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“The Root causes of Islamist Terrorism”
(1-10 Ideological concepts)
1- Terrorism in the name of religion
2- Religious Extremism
3- Takfirism (Kharijites)
4- Jihadism
5- Qutbism
6- Revolutionist Ideology (Khurooj)
7- Taghutism
8- Khilafah
9- Sharia
10- Political Islam
🇧🇪 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀
More than 30 European imams, Islamic scholars, theologians and Muslim peace activists have gathered in Brussels under the leadership of @Imam1chalghoumi.
Tomorrow, we will attend events at the European Parliament to send a strong and powerful message to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organisations:
We reject your destructive ideology of Islamism. We will not surrender to extremism, intimidation or ideological coercion.
We are determined to challenge Islamist extremism through knowledge, dialogue, peaceful activism and democratic institutions.
We also intend to present a memorandum, representing Islamic scholars and peace advocates from across Europe and Great Britain, to the European Commission, calling for a permanent ban on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organisations and institutions operating across Europe, where the legal grounds for such action are established.
Our message is clear: Islam and Islamism are not the same. We stand for peace, coexistence, democracy and freedom from extremism.
Europe must hear the voices of Muslims who reject political extremism and stand for a peaceful future.
⚠️ Breaking News:
🇪🇬 Egypt Lists 35 Europe-Linked Muslim organisations and 36 Muslim Individuals as Terrorists.
I am not particularly concerned about what percentage of Muslims in Western countries support Islamist terrorism in general, because I recognise that the overwhelming majority of Muslims do not support terrorism. End of story.
𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a tendency among Muslim communities to regard almost every form of political violence carried out against Israel in the name of the Palestinian cause as legitimate resistance.
They need to understand that resistance and terrorism are not interchangeable concepts. Political violence must be judged by its nature, targets and methods, not by the political cause they claim to represent.
𝑩𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊 𝒄𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔.
Why should terrorism committed against civilians in Israel be judged differently from terrorism committed against civilians in Europe or anywhere else in the world?
The same moral principles and standards must apply universally. No political cause should provide an exemption from accountability for terrorism.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
Dear Westerners who want the suffering in Gaza to end, and want its people to thrive:
I fully agree with you, and I share this noble goal.
Imagine what Gaza could look like if a leadership that believes in peace and prosperity took over.
Until that day comes, keep pointing your finger at the real issue: Hamas still refuses to disarm, and still plans to murder Jews and commit war crimes against Israelis.
Gaza could become the Dubai or Singapore of the region if such leaders emerge but that can't happen while Hamas is in control.
Although I support Israel's right to exist, I have come to believe over the past decade that anti-Israel sentiment or antisemitism is more prevalent among Westerners than among Muslims. If opposition to Israel came only from Muslims, their small percentage of Western populations would not be enough to pressure goverments or elect anti-Israel candidates.
Muslim political organisations, blocs and candidates, along with the BDS movement and similar groups with strong anti-Israel views, cannot achieve their goals through Muslim support alone.
Their success depends on broader Western support, which accounts for most of their backing.
All Muslim candidates with anti-Israel views elected in the US or UK have won with votes coming overwhelmingly from local Western voters.
Antisemitism has become embedded in contemporary Islam, while political antisemitism and anti-Israel ideology have become part of Western politics.
Anti-Israel sentiment can outweigh official state policy, helping its supporters win parliamentary seats and mobilise millions of protesters to pressure governments, potentially destabilising democracy.
This developed over centuries, not a single year. Religious and political hostility towards Jews persisted in Western societies even as religious practice declined. Those retaining this political hostility sought religious allies, forming alliances with Muslim blocs to unite political and religious opposition to Jews in the West.
Jews in the West must recognise that their principal opposition comes from local antisemitic Westerners who have strengthened Muslim opposition by providing manpower, political influence and platforms, building resistance not only to Israel but also to local Jewish communities.
Western educational institutions have accommodated academics with anti-Israel and anti-Jewish ideology, shaping a generation's attitudes against Israel and local Jewish communities.
We have seen Jewish students face harassment, bullying and racism not because they are Israeli, but because they are Jewish.
Political and religious hostility towards Israel and Jews is growing rapidly and must be addressed urgently across all political and educational institutions.
Otherwise, a day may come when no visibly Jewish person can safely walk Western streets, a threat already emerging in educational institutions and Western capitals.
To my Hindu friends,
🪔 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐢 🪔
May this festival of lights bring happiness, peace, prosperity, good health and success in your life. Amen
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🕋 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗 𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚
In 1979, Islamist extremists seized the Grand Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca and held thousands of worshippers and pilgrims hostage. The militants, led by Juhayman al-Otaybi, challenged the Saudi royal family and demanded the implementation of their interpretation of Sharia law, among other ideological and political demands.
