M Muhammad Knight
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I'm usually the last person to weaponize hadiths in this way, but jeez
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If you’re a grad student and my new book would be useful at all, or even a fun diversion from your actual work, reach out. It’s here for you
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I became Muslim in 1993.
I earned a PhD in Islamic Studies in 2016.
Been here for a long time, know the verses/etc., but explain it to me like it's my first day:
You believe the Most Merciful destroyed a nation over love between consenting adults?
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Yes, it's bigotry when you teach that God is a bigot.
And when you teach kids that the tradition cannot exist w/o that hatred, that Islam itself is at stake,
and this happens,
it's your fault.
I blame the "Navigating Differences" carnies, I absolutely do. Choke on your prayers.
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I am 100% sure that these same sites also condemn Muslims who love MMA since those men are all naked & sahih hadiths forbid punching in the face.
Because if you hated "western feminism," you'd also hate "western masculinism" too, right?
I'm sure they do. With same energy.
Muslim women in New York dress up in pink and take pictures before going to watch the western feminist Barbie movie.
#Barbie
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The shrine of Sarmad, executed queer Sufi Jewish atheist yogi Muslim in love with a Hindu youth.
There are Islamic spaces outside fiqh-centered “orthodoxy.”
These takfiri bros won’t look over the fence but it’s a whole big world out there, I promise.
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We have Muslim family who are hurt by your poison. You don't care about them. You don't imagine them as your community but they are.
I'm telling my Muslim queer family—who are not an abstraction for your grift, but real flesh-and-blood people—that you don't own the tradition.
@TinyMuslimah
@MM_Knight
1) Please follow your own advice. Why are you spending time on this statement when it's not an item on your woke list?
2) Classic example of 'whataboutism'.
3) I have spoken about or at the very least referenced all of these other topics, from an Islamic framework, in various
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1990s convert me reading pamphlets from the masjid: Islam is the rational pro-science religion, we were the best at math, we saved philosophy from medieval Xtian book burners
2023: Zaytuna guys talking about flat earth and faked moon landing
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"We get to be bigots, but you don't get to be bigots against us."
These carny grifters can choke on their prayers.
Alḥamdulillah after many weeks of working with a number of prominent scholars in N. America, we have jointly written a statement of monumental importance entitled:
“Navigating Differences: Clarifying Sexual and Gender Identity in Islam."
Full PDF:
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Yes, there are rich histories of Queer Islam.
What about the supposed consensus of every jurist ever?
Islam has never been monopolized by the jurists and legal tradition. There's a deep archive and big world outside that fence.
And yes, I call it Islam.
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In 19th century, slavery apologists in USA/CSA used the example of Islamic slavery to argue that slavery didn’t need to be abolished, it could just be reformed.
That’s where the “Islamic slavery is the nice slavery” fuckery puts you
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There’s literally a hadith in which the Prophet says if a hadith makes you feel bad, it’s not authentic
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do homophobes have anything better than "the Qur'an clearly says..."
or do I have to just keep pasting "Scriptural meanings are contested, I can rec you some readings" until the end of time
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acad. study of religion: Who's to say what's "Islamic?" Who defines our terms? As scholars we're not the orthodoxy police. People are what they say they are
also acad. study of religion: THIS DUMB LITTLE SHIT JUST SAID THEY'RE "SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS," FUCK THEM TO HELL
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As Muslims' acceptance of same-sex love grows, I'm afraid the imam bros will only get meaner. Muslims hurt by bigotry will leave the masjids, "unmosqued" % will get bigger, and bigger % of the ones still plugged in will be ok w/ "throw them off the roof" talk
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Imagine all these people piling on you to call you a filthy kafr zindiq murtad etc etc and yet somehow, for some reason, you love being Muslim so much, being Muslim is so core to who you are, that it's still worth it for you to stay.
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Proofreading a future book and I just reminded myself that I’m ok. I want this sad teenager 30 years ago to know he’s ok. And you’re ok.
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No, apologetics for Muslim homophobia/transphobia doesn't equal resistance to white supremacy. It's the opposite. These dudes are opening doors for Muslims to join the GOP coalition. Florida Man here reads that statement and just sees Islamo-DeSantisism.
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See this a lot. Homophobes can only defend their hate speech by comparing same-sex love to things like infidelity, crime, drug addiction, etc.
Yes, hate speech.
@sasa_ghada
Teaching morality is not hate speech. If I teach that couples should be loyal to one another, and those engaged in extra-marital affairs object that it's 'dehumanizing hate speech', perhaps they need to reconsider their lifestyle.
