Dr. Javad T Hashmi Profile picture
Jul 12 26 tweets 8 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
In this thread, we will discuss @Haqiqatjou's racist bent & white nationalist connection.

1/ We should not be surprised here because Dishonest Dan's grift & livelihood is based on expanding his viewership, & there is a large market for intellectual dark web & racialist ideas.
2/ As Melanie Phillips writes, @Haqiqatjou is at the forefront of an emerging "unholy alliance between Republicans and Islamists," although I think it is more fair to say "the far right & Islamists."
3/ @Haqiqatjou has platformed 3 avowed white nationalists & had lovely "bro chats" with each of them.

The first one I will mention is Mark Collett, a British Neo-Nazi who was so extreme that he was kicked out of the British National Party (BNP). These guys had a blast:
4/ As Wikipedia notes, "In 2019, Collett founded a far-right, fascist, and white nationalist hate group called Patriotic Alternative."
5/ The second white nationalist Dishonest Dan platformed is J.F Gariepy, a white nationalist who is considered the "standard bearer of the alt-right."

@Haqiqatjou & Gariepy had a lovely time with each other:
6/ Gariepy is a French Canadian white nationalist & "calls for the creation of a white ethnostate, promotes antisemitic messages, and advocates for the genetic superior of white people."
7/ And thirdly, @Haqiqatjou had on Daryush Valizadeh ("Roosh") who is known as "one of the most public and reviled online misogynists" (very much on-brand for Dishonest Dan), but he also advocates for ideas of white ethno-nationalism.

Lovely "bro chat" again:
8/ Roosh became an avowedly religious Christian but has carried over his misogynistic & white supremacist ideas, making him a perfect Christian counterpart to @Haqiqatjou:
9/ Now, you might be saying, "Wait a sec, Daniel is not white -- he's Persian!" But keep in mind that Roosh himself is not technically white & you don't have to be white to sign on to white supremacist ideas:
10/ With the rise of fascism & Nazism in the 1930s, Reza Shah Pahlavi changed the name of the country to "Iran," meaning "Land of the Aryans." Many Persians prided themselves on this & even today many consider themselves white.
11/ When Gariepy seemed to consider only Europeans to be white, @Haqiqatjou seeks to correct his racial understanding, implying that Central Asians (& thus Iran) should also be included.

@Haqiqatjou also notes that he, like Roosh, is white passing (1:12:04).
12/ @Haqiqatjou buys into the idea that races exist & that they have different inherent racial characteristics. According to Dishonest Dan, "different races have different strengths." Persians are known for their "academic" & intellectual prowess:
13/ Well, what special characteristics do blacks have? Gariepy starts talking about how race & IQ are correlated,with not a peep from @Haqiqatjou in protest. I'm pretty sure Daniel thinks men are smarter on average than women, not far from some races are on average smarter too.
14/ Gariepy then talks about the correlation between race & violence, saying black people in the US & Africa have higher rates of criminality than whites. Daniel does not contest this. Instead, he simply explains that "certain races" (blacks) need a greater controlling mechanism.
15/ So, @Haqiqatjou suggests that higher rates of black criminality can be explained by the fact that they need religion & traditional society more than white people do, since white people are more "independent minded" & are thus less prone to "anti-social" behavior.
16/ Gariepy, @Haqiqatjou's white nationalist buddy, understands exactly what Daniel means & actually says he "love[s] this idea." Gariepy "like[s] the hypothesis" that "religion can play this kind of whipping effect on certain minorities" (blacks) & gives the example of Africa.
17/ This perspective was recently expressed by another akh-right character, echoing @Haqiqatjou's sentiments as we shall see.
18/ @Haqiqatjou has expressed standard right-wing views towards blacks & crime. When the world was reacting with heartache at the murder of George Floyd, Dishonest Dan was making fun of him, calling him "Fentanyl Floyd."
19/ Apparently it was a drug overdose that killed Floyd, not the knee on his neck.
20/ Breonna Taylor, another black women who was killed by police, also falls under @Haqiqatjou's ire, & he smears her as "the girlfriend of a drug dealer."
21/ @Haqiqatjou then asks why it is that we focus on all these black people being killed & ignore this white kid that was killed by a black man. And he makes sure to mention that Brown's IG bio reads, "Thug life." We all know what word people want to use when they say "thug."
22/ @Haqiqatjou comes closer to using the N word, calling certain opponents "wiggers," including Imam Suhaib Webb & others who he thinks "act black." Daniel tries in the debate to claim that this is a slur against white people, but it is obviously denigrating black culture.
23/ As is now common in far-right circles, @Haqiqatjou thinks that the people facing racism are not black people, but rather, white people. What's up with all this "anti-white sentiment" he asks? "This is not right," he declares.
24/ No surprise then, when the white nationalist boot licker @Haqiqatjou says "I love white people" in his discussion with Gariepy (1:17:05) & also says this with Collett (2:20:00). PLEASE ACCEPT ME, pretty please.
25/ @Haqiqatjou sees a natural alliance between "the far-right" (which includes these white ethno-nationalists) & Islamists like himself. These "white supremacist[s]," after all, are "calling for 'White Sharia.'" The overlap seems obvious.

