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8 months

Muslims are never going to forget that Europe literally banned citizens from going out in public to *say*, "We want a ceasefire so that innocent people will stop being killed." They didn't ban *violence* or *incitement*. They simply said, "Shut your mouth and watch them die."

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People are dunking on Piers Morgan but that’s not what I see. I see someone who is giving air time to Palestinians and Muslims and is just giving as good as he gets in conversation. Who else is *regularly* having these people on? People should thank him not insult him.

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This is the Bin Laden doctrine precisely: Your civilians are all legitimate targets because certain elements of your society have wronged us and you are complicit. So we can kill you all and it’s moral to do so. Repellent.

Douglas Murray

@DouglasKMurray

5 months

How about ‘Consequences’? Maybe your employees shouldn’t have taken part in a massacre that started a war.

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This can only mean, "We are authorized by God to kill everyone: man, woman, and child." There is not the slightest ambiguity here. What the Bible says about Amalek is the most genocidal set of commands of any religious text. Netanyahu is insane.

Michael Tracey

@mtracey

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Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible" 1 Samuel 15:3 "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"

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There is no literally position in the history of Islam by any figure central or marginal that is open to marriage of any other kind. You will find more references to marrying jinn than you will to the idea that a man can marry another man (zero).

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Muslims are never going to forget that when the Charlie Hebdo staff was murdered, European leaders took to the streets to protest the right to ridicule Muslims, but when it came to the right to plead on behalf of Muslims being murdered, they were commanded to stay home.

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Women have no such absolute right to choose what to wear anywhere on earth. (Neither do men.) No society recognizes such a right, and never has. It's a juvenile formulation used insincerely by Westerners to push other priorities around the world and impose their values.

Amnesty International USA

@amnestyusa

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Women 👏 have 👏 the 👏 right 👏 to 👏 choose 👏 what 👏 to 👏 wear 👏

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Everyone has the right to love their culture. So if you're French, by all means celebrate your food. If you're German, love Goethe. If you're English be proud of Newton. But please do save your lectures about universal values that you never fail to violate.

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3 years

Last term a couple of Catholic students told me about their Muslim friend who claimed that since the Quran only specifically mentions wine it is actually permissible in Islam to have—(mentally of course I was naturally expecting “beer” or something)—COCAINE

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3 years

A lot of people in ”solidarity“ with Palestinians portray them as if they were Marxist revolutionaries or something, while the clips/posts by ordinary Palestinians of all stripes are constantly mentioning God and religious ethical principles. These are not Bolsheviks, sorry.

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2 years

For millennia that most basic human obligation one had was towards one's parents. Every sacred tradition places it at the top of one's duties. Only a dead culture filled with dishonorable degenerate wraiths could mock the filial piety for one's mother.

Nima Tavallaey Roodsari

@NimaTavRood

2 years

This was on Danish TV @tv2newsdk where hosts jokingly equate #MAR players hugging their mothers after games with monkeys. “Because they stick together, they also do that during family reunions in Qatar, in #Morocco ” whilst holding up photo of monkeys.

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1 year

Do you think people are going to come out and say, "We need to undermine Islam and turn observant Muslims into cultural Muslims who live and talk the way we want to." Do you think people will say that out loud? Of course not.

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2 years

This is why pride is so dangerous. Here we have a historian who is not Muslim and who does not read Arabic lecturing Muslim university professors about what Islam really is.

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

2 years

@2DrFeryal @MilkLions @CKDagli The Qur'an comes from God, who is the only legislator, & it supposes that no one can know how to behave correctly without a revealed scripture. This is why historically - pace the Mu'tazilites - the idea of natural law & rights has had no place in Islam.

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2 years

I think many Muslims don’t understand just how effective Hamza Yusuf’s conversation with Jordan Peterson was. There are people who are talking about “white supremacy” but as far as I can see that is a malicious misinterpretion of a general statement about trials in life.

