Hamas activists burned by Israeli hellfire missiles

This also adds legitimacy to claims that many Israelis found burned beyond recognition were friendly fire victims

[Joe @joebradford]

Everyone in the US Muslim community should be very weary of all this sudden rehash of Takfiri thought.

Propaganda has, until this point, failed to associate people who call for an end to the senseless killing in Gaza with ISIS ideology.

So they're "bringing back the golden oldies" and parading out Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida rhetoric. As I said in another post while he may - at times - express legitimate grievances found in Muslim lands, this does not mean he was correct in everything he said, nor does it excuse the impermissible means he used.

You will find some people sympathetic to these ideologies who will unknowingly parrot their deviance, and you will find some people knowingly doing so. Some thinking it's guidance, others setting out a honeypot.

Both operate as tools for intelligence apparatuses, knowingly or unknowingly, and allow Muslims to be entrapped by the unequal calculus of "free speech."

It is not befitting for a believer to be gullible and allow themselves to be used like a doormat.
It's narrated from Iyās Ibn Mu'āwiya (at times attributed to Omar) that he would say,
لست بخبّ ولا الخب يخدعني
"I am not crafty, nor am I fooled by craftiness."

Be vigilant and do not allow deceitful and treacherous people to derail legitimate calls for justice through predatory & unscrupulous tactics.

[Jamaal Diwan @jamaaldiwan]

“Let’s take a stand against Muslims.” Wow. Freudian slip or…

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

IDF Debunked [Thread]
This is so ridiculous, I am only doing this because IOF with this propaganda is justifying the bombing of hospitals and Schools even the UN-run or affiliate.
IDF has many embedded Journalists with them they did it themselves instead of allowing -1/n

[Harvard Undergraduate PSC @HarvxrdPSC]

🧵 THREAD: Harvard Rabbi Zarchi preaches anti-Palestinian racism. In a speech to the community on Nov 4, he made a distinction between humans and “four-legged animals.”

Apparently, calling for a #CeasefireNow and an end to the occupation makes us “below animals,” even “monsters.” It is incredibly concerning that a university leader is teaching his community to view themselves as “good” and to view pro-Palestinians as “evil.” (1/3)

[AbdelRahman Murphy @AbdelRahmanM]

American Nurse Emily Callahan is interviewed on @cnn @andersoncooper talking about her experience for 26 days in Gaza.

She lived through over 3 weeks of the bombardment by the IDF, and when asked if she would go back to Gaza to serve with/the Palestinians she responds "in a heartbeat, in an absolute heartbeat...my heart is in Gaza, it will stay in Gaza the Palestinian people I worked with were some of the most incredible people I've ever met...absolute heroes, if I could have a small amount of the courage they have I would die a happy person."

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

They want you to think that wiping out entire Palestinian families and bloodlines isn't genocide, but it’s genocide to say "from river to the sea"