After losing multiple Threads accounts, WRZKY began rebuilding through the Fediverse, federating the website via ActivityPub, and developing independent mutual aid infrastructure beyond Meta’s corporate control and algorithmic suppression—while preparing the return of Mutual Aid Checkpoint through decentralised platforms and newsletter-based community organising.
WRZKY's weekly mutual aid checkpoint Insha'Allah will be back very soon
WRZKY mutual aid for May essential needs totals $560 by 16/05/2026 after an April shortfall carried forward. Support helps keep me fed, connected, medicated, and able to continue mutual aid work.
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.
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.
Humanitarian aid is sold as neutral and benevolent. On the ground, it is an outpost of empire. It registers, sorts, and disciplines the people it claims to save, and leaves untouched what wrecked them. In Palestine, it normalises occupation and freezes life in permanent limbo. In Sudan, it retreated and left devastation behind. In Congo, it manages displacement while extraction rolls on. States have even captured zakat and turned it into prestige and bureaucracy. Still, communities feed each other. Palestinian crowdfunding, Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms, and Team Congo RDC bypass the gatekeepers and put resources in people's hands, with no donor hierarchy. Share this work, and strengthen the mutual aid ecosystem.
If Islam is enough, we don’t need feminism. But that is not the point. Have we experienced true mercy and justice in Islam's name?
The West's deliberate conflation of radical Islam with extremism has become a powerful tool for control. By portraying Islam as a monolithic threat, Western powers have rallied public support for invasive policies, from surveillance programmes to direct occupations across the SWANA region. This narrative reinforces violent colonial structures, positioning Muslims as "others" who must be controlled or eliminated.
![A protester holds a handwritten cardboard sign at a nighttime demonstration reading, "[Aid workers in Gaza] are bringing their children to work with them so that if they die they die together." The quote is attributed to Juliette Touma, UNRWA Director of Communications.](https://wrzky.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Protest-Sign-About-Aid-Workers-and-Children-in-Gaza-1080x720.jpg "The World’s Worst Bully: How Your Government Fails Humanity")
To the international community, America’s actions in Palestine and Lebanon are part of a longstanding, brutal pattern of violence justified under the guise of “freedom” and “democracy"; they are far from isolated missteps. For Americans, this destruction might feel distant, but for millions worldwide, it is an unavoidable, harsh reality fuelled by US dollars and policies. Every missile, every devastated home, every life lost is a direct result of American complicity in imperialism.
