MMA journalist Ariel Helwani is Gad Saads nephew.
MMA Joey@MMAJOEYC
I wanted to feel bad but then I remembered Ariel was laughing his ass off about the USA doing Israel’s bidding & bombing brown school girls in Iran
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Akbar Zab
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Pete Hegseth, at today's Christian Prayer & Worship Service at the Pentagon, prays for Almighty God to "pour out your wrath" and "break the teeth of the ungodly." He begs the Almighty to sanction "overwhelming violence" against "those who deserve no mercy"
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More leftists and liberals will leave and reject materialist ideologies such as communism and socialism, and will embrace the religion of Islam, insha’Allah.
Akbar Zab@ZabAkbar
If you're a Muslim who hates Zionism but has a soft spot for Communism, you're misguided to put it politely; both ideologies are rooted in hatred, injustice, and theft.
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Me at the family reunion:
Spider@blackspiderxs
I pretend to agree with people so they stop talking
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Gentle reminder- Muslims, Jews and Christian’s.. you all have the same God.
All three faiths are classified as Abrahamic religions. They trace their lineage back to the patriarch Abraham.
But it would seem most of the issues in the world are due to you three religions … so when you have a minute, sort it out as your holy leader/god/deity is probably disgusted with the lot of you and your behaviour.
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"A community that cannot communicate without app store permission and cannot transact without banking permission is not meaningfully free, no matter how polished its platforms look on the surface, as it is still living inside an architecture where we do not control the switch."
Muslim Bitcoiner ⚡@MBitcoiner
I finally wrote a piece explaining what we mean by "Digital Hijra" We need to be embracing and building on truly sovereign foundations and protocols I urge every Muslim involved or interested in the tech space to give this a read. Link to essay below 👇
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@TheFigen_ The little girl is an empath.
Thought the baby boy was hurt.
Bless.
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Stop blaming God for giving humans free will.
Akbar Zab@ZabAkbar
There is evil in the world because God created humans with free will. He didn’t create humans to be automatons without agency. People always have a choice to do good or evil, regardless of their background or context. Don’t let the devil convince you otherwise.
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"All the earlier apostles had to suffer persecution for a long time; but at last – when those apostles had lost all hope and saw themselves branded as liars – Our succour attained to them: whereupon everyone whom We willed to be saved was saved and the deniers of the truth were destroyed: for never can Our punishment be averted from people who are lost in sin.
Indeed, in the stories of these men, there is a lesson for those who are endowed with insight."
~ Qur'an
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Who Will Replace the American Empire?
Simon Dixon vs Professor Jiang
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Akbar Zab@ZabAkbar
Is the Global Rise in Living Costs Driven by Interest-Bearing Debt or Immigration? A lot of people blame immigration for everything getting more expensive—rent, owning a home, just living in general. Immigration is an issue but honestly, the main reason is something much deeper: it’s riba (interest) and the whole global fiat monetary system humanity is stuck within. Since WW1, the world’s been under a central banks fiat system that’s designed to benefit a few at the top, while most of us struggle. Riba-based fiat currencies, which we’re all forced to use because of legal tender laws, make it almost impossible to save for the future. Back in the day, under the gold standard, people could actually save money that kept its value over time. But now, every time the money supply increases, the purchasing power of our money drops further. How does the money supply increase? The money supply increases when: - People take on debt from banks, particularly for mortgages. - When banks fund government wars. - When banks fund governments to provide social services (People wouldn't need subsidized subpar services if bankers hadn't stolen their purchasing power in the first place.) Those are just some of the ways the money supply is increased; there are others. Every time the above happens, it makes the money in our pockets worth less, which is why the cost of living keeps going up and has been going up for decades. Due to fiat money constantly losing value, people don’t want to save in it — those who can rather use that fiat money to get assets that they perceive will maintain value far better than fiat cash. One of the big assets people go for is property. But when a lot of people are buying up homes just to store their wealth, it pushes prices up and creates a bubble in the market, making it even harder for others to afford a place without a mortgage. Here’s the kicker: most people buying homes today are doing it by getting into