Ghada, I don't know you, and have nothing
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sometimes it just hits me how a real "return" to the "original" Islam would amount to so much anarchy and incoherence, you'd think the postmodernists had deconstructed it to oblivion
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wasn't he supposed to be the nice one or something
Omar Suleiman just threw the LGBT+ allies he used to march with under the bus.
Yasir Qadhi is the puppetmaster of American Muzzies.
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All these carnies can tell you that you're outside a singular, monolithic "orthodoxy," "consensus," "clear rulings," etc, and you're outside Islam.
And you know what happens?
Nothing.
Their "deen police" badges are plastic toys. Laugh in their faces and live.
@MM_Knight
You don't own the tradition either. The 'tradition' has a clear epistemology to derive rulings from. Clearly, you don't care about that. You do you, and we'll both meet Allah on Judgment Day and answer to Him.
I care about all individuals who yearn for Allah's mercy, regardless
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This is how they spend their energy. Their brains and hearts are sealed.
I don't argue w/ hopes of convincing them. They're gone. I argue for people hurt by them to see the argument.
You're ok. They are rotting from within.
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20 years from now I'll write a book called "How the Muslims Became White" and it's going to be about the moves these dudes are pulling right now
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Islamo-DeSantisism, here it is.
These guys are marks and their obsession w/ punishing queer Muslims will invite harm to the Muslims they claim to protect.
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Surprise, dude who throws marginalized Muslims under the bus when it’s politically expedient forgets about the slaughter of the Prophet’s grandson
The month of Allah,
#Muharram
has arrived with lofty virtues. How do we make the most of this month?
#islamicnewyear
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@KingDroopy651
@TheEnemiesPE3
"I don't think he's being transphobic, maybe he just doesn't believe that trans people should exist or be allowed in public places" I mean bro
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Yes, of course there are Muslim atheists.
This doesn't take any fancy academic "postmodernism," "deconstruction," whatever you want to call it.
There are just actual people who exist in the world and this is what they are.
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@FaceGhostee
@ReneusMeister
@WWE
WWE has been unabashedly right-wing for 40+ years. There’s a long parade of every bad -ism. No real argument for them being “neutral” or just doing “satire.”
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@Johny_Scissors
@IANdrewDiceClay
Dude is explicitly saying the crispness of moves is not what matters most, it’s pretty clear
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1) Some Islamic history that's useful for me: the man named Allah. I'll explain.
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The whole point of the "Navigating Differences" letter was that you can oppose another community's existence and no one gets to call you a bigot for it.
This is the bed that our U.S. Muslim leaders have made for us.
The kind of Islamophobia not so long ago associated with the GOP is now making an appearance among Democrats.
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I know Muslim atheists. They exist. Flesh-and-blood people who know what words mean.
They're not a theoretical abstraction for practicing high school logic, they're not "vegan carnivores" or "round triangles."
Questions are ok, "sick burns" are blocked
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Saved for easy rewatching with an almost-4-year-old who didn’t know that the rules of wrestling allow this
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Yasir Qadhi et al: we’re homophobes but we’re also compassionate and humble, the tradition is clear
Yasir Qadhi fan bros:
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My forthcoming MUHAMMAD'S BODY at 40% discount, preorder with promo code 01DAH40
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@DillyHussain88
@omarsuleiman504
There’s a whole history of Sunnis (and even non-Muslims) commemorating the tragedy of Karbala.
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@MomodouTaal
And read what Malcolm said when it was suggested that being "orthodox" took him out of Black freedom struggle. Also Malcolm saying "I haven't changed" re: white people AFTER Mecca. Guys really want Malcolm's entire thought reduced to one letter from Saudi + not liking liberals.
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"excellent scholarship with a creative, narrative-driven style...skillfully balanced understanding of Muhammad..."—Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, U of VT
my work has better friends than it deserves (same goes for me as human),
Thank you
@ProfIRMF
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That’s the funny part when Muslims think that following the Christian Right somehow constitutes resistance to “the West”
There’s no such thing as pure unmixed Islam, it never existed, always contextual
There’s an awful lot of Islamophobia that is grounded in the discourse of the so-called Christian Right, who rejects accusations of prejudice by saying: “These are simply our religious views. We don’t hate anyone.”
This is absolutely the same and it’s disgusting.
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@YasirQadhi
dude, the difference is I'm not claiming to own the tradition. I'm not claiming to speak for it. And I'm not claiming that there's a singular, united tradition that speaks w/ one voice throughout history. You know better.
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thankfully, U.S. Muslims, longtime targets of harassment, vandalism, and assault, have affirmed solidarity w/ other communities targeted by hatred, rather than align w/ bigots and spend their energy orthodoxy-policing their own communities,
*oh wait*
There were more than 350 incidents of anti-LGBTQ harassment, vandalism or assault in the U.S. over 11 months, according to a new report, reflecting a climate in which bias against gay and especially transgender people has become widespread.
