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Rahiq-e-Bangla@Fateh_E_Bangla·
Bangladesh's pre-colonial ancestors were among the most industrious and prosperous people on earth. What killed that? Centuries of foreign rule that made “government” an alien concept and a political culture that now justifies corruption, nepotism and dynastic rule as normal.
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Akilaboy
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@prozacprincessy @TimTim1254 @candis36541 Fun pseudo intellectual stance but ultimately untrue, nations are downstream of their general populace. Real bummer for the average South Asian/African, but it’s true, hence their presence in a first world country being so parasitic.
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Candice 🏳️‍🌈
Candice 🏳️‍🌈@candis36541·
Because the government keeps importing foreign scum to do the low skill jobs, leaving the working class NOTHING.
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The working-class children struggling to find their way in a new world White working-class pupils have been the lowest attaining major ethnic group at GCSE level for more than a decade. @JackieLongc4 examines why the system is holding them back. 📩Read our latest newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/the-working-…

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@KingJalius He’s only tweeting this to appease a certain demographic. I’m pretty sure he was upset when the same footage came out of the Manchester airport incident
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@atarii3q @SunniSial @DillyHussain88 He has to pretend to be a white Irish man with an AI photo and Sunni Muslim in his bio just to deceive ppl. They won’t the the hypocrisy with any of that
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Politics UK
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK·
🚨 NEW: The ONS says deaths are now expected to outnumber births in the UK every year from 2026
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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour@HusseinAboubak·
You are essentially asking why there is no arc that leads to redemption in the modern Arabic novel. That is an excellent question. There are two established frameworks for answering it. The first is postcolonial: the darkness of the Arabic novel is the darkness of colonized peoples working through historical trauma. The second is civilizational: Arab and Muslim culture lacks a moral architecture for redemption and falls back on ruthlessness and darkness. Both are grand, sweeping, and, in my humble opinion, mostly wrong — or rather, mostly ideological. Each reproduces its own premise as its conclusion. You cannot accept the postcolonial answer without first accepting a Leninist analysis of imperialism and culture. You cannot accept the civilizational answer without first accepting a developmental schema in which the Arab world is measured by what it lacks relative to Europe. Neither explains; both presuppose. What if the answer is simpler? What if, instead of reaching for macro-historical frameworks, we look at the men who actually wrote these novels? Given an understanding of how Western elites led their own society into a trajectory of kitsch and ugliness, one should be sympathetic to the idea of an elite-led cultural collapse, which is what I believe happened in the Middle East. The major Arab novelists of the twentieth century belong, almost without exception, to a single class: the radically secularized cultural elite. Many are radical atheists. They passed through European or European-style education and emerged having internalized a very specific moment in European intellectual history — its most spiritually nihilistic moment, usually through France and Germany. They absorbed existentialist despair, naturalist determinism, and post-Enlightenment nihilism. They did not arrive at darkness through the pressure of their own civilizational or colonial experience, etc. They adopted it, consciously, from a European literary discourse that was itself already a symptom of spiritual crisis. Here one must invoke René Girard's concept of mimetic contagion, because what happened next is textbook mimetic dynamics. The first generation were still imitating Europe directly. They had read their Flaubert, their Camus, their Dostoevsky-without-the-Christianity, and they wrote in conscious dialogue with those models. But the imitation did not remain at this level. What emerged very quickly was a self-referential, closed literary discourse in which Arab novelists began imitating each other. The model was no longer Europe itself but the image of Europe already internalized by the