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ابو سامي
@ibn_alJad
الحمدلله Islam | Sunnah | Migration | Struggle | Khilafa | Affairs of the Ummah | Ideological Genealogy | Institutional, Socio-Economic, and Policy Analysis
Jun 9 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
The reality of humanitarianism

Humanitarian efforts by kuffar to support Gaza and Filastin get a lot of praise from Muslims. This is dangerous for several reasons.

On the surface level, it is very embarassing that kuffar take risks or sometimes even sacrifice their lives... ...to support Filastin, while Muslims do nothing. This is an indication that these kuffar believe more strongly in their humanitarian ideals than the Muslims believe in their Islam.

Spreading ideology is part of the intent of such actions; by grabbing media attention, more...
May 28 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
A brother requested I respond to the largely valid but overly simplistic anti-Wahabbi diatribe by @Haqiqatjou

I thought I'd share a very relevant quote from "Conversation with Abu Mus'ab az-Zarqawi," pictured below.

Q: Who is better? A Muslim with innovations, or a Muslim... Image
Image ...with pure aqeedah, but who does not participate in jihad?

A: The one who has pure aqeedah but abandons jihad is a fasiq.

As for the Muslim who fights in the path of Allah, he is better than the one who sits [refrains] from jihad, even if he has innovations.
May 26 • 41 tweets • 7 min read
Responding the accusation that mujahideen cause civilian casualties

Muslims who advocate slavery to Zionist institutions as a path to strength often justify what amounts to betrayal by the need for a conventional military capacity. They argue that jihad can only be valid with such a capacity, and that this capacity can only be achieved by adopting institutions like central banks, private banking systems, nationalism, British and French commercial law, female formal labor force participation...
May 24 • 42 tweets • 6 min read
Islamic insurgencies can't always capture everything they need as ghanima, so they need to obtain some equipment from outside.

Many Muslims fear joining the insurgency against the Zionist-dominated world system because of fear of getting cut off from imports. When it comes to insurgencies, the matter of imports and exports is a different than with nation-states.

Nation-states have a concept of absolute territorial sovereignty, meaning they are kind of like solid political blocks.
May 24 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Many of us understand that economic and political relationships between the West and Muslim countries are fundamentally imbalanced in favor of the West.

Furthermore, these relations are designed so that severing the relationship would harm the Muslims more than the kuffar. This is why even rulers that would like to do something about the situation in Filastin sit in humiliating inaction, at best offering a few words of condemnation and a bit of humanitarian aid.

They see that taking action would end in defeat that would only benefit the kuffar.
May 23 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
There are several problems with the narrative that IS "lost," or that the strategy of directly confronting superpowers doesn't work.

First, you have oft cited spiritual dimension; you can't really say that the people of the trench "lost" simply because they were killed. Those who were excessive in takfir and harmed the Muslims by that will be recompensed for that, those who died fighting the kuffar to establish Allah's sharia will be recompensed for that.

Second, this is a global war.
May 23 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Ma sha Allah, a lot to unpack here. I'll start by acknowledging what he got right.

Indeed, fiat is not as contrary to sharia as many think. The problem relates more to fractional reserve systems.

Muslim Bitcoiners are, in many cases, do end up... ...promoting Bitcoin to inflate the value of their own holdings, a type of dynamic that is also seen in pyramid and Ponzi schemes.

Many Bitcoiners promote Bitcoin as an ideological panacea, consciously or unconsciously moved by profit motives.
May 22 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Another important issue relating to the dreams of an Islamic military industrial complex is the importance of Muslim countries for Western military industries.

This is not only about the massive arms contracts from the Gulf, but also about having weak, import dependent states. Modern Western military industries have depended very much on chronically dependent Muslim countries for their development.

This is one reason why I oppose purchasing these arms - whatever benefit comes from military strength is more than offset by boosting Western...
May 22 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
The idea that Russia and China actually possess independent industrial capacity represents a very naive view of technological production.

Russian industry is and has always been highly dependent on Western imports, especially precision machine tools. China has similar issues, but is struggling hard to become more independent.

Matching Western technological capacity would take decades, and the West is not going to lie down and let that happen.

However, China's dependence on Western technology is not their biggest weakness.
May 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When Abdullah ibn Zubayr (radhi Allahu anhu) challenged Yazid's corruption, Madina was sacked, its women raped and Mecca was bombarded with catapults.

Thousands, including women and children, were killed.

Yet, scholars did not blame him for bringing destruction on the Muslims. On the contrary, although his action brought (material) destruction upon the Muslims, he is remembered in our tradition as a righteous, wise, and heroic figure who sacrificed his life standing up for truth and justice.
May 21 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Of around ~200k dead from SAA, Assadist militias, and Shia militias, IS was probably responsible for around 25k. They also probably killed around 20k Kurds and 40k Iraqi gov and PMF.