The Saudi authorities sought assistance from French security personnel during the operation to regain control of the mosque and rescue those trapped inside.
Hundreds of people, including pilgrims, Saudi security personnel and Islamists, were killed during the siege and the subsequent military operation.
𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝑰𝒓𝒂𝒏’𝒔 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝑨𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒉 𝑲𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒊, 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔. 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕.
The Saudi government, however, attributed the seizure to the extremist militants who had occupied Islam’s holiest site.
The 1979 Mecca siege remains one of the most shocking examples of religious extremism in modern Islamic history: Islamist militants turned Islam’s holiest sanctuary into a battlefield, endangering the very pilgrims who had gathered there to worship.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
من بهعنوان یک شهروند عادی اسرائیل با جیمز ﴿امیر حسین﴾ صحبت میکردم. من هیچ ارتباطی با هیچکس در موساد ندارم و هرگز حرفهایی را که رژیم ایران در ویدیوهای تبلیغاتی خود درباره ارتباط من با او میگوید، نزدهام. من بهعنوان یک فعال رسانهای با افراد زیادی در سراسر جهان گفتگو میکنم.
اما یک قول میدهم: اگر جیمز را به این خاطر اعدام کنید، مدارک و اطلاعات مربوط به عوامل دستگیری او از جمله مشخصات کامل شهروند دو تابعیتی ایرانی کانادایی که او را به سیستم اطلاعاتی جمهوری اسلامی تحویل داد به طور کامل به دولت کانادا و مقامات قانونی ارائه خواهد شد تا از طریق مجاری رسمی پیگیری شود.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
I’m so sick of seeing people across social media claim Abdul El-Sayed is only getting heat “because he’s a Muslim man.”
That’s not the reason. Other Muslims have been elected to office without this reaction. Repeating it just makes you look stupid.
Here are the actual problems:
1- In 2012 he signed a letter to Mohamed Morsi (the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt) supporting his power grab and calling on him to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.”
2- His biological mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury designated for supporting terrorism. His half-sister has publicly said their mother was active in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1970s.
3- His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi posted on social media about their mother’s Muslim Brotherhood activism and expressed support for family members backing the Brotherhood in Egypt.
4- He refused to condemn the IRGC when directly asked by an Iranian-American student whose family was targeted by them. Leaked audio also shows he deliberately stayed silent on Khamenei’s death because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,” prioritizing his base over basic condemnation of a terrorist regime.
5- His father, Mohamed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan-based Islamic charity that paid a $780,000 settlement to the U.S. Treasury for violating sanctions by transferring money into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The group has also faced raids and scrutiny over alleged ties to terror-linked networks.
These are documented facts.
𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧?
I don’t understand why people believe that remembering God, recognising His power, and understanding His attributes can only be achieved through religion and the practice of religious rituals.
There are many other ways to explore and understand His attributes. For example:
1- Natural Sciences
2- Medical Sciences
3- Human Creation
4- Universe Creation
5- Intelligence
6- Psychology
7- Philosophy
8- Romance and Love
9- Knowledge of the Unseen
10- Palmistry and Astrology
These represent different fields of knowledge and ways of understanding existence, just as religious knowledge offers its own perspective. However, when we begin acquiring knowledge in one particular field, we often become dismissive of other forms of knowledge.
When we study religion, we sometimes reject other ways of understanding God’s attributes. Conversely, when we acquire scientific or philosophical knowledge, we may begin to question or even deny God’s existence.
𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓?
Religion and other forms of knowledge do not necessarily have to contradict one another. They can offer different perspectives through which we explore existence, human nature, the universe, and the mysteries of life.
𝑼𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆.
Instead of approaching knowledge with rejection and denial, we should approach it with curiosity, openness, understanding and acceptance. After all, the pursuit of knowledge should broaden our understanding, not narrow our minds.
Sometimes, we need to understand God through psychology, philosophy, romance and love because these, too, reflect different aspects of His attributes. Therefore, these can also become alternative paths through which we explore, discover and develop a deeper understanding of Him.
Knowing God should not be limited to religious rituals; it should also involve exploring the wonders of His creation, human nature, intelligence, emotions and the universe.
𝐖𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
Stop blaming the collective Muslims for the electoral success of Islamists in U.S. elections!
This is unfair and politically counterproductive.
👉 By blaming Muslims collectively for electoral outcomes produced by much broader American constituencies, you risk strengthening the very Islamist claim that Muslims and Islamists are politically inseparable. You are only making Islamists stronger by doing so!
💹 Broadly speaking:
American Muslims represent less than 2% of the U.S. population. Not all are eligible to vote, and Muslim Americans are politically diverse, and only a fraction of them support Islamists.
I, for one, have been fighting against those Islamists and their hateful ideology for almost two decades, both in Egypt and here in the U.S.
