staySAIF

Something interesting about great/central mosques in Europe is that quite a few of them are connected to some form of heterodoxy and/or a variety of thought that doesnt sit well with the mainstream majority of muslims in that country. This also makes that many great/central mosques in Europe have relatively low number of worshippers and instead mainly function as hallmarks for when an ambassador from an Islamic country visits, when there is interfaith dialogue etc. (Though most of this is moreso because a lot of them are located in city centres or other areas with few immigrants and most Muslims might not necessarily know about the particular religious leaning of the mosque).
Though I'm not sure who heads the mosque now, I know for a while the great mosque of Rome was intimately tied to Pallavacini's (Italian Traditionalist) circle. Similarly, Valsan had a large influence on the central mosque of Paris, the London Central Mosque/ICC also had strong ties to Trad. school etc. Early mosques in Europe also were often set up by the Ahmadi community though their mosques tend to be a lot smaller.
In general Traditionalists have had a much larger influence on people in prestigious or influential positions than most people realise (everyone knows about king Charles by now but there are a lot more) though it is equally remarkable how little those individuals have managed to utilize their positions to enact change (which might in part be chalked up to most Traditionalists having a very quietist attitude towards all things political)
Ecoreactionair@

2025-03-01 07:21:56 UTC

The first 100 years of Crusader occupation of the Levant is filled with one atabeg after another blowing it too early and trying to be an aggressive mini kingdom too openly hostile to its neighbors despite having control over only one major city and some farmland. Only those who focused on the slow, consistent gain of resources and territory made it through to victory (Zengids then Saladin).
Concern trolling Syrians about how they’re traitors if they don’t immediately engage in “suicide by nuclear power” is dishonest and malevolent.
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-03-01 07:21:15 UTC

What Israel managed to understand that yet escapes the diaspora ‘intellectual’ traumatized by the colonial ghost, is that, in the longue durée, given the opportunity to build a purposeful, ambitious state, territorial integrity is not a first priority.
Ofc there are limitations to this, but a competent statesmen with a vision for his state beyond apportioning winnings to a neo-feudal class whose function becomes military paradism, should understand this in its particularities.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-03-01 07:20:37 UTC

You hang around Arab elites/bureaucrats enough you begin to understand the rationality with which they approach rentierism.
Each actor is woefully aware of the system’s dysfunctionality and correctly assumes that honest conduct or otherwise on their part, it will remain thus.
These states don’t have reformable institutions that can aspire to anything beyond ‘corrupt but okay.’
Everyone, especially their heads of state, know this.
Moroccans tell a story about Hassan II. That when made aware of corruption among his service staff, he responded, “When have you ever known a beekeeper to not taste from the honey?”
A paradigmatic pit. Faux-Weberian states with no notion or desire to inculcate true civic religion
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-28 19:27:24 UTC

- reply

>it worked
God damn it
@npub1cys…7zym

2025-02-28 19:26:58 UTC

Scheduling this 3.5 months in advance in order to annoy my future self
@npub1cys…7zym https://video.nostr.build/84b4a082966f08407923408481548c86c37a9f3ae7b7547393e45d3a091c5ecf.mp4

2025-02-28 19:24:52 UTC

This is what I mean when I say I’m gay no homo. Heterofruity. Like Prince, all aura.
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-28 19:24:13 UTC

"Just today, right-wing influencers on X were given physical copies of the Epstein files in the Attorney General's possession. Early reports suggest the binders were unusually slim and, and I'm sure this isn't related at all, the list of Epstein's clients had NO JEWS."
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-28 07:34:15 UTC

We must re-establish BF% as a filtering characteristic for competency in our clerical class.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-28 07:33:25 UTC

This is the horseshoe theory of fanaticism.
That at the very edge of a “they vs us” worldview is not an active brooding hate but a sense for the historically regrettable.
Time and its circumstances may have made the lines existential but it need not sully our daily decorum.
It’s actually the guy who’s capable of de-radicalization that hates so brashly, that is most disposed to senseless destruction.
His mentor, rather, has arrived at a place of terrorist-zen.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-28 07:32:39 UTC

Seems to me that “Jahili religion” as described in debates regarding the particularities of Tawhid, is presented one of two faulty ways: the Pre-Islamic Arabs were Catholics or they were Baal-Cycle pagans.
When really, the closest case study is something like Santeria
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-27 18:26:49 UTC

