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Dan Burmawi

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Jul 25

🧵 The Demographic Blueprint of Islamic Expansion

The behavioral patterns of Muslim populations in non-Muslim countries change predictably based on their percentage of the total population:

0–2%

When Muslims constitute less than 2% of the population, they typically maintain a low profile. This is the stage of da’wah, Islamic proselytization, and reputation-building. Islam is presented to the host society as peaceful, rational, and ethical. The focus is on integration, tolerance, and charitable outreach. Criticism of Islam is dismissed as ignorance or Islamophobia, while the community builds its infrastructure, mosques, community centers, and Islamic schools.

At this stage, Muslim communities leverage the language of Western liberalism to gain a foothold: religious freedom, civil rights, and anti-discrimination laws. Political involvement is minimal, and confrontational rhetoric is avoided. Public engagement centers around interfaith dialogues, cultural exchange events, and educational outreach, designed to normalize Islam as a peaceful, constructive force in the multicultural fabric.

This phase is also marked by a strong narrative of victimhood. Muslims are portrayed as an embattled minority needing protection from xenophobic majorities. Laws protecting hate speech and religious freedom are invoked to shield Islamic doctrines from public scrutiny.

In the early 1990s, Muslim populations in countries like Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway remained below this threshold. The communities focused on mosque-building and cultural integration. Violent incidents were rare, and the rhetoric was geared toward coexistence.

2–5%

As the population crosses the 2% threshold, a noticeable change occurs. Advocacy groups emerge with more aggressive postures. Demands are no longer requests but framed as civil rights: halal food in schools and hospitals, Islamic prayer rooms in public buildings, gender-segregated swim times, and recognition of Islamic holidays. These demands are wrapped in the language of equality, but the subtext is unmistakable: Islam is not merely seeking parity; it is beginning to shape the host society.

At this stage, sharia-compliant accommodations are requested, not just in private religious life but in public institutions. Workplaces are asked to allow prayer breaks. Public schools are pressured to remove curriculum deemed Islamophobic. Terms like “Islamophobia” become strategic weapons to intimidate critics and silence public debate.

Ontario, in the early 2000s, witnessed a push to introduce sharia arbitration in civil and family disputes. Though it was ultimately defeated due to public backlash, the initiative revealed the ideological thrust: the attempt to institutionalize Islamic jurisprudence within the Western legal system. Similar efforts have appeared in Australia and the U.S.

5–10%

Between 5–10%, Muslim communities transition from integration to parallelism. No-go zones begin to form, urban enclaves where state law is either ignored or actively resisted. Police avoid intervention, and informal sharia enforcement takes hold. Honor killings, female genital mutilation, polygamy, and forced marriages begin to appear, not as isolated events, but as features of a separate legal order within the host nation.

This stage also sees increasing legal jihad, efforts to redefine blasphemy laws, criminalize criticism of Islam, and pressure media, academia, and politicians into compliance. Islam’s totalizing nature refuses compartmentalization. Everything must bend to its divine law, including speech, gender relations, and governance.

More than 80 sharia courts operate unofficially in the UK, issuing rulings on everything from divorce to inheritance, often disadvantaging women and violating national law. Efforts to investigate or criticize these courts are met with accusations of racism and Islamophobia.

Banlieues surrounding Paris, such as Seine-Saint-Denis, have become synonymous with lawlessness and Islamic radicalism. Police do not patrol without backup. Civil authorities are unable, or unwilling, to enforce French secularism. Samuel Paty’s beheading in 2020 after showing a cartoon of Muhammad was not an aberration; it was the fruit of a system where sharia sensitivity overpowered state sovereignty.

In Sweden, Muslim immigration has contributed to the creation of over 60 “vulnerable areas” where government control is minimal. Rape statistics have climbed, often linked to men from Muslim-majority countries. The Swedish state’s response has ranged from denial to appeasement.

In Belgium, the Brussels district of Molenbeek became a safe haven for jihadists, including those who coordinated the 2015 Paris attacks. Radical imams preach freely, and efforts to clamp down on extremism have been paralyzed by political correctness.

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Dan Burmawi

@DanBurmawy

Jul 7

🧵I watched Tucker’s interview with the Iranian president, and here are my comments on what he said.

1. "Iran didn’t start this war."

The war didn’t start last month, it ended last month.

What we’re witnessing is the consequence of 40 years of unprovoked Iranian aggression.

Since 1979, Iran has been the engine of Middle Eastern instability. In 1983, its proxy Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut. Since then, Tehran has funded, armed, and directed a global network of terror:

Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria.

They’ve launched missiles at U.S. bases, smuggled weapons and drugs across continents, threatened global trade routes, and called publicly for the annihilation of Israel and the downfall of the United States.

When the The U.S. or Israel respond, it’s not starting a war.

2: "Netanyahu made up Iran’s nuclear ambitions."

People have every right to doubt Netanyahu. He’s been warning for over two decades that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon.

But he wasn’t lying.

Iran was close, multiple times, and the only reason it hasn’t crossed the nuclear threshold is because Israel acted.

