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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة
@MsEntropy
Your Lady of Chaos (Theory) | Cassandra of Geopolitics | MENA - Nazis - ISIS - political violence - etc. | @msentropy.bsky.social
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Mar 21 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
If you recognize the impact of past trauma on your life, it is YOUR responsibility to get help for and resolve it.

It’s not fair. It’s not easy.

But it’s the only ethical path for yourself and others — anything less and you have zero room to whine about past abuse. If you have the self-awareness to recognize how others’ actions harmed you in ways that ripple into your present:

You very clearly know you need help.

Intentionally not seeking that help is cowardly or masochistic at best — or sadistic.

That’s… bad.
Oct 30, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Internal Wix messages “encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict,” specifically advising them to “‘show Westernity’ in social media posts backing Israel, as ‘unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans.’” irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/1… I’m just going to repeat a key point here.

Wix employees were specifically encouraged to “show Westernity” in pro-Israel social media posts, underscoring that Israelis “unlike the Gazans, look and live like Europeans and Americans.”

There’s an apt adjective for this: racist.
Oct 18, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Extremely brief thread and then I’m eating sleeping pills and praying for a few hours of unconsciousness. Here goes: on #Gaza, amplifying Palestinian voices, and interview requests.

If you’re already here, you’re no doubt aware that while I fail relentlessly in all things, I do like to try to live up to the ethical standards I set for myself.

That said:

Oct 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
If I’m quiet for a few more days, please understand that I’m completely drained from everything going on offline — especially from people I haven’t heard from in literal decades hitting me up “because you have a PhD” for “your perspective” on all of this. I can’t say I’m familiar with this person’s work (apologies), but this is accurate, and it sucks that such a statement is controversial.

Oct 9, 2023 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
I’m not about to get sucked into any debates on Palestine / Israel right now, but what I will tell you as a geopolitical analyst vis-a-vis the hawks calling for war with Iran:

Iranian nationalism is nothing to take lightly - any such scenario would be disastrous for ALL parties. The other thing that I will say (and believe me it gives me less than zero joy) concerns Hamas’ latest statement concerning the potential execution of civilian hostages.
Mar 28, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Reminder: check on your trans folks.

And Muslims, y’all know more than anyone what it’s like to be expected to apologize or explain the actions of someone in a diverse community to which you happen to belong.

Empathy, support, and solidarity — now, more than ever. It doesn’t matter if you “don’t understand being trans.”

I don’t either — because it’s not my struggle.

But I know this: Ramadan is about compassion, mercy, and fighting base impulses like judgment. Don’t forget that.
Mar 25, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Tell me you know nothing about the history of right-wing extremism without telling me you know nothing about the history of right-wing extremism

Trump’s Waco pandering is dangerous, but not because he’s like David Korean and his followers are Branch Davidians.

Thread (brief) The problem with these “Trump is David Koresh & his voters are Branch Davidians” analogies is that they erase the far bigger impact of Waco:

Right-wing mobilization AFTER the siege of Waco.

That’s what gave us Timothy McVeigh. It wasn’t David Koresh.
Mar 24, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
How’s your morning going? Good, I hope — so now let me ruin it for you!

TIL /mlpol/ exists: a forum just for Neo-Nazi bronies. Here’s the banner image.

(You’re welcome.) Image Don’t tempt me - it’s Ramadan, and I’ve got loads more where that came from…
Mar 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This weekend, I got to watch my boyfriend learn, with shock and horror, US officials deliberately didn’t rescue the hostages to sabotage President Carter’s reelection.

It was the most surreal **blinks in ‘lived in the Middle East’** experiende I’ve had in quite some time. It was extra weird as a former professor of Arabic, Middle Eastern, and Islamic Studies.

He’s (ahem, let’s just say) older.
I wasn’t even alive in 1979.

I really thought that was common knowledge.
Mar 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In honor of “TERFs” and “Gender Critical” interrupting my Bird App Dot Com experience by trending, here’s a quick thread debunking Matt Walsh.

[in case there’s someone I haven’t offended enough yet.] I’m told Twitter says the linked Tweet above doesn’t exist, which is… odd.

In any case, here’s a link to the first Tweet in the actual thread itself — hopefully now you can read it!

