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i have loved this girl since i first watched this, mA. the subtitles need a retranslation, but after “they’re afraid of us… civilians,” she also says: “their will is weak. they are afraid to a level of madness. it’s unnatural the sort of fear they have. we aren’t afraid of them”
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The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Gazan women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences is accepting applications due July 15, 2024. Up to 5 awards given this cycle. Please share!
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Yahya Sinwar, the man who really doesn’t care abt any sort of performative politics, responding to the psyop
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Is it me or does it seem like everyone is suddenly really preoccupied with responding to ex-Muslims? Wait, did the US/Israel suddenly just release their army of ex-Muslims because they realised they were failing to win over the public?
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Some thoughts on the tradition of self-elegy (rithā’ an-nafs) in the face of obliteration, Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence, Malik Ibn al Rayb (known for his paradigmatic self-elegy) and Refaat Al Areer’s “If I Must Die”
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a sneak peek into my &
@vulgar_carbon
’s baby; our historical materialist, anti-Osloification journey through the past century of Palestinian history
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in honor of marx's birthday yesterday, the uchicago popular university for gaza played the entirety of mahdi amel's ath-thaqāfa wath-thawra lecture. hearing amel's voice ringing across the quad was the highlight of my week.
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farewell to my bookshelf, you have served us well, we love you
Destroying a library and signs calling for a ceasefire? Destroying a tent where kids make art? What is so threatening here?! Is it just the word “Palestine”? (which admin refuses to utter)
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imagine thinking you're punishing muslims by withdrawing from this conference. i suppose the time has come in which the opportunistic islamic studies interlopers voluntarily bow out. adios!
Dear Ramon Harvey,
@RamonIHarvey
Thank you for including my presentation titled “Using Biographical Data in Isnād-cum-matn Analysis” in the preliminary program for your upcoming international conference “Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis (ICMA) as a Method in Contemporary Hadith Studies”
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@lexical_pop
@tastefullysaucy
@HashashinTag
Noooo omg no haha it’s not true I was being cheeky ahhh Astaghfirullah
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Jenin, Jenin (2002): “Our resistance will remain a legend. Not for our weapons but for our will and faith in God. We resisted thanks to our perseverance.”
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simply, if
@biqbal
wrote it, you should read it. “the secular idiom of crisis reproduces the logic of norm and exception, continuity or closure.” a sneak peak into what I think and pray will be an incredible monograph iA by one of today’s most nuanced & versatile scholars, mA.
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here is my contribution to petty Muslim culture wars. on the left is the work of whoever annoyed me. on the right is my masterpiece. you’re welcome
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jst in case anyone's too attached to the performative politics of their ivy league college friends (from one ivy to another: anyone whose priority is making it to federal govt to "effect change" is a tool)
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@tastefullysaucy
@HashashinTag
Princess Diana was a man. Didn’t yall know? 🤡 according to the gender test the monarchy conducted into order to null her marriage to Charles so he could marry his side chick
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can all the Jewish organizations on campus come together to write a statement condemning islamophobia? multiple muslims have been killed / attacked in the suburbs in case anyone forgot. oh, nvm, the UChicago rabbi incited Jewish students to support the IDF.
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okk, as someone who worked w/ Sri Lankan workers incarcerated in Beirut for a long time — this is no joke. Israel’s kibbutzim are run by enslaved agricultural labor
roughly TWO Thai workers die every month on Israel’s farms. Do you understand how high of a mortality rate that is for such a small population of workers? 17 hr days with no days off are normalised. In a hardly regulated industry. this is modern slavery.
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one of the worst things to happen to palestine organising is secular arab diaspora. as sjps secularise & MSAs isolate in fear of further criminalisation for supporting palestine, over is the era where people come to islam through organising?
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From Christopher.
ALL EYES ON GAZA
This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.
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genocide stretches & blurs the abrupt visitation of death such that a man may posit the possibility of his own elegy & request its specific form. the self-elegy meets what it is to be murdered in the occupation's 2023 Gaza genocide. inna lillahi w inna ilayhi raji'un, Refaat.
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the worst academic is the zionist islamic studies scholar. the worst div school hiring practice is the way an inane identity politics has allowed anyone with terms like islam, decoloniality, race in their bios to take the place of sophisticated, articulate, anti-zionist scholars
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@emanabdelhadi
Yup. As a half tamil Sri Lankan growing up during 15 years of the 30 year civil war. The disconnect w Americans is real.
