Stephan Altman

@DanBurmawy Thank you sensei 🙏🏼

If we’re forced to choose between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims in today’s geopolitical landscape, then as a former Sunni, I can tell you, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second: I would choose the Shia every single time. Hezbollah has devastated Lebanon for over 30 years. They’ve hijacked the country’s sovereignty, dragged it into needless wars with Israel, dealt drugs across continents, and trained militias from Syria to Yemen. Iran’s regime has exported chaos to the entire region. I am not here to sanitize the destruction caused by Shia Islam. But there is no comparison, none, between Sunni jihad and Shia jihad when it comes to the barbarity, monstrosity, and nihilism at their core. Shia wilāya is a political-theological project rooted in eschatological hope, the belief in a coming world of justice, peace, and divine order under the awaited Mahdi. This doesn’t make their actions justifiable, but it does mean their violence is directed, however twistedly, against what they interpret as tyrannical regimes or ideological threats. When they target civilians, it’s typically selective, an assassination of a perceived enemy of the movement, not wholesale slaughter for religious cleansing. This vision stems from their Muʿtazila-influenced theology, which still gives weight to human reason and moral evaluation alongside the sacred text. Sunni jihad, by contrast, is a black hole. It recognizes no moral hierarchy, no ethical filter, no gradation of violence. There is no distinction between soldier and child, between combatant and teacher, between state and street. Any non-Muslim, or even any “wrong” kind of Muslim, is a legitimate target. Bombing a wedding, beheading an aid worker, enslaving Yazidi girls, torching churches, shooting up schools, this is not collateral damage. It is the goal. Sunni Islam’s dominant theological school, Ashʿarism, rejects reason as a tool for understanding good and evil. Morality, in this view, is whatever Allah commands, even if it contradicts logic, conscience, or compassion. If the Qur’an says to kill the unbeliever, then killing is not just allowed, it is good. Period. This is why Sunni jihadis can burn people alive, blow up their own children, or massacre entire villages, because they believe Allah said so, and that’s the end of the story. Shia Islam, for all its flaws, is still institutional, hierarchical, and clerically mediated. You don’t see Shia suicide bombers popping up in random countries every week because violence is still (relatively) controlled from above. But Sunni jihad is chaotic, decentralized, and viral. Sunni theology is deontological, Shia theology is teleological. Sunni terrorism is a Frankenstein of Wahhabism, Deobandism, Salafism, and Muslim Brotherhood ideology that teaches followers to reject all modernity, all compromise, and all mercy.

@SizweLo You surely a bot. Or you are a fuck*ng idiot.

PSA: Why is your feed full of enemy propoganda? How do bad actors game the X algorithm to suppress voices they don’t like? Here’s how it works. The X algorithm rates users by their engagement rate, not by how many views they get. So it’s very easy to game. Here is an example; this happens often to all pro-Israel accounts: You will notice a post suddenly jump by hundreds of thousands of impressions without any corresponding gain in engagement, likes, comments, RTs, etc. Look at this post from a few days ago: A typical post with nearly 250,000 impressions would have around 5,000 likes, so this is a very bad ratio, marking the post, and thus the entire account as spam. The post then gets marked by the algorithm as super low quality due to the artificially suppressed “engagement rate,” and that means the account that posted it will be suppressed for some unknown number of days. In this case, it is clear which country the attack was organized from; it is usually Turkey. A sudden spike in impressions from Turkey to 7% (and that’s over the past seven days for all posts; if we could see the data for the individual targeted post, it would probably be over 70%), while LIKES from Turkey are flat, exposes the means by which they targeted the post, to get it—and the entire account—flagged and therefore suppressed. X must know their algorithm is being manipulated in this ultra-basic way. It borks the feed for all the users, since they are getting fed things they don't want to see instead of the supressed accounts they do want to see. It’s unclear why nothing is done. This is the exact inverse of what it does to boost posts from bad actors of the Jackson Hinkle and Jake Shields type and force their divisive slop into the eyeballs of normies: bot farms are pointed at them to like their posts, which is why you see that the impression-to-like ratio on their posts can exceed 20%—ten times what is typical for legitimate content.

@JamesMelville Lemme help: The Nakba was a “catastrophe” bc they tried to destroy the Jews and they lost. That loss was the catastrophe. Again in 67 and 73, tried and lost. Then came terrorism and tunnels, suicide bombs and hostages which people like you call “resistance”. U clown.

Gaza. Completely flattened and destroyed by the current war. ▪️Over 70,000 dead. ▪️Over 20,000 children dead. ▪️90% of residential buildings destroyed or damaged. And before anyone says “October 7th”, Palestinians lost their sovereignty, human rights, freedoms and security decades ago. It goes back way further. The 1948 Nakba - which started following the UN partition plan, the end of the British Mandate, and the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. What followed was the mass displacement, dispossession, and destruction of Palestinian society during the 1948 Palestine war. Around 750,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled, and over 500 villages were depopulated. Roughly half of Palestine's Arab population was forced to flee or was expelled by Israeli paramilitaries.

@jeremycorbyn Yay!! Guess this is our intifada globalized 🥳 Thank you for doing your bit

Hatzola, set up by the local Jewish community, provides life-saving care to people of all faiths and none. It is appalling that this valued, volunteer-run ambulance service has been targeted. We must oppose hatred, and build a society where everyone can live in safety & peace.

