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AR Mirza

@ARactivity

13 days ago

I am sure you guys gave heard of the long standing beef between Sunni Dr. Omer Suleiman and Da'ee shia extremist, Daniel Haqiqtajou. DH is a bit on the very blunt side and no doubt we know Dr. Sulaiman is the wiser activist/scholar side. For some reason, I have never liked DH and have always liked Omer Suleiman. Maybe I am biased since I prefer scholars over activists. But there is something very odd about this love and hate. I never thought I would prefer the Employer over the fired employee but this is one exception I make. I thought it was a sunni shia thing, in disguise. Since I am sunni at heart but God knows best.

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Omar Al banna

@Omaralbanna0570

13 days ago

Zionist are the enemy of our times my fellow Muslims

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Syed

@SyedShah1996

15 days ago

Was Hitler's invasion of Poland a good enough reason for Britain to join the war?

This is a summary of a video by YouTuber AcademicAgent titled How Churchill destroyed British Power and gave it to America in which he argues that Britain could have completely avoided WW2

https://www.youtube.com/live/S4-JDqF9p_g?is=J6SFSXLSUbxto7rL

The AcademicAgent absolutely despises Churchill viewing him as the worst leader in British History. But he is remembered as the man who won the war, and the man who embodies everything that it means to be British. Meanwhile, Neville Chamberlain, the man who chose to follow the path of appeasement is seen as a moron.

Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement which allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland part of Czechoslovakia, which was full of ethnic Germans, on the condition that he wouldn't take any more land. He wanted to appease Hitler and hoped that he would'nt make any more demands. However, Hitler broke the agreement and took all of Czechoslovakia and then invaded Poland claiming that he wanted the former German parts of Poland to be handed back.

In response, on 3rd September 1939 Chamberlain declared war on Germany. On 6th October, Hitler gave a speech celebrating the invasion of Poland, in which he considered offering the Allies peace and condemned war as a pointless endeavour which leaves no winners and costs millions of lives on both sides. However, on October 12, Chamberlain told the British government that Hitler's peace offer was vague and uncertain and that he couldn't trust it.

As soon as the war began, the Germans launched the Blitzkrieg, taking the whole of France, and driving British forces out of Europe within a matter of weeks. Chamberlain lost the confidence of Parliament and was replaced by Churchill.

Churchill wanted to fight no matter the cost saying WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER. But he knew that even with French, Belgian and Italian help; Germany could not be defeated without the help of the Soviets and the Americans. So Churchill wrote to America requesting help.

By the end of the war Britain would become so weak, and indebted to the US, that it essentially went bankrupt and lost its empire.

WHY WAS CHURCHILL SO CONFIDENT IN CHALLENGING HITLER?

Chamberlain's declaration of war triggered the American Neutrality Act which prevented America from getting involved in foreign wars especially after the losses they suffered in WW1. Furthermore, 85% of Americans were against joining the fight in Europe. To put it simply, the Americans didn't want their sons to die for someone else's war.

However, some American elites sympathised with British elites and agreed that if Britain was to go to war, America should support the UK in one form or another. Therefore, President Roosevelt amended the Neutrality Act of 1937 with the cash-and-carry policy which allowed belligerent nations to buy weapons and materials provided they paid immediately with cash, and transported everything using their own ships.

But even before cash-and-carry was introduced, Roosevelt answered Chruchill's urgent appeal for help. For example, the American company Lockheed, which was ordered to build aeroplanes for Britain, could not fly their planes directly from America to Britain due to the Neutrality Act. Instead, Lockheed flew its planes 🛫 to the Canadian-US border 🇺🇸 🇨🇦, where Canadian farmers dragged the planes across the border using horses 🐎 into Canada 🇨🇦 from where Canadian pilots flew them to Great Britain.

President Roosevelt also introduced the Lend-Lease Act under which the US supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material free of charge. Roosevelt argued this was necessary to defend America because otherwise there would be a global Nazi superpower. However, during the negotiations for Lend-Lease, the Americans sent ships to British South-Africa to collect £60 million worth of gold which was one of the few remaining pieces of wealth the Empire owned. They also demanded Britain sell off some of its American holdings to American bankers at a discounted price otherwise they threatened to refuse to sign off on Lend-Lease. The British agreed and gave the Americans what they wanted. And Lend-Lease was signed off on 11 March 1941. However, they gave Stalin everything for free with no strings attached.

Sir Ian Jacob, secretary to the war cabinet in WW2, explains that Churchill agreed to US demands because according to him two years of bloodshed ought to cancel any money. In other words, Churchill ultimately thought, that the war would be over in 2 years and that he could somehow convince the Americans to forgive Britain's debts afterwards.

WHY DID CHURCHILL WANT TO FIGHT HITLER NO MATTER THE COST?

On 19 July 1940, Hitler made another speech in which he considered the idea of a peace deal with England. He claimed that he never desired to destroy the British Empire, and that he loved England and didn't want to kill innocent English people. Hitler previously expressed his love of Britain in Mein Kampf. In fact, it was a British soldier who spared Hitler's life in WW1.