previous Arab novelist. Darkness became the mark of seriousness. Nihilism became the credential of literary authenticity. The bleaker the novel, the more "realistic" it was judged to be — where "realism" had long since ceased to describe any actual relation to reality and had become instead a term of prestige within the closed circle of the discourse itself. It became pure unreality. This, of course, applied to the modern history of European aesthetics as well. Realism means ugliness, for some degenerate reason. This is mimetic rivalry in its purest form. Each new novelist must outdo his predecessor in despair in order to be recognized as serious. Rape, dismemberment, political torture, sexual degradation — these escalate not because Arab reality is uniquely brutal (it actually became so brutal largely as a result of this tradition, in my opinion) but because the internal logic of the literary discourse demands perpetual intensification. The audience for this literature is not the broad Arab public, which largely does not read these novels. The audience is the discourse itself: other novelists, critics, prize committees, translation editors in Paris and London who have their own mimetic investment in the image of the Arab world as a theater of darkness. The award-selection algorithm is the mechanism by which the mimetic cycle reproduces itself. The prizes reward the darkness, the darkness attracts the prizes, and the entire circuit operates at a comfortable distance from any lived reality — which contains, as all human reality does, suffering and joy, cruelty and tenderness, despair and faith. One must then ask: what is the expected result when such dispositions are crowned at the top of a semi-literate and developing society? One may even go deeper and suggest that later Arab real-world nihilism, political and religious, is related to this. Dickens does not write humane novels because Victorian England was a kind or gentle place. It was monstrous. He writes humane novels because he writes from within a Christian moral structure that remained functional even as it was being secularized — a structure in which characters can change and redemption is a live possibility. The same holds for Tolstoy and George Eliot. The Arab novelists in question do not work within any equivalent — not because Arabic or Islamic civilization lacks one, but because these writers personally rejected the one available to them and replaced it with borrowed European despair. They were writing a century after Dickens. Dostoevsky was, of course, a revolutionary nihilist who became genuinely Christian, and that is why his works trace an arc through the deepest despair and onward to redemption. The last major European work that attempted to reach redemption at all was, I believe, Richard Wagner's Parsifal — which Friedrich Nietzsche hated profoundly, writing: "I despise everyone who does not experience Parsifal as an attempted assassination of basic ethics... an outrage upon morality." It is not an accident that the last work Roger Scruton wrote before he died was a monograph on Parsifal. I am here only right, of course, if we exclude redemptive works like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings — which was in many ways a response to Wagner and late Romanticism — from the canon of high culture, which the Western cultural elite indeed does exclude. The darkness of the Arabic novel is the voice of a specific class of intellectuals who chose the most despairing available version of European modernity and made it the dominant register of serious Arabic literature. The redemption is absent because the men who write have decided, as a matter of intellectual conviction, that redemption is no longer a serious category. Nietzsche himself wrote that "redemption" is one of the most repulsive words. The great partial exception is Naguib Mahfouz. His career begins in social realism — the Cairo Trilogy is a genuine attempt at the Dickensian novel, and it nearly succeeds. It then passes through crisis: Children of Gebelawi is the patricide, the allegory in which God is killed. But Mahfouz, unlike his contemporaries, could not rest in the nihilism. His late work represents a sustained effort to retrieve faith and redemption from within the wreckage. His oeuvre is really to be read as one man's journey out of post-Christian nihilism. He is the one major Arabic novelist who turned back. That is what makes him the greatest of them, and it is also what is most consistently missed in how he is read. He began his career writing as his peers wrote. Then he separated from them, and spent the remainder of his life writing allegories about seeking the Father who had been murdered or forgotten.
Patrick Collison@patrickc