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okay, so even my little brother (who is a finance bro) & his friends are 100% coherent on what is happening right now in gaza & how this came to be. academics with all the time in the world to "think about things" are still vacillating. pathetic, really
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when wolf blitzer and piers morgan cannot defend you, you're screwed
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the fact that salman sayyid's 'recalling the caliphate' isn't on every syllabus abt nationalism, modernity, diaspora, political theory is telling of the sort of discomfort the title itself generates (even if the book does much to assuage that).
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There is a generation of Muslim men, mostly convert leaders, who really want to be special and different and not “that kind of Muslim.”
Never thought I’d see someone implicitly excuse Netanyahu’s genocidal racism by blaming Palestinians.
I don’t know if this is a result of UAE money or if he actually believes the things he’s been saying. I’m not sure which option is worse.
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I pray God does with the Zionist entity what He did with ‘Aad and Thamūd
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graduate school lesson: the people u surround urself with will largely structure ur experience. choose those people wisely. sometimes it's more fruitful to look for interlocutors elsewhere (other depts, other unis) than suffer a decade justifying urself to ur peers
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loving this alliance of secular Turks & Zionist leftists / liberals — long time in the making. thank you for exposing yourselves 😘
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Reposting the Palestinian revolutionaries slides I made for the UChicago Popular University for Gaza
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@jennineak
Identity politics is the death of all American political movements. Let them dig their own grave and bury themselves in it. Dealing with them is making me an accelerationist. Sigh.
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Posting for some assistance! @ Islamic political theory folks mostly but also those interested in Islamism, WoT & counterinsurgency
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time for this again:
ps. join our reading group to interrogate why moral condemnation might be the instinctive response of many & what the discomfort with these operations might show
Moral condemnation from those who support the ongoing systematic extermination of Palestinian civilians will be hollow and reprehensible. Any such escalation by Palestinian factions, while extremely unfortunate, will be the responsibility of those who arm and enable genocide
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omg this, along with everyone for whom the contrarian ethic runs a little too strong
The most remarkable thing about ex-Muslims and other free thinkers is how they managed to free think their way into every American and Western cliche.
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my friend here, like many of us, is a convert to greek orthodoxy who wrote a book on kierkegaard & whose gaze never wavers from palestine. he doesnt identify w imperialist anarchist cults (not out of ideological opposition tho). he is more interested in walking the walk.
This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.
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Aaron Eldridge, A Desert Place:
Asceticism in the Aftermath of Destruction (dissertation, public access)
The postdoc who should be a professor and one of the most brilliant and best people I’ve ever met in my entire life.
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there is not a single muslim who has worked for congress / senate / at this level of government in north america (& maybe most places in the world) who isn't a sellout. maybe now americans will learn to vet everyone they associate with
Remember that the smiling
@AmiraElghawaby
pictured here is a sellout to our community! This federal "anti-Islamophobia expert" is a Zionist Muslim who has closely worked with pro-Israel advocates & groups over the years. Don't fall for this tokenism!
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sjp uchicago is holding a palestine reading group from june 1st. the first 4 texts are: rosemary's palestinians: from peasants to revolutionaries, kanafani's 36-39 text, areej's colonizing palestine & laleh khalili's time in the shadows. dm if u'd like to join over zoom :)
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Dear God, please rid the academy of mediocre Zionists entirely and give jobs to all the brilliant people who are stuck in visiting professorships cos their work is too brilliant to be “legible” to people who hate books
Dear God, please give me the confidence of a mediocre zionist academic working at an Ivy League university.
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The caption should read: Brown University demonstrators dismantled the encampment after striking a deal with university officials to have the Zionist Corporation vote on divestment - a vote that they know will fail.
Brown University demonstrators celebrated and hugged one another as they dismantled their encampment after striking a deal with university officials to bring their divestment demands to a vote in October
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me changing my whole phd topic during this genocide cos i just couldnt live w the thought of spending the next 10 years working w/ the most useless irritating people in the world when yawm al qiyama is impending anyway
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a stunning interview with
@issameido
partly on the emergence of various methodological qs & configurations in the interaction w/ academic islamic studies. exemplarily moving beyond reductive polemics in a moment rife with aggression toward academics
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can we finally safely assume that every NELC scholar who is interested in the permissibility of wine is a fed 🤡😂
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got a wonderful group of people together for the last few sessions of our reading group as the genocidal entity intensifies its destruction in the west bank & the resistance claims its first martyrdom operation in almost two decades
@biqbal
@MusalmanKoshur
@shan0099
@kmrabie
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I returned to my ancestral village today with shorter hair & bangs and was practically disowned so here’s a homage to my previous kin relations
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let me say it loud & clear: the uchicago movement is primarily led & energized by anti-imperialist believers. some are also marxists (shia/sunni marxists, mahdi amel style) bt we don't ideologically strangle ppl with that. the oppressor's god is capital & God is our witness.
