We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.
Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.
This is an incredible admission that pro-Israel forces are going straight to the AI companies to alter the perception of reality that you see.
You can call this influence, manipulation or control, but you can’t say it’s not happening. She just told you they’re doing it.
In the last 24 hours I have repeatedly started, then deleted, a post responding to the nasty anti-Muslim, racist attacks against @HamawyForNJ. I keep trying to find the words for the forceful, eloquent defense Dr. Hamawy deserves, but I can't. I'm too angry.
So let me be crystal fucking clear to the scum at that dishrag of a "newspaper", @nypost, the shameless editors of the @nytimes, the vapid hucksters of @FoxNews, and gutless cowards like @RepMikeLawler and @RepMoskowitz:
Adam Hamawy is a hero and a patriot with more courage and integrity than any of you could dream of.
Unlike Jared Moskowitz or Mike Lawler, he actually served this country in uniform, deploying to wars *we* started so he could stitch up our wounded troops. There are people who are alive today ONLY because Adam Hamawy was their doctor when it counted. One of them is your colleague, Senator Tammy Duckworth.
In Gaza, he pieced together children blown up by AMERICAN bombs you ghouls shipped over there. Bombs dropped by our supposed allies. They offered to evacuate him on account of his American passport. But he refused to leave his patients or his crew until the criminal apartheid state allowed a new rotation of doctors in.
That's a level of courage and moral conviction that neither Lawler or Moskowitz nor any other lawmaker participating in this nasty campaign could hope to achieve.
For you to question his patriotism or his Americanness in service to a foreign dictator is pathetic.
You trot out our troops like stage props when you want a photo op, but you wouldn't know real service if it was handed to you on a platter at an AIPAC dinner.
Your despicable smear against this war hero doctor spits in the face of everyone who has ever served. Including my father.
But the jig is up on your crybully routine. There's no amount of Islamophobic hysteria you can spin up that will make millions of Americans forget the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians you gleefully pushed into death, disease, and displacement with OUR money and weapons.
Whatever you're selling, only AIPAC is buying. Adam Hamawy is going to Congress, and you can go to hell.
Most Muslims today go through the struggle of avoiding riba with earning returns. But it wasn't always that way.
The foundation of every great Muslim empire was a strong financial backbone.
Andalus's gold coin was stronger than the dollar today. The Franks, the second dominant European power after Andalus preferred to trade in it over their own coinage.
One of the key early innovations that allowed the Ottomans to last 600+ years was the introduction of the monetary system by Alaeddin, Orhun's brother.
Bangladesh was just one state under the Mughals (Bengal Subah) but it alone was 10-15% of the world's GDP.
For comparison, California, the largest state by GDP today is only 3-4% of the world's GDP.
"No riba" was not in conflict with returns. It powered it.
So what changed?
It was the domination of an ethical framework foreign to our own. The whole world, Muslim world included, is subjugated to central banks, insurance, treasuries with interest and more.
Islamic finance has been reduced to a bandaid solution, holding together a few pillars to keep the entire house from collapsing.
For 332 years since the Bank of England, there was no solution built "outside the system" that survived. The wave of modern financialization obliterated everything in its path.
The post-2008 blockchain wave presents the first real opportunity. If done right, it is both "outside" and familiar at the same time. It is a new wave that the world is already having to contend with. Goldsand is ensuring Muslims are at the forefront of it. Help us return our Ummah to where it belongs.
@shafiur@ernamh If we sympathize with the Palestinians struggle, we should also treat all refugees humanely.
After all, we are refugees on this earth. The hereafter is the permanent abode 🤲🏼🙏🏼✌🏼