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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Oct 29, 2024

So it’s confirmed that American Psycho, the right-wing/straight male classic and Zoomer meme treasure, is being remade. I’m personally a big fan of the original — hilarious, predictive, and pisses off the right people who can’t stand its popularity despite its gruesome attitude. I originally wanted to talk about what I expect they’ll do exactly to ruin it as an F U to all the men who love it, but first I’ll have to explain, in layman’s terms, why it became so loved in the first place.

Brett Easton Ellis wrote the original novel as a frustrated young man (of fluid sexual inclinations) who couldn’t stand the vapid materialist consumerism of 80s yuppies. I haven’t read the novel yet, but read some passages and heard that it's far more graphic than what the film portrays in terms of Patrick Bateman’s killing. When the movie was made though, the novel, which didn’t have much of the now well-known “American Psycho Aesthetic” took on its modern flavor with Christian Bale and a female director who added an incredible comedic and philosophical punch (which I don’t think she even realizes she made in the movie.)

From the beginning, serial killer or not, Christian Bale shows an almost erotic care about his handsome looks. This opening scene was originally intended to be a parody of extreme narcissism, but today’s “Self-improvement” gurus make Bateman look very sane and tempered by comparison. Every day on Tiktok young men unironically get in front of a camera showing off their Bateman-esque routines filled with meticulously picked beauty products and a tailored fitness regime, 10 times more ridiculous than what anyone at the time envisioned. Reality beating American Psycho in insanity is recurring throughout the movie with just about every aspect of it.

After this, all young men see outside of Bateman’s crimes (and the admirable fashion/fitness) is a life they too recognize they would suffer from if subjected to, and in many ways are — just without the benefits. The unspoken view of young men who see and love the film, which I suspect drives its critics crazy when looking at it in today’s environment, is that Bateman’s psychotic inner life is in a way justified because of the insanities of modern urban "rich" life he’s subjected to. This is especially easier to think if you’re religious and believe in an afterlife; that this world is just a temporary abode and those who obsess over it solely are doomed.

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Jul 8, 2024

I finished The Mongol Storm by Nicholas Morton — honestly it’s great, and there’s one aspect of it that stuck out to me in the telling of how Muslims dealt with the new world order ushered in by Mongol rule. The Muslims during both the 10th C. Turkic and 13th C. Mongol Invasions sought gradual cultural infiltration of their conquerors with no fundamentalist tendencies of “making sure they have correct Aqeedah” even if it compromised these new converts’ status as Muslims.

The view of the scholars/Da’ees at the time who mingled and sought out the rulers of their new conquerors (and this remained the case for most of Islamic proselytizing historically) is that they had to get the Turks/Mongols to like Islam, (see it as “cool”) and as supporting their rule post conversion so the ruler/noble’s children and grandchildren could be raised as born Muslims who would eventually see fighting for Islam as the true worthy cause in and of itself.

Muslims fought an elite-targeted cultural war to get the top brass of those that conquered them to adopt Islam through its most intriguing/appealing culture first, and didn’t care so much about nagging and investigating every single one of their creedal beliefs and pre-Islamic cultural practices in their lifetime, and it worked.

What didn’t work? A midwit Da’ee sitting down a hardened Mongol warrior and quizzing him about whether colors can be heard or where Allah is for 50 years before declaring that they’re “real Muslims”.

Imagining scribe in the diwan declaring the scholars of Anatolia to be “bootlickers of the Kuffar”, freaking out that Turks still act like Turks after being Muslim for one week (the Turkman’s grandson will conquer masses of land in the name of Islam)

The hard reality is that these Muslim leaders weren’t dumb or blind. They saw their Seljuk and Mongol overlords claim Islam but still perform syncretic shaman practices, patron Christian art, try to tell the future through burnt sheep bones, etc. —they just didn’t care about the Islam of those initial converts, worrying much more about their later generations who they could curate and educate with more focus. They played the long game.

