American Muslims and the US Election

Well, I think you have to understand that, people generally do not respond to crises by pursuing change, by, you know, embracing the new and the unknown. They don't respond to crises by seeking further instability and and uncertainty. They curl up into a fetal position and kowtow to power and hide. They're desperate for normalcy. Authoritarian regimes benefit from crises, and so called democratic regimes can behave in an authoritarian manner by means of crises.

So don't think that turmoil, strife, and hardship are engines for change, engines for development. They're not. They're methods for pacification. Or anyway, that's the case in societies where people have been atomized, where they've been isolated, and you don't have communities, and you don't have strong extended family units and so on. When you have a society of strangers like in the West, the social and economic conditions that would potentially lead to revolution in other societies just lead to greater passivity and docility and subservience to power in the West.

If there's ever an uprising in America, my default assumption will be that it has been organized by the state for the purpose of creating a crisis, and justifying repression. I don't see there ever being a civil war in The United States or a revolution or what have you, no. No matter how many guns you have. I mean, you think that they would even let you have all those guns if they thought for a second, that you would use them against anyone except each other? If they thought that you were gonna use those guns for anything other than crime, they would never let you have those guns.

Do you think that they would let you have those guns if they thought there was, even a slight possibility that you would revolt? You know? The fact that they even let you have those guns, means that they think you're harmless or they know you're harmless because you are harmless to the power structure. I mean, you're all armed to the teeth but you still have the system that you have and you still try to tell America's global victims that it's not your fault. It's not the fault of the people.

Isn't that what you always say? I mean, whichever version that you wanna go with, how are you not responsible for the system that you have? If you think you have a democracy, then the system is your responsibility because you elected it. And if you think it's not a democracy, well, you keep telling us about how dangerous you are with all your guns, and how the right to bear arms, is specifically so that you can overthrow a tyranny and so on. So you have the ballot and you have the bullet, but you still have the system that you have.

You have the power structure that you have. You're not gonna overthrow anything. Americans are the most pacified, the most submissive, the most capitulating, the most compliant population in the world. I mean, do you know at one point the British wouldn't let the Irish even have knives and forks in their homes for eating because they were afraid that the Irish would use the knives and forks to fight against them. Meanwhile, you have assault rifles.

Well, Lahi, they could let you people buy tanks and buy Apache helicopters and you wouldn't do anything with them except maybe chase somebody down who, cut you off on the highway, you know? Or you do a a a drive by gang shooting with a tank. Nobody's waiting for you to have a revolution. Everyone knows you're not about that. You don't even really know how you're oppressed or who's oppressing you or how to respond.

Like now, okay, Trump. Trump has won the election. I thought Harris would win. I said that Harris had the advantage of already being in power. The neocons, the military industrial complex, that faction of the OCJFC was in power.

So she didn't have to compete in the primaries which looked like she was just programmed for succession. That looked like that was the plan. I said that the only way Trump could win is if his own popularity and Harris's own unpopularity, made it implausible that he could lose an election. And if the BRICS aligned faction of the OC GFC gained sway domestically in The United States, well, turned out that both were true. Harris was insurmountably unpopular, Trump is popular, and the neocons have been defeated domestically, or anyway, the BRICS aligned faction of the OC GFC, which is the richer and the more powerful faction globally, has become dominant domestically in The United States.

That's what happened. I'm not gonna get into any discussion about why Kamala lost and why Trump won, like, what she could have done better, what the Democrats could have done better and so on. I'm not even gonna get into a discussion about any of that or or even to say that she lost because she supports genocide. No. All of these types of discussions are sort of subliminally just intended to perpetuate the myth of democracy in America.

Kamala lost because the power structure did not mobilize rigging on her behalf, which I think she was counting on, and which I myself thought, they probably would do. I mean, the same number of votes by which Joe Biden won in 2020 were absent from the election in 2024. They just vanished, almost as if they never existed in the first place. Well, that ghost electorate wasn't mobilized this year, and it could have been, but it wasn't. Because there's been a battle between the, OCGFC factions throughout the Biden administration, especially over the last year, a battle between the military industrial complex and the global OCJFC.

Mainstream Democrats and mainstream Republicans are and always have been aligned with the neocons, aligned with the military industrial complex, and they've had a hard time understanding the new dynamics at play in global politics, and that the BRICS aligned globally oriented faction of the owners and controllers of global financialized capital represent the new superpower whom they are supposed to serve. Trump is aligned with this faction. Never mind his patriotism, his nationalism, and MAGA, and what have you, Trump is a national. Just like the OCGFC are a national. I mean, he's close to the Khaleed, he's close to MBS, to The UAE, to the, Gulf.

The OC GFC want America to withdraw from the world, they want America to be more isolated and so does Trump. He's a mascot for this faction of power, and it's the most powerful faction as I said. I mean, for convenience, you can simplify this by just calling them Blackrock, that faction Blackrock. Blackrock represents this globally oriented faction of the OCGFC to some extent because Blackrock has a portfolio that includes far more than just the military industrial complex. BlackRock is connected to the Khaleed.

It's connected to Saudi Arabia. It's connected to The UAE, etcetera etcetera. They're interested in the vision of MBS for The Middle East because I think his vision for The Middle East is reflective of their own vision. And honestly, I don't know which one came first. If MBS thought of it, or if he only articulated it, because it is the consensus of the OCGFC.

I think this is probably more likely. So you can expect Trump, in my opinion, to adhere to this vision. Now bear in mind, no one controls everything. Circumstances are fluid, and all sorts of unexpected things can happen, and plans have to adapt, so it's gonna be bumpy most likely. But I would expect that Trump will follow this vision, which should mean de escalation of the conflict in The Middle East, and it will probably mean the removal of Netanyahu.

