@chaiiblueberry Absolute clown show. I knew it right away when I saw the line up and who was moderating it. Their entire personality is just being bitter about Syria at this point lol
A message to Muslims:
Remember that little Syrian boy whose body washed up on a beach?
Remember the images from Syria? Cities reduced to rubble. Children pulled from buildings. Millions driven from their homes. Torture, massacres, chemical attacks, barrel bombs and one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our generation.
Remember how many Western leftists spoke endlessly about Syrian suffering? About refugees, humanity and solidarity?
Now look at their reaction as Syria rebuilds.
More than 3.5 million displaced Syrians have returned home since Assadโs murderous regime fell. Syria is rebuilding its institutions, re-entering international diplomacy and trying to move beyond fourteen years of war.
And suddenly, the tone changes.
The Syrians they claimed to care about were apparently easier to love as refugees, victims and images on a screen than as people rebuilding a sovereign, functioning country.
Now Syriaโs recovery itself seems to offend them.
Mehdi Hasan. Ana Kasparian. George Galloway.
You know exactly the voices Iโm talking about.
That should teach Muslims something important:
Solidarity that only exists while you are suffering is not solidarity.
Some people donโt actually want Muslim societies prospering on their own terms. They want causes. Imagery. Permanent struggles they can observe from afar and fit neatly into their ideological worldview.
Look at the narratives about Syria now:
โSyria is ruled by al-Qaeda.โ
โSyria is ruled by ISIS.โ
About a man whose forces spent years fighting both ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria and dismantling their presence in territory he controlled.
This isnโt obscure information. Five minutes of research would tell them.
But they donโt care. The labels are more useful than the facts.
They claim to despise imperialism, expansionism and foreign interference.
But Iran expanding its power across Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, embedding armed proxies and militias inside Arab states and subordinating their sovereignty to Tehranโs regional ambitions? Apparently thatโs neither imperialism nor expansionism to them.
But Syrians building an independent, functioning and prosperous country?
Suddenly they have a problem with it.
From thousands of miles away, itโs a geopolitical video game. You can watch armed militias carve up other peopleโs countries when you when youโll never have to live with the consequences. Syrians do.
They donโt have to live among ruins. Bury the dead. Become refugees. Watch their children grow up knowing nothing but war.
And that is what Muslims need to understand. Some people are far more comfortable with Muslims as victims than with Muslims possessing agency.
They know how to pity you.
They donโt know what to do when you no longer need their pity.
And ask yourself: if they cannot celebrate Syrians emerging from fourteen years of killing, torture, displacement and destruction, what makes you think theyโll celebrate Palestinians when Gaza emerges from a genocide and begins rebuilding?
Remember this when it comes to Palestine.
One day, inshallah, Gaza will be rebuilt. Families will rebuild their homes. Businesses will reopen. Children will grow up without bombs falling over their heads. Palestinians will build institutions and pursue prosperity rather than survival.
And then Palestinians will stop existing primarily as images of suffering on Western screens. They will make decisions for themselves, pursue their own interests and exercise their own agency.
Watch what happens then.
The people who performatively mourn with you are not necessarily the people who want to see you rise.
Because solidarity that demands Muslims remain broken to remain worthy of sympathy is not solidarity at all.
This touches on something deeper. They donโt want us to go back home. They want us to continue to be scapegoats and treated like shit in the west. The NGOs and yahood are seething at the fact that their liquidation efforts are failing.
@jari_el Daniel Haqiqatjou is 10x worse than all of these. Iโm mainly talking about so called โcompassionateโ western leftists here who pretend to care about Muslims suffering
A message to Muslims:
Remember that little Syrian boy whose body washed up on a beach?
Remember the images from Syria? Cities reduced to rubble. Children pulled from buildings. Millions driven from their homes. Torture, massacres, chemical attacks, barrel bombs and one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our generation.
Remember how many Western leftists spoke endlessly about Syrian suffering? About refugees, humanity and solidarity?
Now look at their reaction as Syria rebuilds.
More than 3.5 million displaced Syrians have returned home since Assadโs murderous regime fell. Syria is rebuilding its institutions, re-entering international diplomacy and trying to move beyond fourteen years of war.
And suddenly, the tone changes.
The Syrians they claimed to care about were apparently easier to love as refugees, victims and images on a screen than as people rebuilding a sovereign, functioning country.
Now Syriaโs recovery itself seems to offend them.
Mehdi Hasan. Ana Kasparian. George Galloway.
You know exactly the voices Iโm talking about.
That should teach Muslims something important:
Solidarity that only exists while you are suffering is not solidarity.
Some people donโt actually want Muslim societies prospering on their own terms. They want causes. Imagery. Permanent struggles they can observe from afar and fit neatly into their ideological worldview.
Look at the narratives about Syria now:
โSyria is ruled by al-Qaeda.โ
โSyria is ruled by ISIS.โ
About a man whose forces spent years fighting both ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria and dismantling their presence in territory he controlled.
This isnโt obscure information. Five minutes of research would tell them.
But they donโt care. The labels are more useful than the facts.
They claim to despise imperialism, expansionism and foreign interference.
But Iran expanding its power across Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, embedding armed proxies and militias inside Arab states and subordinating their sovereignty to Tehranโs regional ambitions? Apparently thatโs neither imperialism nor expansionism to them.
But Syrians building an independent, functioning and prosperous country?
Suddenly they have a problem with it.
From thousands of miles away, itโs a geopolitical video game. You can watch armed militias carve up other peopleโs countries when you when youโll never have to live with the consequences. Syrians do.
They donโt have to live among ruins. Bury the dead. Become refugees. Watch their children grow up knowing nothing but war.
And that is what Muslims need to understand. Some people are far more comfortable with Muslims as victims than with Muslims possessing agency.
They know how to pity you.
They donโt know what to do when you no longer need their pity.
And ask yourself: if they cannot celebrate Syrians emerging from fourteen years of killing, torture, displacement and destruction, what makes you think theyโll celebrate Palestinians when Gaza emerges from a genocide and begins rebuilding?
Remember this when it comes to Palestine.
One day, inshallah, Gaza will be rebuilt. Families will rebuild their homes. Businesses will reopen. Children will grow up without bombs falling over their heads. Palestinians will build institutions and pursue prosperity rather than survival.
And then Palestinians will stop existing primarily as images of suffering on Western screens. They will make decisions for themselves, pursue their own interests and exercise their own agency.
Watch what happens then.
The people who performatively mourn with you are not necessarily the people who want to see you rise.
Because solidarity that demands Muslims remain broken to remain worthy of sympathy is not solidarity at all.
They labelled me 'Wahhabi', 'Takfiri', 'Salafist', 'Terrorist', while pretending to oppose sectarianism; slurs akin to 'anti-semite' and 'Nazi' levelled against us by zionists.
These are empty labels that are designed to hide a singular frustration: our refusal to ignore crimes committed against Sunni Muslims.
This is the non-negotiable boundary between objective moral consistency and the compromised ethics of the Assadist and extreme Axis of Resistance and Leftist network.
I refuse to allow internet trolls to dictate the parameters of discourse or sow more discord between Muslims. This online echo chamber does not represent all Shias, many of whom engage here with total respect and mutual support.
However, let's be entirely clear that demanding that Sunnis remain silent, or worse accept, the slaughter in Syria by Assad and his allies under the false guise of 'unity' is an absolute non-starter.
True unity will require honest theological and political reflection, not the forced tolerance of tyranny.
The real sectarians and those who lack universal morals are exposing themselves.
Let's keep our focus on the liberation of Gaza, Palestine, and the entire world from zionism.