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@THAIBOYBEBOP
@evlianm
@TheRISCHAUS
@MTV
@machinegunkelly
@OfficialWillow
There’s no way this is meant for people who are old enough to recognize and care about Twin Peaks references.
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it's an empty signifier, easy pickings for my evil godless postmodernist conspiracy to destroy traditional knowledge and replace it with queer theory
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To be clear, I don't even throw out fiqh altogether.
I do benefit from it.
But yeah, human scholarly effort that can be historicized. Sometimes I just have to say, "thanks for the guidelines about fasting but it's still a no on raping slaves."
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I’ve just been arguing on here with takfiri 17-year olds, so it was the absolute perfect time for my Islamic drug mysticism book to get a shout. Feeling better. Thank you!
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My reason for pushing back against "Islamophobia = racism:" it means that white converts who experience Islamophobia are no longer white.
There are too many white converts itching to make that claim and I'm not opening that gate.
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waiting for 2025 when GOP president invites Yasir Qadhi to the White House, Twitter blows up over it, and YQ answers w/ story about how a brave and wise 'alim of the past sat w/ a caliph and set him straight on something
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@deckkthehalls
@WRAL
You should feel personally hurt by it, b/c MLK represents hope for us all to share in a better world, while Silent Sam only represents nostalgia for white supremacists
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weird homophobic slur I got here: "Ahl al-Huroof." I first misunderstood, thought they were calling me an esoteric lettrist like the Hurufiyya. Took me a minute, well played.
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It’s not just that some consensual sex is deemed sinful; it’s also that some nonconsensual sex is deemed legitimate and good.
Takfir coming from that universe is weightless, it’s nothing.
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Ask any of these carnies if Islamophobic rhetoric contributes to Islamophobic action
The progressive left (or at least segments of them) - those who claimed to be bastions of open-mindedness and exemplars of tolerance - have now categorically demonstrated they are just as racist, and prone to stereotypes, and guilty of the most basest form of slandering against
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@TheLadyImam
your strength and patience in the face of immeasurable mountains of takfiri pigshit should be a model for everyone on here. We've all been in your debt for a long time.
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ERUDITE, PROVOCATIVE TOUR DE FORCE, they said
Happy pub day to "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage" by
@MM_Knight
.
@PublishersWkly
calls the book "an erudite, provocative tour de force."
Check it out:
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an 18 year old w/ an anime girl as his profile pic just told me I'm no longer Muslim bc I wouldn't worship a god who considers butt sex a justification for genocide
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Bigotry with adab.
Hatred is fine, just be polite about it.
Justice, dude says.
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Just saying, again:
Islam =/= "Islamic jurisprudence."
There are Islamic histories outside "orthodoxy" as these guys define it. Whatevs.
1) Do not falter in unequivocally rejecting this lifestyle. There is absolutely no room to validate it in Islām. There has been literally ZERO difference of opinion on this in the entire history of Islamic jurisprudence.
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This is trivial but if you use diacritics in Twitter debates, it is the weirdest goofiest flex and I am immediately unable to take you seriously.
Thanks for that dot under the H, I didn’t know which Muhammad you meant,
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Our sources tell us that enslaved captives later said that their captors were the good guys all along,
and after being enslaved, they realized their own communities were ignorant and terrible.
Just ask our sources
@RaulSolomon13
The siraa tells us that most slaves after living with the muslims, understood why their previous people were the aggressors and fell in love with Islam and it's mercy and justice. Most converted due to that. Those who didn't generally still liked the muslims and respected them.
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Been stuck on this trope we hear a lot now that in Islamic sex jurisprudence, consent is not the end-all / be-all of what makes sex "good." And they say it's not just that some consensual sex is haram; also, some *nonconsensual* sex is halal.
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yes, there are arguments for queer-affirming Islam.
But if there were actually "no arguments," that would be ok. If these bros endanger your dignity, safety, and security as a human, and your life as a Muslim, you don't need to convince them that you can find Islam elsewhere.
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Also "revert" is such a silly term. Originated in the 1970s but I didn't hear it as much in the 90s. It seemed to really proliferate in the past 20 years.
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People saying Happy Islamic New Year, do you have any idea
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Sunna Bro: the NOI is so weird, that Yakub stuff is so weird, Mothership mythology is so ridiculous, how are we supposed to take it seriously...
Also: yes, the first people were 90 feet tall, we have hadiths
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kids, just so you know:
It's ok to be a flipflopper.
If you're a flipflopper I take you seriously.
