Sunthemata27

Forest Rebel, Musulman, exiled from the Simulation

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2026-01-07 10:47:14 GMT

If we are denied having a world, then let us at least burn theirs down.

2026-01-07 10:46:41 GMT

Hui’s claim that the study of Antrophos has shifted from ethnology /ethnographic mapping to a study of the (near) future is intriguing, especially when connected with certain of Land and Heideggers ideas. I am especially referring to Lands claim that micro-scale Sci-Fi introduced in “Urban Future”, has triumphed over macro-scale Sci-Fi, as the hyperstitional modus operandi,

2025-09-30 20:54:54 GMT

Attempting to persuade your lower self by reason and arguments of why xyz is good or bad, right or wrong seems like a fruitless endeavor. Either reign it in or loose to it

2025-02-06 18:06:59 GMT

Hardly anything which I came across social media I found to be useful and most of what I read on SM was forgotten after max. 24h, for me this vindicates McLuhans mantra, “the medium (not the content) is the message”, but what exactly does this medium (SM) carry as a message? Simulation of human relationships accompanied by swarm thinking and a plethora of other collective ills, instantaneous access to entertainment, never ending noise, feeling of accomplishment by posting something, feeling of being heard of being connected.
This connectedness in a atomistic society constitutes the real message, life and social relations chopped up and made ready for consumption.

2025-02-06 06:34:18 GMT

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Hahahah, think we won’t reach that low, Islam has some rather good “defensive mechanisms” against a bifurcated,dualistic understanding of the world.

2025-02-05 21:23:54 GMT

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You are all heartily welcome to discuss and challenge anything of interest under my pseudo-intellectual posts, I am not trying to have a conversation with myself akin to the propagandist or advertisement talk, that’s what X is for.

2025-02-05 19:59:46 GMT

After the conquest of space now on the conquest of time, modern man has set his eyes upon, abstracting time, doing away with natural rhythms and rituals, conditioned by events occurring in nature, bc they are to suspicious, the Protestant pathos smells dangerous vestiges of pagan times and superstition in them.
Followed by the mechanization of time and circular mechano-organic time i.e (Bergsonian) time, all signs of a mind that views time as yet another resource to be managed, exchanged, invested in, an object/commodity to keep it short, this is where we are standing now time as a resource.

2025-01-29 18:06:26 GMT

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Tide changing ideas and elites of the future won’t arise from adult daycare centers.
„Power (or what takes its place) no longer believes in the university. It knows fundamentally that it is only a zone for the shelter and surveillance of a whole class of a certain age, it therefore has only to select - it will find its elite elsewhere, or by other means. “
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra And Simulation

2025-01-28 21:45:12 GMT

Consciousness is a gift not to be squandered away with screen time or any other useless activities.
All knowledge is self knowledge

2025-01-22 12:57:54 GMT

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You don't control the levers of production, by posting 50 tweets a day, you are being controlled.

2025-01-22 12:54:36 GMT

Social Media is one of the production facilities of our new currency, data, better to stay silent and when posting than with intent, that’s also why I left X, too much senseless talking, also coming from people who know better, which I honestly find sad.

2025-01-21 23:04:37 GMT

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Agree, just one thing which I noticed very often when I see Gestell translated as the essence/being of Technology yet this doesn’t do justice to Heideggers use of the term, he said that it is the Wesen of Technology, and Wesen is rather hard to translate into English let alone with all the connotations Heidegger attached to the term, maybe this will be of interest.
https://qct.opensutd.org/footnotes

2025-01-21 22:26:01 GMT

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*These

2025-01-21 19:56:58 GMT

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This conditions have probably accelerated in the last couple of decades.

2025-01-21 19:49:14 GMT

University, as its original purpose has been distorted, i.e an institution facilitating the journey to becoming a free human being, and forth subsumed under the techno-capitalist logic, resembles the modern work space milieu, another technical milieu, in almost all its aspects, except that the units attending the courses, are yet not fully functionally operative. As this hijacking has reached completion, we can now tangibly verify this, for example in the social domain of university live, as I guess most of us have attended uni; below are four points Moore has observed, with regards to social relations in the modern workspace, just substitute work with college, and see how applicable it is to our contemporary social dynamics in tertiary education.
1.Technical requirements of their work: they must not develop into deep relationships.
2.They must be universal, meaning they must be fulfillable by any person, even someone new to the job or with other relationships outside of the work environment.
3.Relationships must be rational, as the entire technical work complex follows rational rules.
4. The relationships must be impersonal

