For over a decade, Malaysian NGOs have dedicated resources to helping the Rohingya, whose UNHCR cards do not ennoscript them to work in this country; and we have proposed multiple plans for temporary measures to facilitate better living conditions for them. But ultimately, we have to recognise that no permanent solution can be reached to solve the problems created by another country’s policies. The Rohingya refugee crisis is the fault of no one but the Myanmar regime, and any stop-gap measures we undertake to temporarily manage the situation only helps to avert accountability for that regime; which in turn guarantees the continuation of the crisis.
For too long the ASEAN non-interference principle has been invoked to justify inaction against Myanmar for the genocide of the Rohingya; but it seems to me that it is time for us to realise that action is justified precisely on the grounds of non-interference; because Myanmar’s policies have been disrupting countries like Malaysia year after year, and this cannot be allowed to continue.
For too long the ASEAN non-interference principle has been invoked to justify inaction against Myanmar for the genocide of the Rohingya; but it seems to me that it is time for us to realise that action is justified precisely on the grounds of non-interference; because Myanmar’s policies have been disrupting countries like Malaysia year after year, and this cannot be allowed to continue.
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Don’t engage with radical conspiracy theorists, flat-earthers, or Atheists. These are people whose thinking skills are stunted far below any level that accommodates intelligent discussion. I believe they should be berated, not debated. Atheists have the most shallow, immature, and severely limited minds of anyone out there; their second most egregious claim is that they are rational thinkers; akin to an infant who “rationally” thinks their parent’s face ceases to exist during a game of peek-a-boo.
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Written for a client for Al Nakba Day:
There is something disingenuous about the way we talk about the Nakba; even the term itself; Arabic for “catastrophe”, is largely misleading. It implies the idea of a single cataclysmic event, like a giant meteor slamming into the earth, that caused the sudden transformation of Palestine into Israel, and the abrupt degradation of the Palestinians into a nation of dispossessed and oppressed people, as it were, all of a sudden. Obviously, this is not what happened. The 1948 declaration of Israeli statehood was a milestone reached after over 50 years of aggressive Zionist immigration to Palestine, and the gradual marginalisation of the Palestinians. In other words, for half a century, the Zionists were doing what the Israelis have done ever since as a matter of policy; they were “creating facts on the ground” which would inevitably have to be recognised at the political level eventually.
What we call the Nakba, then, was essentially just the political recognition of the real existing facts on the ground; and this recognition normalised Zionist dominance – it did not create it. By portraying the establishment of the Zionist state as some sort of catastrophic blast out of nowhere, we both absolve ourselves of responsibility and wilfully suppress the lessons that should be drawn from how this event occurred. Indeed, just as referring to the 50 years of incremental Zionist gains in Palestine as if it was a singular disaster; I would argue that the annual commemoration of Al Nakba Day has itself become a way to persistently ignore ongoing Zionist gains. Israel has never stopped creating facts on the ground and our yearly lamentations on Al Nakba Day are tantamount to an Orwellian 2 minutes of hate by which we collectively exonerate ourselves from blame for Israel’s apparently unhindered success and expansion.
No, I am not talking about the obvious expansion of Israel’s territorial dominance; I am not talking about land acquisitions, evictions, and settlements. I am talking about the reality of Israel’s integration into the economies of the Muslim world. These are facts on the ground being created by the Zionist state which make political recognition, or normalisation, inevitable – just as aggressive immigration and ethnic cleansing in historical Palestine 120 years ago made the political recognition which we call the Nakba, inevitable.
You would be hard-pressed to find a single Muslim or Arab country today that formally opposes normalisation with Israel, which is not simultaneously engaged in a trading relationship with the Zionist state. From the richest to the poorest; from the biggest to the smallest; there is almost no Muslim-majority country that does not have economic relations with Israel; regardless of their rejection of diplomatic ties. This official rejection, then, represents a kind of smokescreen by states that know their populations want nothing to do with Israel. The “No to Normalisation” stance is little more than a veneer laid on top of a real, existing, and meaningful economic relationship, intended precisely to obscure it.
There is something disingenuous about the way we talk about the Nakba; even the term itself; Arabic for “catastrophe”, is largely misleading. It implies the idea of a single cataclysmic event, like a giant meteor slamming into the earth, that caused the sudden transformation of Palestine into Israel, and the abrupt degradation of the Palestinians into a nation of dispossessed and oppressed people, as it were, all of a sudden. Obviously, this is not what happened. The 1948 declaration of Israeli statehood was a milestone reached after over 50 years of aggressive Zionist immigration to Palestine, and the gradual marginalisation of the Palestinians. In other words, for half a century, the Zionists were doing what the Israelis have done ever since as a matter of policy; they were “creating facts on the ground” which would inevitably have to be recognised at the political level eventually.
