A Hundred Subscribers, 2021 Highlight Posts

To get the new folk up to speed:

Jan 12, 2022

Thanks to many bromotions, especially by my friend eugyppius, I hit 100 subsribers today quite rapidly. It’s a very modest count of people relative to those I read, but knowing that I can show my writing to a hundred people at the click of a button is both humbling and excites me to great lengths. I look forward to producing much more for you guys this year.

For all the new folk, here’s my favorite posts from when much less of you were around that I think you’ll appreciate. I mostly write on a variety of political/philosophical/religious but it also seems you guys like it whenever I post about COVIDmania as well:

AvdullahYousef

Mass Containment of COVID is Idolatry

First, allow me to define what idolatry I speak of. From IslamQA: In terms of share’ah or Islamic terminology, shirk means ascribing a partner or rival to Allah in Lordship, worship or in His names and attributes. The texts of the Qur’an and Sunnah indicate that shirk and the ascribing of rivals to Allah sometimes puts a person beyond the pale of Islam an…

3 years ago · 3 likes · Abdullah

AvdullahYousef

"Muslim Representation" is a Scam

I wrote a post a while back on my WordPress blog about an episode of the show Ramy that I liked. I think it was the best-written episode of that entire series, and in retrospect, my views on that show have been mixed to say the least. I enjoyed it as a comedy. The story could have been better but hit the right notes at the right times and that was enoug…

3 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Abdullah

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The Myth of Islamophobia

While writing this, I friend recommended to me a book titled “The Big Step: How to Survive Islam in the Anglosphere” by Mahdi Lock. I finished it in a couple of days and am now declaring it to be required reading for any Muslim living in the Western world. Much of what I speak of here can be found in greater detail in this book (albeit in a more polite …

3 years ago · 2 likes · 5 comments · Abdullah

That’s all for now. Next post will be in a couple of days, very deep from the heart…you will see.

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Teresa

As my inbox has become a substack nightmare I promised myself I wouldn't sign up to any more, but glancing at your posts I couldn't help myself. If there's one silver lining to the covid cloud it is the beautiful and talented minds we've been exposed to and this amazing community we're now a part of.

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