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Yes, women who feel “unsafe” typically step out of their car and follow the danger. It’s not because she feels completely physically safe but also has a sense of impunity to harass someone without fear of any consequences because her husband is a professor.

The Sparrow Project

@sparrowmedia

7 months

“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.” A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.

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@ZareenaGrewal There are as many "queer nikahs" as there are "halal vodkas". You can't just smash words together to create reality.

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4 years

Advice to young academics: Too much “Islamic studies” today is 3rd-rate postmodern cultural critique--lazy riffing about Muslims as a variegated bundle of racial/gender/sexual groups with "Islam" as a symbolic cultural marker. Don't be absorbed by that blob as many others have.

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2 years

Someone tell Tom Holland about zakat, which he is literally describing . I don't blame people for loving their own culture, but won't Europeans ever tire of these provincial and Hegelian "we are the special unique culmination of world history" arguments?

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4 years

To be a *scholar* of Islam as a religious tradition with moral & intellectual content one must know Arabic. This should not be even remotely controversial. Knowing Arabic (a lingua franca, not an identity) doesn’t make you more or less Muslim, but it’s a minimum for scholarship.

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1 year

March 1, 2024 insha Allah

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9 months

Western governments scrambling to forbid public sympathy for innocent Palestinians being massacred will be the last straw for many people who thought liberalism had something to offer.

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2 years

Look at the way this person cannot even say "pray" without sneering at it (:23) and then pretend he's offended he can't "pray" to a God he does not believe in. Hey Dr. Peterson, what do you mean "pray"? What do you mean "endeavored"? What do you mean "doing"?

MintPress News

@MintPressNews

2 years

Jordan Peterson has labelled adherence to Islamic custom in the Al-Aqsa compound an "unecessary tyranny." In a new video about entering the site, Peterson asserts that he should be able to touch his wife in Al-Aqsa.

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8 months

Douglas Murray makes the argument that it's not genocide because Palestinians make babies faster than Israelis can kill them. Amazing what passes for an intellectual in the West.

Piers Morgan vs Douglas Murray Under Fire At Israel-Gaza Border |...

Watch Piers Morgan's explosive interview with author and journalist Douglas Murray on the Israel-Gaza border.Douglas Murray says evidence of Hamas's October ...

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5 years

Muslim analysis of Islamophobia has been completely overtaken by race theory. The discourse from our side is racism, racism, racism as *the* explantation for anti-Muslim hostility. This tunnel vision is going to hurt us in the long run. Racism is only one factor among several.

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1 year

According to Grewal's logic, now we have to accept that there is halal pork too because an American supermarket published this "whether you like it or not"

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1 year

The objections to this utterly mild and even overly meek statement of one's rights are astounding. "Either change Islam or shut up and let us change it!" It's made certain people publicly bare their teeth, so it's at least valuable in that respect.

Dr. Yasir Qadhi

@YasirQadhi

1 year

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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9 months

I know Christians who do, but they are remarkable for how rare they are. Most of Western Christians seem to treat Palestinian Christians like a cost of doing business. They don't seem to count. They're more anti-Muslim than pro-Christian, or they're just utterly propagandized.

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10 months

Muslims worldwide have to really understand how utterly counterproductive the state sanctioned "blasphemy laws" are. No understanding of the Prophet's interactions with his detractors could possibly support the current brittleness and hysteria-mongering masquerading as piety.

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1 year

By the grace of God I have just finished a book and it is now in production, alhamdulillah. It is called Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project The table of contents and introduction can be found here:

Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project (forthcoming from SUNY Press March 2024)

Preorder available: https://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Metaphysical-Institutions

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7 months

An indictment of American intellectual culture is the possibility of a career like that of Bari Weiss. A mediocrity and spoiled brat acting like some embattled radical, but with a bottomless source of funding and connections. At least everyone knows Dave Rubin is stupid.

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Bill Maher’s knowledge is entirely passively absorbed through midwit social connections and shows no evidence of ever reading a book or talking to a person with knowledge or meeting Muslims in real life. His writers seem to be dumber than Bari Weiss. Has he ever traveled?

