Tag: palestine
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Preconfiguring the Revolution: An Anarchist Manifesto on Palestine and the Global Muslim Community
There has never been, in the modern West, a radical political movement by orthodox Muslims designed to build our communities from the ground up. There have been movements focussed on electoral politics, lobbying, and even dreams of re-establishing the caliphate. There have been some local community initiatives, but never a movement centred on radical community…
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The World After Gaza: Seeds of Resistance, Hope in Ashes
Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza is a furious, wide-ranging meditation on the afterlives of the Shoah and the moral wreckage of selective remembrance. Moving from Holocaust history to Gaza and global protest, Mishra indicts Western media and political hypocrisy while asking what it means to live in a world that has normalized a hierarchy…
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Bounded by the Nation-State: The OIC and the Question of Palestine
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), established in 1969, has long styled itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world and the institutional embodiment of the ummah. With fifty-seven member states representing nearly 1.8 billion people, about one-quarter of the world’s population, the OIC is the second largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations.…
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The Doha Strike and Summit: The Arab Response to Israeli Aggression
Arab and Islamic leaders gathered in Doha after Israel’s September 9 airstrike on the Qatari capital, condemning the attack as a violation of sovereignty while issuing calls for unity and restraint. Despite fiery rhetoric, Qatar and fellow states reaffirmed their cautious strategy of neutrality and reliance on international law, highlighting the widening gap between words…
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When Muslim Blood Is Spilled and Holy Sites Desecrated, We Speak with Clarity
The article discusses the challenges faced by Muslim Palestinians in the West, particularly post-9/11, in articulating their oppression. It emphasizes the necessity of clarity in naming oppressors, specifically identifying Jewish supremacism as the ideological root of their struggles. The author argues that failing to name this ideology obscures the true nature of oppression and hampers…
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Analogy as Erasure: The Limits of Comparison in Liberation Discourse
The authors critique the use of comparative frameworks in discussing liberation struggles, arguing that while they can foster solidarity, such as the comparison between apartheid South Africa and Palestine, they often obscure unique historical and political contexts. They argue for the need to engage with each struggle on its own terms, recognizing local specificities and…
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And Allah Only Looks into Your Hearts: Reflections on the Imprisonable Muslim
This reflective essay explores the theological and existential resilience of Muslim political prisoners across contexts from Syria and Guantanamo to Indian detention centers, arguing that incarceration becomes a site of spiritual liberation rather than defeat. Drawing on personal experience, contemporary memoirs, and Islamic thought, it interrogates the carceral logic of modern nation-states and its failure…
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Code of Complicity: How the Tech Industry Enables Genocide and Silences Ethical Dissent
The author critiques the ethical implications of technology used in warfare, highlighting how AI systems facilitate violence in Gaza. It emphasizes the Islamic concept of wilāyah, urging tech professionals to recognize their moral responsibility. Companies suppress dissent from employees expressing solidarity with the oppressed, prioritizing profit over justice.
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The Virtues of the Levant: A Translation from Matlab al-Nāsik fī ʿIlm al-Manāsik
The detailed work of al-Imām Abī ʿAbd-Allāh Shihāb al-Dīn al-Tūrbishtī al-Ḥanafī, ‘Maṭlab al-Nāsik fī ʿIlm al-Manāsik’, contains sections on the virtues of the Levant and its people, its importance now, in the past, and in the end of times, followed by a section on al-Aqṣā, a translation of which may similarly follow. All of these…
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Community Call-In: Gaza Genocide and the U.S. Election
This is a pre-brief and a summarized article, a precursor to a possible lengthy “Community Report” (CR) that I have undertaken (along with veteran observers) for the sake of sanity within our bruised and healing community. It acts as a ‘Call-In’ to community leaders, particularly scholars of theology and jurisprudence, to take-heed and address the…