#muslim colonization

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://quranx.com/4.89

They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-4/Book-52/Hadith-177

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

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How to tell when a Muslim is lying:

"[Something horrible] is prohibited in Islam."

They tell you something about Islam that sounds good.

They tell you something about Islam that you're unsure if it's true.

"Islam was the first to [something good]."

You're debating a Muslim.

[eretzyisrael]

[pakistani4bwc]

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[aurangg]

When iranians say they want Iran to get rid of Arabic names, use native Iranian names, get rid of Arabic words in the language, Arab supremacists immediately latch onto us and say “b-but Arabic is the language of islam and quran! It is the most important! It will be spoken in Jannah! How dare you!! Allah will not be happy!” Okay I don’t care. It’s so obvious you’re using Islam to uphold Arab supremacy and force people to remain assimilated into Arab culture.

[secular-jew]

On this day in history, the Jews of Romania were forced to wear yellow stars and special hats, to identify them as Jews.

This Nazi practice was borrowed from Islam, which forced Jews in Islamic conquered countries, to wear special identifying clothing, and other horrific antisemitic apartheid rules, which always led to ethnic cleansing and genocide.

After Muslims invaded and colonized Israel and Spain, they made this the law of the land:

"o11.0 NON-MUSLIM SUBJECTS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE (AHL AL-DHIMMA)

...o11.5 Such non-Muslim subjects are obliged to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property.

(1) Are penalized for committing adultery or theft, though not for drunkeness;

(2) Are distinguished from Muslims in dress, wearing a wide cloth belt (zunnar);

(3) Are not greeted with “as-Salamu ‘alaykum”;

(4) Must keep to the side of the street;

(5) May not build higher than or as high as the Muslims’ buildings, though if they acquire a tall house, it is not razed;

(6) Are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays;

(7) And are forbidden to build new churches.

o11.10 The agreement is also violated [when the non-Muslim]

(5) Or mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.

o11.11 When a subject’s agreement with the state has been violated, the caliph chooses between the four alternatives mentioned above in connection with prisoners of war (o9.14)."

[death, slavery, ransom or release]

Source: “Reliance of the Traveller a classic manual of Islamic sacred law”, 1991 revised edition in English

[zitzitoun]

Happy Women's Day to our Amazigh Warriors and Queens !

the image for zaynab is not historically accurate but just there for representation *

[whimsycore]

Reading the news is crazy. A lot of people in Lebanon thought they were safe because they were Christian and it’s like. These colonial forces are using Muslims as a scapegoat and have been for generations. Yall are not safe they’re going to steal your land once they get rid of everyone else.

[cavalierzee]

The Quran Is The Truth

The Quran revealed over 1400 years ago that corrupt people would falsely state:

“We Are Only Peace-Makers”

[brantheblessed]

MENA muslims don't get to talk about colonialism at all.

[hussyknee]

Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani’s Kitab al-Aghani records the lives of a number of individuals including one named Tuways who lived during the last years of Muhammad and the reigns of the early Muslim dynasties. Tuways was mukhannathun: those who were born as men, but who presented as female. They are described by al-Isfahani as wearing bangles, decorating their hands with henna, and wearing feminine clothing. One mukhannathun, Hit, was even in the household of the Prophet Muhammad. Tuways earned a reputation as a musician, performing for clients and even for Muslim rulers. When Yahya ibn al-Hakam was appointed as governor, Tuways joined in the celebration wearing ostentatious garb and cosmetics. When asked by the governor if he were Muslim Tuways affirmed his belief, proclaiming the declaration of faith and saying that he observes the fast of Ramadan and the five daily prayers. In other words, al-Isfahani, who recorded the life of a number of mukhannathun like Tuways, saw no contradiction between his gender expression and his Muslimness. From al-Isfahani we read of al-Dalal, ibn Surayj, and al-Gharid—all mukhannathun—who lived rich lives in early Muslim societies. Notably absent from al-Isfahani’s records is any state-sanctioned persecution. Instead, the mukhannathun are an accepted part of society.

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Far from isolated cases, across Islamic history—from North Africa to South Asia—we see widespread acceptance of gender nonconforming and queer individuals. - Later in the Ottoman Empire, there were the köçek who were men who wore women’s clothing and performed at festivals. Formally trained in dance and percussion instruments, the köçek were an important part of social functions. A similar practice was found in Egypt. The khawal were male dancers who presented as female, wearing dresses, make up, and henna. Like their Ottoman counterparts, they performed at social events.

- In South Asia, the hijra were and are third-sex individuals. The term is used for intersex people as well as transgender women. Hijra are attested to among the earliest Muslim societies of South Asia where, according to Nalini Iyer, they were often guardians of the household and even held office as advisors.

