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01.03.2026 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@qunfuz.bsky.social
Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
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01.03.2026 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I agree they need regime change, but at the hands of the Iranians. I (and surely most Arabs) understand them hitting the US bases which are hitting them, but hitting hotels and civilian airports is as stupid as all Iranian policy.
01.03.2026 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Each one of the 100-plus schoolgirls murdered by Zionist-Crusader missiles is worth more than the dead mass murderer Khamenei. Note too that the Zionists are using the distraction to reinforce the hunger genocide in Gaza and the burning and land theft in the West Bank.
01.03.2026 11:26 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Those who possess more than one brain cell will be able to recognise that the Iranian regime is appalling, that Israel and the US are also appalling, and that this aggression is likely to make Iranians less, not more, free.
01.03.2026 11:26 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0The worst western takes are variations on 'Iran never hurt anyone in 50,000 years', which is absolutely true if Syrians are not considered people. The reason some Iranians and Syrians are dancing is because Iran committed so many crimes. Anyway, fuck US-Zionist aggression.
01.03.2026 11:25 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 136 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.
28.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 83 🔁 67 💬 1 📌 5My sister is reporting very loud bangs in Doha, Qatar. Everybody has been told to stay at home. Iran has hit US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, Iraq, and perhaps Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Now that the regime is fighting for survival rather than for rhetorical purposes, the gloves may be off.
28.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 187 🔁 78 💬 13 📌 3Trump supporters thought they were voting for an end to wars in the Middle East. They wanted America First and as usual they got the Genocidal Settler State First.
28.02.2026 09:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The chances of this leading to 'regime change' are less than one percent. Regime consolidation under IRGC leadership more likely. Praying for regime change in the US as a result though.
28.02.2026 09:36 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0This is yet another illegal, unjustified and unprovoked attack by the genocidal settler state and its Crusader backers against a Middle Eastern nation. May the aggressors pay very dearly indeed. So long as fascists get away with their violence they will escalate.
28.02.2026 09:35 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0It could also be a personal narrative. eg What's it been like to move to the West and live in it. Or what did the West mean to you when you grew up outside the West. etc etc.
27.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's just so sectarian when Islamists vote for parties led by Jews.
27.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0A minimum of 3000 words. Not in an academic style. Deadline April 15.
27.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Critical Muslim is looking for well-written, interesting essays (for publication in book form) for its West issue... Get in touch if you can write about Western converts to Islam, Christian Zionism, Israel as a Western outpost, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, etc etc
27.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0The fact that many Muslims chose to vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew, thus robbing the fascist and pro-genocide parties of victory, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that their backward values clash with British standards of tolerance and openness.
27.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 172 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1Great victory for the Greens in Gorton and Denton. A kick in the teeth for Starmer's pro-genocide Labour Party and for the fascists of Reform. Hope &decency return to UK politics. (Reform is blaming the victory on those backward Muslims choosing to vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew.)
27.02.2026 08:33 — 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0Most British people are better than the thieving, murder and lying being done in our names. That's why this is an urgently local issue.
26.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Go watch Palestine 36 if you think the Zionist genocide of Palestinians has got nothing to do with us. The UK bears prime responsibility for the original theft of Palestine, and has consistently backed the thieves and genocidaires ever since.
26.02.2026 09:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If genocide is a foreign issue, 1. Why was I taught about the Holocaust in school? 2. Why is our government and Air Force participating, using our taxes? 3. Why are our politicians telling lies to ease the genocide, and demonising those who oppose it?
26.02.2026 09:54 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0I've just finished it. Really, I think it may be the best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's not just about the Syrian Revolution, but about revolution in general, and freedom, despair, and radical hope. About human beings as individuals and in the collective.
20.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Don't trust me! Read it and let me know what you think.
17.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the kind of attention we wanted from the world. A book that recognises the enormous importance of what happened in Syria.
17.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And it describes the formation of revolutionary councils and assemblies, and the class conflicts between councils, and clashing concepts of freedom. A wonderful book.
17.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It tells the story of the Revolution through the life stories of six revolutionaries from Manbij, which are told in full context and full novelistic detail.
17.02.2026 09:35 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think I've found the best book on the Syrian Revolution. It's Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution by Anand Gopal.
17.02.2026 09:35 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 2I have belatedly done this with Oz Katerji - he of the 'Hizbullah hospital' phrase - who is a campist at least as bad as those Assadist campists he shouts about.
13.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0t's also far past time to cut all links to those commentators and social media personalities who supported or made excuses for the ban, either for pro-fascist ideological reasons or because they want to please Zionist friends.
13.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It is also essential to roll back the hyper-authoritarian measures that criminalise the use of phrases like 'globalise the intifada'. Those who participate in genocide while criminalising the language used to resist it are fascists.
13.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Britain's High Court has ruled that the ban on Palestine Action is unlawful. This is an important victory against Zionist efforts to destroy British civil liberties. The next stage is to hold those British politicians, officials and businesspeople complicit in the genocide to account.
13.02.2026 10:36 — 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0thank you!
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