What we call the Nakba, then, was essentially just the political recognition of the real existing facts on the ground; and this recognition normalised Zionist dominance – it did not create it. By portraying the establishment of the Zionist state as some sort of catastrophic blast out of nowhere, we both absolve ourselves of responsibility and wilfully suppress the lessons that should be drawn from how this event occurred. Indeed, just as referring to the 50 years of incremental Zionist gains in Palestine as if it was a singular disaster; I would argue that the annual commemoration of Al Nakba Day has itself become a way to persistently ignore ongoing Zionist gains. Israel has never stopped creating facts on the ground and our yearly lamentations on Al Nakba Day are tantamount to an Orwellian 2 minutes of hate by which we collectively exonerate ourselves from blame for Israel’s apparently unhindered success and expansion.
No, I am not talking about the obvious expansion of Israel’s territorial dominance; I am not talking about land acquisitions, evictions, and settlements. I am talking about the reality of Israel’s integration into the economies of the Muslim world. These are facts on the ground being created by the Zionist state which make political recognition, or normalisation, inevitable – just as aggressive immigration and ethnic cleansing in historical Palestine 120 years ago made the political recognition which we call the Nakba, inevitable.
You would be hard-pressed to find a single Muslim or Arab country today that formally opposes normalisation with Israel, which is not simultaneously engaged in a trading relationship with the Zionist state. From the richest to the poorest; from the biggest to the smallest; there is almost no Muslim-majority country that does not have economic relations with Israel; regardless of their rejection of diplomatic ties. This official rejection, then, represents a kind of smokescreen by states that know their populations want nothing to do with Israel. The “No to Normalisation” stance is little more than a veneer laid on top of a real, existing, and meaningful economic relationship, intended precisely to obscure it.
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In our own region, for example, Indonesia does not formally recognise the state of Israel, but nonetheless exports nearly $150 million worth of goods and services every year to Israel, and imports roughly $50 million. Now, every country that normalised diplomatic relations with Israel, either individually or via the Abraham Accords, has been widely condemned across the Muslim world as a traitor to the Palestinian cause; but this ignores the fact that all of these countries had already normalised economic and trade ties with Israel well before signing any treaties. Just as with the Nakba, these forms of political recognition of the Zionist state were preceded by de facto normalisation over the course of decades in the economic sphere. No one is isolating Israel; this is the unvarnished truth. One can easily predict what could be called the second Nakba occurring within the next decade or so – the full normalisation of diplomatic relations with Israel by every Muslim and Arab country in the world; and this will occur exactly as the first Nakba did, i.e., as merely the recognition of existing reality, because everyone actually already has relations with Israel and the charade of non-normalisation will eventually be pointless.
Lamenting the 1948 Nakba while our countries are actively providing the Zionists with goods and services, and buying goods and services from them; contributing to the exponential growth of the Israeli economy – essentially supporting the Zionist project as much as pre-1948 immigration did – is hypocritical; particularly when we do not publicly acknowledge the extent of our trade relations.
Malaysian exports to Israel are estimated to be close to $9 million, with imports at around $7 million. Granted, this is not particularly massive, but it also only accounts for direct trade and not trade via third parties. However, even if the amount was much lower, it still belies Malaysia’s official non-recognition of Israel, and many Malaysians might be surprised to discover that any trade exists between the two countries at all. This is something we have to be open about. Every trading relationship endows both parties with a degree of leverage over the other, and if those trade relations are conducted in the shadows, the public cannot discern whom is leveraging whom; and we cannot know whether our country’s economic leverage is being used to support the Palestinians or making us complicit in the crimes committed against them. We would not like to be in a position, such as Indonesia, where economic relations have grown to such an extent that political normalisation becomes potentially inevitable without the population even realising it.
If we can discuss the reality of trade ties with Israel frankly, we can either insist that they be suspended, or formulate a strategy for pursuing tactical trade in pursuit of justice for the Palestinians and a lasting solution. But if we continue quietly building economic relations with Israel while pretending to oppose normalisation, then we are laying the groundwork for a second Nakba that no one will see coming.
Lamenting the 1948 Nakba while our countries are actively providing the Zionists with goods and services, and buying goods and services from them; contributing to the exponential growth of the Israeli economy – essentially supporting the Zionist project as much as pre-1948 immigration did – is hypocritical; particularly when we do not publicly acknowledge the extent of our trade relations.
