Omar del Sur
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Your argument relies heavily on framing the debate as Imperialist versus Anti-Imperialist, where we are compelled to support the "Anti-Imperialist" side.
Being anti-colonial or "third-worldist" does not automatically align one with the interests of oppressed peoples.
see this is why I'm very much sympathetic to the Twitter user. there seems be a rejection here of anti-colonialism as such. a rejection of anti-imperialism as such.
now, anti-imperialism can go in a wrong direction. I'm sure the mass murderer Mengistu said some anti-imperialist things and I think the CIA really was against him. I'm sure mass murderer Pol Pot said some anti-imperialist things.
but the idea of letting go of anti-imperialism as such... that to me is absolutely out of the question. that is what zionism and imperialism want. "yeah but what about Iran" or this or that in some non-Western aligned country... I do not believe in dropping anti-imperialism for a second.
following Quran and Sunnah is obligatory on all of us. I don't think it's obligatory to use the word "anti-imperialist". but from my standpoint, I can never drop that from my way of thinking. I takfir Assad and the Iran gov, I believe that that there is mass Communist persecution of Uyghurs, I am very aware that Russia helped genocide Syrian Sunnis. I am very anti-Shia. but no way could I focus both eyes on what Russia and them are doing and not keep one eye on what the West is doing. what the West does- even if I leave the West- has an impact on me in a way that what Putin and Xi Jinping does doesn't. I could not take my eye from what is front of me directly. However, like I said, I am not "Axis of Resistance" person. I am not Jackson Hinkle or the twitter user from OP. I was posting about "judeo-communism" years before techsamatar was. none of that is in me. also I want to mention that "anti-imperialism" is in no way an exclusive copyright of leftism. all forms of leftism inherently conflict with Islam. the twitter user in OP is flawed in terms of their thinking from an Islamic viewpoint. I reject any form of leftism. but not anti-imperialism.