2025-01-20 15:39:39 GMT

The potency of consumption objects lies in their indeterminacy and indefiniteness, in the fact that they can be utilized in a variety of semiotic manipulations: „Thus the washing machine serves as an appliance and acts as an element of prestige, comfort, etc. It is strictly this latter field which is the field of consumption. All kinds of other objects may be substituted here for the washing machine as signifying element“1.
Symbols in these terms may be viewed as intelligible mater, a concept coined by Plotinus, being a pendant to the intelligible forms, intelligible mater is everything at the same time, in contrast to mater in the sensible world, where one form can substitute another, thus losing its self identity, something not possible for intelligible mater. Imagine it like a variable in math, for example x ranging over the domain of R, as a placeholder symbol our variable is encapsulated by the whole set of R, without ever losing its self identity, x is still x even though the concept (form) of a specific number may be attached to it. By analogy we can view this abstract system of production as a form-giving apparatus connected via signs who function as shape-shifting signifiers where the symbols of production never lose their self-identity, a functional one that is, e.g the washing machine still is a washing machine in its operations, but can be infused with various, potentially indefinite, meanings, hence show casing a great degree of potentia for semiotic manipulation.
1)The Consumer Society (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Jean Baudrillard

2025-01-20 12:34:52 GMT

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Hui’s works where exactly that for me, a bridge to gap the schism between philosophy and technology, definitely would recommend reading them.

2025-01-20 12:28:35 GMT

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Share this sentiment; especially the case when one stems from a philosophical background, where for a long time technology either was seen as something uninteresting or outright negative.
PS. To be honest, I still find it to be something semi-interesting, like sticking with philosophy and pure math more.

2025-01-20 10:21:34 GMT

As discerning as Neo-Luddites may be in their analysis of the negative effects of modern technics, their strategy of survival always falls short, owing to the simple observation, that once a technic is brought forth, it can not be reversed, you then either damagecontrol or sublate it.

2025-01-19 09:41:35 GMT

An ever greater share of jobs fulfills the function of UBI paired with spreadsheet GNP growth, people get employed to literally do nothing, take a look at the tertiary sector, the dumping ground of the economy, where all uselessness is transformed into advertisement for the system,
“ Yes there still exists an economy” “ Your work is essential to society ”
“ We can’t do without you”
People “working” in said sector are appeased by stable wages and relative comfort, which facilitate their consumption behavior; this ofc can’t go on for ever and then what?

2025-01-18 08:44:54 GMT

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Sorry was lagging behind 😅, got it now.

2025-01-18 01:20:39 GMT

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To be honest, without attacking your persona, you kind off went overboard with this one xeet about ribaa, still the point’s valid, the fiqh of pre-modern times can’t offer an alternative to the predominant financial system we have in place now, I mean we even fail to analyze it correctly. Yet I fear that the greater part of the readership wasn’t able to discern this small but important detail and pranced on the legality of your statement.

2025-01-18 00:39:24 GMT

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PPS. Actually this is where we can gain momentum, modern civilization has exhausted its potential, increasingly finding itself in a cul de sac, one of the biggest indications being the drying up of creativity and genius.

2025-01-18 00:19:30 GMT

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PS. I am not saying that we need those changes in the Islamic world enacted in the same exact way, we have our own and superior ways of solving problems, which ofc doesn’t mean that we can’t appropriate some things for our purposes.

2025-01-18 00:16:59 GMT

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New paradigms and narratives need to be crafted, 20th century Islamism nearing its end and the younger generations of Turks, especially in the metropolitan regions like Istanbul and Ankara, have been captivated by the wests ways and as usual they don’t adopt the positive traits instead opting for the negative ones.
Which in itself is an interesting phenomenon, we see it all over the Islamicate. Charles Taylor’s “A secular age” maybe offers one angle from which to analyze this, to keep it short, the western populace over the centuries has been socially engineered to exemplify discipline even in the absence of religion, Cartesian civitas “the virtue of self discipline”, Lockean mutual benefit “the notion of an interdependent society where each individual contributes and benefits from societies wider works”, synthetic identities popping up after the formation of nation states which instilled a higher purpose in the individual, transcending mere everyday concerns, this and many more influences may have led to westerners being disciplined, forming high-trust societies, being productive etc.
In contrast non-western societies never underwent these changes in this specific manner, they see only the sweet fruits not the hard work behind it.

