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There's in here some piece of the same old batshit characterization of "Islam as the religion of the oppressed". According to these stats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country I'm counting no less than 45 countries that are Muslim-dominated (with a population consisting of over 2/3rd Muslims, most of them having actually over 3/4th). Several of these countries are also oil-based dictatorships run by ultra-rich Muslim royal families, included but not limited to the Saudi.

Now let's wonder why Islam has spread to as far as the south of the African continent, China, Eurasia and South-East Asia. Yes, some of it was due to the long-lasting presence of Islam among merchants, yet there's also the other part we often miss... that the caliphates (theocratic empires) and Ottoman sultanates were behind the imperialist spread of Islam, especially in Northern and North-Eastern Africa. There used to be a time when Arabs were more than just migrants, they were conquerors under the banner of the Crescent Moon.

"Pinkwashing is the Israeli state’s instrumentalization of LGBTQ-friendly images and rights for Zionists, with Euro-American collusion, which is then used to deflect attention from the Israeli settler-colonial occupation of what is deemed to be a ‘backward’ Palestine."

But "Palestine" IS backward. There's no single evidence of any of its "leadership" being as progressive as the Western Left is claiming them to be. Hamas is a reactionary, retrograde political organization led by brutal men who didn't yet understood separation of religion and State. PFLP and the Fatah may have displayed some more secular, Left-leaning tendency, yet how does it differs to the "Leftism" of the Assad dynasty, or Nasser's... I wonder. They also got a record of amalgamating their "struggle against Zionism" to bluntly attacking Synanogues.

I'll repeat it tirelessly... Palestinian nationalism is a product of Euro imperialism, may it be British. German, Russian or otherwise (now it appears to have more to do with Turkey's batshit Muslim dictatorship). Let's look deeper at those national constructs.... "Syria" and "Palestinia". Where do they come from, historically? The Roman Empire.

So let's throw that Palestine nationalism garbage to the trash where it belongs. 70 years of Israel-Palestininan conflict have proven that more nationalism only feeds more nationalism on the other side. Let's start with a clean-slate paradigm that avoids it altogether, for a change, and blurs the ethnic/racial bullshit force-fed through the 20th century, will ya?