Bill Maher

@billmaher

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Kids, if you want to change the world and not just tie up Monday morning traffic, this is the apartheid that desperately needs your attention: The #GenderApartheid .

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9 months

I was telling Muslims years ago, when people were naively talking about inviting him to Islamic conferences, that @jordanbpeterson was trouble. Today he's doing war propaganda for Bibi Netanyahu:

Jordan Peterson, Islam, and Feminist Rape Fantasy

Here Peterson voices the typical position of anti-Muslim bigots: it's really a political system, not a religion. For Peterson it seems to follows that the on...

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4 months

My new book, Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project, is officially out today, alhamdulillah. There's a free Kindle sample on Amazon, and also a preview on Google Books.

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4 years

Dear Muslim intellectuals: If your politics can’t account coherently for *both* the Makkan period (13 years of prayer and *pacifism*) and the Madinan period (10 community building years w/ intermittent battles) then don’t invoke the Prophet’s sunnah for your ideological project.

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8 months

I listened to that Hamza Yusuf clip twice, and also heard the whole interview. I have no idea what people are objecting to. I have published on jihad in Islam. He didn't say anything morally or factually incorrect at all. I'm glad to be set straight.

What Islam Really Says About Jihad

Hamza Yusuf is one of the foremost authorities on Islam. Jordan's Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre places him 36th on its list of the top 500 most infl...

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8 months

One of the great virtues of traditional Islamic thought is that the terms of moralizing critique were also well defined. A politicized cipher like “terrorist”—utterly without analytical content— is possible only in the modern world of emotive ethics.

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1 year

I interacted with Lean on this issue under the mistaken impression that he was a Muslim. My mistake. He's out of line. I find his hectoring and nasty attacks against Muslims to be wildly inappropriate and quite frankly bizarre from someone who has studied Islamophobia.

Nathan Lean

@nathanlean

1 year

Comparing members of the LGBTQ+ community to people who use drugs and consume alcohol is not only unintelligent. It is hateful. You are suggesting that, in both cases, equally, an illicit and immoral choice is being made. Science has long refuted this simplistic religious view.

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2 years

Ibn Arabi wrote in the Fusus that God is al-Rahman (the Compassionate) and gives without our asking Him, but God's Infinity also means that there are things which are only given after having been asked for, so ask! If this were not so, He would not be al-Mujīb (the Answerer).

Bactrian 🌴

@ElegantiaeArbit

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What is the point of making dua for anything in the dunya? Whatever God decreed must happen, and whatever He does not decree is impossible. God has the best plan for you, but maybe that's in the life to come. How is dua for anything worldly not a vain endeavour? Genuinely asking

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It's very, very hard to accept that great evil can be done in the name of that very ideal in which one believes. A lot of Muslims thought 9/11 was a false flag, not because they had any evidence, but because they genuinely thought "There's no way a Muslim could do this." 1/

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1 year

It's one thing to look back and see tons of wine-drinking in Islamic history. It was all out in the open. But that's quite different from "Wine-drinking is Islamic too" which of course no one ever said, I don't care what Shahab tried to claim.

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1 year

You are indeed a fraud, and please keep your hands off our religion.

Nathan Lean

@nathanlean

1 year

If you’re following along, the courageous @CKDagli proceeded to call me a fraud and, shifting into a Will-Smith-Goes-To-The-Oscars register, demanded that I “keep my hands off his religion.” Of course, he deleted it before I could respond. Beautiful.

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1 year

Very disappointing to see Prof. Cole come out, multiple times, amplifying the most extreme voices and the "Islam is whatever Muslims do" point of view. You are a good historian in our field, one of the best, but we will decide what is normative in our religion, thank you.

