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Glumcore retweeted
Jack Antonoff tells Ed Sheeran to “stand the f*ck up” after Macklemore was fired from his tour for showing support to Palestine:
“it’s not in any way a strange, uncomfortable or controversial thing to say [Free Palestine], it’s a deeply human thing to say. If you think it is [controversial] you’re lost in some other sauce that is so crazy. They’re going to let some f*cking promoter tell me what I can say? Don’t book me. I’ll play for free outside. [Ed Sheeran] missed a massive, beautiful opportunity there: just cancel the whole fucking tour, then play for free outside each venue, raise a bunch of money, rather than let a fucking billionaire tell you what to do. The reason it’s not an anomaly or niche issue is because we all live in a world where billionaires are constantly telling us what to do. So stand the f*ck up.”
(theguardian.com/music/2026/o…)
The full issue on Re-Orient Journal is open access and available here: jstor.org/stable/48894763?se…
Thank you to the contributors of this Issue whose intellectual labour produced important scholarship that I think dismantles the banal defence of 'tradition', exposing new fronts of Islamophobia & the dangers facing Muslims in misdiagnosing the culture wars.
Out now, my co-edited Special Issue on the Muslim Manosphere. Building on our first academic intervention in 2022, the excellent contributions in this issue expand the examination of the rise (& fall) of Muslim male influencers or crisis actors as a symptom of a deeper malaise.
So, support for Palestine among PhD cohorts is antisemitic, a symptom of an investment in the ideologue and the “socially dysfunctional”. Got it 🫠
Hosseini not only carefully sifted through Afghan realities to apply a cultural lens on Afghan pain but also stole it to sell war and occupation. The Bush administration paraded him around for this very reason.
True. It’s been disturbing watching Mehdi and Owen turn debate into an aim in itself. Nothing to be resolved just endless returns to the same talking points. It’s a spectacle of discourse. Their careers rely on it.
Glumcore retweeted
My newest article, "Unifying (and Dividing) the Believers: The Sectarian Governance of Muslims in the People's Republic of China" is out (open access). Its part of a special issue I coedited on rethinking sectarianism in the study of Chinese Islam:
brill.com/view/journals/jesh…
Glumcore retweeted
If you liked I Saw the Devil, start with these three. 1. Revenge (2017, France): Your thirst for revenge will cost you everything you once were
2. The Golden Glove (2019, Germany): One man's obsessive hunt for a killer hollows him out completely
3. Creepy (2016, Japan): Chasing a psychopath, you lose sight of who you used to be
I don’t think leftists should “fully” support Islamists just as I don’t think Islamists should do the same. But this is also working with a binary that what constitutes Islamism is outside the domain of leftist politics and vice versa.
Afghanistan also has a fascist problem. See below.
My Afghanistan strategy is very simple. It must be obvious to anyone who has followed me for a while. It rests on 10 major principles:
1) Unrepentant, Pragmatic Hawkism
2) Purging the Ideologically-compromised within 🇵🇰
3) Debunking false 🇦🇫 history at scale
4) Balkanization of Afghanistan
5) An Autonomous Herat region
6) Use Afghans to fight Afghans
7) Bring back Hazara & Uzbek militias
8) Quid-pro-quo-plus tactical doctrines
9) Sub-tactical operational freedom
10) Massive socioecon investment in ex-FATA
Glumcore retweeted
Majority Report is a garbage show staffed by smug liberals who condescend and lie to their audience. Stop watching this garbage. Also, who is the off-camera shy guy calling a viewer an "idiot" and to "fuck off" because they expressed a view that hurt his feelings?