Thanks for the heads up, and apologies; I have no idea what happened.
Mar 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I'm so excited to read and reread the giant pile of incel and white supremacist manifestos on my to-do for work this weekend. For previous winning entries in the ongoing same project (in the event you're seeking a reason to bash your head into the nearest wall over and over desperately hoping to fall into unconsciousness' sweet embrace), see also:
Mar 17, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
This Matt Walsh documentary clip looks like it’s set among the Masaai or Samburu in East Africa.

If so, Walsh’s “cHeCkMaTe LeFtIsTs” claim about the gender binary is extra fascinating because:

Samburu and Masaai practice both male and female circumcision. /1 In Samburu and Masaai society, one cannot become an adult or find a mate for marriage without undergoing a painful circumcision —

for male and female alike (the latter procedure often termed “female genital mutilation”).

That right of passage creates a “full” human.

/2
Mar 16, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I keep getting messages asking "did you know Richard Spencer says he's changed? What are your thoughts?"

I don't have time to break it down more fully at the moment, so to tide you over for when I do, I'll touch on my assessment of his new stance below as briefly as I can:

No. Giving me Matt Heimbach #ThrowbackThursday vibes
Jun 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
First thought:

The innumerable Telegram ‘grooming’ incitement campaigns unfolding across ecumenical fascist channels where ‘Islamists’ and ‘white supremacists’ (etc.) work towards the same ends, together.

And how the ‘terror’ label actively blinds you to that bigger threat. Accelerationists are so happy right now.

Most of you have no goddamn idea what that means, and the way things are going,

You’re won’t until it’s too late.
Jun 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I know I’m stubborn as hell and masochistic on top of it — but I refuse to accept the idea academia has no place for us.

And believe me, things have gotten so bad, I’ve actually tried. After my talk, someone asked me what I’d say about terrorism to

“people actually targeted by these groups, for whom it’s not just an academic exercise.”
Jun 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Rest In Power, George Tiller.

You did not die in vain.

#RoeVsWade Image Knowing this was coming does not make it any easier.

Had to step out of the conference I’m at and breathe.

It’s like the bookends of biography just collapsed in one one another - don’t know how to explain it.
May 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
It's "let's talk Christian Identity Movement" time again, y'all.

Very short thread incoming.

'Synagogue of Satan' is a very specific CI phrase - an explicitly white supremacist Christian theology distinct from Christian nationalism. For more, read on. What is "Christian Identity Movement?" you (didn't) ask?

I HAVE MADE YOU A FLOW CHART!

In short, it's Neo-Nazi Christian theology (not just racist Christianity - racism *IS* the theology).

May 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Someone reported my explainer thread on the Neo-Nazi theology of Christian Identity Movement.

Twitter's now censoring this info in Germany (so I added the thread below, because reasons).

Dear New Overlord @elonmusk - you like free speech, right? I know this will outrage you! My account is regularly reported by white supremacists (among others) for informational threads on Neo-Nazi imagery, rhetoric, and propaganda.

It is absurd that 'offensive content' warnings apply to anti-racist writers' contents...

...but not...

May 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So Clarence Thomas is worried about certain parties “bullying” government institutions because it erodes public faith.

Perhaps he should — shall we say — “lobby” his wife about this issue.

Clean up your own conflict-of-interest glass house before throwing stones, Justice. Don’t know why I need to explain democracy to a Supreme Court Justice but

Citizens are allowed to make their desires known as they seek certain outcomes from government institutions, often through political pressure.

Clarence Thomas should take a civics course.
May 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Murder charges for women wanting abortions, to prevent pregnancy with IUDs, criminalizing in vitro fertilization for women desperately trying to get pregnant…

Only a fool could think this is about the “sanctity of life.”

This is about social control.

wwno.org/2022-05-05/lou… Yes, the attack on abortion, reproductive health care rights, and Roe vs. Wade is a war on women.

But the near exclusive focus on abortion access (while understandable) misses other serious dangers.

Dangers intimately linked to social and political control of women.
May 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Stephen Miller is trending, which reminds me to remind you ISIS killed far more Muslims than any other group, and it’s not even close.

So perhaps Stephen Miller’s idea to may — just hear me out here — possibly have been as genius as his devotion to white supremacy, given…

… his genetic prowess.