Juan Cole

@jricole

1 year

There is a democratic element in deciding on normativity in Islam. Hadiths like 'My ummah will not unite on an error," eg. In modern Muslim states elected parliaments often play a normative role. Pakistan's parliament recognized trans rights in 2009

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9 months

Not fooled, nor impressed. Peterson has no knowledge of history or the region. The “interfaith” angle has been used for decades to distract from what has always been a land conflict. Concern trolling by an employee of Ben Shapiro, that’s all.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

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“I believe that Jews, Christians and Muslims share more in common than what divides them, and because I know that since there is no such thing as a world without religion, we must do what is best with what we have been bequeathed.” My views on the crisis in the Middle East. Video

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5 months

The ongoing starvation and mass murder of Palestinians is not in the same moral universe as and the changing of immigration rules from some countries. Biden is an active participant in a genocide. Trump could ban immigration of ALL Muslims and it wouldn't even be close.

الكسندرا ميراي🇵🇸

@LexiAlex

5 months

I swear they want to lose

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4 months

All that's needed to be an "intellectual" today is to just keep talking/writing, and stay on message. It doesn't matter how stupid you are. You will demonstrate your stupidity repeatedly, but still collect followers if you just keep going. People will mistake volume for depth.

Prof. Brian Keating

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Sam Harris says "consciousness is the ground truth of reality" and even the notion of free will is nonsense. What do you think?

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1 year

"I don't believe in your religion, but let me tell you the right way to practice your religion!" Absolutely incredible.

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2 months

No major denomination of the Modern Project—socialism, fascism, liberalism—has failed to produce multiple genocides. The imperative to carve out a realm of human life where we pretend God does not exist must be abandoned. We cannot outwit the devil and are not wiser than God.

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4 months

For years we’ve been asked “Is Islam compatible with liberalism?” It might be, actually, depending on definitions. The problem is that, in the long run, and as we’ve seen with Gaza, liberalism is not compatible with liberalism. It is liberals who cannot be liberal, not us.

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3 years

These amazing people endure and have incredible courage, and for a large number of them this is attributable to their strong faith and cultivation of virtues through their faith, mostly Islam but also Christianity. Too bad this gets edited out by people trying to be their friends

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8 months

It is important to always remember that when the ADL and Ben Shapiro types talk about "antisemitism", they are talking about Zionism and Israel in 99 percent of cases, not real antisemitism like synagogue shootings. There's always a "new antisemitism" to cover for Israel.

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2 years

Liberals have now mainstreamed the idea that kids should attend drag shows. Drag shows are sex shows, and kids have no business anywhere near them. If you think it's ok for men dressed as hookers to gyrate in front of young kids you are already a pervert and you need help.

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4 years

The main flaw in this kind of argument is that it is *always* Islam that is to be revised in light of the modern. To suggest changing the modern in light of Islam is unthinkable. The ills of recent interpretations of Islam are real, but ills of the modern project dwarf them.

Mustafa Akyol

@AkyolinEnglish

4 years

My new article: "How #Islamists are Ruining #Islam ." Deism is rising in Turkey. Piety is fading in Iran. Atheism is coming to Arabs. Due to wrongs done in the name of Islam. Read in "Current Trends in Islamist Ideology" by @HudsonInstitute . @CatoPress :

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Do Democrats really think that Muslims are sitting around debating, "Well on the one hand, there is the mass murder and destruction of an entire people, but on the other hand Trump might change immigration rules for my cousins. So hard to decide!" We are not like you.

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10 months

Soon if Muslim girls in France wear loose pants, they will be told to wear tighter pants. I am 100 percent sure this will happen. Reporter: "Monsieur why the new rule that Muslim girls have to wear yoga pants to school?" Macron [with trembling pride]: "It is for LAICITE!"

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2 years

By the end HY challenged a long-standing line of BS from Peterson, namely that Islam is “hard to understand” and needs special native informants to be decoded. This “oh Islam is so inscrutable” is a very important dimension of highbrow Islamophobia,

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1 year

@ZareenaGrewal @ProfGHDorr ISIS also enslaved Yazidi girls and called it Islamic. Let me ask you: on what basis would you declare that they did the wrong thing? Would you accept for even a millisecond the argument: "Well, Muslims are enslaving girls whether you like it or not." Be serious.