more fiat debt via mortgages. As mentioned earlier this is one of the very processes that keeps devaluing the purchasing power of fiat money! It’s a sick cycle of riba that traps everyone and benefits the few. Then there’s immigration. One reason a lot of people move to other countries is because their local currencies have been so devalued that they can’t afford to live decently. For example, some Pakistanis moving to the US, Canada , UK because their fiat Pakistani Rupee is so weak and they want to therefore earn in a stronger fiat currency. Or Brits moving to Turkey because their British pound gives them a better quality of life there than locals who earn in the weaker fiat Turkish lira. The Global South has been, and continues to be, hit the hardest, with their currencies losing value faster than those in Western countries. However, even in places like the UK, Canada, and the US, devaluation is occurring—just at a slower pace. The erosion of purchasing power became more noticeable and pronounced in these Western countries after COVID, an event that led to a significant increase in the money supply in order to keep a lot of people at home for an extended period of time. War is another big reason for immigration. People are fleeing conflict zones, and guess what funds these wars? More riba-based money supply increases. Under the gold standard, governments couldn’t just inflate money whenever they wanted; they had to raise taxes and justify it. But now, they can just issue more money via a mere accounting entry with the banks’ blessing (the bank erns interest on this), even if most people don’t want the war. This robs ordinary people of their hard-earned money. How? Because people spent time , energy and effort to work for the fiat money governments mandate you must utilize yet at the same time they steal the purchasing power by increasing the money supply to fund zionist wars in the middle east. So they essentially steal people's time and ability to save for the future, and make everything more expensive. So, when people say immigration is the main reason for the high cost of living, it’s more like the salt in a gaping wound. It's a branch of the problem but not the root. The real issue is this riba-based fiat system that’s been making life harder for everyone for a long time. Immigration just adds more competition for resources that are already stretched thin. Shaykh Muaawiyah Tucker: "Everything, I mean absolutely everything, is influenced by the principles of supply and demand. This is why some individuals resort to unethical tactics. For instance, they might claim, 'We have only five seats remaining in our course, so enroll now!' Although they may possess more than five seats, they deliberately state otherwise—five or six left—simply to create the illusion of scarcity, presenting a reduced supply. This, in turn, fosters the illusion of high demand, prompting people to believe that the offered price is favorable. In essence, the underlying concept is that every commodity, whether it's rice, gold, or even your own home, is intricately linked to the interplay of supply and demand. Let's delve into another aspect. Take the case of house prices, which appear to consistently go up year after year. There's a rationale behind this upward trend, driven by the dynamics of supply and demand, amplified by the riba interest-based monetary system. This system, essentially allows for the creation of money out of thin air, enabling more properties to be withdrawn from the market. With a fraction of the total cost as a deposit, people can now become homeowners, a possibility that previously eluded them. Here's a certainty though: if all interest-bearing loans suddenly ceased to be issued—literally, if all lending came to a halt—house prices would plummet significantly. The reason? Most individuals would find homeownership unattainable, and consequently, those seeking to sell their properties would be compelled to lower their prices considerably, in order to attract potential buyers capable of affording them. Therefore, the prevailing high costs of real estate can be attributed to the influx of readily available cheap riba fiat money." Hope this makes sense. It’s a messed up evil monetary system that needs to change. Here's a thread I wrote / compiled that goes into more detail: 1)x.com/ZabAkbar/statu… ...
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It’s disappointing not more Muslims are doing this in a balanced way, so I’ll give it a shot:
Right now there’s two equally stupid positions in Online Muslim discourse (as well as in the majalis of boomer uncles irl) regarding Iran and the “Shia axis” of the Muslim world (that don’t include the Shia themselves.) One side says they’re kuffar, donkeys of the Jews, bloodthirsty vampires out for Sunni blood, etc. and even go as far as saying they’re worse than Israel. Meanwhile, the other side says we need to UNITE WITH OUR ALID BROTHERS and forget all heresies, all grievances for the sake of defeating Israel and America’s imperial hegemony, as this takes precedence over any and all differences we may have with them. Both sides are wrong and out of touch in their own ways, and so far in the decade or so plus I’ve been online in these Muslim spaces I’ve only met about 4 or 5 guys who aren’t in one of these camps when it comes to the “Shia” question.