- In Iraq, the mustarjil are born female, but present as men. In Wilfred Thesiger’s The Marsh Arabs the guide, Amara explains, “A mustarjil is born a woman. She cannot help that; but she has the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.” When asked if the mustarjil are accepted, Amara replies “Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif.” Amara goes on to describe how mustarjil have sex with women.

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Historian Indira Gesink analyzed 41 medical and juristic sources between the 8th and 18th centuries and discovered that the discourse of a “binary sex” was an anachronistic projection backwards. Gesink points out in one of the earliest lexicography by the 8th century al-Khalil ibn Ahmad that he suggests addressing a male-presenting intersex person as ya khunathu and a female-presenting intersex person as ya khanathi while addressing an effeminate man as ya khunathatu. This suggests a clear recognition of a spectrum of sex and gender expression and a desire to address someone respectfully based on how they presented.

Tolerance of gender ambiguity and non-conformity in Islamic cultures went hand-in-hand with broader acceptance of homoeroticism. Texts like Ali ibn Nasir al-Katib’s Jawami al-Ladhdha, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani’s Kitab al-Aghani, and the Tunisian, Ahmad al-Tifashi’s Nuz’ha al-‘Albab attest to the widespread acceptance of same-sex desire as natural. Homoeroticism is a common element in much of Persian and Arabic poetry where youthful males are often the object of desire. From Abu Nuwas to Rumi, from ibn Ammar to Amir Khusraw, some of the Islamic world’s greatest poets were composing verses for their male lovers. Queer love was openly vaunted by poets. One, Ibn Nasr, immortalizes the love between two Arab lesbians Hind al Nu’man and al-Zarqa by writing:

“Oh Hind, you are truer to your word than men. Oh, the differences between your loyalty and theirs.”

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Acceptance of same-sex desire and gender non-conformity was the hallmark of Islamic societies to such a degree that European travelers consistently remarked derisively on it. In the 19th century, Edward Lane wrote of the khawal: “They are Muslims and natives of Egypt. As they personate women, their dances are exactly of the same description as those of the ghawazee; and are, in like manner, accompanied by the sound of castanets.”

A similarly scandalized CS Sonnini writes of Muslim homoerotic culture:

“The inconceivable appetite which dishonored the Greeks and the Persians of antiquity, constitute the delight, or to use a juster term, the infamy of the Egyptians. It is not for women that their ditties are composed: it is not on them that tender caresses are lavished; far different objects inflame them.”

In his travels in the 19th century, James Silk Buckingham encounters an Afghan dervish shedding tears for parting with his male lover. The dervish, Ismael, is astonished to find how rare same-sex love was in Europe. Buckingham reports the deep love between Ismael and his lover quoting, “though they were still two bodies, they became one soul.”

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Today, vocal Muslim critics of LGBTQ+ rights often accuse gay and queer people of imposing a “Western” concept or forcing Islam to adjust to “Western values” failing to grasp the irony of the claim: the shift in the 19th and 20th century was precisely an alignment with colonial values over older Islamic ones, all of which led to legal criminalization. In fact, the common feature among nations with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation isn’t Islam, but rather colonial law.

Don't talk to me I'm weeping. I'm not Muslim, but the grief of colonization runs in the blood of every Global South person. Dicovering these is like finding our lost treasures among plundered ruins.

Queer folk have always, always been here; we have always been inextricable, shining golden threads in the tapestry of human history. To erase and condemn us is to continue using the scalpel of colonizers in the mutilation and betrayal of our own heritage.

[panimoonchild]

Russian culture - ethnic cleansing and islamophobia

Don't forget the Crimean Tatars. While the world is running around with the phantom Russian opposition, Crimean cries in captivity are not heard.  Please keep spreading our voices and donate to our army and combat medics (savelife.in.ua, prytulafoundation.org, Serhii Sternenko, hospitallers.life, ptahy.vidchui.org and u24.gov.ua).

[kemetic-dreams]

Abrahamic religions (Christianity and Islam) aggressively convert others. Why doesn’t Judaism do so?

Never ask why before asking if. Historically, Jews have sometimes persecuted and forcibly converted infidels.

Adding to Oreste’s answer, there’s also the example of Himyar, a late antique kingdom in southwestern Arabia (parts of present day Saudi Arabia and Yemen). Some form of Judaism, perhaps a bit unorthodox, is known to have been gaining ground there since the 4th c., until eventually it was adopted by the ruling elite and became the state religion (5th/6th c.). That created complex dynamics between Himyar, the nearby Miaphysite Christian kingdom of Aksum and the great powers of the time: the Chalcedonian Christian Byzantine empire and the Zoroastrian Sasanian empire. It also brewed internal strife, as the Himyarites had Christians among themselves.

