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My observation this Ramadan is that most muslims are entirely captured by fiat - not just on a social but on a political level.

Socially, if you're not on Meta (Whatsapp and IG in particular), then you're not engaged in the community. Doesn't matter if you show up for salat, nearly half the engagement is online now (covid really did a number to normalize that). Total survelance state capture! What happened to the days where mosques were afraid of native informats?

Politically, it is hard to say there has been any recovery from the left yet post November. I don't say this just regarding the American scene, but globally the trends are still toward the right. Key in this has been broad ethnic embrace of racial superiority. Muslims have not avoided this movement. Trump support among American muslims remains at ATH (thanks largely to Musk - MT is truly a biomas wastebin). Do not forget that Gulf money is a joint backer in X. In fact, in the past six months muslims have politically embraced racial steriotypes to a shocking degree!

There are strategic reasons to move in these directions that most do not realize. Our dreams of a renewed Islamicate have perhaps not factored the potentiality of a Dark Islamicate. Self-soveriegnty for the marginalized will be more important now than ever before.

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alp 9mo ago

Good thoughts. Fact is, a lot of Muslims were always very racist. Just think of parents' reaction of a light skinned Muslim woman wanting to marry a black African brother. And let's also think about treatment of foreign workers in certain Arab countries or in Turkey. There are many firsthand experiences about it on YouTube.

I even think that racist prejudices are more extreme in the Muslim world than in the West. And we rarely talk about it.

ابو مريم 9mo ago

Yup, mixed marriages are a great case study in this and I've seen there it myself. I've seen racism in 4 continents and can confirm it isn't just localized to a western black/white paridigm. I do think it is more common among Christians than Muslims, but Muslims trying to modernize/westernize might be increasing things among Arab/Desi communities.

The political discussion of this is amost entirely localized to the American context so the topic has been largely externalized. I think it is at the root of a lot of other issues though.

Subhan Tariq, Esq. 8mo ago

What do we do about it tho?

Retreat from the world stage? Are we holding ourselves back from reaching our potential?

ابو مريم 8mo ago

Just observstions, but embracing a Dark Islamicate and that ethnic/nationalist bagage may be a path we have to get through before we can rebuild civilizational potential. This also goes for marginalized diasporoids whose survival may come down to how well they embrace self-soverignty.