I could probably write a whole article about this and flesh it out further, but it would be difficult to do so without hordes of morons taking it as “Shia hate” (keep in mind, these are the same people who put #ShiaGenocide in their bios in the years Shia militias were actively killing families in Syrian and Iraqi villages, lmao), so I’ll keep it short and sweet. Each side has a particular political fantasy in their mind that goes like this: side A imagines the Shia will destroy themselves fighting Israel, and that by process of elimination the Sunnis will FINALLY then be able to rise and destroy Israel. Side B imagines that Iran and its proxies will destroy Israel, and that after that the Sunnis and Shia will be lovey dovey in their pan-Islamic utopian bathhouses till the coming of the Mahdi. Both are hilarious and neither seem to be able to explain how any of this will happen, but they cope with these fantasies regardless.
The reality is we already have repeated precedence for Shia rule in Muslim lands and what that entails for both Sunnis and outside enemies — this is always framed in the context of Shia crimes and massacres against Sunnis and their doctrines whenever they are placed in positions of authority over masses of Muslims (Fatimids, Buyids, etc.) as if they’re merely done out of wanton bloodlust and hatred for perceived sectarian grievances, but it goes much deeper than that. Shias, in the simplest of terms, are always fighting a two-pronged battle anytime they take power.
The first is against outside enemies, the second is to establish their own legitimacy within the larger religious community of Sunnis and other minority groups to cement their rule, which they have always failed to do in a strategic manner and were thus forced to go the route of repression and violence instead.
This is always the greatest source of their resentment. Each large internationally recognized Muslim dynasty, from the Rashidun to the Ottomans, fought a short and comparatively easy battle of diplomacy, strategic coups, statesmanship, and victorious conquests in orthodox Islam’s name to establish their own legitimacy as sovereigns of the Muslim world, and for the remainder of their rule never had to prove it again.
The Shia have tried this in various ways, to their credit. The Fatimids for example became prolific in book production and propaganda. However, even that never ended up being enough, so all any shia dynasty has at the end of the day is fruitless whining about relatedness to the bloodline of the Holy Messenger ﷺ and nothing else.
It’s just human nature. When you form a political entity of any sort, the instinct for survival will always trump that of outside conquest and viewing the rest of your supposed religious community as allies. Most Sunni powers today are in fact decrepit, corrupt, caught with their pants down at every turn — but all Iran wants now is to survive — anyone who claims otherwise is a fool beyond imagination.
Abdullah@AvdullahYousef
When have the Shia ever, in a leadership and military majority, conquer non Muslim lands and make them permanently Muslim? Have they only ever taken over places already ruled and populated by Muslims? Lmao
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Of the 852,000 Catholic school places, Muslim fathers send 26,000 into the Catholic education system, not just refusing to convert, but actively trying to undermine Christian teachings.
Under a Christian government this would no longer be allowed.
Many secular and religious schools have bent the knee to Islam - UKIP says enough is enough.
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Muslims love Jesus Christ (peace and blessings be upon him)
Dr. Shadee Elmasry@DrShadeeElmasry
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@DrShadeeElmasry $100 million bare minimum.
That's not a lot of money.
Insha'Allah.
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I can’t wait to see the lawsuit that is headed towards ICE. $50 million minimum. Eid money
Dr. Omar Suleiman@omarsuleiman
Leqaa Kordia is finally free!!!! Al hamdulilah! There are no words to express my joy, and my hope that others like her will walk free as well. Thank you to everyone who refused to forget her, and refuse to forget them all.
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