To be continued...
@zane95175138 @Haqiqatjou @JFGariepy And I’m not a specialist on that topic.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Dr. Javad T Hashmi

Dr. Javad T Hashmi Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @DrJavadTHashmi

Jun 3
@ApostateProphet tried to correct Professor @KhalilAndani when he stated that the Quran forbids aggression in the following verse:

[Q 2:190]
Fight in God’s cause against those who fight you, but do not aggress (lā taʿtadū), for God does not love aggressors (muʿtadīn). 1/
AP looked at an English translation, which translated it as "transgression." But, this translation only works if by this one means transgression against the law of peace/sanctity (ḥurmat al-nafs), which then triggers qiṣāṣ (proportionate retaliation). 2/
In other words, it is a first transgression, or, in other words, aggression. In any case, AP could simply have looked at an Arabic dictionary, even the many online resources, as follows: 3/

Aratools.com ImageImage
Read 10 tweets
Jan 18
In regards to slavery, the Quran evinces an emancipatory ethic, calling emancipation "the steep path," i.e. the meritorious path of the pious:

"And what will explain to you the steep path? It is the freeing of the slave..." (Q 90:12-13) 1/
What is righteousness according to the Quran? It is to FREE THE SLAVE:

"It is not piety to turn your faces toward the east and the west. Rather, piety is he who... gives wealth, despite loving it... for [the emancipation of] slaves." (Q 2:177) 2/
Islamic modernists since the 19th century have argued that it is simply nonsensical to argue that the Quran calls for the emancipation of slaves while simultaneously calling for enslavement. This would be making the Quran contradictory. 3/
Read 30 tweets
Jan 16
Sigh, once again arguments go over this guy's head & also he is dishonest. I specifically say in the discussion that abolition was brought about in the Islamic world by both external & internal factors. I literally acknowledged British/European pressure... 1/
but the point that I made, which Harris fails to appreciate, is that there were genuine Islamic reformers who were simultaneously calling for the abolition of slavery on religious grounds. 2/
A point I failed to make, which I should have, is that there were in fact Islamic reformers who INSPIRED Western abolitionists. For this, I would refer to the work of historian Rudolph Ware, "Slavery and Abolition in Islamic Africa"... 3/
Read 7 tweets
Jan 16
After reading this, it becomes clear that viewers who thought many of my arguments went over your head were absolutely right. I have always said that slavery was both attacked & defended by Christians, often using the same biblical passages, no less! 1/
This, my friend, was the exact point. Do you really not see this? Is this really so hard for you to grasp? My entire point this entire time to you has been that religions are internally diverse, which explains why both sides were Christians making religious arguments. 2/
This reinforces my view, not yours. Neither does this change the fact that the abolitionist movement was heavily Christian, certainly not atheists.... unless of course you use your imaginary cooptation of the Enlightenment. 3/
Read 5 tweets
Jan 16
Harris -- The discussion stands on its own. No need to clip a 60 second clip where you not only talked over me -- as you did throughout the discussion, but you were clearly off topic & intentionally so. This was because you were having a hard time justifying your arguments. 1/
So, of course, you could randomly insert this or that embarrassing ḥadīth in our conversation, but it hardly advances the case for you. My entire argument was that liberal/modernist/reformist Islam defies the criticisms you levy against Islam en toto. 2/
You very well know that liberal/modernist/reformist Muslims were amongst the first to criticize Ḥadīth-- well before New Atheists like you existed. So, what mileage this does for you, I have no idea. It's simply a scattergun shock approach. 3/
Read 10 tweets
Jan 16
In "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution," Louise Perry argues that "consent is not enough." She critiques the (extreme) liberal/libertarian/libertine view: "Everything & anything goes as long as you choose or consent to it at the time..." 1/ Image
"What this misses out, of course," she writes, "is that people can be pressured -- by peers or partners or wider cultural forces -- into believing that they want things which later they come to recognize as bad for them..." 2/ Image
"In a culture dominated by male sexuality, there's an obvious interest in convincing women that they want to have sex like men do, and many women go along with things they later come to regret." (ix) 3/ Image
Read 16 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(