Communiqué #5: God Damn America
July 4th, 2025.
I believe in an Islam that hates America.
An irredeemable “Cowboy and Indian” America that bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, and invaded over 84 of the 194 nations recognized by its pocketed United Nations.
An unmerciful and uncompassionate America with over 750 venerated bases in over 80 lands that never spared a people across the globe in transplanting its 533-year-old wounds upon the world. An America whose bellicose legacy is regime change, Jim Crow, and CIA coups.
God damn America, a bacterium, a bigoted birther of 1830 Indian Removal Acts, 1923 Chinese Exclusion Acts, 1932-1972 Tuskegee Trials, and 1942 Japanese internment camps. God damn America and her NRA trigger-happy, slave-catching police forces.
God damn America, an infectious parasite that preys on a shiny veneer of ‘post-racial’ lies and is animated by endemic mass-shooting horrors in schools, public theaters, workplaces, houses of worship and shopping malls.
God damn America that manufactured Osama Bin Laden who was code-named “Geronimo.” A diseased America that designated Iraqi areas beyond its occupied “Green Zones” as so-called “Indian territory.”
A curse upon this viral contaminated America whose wicked anatomy is a genocidal past, a homicidal present, and a suicidal future.
God damn America’s indoctrinated sacrificial lambs, her machinic cogs in a hyper-masculine military industrial complex that wreaks wanton violence upon estranged far away lands that they once hailed, were displaced, and enslaved from.
God damn America, home of arrogant cowards.
Volatile kerosene is more combustible and burns quicker than diesel and I want every fiery flame to wholly engulf and consume the nightmare dream that America is.
Unfurl and light her false promise, star-spangled red, white, and blue lined blood-soaked rag-cloth flagpoles to the ground.
Ignite, instead, an Eighth Fire prophecy. From Cherokee to Diné to Iroquois Confederacy and beyond, raise a tufan (flood) storm of every Red Nations’ banners high in their respective lands and hallowed territories.
While the devil celebrated her 249th “shining beacon on the hill” birthday with low-grade explosive pyrotechnics, my beloved Islam commemorated holy Ashura that this year coincided with the 10th of Muharram of the Hijri year 1447.
Ashura marks Moses’ parting of the Red Sea for an unworthy Golden Calf Israelite tribe rescued from a tāghut (tyrannical) Pharaoh.
Ashura is the day Noah disembarked from the salvation Ark that Allah inspired him to build.
It is through Noah that a merciful Allah granted an opportunity for this drowned species’ tribes and nations to commence yet again. To heed our consecrated responsibilities (amāna) and lessons towards one another and our mother earth, in innumerable unabsorbed lessons and opportunities we have collectively squandered since.
Ashura signifies the day Allah forgave Adam and Hawa (Eve) who were created from a single spirit but became misguided by their inner selfish and individualist whims.
Ashura is the day the wrongly charged Prophet Joseph (Yusuf) was freed from incarceration following Potiphar’s wife’s false accusations of him.
Ashura is the day Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), was murdered during the Battle of Karbala by the immoral and tyrannical usurping Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Muawiyah.
Husayn and his companions were butchered for refusing to pledge allegiance to the demagogue Yazid when sovereignty and loyalty solely ever belonged to Allah’s domain.
For their refusal to capitulate to the tyrant, Husayn and his army were pulverized by Yazid’s stampeding forces until their flesh and bones were ground into sacred Iraqi sand and soil.
Decreed as such is the consecrated conviction in Tawhid: I pledge allegiance to Allah and no other (tribe, nation, leader, or state) but Allah’s ordained indivisible values, with communal liberty and social justice for all.
Islam is, after all, inherently anarchistic and anti-authoritarian.
As the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata stated and Husayn ibn Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) professed a thousand years ago:
“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
Ashura is the timeless honoring and embodiment of all the revered below, a resentment of and struggling against the world of the Above, no matter the costly exacted price tag.
Ashura is a reminder of what is truly worth dying for.
