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Jum'ah mubarak to everyone except the Indonesian state government and those who regurgitate colonial logic.
I'm enraged, and my autistic ahh has been ruminating painfully, while my ADHD has the energy for it. So Imma drop Friday khutbah here lol.
Racists, bigots, colonial apologists DNI
Bismillah
When survival becomes organised humiliation, people stop consenting quietly. It’s only a matter of time before people decide that being k¡lled by rulers is far preferable to living another day under these conditions. Don't come lecturing people about "violence is never the answer" when you can still afford to see meritocracy as something genuine and unemployment, poverty, homelessness as personal moral failures; when you refuse to sit with the contradictions; when you opt to exceptionalise almost everything, whether it concerns a certain group or a certain religious identity, and call it "nuance." We're Indonesian, not USian.
What are we doing?
Are we still the same nation that went to war against the Portuguese and the Dutch with bambu runcing, and called that war jihad fisabilillah in the 1560s and 1820s, far before Marx even drew the connections between capitalism and colonialism?
We might not be the same people, the same Acehnese, the same Javanese who went to war against colonial powers. But we are the same Ummah that owes a great debt to the Ottoman military for the cannons and gunners under Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, who aided our Muslim brothers and sisters in 1560s Aceh against the Portuguese, where the Ottoman flag flew as a sign of Muslim unity under the Ottoman Caliphate; the same Ummah that took up arms under Prince Diponegoro's call of jihad against the Dutch and colonial extraction in Java in 1825–1830. Yet we're also the same Ummah that abandoned the Acehnese in the 19th century because, by then, the Ottomans were too weakened to materially respond, and our local ulema were bought by the Dutch Orientalist scholar Snouck Hurgronje, who converted to Islam to learn about Muslims, whom he called "Mohammedans," as objects of study to divide us from within.
He succeeded. He understood something the gunboats never did: capturing the legitimation machinery is cheaper than fighting it. Conquest by purchase of the minbar outlasts conquest by rifle, and it never had to end when the Dutch left.
The Ummah had been divided long before the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Empire under European imperial manipulation, and had understood transnational solidarity long before Marxist internationalism gave it another vocabulary.
The Ummah here was subjected to two captures before they had names anywhere else. The first wore secular clothes: anything political, anything touching governance, was crushed, while ritual performance and akhlaqul karīm became matters between you and God alone, because fuck empathy and humanity, right? "Obedience to ulil amr is obedience to God," and they called it taqwa. Hurgronje wrote that manual decades before any mandate power bought its first mufti. The second capture came later wearing literalist clothes: ibn Wahhab's interpretation with a state behind it, folded into a nationalist project, until its heirs pointed at everything and called it bid'ah, conflating da'wah with Saudi propaganda. The colony was the laboratory. The methods “tested” here travelled, then came back rebranded as authenticity.
What are we even doing?
Is it because the oppressors now speak the same language as us and claim to worship the same God?
These oppressors were raised in the same traditions as those who abandoned knowledge, succumbed to manufactured enmity and moral panic, and murdered farmers, teachers, labourers, midwives; the working class in 1965–1966, in the name of jihad; the declaration of “God is the greatest” at the top of their lungs while parading the severed heads of farmers around the village. The same society that had not yet had a proper tool or concept for collective intergenerational trauma from 3.5 centuries of colonialism, and only had Islam as a moral framework and the language of liberation and resistance against colonial powers, by the time the successor of the British Empire planted a seed of backwardness that labelled Muslim revolutionaries like Tan Malaka and other members and sympathisers of the Communist Party kafirun just twenty years after independence.
The same Tan Malaka whose speech at Comintern in 1922 about the shared goal of Pan-Islamism and Marxism changed everyone's view of Islam, which was very likely Orientalist anyway, and of Indonesian resistance against colonial powers.
The same Tan Malaka who wrote a book that gives modern Indonesians a language to speak to power. To see the rot in the system itself. To hold power accountable for the structural violence it enforces. A book that the government eventually banned.
The government that wants us to see them as ulil amr. The same government that spiritualises its incompetence, that crushes dissent, whose religious ministry said teachers' salaries are amal jariyah, that calls activists foreign actors—because how else should they appeal to the masses other than by triggering the trauma of the descendants of the colonised?
When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.
Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.
Yet some of us turn around and say, “Corruption is cultural in Indonesia. It's a collective sin,” and call it a day. No dialectical materialism, no questions about who benefits from lateral violence among broke citizens in this day and age, no nothing.
We have the moral architecture, we have historical records of wins and losses, of the most sophisticated synthesised concept of political theology and material obligations with spiritual accountability. We have material evidence of a pluralistic society in a nation-state that isn't secular and was never once a theocracy.
Yet most arguments from our best and brightest are bootleg copies of colonial logic to blame the oppressed and call it "holding ourselves accountable."
How do some people afford to spiritualise and moralise structural poverty and anti-intellectualism? How do you even participate in society, yet, when it comes to structural analysis, act like you're merely a rude guest looking in through the window?
What are you even doing with that fancy degree?
Thus, conclude today's Keputrian session. My sincere apologies for the absence of snacks, I can't afford them, I'm broke.
See you around.Wassalaam
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I don't like how fellow Muslims talk about Islam to Western audiences. It's always defensive. Taking the offensive stance once in a while is necessary. Islam doesn't need defending. It's those who paint it as dangerous that need to explain themselves.
Read my critique of Western political frameworks. Consider it a mirror for those who claim to be allies in the West and “anti-imperialist.”
https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
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I don't like how fellow Muslims talk about Islam to Western audiences. It's always defensive. Taking the offensive stance once in a while is necessary. Islam doesn't need defending. It's those who paint it as dangerous that need to explain themselves.
Read my critique of Western political frameworks. Consider it a mirror for those who claim to be allies in the West and “anti-imperialist.”
https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency
#orientalism #muslimfeminism #antiimperialism #pluralism #Trotskyism #panislamism #liberalfeminism #secularism #decolonial #deconstruction
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Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
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Iran will not trade sovereignty for threats. Demanding zero enrichment while backing Israel’s assault on Gaza shows double standards. Gaza faces genocide, yet pressure falls on Tehran, not Tel Aviv. Justice for Palestine is a moral duty. Muslim unity must defend human life. #Iran #Pakistan #Gaza #StopGenocide #PanIslamism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/middleeast/iran-us-nuclear-talks-war.html
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#MENAdoc:"The Khilafet" by Mohammad Barakatullah (Maulavie)
[London: Luzac, 1924]