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ابو سامي
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الحمدلله Islam | Sunnah | Migration | Struggle | Khilafa | Affairs of the Ummah | Ideological Genealogy | Institutional, Socio-Economic, and Policy Analysis
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.
Apr 26 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Benefits of Sharia [Part Two]

A number of Muslims criticize the attacks on America due to the wars and loss of life they caused.

This harm is undeniable, and generally in sharia prevention of harm takes precedence over gaining benefit. Image However, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes abandoning struggle in the path of Allah as one of the most severe kinds of harm:

وَأَنفِقُواْ فِي سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا تُلۡقُواْ بِأَيۡدِيكُمۡ إِلَى ٱلتَّهۡلُكَةِ وَأَحۡسِنُوٓاْۚ
Apr 26 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
First, an actual takeover would require involvement of ulema who would not condone engaging China and India at the same time.

Even if China was threatened by a new reality, they would probably not intervene as long as a lot of damage was being inflicted on India and the West. There would probably be massive sanctions and even a naval blockade by India and the West, so imports from Iran and China would become more important.

However, with the parasitic and wasteful Pakistani elite gone, this would no longer require becoming a Chinese debt colony.
Apr 24 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
It's common to hear Muslims talk about Muslim countries needing to pursue "economic independence," and this is completely misguided.

Every successful economy is deeply embedded in an *interdependent* world economy.

The idea of "indepence" in the context of most Muslim... ...countries was actually a scam to make Muslims feel as if they were achieving something by transitioning from colonialism to neo-colonialism.

The popularization of "independence" as a transcendent value is strongly linked to liberal ideas of freedom and individualism.
Apr 22 • 43 tweets • 7 min read
Thanks for sharing your perspective.

1. OPEC's influence was dampened but not broken, and it's not plausible to say gains from lifting export quotas covered the cost of the war.

Savings on oil price, additional ability to run deficits, contracts by American oil companies... ...all combined would only run in the hundreds of billions, while the war cost trillions and still mounting. Iraq war contributed greatly to the US's current abysmal debt to GDP ratio and associated pressures.

2. Iran is an independent actor, while it supported US...
Apr 15 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
A quick thread on some of the ways Muslims benefitted from the Islamic attacks on the WTC and US military headquarters. [Part One]

Some try to argue these attacks were in the interests of the US or Israel. To assess these claims, we need to look at the interests involved. Image Three reasons Muslims might miss the benefits:

1) am excessively short term perspective

2) not understanding the value of sharia

3) not understanding how the attacks contribute to advancing the maqasid (aims) of sharia

I will dedicate a thread to each point in sha Allah.
Apr 7 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It seems strange at first to praise for her courage a woman who stands up and condemns American corporate enabling of the Zionist war machine, while ignoring or condemning thousands upon thousands of Muslims who sacrificed their careers, homelands, families, freedom and lives... ...to fight that same war machine.

It makes sense, however, in the context of "pressure release" operations. Praising and encouraging such "activism" encourages Muslims to release their rage in a way that doesn't threaten the status quo, and might at best lead to some...
Apr 4 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Freemasonry, constitutionalism, secularism, and citizenship

Almost all modern nations are based upon constitutions, and most of these constitutions trace their lineage back in large part to the American constitution. A significant number of the authors of the American constitution were active freemasons, and the American constitution itself was modelled to some extent after the constitutions of Masonic lodges.
Mar 31 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Islamizing doctrines of asymmetric warfare

One ideological danger of the modern jihadi movement is the influence of leftist rhetoric in asymmetric warfare.

Many of the successful challenges to Western hegemony over the last century have come from leftists or communists. In the context of modern warfare, it's easy to see why Muslims would seek to learn from this example. However, these doctrines often come with ideological baggage.

One prominent example is the idea of "revolution." This is actually rooted in Hegelian dialects which were...
Mar 9 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Every cohesive national identity in the world was established through a process of homogenization that involved mass killing.

Historically, Islamic government was much more tolerant of ethnic and linguistic diversity than Western nation-states.

France and French identity... ...were constructed by suppressing Breton, Basque, and Occitan cultures.

British identity was constructed by suppressing Welsh, Irish, and other Gaelic cultures.

Spanish identity was constructed by suppressing Catalans, Basques, and Galicians.

These processes were...
Mar 7 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
No mentally and physically able Muslim man has an excuse for not participating in struggle fi sabilillah.

If someone can't physically make it to a front, they can contribute financially.

If they can't contribute financially, they can help in media and da'wah. Struggle fi sabilillah is like any other military effort. There is organization and ranks.

We should be striving not only to defeat the enemy but to rise in the ranks and become engaged in more important and blessed tasks and duties.
Mar 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Great replacement theory is real to a large extent.

Jews who themselves would never consider marrying a non-Jew directly and indirectly back media promoting interracial and intercultural marriages/relationships.

This fits with the general trend of modernity which started... ...under the medieval Church of atomizing and individualizing society by breaking down ties of kinship.

The Church gained a lot of power from this, and when the Reformation started, Jews jumped at the opportunity and started financially backing reformers.
Mar 2 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
US Prioritizing Support for Israel Over Ukraine

The US's support for Israel while withdrawing support from Ukraine may actually be an indication that the Muslim ummah is more powerful than Russia.

US support for Israel is not only due to the power of the Zionist lobby... and Jewish control over media and finance. It's also about the West having a forward base to maintain an acceptable status quo in Middle East.

There several reasons Israel is better suited to this job than the West.

1) Jews from poor backgrounds such as Mizrahi, Eastern...
Feb 22 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
What is missing from this kind of analysis is the role of globalization in technology production, and the role of law in globalization.

Legally speaking, the international order has a heavy liberal slant, and major liberal powers like the US, UK, and EU are its guarantors. This is why we are trapped in a cycle of repetitive, disappointing attempts to use the nation-state paradigm to establish Islamic governance - because this is the only legal paradigm compatible with the global markets governed by liberal hegemony.
Feb 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
In such debates I realize the importance of the book I'm going to publish soon in sha Allah.

The economic system we are living under is fundamentally anti-family, and MUST be in order to function.

It was built on destroying families and must continue to destroy families... ...in order to grow. And it has no goal or objective other than perpetual growth.

This realization is a call to the importance of implementing sharia, because economic systems are expressions of law.

This also relates to the issue of technology, because Islamic sharia...