The #antiprotip series includes existing patterns or behavior that need to be avoided. If you find yourself inclining towards any of these things, please reconsider.
#antiprotipHarm to others is trumped by serious profits in pockets.#antiprotipTake the quick road to mastery by declaring irrelevant all you don’t already know.#antiprotipWant your subjects to do something they aren’t already? Declare it illegal.
#antiprotip“Dear Allah: You’re just a tool to gain power & authority over the Muslim masses & to submit them to our will.—The Party”#antiprotipSince you can’t challenge a verse’s authenticity, declare it a misunderstood parable with you as its oracle of truth.#antiprotipWhen picking a parking spot, always take the one that reduces the most options available to other drivers: maximize blockage#antiprotipdemand tawakkul from others while keeping tawaakul for yourself.#antiprotipIf at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.#antiprotipFirst get them to reduce the Shari’ah to matters of consensus, and then pull the “no consensus on consensus” card.#antiprotipIt is said that sincerity is when public & private actions match—not that offline and online behavior match.#antiprotipRevile Muslims who disagree with you as misguided enemies of truth; embrace non-Muslims as partners in Truth Faith.#antiprotipThe only true, valid test of principles, methods & paradigms is whether they arrive at your conclusion.#antiprotipWhat we do is ijtihad; what they do is pure guesswork & wishful thinking.#antiprotipThe possibility that a Muslim might be doing something questionable justifies ignoring our own abominations.#antiprotipThere is no such thing as a legitimate difference of opinion. Everyone else is willfully misguided.#antiprotipProhibitions of the tongue are of the tongue—not the fingers! All are fine online so long as you’re just typing!#antiprotipYour success is from you & your failings from circumstances. Their success is from circumstances & failings from themselves.#antiprotipIgnorance is a sin; so you never have to admit it, just say anything and add “…but there are differences of opinion on this”#antiprotipBlame Islam and ulema for everything: even for the failing of individuals that contradict well-known, core teachings.#antiprotipWhen they engage modernity, say they’re unfaithful to tradition; when they use tradition, say they’re antimodern & backward.#antiprotipAlways blame it on the ulema.#antiprotipDeep understanding of Arabic and reading classic texts are less important than narrative-building & creative writing skills.#antiprotipWhy change yourself when you can lobby & campaign to change Islam?#antiprotipA few years at the academy & a single dissertation make me master of all who spent lifetimes & wrote encyclopedias.#antiprotipChanging times always justifies relaxing laws; changing times never justify increasing structure.#antiprotipInvoke respect for differences of opinions to secure your voice when minority;parade defeated straw men to deny them theirs.#antiprotipInvoke subjective & relative truth to secure your voice; invoke objective & absolute to deny them theirs.#antiprotipApologize or deny; good PR is more important than presenting & defending inconvenient or unpopular truths.#antiprotipYour iman should increase and decrease commensurate with Islam’s geopolitical dominance.#antiprotipDisagreement with the values of the dominant culture is an indicator of hadith fabrication, weak evidence, bad use of usul.#antiprotipAlways remember that it’s “Brother Christian” but never “Brother Salafi” or “Brother Sufi”.#antiprotipDaily rituals and awrad are for mere commoners. And you are no mere commoner.#antiprotipBrotherhood: I’ve got your back while you’re getting me in mine.#antiprotipWho needs usul al-fiqh when we can just do a market survey and give people what they want?#antiprotipDon’t let things like criteria of reporting & witnessing complicate & hamper your gathering of information.#antiprotipDon’t let things like the science of reports (mustalah al-hadith) get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.