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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

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Jan 14

If you are Shia Muslim, your belief states that the mosque that Prophet Muhammad stopped at, on his way to ascend to heaven and back, is the one on the left, in Kufa, #Iraq, not the one on the right, in Jerusalem, #Israel.
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2/ When Shia Muslims visit the Mosque of Kufa, they pray two rakaas at the spot you see below, known as the Corner of Prophet Muhammad.

3/ Ancient tradition has it that the first life (Adam or whatever character you believe descended from heaven), landed at a spot. In reverence, the spot became one of peace, where no fighting or killing was allowed. Muslims (Sunni and Shia) believe that Adam landed in Mecca. The Kaaba thus became the peaceful spot. In the Quran, this spot is described as the Haram Mosque. Haram here means "prohibition," as in prohibition of fighting, killing or sin in general in this divine place. And peace attracted merchants and customers, and this is why "Jesus turned over the banks" at the temple.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Jan 5

THREAD - 1/ On Thursday Jan. 9, 128 #Lebanon parliamentarians convene to elect a president, who can either finish off Hezbollah or allow it to rebound — regroup and rearm.
Because the stakes are high for the pro Islamist #Iran militia, its top official said this:

2/ TRANSCRIPT - Wafiq Safa, Jan. 5, 2025: “We told them, we don’t have a veto on Army Commander [Joseph Aoun], the only veto we have is on Samir Geagea, because he [Geagea] is a project for destruction, a project for war, a project for fitna in the country, otherwise we are open to anyone, and this issue is being handled by Speaker Nabih Berri with [us] Hezbollah and our other allies in this country.”

3/ Wafiq Safa is the only senior “hands-on” #Hezbollah leader who survived an Israeli strike on him. His official title is Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination Official with the Lebanese government, which has meant that Safa has been Hezbollah’s tsar in charge of Lebanon’s domestic affairs. He ordered assassinations of Hezbollah’s opponents. He shut down the investigation into the Beirut Port explosion. He commands smuggling of arms through air, sea, and land. He threatens, bullies, twists arms. His orders and bossing of Lebanese are usually handed down on behalf of “the Security of the Resistance.” He coerced Shia anti-Hezbollah candidates into withdrawing during the last parliamentary election. He has shut down presidential election for two years because Hezbollah didn’t have the numbers in parliament to elect a president to its liking.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Nov 18, 2024

Some friends asked why I consider Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to be Shia when its leadership insist that they are Sunni. My response is in this 🧵:
My argument: “Whereas Hamas is an ally of Islamist Iran, PIJ is Iran’s proxy. In contrast to the overwhelming Sunni majority among Palestinians, PIJ is mostly Shia, which hampers its ability to recruit. However, PIJ has emerged as Hamas’s junior partner. As Israel’s campaign to decimate Hamas nears its end, it makes sense that the Jewish state is now eradicating the smaller remaining Palestinian terrorist group.” — Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Research Fellow

fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

1/ Despite Iran’s enormous resources behind it, PIJ’s membership is barely 1,500, compared to its competitor and less-resourced Hamas at 25,000. The Palestinian Muslim population is almost 100 percent Sunni and antagonistic to Shia. Converts are socially shamed and even bullied. This has hampered PIJ’s recruitment. Even if PIJ claims to be Sunni, it should be seen like Syria’s Alawites and Yemen’s Zeydis, both non-Shia who are often as depicted as Shia because of their alliance with their Iran.

2/ PIJ founder Fathi Shiqaqi’s book argues that Khomeini and his brand of Islamism was “the solution” in Palestine (annihilation of Israel, creation of Islamist Palestine). Shiqaqi was not yet Iran’s guy, hence Tehran set up Hezbollah Palestine, which couldn’t recruit and withered away. Shiqaqai internalized the lesson: Never announced PIJ’s Shiism. Yet many PIJ leaders were openly Shia. In 2014, the Shia PIJ leaders defected and created Sabrin movement, under Hisham Salem. The logo was borrowed from Iran’s Pasdaran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Oct 2, 2024

1- #Lebanon oligarchs met today (pic, from Left: Sunni PM Makati, Shia Speaker Berri, Druze leader Jumblatt) understood that #Israel killing of Nasrallah has changed domestic balance substantially, are now congregating to boost state, fill the gap. This 🧵highlights 2 changes:

https://x.com/almodononline/status/1841501912190878175

2- The fist measurable change is that state/oligarchs, who until last week insisted Lebanon ceasefire with Israel could not be untied form a Gaza ceasefire, have since Nasrallah's death dropped Gaza condition and are seeking unconditional Lebanese ceasefire with Israel, promising to revive UN mechanism -- Resolution 1701 that never worked under Nasrallah -- for that purpose.

Leftover Hezbollah still insist that ceasefire be tied to Gaza, so now you can see the divergence between the Lebanese oligarchs/state with the Iran-backed militia.

The oligarchs/state cannot be taken for their word. They should be tested by first enforcing UN 1701: Ordering what's left of Hezbollah to surrender its arms to Lebanese Army, then Israel will agree to the 1949 Truce between the two sides.

https://x.com/almodononline/status/1841501912190878175

https://x.com/thisislebnews/status/1841504303879463106

2- Nasrallah was holding up election of Lebanon president and formation of new cabinet. Now that Nasrallah is gone, state/oligarchs said they plan to "elect a consensus president.

https://x.com/thisislebnews/status/1841504303879463106

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Jun 16, 2024

Saw a heated debate over the Kufiyya, with an Iraqi arguing this was her national heritage and Palestinians denying appropriation and calling her a Zionist sellout. Before the idea of Palestine was born as an independent Arab country in 1964, Palestinians never referred to themselves as Palestinians, but as Arabs of Palestine, perceiving of Palestine as another Arab province that should join the greater Arab nation. Hence, without a national character, it did not make sense to use a specific emblem or symbol (the Palestinian flag is the Hashemite 1916 Great Arab Revolt flag, Jordan uses an almost identical variation of it).
But if you don't believe me, look at the picture of Arabs of Palestine in 1919 demanding they join the Hashemite Arab kingdom of Faisal in Damascus. Show me a single Arab of Palestine wearing a Kufiyyah:

This is a similar conference held in Haifa in 1920. Banners in background read Palestine is Arab (they don't say sovereign or independent). Again, show me a single Arab of Palestine wearing a Kufiyyah:

This is yet another similar conference, held in Jerusalem in 1921. One more time, point out the Arab of Palestine wearing a Kufiyyah:

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Apr 26, 2024

Al-Jazeera, the mouthpiece of political Islam (Islamism), celebrates encampments and protests at U.S. college campuses as the beginning of a transformation in "American political culture."

Islamism has a goal far beyond Gaza: Undermining Western "political culture," especially liberty, equality, and to a much lesser extent democracy (as in election).

The paragraph below is from the book Caliphate, authored by the father of Islamism, Lebanese Rashid Rida (d. 1935), in which he argued that an Islamist government should be free of Western laws and tradition, i.e. "political culture."

In the graph below, from the book Why We Hate the Jews, authored by top Islamist militant agitator Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), the Egyptian firebrand argues that a Muslim Umma (nation) has special characteristics (political culture) that forbid it from integrating with other nations that do not endorse the Muslim social code and Islamic ideology.

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