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Sohail Nakhooda

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3 Mar

https://twitter.com/GiorgioCafiero/status/1367114439850405890

It didn't need #UAE, #Egypt, #Greece, #Russia, #France et al, to remind the #US that the policy unleashed by #Obama using Islamist proxies in MENA led to chaos, extremism and terrorism while bankrolled by #Qatar, with later logistics by #Turkey. In #Libya that was obvious to all.

https://twitter.com/GiorgioCafiero/status/1367114439850405890

If it were not for the countervailing efforts of allies then Libya right now would have been in a precarious position at the mercy of very violent and dangerous Islamist terrorists organisations—sadly all-well linked to both Qatar and Turkey.

To continue to throw equivalence in the geopolitical situation that Libya found itself in from 2011-2014 and then from the watershed 2014 period till now with military escalation by Turkey, using the same Islamist terrorist network in the country, is a blinkered perspective.

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Sohail Nakhooda

@snakhooda

30 Nov 20

@andreas_krieg

@andreas_krieg has a sad habit of peddling third rate Qatari and Islamist propaganda. In this dismal essay he blames the UAE for “merging the narratives about ‘Islamism’ with ‘terrorism’.” I hate to break it to Krieg but #Islamism does indeed merge with #terrorism. I pity him.

https://twitter.com/AlaaAmeris/status/1333530216606658563

After 30 years of experience with Islamist networks, I find it grotesque, distasteful, disingenuous, horrific that a whole cadre of superficially educated western scholars-for-hire continue to hold a candle for Islamist fascism and expect us Muslim to accept it. We will not.

The tactics and stunts of Islamist groups inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood are nothing new, so Krieg and his ilk need to stop pretending that all of us are oblivious to how Islamist networks function, support, interpenetrate, dovetail and coalesce with extremism and terrorism.

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Sohail Nakhooda

@snakhooda

25 Apr 19

@qdepim

@qdepim @burweila @tmafaisal 1) You are right Quentin to caution such an approach, whoever we cannot also dismiss it because the affinities & interlinkages in theology & political between the more violent purveyors of Islamism and the grandmaster of Islamism itself, the MB, are also present and discernible.

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@qdepim @burweila @tmafaisal 2) There is also a discernible linkage between Wahhabism/Salafism with the MB, in that both share an underlying theological understanding of vital elements of what constitutes Islam, and this affinity at the theological level (setting aside politics for now) explains much.

@qdepim

@qdepim @burweila @tmafaisal 3) Here what I mean is that Salafi groups and MB groups at local and national levels have since the 70s been able to cooperate easily in multifaceted ways not just because of pragmatic reasons but because they shared certain theological view of what Islam constituted essentially.

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