When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.
Five of Indonesia’s most powerful security officials declared the country secure while malls were fenced, unfenced, and a woman was arrested for a Facebook post. Eleven days before Independence Day, the government is managing memory to protect extraction and punish…
JULY’S ESSENTIAL NEEDS $818 DEADLINE 16/07 Reblog via @wrzky: RE: Didn’t meet last month’s minimum essential needs goal, as usual. The unmet $218 really needs to be added to July because it was for meds. July essential needs: $818…
My people are on the streets again in Indonesia. Everywhere the state decides certain people's survival is not a priority, the same infrastructure gap opens. The only thing that fills it is people deciding to fill it for each other. The full list is at the link. Some requests are urgent, some are overdue, and all of them need movement. Show up however possible, financially or by amplifying so someone who can give financially finds the request. Both matter.
Pathologising structural criticism as anger lets power avoid accountability. This polemical personal-political essay argues for dignity, boundaries, and solidarity without self-abandonment, rejecting respectability politics that demand dispossessed people make harm sound polite before they are recognised as human within every collective struggle.
Islam is compatible with justice, dignity, accountability, care for the vulnerable, limits on power, and moral restraint. If those are the values being named as modern, then there is real ground for conversation. If “modern values” means endless consumption, moral relativism when it is convenient, state violence wrapped in the language of security, and pretending colonialism is finished, then no. Islam was never meant to be compatible with that.
