Salafism Revisited: Some of You Lot Still Don’t Get It

Well, it’s taken me a while to get this done—just a little over two years, to be exact. This one’s a bit of a doozy too at 31 pages (32 if you include the cover), over double the length of its predecessor, Salafism, Do You Really Get It? An Actual Methodology or Merely Empty Slogans? As was the case when I first published Salafism, Do You Really Get It? in 2009, I’m not quite sure how this article (or book as my wife and daughter jokingly call it) will be received. About a decade and a half has gone by since the first installment, a heck of a lot has gone on since then. Sadly, however, a lot of things still remain the same, albeit with a different cast of actors and strangely, on a much larger stage (a lot of what was witnessed and experienced mainly among Salafis in the late 1990s and early 2000s is now being seen throughout Western culture, both Muslim and non-Muslim, e.g., extreme partisanship and division, outrage culture, cancel culture, etc.). As the old adage goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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New SPubs Diss Track Dropped!

New diss track from the jokers at SPubs.

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On Assim Alhakeem … .

Back in December of 2021, while perusing on Twitter (now X), I came across a tweet containing a video clip taken from Assim Alhakeem’s online fatwa show. In the clip, he essentially says that flat-chested women, or women with small breasts are abnormal and defective. The clip was taken from a longer video in which he gives a fatwa saying that breast implants and butt implants are lawful and not forbidden.

I tweeted out a short thread about it saying,

I thought, “this is just a clip. There’s gotta be more to this; some sort of context or explanation. Lemme check out the full vid.” So I check out the full video and I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but it ain’t much better. It’s worse.

Full disclosure: I’ve always been critical of Al Hakeem. I think he’s a charlatan and a fraud. This is just another fatwa he’s given that further cements that for me.

That he’s called a shaikh, despite his clear lack of knowledge and understanding is bad enough. That he’s conitunually given a platform and gone to by many for fatawa is completely bonkers.

A good friend of mine, Abu Tayeb, responded to one of the tweets in the thread asking me how Alhakeem was a charlatan. As I truly believe one should be able to back up any accusation they make of others, I wrote the following Twitter thread to justify what I said. I figured I’d post it up here since finding things on Twitter can be quite annoying and difficult at times.

The thread read as it was posted back in December 2021:

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