We're all fallible human beings trying to make sense out of some deeply weird stuff, it's ok if you don't consistently know your location with it.
@MM_Knight
yes so why would anyone take a flipfloper serious
stop inserting yourself into a conversation that you are not even sure you care about
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These guys want to create a straw man to fight. So they claim that thinking historically means extreme deconstruction, nothing means anything, etc and that we’re claiming all expressions of Islam ever are equally valid.
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This includes the “but we require four witnesses” kind of violence, to be clear
I am telling you right now…a god that hates LGBTQ+ people and would be pleased by violence against us is not real. That god doesn’t exist. It’s just you and your hatred.
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@DrYQStudents
@ISeminaryofA
@YasirQadhi
Everyone sees themselves / the thinkers they like as the sensible middle between extremes
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He couldn’t read but also valued correct spelling
"No Sahabi would make a mistake when writing down the Quran because Sayyiduna RasulAllah ﷺ would overlook the writing down of the Quran Al Kareem with the wahy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala"
Shaykh Asrar Rashid (whilst refuting the ideas spread by Tariq Masood)
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In this paper, I will perform a foucauldian / critical race studies / queer theory analysis of Frithjof Schuon wearing a Native American war bonnet and running around naked in the woods with teenagers
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never thought I'd have to say "flat earthers get blocked" but here we are
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I don’t think there’s anything I regret more in life than the way this mentality made me treat my mother.
There’s a convert brother I know whose father is on his deathbed and He’s trying to convince him to take the shahada. Please make dua for his guidance.
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More of that peaceful coexistence you guys are talking about. Here's the audience. Here's what it looks like in real life.
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The most uncritically pro-hadith people are Islamophobes, what's with that
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Omar Suleiman always creeped me out w/ his mechanically pleasant Stepford Wife energy. He can smile and explain this toxic pigshit in such a way that it sounds benevolent and merciful. It's a carny trash gimmick.
Horrified that a respected Imam & co have an anti LGBTQ+ ‘educational’ campaign. For queer Muslims this is disaster, I’ve worked w/queer Muslims for 20+ years, we need peace, reconciliation & healing - not this. This campaign will cause great suffering. Shame on
@omarsuleiman504
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Meanwhile, the real danger facing Muslims is what, trans kids wanting to not die
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Read this by
@ProfIRMF
, and ignore the "BUT ALL MUSLIMS EVERYWHERE CARE AN EQUAL AMOUNT ABOUT ARABIC, PROVE ME WRONG" nelc-bros as they start to show up
This year's been a hell scape but with the help of so many of y'all, I got a piece out (today in fact!).
"Job Ads Don’t Add Up: Arabic + Middle East + Texts ≠ Islam"
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@DrJavadTHashmi
@YasirQadhi
@JonathanACBrown
@sh_hamzayusuf
It's platforming him when legit scholars take him seriously as a debate partner.
Rasslin' wisdom says: you're defined by your opponents. Wrestling you raises him up. Wrestling him brings you down. He's a comedy gimmick. You should be in main events going for the belt.
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Why are claims about prophetic homophobia & transphobia almost always attributed to Ibn 'Abbas, and specifically Ibn 'Abbas's former slave 'Ikrima?
LOOOOL Anyways guys read this
It was narrated from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet ﷺ cursed men who imitate women and women who imitate men, and he said: “Throw them out of your houses.”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5885).
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31 when I finished undergrad.
38 when I defended PhD.
38 when I got my first job.
Turned 40 my first semester in tenure track.
43 when the PhD book came out.
I was 36 when I finished grad school.
37 when I got my first job.
39 when I got on the tenure track.
43 when the book got published.
Just putting this out here for the young heads on this journey worried about trajectory.
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There are Muslims who love being Muslim even if they don't believe that the Qur'an is everything it claims to be.
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@AlteredAnglePB
@HeyHeyItsConrad
Hogan vs Andre isn't overrated. It was a huge amazing moment that defined the era but no one ever says it was a "great match."
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@michellesatx1
@WrestleFeatures
jfc can people stop with the "it's not ballet" cliche, ballet is physically brutal.
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@alavin
@davemeltzerWON
“Small wrestling company” with that tiny bingo hall as its home arena…what was it called? MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
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This is why I have no interest in ever defending myself within the logics of classical fiqh. This is where that convo lands.
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it would be great if people who wanted to rip on me for having a PhD in Islamic Studies actually tried to take on my academic work, instead of this disconnected "MMK was a jerk at the 2003 ISNA convention but also got advanced degrees in the 2010s" thing people do
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Every post like this makes my heart hurt for 16-year old me who was so deep in that silliness.
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Grateful for the student encampment at the University of Central Florida.
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