Incredibly embarrassing to be a Muslim who is a high level judge in anything other than Islamic jurisprudence. So out of place and off putting, and the peak of your infamy and achievement is being an obstacle in some inevitable secular poison. Shameful.
Being a lawyer is in many cases slimy but at least then you’re benefitting private clients who in theory can be anyone…a judge though? Defending the secular state as a sworn judge of the fake and gay LAWL?
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-27 18:26:17 UTC

If you ever gooned to one of my tweets say “Hell Yeag”
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-27 18:25:57 UTC

We must be Pro-natalist without Elon-characteristics.
Many children, less Mid-American Maury Povich family dynamics
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-27 07:08:19 UTC

I believe that we ought aspire to post-scarcity but do not presume that it’ll end “suffering” in any meaningful way.
No, I suspect anguish is a fundamental constant and when lost in one realm it arises in another.
Seems Quranic to me.
We will always suffer challenge but we should not balk from novelty in our challenges.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 18:30:19 UTC

My controversial opinion is that it was Sennacherib, King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire more than the British Empire or Ottoman Empire that laid the ground for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 18:30:05 UTC

Shar’a has the opportunity to single handedly rehabilitate the memory of the Ummayads by taking a hard stance on Israeli attacks, using the right iconography, and doing it all while the “Muawiyya” Ramadan series is airing.
Unleash the Muslim-Hellenic world’s first great dynasty back onto the pages of history ya Jolani.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 18:29:41 UTC

Funny enough, I dreamt of Sinwar last night.
It all works out in the end.
Today, tomorrow, God’s promises may be subject to questions of ‘when’ but not ‘if.’
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 18:29:14 UTC

There’s a very simple and dark equation that suggests Israeli proximity to state collapse heavily correlates with the aggressiveness of their foreign policy and so, its adventurism, though offensive, courts real confrontation rather than averts it.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 07:01:06 UTC

Has subcontinent patois in the Gulf been properly systematized by contemporary anthropologists. Very important work to be done.
“Ana ma fi ma3lum, inta ish gul”
It’s charming and I will not be convinced otherwise
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 07:00:36 UTC

It seems to me there’s a thematic relationship between Shah Waliullah’s description of irtifaq and Hegel’s Sittlichkeit.
Curious if there’s more to that.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-26 07:00:07 UTC

I find it an artifact of lost Arab diplomatic ingenuity that the Moroccans once intended to execute a serial killer by crucifixion, only to face Euro dignitary protest, and so chose to immure him instead.
The redeemable to the mines, those lost but to the mercy of God, sealed off to painful respite
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-25 18:31:17 UTC

Took some melatonin and listened to With Them by Young Thug 20 times instead of going to sleep
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-25 18:30:58 UTC

SAIF does not fw commies
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-25 18:30:35 UTC

Getting off all my worst before Ramadan starts and I disappear for the month 🙏
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-25 18:29:54 UTC

I love modernity, as I love what preceded it, and as I shall love what follows it.
“The son of Adam abuses me. He curses Time and I am Time, in my hand are the night and day.”
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-25 07:51:22 UTC

“Turkish barber received a Mercedes C63 AMG as jizya”
The p*ki in me needs this so bad
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-25 07:51:02 UTC

You must not facefagg or poast physique, but you must labor such that were your enemies to force said circumstances upon you, they would rue their action.
Spiritual opsec
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-25 07:50:33 UTC

Elon Musk is the exact “rule by resentful Reddit nerds” that has been warned of and lamented for the past 5 years by the new right coalition, yet everything he does is met with either silence or applause by the same figures who endorsed such lamentation not long ago.
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-25 07:50:11 UTC

When we say, “Send coalers to the mines,” we say it with deep care for their state.
For the mines themselves are a technology of the self. In there, all that is fruitless shall be undone and they shall thereby discover the true function of man.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-25 07:49:41 UTC

Magnanimity, Curiosity, and Discretion
Make a man Useful after
Faithfulness, Loyalty, and Honesty
Have made him Good.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-25 07:49:18 UTC

You must become more Nationalist than the Secular. Exhibit visceral disgust at every lack of ground and soil loyalty.
All false pre-Islamic cultural artifacts propped by them, you must truly realise.
Half-baked gay Phoenician, Nubian, Pharaonic, Amazigh larp must fear you
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-24 18:22:34 UTC

