Heed this hikma brothers

RT @CdricLabrousse: SIGNE TRÈS POSITIF | Un accord se dessine à Suwaydah et pour la région alors que l'armée pourrait entrer dans la ville….

A great jihad in my lifetime, say ameen.

I trust the plan, God’s plan, and it calls for blood

This is moderately preferable to all flavors of the permanent revolutionary who wants the irregular combatant to, after seizing the state, embark on a period of self-delete activities.

The Arab secular’s dream are transitional periods that through the power of forum friendship manage to circumvent federalism or perennial domestic chimpery. They somehow also incubate national-political identities despite producing ideological mystery-meat caretaker regimes.

As they say, history rewards those who sit down and listen while the (insert preferred flavor here) woman speaks.

You know what would fix our regional problems, a lil politics through HR speak.

Fools and tired. I want for true civic-scholars, ones who see the praetorian regimes of their land as an affront to God, the Nation, and the Citizen and employ the gavel of normativity towards sweeter more dignified ends.

I do not want for the peons of Gomaafication, those hypocrites who strike a ulema’s bargain with the nation so that they may ride it like an ark into an age wherein they might discover new relevance.

Civic nationalism is the new domain of the contemporary jurist. Preach to me oh sweet boy of the madrassa, tell me of my civic duty, of social cohesion, of pious fidelity to mine virtuous republic.

Nationalism was God’s gift to a species who needed for collective identities that might mediate diversity in an accelerated and populous age.

It’s frankly boring, gay, not indicative of any valiant contestation with modernity(despite the insistence of apologists), and the sooner it is beat out of the Arabs the better.

This middle point of spatialised historical asymmetry, regardless, is why “basically-fine” is all you expect from most MENA. The weberian state, barely concrete in the urban centers; beyond them, a topography of de facto federalist arrangements placating anachronistic tribalism.

When the opportunity resurfaces he should recall his own behavior, perhaps the only impulse that imparted competency in that setting, the willingness to purge by gun or carceral punishment bad actors and the insubordinate.

For all his ability to cultivate a team with good diplomatic chops, Sharaa’s security apparatus seems only moderately more refined/centralized than the Idlib/Azaz days. Still a tense ducktaped mess of blocs managing the violent grumblings of sectarian/tribal interests.

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Secret second family in Aktau with a Qamazhai dancer who stole your nomadic heart.

Better weather makes for brighter gods