Malaysian exports to Israel are estimated to be close to $9 million, with imports at around $7 million. Granted, this is not particularly massive, but it also only accounts for direct trade and not trade via third parties. However, even if the amount was much lower, it still belies Malaysia’s official non-recognition of Israel, and many Malaysians might be surprised to discover that any trade exists between the two countries at all. This is something we have to be open about. Every trading relationship endows both parties with a degree of leverage over the other, and if those trade relations are conducted in the shadows, the public cannot discern whom is leveraging whom; and we cannot know whether our country’s economic leverage is being used to support the Palestinians or making us complicit in the crimes committed against them. We would not like to be in a position, such as Indonesia, where economic relations have grown to such an extent that political normalisation becomes potentially inevitable without the population even realising it.
If we can discuss the reality of trade ties with Israel frankly, we can either insist that they be suspended, or formulate a strategy for pursuing tactical trade in pursuit of justice for the Palestinians and a lasting solution. But if we continue quietly building economic relations with Israel while pretending to oppose normalisation, then we are laying the groundwork for a second Nakba that no one will see coming.
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Another new upload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owZ2fGQNu_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owZ2fGQNu_g
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Singapore's Abdul-Somad Problem
Singapore has been doubling down on their unjustified entry ban against popular Indonesian Muslim scholar, Abdul-Somad; but it still sounds like gaslighting and tone-deaf Islamophobia to Muslims in the region.
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You know, you can actually think of the Federal Reserve and global Central Bank interest rate hikes as a kind of equivalent to a sanctions regime. Sanctions largely impact the general population, and interest rate hikes do too. Everyone knows that about sanctions, the idea being, if you increase the pain for the public, maybe they will rise up against the ruler you want deposed; and they will certainly understand that interest rate hikes risk the same outcome. Except, because sanctions are imposed from outside, the public response is usually to rally around the leader whom they see as being unfairly besieged; when you basically impose sanctions n your own population, the risk of unrest is much greater. So, we should expect to see stricter controls on assembly, protest, and freedom of expression across the West.
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Originally published April 29, 2014 on my old Facebook account
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It is important to recognize that the religion of this new empire is neither Christianity nor Judaism. The religion of the Taghut is closer to that of Fir'aun and Nimrud and the self-anointed god-emperors of ancient times.
They obligate their subjects to pay homage to them, to seek refuge in them, to appeal to them, to serve them, to imitate them, to place their hope in them, to fear them, to love them, to admire and praise them, to do nothing short of worship them.
They regard themselves as the source of law, the source of provision, the source of security, the givers of life and death. They believe that everything in the sky and the earth belongs to them, and none has a right to any of this except by their permission.
They regard the people as inherently inferior and deficient, and that we can only achieve any degree of goodness through complete immersion in their worship. To dress, eat, drink, work, rest, talk, and live exactly as they dictate.
They want us to replace our familial, cultural, national and religious affiliations with consumer loyalty to their companies and product lines; to devalue our own heritage, lineage and identities in deference to their logos and brand names.
This is essentially derived from the contempt Iblees, who is their master, has for Mankind. This is their Deen, the Deen of their empire, and it is what they are trying to impose upon us.
Allah is enough as a Protector
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It is important to recognize that the religion of this new empire is neither Christianity nor Judaism. The religion of the Taghut is closer to that of Fir'aun and Nimrud and the self-anointed god-emperors of ancient times.
They obligate their subjects to pay homage to them, to seek refuge in them, to appeal to them, to serve them, to imitate them, to place their hope in them, to fear them, to love them, to admire and praise them, to do nothing short of worship them.
They regard themselves as the source of law, the source of provision, the source of security, the givers of life and death. They believe that everything in the sky and the earth belongs to them, and none has a right to any of this except by their permission.
They regard the people as inherently inferior and deficient, and that we can only achieve any degree of goodness through complete immersion in their worship. To dress, eat, drink, work, rest, talk, and live exactly as they dictate.
They want us to replace our familial, cultural, national and religious affiliations with consumer loyalty to their companies and product lines; to devalue our own heritage, lineage and identities in deference to their logos and brand names.
This is essentially derived from the contempt Iblees, who is their master, has for Mankind. This is their Deen, the Deen of their empire, and it is what they are trying to impose upon us.