2025-01-16 12:17:52 GMT

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Hopefully I will find the time to write something longer on this.

2025-01-16 12:15:26 GMT

Increasingly of the opinion that decentralization is a Fugazi, and the only think really happening here is a muddling of the waters.

2025-01-15 17:28:51 GMT

Muslims have been pushed towards the edges,to eke out an existence as passive particles with no agency, ultimately leading to a (false) disassociation from this world.
“The gloomy hare-brained enthusiast, after his death , may have a place in a calendar; but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are delirious and dismal as himself.”
- Moral Inquiry , David Hume

2025-01-15 15:45:34 GMT

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It’s the same with almost any topic, constant yapping about the symptoms while the underlying cause is neglected, does it surprise one, actually no; people are the byproduct of the system they inhabit, so naturally they are taught it’s logic, as to be of service to it, that’s why the system gave them the gift of education in the first place.

2025-01-14 21:31:41 GMT

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Carcinisation & The Forbidden City
Polar opposites of the Forum. https://image.nostr.build/9cc015242c0ef7b4060d532b5c095b844d18a49b8179bfe3b167de3182600748.jpg https://image.nostr.build/22ec97b4262ef431035cb34e53396dd2fda288da7e35be866b245e31e0e6a87f.jpg

2025-01-14 21:23:04 GMT

The forum/marketplace/mall embodies, in its essence, the makan of democracy, free floating particles, being drawn from the alleys towards an all consuming whirl, where they clash and fusion with others, a cacophony it seems, unbeknownst to them they are steered in a particular direction by increasingly non-human forces.
Disharmony still reigns but complete arbitrariness never existed. A Kafkaesque feeling of a swindling center sets in, the grey eminences of our time getting ever more abstruse. A few pierce through this charade most are sucked in.

2025-01-13 22:28:02 GMT

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Don’t forget Plotinus, Guenons definition of matter heavily depends on (Neo-)platonic teachings, cross reading the Enneads and TRoQaTSoT personally clarified a lot in this regard.

2025-01-11 17:36:36 GMT

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So the or one of the questions, if we want to restore our might and power-and this doesn’t only pertain to the societal but also to the individual domain, is, what do we, as Muslims, offer the world?

2025-01-11 17:22:12 GMT

What we give is important not what we take, and exactly therein lies power; in the gift-giving and not in the gift-receiving.
The platitude of “be a producer not a consumer” is true, even if it is parroted by people who don’t know the deeper implications and meanings behind it.

2025-01-09 21:53:59 GMT

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#StaySAIF

2025-01-09 17:55:12 GMT

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#staySAIF

2025-01-09 17:02:08 GMT

“With the growing atheism, death gains in horror, as the annihilation seems complete and irrevocable. Death is overestimated, both by the one who suffers it and by the one who orders it” ~ “Eumeswill”, Ernst Jünger
How can you deny Allah? You were lifeless and He gave you life, then He will cause you to die and again bring you to life, and then to Him you will ˹all˺ be returned Al Baqarah 28
Are you ˹O Prophet˺ not aware of the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord because Allah had granted him kingship? ˹Remember˺ when Abraham said, “My Lord is the One Who has power to give life and cause death.” He argued, “I too have the power to give life and cause death.” Abraham challenged ˹him˺, “Allah causes the sun to rise from the east. So make it rise from the west.” And so the disbeliever was dumbstruck. And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people. Al Baqarah, 258
We ordered, “O fire! Be cool and safe for Abraham!” Al Anbya, 69

2025-01-09 16:43:16 GMT

That the economic system seeks to erase contingencies, for example poverty, unemployment or even war, is naught but a fallacy; it strives on them, utilizing everything the positive as well as the negative, to ensure its survival, it is a parasite on everything. Once we understand this, and that many systems are designed along the same lines, we can be the tick on the tick, ride the tiger, become the Jünger’ian anarch, whatever one wants to call it.

2025-01-08 18:26:52 GMT

Push for Greenland maybe following calculations on the part of US, to preemptively disrupt a build up/further consolidation of russian influence in the arctic sea? @npub1chm…r4y5

2025-01-07 16:19:15 GMT

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Same goal different methods, traditional media was vertical, top-down, you had four or five big media houses and they in-orchestra with the state, controlled the larger narrative. Elon on the other hand, as clearly expressed by himself multiple times, seeks to make us all nodes in this propaganda machine, every individual is the media, serving under and for the Algorithm.