Mossad agents assassinated key nuclear scientists. They blew up enrichment facilities. They infiltrated and stole secret nuclear archives from the heart of Tehran. These are documented operations.

Netanyahu always said: “When Iran gets close, we will act.” And they always did, just like they did last month.

3: “We’ve never wanted a nuke, not now, not ever. IAEA can confirm.”

2015 IAEA report: Iran was working on nukes pre-2003.

2023 IAEA: Iran blocked inspections at Fordow and other sites, and kicked out monitors.

IAEA reports from May 2025 confirmed Iran’s 60% enriched uranium stockpile grew to 274.8 kg, enough to produce weapons-grade material in weeks breaking the JCPOA.

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Dan Burmawi

@DanBurmawy

May 24

🧵 A comprehensive review of Jordanian textbooks and curricula from the 2023–2025 academic years, based on a detailed study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), reveals several concerning statements that promote antisemitic tropes, glorify violent jihad, and express hostility toward Israel.

Below is a list of specific examples drawn from the IMPACT-se report, which analyzed 294 textbooks across subjects like Islamic Education, Arabic Language, Social Studies, National and Civic Education, History, and Geography.

(1) Islamic Education textbook:

“Treachery and violation of agreements are some of the traits of the Jews and their natural qualities.”

(2) Islamic Education textbook

Jews “controlled the economy” of ancient Medina through “exploitation” and usury, requiring Prophet Muhammad’s intervention to save “Muslim society from the Jews’ control over the economy.”

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Dan Burmawi

@DanBurmawy

Apr 21

Listen, @ComicDaveSmith, from the very first time I heard of you, when you "debated" @DouglasKMurraym, you’ve consistently proven how ignorant you are about everything related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

🧵In this thread, I will try to educate you, and the useful idiots who think you're an authority on the subject.

I’m Jordanian. I lived in the region. I was shaped by this conflict. I’m a former Muslim who understands its true nature. I don’t have high hopes that you’ll change your mind, but maybe those who blindly listen to you will.

(1) A brief breakdown of the history of the conflict.

By the late 18th century, Jewish communities were present in the land, not in overwhelming numbers, but they had maintained a continuous presence.

The land was not heavily populated, only a mix of Arabs, Jews, Christians, Druze, and others living in scattered communities with no real national identity.

There were no "Palestinians." No "Lebanese." No "Syrians" in the modern sense. These identities didn’t exist yet.

Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, didn’t start this movement because of some divine mandate. His motivation wasn’t biblical, his intent wasn't colonial, it was survival.

European pogroms and antisemitism were tearing Jewish communities apart, and he saw the need for a Jewish homeland as a matter of life and death.

By the late 19th century, Jews began migrating back to the land in greater numbers, legally purchasing land from absentee Ottoman landlords. They weren’t invading with weapons, they were buying property and building something out of nothing.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909. Haifa’s port was developed between 1910 and 1912. Swamps were drained, fields were cultivated, cities were built.

As Jewish settlements grew, so did Arab migration into those areas, because the Jews were bringing jobs, infrastructure, and healthcare.

The Arabs weren’t being displaced. They were moving toward Jewish communities because life was better there.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917, which promised a Jewish homeland, wasn’t unique. The French also backed Lebanese Christians, promising them a state. The Brits promised Iraq to Arab allies, and Jordan to Prince Abdallah.

The Europeans were trying to implement their nation-state model in a region that had never operated that way.

For the Jews, the British Mandate was an opportunity.

They had been buying land, building cities, and now had international recognition of their efforts. They weren’t doing anything different from the Lebanese, Syrians, or Iraqis, everyone was scrambling to stake their claim in the post-Ottoman chaos.

But for Muslims, this was existential. For the first time in Islamic history, there was no caliphate. The Ottoman sultan was gone. The Muslim world was lost, leaderless, and to add insult to injury, a Jewish state was rising in the heart of the Middle East.

Lebanon, a Christian-majority state at the time, got the same hostility. But the Christians eventually caved under pressure. The Jews didn’t.

The Muslim Brotherhood saw an opportunity and took it, using religious fury to rally Arabs against the Jews.

Before the 1940s, "Palestinian" didn’t mean "Arab." It meant anyone, Jew or Arab, who lived in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Jews in Tel Aviv were called Palestinians. But the Brotherhood rebranded it as an exclusively Arab identity, erasing the Jewish history tied to the land.

The Jews, like the Lebanese and Syrians, fought to shake off British colonial rule. They declared independence in 1948.

The Arabs rejected every peace deal, starting with the 1947 UN Partition Plan, which would have given them their own state alongside a Jewish state, all the way up to Their rejection of Camp David in 2000, when Israel offered them 96% of the West Bank and Gaza, and 4% of Israel.

They never wanted a state. They wanted to erase Israel. That’s why every single offer was turned down.

Arab leaders didn’t actually care about the Palestinians. Egypt, Jordan, and Syria all used the Palestinian cause for their own political gain.

Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt flirted with recognizing Israel when he needed Western weapons. When the U.S. denied him, he turned to the Soviets and ramped up anti-Israel rhetoric.