Ashura is a martyr’s yearning for a sacrosanct eternal akhira (afterlife) in defense of all that warrants livingness and that which gives meaning to a life fully lived over the lust for contrived earthly ornaments. Ashura is unwavering face-to-face courage against every tyranny.
Ashura is recognizing divine justice (adālah ilāhiyat) in the name of every salt of the earth affront to land’s raping and pillaging. Ashura is abolition and transformative justice. Ashura is salvation. Ashura is a rejection of mediocrity. Ashura is Tufan Al-Aqsa in all its victorious untamed glory.
Ashura is the dialectical opposite, the antithesis, of the recoiling and suffocating serpent, America. There is no congruency between Islam and America.
You cannot self-identify as both Muslim and American – they are inherent contradictions in terms and in values. They repel each other in the strongest terms and cannot ‘co-exist.’
To identify as American is to reify the legitimacy of this death colony and undermine anti-statist Indigenous and Muslim conceptualizations of sovereignty.
You cannot serve both the Above and the Below, you cannot worship two masters.
O Allah, anta ilahi, you are but my one divine, deity.
Some Muslims believe America can be reformed: Impossible. Preposterous. Vain. America has always hated us, she despises all that is holy, loathes the land, detests the sacred, thrashes at the wretched of the earth, ouroboros, eating them as her own tail.
God damn America, who slices through the seams of our spiritual and ethical-political commitments.
We re-emerge anyway, though. From jungles, from forests, from deserts, from all the subterranean portal tunnels that elegiacally wail resistance against and beyond America, this modern Yazid, toward a world where all worlds fit.
O my beloved Ummah, who are the kernel of my eyes, I’m heartbroken if you only knew.
America deceived you. She lied about her secular sanitized nature for her elite material gain. Her irredeemable origin story wasn’t ushered in 1776 or 1619, her poisonous rotten apple seeds were laid 533 years ago.
Her tale commenced in 1492 - Year Zero.
America’s ‘founding discoverer’ Christopher Columbus was born into Europe’s anti-Islamic and Islamophobic mindset in 1451. This bloodthirsty conquistador was weaned on tales of the Crusades and territorial losses that his hometown of Genoa suffered after the Ottoman Empire’s capture of Constantinople in 1453.
Old Europe, upon whose missionary fodder and dead carcass America is founded, launched eight to nine crusades against Islam and Muslims: No religion or race was as meticulously studied by white supremacy as Islam and specifically African, Arab, Indian and Pacific Oceanic peoples who embraced it.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus was commissioned to gather riches for the reconquering of Jerusalem (Al-Quds). The Granada War was the concluding phase of the Reconquista, a centuries-long crusading war to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula from Muslims.
Crusaders, and by de facto America, understood well that Islam’s deep-rooted foundation meant it could never be destroyed from the perennial peripheral outside.
Rather, they knew we could solely be subsumed following our internal fragmentation vis-à-vis logics of divide and conquer along the incited fault lines of sectarian and racial/ethnic strife.
An ‘Arab vs an Asian Islam’ pitted against an ‘African vs an Indian Islam,’ a ‘Sunni vs a Sufi Islam’ against a ‘Shiite vs an Ismaili vs an Ahmadi Islam,’ and multiply this diminutive equation across its cross-pollinating denominations and ethnic variations.
Our separation as Muslims, the ripping apart of our Ummah into arm and leg pieces, generated ripe conditions for white empire to exploit and deliver its devastating blow. One that carved up the world, that stole breath from life, all its worth, leaving a hollow, aching space within our unmended souls. An Ummah that is colored monotone grey as we lay lost in the silhouette of her desolate place.
The crusader slaughters in Granada (modern Spain) in 1492 cemented a discourse and a way of perceiving the world in which Muslims and Jews in Al-Andalus were cast as racially “savage” (and biologically inferior) as well as and religiously infidel-godless “heathens” and demonic sorcerer cannibals.