2025-01-06 18:52:37 GMT

Musk tryin to destabilize the U.K even further, making, this now semi failed state, even more available for power grabs by GAE? Or has he just completely lost it? https://image.nostr.build/77123b1bff3be43d3b7f2c700a4d93d73d49b452cf7591fc8abf0d64a2977b83.jpg

2025-01-05 11:57:56 GMT

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Definitely, but as you may have noticed, 99% of people, which by now I think is hardly an exaggerated number, are more interested in comfort than the benefits FOS(S) products would bring them. We can see it right in front our eyes, how millions of Muslims, populate the next WeChat, whose Lahabite founder is constantly stirring up hatred against Muslims, and is a known stooge for Z!0’s. That said competent brothers, for example in the tech sphere, should still push for it, developing new ideas and implementing them, utilizing all resources of the milieu they are situated in, regardless if the overall milieu is indifferent or even hostile to the vision.
As for societal dynamics and conditions, they can, to some degree, be manipulated, not in a Machiavellian way ofc, but that requires a very long term game plan.

2025-01-04 21:51:27 GMT

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“Due to its desire for quantification, modern civilization has been atomized and reoriented to stimulate illusory needs of material human nature - a thriving cult of progress that only need output more and more artificial needs to satisfy modernity's march toward extinction.”
Spot on; if I may add something, Guy Debord as well as Baudrillard argue that capitalists and communists have, in the first case explicitly, in the second case implicitly, accepted and promoted pseudo-needs, as something essential to our being. Debord in his analysis of the Commodity as Spectacle, concludes that exactly those pseudo-needs will drive the economic system to overheat thereby crashing it.

2025-01-04 21:24:14 GMT

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PS. Maybe instead of a tearing down of such systems, an incorporation, via cosmotechnical means, could offer another route, cybernetics with an Islamicate touch. But we are not a people of awareness any longer, how often do we contemplate about Mizan(Balance) and the ayat Allah swt. has placed in nature. Shameful to say the least.

2025-01-04 21:16:26 GMT

Hui analyzed two very fundamental concepts constituting the back bone of modern systems theory and cybernetics, Recursivity and Contingency, the second one can be imagined as a thing in potentia which hasn’t been actualized yet, however it can be something positive or negative, the point is that technical systems by quantifying contingency, which is deemed immanent in every system, manage to turn negative potentials, which are being actualized through a recursive non linear movement, into positives one. Let me give you a small example of this functioning.
Now Baudrillard in “The consumer Society” describes how tangibly negative events like an increase in alcohol/drug/porn &c consumption are turned into positive ones by putting them in an excel sheet documenting an increase in commodity purchases, so that in the end they are brought into the circulatory economic system and contribute e.g to the GDP.
This circularity economy is at the same time a system of homeostasis like all cybernetics systems and a system of hedonistic excess. You may ask, balance and excess how does that go together? Well they build in certain mechanisms to force homeostasis just think about boom-bust cycles yeah.
Big question is how to bring down such systems without being turned into a positive contributing factor oneself, a collapse is, according to Hui only guaranteed when the borders of negentropy (order) are crossed, so that the recursive movement comes to an halt. The concretization of this vague notion of a negentropic breakdown, is a question that needs urgent answering, if we want to preserve a future for humanity.

2025-01-04 14:57:05 GMT

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Quick Anecdote, when once discussing the dangers of AI distorting our perception of reality and what’s real and fake, in a small group, where one ex CFO of a large company was present, said CFO simply couldn’t get what the point of my talk was, constantly trying to paddle back to the alleged future economic benefits of artificial intelligence. We all come from different backgrounds, have different interests, but some people really are a living conformation of how strict departmentalization facilities brain-rot.

2025-01-04 14:43:11 GMT

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If you ever had the pleasure of meeting with people who studied/work in finance, like I assume those Linkedin folk you talk about here do, and who have a standing in their firm so they are not on the lower level of the company hierarchy, it pretty quickly gets pretty clear that their brain was re wired to serve the god called economy. They simply can’t escape the (il)logic of growth and capitalism. So the last paragraph of yours is very apt, and I can’t see many people move beyond this economic paradigm we find ourselves in, for now that is.

2025-01-04 07:12:01 GMT

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Musk suffers from Napoleon Complex, so it seems to me at least;
a small man thinking he can play with the big dogs, promoting AfD, demanding the release of Tommy Robinson, pushing far right propaganda and constantly promoting Lahabites, crude and obnoxious approaches,yet the masses falling for this are even cruder.
Now compare with Peter Thiel on the other hand, more subtle, better versed in politics and philosophy, his networking within GAE and to my surprise in GAE vassal states is something to be taken note off, building a power network that comprises high ranking people from almost all western countries. Definitely far more dangerous than Musk.

