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Nov 20 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Theee are 3 routes by which Bitcoin becomes a national reserve asset.
1) Normal analysis of strategic interests (least likely)
2) Lobbying efforts by Bitcoin interest groups (more likely)
3) Insider trading by politicians and heads of state (most likely)
In any case, it's absolutely inevitable.
Anyone in any medium to large state who has the power to enact such a policy (whether lobbyists or politicians) can also quietly load up on Bitcoin begore making such an announcement and derive millions or billions in profits.
Nov 11 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Two criteria are necessary for a network state to be a genuine expression of Islamic governance:
1) It must not be a net contributor to legal and institutional systems based upon laws other than what Allah revealed.
2) It must not be dependent on disbelievers for its survival.
If these criteria are not fulfilled, an Islamic network state would fall into the same trap as most Islamist political projects of the last century.
1) Bringing benefit to the Muslims at the price of greater benefit to the disbelievers.
2) Deepening dependence on disbelievers.
Oct 31 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This is nothing short of conscious, legal market manipulation and it's 100% guaranteed to work, and it can only work with an asset like Bitcoin.
Everyone who realizes what he is doing is first going to feel like an idiot for not thinking of it first, and then attempt...
Eventually this will result in a collapse in the price not only of major currencies, but also commodities such as gold and real estate.
This is just another iteration of the same pattern I've been commenting on for the past 10 years.
Oct 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Many Islamic reminders accounts talk about the importance of controlling your anger and not getting angry. This is important, but most of them rarely mention two things:
1) that anger for the sake of Allah is praiseworthy
2) that jihad fi sabilillah is a way to reduce anger
Jihad is not only beneficial for reducing anger, but also for alleviating all kinds of psychological problems, including depression.
Ibn al Qayyim rahimullah writes:
تأثير الجهاد في دفع الهم والغم, فأمر معلوم بالوجدان, فإن النفس متى تركت صائل الباطل وصولته واستيلاءه...
Oct 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The question "Should Muslims ally with the Shia?" should never be discussed without also asking "Will the Muslims be able to survive the assault by the Shia after the alliance runs its course?"
If you consider this question, it will become clear that the Shia always...
...have the eventual betrayal of the Muslims in the back of their mind, and that they do not enter into a deal to provide meaningful support to the Muslims except that the deal favors them more, ie. contributes to their plan to eventually gain dominance over the Muslims.
Oct 7 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Every system has a hierarchy.
One of the many reasons there can never be an Islamic nation-state is because nation-states comprise a system with a hierarchy, and the higher ranking nation-states are explicitly anti-Islamic.
This means that entering into the nation-state...
...system means accepting an inferior and subordinate position in the international hierarchy.
By contrast, when rejecting the nation-state system and establishing an Islamic system, instances of the Islamic system do not exist in reference to nation-states.
Sep 29 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I've never actually seen the "axis of resistance" types who claim to be Sunni explain how they justify backing Assad.
Do they say backing Nusayri crimes was "worth it" to counter the West?
Or do they deny it all and call it fake news?
Seems like another symptom of the...
...disease of nationalism. Getting tunnel vision to the point where Palestinian lives become more important than all other Muslim lives.
Rafidha probably killed ten times more Muslims than Israel did, and also stole ten times more land, how are Shia not hated more?
Aug 23 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
What happens to US statistics if we consider unborn babies to be people and abortions to be murder?
Including unborn babies, the US had ~1,048,000 murders or 317.5 murders per 100,000, by far the highest murder rate worldwide.
What about life expectancy?
Last year 3,090,000 people died in the US with average life expectancy of 76.3 years. Including unborn babies, 4,116,000 people died.
Assuming an average age of 0.3 years for the unborn babies killed, average life expectancy was 57.3 years.
Aug 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I spoke with a Yemeni brother who took US citizenship recently.
I asked him if he realizes that this means he is obligated to serve in the military in case of general mobilization.
His reply was a sly "What will happen if I refuse?"
I said that then you would be liar in front of Allah.
In this dilemma lies the impossibility of Muslims truly integrating into the fabric of American society. If you want to enjoy the privileges of citizenship, you must be prepared to bear its responsibilities.
Aug 12 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This is really very wrong on many levels.
Islamic finance competing with riba-based finance is similar to having a sporting competition where one team is allowed to use performance enhancing drugs while the other isn't.
This kind of mentality develops when Muslims become resigned to living under manmade laws. It leads to the normalization of a condition of inferiority which aggravates colonial and post-colonial inferiority complexes.