Allah is enough as a Protector
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From Facebook, Feb 3, 2015:
Everyone must understand that it is their duty as citizens, as human beings, to sacrifice everything; their rights, their freedom, their health, their safety, their aspirations, their futures and the futures of their children; to help corporations achieve their profit goals and ensure that shareholders receive bigger dividends every year. That is the definition of "the greater good" in the neoliberal universe.
If you suffer, if your family suffers, you can at least be consoled by knowing that your suffering is for the sake of the super rich, and you are therefore, a good and responsible member of society.
If you are so astray and misguided that you value your Deen, value your rights, value your freedom, value justice, value the health and welfare of the society, and value building a positive future for your children, more than you value the necessity of increasing corporate profits; and if you believe that the blood,honor and property of the Muslims is more sacred than shareholder dividends, then, of course, you are a deviant in the neoliberal universe.
Everyone must understand that it is their duty as citizens, as human beings, to sacrifice everything; their rights, their freedom, their health, their safety, their aspirations, their futures and the futures of their children; to help corporations achieve their profit goals and ensure that shareholders receive bigger dividends every year. That is the definition of "the greater good" in the neoliberal universe.
If you suffer, if your family suffers, you can at least be consoled by knowing that your suffering is for the sake of the super rich, and you are therefore, a good and responsible member of society.
If you are so astray and misguided that you value your Deen, value your rights, value your freedom, value justice, value the health and welfare of the society, and value building a positive future for your children, more than you value the necessity of increasing corporate profits; and if you believe that the blood,honor and property of the Muslims is more sacred than shareholder dividends, then, of course, you are a deviant in the neoliberal universe.
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Apparently it is now the one-year anniversary of this YouTube channel, everyone. We began as “Qawwamun”, dealing primarily with debunking the Red Pill rubbish, and discussing the roles and relationships of men and women in an Islamic context, before moving on (thankfully) to more significant and substantive issues with the “Middle Nation”.
For those of you who have been with me since the beginning, I appreciate your support, encouragement, and the high-quality interaction you have brought to the comments section. I am particularly grateful for the great conversations we have had over the past several months in our Telegram discussion group.
For those of you who are newer to the channel, thank you for your interest, and I hope you find the content useful and always will.
You may have noticed that most of my recent videos have been in vertical format, and that is because – to my indescribable surprise – I have found traction on Tiktok, and have been able to reach a ludicrously wider audience on that platform. I never expected that of Tiktok, to be honest…I mean, I don’t even dance. But it is an evolving platform, and is designed to increase exposure for one’s content to new viewers more effectively than YouTube. It is also much convenient for me to use.
I will still make traditional YouTube-style videos, but less often; and I will try to keep up with the podcasts, insha’Allah.
Jazakum Allahu Khayran everyone, again, I am very grateful for your support.
--Shahid
For those of you who have been with me since the beginning, I appreciate your support, encouragement, and the high-quality interaction you have brought to the comments section. I am particularly grateful for the great conversations we have had over the past several months in our Telegram discussion group.
For those of you who are newer to the channel, thank you for your interest, and I hope you find the content useful and always will.
You may have noticed that most of my recent videos have been in vertical format, and that is because – to my indescribable surprise – I have found traction on Tiktok, and have been able to reach a ludicrously wider audience on that platform. I never expected that of Tiktok, to be honest…I mean, I don’t even dance. But it is an evolving platform, and is designed to increase exposure for one’s content to new viewers more effectively than YouTube. It is also much convenient for me to use.
I will still make traditional YouTube-style videos, but less often; and I will try to keep up with the podcasts, insha’Allah.
Jazakum Allahu Khayran everyone, again, I am very grateful for your support.
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Anyone can research the financials of UK registered businesses and business owners on the Companies House website. According to filings listed there, Imran Ahmed Khan (A.K.A. Dawah Man), has 3 registered companies. His most successful business is his matrimonial service which, as of the latest filing, boasts net assets of £733. He has a company called I & A Trading, which was under compulsory dissolution proceedings until recently, when proceedings were discontinued, presumably because overdue payments were made. Then his company Dawah Brothers, as of the latest filing, has total assets of £14,247 but liabilities of £57,996; meaning it is nearly £34,000 in debt.
He launched a GoFundMe campaign at the start of 2021 for the stated purpose of paying for a new studio, with the original goal of raising £5,000. He has, however, raised £41.5k from that campaign so far. Now, he stated in a video last month that the studio is already functioning, and that he has produced a year’s worth of content in that studio; yet the GoFundMe campaign remains active.