This framework of subjugating the “other” would become the basis of settler-colonialism in so-called “America.”
Upon landing on the shores of the Caribbean, the crusading “savage-heathen” and “racial-religious” lens cast upon Muslims and Jews in the Al-Andalus was projected onto the Taíno peoples.
Columbus described the weapons used by the Indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean as “alfanjes," the Spanish name for the scimitar weapons Muslims deployed against crusaders in battle. In 1519, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico-Tenochtitlán and identified four hundred Aztec (Mexica) temples in Mexico as “mosques,” and described “Aztec women” as “Moorish women,” and referred to Montezuma II, the Aztec leader, as a “sultan.”
Even the Orientalist term “berdache” which was deployed by colonizers to describe Two-Spirit Indigenous siblings, was first ascribed by Europeans onto gender non-conforming Muslims.
Domination in the “new world” of terror is built in the infernal young shell image of the old.
On his journey, the misguided cross-bearer Columbus relied on Muslim geographers that include the 8th century Al-Farghani (or Alfraganus) and 10th century Abu Rayhan Biruni in his navigation, but he miscalculated the measurements of the planetary waistline in his transatlantic voyage.
Columbus had intended to sail to India to steal wealth in order to help deliver Jerusalem from Muslim hands. This crucifier was motivated by a conviction in the promise of Christ’s second coming in the following century. Columbus thirsted for Jerusalem’s reclamation via resources from “newly discovered lands.” The crusading Euro-American desire to conquer Palestine can be traced and dates back to the root foundation of the American settler-colony.
Forgoing a 1492 framework in exchange for a limited 1917 and 1948 geopolitical movement analysis that conceives of Palestinian liberation without accounting for Turtle Island is not only hypocritical, but fundamentally inaccurate and incomplete. One cannot destroy ”Israel” without destroying “America” - their fateful demises are intertwined.
Liberal crusading white supremacist America isn’t a mere partner to Zionism but rather is leading this civilizational war hurling towards an accelerationist second coming of Christ. America didn’t just co-sign, endorse, and fund the genocide and war on Gaza. She is the chief evangelical architect of this apocalyptic holocaustic war: Ideologically, materially, historically, religiously, and symbolically.
It is America’s privately contracted, designed and run ‘Gaza Humanitarian Fund’ that powers the cold-blooded dystopian hunger-games and starvation killing field campaigns that herds our emaciated people in Gaza through caged metal corridors as if they are cattle. It is America’s finger on the gun trigger against the cranium of normalizing Arab regimes and complicit Muslim populations that chokeholds and besieges Gaza.
God Damn America, and every aspiring impersonation that she breeds and molds in her own hollow image and prototype.
America is a fraud swindler.
She is by design a crusading serpent, a blunt, rusty, knife designed to surgically cut and sever sharp our fluid unison Panegyric body into a thousand sacrificed hands, fingers, and limbs for her damned eternal glory.
America’s foundation is anchored in (neo)liberal modernity and a perpetual crusading war of weaponized white supremacist Christianity on Islam, Muslims, and others cast in their shadow.
America – the Great Satan – is the ultimate hoax. In the name of Manifest Destiny and Doctrines of Discovery, Christian religious doctrines that undergird American expansionism, America murdered over 100 million Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island on land deemed as “Terra Nullius” (‘unoccupied’, ‘uninhabited,’ ‘empty’). That genocide burns on, raging, to this day.
God damn America, a killer made of mountains of crushed skulls and bison piled on top of one another, row after row, bone against stark bone, such that it sinks the garden of Eden in endless grief.
Until Cortés’ colonization of the Aztec people, Europeans exclusively wore wool as opposed to cotton despite its availability and their desire for it, because they refused to trade with Muslim Mughal-India and Mamluk-Egypt, its only two major producers. America’s inception and shoreline harbor, indeed mooring, is inherently anti-Muslim. European putrid hatred and petty resentment of Muslims runs barysphere earth-core deep and was transplanted, indeed was carved, into the settler structures of America.