Reports about the persecution of Christians in Himyar begin to appear in our sources from the last quarter of the 5th c. An Ethiopic synaxarium tells the story of a Christian man named Azqir, who was condemned by a court of rabbis and martyred in his native city of Najran. In the aftermath of his death, some forty Christian clerics, monks and laymen were also put to death in the same city.

In the early 6th c., Marthad’ilan Yanuf was king in Himyar. The Aksumites exploited (and exaggerated?) the renewed reports about persecutions to wage a retributive campaign against Himyar, which was led by a Christian Himyarite. Yanuf was toppled, and a local Christian was installed as ruler. A few years later, though, a rebellion broke out under the leadership of a Jewish Himyarite named Yusuf As’ar Yath’ar, who proclaimed himself king and toppled the Aksum-backed regime.

Yusuf launched a pogrom against Christians, which he gleefully reported to an international meeting attended by Byzantines and Sasanians. His goal was to wipe out Christianity from his realm. Well known is the massacre of Najran (523). Yusuf besieged the city and gave its people a choice: convert to Judaism or die. The majority (?) chose death, while others did deny their faith. In 525, king Kaleb of Aksum personally led a campaign against Himyar. He defeated Yusuf, replaced him with another Christian, restored the churches he had destroyed or converted to synagogues and welcomed back to Christianity those who had been forcibly converted.

Of course, there are a couple of things that need to be taken into account.

Firstly, the persecution of Christians in Himyar happened, for the most part, in the midst of political complications. Yusuf and his people probably saw the local Christians as potential, or even actual, Aksumite agents. That, however, is also the case in almost every religious persecution and/or forcible conversion. Nothing happens out of the blue, disconnected from its material, historical context.

Secondly, it’s true that Jews have often been reluctant to accept even voluntary converts. Rabbi Hiyya the Great (2nd/3rd c.) reportedly said: “Do not have faith in a proselyte until twenty four generations have passed, because the inherent evil is still within him.” The same, however, can be said about early Muslims — for some time, conversion of Christians and Jews to Islam was prohibited.

Thirdly, attention is often drawn to the fact that Judaism is more than a religion — Jews are both a nation and a faith. Again, that’s hardly as unique as it seems to be. In the early modern Balkans, religion was often all that separated Romans (aka Greeks) and Turks. To convert to Islam was “to become a Turk” in a (proto)national sense of the word: you changed your community and identity, even if you kept your language or customs. Much blood has been spilled along those lines.

That doesn’t mean there is no difference between Judaism on the one hand and Christianity and Islam on the other. If anything, there are more than 4.2 billion Christians and Muslims, but only 15 million Jews. One can argue, however, that what separates those religions the most is not any inherent mentality but history itself. Between the 6th c. BC and the 20th c. AD, there hadn’t been a proper, long-standing Jewish state. Not only did that prevent forcible conversions, but it also made voluntary conversions much rarer and solidified a sense of entrenchment among the Jewish people.

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[blueeyeddarkknight]

Happy " Eid Al fitr" (Muslims celebrate breakfast after fasting the holy month of Ramadan) and "Sham al Naseem festival" ( an ancient Egyptian celebration of harvest ).

Kahk (coptic word) is round to represent the round desk of the sun ☀ the symbol of the ancient Egyptian god "Raa"

The eid cookies (kahk) is the oldest cookie in the world (British museum)

(we still make them today! The filled ones (kahk) in Eid. And the hollow ones (bracelet cookies) in funerals

Our ancestors bringing kahk as symbolic sacrifice to Raa

Speaking of Easter.. Did you know that Sham al Naseem is the og Easter?

But in Egypt we postpone it so that Christians can eat fish (after fasting themselves) 🥰

I can talk about our traditions and civilization all day long but nothing is compared to experiencing Egypt yourself. So don't be a stranger to the mother of the world 🥰❤️🇪🇬

[kharmii]

Honestly, you’re one of the few sane people regarding the staggering levels of radical leftism. The self-hating, disembodied and suicide-glorifying part of young adults who are supporting Jihadist terrorism in the name of “”resistance”” is disturbing, especially coming from queer and/or white people with their “I’m a good person!” mind virus. Because the “good people” program is all Covid was about after that first year, and it’s all the Pro-Palestine crowd is about, too. I’ve yet to see one peaceful “protest” where they’re not parroting “From the river to the sea” not caring that they’re literally calling for the death of all Jews (or maybe they do know), or not use slurs, or glorify Hamas, or congregate in front of hospitals. None of those things are what mentally stable people do. I thought the dehumanization of non-Covid vaccinated people was bad, but this current level of hatred towards Jews is on another level.