People get mad at fatwa shopping but who isn’t following hanafi positions on finance and alcohol, regardless of madhhab? Let’s be real.
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-24 18:22:09 UTC

Did you pray today?
Did you pray today?
I could d-
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-24 18:21:48 UTC

Jumping off the bus in fortnite when a new map drops is the modern Kierkegaardian leap
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-24 18:21:26 UTC

I’d like to think this has no time limit. Wallahu A’lam
لِيُبَلِّغِ الشَّاهِدُ الْغَائِبَ، فَإِنَّ الشَّاهِدَ عَسَى أَنْ يُبَلِّغَ مَنْ هُوَ أَوْعَى لَهُ مِنْهُ
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-24 18:21:06 UTC

Hot take but also correct ofc.
Fatwa shopping packaged as “bad” has actually nothing to do with fidelity to traditional institutions but to cultural proximity with a geographic mediation of those structures.
No serious scholar would’ve launched a critique of a subject’s taqwa in 16th century Cairo because he chose a Hanbali judge to write his nikah contract but a Hanafi judge to institute his waqf.
The idea that every Muslim must suddenly have the same relationship with fiqh as a premodern faqih-in-training or forfeit their journey of piety is ridiculous.
Note: I’m well aware of the scholastic discourse surrounding whether laity must do taqlid of a specific madhab, scholar, or the four schools at large. And the qawl of Al-Haytami.
But a position on the meta debate of what is lazim for laity is different than attacking a subject.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-24 18:19:03 UTC

Iqbal is an incredibly tragic figure.
In the soup of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Bergson, Marx, Lenin, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ghazali, Al-Jili, Rumi, Shah Waliullah, he produced something genuinely prescient and forceful.
Yet, today’s revival discourse often tends to what he critiqued most.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-24 18:18:14 UTC

Despite trite frustrations expressed by traditionalists or their mutated detractors regarding “le myth of progress” and its purported alienness to the Islamic remit, it is in fact Abrahamic faith that crafted the frame of mind upon which the “myth of progress” could be conceived
Also if you’re a Taymiyyan, employ Guenon-reading as a pejorative, but also whine about the myth of progress—you’re a boor and your worldview is a pile of retrded contradictions.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-24 18:17:32 UTC

The majority of my sentiments these days boil down to:
“Redressing western conservative thought as well-placed in the ambitions of Islamic social engineering is dumb. But so too is the alternative liberal exercise. And most people are doing one or the other.”
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-24 18:17:09 UTC

I have a carnivore’s breakfast, steak and eggs, but cook it while drinking a Saudi girl’s coffee order, iced americano with two shots of white mocha.
Balance in all things 😌
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-23 18:49:09 UTC

Host(ess) club concept would be a better idea. It would rake in such unbelievable amounts of money. Would be a great way to prey on today's existential loneliness, though I think American workers would struggle with acting in such a way instead of being whorish.
I think would work for women too as it does in Japan as well (more women than men do the AI companionship thing for example)
Ecoreactionair@

2025-02-23 18:47:03 UTC

Anon, can you feel it? The air changed. The winds of Ramadan are upon us.
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-23 18:44:08 UTC

At this point, if you’re a sad single chud and not exploiting the low stake conversational overlap that exists between you and women, it’s entirely a skill issue.
Whereas it would’ve taken a few delicate minutes of difficult conversation crafting, you can now transition to talking about moldbug in like two sentences 👍
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-22 21:12:41 UTC

When I get married, you guys are invited to the wedding. I’ll have a section called “reply guys and people who hit like a lot”
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-22 21:12:15 UTC

I will never go out of my way to know what a matcha is. I will never check what Squid Game is about. What’s a dubai chocolate? I don’t know. There are certain words/phrases I hear that I will never make any effort to find out what they mean
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-22 21:11:41 UTC

Sometimes non-Muslims tell me about this app called Hinge. They’ve explained it to me, but I will always act like I have no idea what it is if they bring it up.
Maximise acting like an alien who has no idea how non-Muslims go about their lives. “What, you guys do that? That’s so crazy to me…”
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-22 21:10:49 UTC

If I wasn’t Muslim I’d be addicted to online blackjack and paying for 🐱
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-22 21:10:22 UTC

Living in this current world is one big humiliation ritual. Knowing certain people exist and having to see them is humiliating.
I wrote half an essay about this in my head during a walk and forgot about it
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-22 21:09:43 UTC