God damn America and her insatiable bloodlust. An America that seized Indigenous livestock, forcibly relocated and desecrated their land, and ripped away their ancestral tongues, spirituality, traditions, and heritages, giving them colonizer names, cutting their storied locks of hair.
God damn America that launched biological warfare against our Indigenous siblings and attempted to sever their lineages, their very connection to red, black and brown earthen soil. An America that forcibly sterilized and experimented on Indigenous peoples as medical ‘test subjects.’ This is the vile America that settler-squatters commemorate with picnics, barbecues, cookouts, parades, cold beers and concerts - the very sadism Zionists emulate on the outskirts of Gaza’s concentration camps.
An America that placed bounties on Indigenous scalps. Whose Cavalry troop revolvers mutated into police shootings. Her intention has always been total eradication or brutal forced assimilation. Indigenous peoples are relegated as ghosts, mere signposts to a supposed bygone history, only remembered when their names are etched on lethal weapons of mass destruction (‘Tomahawk’ missiles and ‘Apache’ helicopters) or football teams (the Washington ‘Red Skins’ the Kansas City ‘Chiefs’).
And yet Indigenous resistance’s roots clutch the earth, endure and will not bend, when the land always fights alongside its unwavering resurgent people.
Long live the Battle of Little Bighorn, across the portal echo chambers of time, and the ringing war dance of our brave Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho elder warriors who vanquished sinful Custer and his conquering army.
Upon commencing this enduring extermination of Indigenous Peoples, ‘pioneering’ frontier America guaranteed that the 16th century would see the rise of the transatlantic slave trade, during which tens of millions of Africans – 20 to 30% of whom were Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and the West Coast of Africa – became the new “savages” and “heathens.”
1492 isn’t an event. 1492 is the original sin that cemented a settler-colonial structure. America’s second enshrined ongoing genocide is that of Black peoples kidnapped into cruel merciless US plantation slavery systems:
One that persists, uninterrupted, to this day vis-a-vis “afterlife of slavery” projects which permeate every anatomical horizontal and lateral, systematic and systemic structure, indeed every atomistic molecule of America.
God damn America that tortured, trafficked, and ripped Black families apart. God damn America that shackled in corroded neckband chains then sold our Black siblings’ blood under the pounding hammer on bidding blocks to the sound of jingling church bells. America’s gushing red ledgers rendered Black people as indentured property, “owned” by law, purchased as ‘chattel’ in auctions held in private slave quarters of homes and taverns.
God damn America’s white overseers that thrust Black people into extermination camps and colonies, in perpetual forced servitude, who whipped them in corporal punishment while tilling cotton fields on stolen land, and traded them into sexual slavery for the sadistic pleasure of the white man’s entertainment.
God damn America and Allah bless our 130 Black siblings, the martyrs of the Zong massacre, who were executed in cold blood then thrown overboard into the sea by the ship’s British crew. The generational pulverizing of Black life, theft of Black time and sovereignty, and attempted forced erasure of Black rituals, languages, knowledge systems, faiths, geographies, uprisings, and storied histories continues.
This month commemorates “Black August” where we honor the enduring legacy of the Black radical tradition, studying lessons taught to us by freedom fighters like Nat Turner, George Jackson, and the Black Panthers. Black August trains and organizes us toward rebellious revolutionary actions against a settler-state that still vampirically imprisons, enslaves, exploits, murders, indeed feeds on Black life and death in an unbroken never-ending line from the transatlantic slave trade to Jim Crow to Cop City and the school to prison industrial nexus.
The same way America racially and religiously pitted Muslims against one another, she intentionally creased Indigenous-Black relations through divide and rule strategies that set Native against Native and Black against Black.
Though historically both peoples were mutually engaged through treaty and other forms of cooperative relationships, America birthed fraught conflicts as some Indigenous people, even minority members of tribes, were taught to enslave Black people, and some Black people, like the Buffalo soldiers, participated in Indigenous extermination, expulsion, and land theft in the name of a white-ward Western expansion.