2024-09-18 07:13:30 GMT

They are blawing the pogers up, and still, people won’t even leave X for FOSS Social Media platforms. That’s not a winning team we have here, if we are to be honest.

2024-09-11 07:42:14 GMT

Social media, viewed as the public sphere, where people come together to discuss and share ideas, is feeding into the logic of the system. Abandon the notion of posting for an educated audience and having “ intellectually stimulating” exchanges , those are for the group chats, that is if you can’t find an in-person group in real life. Embrace the ways of the saboteur and polarizer, thesis and antithesis, culminating in synthesis, are non existent in cyberspace, here only the extremes count.
The forest walker does not fight according to martial law, but is also not a criminal. Nor is his discipline soldierly, and this fact presupposes a strong, direct leadership.

2024-09-10 10:35:09 GMT

“ So, the civic virtues, which we have spoken of above, do really give
order to us and make us better; they limit and give measure to our appetites and, generally, give measure to our affective states and remove
our false beliefs by means of that which is generally better and by imposing limits on us and by the fact that that which is measured is
placed outside the things that are unmeasured and unlimited.” ~ Plotinus the Enneads
Notice the reference to geometry, Baudrillard as a photographer was a keen observer, he spotted the chaos wrought on by the modern world, and identified cancer as the ailment of this aeon, as it is something which diffuses amorphously, destroying the order of our bodies. Many parallels and connections here with other phenomena of our times.

2024-09-10 10:17:46 GMT

“A diplomat…is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”
After the breaking up of traditional societal structures and the reordering of society compliant with ideas the elites held, notions of some kind of invisible hand ,which would magically take care of human flourishing on an individual as well as collective level , were articulated by people like Mandeville and Smith, it’s actually laughable how stupid one has to be, to believe in such nonsense. I think AHM said it best here, although he used it in the context of the secular Arab it can most definitely be appropriated to fit basically everybody in contemporary times ;
Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.

2024-09-10 04:19:14 GMT

“ The great weapons can only be created and managed by the superstates. Even the smallest minority, even the individual, can realize the forest walk. Here lies the answer that freedom has to give. And she has the last word. “
Ernst Jünger , The Forest Passage

2024-05-08 12:07:37 GMT

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Secrecy, Autonomy, Hierarchy are all bound up in a more intimate way then most people realize, would give a lengthy philosophical exposition but tbh not feeling like it today, maybe next time but take away secrecy and you flatten hierarchy, flatten hierarchy and there is no autonomy. Anybody that is interested in a synoptical reading session on the topic should read Guenon Reign of Quantiy…Hasan Spikers Freedom and Hierarchy and ofc Hallaqs Impossible State and as always we thank you for sharing this great paragraph with us.

2024-04-11 07:45:33 GMT

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Leading to a mega-echo chamber where the mirage of novelty/knowledge-production is given by a constant permutation of an enormous but nonetheless finite database. PS. Of course we as Muslims don’t believe that we produce knowledge ex nihilio but that’s an entirely different topic.

2024-04-11 07:39:09 GMT

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Points to a circular mode of “knowledge” for cybernetic systems such as LLM’s , usually in epistemology at least up until modernity knowledge was the identification of knowing subject with the known object, with cybernetic systems like AI there is no identification bc how can something that not posses a Self identify with anything thus knowledge in such systems is being replaced by networks each part of the network adapts automatically to the other parts in the network through a retroactive force (rückkoppelnde Kraft). Where each part only needs to anticipate its next feedback

2024-04-07 17:48:37 GMT

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The platforms where I least want to be are the ones populated with the most (diverse and interesting) users e.g Twitter. And the ones where I’d rather be like Nostr, are almost a no man’s land. Need a resettling of (the good parts) MT to Nostr.

2023-12-25 12:35:43 GMT

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It’s an all out of war to stop islamicate sovereignty, mobilizing all our resources is a necessity. Good point you made is how the vassal states of the empire need to be weakened by CWA. Playing by their rules is a fruitless endeavor and almost nothing good came out of participating in their institutions and programs. Recently I was thinking about how Muslims have established a strong foothold in the European underworld and if it would be possible to further undermine their societies by harnessing the power that lies in the twilight zone of organized crime. (needless to say in a halal way)