Schopenhaur is so schizo. Platonism but evil 👿
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-22 21:09:09 UTC

I have never negotiated a price with a MENA taxi driver that did not require renegotiation at the point of arrival, often with intentional amnesia on the driver’s part and weaponised call to salawat.
Do not try to convince me this is charming. It’s social decline.
Half of the time it is admittedly done in jest but that suggests more than it absolves tbh
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-22 21:07:34 UTC

Obama was incredibly more WASP-Americana coded than Elon. I’m sorry but it’s simply a fact.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-22 21:07:04 UTC

What’s the equivalent to Osman’s Dream for a history of the Mughal Empire?
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-21 19:40:27 UTC

Can’t wait to see “right wing conservatives” cope for the next twelve hours about how Elon ignoring his sick kid is “based” and totally proof he’s “our guy”
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-21 19:40:04 UTC

Ottoman Sultan’s harem: adorned in gold, engage in philanthropy, well fed, personal servants, chance of being queen mother if their child succeeds their father
Modern technocrat’s harem: begging for his attention in public, lab-made children literally dying of disease ignored
It’s powerful Muslim men who just do the “multiple women” thing better. Should have stuck to monogamy, you disgusting nerd.
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-21 19:39:23 UTC

I no black I Dominican
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-21 19:38:09 UTC

Full support for the Kyrgyz against their Russo foes.
Never shall I purchase a shyrdak
From a Russian kulak.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 19:37:38 UTC

“Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.
We spake of them all, but the last the most,
For I sought a word of a Russian post,
Of a shifty promise, an unsheathed sword
And a gray-coat guard on the Helmund ford.”
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 19:37:07 UTC

You should all follow the Madhab of Shirkuh and its great commentator, @npub1mwu…jhrx
How do we bind the confessional and the secular upon one vision—Playboy Islamism
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 19:33:38 UTC

My most “feminist” take—acknowledging I’m using the term in a wholly colloquial and vulgar way—is that male wisdom plateaus eventually and female wisdom has a pretty consistent linear relationship with time.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 19:33:00 UTC

What’s the most efficient median age to have at the highest levels of government?
Feels like Syria is closer to it than the IEA.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 19:32:31 UTC

Feel like Jihadi lore is at its best when it limits itself to B/C list eschatological events/figures.
IS flew too close to the sun with Dabiq
Everyone wants to be the Mahdi. Remember future Jihadis: Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good 👍
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 19:31:37 UTC

You may not like it, but the simple truth is that when the intellectual habits of a governing elite are prone to seemings of heterodox superiority and disinterest, people live more dignified and stable lives.
One of the worst thing that could happen in religio-culturally heterogenous parts of Islamdom is for its political elite to develop a genuine concern with istighatha debates.
You actually want the sultan to laugh off the jurist telling him to execute the qalandar. We’re all better off for it.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-21 08:27:11 UTC

This post is a product of my collective trauma (voices in my head) from not having persian gf
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-21 08:26:46 UTC

One of perhaps the most damning traits of the last generation’s suit-jacket Arab Islamists is simply how honest to God their Democratic populist sentiments really were.
If you get them divulge, you realise the sincere yet ridiculous territories in which their political thought wandered.
Dreams of rearing the mass on a program of spiritual politics that would usher a power grab at internally determined percentages of the population…
Enough failures have left them properly disillusioned with that vision but, importantly, it hasn’t made them different.
They’re still the same dead players, running the same motions, all the while losing steam and the capacity to attract young talent.
For their sincerity and sacrifices they should have a spot in our hearts, but, as it concerns all else material, they should be subject to our maximal critique
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 18:13:20 UTC

The greatest motivation to promoting Muslim matchmaking/marriage services is getting dumb Muslims and their thoughts off social media.
“I want to see more Muslims married so they avoid sin”
“I want to to see more Muslims married so they’re too disinterested to share their biomass brain thoughts online”
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-20 18:12:47 UTC

Academics like to make banal points sound sexy. Confessional readers do themselves a disservice by taking that dressing too seriously.
Much of that discomforting sensation a new reader feels when interacting with a work on Paleo-Islam or the like is just them affording the presentation choices of a writer too many allowances in how they digest the relevant material.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 18:12:15 UTC

No.417: Islamic Republic of Pakistan Hauntology
—Common sensations among SAIF yearners
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 07:56:53 UTC