And yet, in other instances, fused identities were birthed like the Black Cherokees in Oklahoma and Black Mi’kmaq peoples in Nova Scotia, who are a living embodiment of these two worlds and the intertwining of Indigenous and Black peoples’ fates and futurities. There is no assertion of Indigenous sovereignty or land back without Black self-determination and vice versa.
God Damn America, the Great Satan, that purposefully and insidiously deployed blood quantum and one-drop logics. To be considered Indigenous, you typically had to have a significant amount of “Indian blood,” but if you possessed the smallest percentage of “African blood,” you were deemed Black. The insidious primordial goal was always to dispossess the Indigenous of the land and keep the enslaved a slave.
America abhors Islam and all cast in its shadow. She resents Islam and in turn my Islam, an Islam of the Below, despises her back. There is no American Dream. It has always been a nightmare, as Malcolm X taught us.
As a structure, settler-colonialism is unalterable, unreformable and is meant to function precisely as it is designed, from so-called America to its bastard child “Israel.” You don’t alter the system. The structure disfigures you. It swallows you whole and spits you out.
There is no ‘dismantling’ America into 'salvageable' pieces, there is only land back. The impulse to ‘take over’ is a reactionary maneuver focused on seizure of state power that ultimately reifies vanguardist and authoritarian politics, nullifying alternative, lateral, non-statist forms of Indigenous and Muslim governance and relations with the land. The only solution is divesting from ‘America’ completely - materially and in belief - and organizing to build horizontal alternative horizons for our peoples which render the state obsolete.
A change in the operator (Democrat, Republican, and even third-party candidates) will not alter the structure. One only needs to look to the example of settler-colonial New Zealand in which Indigenous Māori have a third party and yet are still subject to non-binding artificial land acknowledgements and apologies, empty rhetoric on truth and reconciliation, and their continued dispossession and silencing in parliament.
Too many Muslim leftists uncritically subscribe to a purportedly ‘revolutionary’ but ultimately statist “Islam of the Above” and orient from a place of anti-Imperialism, without adequately centering the Below, or the structure of US settler-colonialism and the earth-shattering vitality of 1492 as the central scaffolding and lens from which to analyze intersecting geopolitical oppressions.
Both Nazis and Zionists have drawn on “America” for inspiration in their bestial projects of mass annihilation. This world will never be free of US imperialism or Zionism as long as US settler-colonialism persists.
America and Zionists are transparent that they are fighting ‘human animals,’ Muslim, Black, Indigenous. All who refuse to subscribe to the white settler world of the Above are conveniently and posthumously genocided. This is not a war between Muslims and Jews, but rather a war that Islam and Judaism have been conscripted into via white supremacist projections and imprints of Constantinian Christianity on both faiths which conjured Zionism and Wahhabism.
God Damn America and her pompous dawn and boastful twilight against all that is blessed, humble, and alive.
Islamophobia didn’t begin on 9/11. 9/11 is its present living pinnacle expression. In a speech on the contrived ‘War on Terror,’ George W. Bush admitted in 2001 the quieted truth aloud: “This crusade, this War on Terror, is going to take a while against the Axis of Evil [i.e. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine].”
Empire’s ‘War on Terror,’ is an endless protracted war rooted in an entrenched Islamophobic clash of civilizations thesis. It is a conjured indissoluble crusading ‘War on and within Islam’ that unceasingly murders Muslims across the globe marked for domestication.
In the name of Saddam Hussein’s removal and ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, America’s ongoing ‘War on Terror’ has killed five million Arabs and Muslims and counting. This figure doesn’t even include over a half a million Iraqi children benignly referred to as ‘casualties of war’ by a category five forced starvation campaign under Bill Clinton’s Oil for Food program. A pogrom, a carnage meticulously designed by warmongering former Secretary of State Madeline Albright who regarded it as “worth it.”