Saudi King Faisal saw Nasser as a threat and pumped money into the Muslim Brotherhood’s causes, not out of love for Palestinians, but to undermine his Arab rival.

And the so-called Palestinian flag was originally used in the failed 1958 Jordan-Iraq federation, before it was repurposed as a Palestinian nationalist symbol in 1963.

There was no Palestinian nation before that, just a movement searching for branding.

The Arabs didn’t lose their homeland in 1948. They lost a war they started to take one that was never theirs.

This was never about land. It was never about occupation.

If it were, why did Muslim-majority nations persecute Jews long before Zionism? Why were 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab lands in 1948? Why did Muhammad himself declare that “no two religions can exist in Arabia”?

Because this isn’t a geopolitical dispute. It’s a religious and ideological war.

The Jews built a nation from nothing, reclaimed their homeland, and refused to be erased.

And that’s why this conflict rages on, because Israel exists, and for many in the Islamic world, that is an unforgivable offense.

(2)
You cited the "Palestinians' inability to vote" as proof that Israel is an apartheid state.

This is what happens when you're completely ignorant about the conflict, yet still believed by useful idiots to be an expert on the topic.

Palestinians do not vote in Israeli elections for the same reason that Canadians don’t vote in U.S. elections, they are governed by their own authorities.

The last time Palestinians in Gaza had an election, they elected Hamas. In the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority is now entering the 19th year of his 4-year term.

The 2 million Arab citizens of Israel, not Palestinians, but Arab Israelis, vote in Israeli elections. They serve in the Knesset. They sit on the Supreme Court.

Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 after a defensive war triggered by its Arab neighbors' declaration of annihilation.

It wasn’t an unprovoked land grab. It was a survival necessity. A return to 1967 borders would leave Israel 9 miles wide at its narrowest point, a strategic death trap.

Yet, in 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.

As for the West Bank, Israeli military presence remains a security necessity, not a colonial project

A Palestinian state today would become a terror outpost tomorrow, another Gaza, this time overlooking Tel Aviv and the narrow coastal strip that holds 70% of Israel’s population.

If Israel is an apartheid state, it's the worst one in history.

(3)
You claimed that Israel's military actions are what radicalize Palestinians.

Did the Yazidis do anything to “radicalize” ISIS before they were beheaded and sold into slavery?

Did the Christians in Mosul provoke their own ethnic cleansing?

Did the Alawites in Syria, who were slaughtered by Sunni jihadists last month, bring it on themselves through poor counterinsurgency tactics?

They were massacred because they existed. Because the ideology said they deserved to be destroyed.

It’s the same thing with Hamas.

Israel didn’t create jihadism. It didn’t write the verses about killing Jews. It didn’t write the Hadith that says “the Day of Judgment will not come until the Muslims fight and kill the Jews.” It didn’t put "death to the Jews" in Hamas’s charter.

Radicalization precedes retaliation.

The hatred was already there. It was nurtured in schools, in sermons, in summer camps.

What Israel does is defend itself from the outcome of that indoctrination. If Israel doesn’t use force, there will be no Israel.

you seem to believe that if the IDF just took a break, Palestinians would grow up writing thank-you cards to the Jews.

Tell that to the families of the Christians massacred in Damour, Lebanon by Palestinian factions.

Tell that to the Copts in Egypt who endure daily persecution, not because of Israel, but because of religious supremacism baked into the worldview that fuels these movements.

The hatred of Jews in these circles isn’t about settlements or borders. It’s about theology. It’s about the belief that Jews are inherently cursed, that they must be subjugated, converted, or eliminated.

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Dan Burmawi

@DanBurmawy

Jan 24

We’ve all heard the usual stuff about Israel controlling the world, the media, the economy, and global leaders. Or the whole ‘Greater Israel’ thing or how they’re secretly planning to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque. But honestly, some of the wild conspiracy theories I’ve personally come across in the Arab world take things to a whole new level of crazy. Enjoy!

1. Magnet in Belts
Israel placed hidden magnets in belts sold to Arab markets to cause male infertility. Traders across the region reported unsold belt stocks piling up because customers became convinced that wearing them would ruin their family lineage. A merchant in Amman cried on live TV “My belts aren’t cursed! They’re just leather!”

2. Spy Animals
Israel equipped animals like dolphins and vultures with spy gear. In one case, a vulture captured in Saudi Arabia was paraded on TV. The poor bird’s probably confessed under dubious circumstances.

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Dan Burmawi

@DanBurmawy

Jan 22

In this thread I will show Israel's ongoing efforts to achieve peace and the recurring rejections or missed opportunities by Arab leaders.

1947 UN Partition Plan:
The United Nations proposed partitioning historical Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem under international control. Jews accepted the plan, but Arabs rejected it outright, leading to the 1948 Arabs war against Israel.

1949 Lausanne Conference:
Initiated by the UN to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict after the 1948 war, Israel offered to negotiate peace and even return parts of captured land. Arab states refused to recognize Israel, ending the talks in failure.

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