Which are the most humane (empathetic, compassionate) Arab / Middle Eastern novels? Thought behind the question: I read a bunch of these novels last year -- my selection algorithm was to sample widely among the award-winning works from the region (Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, among others) -- and, overall, I was very struck by the darkness and violence. (Abundant rape, murder, violence, and so forth.) In trying to figure out why the outlooks are so consistently bleak, I don’t think it’s only a matter of colonialism. For example, The Blind Owl is often ranked as the best novel to come out of Iran, which was never colonized as such, but nonetheless describes an obsessive madman who kills and dismembers his partner. In Season of Migration to the North, the colonizer -- Britain -- is described as being quite benevolent at least at the object level (granting a scholarship to the protagonist; treating him unreasonably justly during his murder trial). Men in the Sun is similarly grim while taking place in a post-colonial Arab world. Even books that are sometimes described as heartwarming (such as Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy) centrally feature rape and female oppression (that Amina is not permitted to leave the home is a core plot issue). One guess is that it is a function of award selection algorithms: gritty despair is seen as high-status and structurally celebrated. Another theory would be the period: there are lots of humane novels in the Western canon (Dickens, Tolstoy, Eliot…), but those are more likely to be from the nineteenth century, whereas the Arab / Middle Eastern novelistic canon didn’t emerge until the twentieth. I’m not sure this explains it, however. In Search of Lost Time, Great Gatsby, Ulysses, Midnight's Children are all critically-acclaimed 20th century novels, close to the top of almost any list, that one would not describe as macabre. It’s possible that I just read the wrong books and got unlucky. So: which authors from the region can best be compared to Faulkner, Eliot, Fitzgerald, or Rushdie? (And if they haven't won major awards, does that indicate that the awards have a negative bias?)

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@Imdadur101 Bengali history needs to be different from WB or else we’re forever going to rely on them for history. The moment Islam came to bengal and we created our own culture needs to be pushed or else theres no difference between WB and EB
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@farouk_naj There’s a time and a place for discussions and having the correct manners, I accept your apology and hate the wahabis for their lack of adaab as well. It’s not what any of our scholars would’ve done and here is a reminder, adab is a reflection of one’s intent.
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Farouk
Farouk@farouk_naj·
I’m not interested in what you think of my character or seeking your approval. As I said, there’s nothing for us to discuss here. Regarding calling you a Wahabi — I made that assumption based on how you approached the topic. You’ve clarified that you aren’t, so no issue. I apologise for the misidentification.
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Farouk
Farouk@farouk_naj·
Any Wahabi who shared this video but struggles to answer the question “Is place something other than God?” in light of the hadith “Allah existed eternally and nothing else existed” is a hypocrite.
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@farouk_naj "You Wahabis all suffer from low IQ.", you've also just lied now, even though I explicitly said I am not a wahabi this isn't a good look on you and your character btw, I will move on when you adress my original point which you keep evading.
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Farouk
Farouk@farouk_naj·
@Mi63356 Christian* And I didn’t attack any Muslim. Can you read? Lmaoooo please mate. Do yourself a favour and move aside. No one’s interested in what you have to say.
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@farouk_naj Not a wahabi, you lack basic adab, you are just as much as a layman as anyone else on this site. You literally saw a debate against a chirstian and decided to attack the muslim and get all defensive when you get questioned, there is no difference between you and a wahabi
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Farouk
Farouk@farouk_naj·
@Mi63356 You Wahabis all suffer from low IQ. Nothing in the post supports the Kuffar you ignoramus. Don’t talk without knowledge.
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@farouk_naj You don't see anything wrong with siding with a kuffar over a muslim? this is basic Islamic knowledge, are you now above critism, and anyone who questions you is a child? lol
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Farouk
Farouk@farouk_naj·
@Mi63356 If you don’t like the post, don’t engage. Grow up — stop acting like a child.
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@Ostrocytes @Meri1320708 @kunley_drukpa ‘Rw politics’ and it’s just liberal centrist slop. On what planet is Sunak English. There’s no difference between him and a leftist, both think you can become English if you just believe in these vague values that change every generation.
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Ostro🎏Brah
Ostro🎏Brah@Ostrocytes·
@Meri1320708 @Mi63356 @kunley_drukpa Drukpa once made a joke tweet where he said he was Lebanese and then people took it seriously since they didn't like his right wing politics and that tweet was the only "thing" they "have" on him
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A feature of ‘Englishness’ in the cultural sense is if you are non-ethnically English the more modest and self-effacing you are in expressions of ‘Englishness’ the more likely you are to be considered English proper
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The Knowledge Archivist@KnowledgeArchiv

“I may speak the English Language better than the Chinese language, but I’ll never be an Englishman, not in a thousand generations.” -Lee Kuan Yew (Founded Singapore)

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