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7 months

All children are by definition innocent. These are demonic people.

Mark R. Levin

@marklevinshow

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There Are No ‘Innocent Palestinians’

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8 months

History shows us that liberalism cannot stop liberal leaders from massacring in other countries. There are many nice liberals and even nice liberal institutions, but they can't stop anything. If an American president or British or French prime minster want to kill, they do.

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4 months

This is in no way the “average” Islam in Turkey. Not even remotely.

شرق‌زده sharghzadeh

@sharghzadeh

4 months

Hijrah bros, especially the Turkey types (Ottoman fanboys) need to understand that this is the average Islam you will encounter there. Any random diaspora community is *way* more religious than people back home, evidenced by the many conflicts diaspora kids have with their

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One witnesses the spectacle of tenured scholars at major research institutions who cannot even properly read classical Arabic subjecting a great Islamic polymath (or an entire field) to an analysis through a "Foucauldian" framework or "queer theory" or some other vanity project

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When Lord Cromer was in charge of Egypt for the British over a century ago, he was VERY concerned about the plight of those poor Muslim women. So caring. In Britain he was in charge of the movement AGAINST women's suffrage. It's not a new game.

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4 years

It's sad to simply ask someone "How would you explain that idea to a freshman?" and watch them self-destruct. People whose research was heavily based on primary sources almost always perform far better than those immersed in postmodern "theory"

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It's interesting how the persistent presence of human beings like this is never called "structural" or "systemic" by those who like to use such terms to interpret human affairs.

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You have to be some kind of true psychopath to support the premeditated and intentional and systematic starving a million children and then demand others give you “detailed” reasons why this is wrong.

Gad Saad

@GadSaad

4 months

Serious question to all of the folks who state that Israel has retaliated in a too forceful manner. Assuming that you concede that the Hamas massacre took place (many Jew-haters don't), what is the means by which you would arrive to a just retaliation? In other words, if you

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4 years

I hope the Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) will remain open to visitors like the Blue Mosque next door. I don’t see why it wouldn’t. It can be both a cultural treasure and a mosque. Muslims can pray there and everyone can still come and see it.

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3 years

Many highly placed woke Muslim academics take this person as some kind of academic guru. To promote such a clearly false message, meant to imply that the Prophet approved of homoeroticism, is beyond belief. I know what the Hadith says, and it’s not what is clearly meant here.

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2 years

The CAIR rep said that "hearing about" the image being shown affected the grades and ability of Muslim students to finish the semester? First, I highly doubt that. Second, is this the kind of hyper-fragility we should be promoting for young Muslims?

Debates on whether academic freedom includes images offensive to Muslims

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Many grad students and even early career professors don't realize (I didn't) that there are entire fields in academia that are almost entirely useless--actually worse, because they take promising scholars from work that is substantial and needed.

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2 years

which uses Islam’s inscrutability to get away with being illiterate about Islam. “it’s sooo strange, let’s just ask Maajid Nawaz or Ayaan instead”. So for HY to tell him how easy it is to understand, and to make the point that Islamic civilization has some for everyone,

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9 months

Cannot take seriously a man who goes through a multi-step process, with many chances to abort, in order to arrive at a custom suit that looks like this. This kind of aesthetic stupidity cannot be disconnected from ethical judgment.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

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Perhaps the tightest Short speech I ever made Earlier this week In Manhattan

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1 year

There are many principled liberals and leftists, and I respect them especially on freedom of religion issues and opposition to wars. But a lot of the so-called support from the Democratic Party for Muslims has been purely to acquire a solid voting bloc to add to their base.

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There’s also the moral question of carelessly and *unjustifiably* telling generations of Muslims (eg in univ courses) that their tradition’s foundation is a giant lie. Are there any micro aggressions to compare to that?