PMF would have been aligned with Assad, so there was some mutual interest there. There were periods where they did focus mainly on Sunni rebel groups but they were limited, and they probably killed around 10k, so the ranking of who they fought most is:

1. Iraqi gov and PMF
2. Assad, Shia militias, Russia in Syria
3. SDF/PKK/USA
4. FSA/JN etc.
May 21 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
We don't need theoretical wrangling about technology as much as real action, now.

The only reason it's worth exposing the stupidity and self-destructiveness of Western "development" models is because belief in these models is causing Muslims to neglect jihad, instead... ...putting their hopes in some abstract plans to gain strength in an uncertain future.

We could be fighting with IEDs, VBIEDs, explosive vests, economic sabotage, sniper rifles, 3D printers, improvised UAVs and FPV drones w/ swarming, mortars...
May 20 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Economic and political systems are inseparable.

True Islamic economics depend on the continuous presence of hudud, shuhada in the path of Allah, ghanima, and slavery.

Liberalism has analogues for each; imprisonment and the welfare state instead of hudud; abortion and birth... ...control instead of jihad; fiat currency, debt-driven international "development" and monetary stabilization, and hierarchical nationalism instead of ghanima amd slavery.

These legal and economic principles are in turn based in religion; opposition to capital and corporal...
May 19 • 44 tweets • 7 min read
This is an important discussion, because it relates to why many Muslims are either unable to perceive neo-colonialism, or decide to accept it.

It is similar to the discourse about the modern world system "lifting" billions of people out of extreme poverty, often used to... ...argue in favor of liberalism in spite of problems associated with it.

This is a fallacy, but seeing through this fallacy requires grasping some concepts first.

First, low social status is PHYSIOLOGICALLY harmful, regardless of whether a person has good food and living...
May 17 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
The concept of slave morality was and is a fundamental assault on the Abrahamic tradition.

Nietzsche's specialty was studying classics, so he was immersed in and admired Greek culture and religion. Like many post-Renaissance figures, he bought into the "Dark Age" theory... ...which, much like Persian jahiliyyah revivalism, regards the introduction of the Abrahamic tradition as a retrograde force that was holding them back.

This critique is somewhat valid when applied to Christianity, but it attacks common foundations of both Islam...
May 16 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
The problem is there should be no Syrian foreign policy to begin with.

It goes back to adopting nationalist rhetoric and institutional policies many years ago.

Many of those who sacrificed their lives to remove the immediate harm of the Nusayri regime... ...understood well that the struggle was part of a broader global struggle.

In the this struggle, there are many instances where the interests of nations and the interests of the ummah are irreconcilable.
May 14 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
There is a basic difference between money directly linked to commodities (like petrodollars) and money created out of nothing (like COVID stimulus packages).

When new money enters the economy at the same time as commodities (such as oil and oil products), the inflationary... ...effects of the new money are compensated by the commodities.

Money, especially fiat, is a credit instrument. When Saudi invests $600 billion into the US economy, they are extending credit to US companies.
May 11 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
The US spends something like $70 billion a year on "counter-terrorism," AKA fighting Muslims.

Islamic groups the US is actively fighting have in the range 30,000-60,000 active members, meaning the US spends well over $1 million per Muslim insurgent per year. Given a Sunni population of 1.8 billion, this means around 1 insurgent combatant for every 30,000-60,000 non-insurgent Muslims. This is less than 0.005% of the population.

If this number increases, costs to the US won't increase in a linear fashion.
May 7 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Maintaining the balance of power

Any confrontations between India and Pakistan will likely be limited to a few air engagements and air strikes which push both countries deeper into debt to kafir powers as they seek to replenish their fleets and arsenals. If it escalates beyond this, there will be massive international pressure from Western powers to de-escalate. Although some conflict is helpful for securing arms contracts, the West will not tolerate a major disruption of neo-colonial resource flows in its former possessions.
May 4 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A Telegram reminders account "Gems from the Salaf" recently shared this quote, and it's a good case study in the double standards of some who claim the Salafi manhaj.

The book it is cited from is by Abu Hayyan al Tawhidi, who was labelled as a zindiq by a number of scholars... Image ...including Ibn Hajar al Asqelani, (who said he was a Mu'tazili) adh-Dhahabi, and Ibn Jawzi, rahimahum Allah.

There is no question that the author was a prominent Sufi and philosopher, and the accusation is of him being a Mu'tazili is plausible, given that the book contains...
May 4 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
During US-led sanctions on Iraq, an estimated 500,000 children died from lack of clean water.

Usama bin Laden cited this as one of the many items that justified the attacks on New York and Washington.

Looking deeper, there are other structural issues underlying these deaths. Image One of the main reasons for sanctions was Iraq disobeying the Zionist-Crusader order, unlike most other states in the region.

Iraq attempted to re-unify with Kuwait and appropriate its substantial oil reserves, threatening the balance of power established by colonial borders.