📘 Three cases to further prove this fact:
1. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan (2026)
* Votes received: Approximately 2.51 million (52.5%).
* Estimated Muslim population in Michigan: 274,000 (2.7%).
👉 Even if every Muslim resident, including children and noncitizens, voted for El-Sayed, they would account for only 10.9% of his votes. They cannot make him win!
👉 At least 89.1% of the votes given to El-Sayed must have come from non-Muslims. These are the people who made him win.
2. Zohran Mamdani in New York City (2025)
* Votes received: Approximately 1.11 million (50.8%).
* Muslims represent an estimated 7% of New York City's registered voters.
👉 At least 93% of registered voters are non-Muslims.
🧨 Even more shocking, Exit polling showed that 33% of Jewish voters and 75% of religiously unaffiliated voters supported Mamdani.
3. Adam Hamawy in New Jersey (2026)
* Votes received: Approximately 164,640 (70.4%).
* Estimated Muslim voters: At least 56,141 registered Muslim voters across the four counties that overlap his congressional district. Hamawy's congressional district includes only portions of these counties. Some of those Muslim voters live outside his district and could not have voted for him.
👉 Even if all 56,141 voters supported Hamawy, including those who cannot even vote or those outside his district, they would account for only 34% of his total votes.)
👉 That means that at least 66% of the voters were non-Muslims! His district also has a substantial Democratic base, making broader partisan support essential to understanding his victory.
🚩 It is not a coincidence that in several Muslim-majority countries, including Egypt, the home of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim Brotherhood has faced significant popular opposition, political exclusion, and official banning and designation as a terrorist organization. Many Muslims have resisted Islamist political movements, sometimes at enormous personal cost.
‼️ Islamism is a political ideology, not an inevitable expression of Muslim identity.
You can be non-Muslim and still adopt this hateful ideology as a way of life and political practice. Conversely, you can be a Muslim and completely reject this devious ideology of the Islamists.
In short:
❓Is there a serious threat to US democracy?
Yes of course
❓Are Islamists and their ideology and tactics the main driver behind this threat?
Absolutely, yes!
❓Are the collective American Muslims (barely 2% of the entire U.S. population) to be blamed for the success of Islamists?
Absolutely not! (Check the facts and numbers I listed above).
👉 By blaming all Muslims for your inability to block Islamists from hijacking your democracy, you are only offering these Islamists exactly the narrative they want to advance with their evil and devious agenda to destroy your democracy from within.
✋ I, and many other Muslims like me, are on your side and want Islamists to be defeated, and want this great Western democracy to continue to thrive because it is the only place where we feel safe.
So, please be careful and do not empower our common enemy (the Islamists) with such collective blame. Let's focus on the real fight to save America before it is too late.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
🇺🇸 The issue isn't that the Democrats won the US midterms; in a democracy, parties win and lose. I wholeheartedly congratulate them on their sweeping election victory. My concern is that all Muslim candidates elected to Congress are hostile toward Israel, while some have neither condemned Hamas attacks nor expressed sympathy for Israeli hostages.
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🇮🇹 My interview has been published in an Italian newspaper, discussing the Modena car-ramming attack in northern Italy on 16 May 2026.
In the interview, I criticised the prosecutor’s decision not to classify the incident as a terrorist attack and discussed the evidence suggesting a possible Islamist extremist motivation behind the violence.
I also highlighted the importance of examining the perpetrator’s ideological motivation, online radicalisation and the available psychiatric assessment when determining the nature of the attack.
“𝐄𝐥 𝐊𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐫𝐢 𝐣𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚, 𝐡𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐥𝐢 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢”
Noor Dahri, esperto di contrasto all'estremismo islamista, critica la decisione della Dda di escludere l'aggravante terroristica nella strage di Modena.
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In the midterm election, Americans sent a clear message: they reject Trump and his policies.
The war’s impact on the US economy has undoubtedly influenced voters, including Republicans. While the US fought abroad, Iran waged an economic battle within US borders by closing the Strait of Hormuz, driving up inflation and making everyday life harder for ordinary Americans.
Trump’s decision to wage war against Iran was entirely justified, but he lacked a strategy for managing the war after it began. Iran, by contrast, had a plan to maintain control of the war.
Its strategy succeeded, while the US approach failed. Trump’s unpredictability and daily shifts in decisions harmed the global economy and changed Republican voters' attitudes.
The US misjudged Iran and lacked a clear plan for starting and ending the war. Planning should have begun at least a year in advance, with Arab allies consulted. Instead, those allies paid a heavier price and continue to face severe consequences.
Arab allies have lost trust in the US and shifted their defence strategy towards Pakistan and Turkey, significantly undermining US interests in the Middle East. The US has also closed some military bases and withdrawn personnel.