Another thing I'm sick of is the 'Jewish people/white people are evil colonizers!' crap. First of all, Jewish people were trying to move into their ancestral land, and Palestine didn't exist until the 1940s. The Muslims did to the Jews what they do to anybody they conquer where they breed themselves to a majority, then start exterminating non-Muslims. They will do that in modern times until they succeed or are driven out of a place.

Only white people are expected to 'give back' land they settled, but Muslims are allowed to move around, run sex grooming and slave trades, and exterminate non-Muslims in lands they settled TO THIS DAY. White people in South Africa are still considered 'colonizers' even though they settled it in 1652, and I mean settled, not colonized. Just because other races happened to live around South Africa, doesn't mean they were necessarily in the land that white Europeans settled. Eventually they moved in when farming and modern medicine were introduced that allowed humanity to explode in numbers well beyond what would have been possible without European intervention.

-But anyway, did I ever post my covid testimony here on Tumblr? In early February of 2020, my mom and brother got really sick on their way to a hotel on vacation. They felt like they had a really bad flu for a few days. They had type B blood, so they think it might have been undiagnosed Covid because that blood type is supposedly weak to it. Since then, nobody in my entire extended family was ever proven to have it because most of us are reasonably healthy and have good lifestyle choices.

A month or so later, the government forced the kids into in-home learning, and everything got locked down. My workplace had us wear masks, but after a week, maybe 2/3 of coworkers in a sixty-person office stopped giving a shit and wouldn't wear them. Management didn't push it because we were getting a lot of call-offs from people (pretending to be) afraid of Covid. Luckily by then, I worked in a Democrat run state but was able to move over the border into a saner Republican run state where I enjoyed a much cheaper cost of living due to the tax burden being way down. I wasn't able to get a job there, and I was forced to commute an hour- but I did the best I could with my circumstances.

When they talked about the vaccine, my mom told me not to get it because she remembered that back in the 80's they came out with a vaccine for Swine Flu that killed more people than died of the actual flu. My hardcore Democrat grandmother got it and, while she didn't die, she got really sick from it. -So I took that advice and said that I'd wait until the vaccine was out for a while until I got it. After all, Covid only seemed to kill like a tenth of one percent of old fat people over 80, so I wasn't panicked enough to run right out and get an experimental vaccine.

Since I lived in a Republican state, my kids and siblings still in school had to do the in-home learning for a few months in spring of 2020, but by fall, they were back in school with masks. People were allowed to choose to have their children still do in-home learning, but they weren't forced to. In the Democrat run state, kids were forced to do in-home learning for over a year. The teacher's union there fought for it because they wanted to not have to work and still get paid.

Most churches did Facebook live the summer of 2020, but we were back in church in most places by fall of 2020.

-And speaking of, they paid people to sit on their asses and not work for a year! In my place of employment, we were severely short staffed because most of the black women with kids took off and got paid by the government. All the men of any race and all the white women with kids stayed at work, and luckily, we had the majority, or nothing would have gotten done. There were offices with a higher percentage of people not working, so they were like ghost towns. For that year and long after, nobody was allowed to take leave unless they had FMLA. I personally went to work and sent my kids to normal school because I wasn't going to subject them to life locked in my house with no friends and social life and fresh air.

When the vaccine came out, a bunch of my coworkers went in a big group right out to get it, and that's even before they threatened to fire people for not getting it. Since my place of employment was so short staffed, they were one of the few who wouldn't push us, but I knew of several other people who were scrambling to get medical and religious exemptions so they could avoid being forced.

The funny thing is that all the coworkers who got the vaccine got really sick the second time they got the shot. Most -if not all- got Covid every year since. Some of them got long Covid and ended up forced into retirement. I'm one of the few people in my workplace who, despite not wearing masks and getting shots, has never had Covid. Some people would get the shot and still get Covid and then still wear the stupid mask, as if it were a stupid virtue signaling political statement. I quipped that I wasn't going to get the vaccine because for all I knew, it caused people to get Covid. Aren't vaccines supposed to prevent you from getting the thing that it's made to vaccinate you against? It's utter shenanigans.

Then there's all the other weird stuff around the Covid scam, like how my great uncle died of a heart problem that made it so someone found his dead body in a shower. Doctors told him his problem was so bad they couldn't treat it because he would just die on the operating table. His son had to fight to keep 'Covid' off his death certificate as cause of death because hospitals were putting it on there every chance they could. Every person who 'died of Covid' meant they were getting additional government funding.

There's also the 'died suddenly' conspiracy theory that I think might be true. Even though I don't know anybody who died from Covid -just people who got the really bad flu- I do know of reasonably healthy middle-aged people who dropped dead for seemingly no reason, like a female nurse here and a male basketball coach there.....