Thread by @ibn_alJad

Voting for Erdogan is not "the lesser evil," nor is it necessary.

There are many advantages for Islam and the Muslims to Erdogan losing.

First is that Erdogan's methodology contradicts the sunnah. Islam is pure, and purity is not achieved by mixing with filth.

While this methodology yields some benefits in the short term such as a few laws which are beneficial to the Muslims, in the long run it keeps the doors to corruption open, so even if there is more Islam, there is also more kufr.

Privileges come with responsibility, and using the privilege of national power to implement some Islamic benefits comes with the responsibility of participating in the enforcement of many laws which contradict Islam.

If you try to operate according to the rules of this system, you're going to lose, and the track record of the Ikhwan is proof of this.

I used the metaphor recently of a sport competition where one team is allowed to use steroids and the other isn't.

Kuffar do business using riba, derivatives, pornography, prostitution, treachery, etc., so competing with them on a level playing field and trying to do things in a halal way does not work.

The only solution is to have a separate system ruled according to the laws of Islam.

Any Ikhwani type project is going to fail sooner or later, and the more time and energy invested into it, the greater the loss will be when it finally fails, whether that failure come through economic and political pressure as in Sudan, or direct use of force as in Egypt.

There is a strange attitude widespread among Muslims today that war is somehow absolutely bad.

This idea is spread aggressively by global elite, because obviously hierarchies of power cannot be rearranged without violence.

Conflict between secularists and Islamists in Muslim countries is inevitable, and it will require as much mobilization as possible.

Anything that accelerates or amplifies that conflict is beneficial.

This applies even when a national conflict results in a loss, for at least three reasons.

1) Immigration of Islamists following a loss will result in higher concentrations Muslims, accelerating the reemergence of dar al Islam.

2) Open hostilities will reduce the amount of mixing with corrupt people and its detrimental spiritual effects.

3) Withdrawal of more Muslims from the economy will result in weakening of the economic resources available to secularists post victory.

We tend to focus in our analysis too much on the losses that conflict will bring to the Muslims, and not enough on the losses it will inflict on the kuffar and munafiqeen. We are in an asymmetric war, and asymmetric wars are political wars and wars of attrition.

The two main goals are to wear down the resources and will to fight of the enemy, and to increase popular support for the war.

The false hope of democratic Islamism is directly contrary to both of these goals, while the abuses of secularist regimes are more likely to...

...push Muslims toward the sunnah, which is to learn, implement, and call to tawheed, and which inevitably leads to economic and political isolation from the power structures of the kuffar, and the establishment of power structures based upon Islam.