Ramon Harvey

@RamonIHarvey

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Hi @DrJavadTHashmi . You've asked me lots of questions on a bunch of threads and unfortunately I don't have spare time to discuss them all. I will try to mention the main points as I see them. I think the heart of our disagreement is that I don't think that the main Western

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"3,600 people — roughly one-third of the total — were killed in areas where Israel has told civilians in northern Gaza to escape to." Killed by Israeli bombs, let's be clear. Hard to think of a more wretched kind of cruel duplicity. No honor.

Israel told Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza — and stepped up attacks there

Satellite imagery shows a steady increase in the number of buildings destroyed in middle and southern Gaza. Most damage appeared after Oct. 13, when Israel's military urged evacuation from the north.

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The "shut up peasants and vote for Biden like you're told" liberal onslaught that is developing demonstrates once again that the Democrat establishment does not care about Muslims and just want another reliable voting bloc. Muslims still have some dignity.

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Follow up on my thread about "theory" (i.e. *bad* philosophy) in Islamic studies: If you disagree with postmodern theory folks or criticize their Parisian apex philosophers they will first tell you that you just don’t understand the stuff, or they literally call you names.

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@CKDagli

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Peterson touts himself as a student of 20th century totalitarianisms, but does not seem to have cracked open a single book to find out what the history of this conflict might be. He just crams it into his "failures are resentful of successful people" schtick. What a fraud.

Piers Morgan Uncensored

@PiersUncensored

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“I don’t think Israel is going away, but Palestine isn’t going away either and those things have to be accepted." Jordan Peterson tells Piers Morgan his thoughts on how he thinks the Israel-Hamas war will play out. @jordanbpeterson | @piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #PMU

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ChatGPT is not "intelligent". It is a massive energy-hungry machine that outputs text mechanically derived from chosen text inputs, according to a complex algorithm designed and regulated by people. Think of it as a chess engine with more parameters

Language Is Not Mechanical (and Neither Are You)

Modern philosophers and scientists are committed to the idea of world as machine, and yet they cannot explain language without the immaterial mind.

renovatio.zaytuna.edu

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Quran with interlinear translation that gives meanings at the word level (not full sentences) with a translation on the side If you have some grammar it’s a great way to not look up every word. Wish I had this when I was first learning (also the Qarai phrase by phrase one)

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@CKDagli

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The surest way to become a fanatic is to believe that one's beliefs make one incapable of fanaticism. The surest way to become a tyrant is to believe oneself incapable of tyranny. One's beliefs and one's cause do not make one good. One actually has to be good.

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Muslims did not wake up yesterday and discover gays, lesbians, and people with gender dysphoria. They have always been there. What's different today is a movement to change the religion itself and to destroy the existing sources of moral authority in favor of something new.

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Of course we talk about children, but remember how hard it is to move around as an old person who in many ways is much more fragile than even an infant. You can pick up a kid and run. How many helpless old timers just couldn't move and had to wait for death from above?

Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

@MuhammadSmiry

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A refugee for the second time of her life | Gaza

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This same person literally starting crying on air about civilians being killed a couple weeks ago. That would have been admirable, if this display were not so cold-blooded.

Faisal

@FaisalAHAli

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Here is a clip in case you'd like to watch him make this stunning admission. There are no more pretences:

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As a Circassian I will admit a few days ago I thought people were throwing around the word “genocide” too carelessly. I was incorrect. There is no more ambiguity about what the psychopathic Israeli state is intending. I hope the saner minds in Israel will eventually prevail.

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Extremely well connected man who taught for decades at major universities for some reason does not know how to conduct research or get in touch with people. I really dislike the "ooh the Muslims are so exotic and unstudied how can anyone know about them?!" imposture.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

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I want to talk to someone on my YouTube channel about the protests in Iran. Who? Why? How can I reach them?

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I noticed that the State Department had time to condemn Erdogan for non-existent “anti-Semitic” remarks (I checked the Turkish, no such remarks, only harsh criticism) but they didn’t condemn Israel sacrilegiously quoting a Qur’anic verse over a photo of Gazans being murdered.