@FurkanGozukara He was a lovely guy. Yes he ordered the killing of 30k civilians but actually he was the good guy in the government. 🤦

Absolute bombshell. Christiane Amanpour confirms that US and Israeli analysts admit Iran is firmly in the driving seat of this war. She also reveals the assassinated Iranian negotiator was actually their favored candidate for a transition.

@alon_mizrahi not for want of trying

Iran has been bombing perhaps 10 countries for over two weeks, everyday, firing thousands of missiles and drones under heavy attacks, aiming for targets hundreds and thousands of kilometers away - Didn't hit one school.

@ChampionsLeague omg what a thing of beauty

If football is art, this is a masterpiece 🖼️ #UCL

@shaunking haha i remember you from the early days of the gaza war, you're a laughing stock! 🤡

Israel, currently, right now, has pushed: 2 million Palestinians out of their homes 3 million Iranians out of their homes 1 million Lebanese out of their homes That’s 6 million refugees they’ve made RIGHT NOW. And still we are expected to think they aren’t evil? HOW??????

@JamesMelville How many were fighters? How many were kept safe in the vast tunnel network you paid for?

The number of children reported killed in Gaza since the start of the conflict in October 2023 is estimated to have surpassed 20,000. There is absolutely no justification for this. None whatsoever.

@Partisan_12 Hamas operatives

In memory of all the journalists k!lled in GAZA GEN0CIDE 💔

I found 20,000 individual citations of IRGC sources on @Wikipedia. There are no fewer than 8,430 citations of Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad official media outlets used in Wikipedia articles—including articles on the terror griuls themselves. There are hundreds of citations of Tasnim News—which is sanctioned by the US government on account of its links to the IRGC. Wikipedia editors are COPY-PASTING text from official terror websites operated into articles. In one case, an article section speaks of a PIJ operative’s “role in the resistance”— that’s text taken from the groups own “martyr webpage” on him. This is a terrorist who killed civilians for a job. AND THIS IS WHAT IS FEEDING CHATGPT AND OTHER AI SYSTEMS. If you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention. Read my piece @DailyMail dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

@BernieSanders Oh and giving 90m Iranians a chance at freedom from tyranny, and fundamentally transforming the complexion of the middle east for the better, and to America’s benefit. You’re fishing for approval from the kidz and unaware how humiliating it is 🤭

Netanyahu led Trump into this horrific & unpopular war. Now he doesn’t know how to get out. Cost so far: • 1,200+ Iranian civilians killed • 13 U.S. troops killed • 3.2M Iranians displaced • 773 killed in Lebanon • 10,000+ Iranians injured • $16.5B spent in 12 days

@Partisan_12 You are either a bot or an imbecile

JEFFREY SACHS: “Israel's doctrine is k*ll its adversaries. K*ll them in mass numbers, k*ll the civilians, k*ll the women, k*ll the children. They don't discriminate between civilians and military targets. They leveled Gaza... It is a rogue, brutal regime...”

@JamesMelville They should simply take shelter in the tunnels their leaders built for them 😃

A massive dust storm is sweeping across Gaza, engulfing displacement camps where thousands of families now live after their houses have been obliterated.

@KNEECAPCEOL C O S P L A Y I N G C L O W N S

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Dublin, Ireland.

@VigilantFox He dodged the issue. He needs to do better.

Bill Maher asks Gov. Josh Shapiro about his Jewish faith and how young people now think it’s “kind of cool” to hate Jews. MAHER: “You’re a Democrat running possibly for [president], and you’re Jewish.” SHAPIRO: “Yeah.” MAHER: “And this is somehow maybe a complete deal breaker in the Democratic Party.” “I mean, the speed at which antisemitism has gone to a place where I never imagined it would go.” “Just this past week, bombings at synagogues in Toronto, Belgium, and Michigan.” “The guy drove a truck with explosives into the largest synagogue in West Bloomfield, Norway. They arrested someone. Suspicious behavior outside of the synagogue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.” “I see a pattern here.” “And somehow it got to where among the young people, antisemitism got to be kind of cool.” “You think you could, if you did run for president, you could fight this and convince the Democratic Party that being Jewish isn’t like the worst thing a person could be?” Watch how Shapiro answers in this two-minute clip. How do you think he did?

@JamesMelville I M A G I N E : U B U I L T T U N N E L S U N D E R Y R C O U N T R Y I N S T E A D O F S K Y S C R A P E R S and then launched a massive attack on your neighbors and scurried into the tunnels leaving your people to face the reprisals. Dont blame Israel, blame Hamas, tnx

Gaza. Absolutely flattened. Thousands of innocent civilians have died. Thousands of children died. And before anyone says “But, Hamas…). Imagine if Britain had done the same to Ireland after the IRA bombings? You cannot justify this scale of inhumanity.

@NeatG76 @arabnews @MaajidNawaz 😆 Aren’t u humiliated enough already ?!?!

@arabnews @MaajidNawaz We’re hearing the same about #Netanyahu 🤷🏻‍♀️

#BREAKING: #Trump to NBC: We’re hearing that #Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei may no longer be alive arab.news/65zue

@Wolfahontas @koshercockney @krishgm @naftalibennett What an imbecile. I kind of appreciate hearing people like @krishgm say things like this, really clarifies the utter naivety and misunderstanding of the situation by the people in control of mainstream media narrative. F*cking clown.

Wow. Omg @krishgm gets absolutely bloody embarrassed by @naftalibennett