Waging war without a clear plan for its beginning and end has undermined Trump, his party, and US strategy and interests in the Middle East. For the first time in US history, Republicans voted for Democrats in large numbers, dealing a major blow to their party because of the president's weak and unpredictable policies.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑰𝒔𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒍, 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔.
Trump has failed the US inside and outside its borders. But, the reality is that Iran is still a national and security threat to the world.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
“Islamists without the Islamism label" is a growing trend in American politics.
The majority of those who voted for Elsayed, Darializa, Mamdani, Kawas, Omar, and their like were not Muslims, but non-Muslim Americans who still cannot see beyond the labels.
(To put things into perspective, American Muslims represent barely 1% of the population and obviously not all of them can vote, and not all of them support Islamists).
The Islamists of today are not the long-bearded, short-gown, armed men. They are men and women who dress like you, studied in the same schools, and grew up in the same country as you. However, every step of the way, they are advancing Islamist objectives and goals, abusing the very democratic system that they oppose.
What a sad irony!
The electoral success of Islamist-aligned candidates in the United States is a reminder that we have to drop our obsession with labels.
𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚’𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬
Gaza society reflects traditional Arab customs, including a strong tradition of keeping weapons.
Weapons were present in Gaza long before Hamas, during Fatah's time and even earlier. Gaza's Arab tribal society comprises several clans led by sheikhs who oversee daily affairs. Powerful clans governed Gaza long before Fatah's politicisation and Hamas's Islamisation of its society.
Gaza's armed groups are distinct from its clans. Hamas and other factions have organised military wings, while clans, often called "𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐬”, are extended family networks that can offer social support, mediation, and local representation. Individual clan members may carry weapons or join a faction, but this does not make the entire clan a militia.
Weapons in Gaza reflect overlapping histories of armed political factions, weak or contested policing, family and neighbourhood self-protection, and arms circulating through conflict and smuggling. These histories should not be reduced to a single "𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆."
Gaza's weapons come through multiple channels, not a single "𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒍." Armed political factions, conflict, smuggling, and periods of weak policing and public institutions have shaped this environment. Hamas and other factions have established and maintained their own military structures, while local armed groups may rely on family or neighbourhood ties.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛:
𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐡𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐡: Members of this Gaza City family have been associated with armed organisations, including the Army of Islam. Reporting also describes members with different political affiliations. The family's history does not mean every Doghmush is involved in armed activity.
𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬: Some members have been linked to clashes with Hamas, while the wider family has at times rejected claims that a particular armed group represents it.
𝐀𝐥-𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐚: A family network in Khan Younis that has experienced armed confrontations with Hamas.
𝐀𝐛𝐮 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐛'𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩: Yasser Abu Shabab led an armed group in southern Gaza that drew on local ties. Reporting connected it to aid looting and described Israeli support for anti-Hamas armed groups.
Not everyone who carries a weapon is a Hamas member or a terrorist. Some may be clan members protecting their family or tribe from criminal syndicates or rival factions.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑢𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠:
1. 𝑾𝒆𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔
2. 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔
3. 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔
4. 𝑷𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒔
5. 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒔
Armed self-protection in Gaza is better explained by conflict, political factionalism, and uneven state authority than by any inherent trait of Arab culture. Clan networks can influence local security, but they are diverse social institutions rather than uniform armed groups.
𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
When Hamas seized control of Gaza, it replaced 60% of the ministry staff with its own members. Arafat al-Ara'ir was one of them; he was appointed to the Ministry of the Interior and worked in drug enforcement while simultaneously being a member of Hamas.
Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری 🇬🇧 retweeted
Dear Arab Israelis,
I have a short message for you, and I'm laying it out of love and compassion but, as always, I'm completely sincere and direct.
The problem everyone in Israel is talking about has nothing to do with you being Arabs or Muslims or Christians.
The problem is (forgive my bluntness) that the majority of you still identify as "Palestinians," and that in private gatherings you always talk about the "dream of destroying Israel", something I've personally heard a couple of times.
I have a secret formula that would make every citizen of Israel vote for you and bring you into any coalition:
1. Unequivocally condemn Hamas and radical Islamic movements.
2. Acknowledge that you are Arab Israeli citizens, not Palestinians.
3. Acknowledge that Israel is the Jewish state of the Jewish people, 3,000 years old and 78 years young.
4. Learn more about the history of the land that prophets, kings, and heroes of Islam called "the land of Israel."
Is that too much to ask? Honestly, that's the least expected of any ordinary citizen of a country.
In so many of those private gatherings, you say the Israeli passport is so strong, that you can travel to Europe without a visa and many of you brag about traveling to the US because of the waiver program...
So is giving back to the Jewish state that gave you this good life really too much to ask?
Food for thought. 🌹