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They begin by saying, "You don't have to agree, but you need to live and let live" "Ok, we'll do that." "Not enough, now you need to be silent and not criticize us" "Ok" "Not enough, you now need to celebrate us, or reveal yourselves as hateful"

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Turkish Quran with a very interesting format: the translation is color coded to correspond to the Arabic and there is a transliteration alongside. Huge book, my elderly mom can’t even lift it to hand to me.

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@CKDagli

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In fact he seems genuinely interested in the Palestinian side being aired and just wants someone who is good “on mic”. Why else would he invite Hijab on?

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Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project is available for pre-order as an e-book from Google Play (but not Amazon yet, for some reason).

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Very worthwhile (and wide ranging) interview with Wael Hallaq (in Arabic, but the YouTube closed captioning English translation is quite good). Over 4 hours!

وائل حلاق: الدولة والحرية وكيف تفكك المجتمع | بودكاست فنجان

نشرة بريدية منّي عبدالرحمن أبومالح ومن فريق فنجان، لجمهور البودكاست المقربين. https://thmanyah.link/8be1e3أتذكر مقولة: إن كل شيء حولنا في الحياة من صنع أشخاص...

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I hope it is never forgotten that the first response by the Western powers, literally within hours, to the ICJ ruling on Israel committing mass atrocities against Palestinians was to cut off humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. They suffered a small defeat, and lashed out.

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Incredible that this charlatan is still pushing this nonsense

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

@Ayaan

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Taqiyya is an Islamist concept that translates to fool the infidel. Lie, dissemble, pretend to go along. Whatever it takes to make the Infidel lower his guard. There are lots of useful idiots demonstrating in DC with Hamas today. Truly fooled.

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I have interviewed many job candidates, and it's astounding how much immersion in continental "theory" degrades a scholar's ability to think, write, and speak clearly. Many smart people didn't get the job because they couldn't explain what they were researching.

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@CKDagli

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The people who killed my grandfather and uncles, sent my grandmother and aunts to die in Kazakhstan, and stole my father’s house, clothes, and furniture, were all extremely worried about the capitalists and the fascists. Be careful about whose bandwagon you choose to ride.

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Bill Maher thinks he's being clever, but this level of anachronistic abstraction is moral stupidity, and shows just how badly liberalism has failed. This is pure "might makes right" and is a repudiation of any morality in the international sphere. 1/

New Rule: From the River to the Sea | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

It may be a “magical time of year,” but what we all really need right now is a good dose of realism about Israel and Palestine.

www.youtube.com

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What’s ”complicated” about Israel/Palestine is not the history or events. Rather, it’s the stupefyingly intricate propaganda/money machine that distorts the reality on the ground for American consumption. A kindergartener could understand the basic contours of the situation.

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The Islamic so-called “culture of ambiguity” (Bauer) is really better named “a culture of interpretation”. The point is not to have comfort with the unknown as such or to dwell in the subjective, but rather to understand the nature of the choice between possibilities. 1/

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Medical establishment: "A woman can have a penis" Young boy: "I feel like a woman" Medical establishment: "Then let's cut off your penis" When they want to mutilate kids, women shouldn't have a penis. When they want to use women's bathrooms, women can have a penis. Madness

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Scholars in "Islamic studies" write entire books that are structured as an analysis of [aspect of Islam] through Foucault. No reason to even justify why one does it. Foucault can simply be presupposed without argument. It's astonishing.

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Things the Ottomans also missed out on: Creating global ecological catastrophe Nuclear weapons Tens of millions of human beings dead as a result of communism, fascism, and rapacious capitalism. Destruction and erasure of entire cultures.

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

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The Ottoman Empire limited the dissemination of printed books, fearing religious & political upheaval. Consequently, it missed out on the Enlightenment & lost its dominant status in science, technology, & ultimately lost its economic and military influence.

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