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We Muslims have a word for a wealth tax, we call it "zakat". The early Muslim state collected no income tax, but collected an annual wealth tax of 2.5% from

Humanity advances technologically, socially, and economically because every generation starts where the previous one ended. This isn't the case with spirituality because every new generation comes with fresh new egos

Otherization is necessary to define the self. Ethnic nationalism requires & needs the ethnic nationalism of the "other", or else it can't remain coherent. Dueling nationalisms and cycles of violence

Who is this person and how is someone so ignorant and also so confident about the MENA at the same time? Sunni dictatorships have supported Shia groups and Shia dictatorships

Stream of consciousness thread. Excuse the typos coz I'm not reviewing and not editing, just tweeting as it comes I think what's happening in the United States is that the

Ibn Khaldun posited that the age of states rarely exceeds three generations (70-80 years). Even when states or dynasties last longer, a fundamental shift happens that's almost a political reset,

I was radicalized 17 years ago, in the wake of the Iraq War. But I was never recruited and never became an active member of any group. The reason? The

I'd rather if the word "terrorism" and "terrorist" are retired as categories and a new terminology formed. For years as a Palestinian Muslim I had to swallow the bitter pill

Accepting under this tweet your theories about why Islam bothered to prohibit the consumption of pork given that Arabs did not eat pork or keep pigs anyway (you can't herd

The worst thing that happened to the MENA over the last 200 years was colonialism, and the absolute worst effect of colonialism was the ideology of the ethnic nation-state and

A Libyan activist was shot dead in the street. She was a lawyer and a women's rights advocate. She was shot after criticizing violations by Haftar, who happens to Macron's

The root cause of violent extremism is not that an ideology exists. The question to ask is *why* someone would find that ideology convincing. The reasons for that are virtually

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