Imran has uploaded videos of himself and his team driving around Dubai in Bentleys and Lamborghinis, shopping, splashing around in speedboats, and generally living the life of the rich and famous in the Emirates, to promote the Badr Club. He is promising young men that he can teach them how to earn 6 figure incomes and achieve the very lifestyle portrayed in the Badr Club marketing clips.
From the 3 businesses he has, according to the filings, only one of them is in profit – the matrimonial service, with assets less than £1,000. He is tens of thousands of pounds in debt, and his only apparent profitable endeavour is the ongoing GoFundMe campaign.
Where he got the money to pay for the high life in Dubai, while asking for charity and carrying unpaid debts, is unclear. His creditors and donors might be interested in knowing.
Imran’s financial situation appears to be about to improve considerably, however, as he will likely rake in roughly £100,000 from Badr Club membership fees, regurgitating Red Pill theory and the Prosperity Doctrine during the worst economic crisis the world has seen since the 1930s.
Let me be clear; I want Muslims to have money. I want us to be prosperous. I think Islamic projects – particularly Da’awah projects -- should be funded as much as possible through profitable enterprises and not through charitable donations. If you want to launch a GoFundMe campaign to finance startup costs for a business, that’s fine…but say so. If you want to collect charity for your personal Islamic work, fine…but that should be only because you cannot afford to fund it yourself. I do not think it is acceptable to be a recipient of charity when you are rich, and I don’t think it is acceptable to pretend to be rich when you are a recipient of charity, in debt, and have no functioning business.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/D_HuybIN7p29SU8ZtEiFn9qYmVo/appointments
He launched a GoFundMe campaign at the start of 2021 for the stated purpose of paying for a new studio, with the original goal of raising £5,000. He has, however, raised £41.5k from that campaign so far. Now, he stated in a video last month that the studio is already functioning, and that he has produced a year’s worth of content in that studio; yet the GoFundMe campaign remains active.
Imran has uploaded videos of himself and his team driving around Dubai in Bentleys and Lamborghinis, shopping, splashing around in speedboats, and generally living the life of the rich and famous in the Emirates, to promote the Badr Club. He is promising young men that he can teach them how to earn 6 figure incomes and achieve the very lifestyle portrayed in the Badr Club marketing clips.
From the 3 businesses he has, according to the filings, only one of them is in profit – the matrimonial service, with assets less than £1,000. He is tens of thousands of pounds in debt, and his only apparent profitable endeavour is the ongoing GoFundMe campaign.
Where he got the money to pay for the high life in Dubai, while asking for charity and carrying unpaid debts, is unclear. His creditors and donors might be interested in knowing.
Imran’s financial situation appears to be about to improve considerably, however, as he will likely rake in roughly £100,000 from Badr Club membership fees, regurgitating Red Pill theory and the Prosperity Doctrine during the worst economic crisis the world has seen since the 1930s.
Let me be clear; I want Muslims to have money. I want us to be prosperous. I think Islamic projects – particularly Da’awah projects -- should be funded as much as possible through profitable enterprises and not through charitable donations. If you want to launch a GoFundMe campaign to finance startup costs for a business, that’s fine…but say so. If you want to collect charity for your personal Islamic work, fine…but that should be only because you cannot afford to fund it yourself. I do not think it is acceptable to be a recipient of charity when you are rich, and I don’t think it is acceptable to pretend to be rich when you are a recipient of charity, in debt, and have no functioning business.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/D_HuybIN7p29SU8ZtEiFn9qYmVo/appointments
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Imran Ahmed KHAN personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity
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The death of the Queen of England is remarkable insofar as I cannot think of any revered, if ceremonial head of state, whose death is of less practical relevance.
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There were roughly 230-250 wars in the history of Islam between 632 and the year 2000 – that’s over 13 centuries.
If you remove the defensive wars to repel the Crusaders, and Mongol invasions, there will be fewer than 200. If you further remove the civil wars, internal rebellions, anti-colonialist wars, the modern wars against invasion and aggression, as well as battles between Muslims, you are left with perhaps 150 military conflicts in 1,368 years.
Compare this with the United States of America, which carried out 251 military interventions in just the past 30 years alone. Remind me again, which civilization is more prone to violence and war?
If you remove the defensive wars to repel the Crusaders, and Mongol invasions, there will be fewer than 200. If you further remove the civil wars, internal rebellions, anti-colonialist wars, the modern wars against invasion and aggression, as well as battles between Muslims, you are left with perhaps 150 military conflicts in 1,368 years.
Compare this with the United States of America, which carried out 251 military interventions in just the past 30 years alone. Remind me again, which civilization is more prone to violence and war?
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