However, Britain didn't trust Germany due to the breaking of the Munich agreement. And Britain knew that if it let Germany dominate mainland Europe, it would be impossible to thwart any future threats from Germany. This was especially true considering how weak the British Empire had become due to military spending and loss of life in WW1. Accepting German domination of the mainland was seen as strategically unacceptable by Churchill and he preferred that Britain should fight on, no matter the cost.

It is important to note that Churchill was mainly driven by his desire to stop Europe from challenging the British Empire and wasn't actually concerned with saving civilian lives. At this point in time, the Allies were completely unaware of the existence of concentration camps. And neither did he really care about preventing the spread of fascism.

British foreign policy had been quite clear since the Hundred Years War: don't let mainland Europe unite, because that would mean the end of the British Empire.

Charles Lindbergh and AMERICA FIRST

A group of elites tried swaying American public opinion towards helping Britain fight the war. Roosevelt helped the UK in practical ways such as by persuading Congress to agree to cash-and-carry and introducing the Lend-Lease Act. And American broadcasters televised footage of the Blitz bombing 💣 of Britain as propaganda to generate sympathy for the British.

However, there were an equal number of American elites who were totally opposed to joining the war in Europe. And most Americans suspected the media was propagandising them into agreeing to send their troops 🪖 to fight Hitler.

The American Charles Lindbergh was an elite who repeatedly warned the American public against joining the war. He argued that the war in Europe was just another regional war, just like any other, which posed no threat on a global scale, especially to America. Charles Lindbergh started the AMERICA FIRST MOVEMENT in direct opposition to people like Roosevelt. He said -"The security of a nation lies in the strength and character of its own people, not in fighting foreign wars"_.

However, Lindbergh was vilified as an enemy agent secretly working for the Nazis.

AMERICA DISAGREED WITH BRITAIN'S WAR STRATEGY

In April 1942, the American Army Chief of Staff, General Marshall, layed out America's plan: they wanted a massive cross-channel invasion of Europe, through France, in 1943 or earlier. However, Britain wanted to attack the Nazis in North Africa first, before invading Europe through Sicily and Italy.

Britain pretended to agree to America's strategy. But in July 1942, Churchill told America he wanted to pull-out of the agreement to invade Europe through France and proposed an invasion through French North Africa instead. Marshall and General Eisenhower were completely against this plan but were forced by Roosevelt to do what Churchill wanted.

The American high command suspected that Churchill was overcomplicating things and trying to both defeat Hitler and also save the Empire at the same time. Churchill was jeopardising everything and making it harder to actually win the war.

CONCLUSION

In a way, the Elites didn't care about how many lives would be lost as long as they won the war and gained influence over the globe 🌎.

During a conference in August 1941, Roosevelt told Churchill that Americans were not prepared to fight in Europe. Yet, he argued Britain should relinquish control of its colonies around the world in order to create a freer world after the war.

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the Tehran Conference in November/December 1943. Roosevelt ignored Churchill and talked with Stalin of a world after the war where the US and the Soviet Union would be the only two superpowers.

In July 1944, the leaders of 44 nations and their economists met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States to discuss how the economy would function in the world after the war. America used this meeting to move the financial centre of the world to the US treasury. The Bretton Woods meeting established International Monetary Fund and what later on became the World Bank Group.

Churchill was so obsessed with defeating Hitler that he failed to see the rise of the Russian Empire which could have defeated the Nazis on its own without help from the French and the British. And, there was no real reason to suspect Hitler would go after Britain once he had defeated the Soviets.

The AcademicAgent believes Churchill was delusional, incompetent and willing to spill the blood of countless soldiers for the sake of getting rid of any threat to British Power. He failed and ended up mortgaging away the British Empire to the Americans and the war lasted longer and dealt a heavier toll than he predicted.

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Learner Practitioner

@LearnerPractitioner

16 days ago

Who knows the future... Politics is crazy

Israel Palestine might be become best friends
Iran USA
Pak India
S and N Korea
Taiwan China
Cuba USA
KSA Yemen houthi
Shia Sunni

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Jasmine

@jasmine1122

16 days ago

Backlash in Kashmir over proposal for uniform Friday sermons across mosques | Politics News | Al Jazeera https://share.google/2fiNxo825e7JkHiRI

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Backlash in Kashmir over proposal for uniform Friday sermons across mosques

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/10/15/backlash-in-kashmir-over-proposal-for-uniform-friday-sermons-across-mosques

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Khalil

@Khalil1083

17 days ago
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Owen Jones 🌹🏳️‍🌈🍉 on Instagram: "The objection to Zionism isn't an objection to 'national self-determination'. It's an objection to national self-determination - at the expense of another people. Palestinians have rights as much as anybody else."

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Deb6er3DkX4/?cplk=MXNhNmQyaGJpN3E1Zw==

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