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READ: something abt talal asad, who i obviously love, that i am just fully grasping is that his work is entirely developed around, from, and in response to the war on terror. its conditions are what make his work so compelling.
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the academy: a place whose existence depends on the fact that you do not practice what you preach
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@AsimAlKashmiri1
Neither Marx nor Foucault do identity politics. Interesting choices tho because both are radically opposed to identity politics
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titles by academic muslims: thinking about..., considerations & challenges, notes on..., the problem of X q. in Y scholar
titles by non-academic muslims: the solution to the death of metaphysics, how i saved humanity from kant, intro. to islamic ontology
yet, we're arrogant
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this was a refreshing acknowledgment when the link between Palestine and the subcontinent has been so severed in contemporary popular resistance
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the beginning of my paper for a political theology workshop at UofT
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i love judging people's spouses. if u can live w/ that person ur the problem. sorry
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ask a non-arab third world brown person what solidarity is because nobody has a better story abt supporting struggles in the Middle East while secular Arabs (including Palestinians) turn around and spit on / deny / ignore genocides in the rest of the world
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Listen. This is not abt Hzb. This is about the mass death & displacement of 15% of Beirut, the jnub, the Bekaa and the moral paralysis of the umma in the face of that.
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btw anyone whose politics is a “moral commitment to non-violence” is a lib not because they dislike violence but because they think the problem is violence. the problem is settler colonialism. now adjust.
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cops owe me $250+ for my bookshelf & 15 books
To add insult to injury, the back of the leaflet includes instructions to take your important belongings — again, AFTER the students had been separated from them.
Now admin is lying to the whole community about these events.
Sick.
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the libs expose themselves yet again. the habermases, benhabibs, walzers & yet in two years american scholars will still see themselves in conversation with these folks. i would say asad called it but to say so would make me an uncool religious peasant
#Habermas
, why apply one standard to Germany,quite another to
#Israel
/Palestine? Why speak of anti-Semitism “in our country”, but fall silent abt Islamophobia in Germany & history of oppression Israel &Western plutocracies hav inflicted on
#Palestinians
?
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as someone who isn’t Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi, whose family is Catholic and whose parents aren’t immigrants to the the West, this is the biggest compliment I’ve ever received.
#passing
thanks to this bot, I finally made it into the ummah
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the secular wrath against martyrdom operations has been unleashed. soon u will hear those who refused to blame palestinians for their own suffering blame suicide operations for "justifying further slaughter." welcome to the next stage of bourgeois secular insufferability
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time to bring back this crucial piece by Muneeza Rizvi. palestine is not not a "muslim issue" & the secular discomfort with the place of islam in the palestinian struggle.
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Bt this post misses the key question: why now? Why answer qs that have to do with Pal resistance with the insistence that there is no concept of “holy war”? What’s at stake here is also the homogenization of a vast array of fiqhi reasonings into a single liberal talking point.
1. Shaykh Hamza is correct that there’s no concept of “holy war” in Islam. There IS a concept of holy war in Christianity and Judaism.
2. Premodern Christian just war doctrines only pertain to conflicts between Christian polities, not between Christians and non-Christians.
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I stand by what I said 2.5 hours ago. Cops/admin are reading live coverage. When the Maroon announces that organizers have left, they are effectively inviting the cops for a smooth ride.
Here’s what’s happening: police waited until organizers decided a raid wasn’t likely. Who would raid at daybreak? After many left, cops showed up in riot gear to destroy the encampment. They blocked off entrances to the quad and major campus streets.
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can someone write an article about why the greats of political theology & critical theory have failed so dismally in thinking about palestine
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From Chicago downtown protest against genocide Joe. May 8th, 2024
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lol, self described university (Harvard, Chicago etc) “advocates”
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has done an excellent job at making it possible for everyone to participate in genocide. 👏
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Here is my write-up for our teach-in with the incredible Dr Sami Al Arian.
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wow, they're so proud of being pro-genocide they do the investigative work for us. thank you!
