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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
Sep 7 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
Return on Investment: Terrorism vs. Industrialization

1. The world industrial system is a single system.

2. Every part depends on every other part to varying degrees.

3. The internal logic of this system is fundamentally antithetical to Islam. 4. Any appearance of tolerance of Islam by the system is due to either to surplus wealth (no need to prioritize an in-group over an outgroup in resource allocation) and/or incomplete implementation of Islam.
Sep 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If Muslims collectively stopped helping the kuffar, working for them, etc. it would be sufficient to cause a complete collapse of both the West and the state of Israel without firing a single bullet.

This is first and foremost a spiritual war.

Weaponry is one tool in this... ...work, just like a hammer is only one tool in building a house.

Convincing people to believe in the importance of physical weaponry is a more important weapon than the physical weaponry itself, because the West derives immense power from states purchasing their weaponry.
Sep 6 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
When it comes to weapons procurement, there are

1) methods that strengthen the kuffar
2) methods that don't. Then there are 3) methods that entail both strengthening and weakening them.

Consider examples of each. Purchasing weapons, sending students to learn engineering in the West, building production facilities using Western machine tools, signing long term maintenance contracts, etc. all strengthen the kuffar.

This is what most nation-states do.
Sep 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People have a lot of difficulty understanding industrialization as the formalization of a world system rather than a stage in a linear hierarchy of national development.

This misunderstanding is deliberate, because Western discourse (including evolutionary biology)... ...framed European culture as representing a higher or more advanced stage of development, similar to how children grow up, learn to walk, develop linguistic skills and eventually reach maturity.

They still peddle this lie to third world countries, telling them that if...
Sep 1 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
The first thing to understand is that Chinese and Soviet industrial policy never existed in a vacuum - they always depended on knowledge and materials from outside.

There are not multiple industrial systems in the world - there is one system with different tiers. They obtained technology by providing things that the West needed - in the case of China, cheap production and manufactured goods, and in the case of Russia, oil and gas.

To obtain this, they also had to drop open hostility.
Aug 31 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Muslims did participate in building this, from a subordinate position.

Technological complexity is a function of integration of the earth's people and resources into a single political and economic hierarchy.

Developing this technology depended on controlling Muslim... ...lands, and losing control of Muslim lands would mean losing the capacity to produce such technology.

If middle management and laborers in a corporation all try to have the status of executives, the corporation will collapse.
Aug 23 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Not donating money to mujahideen in this age is similar to running away from battle.

وَلَا تُلۡقُواْ بِأَيۡدِيكُمۡ إِلَى ٱلتَّهۡلُكَةِ

"...and do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction." [2:195]

This verse is not only a matter relating to the unseen. It is a manifest reality we can see in the spread of kufr and fahisha among our communities, the rampant mental colonization, wasteful chasing of luxury and status items, and in the literal slaughter of our brothers and sisters.
Jul 20 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
How are Islamic terrorist attacks seen as contributing to the maqasid (aims) of the sharia? [Part 3]

This is the third part of a series discussing the impact and logic of the WTC/Pentagon attacks. Image The first thread responded to the idea that the attacks served Western interests, and considered the actual long term objectives and impact.

The second looked at the benefits of sharia, and the argument that the long term objectives could justify the short term harms/trials.
Jul 19 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
The idea that Shia are doing more than Sunnis to support Filastin is laughable from a long term perspective.

Just considering this fallacy is a beneficial exercise in building awareness of the vast global propaganda programs affecting the ummah.

Let's look at some numbers. First, consider that Israel is totally dependent on US, meaning fighting the US is both necessary and much more effective than fighting Israel directly.

Over the last 30 years, Shia killed 500-600 US soldiers in Iraq.
Jul 5 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
A brief history of the use of eagle emblems

Eagle emblems have played a prominent role in governance from ancient times. All later uses of eagle emblems trace back somehow to the earliest uses, which were typically in Mesopotamia cultures such as Akkadia and Babylon. Image These carvings were not only decorative or symbolic. They were actually believed to have protective power from the gods in themselves.

The oldest instances were on the palaces of kings, and were intended to protect the ruler.

They were also used in magic and amulets.
Jun 17 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This kind of sentiment is based on two serious problems:

1) disowning and marginalizing mujahideen

2) rampant irja'

Since mainstream, manipilating Muslim discourse labels modern jihad as terrorism, the sacrifices of the mujahideen don't "count" to them, and actions... ...of humanitarian minded kuffar then seem better and more courageous than what the normal Muslims are doing (whose inaction is tacitly approved by "approved" scholars).

Secondly, large numbers of extreme deviants and outright murtadin aee considered as being part...
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.