Aug 9 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Considering the population of Madina during the life of Rasulullah ﷺ was around 20k including rural areas and nomads, killing 700-1,000 would be around 3.5-5% of the total population. Banu Qaynuqa had 700 fighters, so the whole tribe had to have been at least 1,500 including...
I don't know about Banu Nadir but since they were initially prepared to fight a Muslim force of around 800 they must have been at least 500 men, 1,000 total, and probably closer to 2,000 including women and children.
Aug 8 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
It's amazing how many aspects of Western "civilization" only became viable with colonial wealth surpluses.
Criminal justice without torture or public executions, elaborate bureaucracies and legal systems, large professional classes of scientists, artists, and musicians...
...industry, well-organized transport and sanitation infrastructure, feminism, etc.
Almost every single Western claim to cultural superiority was obtained by forced transfers of wealth that made it quite literally impossible for colonized cultures to do the same things.
Jul 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Another problem with the "covenant of security" is that in classical sources, it refers to a voluntary agreement.
In the modern era, immigration to the West is deliberately engineered by destabilizing Muslim countries and then recruiting talented students and skilled...
...professionals, which the West desperately needs both this productive and consumptive resource to feed and maintain its economy.
While it is still voluntary on an individual level in most cases, from a high level perspective, this is actually looting of human resources...
Jul 20, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Lack of unity was a much bigger factor in every military victory of the kafir West over the Muslims than any technological gap.
Even today, if there was strong solidarity among Muslims, the US could not withstand deploying troops in any Muslim country for even a short time.
For example, imagine if every Muslims majority country responded to deployment of US troops by cutting off diplomatic relations, denying passage of US and US-allied ships through their territorial waters, and banning the operation of Western companies in their countries.
Jun 24, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Western industrial civilization is a dead end.
Some of the ways:
-Destroys families, replaces them with the state and corporations, degrading mental health.
-Depends on riba, so concentrates wealth in the hands of an ever smaller group of ultra-wealthy.
-Pollutants lower testosterone, fertility, genetic quality, ability to concentrate.
-Dependence on non-renewable resources like oil, phosphates, groundwater
-Focus on worldly knowledge at the expense of religion leads to moral decay, spread of zina, addiction
May 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Jihad is protection, not just in a literal military sense, but also in the sense of repelling fitna and evil.
For example, if a country implements jihad properly, the fiat currency system will disappear on its own.
The country will be cut of from the global riba system.
They will no longer have access to paper banknotes or the parts necessary to maintain the machinery that prints them.
They will likely lose most access to the internet, which intoxicates the minds of the youth and fills their heads with false images of Western culture.
May 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The misconception that Islam is compatible with Western models of industrial production results from internalizing Western narratives about technology.
These narratives emphasize the benefits of the technology while hiding, diminishing, or ignoring the associated harms.
The present level of technology was achieved only by convincing the Muslim world that they needed Western technology, and the resultant demand for it.
Were the Muslims to stop seeking to obtain this technology, the West would no longer be able to sustain it.
May 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A brother was recently admitted to the hospital in Markham, near Toronto, Canada, in what they are calling a suicide attempt by hanging. He was on life support and is now apparently brain dead. However in the weeks preceding this he expressly told me he was not suicidal...
...and that he feared for his safety from his family. He also explicitly told me that he thought they were capable of trying to frame him for some kind of suicide.
This brother had been supporting his family financially for a long time but recently he had started to feel...
May 29, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Growing up in a democracy, one of the things I noticed about the system is the appeasement dynamic.
The system gives competing interest groups some concessions, along with enough (false) hope to prevent them from becoming a threat to the system.
...groups most likely to pose a threat to US stability are urban blacks and rural whites. Both are armed, somewhat organized (gangs in the cities, militias in the country) and have deep mistrust of the state.
In my adult life I saw Bush Jr. excite the hopes of rural...
May 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
On the issue of Syrian refugees, we need to face the hard reality that far more of them needed to stay and fight. Giving military age men refugee status is not really a win.
The Nusayri regime has relied for years on forced conscription.
If the Muslims are forced by circumstances to fight rather than selling kunafa and baklava, Western style clothes, and opening barber shops where they do haram hairstyles, it will be better both for the souls of those who are involved as well as the condition of the ummah.
May 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There are two major problems with this perspective.
First, it privileges materialism, and second, it is a defensive perspective.
The weighing of harms and benefits is not taking into the account the damage of legitimizing, reinforcing, and supporting a system...
