Here and there I have seen comments by Muslims in the West (mostly) expressing happiness about the selection of Anwar Ibrahim as the new prime minister of Malaysia. To them, I assume, he is something of an icon: a righteous Muslim political leader who suffered persecution and wrongful imprisonment for over a decade due to the diabolical scheming of secularist politicians who did not want to see Malaysia becoming more Islamic. This was more or less the narrative 20 years ago, and most Muslims in the West don’t know any better. Anwar is a Mandela-esque figure in their imagination.

It might surprise them to know that religious, conservative Muslims in Malaysia, overwhelmingly, do not support Anwar Ibrahim. They did not vote for him. They do not want him. His political party is not the Islamic party in Malaysia; it sits at the opposite end of that spectrum. Malaysian Muslims reject Anwar not simply because of his sodomy case (which was never disproven, and which has been followed by other sodomy accusations), but because he is openly pro-Western, pro-IMF, has a long-standing connection with the National Endowment for Democracy in the US, which is recognized as a CIA operation for advancing American economic interests abroad, and because he is fundamentally aligned with Western and global elites and the likes of the World Economic Forum. Anwar Ibrahim is a liberal, and devout Muslims expect him to move Malaysia down the liberal path, including the normalization of LGBT. This may or may not be the way Anwar ultimately governs, but that is the perception and expectation of religious Muslims in the country.

Anwar Ibrahim is the prime minister that the US has always wanted in Malaysia, and this, frankly, is precisely why so many Western Muslims have an inaccurate view of him – because they are fed the propaganda churned out about him by non-Muslims and non-Malaysians which casts him as an entirely different entity than he actually is.

Nevertheless, he is now prime minister, and we pray for Allah to Guide him for at least as long as he successfully retains that position.

Posting this here in case it gets removed from other platforms

I wonder if this might include ACTUAL news that potentially interferes with deals pertaining to massive purchases of pharmaceutical products..?

It can usually be safely understood that "fake news" is often just inconvenient news for those in power.

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A brother in our Telegram chat group reflected on the victory of Morocco over Portugal in the World Cup tonight, and I wanted to share his comments:

"There are clear geopolitical signs of the new world order that is going to come in football. Until lately, there were only Western European teams + Brazil and Argentina that could go far in this competition and host them too. Now the BRICS are hosting the event (South Africa - Brazil - Russia before Qatar) and the gap between the countries I cited and the other teams around the world is decreasing.

FIFA now finds money in the BRICS and Arab countries and they want to deal with them, young players who were born in Europe chose more and more to play for the African countries of their parents (which could be called a "foot drain" instead of a "brain drain" haha)"

Book recommendation:

https://archive.org/details/captainsofconsci0005ewen

The internet has collapsed the natural barriers that used to exist in real-life society that kept serious people in one area, and clowns in another, and they never interfered with each other's conversations. Now, like that one disruptive kid in class who ruins the classroom for everyone, we have absolute idiots chiming in loudly whether we like it or not, so serious people end up having to address clowns as if they are serious people, and thereby everyone becomes a clown

Because of the subject, I expect this video to be suppressed on tiktok and YouTube

Hilariously, this video was removed by tiktok

Rasulullah said that the material rights of the children of Adam include food for subsistence, shelter from the weather, and clothes to cover your aurah. That does not mean that whatever you have in addition to that is haraam, but whatever you have in addition to that should be appreciated with gratitude, and there should not be a sense of pride, ennoscriptment, or superiority, and certainly not a sense that it is NOT ENOUGH such that you are continuously pursuing more and more. When what you are consuming leaves you continuously hungry, and your appetite is perpetually dissatisfied, to me it is an indication that your wealth is a fitnah and a punishment for you, not a blessing

From "Religious Extremism in the Lives of Contemporary Muslims" by Dr. Shaikh Abdul Rahmaan al-Luwaihiq; for your reference