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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

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5 Jan

The point I’m trying to make is that the assumption that Islamists are somehow disingenuously manipulating progressivism is wrong. Perhaps this is the case for the older generation of Islamist male leaders but not for the new one. The new antisemitism in America is a potent /1

eclectic mixture of deadly toxins from both East and West. This is what's responsible for the upsurge in the popularity of terrorists such as Leila Khalid and Ghassan Kanfani, icons from the era of international Marxist Palestinian terror, and not say, Sayyed Qutb or Sheikh /2

Ahmed Yassin. Anyone familiar with the history of antisemitism knows of its remarkable ability of transmutations. In last November’s Zahara Billoo’s speech, one can hardly find references from the traditional Islamist repertoire. Instead, her speech with filled progressive /3

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

@HusseinAboubak

4 Jan

Youths not for Cultivation, but for Harvest
One of the most dramatic sociological American revolutions that altered the entirety of humanity was the invention of the teenager. In adolescence, America introduced the world into a new species, a new identity, and a new breed of /1

humanity. It is not that adolescence didn’t exist prior to the 1940s, but adolescence never existed as an independent mode of humanity. Adolescence, or rather youths, existed as a preparatory phase to adulthood. It was not much of adolescence as it was pre-adulthood, or more /2

accurately early adulthood to be cultivated. The idea of cultivation of youths was one of the most central handed down practices of social instruction by the major traditions. Proverbs 22:6 says “Start a youth out on his way; even when he grows old he will not depart from it” /3

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

@HusseinAboubak

3 Jan

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Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man
His enemies say he's on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He's the neighborhood bully.
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The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive
He's criticized and condemned for being alive
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He's wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He's always on trial for just being born
He's the neighborhood bully.

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

@HusseinAboubak

2 Jan

Who is a Jew? The Jewish intellectual giant Philip Rieff, whose penetrating intellectual production came to an early halt caused by his heavy heartbreak from where American culture is heading, provided what I think as one of the most profound expositions of Jewish identity. /1

More accurately, Rieff's work, "The Jew of Culture," was more of an account of what is a Jew, not who. The "Jew of Culture" is a man of dissent, an addict of the tension of contradiction; he is not a member of the crowd but the one who stands against the crowd. It's not an /2

ideal-type but rather a counter-ideal-type, an ontological contrarian, and an adversarial corrective to the common type, the Philistine. Unlike the Philistine of culture, the Jew of culture plainly refuses to heed the urge of the mobs and crowds to justify their vanity, /3

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

@HusseinAboubak

30 Dec 21

A particular strain of Jewish activist-intellectuals, from Marx to Soros, Rosa Luxemburg, and Trotsky to Chomsky (Bin Laden's favorite intellectual), symbolized a certain modern utopian compulsive behavior that was many times describes as "Jewish." Those thinkers, /1

overwhelmingly represented on the international left, came to represent for some Jewish idealism, the tikkun olameque impulse at its finest. For others, they came to represent the manifestation of the paranoid antisemitic imagination: the rootless Jewish cosmopolitanism, and /2

the menace of Jewish internationalism that justified antisemitic pogroms and murder,. In either cases, they came to represent either the ideal of the un-Jewish Jew or, conversely, the very Jewish Jew, depending on where one stands. They either have the self-validation of the /3

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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

@HusseinAboubak

30 Dec 21

Nearly 15 years ago I started on a journey to understand modern Arab and Muslim antisemitism and the general pathology of modern Islam which I lived through in Egypt. I went through countless volumes of Islamic history, Islamic law, sacred texts, not so sacred texts, Islamic /1

philosophy, Islamic legal theory, Islamic theology, Islamic legends, history of Muslim societies, Islamic political thought, Islamic political history, Ottoman social hierarchy, linguistics, epistemology, etc. The more I read, the less things made sense. The more I learned, /2

the less I was sure that I actually knew anything. Eventually and after all of this I found myself back in the 20th century looking at the Muslim Brotherhood, Qutb, modern jihadism and the more I looked the less I knew. I then found myself looking into the Arab Nationalism /3

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