I will now be supporting Marxist-Salafi-Jihadism—“AQ is the proletariat’s vanguard party”—out of spite.
I apologize to this specific brand of schizophrenia I did not understand the important role you all played in the universal balance of piss poor Arab left politics
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 07:56:11 UTC

Sometimes I forget I did a whole degree in International Relations
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-20 07:55:17 UTC

Read this
qawwam.online/issue-7/
Ecoreactionair@

2025-02-20 07:53:45 UTC

Anyways guys who’s heard that new Pusha T snippet
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-20 07:50:41 UTC

The revenge of the Sunni triangle will be felt in every $499 armed bodyguard pricetag your wife’s botox appointment elicits
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 07:49:26 UTC

There’s an interesting opportunity here to opt for Chinese liquidity but the truth is simply that whatever economic-interest signals the Chinese were giving off in December are now secondary to their frustrations with MoD appointees.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 07:47:18 UTC

‘I joined an NGO’ employed as a positive, lul.
For what it’s worth—I think going AQ or 501c3 are both losing strategies for ‘le political experience.’
But sometimes losing strategies turn out well enough. At least it did for Shar’a, not so much for OP.
“Did you just compare joining a non-profit to joining AlQaeda!!!!!”
Yes, yes I did
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 07:43:31 UTC

When they do it, it’s called sexpionage, but when we do it, it’s ‘lovejihad.’
#islamophobia
(I actually do not care about Islamophobia; don’t get this xeet twisted)
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-20 07:42:41 UTC

“What is your favorite Salafi maqaala of the past five years?”
Mohsen Goudarzi’s ‘Worship (dīn), Monotheism (islām), and the Qurʾān’s Cultic Decalogue,’ of course
“…..”
Why Brother, it is such a well written exposition on the Salaf’s understanding of Kufr ‘Amali
Honestly, I’m always curious why Salafis don’t “Early Islam Academia”-maxx, the assertions in there are often more favorable to them than their foes
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-19 17:51:48 UTC

The hook isn’t really in knowing things opaque, it’s in knowing what’s most worth knowing.
Even things relatively recent, overmined, usher one into the less fruitful realms of conspiracy.
The odd experiments that occurred in decades past binding between spookery, psychoanalysis, and the occult, noteworthy stuff.
But for most, a distracting and obfuscating unit of interest.
A model that centers variables best left peripheral is one not worth immediately having
One might also consider becoming too enamoured with or, conversely, too dismissive with dances in the political.
Power rests in a lot of places, informed by multiple shifting networks, solar and lunar, of evolving obsessions and interests.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-19 17:45:10 UTC

Turns out Kojeve’s desired Latin Empire to balance the Anglo-Saxon Imperial behemoth will be Turkish.
Yes. Marcus Aurelius actually is home.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-19 07:22:39 UTC

I love how the term “biomass” was extremely offensive to Muslim X when introduced then over time lots of great accounts just realized on their own “oh yeah, lots of biomass here” and started to use it liberally with acceptance
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-19 07:19:18 UTC

Insanoid extremist variants of salafism popular with 14-19 year old biomass online plays on the same psychological triggers the initial waves of redpill/manosphere did: the belief that 95%+ of the world is astray and YOU, AS PART OF THIS SELECT GROUP is AWAKE to it all.
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-19 07:15:36 UTC

I have received more than 500 spam DMs in the past month asking me to promote crypto scams
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-19 07:14:59 UTC

If a it takes hundreds of inter-Dawah Inc ego-exchanges to escalate into Mubahala for the fancies of diaspora to die a calamitous death, it’ll be a small price to pay.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-18 16:43:52 UTC

All the white pills are in Syria nowadays. News everywhere else sucks.
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-18 16:33:43 UTC

Almost every display of Islamic representation in western media is some gynocratic led exercise in engineered passivity.
A performance of “we’re just like youuu” that neither alters the trite perspectives of the accommodating lib or the frustrations of the disgruntled nat.
Instead, it reinforces the diaspora’s shared belief that there’s a note of resistance in aspiring to American Shitlib Suburbia amidst “Brothers’ Wrestling Night Fridays” and “Sisters Uncensored Halaqa-Night Saturdays.”
Either develop some semblance of Americana Civic Pride or acknowledge that we’re a bunch of plundering browns that will be going back.
Doesn’t matter which; just pick one. Either would be a marked improvement compared to ‘“I hate Amerikkka” in Bio but buy my HijabiQueen matcha.’
The greatest sin of the American Muslim diaspora, frankly, is simply how boring it allows itself to be.
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-18 07:57:43 UTC