The euphemistic ‘War on Terror’ is a relentless onslaught opposing ‘irredeemable’ Muslims who are neverendingly adjudicated as exceptionally irrational, misogynist, queerphobic, immoral, and dictatorial to the orientalist American devil.
In 2001, America bombed Afghanistan to “liberate” women and queer siblings. Now an identical playbook: ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ and ‘Regime Change’ in Iran.
Interventionist civilization conquest, imperial-liberal white feminism, and age-old deployed homonationalist and pinkwashing narratives to kill us in the name of saving us.
Deploying gender and sexuality, the cardinal fundamentalist and orientalist typecast formula is cemented: Muslims (insert whichever people across geography and timeline - Iranian, Iraqi, Afghani) are simultaneously both repressed and promiscuous and licentious. Muslim women and men (straight and queer) need saving by white allies from Brown and Black straight men whom colonizers perpetually paint as violent, savage, aggressors whose existence threatens “civil society” and must be killed, purged, and contained in the name of protecting “progressive values.”
In debunking Israel’s “mass rape” hoax levied at the valiant mujahideen fighters on October 7th, Ali Abunimah noted, “The idea that Indigenous, Brown, Black, and enslaved men are sexual predators towards white or settler women is as old as colonialism itself. This line has been used as justification to murder, lynch, exterminate and control colonized men for centuries.”
Blood on the leaves, America’s strange fruit.
America’s liberalism inculcates and thrives on Muslim historical amnesia and disengagement from 1492’s cataclysmic aftermath. America taught immigrant Muslims to be strictly possessed with the American settler-state’s entrenched anti-Blackness and to seek justifications as to why Islam belongs in America, normalizing the existence of the colony itself.
Upward mobility and assimilationist narratives cement their magic spell desperate longing for a fantastical imagined “American Dream.” In so doing, Muslims neglect Allah’s Qurānic verse: “Say, If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and dwellings with which you are pleased are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His command”(Chapter 9, Chapter of ‘Repentance,’ Verse: 24).
In internalizing American liberalism, “Muslim-Americans” have grown accustomed to posing seemingly provocative questions such as: “Should a Muslim Woman Be U.S. President?” Assimilationist, blasé narratives that rely on the continued erasure of Indigenous peoples and sovereignty and the denial of Palestine’s liberation which cannot come from electoral representation in empire.
Muslim settler-immigrants accept the myth that voting can be progress and a state can be instrumentalized towards liberationist ends. America posits itself as a representative democracy when it is anything but. Muslim settlers of color don’t question the legitimacy of America’s right to exist, or the costly trade-off consequences of embracing patronizing hyphenated-American/Canadian citizen-identities at the expense of Indigenous peoples at “home” and orientalist global imperialist adventurism “abroad.”
The very political institution of citizenship in settler-colonial North America is constructed upon continuing anti-Black foundations and Indigenous genocide and dispossession.
This historical casting and replacing of Indigenous peoples as out of space and time as if they are extinct in ‘America’s story’ feeds into immigrant Muslims’ own-passive victimization narratives that elides the fact that by the very nature of their settlerhood, they are active dispossessors of Indigenous siblings.
While not all settlers are alike, and racism against migrant people of color is prevalent, there also needs to be an accounting for a differential settler location from which racialized subjects marked as white-Europeans are positioned. Many immigrant people of colour are settlers without (or with limited) settler privilege, but that doesn’t mean they are not complicit in Indigenous and Black dispossession either.
In the 1760’s American census, Islam was the third largest religion apropos the enslaved Black Western African Muslim population. America raised the question: How do we Christianize the slave population? Between 1790 to 1952 the Naturalization Act of 1790, mandated whiteness as a prerequisite for citizenship. To become a citizen, America that professes ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ required immigrants to prove in civil court that they were, in fact, white.
Non-Muslims, including non-white Christians from Egypt and the Levant, Chaldeans and Assyrians from Iraq, and even Moroccan Jews were cast under the umbrella ‘Muslim’ and had to prove that they were white by law which compelled them to over-perform their racial and religious identities (white and Christian) to demonstrate undying fealty to America.