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Jun 23, 2024

Talk of “old islamicate biomass” is highly offensive to people who have a hard time grasping basic hard truths about the reality of “Muslim nations” back home anyway, and aren’t worth listening to. Whatever the faults of predecessor Islamic empires, they wouldn’t be taking le wholesome welfare state approach to their state being inflated with hundreds of millions of useless people, who only seem to reproduce by the same mechanism most of impoverished Africa reproduces which keeps populations growing (and the libtard NGOs who profit off those numbers happy) whilst all of them share a slowly decreasing standard of life, the top 0.01% of the most talented among them fleeing for the west for any chance at not just worldly success, but building anything for the Ummah worthwhile.

Egypt has a population of 111 million, Pakistan has 235 million, yet 34 million nation Malaysia is one of the few Muslim nations making itself relevant for the incoming cyber future. If you’re not willing to even ask what purpose will an artificially inflated old Muslim world population serve in that future, you’re not serious at all.

Another reason many Muslims take this personally and seem to be very hurt by the topic is because it comes down to the fact most Islamic culture families are.

The average lifecycle for a man in the Muslim world is to grow up on an artificial IMF funded lifestyle (poor or rich, doesn’t matter, all funded by same source), reproduce by sheer convenience, become enveloped in a never ending series of dramatic infighting between members of his growing family over unpaid debts or inheritance, grow fat and old doing that then die from heart disease, repeating the cycle as he’s now left behind 6 children who will live equivalent lifestyles.

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Apr 12, 2024

The ex-gangster/pimp turned Islamic speaker. The psychology major to “female scholar” pipeline. The redpill masculinity coach who converts to Islam because it’s “based”. The divorced single mother who wants to teach young Muslim girls “their worth”.

Any worthwhile islamicate will never come about as long as this type of Broken Muslim is allowed to even speak in public.

No one seems to talk about the undeniable historical fact that Broken Muslims with ridiculous pasts filled with degenerate behavior never cause any worthwhile change. At best they inspire some Muslims to cut out some sinning from their personal life and a few conversions, but that’s it. They never actually build anything yet we treat them like they do. It’s sickening.

They also won’t build anything if they’re psychological messes. I don’t care if their past was their fault or not. I regularly see looney toon proselytizers and “speakers” who use the story of Sayiduna Omar RA as an example of “THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS WAYS”, and it drives me insane how much they distort his story. Yes, his biggest and only glaring issue was his disbelief, but that was pretty much it. Other than that he was such a stand up guy to the Quraish that every Muslim in Mecca fantasized of the boon he’d be to Islam if he converted, which he lived up to and exceeded beyond their wildest dreams. He was elite stock, not a model for illiterate gangster MORONS

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Dec 18, 2023

Nobody talks about how many Muslim girls implicitly reject guys for being too good/outshining them in basic character traits

You hear a lot about the opposite, but no one talks about the fact that loads of these girls are actually terrified of guys who are hyper aware about deen issues or have a mildly interesting inner life. They just want an empty headed retard who fits the materialistic aspects.

Dont believe the lie diasporoid girls say that they want a guy who’s “religious” and “smart”. These are just affectations they say to make themselves look good. Actual religiously conscious men terrify these women to the core.

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Abdullah

@AvdullahYousef

Sep 13, 2023

🧵I haven’t made a “what I hate about popular entertainment” thread in a while, but regardless, this episode in Black Mirror’s latest season falls right into my “cultural sphere” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how utterly horrific it is

So let’s talk about it:

To preface: I’m sure you guys who follow me all know already, but almost all popular depictions of Muslims in media today all suck. Horrifically, gut wrenching levels of low quality trash. It’s libtard diversity token propaganda with cultural communist undertones and never delivers a positive message that leaves the audience fulfilled or having learned anything. You will always leave these productions feeling worse than before.

You might think: is this the usual case of white libs trying to write about cultures they don’t understand and failing as usual? Nope! Not this time.

These shows are made by — you guessed it — second generation “Muslim” diaspora. Where white and Jewish writers only seemed to portray Muslims as terrorists and tech support nerds, actual children of Muslim immigrants who were “traumatized” by such depictions decided to portray us as soy chugging losers “struggling with life” who don’t care about anything and are up for everything. Amazing!

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