Actually about 400 American Zionist faculty members at UCLA, many of whom are physicians, have just signed onto an anti-Palestinian racist letter inspired by the U of Toronto one. 1/
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literally one of my favourite comments ever
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mental health/'care' for palestine stuff irritates me. i'll put it in amrikan lingo: it's triggering that i - child of 30 yr civil war - have to watch amrikkans be traumatized by 9 months of reality. the only ppl allowed to be traumatized r those like tom hurndall bt he's dead
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that said, I simply cannot relate to those who are rly happy abt the death of one man. feels like the disproportionate catharsis @ this man’s death unwittingly localizes / displaces broader accountability for a problem that is much larger than him
what the two sides of commentary on kissinger's death reveal is the sheer secularity of it all. on the "yay he died side," the assumption that divine punishment inheres only in the after-life and on the "it's wrong to celebrate death" side, a strange fetishization of 'life'
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my palestinian friend once told me that we need to read across struggles. bt we quickly learned that solidarity wasn't our problem. our problem was the vast ignorance of palestinian revolutionaries amongst western "allies." we read them bt they cant name a single palestinian.
Reposting the Palestinian revolutionaries slides I made for the UChicago Popular University for Gaza
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when you design a 12 week free course for the public & students just cos you felt it was the right thing and time to do something like this and half way in you realise you should’ve applied for funding
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have you noticed it's mostly liberal zionists who use moralising language like "i am deeply opposed to X"? do any of us say we are deeply opposed to zionism? this is rhetorically interesting...
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this is what grad students & professors at uchicago need to do.
@uchicagogsu
BREAKING: Faculty have joined the strike pledge, joining graduate student workers in pledging to withhold final grades until
@NYUniversity
meets our demands.
Sign the pledge at
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political economy as theodicy
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100% boss
"The very foundations of terrorism law in the United States, at key moments of their development, were crafted with the agenda of opposing or crushing Palestinian liberation in mind.”
@dcli
&
@pal_legal
founder Dima Khalidi explain how anti-terrorism laws suppress Palestinians.
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today, a girl in the library refused to turn her music down and said she'd just move to the next row (it's so loud u can hear it across the rows). i was the only other person in that section of the library so i played music out loud on my laptop. the high road isnt for me
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solidarity is yall westerners realising that thanks to COLONIALISM a lot of arab revolutionary lit is available in english, french & ur languages & yall take 30 mins out of ur day to use Google. good luck doing more than paying lip service to some vague sense of 'injustice'!
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esp when gotham gov relations which has ties w/ israel then "cuts relations" with seldowitz & offers to represent the halal cart guys "pro bono." appealing right to american muslims' oedipus complex in which they beg daddy government to save them at the expense of palestine
I totally agree — this is unacceptable naïvety. I'd go further and say Seldowitz was almost certainly arrested in order to pacify and placate Muslim public opinion angry about US complicity in the current Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Don't fall for it! Not for a moment.
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basically my favourite academic response to anything ever. Thank you for motivating me during comps lol
Some right-wing journalist from France wrote me to ask me to comment on Palestinian "martyrs" and how that term has spread. So I wrote back:
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you can read my Asadian post on elegy or alternatively you can read this line of verse that encapsulates my short post:
Some thoughts on the tradition of self-elegy (rithā’ an-nafs) in the face of obliteration, Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence, Malik Ibn al Rayb (known for his paradigmatic self-elegy) and Refaat Al Areer’s “If I Must Die”
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FINALLY we can publicly talk about how zionist groups draw sw
@stik
@s
& horrible anti-semitic slogans all over campus just to attribute them to palestine activists while we, palestine activists, stand at our booths fending off white women who turn up to complain abt "jews"
lol the pro-Israel student group Hillel were behind putting ‘I love Hamas’ stickers around the University of British Columbia and falsely attributed it to a Palestine student group, then cried crocodile tears about how unsafe they feel on campus
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my Sri Lankan mother living in SL asking the hard questions. grateful to not have been raised in the land of the free-to-be-stupid
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a complete masterpiece. thinking we should have the reading group systematically go through all 700 pages 🫢
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a pile of books at the home of a young muslim data scientist who recently discovered books via twitter, became a philosopher overnight and started his own blog sharing his theories of modernity
my friend is an elementary school teacher in New Jersey sent me this picture— what they confiscated this month
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This was the response of the Israeli consul general, Anat Sultan-Dadon, to the woman who set herself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in protest of the genocide of Gaza. What a twisted man.
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while the supercessionist spirit of Muslim scholarship seeks to “critique” Asad, this man is out there doing the khidma of addressing qs we’re still recycling w/o most of us even realizing. aH for having great mentors.
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