In 1915, the Dow v. The United States case ruled that Syrian Christians are white by law. To this scourge called America, Islam and Muslims were always constructed as the racial and religious antithesis of whiteness and America’s white Christian identity.
In this century, so-called “unapologetic Muslim-Americans” have gone to unfathomable lengths to try and demonstrate their loyalty and devout patriotism as Muslim conscripts in America’s army, sent off to engage in the civilizational murder of Black and Brown peoples elsewhere.
Islamophobia is a cornerstone of America’s domestic and foreign policy. She spies on our mosques, raids out our homes, kidnaps us in CIA ‘extraordinary renditions,’ and has us sent to not-so-secret Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay black site prisons in which we’re sodomized, raped and tortured. State legislators are obsessed with condemning and banning ‘Shariah’ laws (despite that, of course, it isn’t a monolithic corpus or discourse because it represents all the varying jurisprudences issued since Islam was revealed).
In confluence with this relentless orientalist, demeaning, assimilationist assault, America conveniently taught its settler-immigrants to lionize political nonviolence that pacifies and neutralizes resistance and normalizes passiveness that protects the settler-state.
Nowadays Muslims are happily invested in arguments centered around how Islam isn’t a ‘foreign religion’ in America, how Islam is part of America’s fabric, and how our Islam, the Islam of Muhammad and Husayn, supposedly shaped the imagination of America’s founding generations.
They point to slaver and eugenicist Thomas Jefferson (who believed that whites were superior to Indigenous, Black and other People of Color) to praise him because he owned a copy of the Qur’an. All the while, Jefferson’s Monticello estate was built by bricks that bear the imprints of Black Muslim and non-Muslim fingerprints. Jefferson and America’s “freedom of religion” ideals draw on European liberal enlightenment idols including Alexis Tocqueville, John Locke, and Voltaire, all of whom vehemently despised Islam as a threat to “American Democracy,” orientally referring to it as ‘Mahomet,’ ‘Mahamdan,’ and ‘Mohammadenism.’
O Muslims, know the only Muslims that America covets are ‘good’ docile, law-abiding, submissive slaves who practice a private, individualized, sedated Islam and act as willing partners to her devilish complicities in genocides from Palestine to the Sudan to Congo.
The ‘bad’ Muslims that America seeks to eradicate are the noble mujahideen in Gaza who have been holding firm the frontlines for 669 days and who decidedly exposed the naked facade of international law and human rights order for what it truly is - a cloak and dagger sham.
O Ummah of Muhammad raise your head, do not hide your faces, straighten your spine, stand firm and tall, and do not dare shy away from or shun the fabricated name ‘terrorist’ for it is the greatest honor to be called so by a disbelieving entity who deems us ‘infidels.’
We are neither a label or a tag, we are a people, an Ummah of the Below, a dignified Qurānic cause that brightens the dark, whose arousal awaits the call to war, with the angelic dazzling mujahideen of Gaza to our back, in all their splendor.
In unapologetically and self-deceivingly trading off Islam and the spirit of Ashura for the refuge of a liberal ‘American dream,’ immigrant-settler Muslims acquiesce to the comfort zones of their own self-conceits which urgently demand unsettling.
Internalized colonialism is an intoxicating drug. The American liberal fox indoctrinated Muslims to salivate, grovel, and kneel - humiliated - heads facing the floor in shame, on bended knees licking America’s blood-stained bootstraps for acceptance. America, the damned, taught the dispossessed to crawl for her validation instead of looking to Allah and one another for our collective salvation.
By way of liberalism, America taught us self-resentment, to hate ourselves, to sever our relationship to our very lands, and to self-debase our own impoverished indignity.
God Damn America, who taught us to love blonde straight hair and blue eyes, to buy epidermis pigment creams to bleach, wash away, and scrub off our sacred skin color.