Qawali playlist getting me through work rn
@npub1pgj…xu9k

2025-02-18 07:56:11 UTC

"Speed creates pure objects. It is itself a pure object since it cancels out the ground and territorial reference-points, since it runs ahead of time to annul time itself, since it moves more quickly than its own cause and obliterates that cause by outstripping it
Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry
The only question in this journey is: how far can we go in the extermination of meaning, how far can we go in the non-referential desert form without cracking up and, of course, still keep alive the esoteric charm of disappearance?
The crucial moment is that brutal instant which reveals that the journey has no end, that there is no longer any reason for it to come to an end. Beyond a certain point, it is movement itself that changes."
Ecoreactionair@

2025-02-18 07:30:46 UTC

The measure of a legendary, pluralist monarch does not depend on whether his actions conform to a vapid liberal’s sense of human rights…but on whether his legacy and its quality—be it pragmatist or divinely-guided—is squabbled over by the legalist heirs of a subject minority.
Cyrus won so much Rebbe X and Rebbe Y will perennially argue whether he were just a sharp goyim or a mashiach
@npub1jzt…9j4q

2025-02-17 18:09:12 UTC

NOW ONLINE: The Muslim Partisan by @npub1la0…6dx7
"A warrior must pursue both the Way of the pen and the Way of the sword, yet if one were to have a look at our Ummah today, how many men are walking this two-fold Way?"
https://qawwam.online/the-muslim-partisan/
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2025-02-17 18:05:56 UTC

With Them by Young Thug… what a song
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2025-02-17 18:01:11 UTC

There’s an urban legend that floats around Ikhwani types. No idea if it’s true but iirc it goes like:
Moshe Dayan once told an Arab counterpart that when the line for bread in Cairo looks like the one in Tel Aviv, Israel’s days will have come to an end.
Honestly, I’m not so sure the Israelis are any more domestically civil than the Arabs.
But the story does betray an MB-Islamism obsession with a culture of civility among the subaltern despite what I’d describe as their often misguided assumptions about how to engender it.
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2025-02-17 03:47:29 UTC

Al-Shar’a’s most Levantine Arab male trait could very well be the simple fact that he seems happiest behind the wheel.
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2025-02-17 02:56:54 UTC

Marxist, Liberal, Shar’i, whatever label the institutions and systems of a power solemnly or nominally profess, the political elements of the superstructure mostly real in so far as they demarcate ‘consciousness, aesthetics, and power-relations’ relative to the base.
At the height of efficiency, the ground starts to look similar.
Thus , it’s perfectly possible that a system be entirely Islamic in its personal reading of its own political structure, but seemingly liberal, communist, or socially democrat to a neutral, external observer.
It’s really the sentiments of the observer that carry that outcome.
Let our players forego all political-identity and rob the archives for what works best within the fold of faith.
If, among others, that produces meaning in their grand crusade for political teleology, who cares
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2025-02-16 17:32:28 UTC

In a violent technocrat future that supplants the current cyber-analog transitional reality, it seems at this rate Elon’s kids are going to wage bloody wars against each other in Taifa fashion with their AI corporations.
@npub1qun…daqq

2025-02-16 17:31:41 UTC

If you want to see a titular education clusterfuck look at Egypt.
—tired Thanaweya Amma system
—cuts in an underfunded schools and teachers operating in an entire alternative private-class industry that keeps the vocation afloat
—organized crime involved standardized testing
Perhaps the new Egyptian baccalaureate system has something to offer, or perhaps it’s one more reform in a series of endless tinkering with an edu system seemingly unable to escape inefficiency-by-competing-interests
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2025-02-16 17:25:12 UTC

(We're forming a jpop group)
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2025-02-16 05:13:41 UTC

You can accurately draw out a timeline of every “hot topic” related to Islam that the online right fervently discussed since October 7th 2023, and match it exactly to the Israeli media/pundit news being put out at the time. Yin to their Yang.
> October 7th happens
> the right discusses violent Izlamic jihad and how reprehensible it is
> Israel puts out beheaded babies hoax
> the right posts alleged massacres done by Muslim powers centuries ago
> hamas mass r*pe hoax
> the right posts about Islamic concubinage
Are you kidding me
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