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“كم يا هلال محرم تشجينا • ما زال قوسُك نبلُه يرمينا ما أنت إلا خنجرٌ بيد الردى • بالدين يوغل حدُّك المسنونا ولقد جنيتُ ثمار صنعك مرةً • لما رأيتك تشبه العرجونا فلتجرين بلجّ أفقك زورقًا • لكن أراك من البلا مشحونا تأتي بشهرك كل بكر مصيبةٍ • تدع المصائب في سواه عونا فبفلكك العالي نعدك أشيبًا • وتُعد في قرب الولود جنينا اكفف سهامك يا زمان عن الورى • فلقد صرعتَ كما اشتهيت الدينا”

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جعفر الحلي

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It’s often said that the strongest believers make the strongest converts. History has innumerable examples. I think hajj Malcom (ra) also makes this same point in his autobiography. An abridged version of it was actually the first audiobook I ever listened to (2015), so it holds a special place in my heart.

My friend and I were discussing the approach and appeal of some movements, that outsiders are quick to call out. Emotional and even logical arguments like “imagine sleeping full while your neighbor sleeps hungry” are very attractive. Same way is “we should build our own communities with our own values - no more defeatist attitude”. Everyone can agree with this. The belief gives you meaning, the community gives you strength.

It’s impossible not to sympathize.

We ask Allah to guide us all and to keep us steadfast, ya kareem

Hello

Please ignore if this is inappropriate to ask. I remember you mentioning you have family in NOI. Can you share how/when they joined, and if they are still part of NOI. I was reading about it recently and that reminded me bc for so long before, I assumed the organization was long dead.

Hey there. I’ve had family join the NOI through a number of ways throughout the 90s to as recent as about 2016 (and maybe after that). One of the most important conversions in the family occurred when a family member, who was a college student at that time, went to a synagogue on his college campus (another relative of mine worked at its library, IIRC). When he got there, the people asked his opinion about Farrakhan. At the time he didn’t know anything about Farrakhan. But the way they were attacking him, it made my relative look into him further, and he found a program catered to creating family and community and positive changes for the black man. So he got involved.

Another generation was affected when going to hear the Minister speak at his million man march in 2015.

The NOI was quite active and influential in the 90s. They’re mentioned frequently in classic rap, the U.S. government condemned big Bro. Khalid Muhammad, and Minister Farrakhan as well as others were going on Donahue discussing black nationalist talking points. The organization is still alive now too, though I don’t think it’s currently experiencing the growth it was experiencing in the 90s.

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its me. the anonymized person of the global south

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mood:

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That’s so interesting to hear about. I wonder if they come from a religious background as well

Somehow I had heard about NOI in passing (most everyone I know has no idea about them) and assumed they’d long ago disbanded. I think I misunderstood that they shifted to a more orthodox theology.

Imagine my surprise when I was in Detroit one day and I saw NOI had just had an event the day before.

Hello

Please ignore if this is inappropriate to ask. I remember you mentioning you have family in NOI. Can you share how/when they joined, and if they are still part of NOI. I was reading about it recently and that reminded me bc for so long before, I assumed the organization was long dead.

Hey there. I’ve had family join the NOI through a number of ways throughout the 90s to as recent as about 2016 (and maybe after that). One of the most important conversions in the family occurred when a family member, who was a college student at that time, went to a synagogue on his college campus (another relative of mine worked at its library, IIRC). When he got there, the people asked his opinion about Farrakhan. At the time he didn’t know anything about Farrakhan. But the way they were attacking him, it made my relative look into him further, and he found a program catered to creating family and community and positive changes for the black man. So he got involved.

Another generation was affected when going to hear the Minister speak at his million man march in 2015.

The NOI was quite active and influential in the 90s. They’re mentioned frequently in classic rap, the U.S. government condemned big Bro. Khalid Muhammad, and Minister Farrakhan as well as others were going on Donahue discussing black nationalist talking points. The organization is still alive now too, though I don’t think it’s currently experiencing the growth it was experiencing in the 90s.

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what always bugs me about western analysis of other countries, whether in a grand geopolitical context or a more quotidian one, is how the tone in which they try to explain it is almost like they are explaining another strange species of animal

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😭😭lowekey its acutallyllyyyy so hard im getting such baad 😭 empathy fatigue from having to think of people from other countries 😭😭 as people😭😭with their own thoughts and stuff😭😭😭😭😭😭 they didnt teach 😭😭😭 it 😭 in schoolv😭😭

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أتصبر للبلوى عزاءً وحسبةً • فتؤجر أم تسلو سلوّ البهائم؟

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I love this picture of Putin bricksnews uses everytime he's had phone calls with world leaders

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I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology

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yes i am evil russian who's paying evil taxes to evil russian government and i hope every ruble they take from me will be put into drone falling on the head of smol bean banderite crying crocodile tears on tumblr dot com about how people are so backwards by refusing to culturally genocide everything russian across the globe

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logging into tumblr to check on the putrid Zionist blogs I encountered randomly. تفو

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immune to doxxing

my youngest but older brother name is literaly muhammad muhammad. his is suffering

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not that either is a good thing but there is a small cosmic sort of irony to appreciate in the way that the russian invasion of ukraine and the most recent nakba happened so close together and how they through comparison made it undeniably clear how much the definition of war crime and genocide and atrocity &etc depends on the geopolitical interests of the imperial core

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i don't think people really understand what's happening in gaza. with each passing day that sees more and more palestinians dead, it's becoming easier and easier for those in the west to perceive them as nothing more than a statistic. they might engage w the occasional palestine post, sure, but it's just as easy to scroll right past that moments later w no real outrage for the genocide retained.

it's vital to stay reminded that palestinians who are with us today won't be with us tomorrow. it's happening every second of every minute of every hour, and it's relentless. somewhere in gaza a little girl is losing her mother, a little boy is watching his siblings bleed to death, elderly people are infirm with starvation and illness, palestinian women and girls are being sexually assaulted and kept in cages, fathers are leaving tents to find food for their families and not coming back. this is all happening right now, and it's a direct result of the west's complacency. it's a direct result of their not seeing arabs as people worth saving.

it might be hard to compute as a westerner, but this is real. don't let your privilege blind you to your humanity.

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Humanity and the legal system continue to disappoint Palestinians

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Every day Hamas and Israel put out statements and every day Hamas is like “Our steadfast people persist in their noble fight for liberation from the sadistic Nazi Zionist occupation. We thank the free people of the world for standing in solidarity with our cause” and every day Israel is like “Palestinians are subhuman animals/there are no innocents in Gaza/they have no right to live/babies are terrorists/ceasefires are antisemitic/the Hauge won’t stop us”and the powers that be still want us to believe Hamas are the bad guys.