America taught Muslim aunties and uncles to marry their children off to white Muslim reverts, so that perhaps in a generation or two, they won’t suffer institutionalized Islamophobia on account of their born beautiful pigmentation.
Liberalism taught Muslims to internalize inferiority complexes and the reproduction of anti-Blackness, Arab Supremacy, sectarian Sunni and Shiite supremacy, to aspire to individualist cultures of whiteness, assimilationist respectability politics, upward ascendency, and hyphenated 'American/Canadian' identities to attain in settlerhood that which they couldn’t achieve in skin tone.
God Damn America and her false messianic tantalizing earthly trinkets and lure that devilishly seduces us to sell our souls for her tainted celebrity rewards.
O Muslims, my brethren people, rush to the blazing field of honor and battle. Close and end the devil’s incited gaps between us, with each winged shoulder and collar bound to the next winged shoulder and collar, as we do in every prayer.
O my paragliding Ummah of the Below, my Islam of the earth, do not reel and tremble with fear at America’s shunning, when Allah’s love is eternally greater. My Ummah, embrace the tumult of Gaza’s burning fallen and desolate cities, and let her propellant wood and blazing amber serve as a raging flame to strike at the heart of the serpent snake.
God damn America whose false mercury lantern masks a wicked darkness that extinguishes the light of Allah’s true path and values.
God damn America that starves and stole the innocence of our newborns in Mali, in Sudan, in Haiti, in Palestine.
God damn America that rendered land back and ‘decolonization’ into metaphors.
O beloved Prophet Muhammad, who should be more dear to Muslims than their own parents, how you prophesized our travesty when you ascended from Mecca to the heavens, before descending in Jerusalem, during your al-Isrā and al-Mirāj (the ‘Night journey’).
O beloved Muhammad, I could hear your weeping pleas of ‘My Ummah, My Ummah’ to the all-majestic and all-exalted Allah, on account of witnessing how your Ummah will be led astray, near the end times. An Ummah that bargains and transacts Islam, that ought suffice on its own, and yet that nowadays is so easily exchanged for a cheaply purchased punctuated ‘America.’
My Ummah, Allah and his almighty beings that defeated the tyrant Arabs in the miraculous Battle of Badr, are with us.
My Ummah, heirs of Prophet Muhammad, eternity awaits and the wheels of time have ceased, for I see the drawn dawn of al-ākhira (the end-times) here.
My Ummah, our enemy’s spears pierce our thirsty unquenched babies’ tiny throats, and their mothers have no milk to feed them, as their bodies and tents are charcoaled ablaze in demonic hellfires.
My Ummah, the great Battle of Karbala is resurrected, not in Iraq, but in all of Palestine.
My Ummah, the Prophet’s grandson, Husayn, the symbol of sacrifice and justice and whose fate we ought share, is here. He is the mujahideen in Gaza.
My Ummah, prepare your horses and gear, flock and rally the flanks of every camp and welcome Ashura, for it is victory or martyrdom, an honor either way.
My Ummah, may Allah bless every unflinching act of global jihad waged against America, every treasonous, militant, insurrectionary action against her ability to suffocate all things living and sanctified.
My Ummah, wage war for war is already waged upon us, born into it, before we understood, fathomed or even realized.
My Ummah, Islam hates America and inshallah - by Allah’s conniving will and wrath - her death will be by Indigenous, Black and Muslim hands bearing white, black, green and red flags, colors in Islam which denote our deeds, battles, fields and drawn swords unsheathed.
Oh Allah Damn America.
My Ummah, you should be proud of your hate for America and refuse the co-optation of our faith. Don’t be dissuaded, and love Islam more than this barbarous death colony, this plague upon the earth.
Allah Akbar.
Be a threat, fulfill it.
this piece is amazing. thank you.
“My Ummah, may Allah bless every unflinching act of global jihad waged against America, every treasonous, militant, insurrectionary action against her ability to suffocate all things living and sanctified.”
Every. Word. 🔥