New post offering some stray reflections on Digital Sovereignty https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/48280/notes-on-digital-sovereignty

My new piece on The Iqra Files: - Notes On Culture War Accelerationism (CWA): "What would the ultimate political goals of CWA operations be? Decimating trust in the American electoral process, spreading rumours and constant aspersions on the integrity of the American electoral process, the voting mechanism, the already growing trust deficit in the legacy institutions of the Deep State such as the CIA, FBI and a whole host of federal alphabet agencies. A complete assault on the social contract within the Imperial heartland. Trumpism tapped into this for its own cynical means - Muslims too should be relentless in spreading as much content as possible trying to undermine American trust in the guarantors and arbiters of its constitutional and electoral system - this can be neatly packaged under populist themes which are proving to be wildly successful across the Anglosphere." https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/48159/notes-on-culture-war-accelerationism-cwa

My new piece on The Iqra Files - Notes On British Muslim Politics that reflects and expands on a recent substack piece by Muhammad Jalal - links to both pieces below https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/48062/notes-on-british-muslim-politics

The UK Muslim community needs an alternative to the Labour Party

This piece is written with a UK reader in mind.

With the clear emergence of a mature censorship industrial complex that is spearheaded by not just the core actors of the Five Eyes but also the belligerent Israeli intelligence community, Muslims are now finding themselves in the same position of fragility and vulnerability as post 9/11. Whereas during the War On Terror there was a systematic propaganda campaign against Muslims using the total weight of legacy media and the astroturfed NGO-complex, the aims of our enemies is to wind down the decentralising effect of social media platforms in an effort to control not just narratives but diffuse digital Muslim asabiyya, breaking it down from within by putting up barriers across the net. Digital sovereignty including over data, social media platforms and publishing is now the target of American Empire wishing to try and put the genie back in the bottle in regards to social media. There will be labels such as "misinformation", "hate speech" and the time and tested hammer of "antisemitism" used to justify all manner of draconian encroachment of the Deep Administrative State of American Empire into all facets of "the Discourse". "The Discourse" was never the imagined utopia of "Popper's Open Society" - it was instead a mirage, a simulacra of "deliberative reason" in the "public sphere" - euphemisms of artificial edifices that were often the construct of ex-military and ex-intelligence agents wishing to simulate the "art of the conversation" and "public reason". These euphemisms fronted by Cold War liberals were merely aesthetic concepts to sanitise the very real and gross encroachment of the State into every facet of our lives in an effort to displace the gaze of God Himself - claiming Sovereignty over our very cognitive faculties. Popperian "open society" aesthetics provided the rhetoric for various intelligence agencies of American Empire to participate covertly in the supposed civic life of liberal democracies. Sovereignty is key - and it is really the only priority for the Muslim political engagement. Expect over the next 12-18 months a series of ludricous bills and acts passing through parliaments all over the Anglosphere wishing to "protect" people from "misinformation" in an almighty effort to re-establish State dominance over thought and speech. Scratch beneath the surface of liberalism, look beyond the philosophical assumptions of the canon of Mill, Kant and Rawls and you a find a deeply malignant, transnational, military-technocratic surveillance apparatus that works without any accountability, scrutiny with endless funding - liberalism is the precursor ideology for the Cybernetic State - which is the hyperdigital transformation of the Deep Administrative State established during the latter years and aftermath of WWII by American Democrats and progressives who are the most resourceful and successful servants of the Empire.

The most insufferable part of liberalism is pretending to go along with the charade that clearly astroturfed, hollowed out, propped-up by-the-Deep-State mainstream "intellectuals" and legacy media orgs are "free and independent" and not a clumsily dim part of imperial propaganda

Syntheticism - trying to replace God with slow and cumbersome bureaucratic institutions - ''the State'' with promises based around abstractions grounded in political ideology of one particular flavour of the Enlightenment or the other - Marxism. Liberalism etc 21st century - trying to replace God by reinventing the human from a foundational aspect - by manufacturing a new type of biology and neuro-chemistry from scratch. Whether through manipulation via tech or reconstructing aspects of our humanness through piece-meal application. Such engineering and craftsmanship has been made possible through the harvesting and unparalleled access to the habits of mind and heart of the populace which is viable through a culture of passive digital consumption that trades momentary gratification for privacy. Remember that the "sexual revolution" was only really made possible through novel pharmacological breakthroughs in contraception. Prior to that such monstrosities were the preserve of perverted French intellectuals but it was pharmacological manipulation that brought this perversion to the masses - the liberalism we live amidst today in the Anglosphere in its social dimension really is just a child of the pharmacological industry precariously upheld with a cocktail of SSRIs, OCPs and opioid ''analgesia"

"The Hallaqian 20th-century State sought to control nature - nature was the raw material - the earth, the trees, the rivers - and this yielded particular byproducts that fashioned a new subject - the citizen. It was this imperative to mastery that created the 20th-century State. The 21st-century State no longer has such tame ambitions to control nature alone - it will now seek to control human nature directly, unmediated. This move from nature to humans captures the twilight age of the liberal hypothesis as we move towards the cybernetic" https://listed.to/@TheIqraFiles/44114/the-hallaqian-problem-and-cybernetics

Existential Threats of Progress, the Modern Financial System, the Metaverse - youtu.be/8_8UcjFLeGI

A thoughtful series of lectures held on AI by the Cambridge Muslim College in 2018:

2018 Religion & Science Conference: Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness | Ibn Maghreb

Important to revisit this conference on religion and science focused around Artifical Intelligence held by the Cambridge Muslim College in 2018 (th...