Uncle. Interests: History, Afgpak, Levant, more! back who we want but call things by names. Acrimonious against acronyms. Aspirant to be rolling Islamically
Feb 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Muslims who don't want to fight w/o it suiting a particular highbrow aesthetic keep pretending it is hopeless to militarily confront oppressor "we too weak they too civilized stronk". last century is actually full of examples of either successfully, or semisuccessfully, doing so.
Since the year 1920:
Successful cases: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangsamoro, Chad, Indonesia, Turkiye.
Semisuccessful cases: Bosnia, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Syria, Yemen.
I'm sure I've missed a few but these were off the toppa my scalp
Aug 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A lot of China nationalists try to undermine Uyghur/"Xinjiang" narratives by citing Soviet support to the 1940s East Turkistan emirate. Its true if exaggerated but they neglect that Soviets were also helping Mao at that point, and Mao subsequently seized power
In short, its selective to point out Soviet support for the East Turkistan emirate while ignoring that Soviets also assisted the China commies, i.e., the origin of todays regime. Why is one bad and not the other