And some sort of a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel will probably happen, And I suspect that MBS will probably concede on his demand for a Palestinian state, and rather he will only demand an irreversible road map to a two state solution. He didn't wanna give this deal to Biden, and he doesn't wanna give this deal to Netanyahu. So I think that he will give it to Trump, and he will give it to a new Israeli PM, possibly Benny Gantz. And I think whether Netanyahu ends up going to The Hague or not depends on whether or not he acquiesces to Trump and the faction that Trump represents and agrees to his own exit from politics. If he goes quietly, then the arrest warrant may never be issued.

In short, in my opinion, the transition of the global economy to the global South has an easier and smoother road ahead of it than it had a week ago. I mean, it's actually kind of a weird situation today where nationalism in the West is actually a containing force as opposed to an expansive force. Historically, Western nationalism expanded Western power. Today, nationalism will reduce it. I mean, at the policies that Trump has advocated.

They're all in one way or another isolationist and even alienating for The US from the rest of the world. Tariffs, withdrawal from NATO, no more funding for endless conflicts, the border issue, so on and so on and so on. Who knows how much of this will actually materialize, but if his first administration is any indication, it I think a lot of it probably will. I mean, withdrawing from NATO seems to be a bit of a stretch to me, but it's not impossible. If The US leaves NATO, it will unleash full scale continental strife in Europe, which has always been the, the ultimate destination for the destabilization project that has been underway ever since the start of the Ukraine war.

The military industrial complex, they can they can derive their profits from European conflicts. They have the capacity and they have the character to keep that going indefinitely. All these countries in Europe are suiting up for war right now and not for war outside the continent. Their nationalism is going to drive white on white war and conflict that could go on for decades. Why do you think that Europe is more upset about Trump winning than anyone else?

As long as the neocons weren't controlling Washington, they still had some sort of a reprieve for the inevitable. The inevitable being that they get thrown under the bus. Well, think they're gonna get thrown under the bus now. Now I know that people in the West, in America, Muslims and non Muslims, in light of the election, are interested in strategies. Many are gonna be asking what went wrong and so on.

Okay. This is a hard conversation to have with Americans, Muslims or otherwise. Because as I've said before, we never really get into an interaction with a westerner, and expect it to be fruitful. It's kinda like trying to ride bicycle through a briar patch. You tend to be so tangled up in propaganda and indoctrination and false paradigms that, any real communication is impossible.

You're all concerned with getting this candidate or that candidate in office, this party or that party. But I'll say this, look at what the CEO of BlackRock said just before the election. He said outright, it doesn't really matter who wins. Now why can he say that? Because he already knows how to get what he wants from whoever wins.

He's not assigning power to this or that politician, this or that party or what have you. He knows how to get what he wants regardless of who gets elected, and that's the kind of a position that you should be trying to get to. So here's the point, while you're focused on politics, they're focused on power. While you're debating, between candidates, they're securing influence that doesn't shift with the tide of elections. You need to stop looking for saviors, stop going along with the inherently disempowering delusion of democracy which does nothing but reinforce the idea that your future and your present depends on this or that politician.

You need to build your own power as an individual and as a community, And part of that is knowing, what you want. And part of that is then knowing, that electing this one or that one is never going to mean that you can stop trying to get what you want. In other words, you simply adjust your strategy depending on any factor that arises, including factors that arise, in the wake of an election, any factor that interferes with or in, influences or hinders your pursuit of what you want, what you believe, what matters to you. And getting this one or that one in office should never be the thing that you want or don't want. If you celebrate when this candidate wins or lament when that candidate loses, why you're a fool.

You're not only putting all of your eggs in one basket, it's not even your basket. For Muslims in the West, Muslims in America, I'll tell you plainly, you are never going to have power, you are never going to succeed as long as you are disconnected from the global ummah, as long as you are isolated from the already existing centers of power in the Muslim world. Like I said before, when you do that, you're just a straggler from the herd, and you're vulnerable, and you're weak, and you're defenseless, and you will be preyed upon. I mean, if you know that you live in a materialistic, capitalistic, money obsessed society, and you do, then you should understand that political power is achieved through economic power. You don't live in a society where ethics and principles and morals matter in the power structure or matter to the power structure.

The movers and shakers in your society don't include moral philosophers, religious scholars, or even people who serve their communities. The movers and shakers in Western society are the rich. It's cut and dry, plain and simple. If you're rich, you have power. If you're not rich, then it doesn't matter what else you are, you'll never have power.

This is the cold hard reality. And this is where a lot of activists fail in my opinion. Because you think that it shouldn't be this way and you wanna play the game according to how you think it should be, rather than according to how it is. Once you win the game, you can change the rules. No problem.

Until then, this is how it's played. Either you have to be rich or you have to find some kind of way to make the rich care about what you think and what you want, which just means that either you have to be rich or you have to be indirectly rich, because somehow you have to find a way to matter to those who are rich. Because what does being rich even mean here? It means basically having an impact on markets, having an impact on other rich people. So that's where collective economic influence comes in, like boycotts and so forth, and to some extent protests.

But protests don't have a huge impact unless they are accompanied, by consumer choices that reflect the demand that you're making in your protest. This is indirect wealth. It's a way of making yourself matter to the rich because you're impacting their money in one way or another. But this is the way it works in America, in the West generally. This is why we talk about corporate democratization and redirecting political activism towards the private sector instead of towards governments.

The idea of influencing the influencers. So I'm not saying that you you you can't have an impact unless you're rich or that you can't have any power unless you're rich, I'm saying that power and wealth are one and the same thing in America, and you can't divorce them, not in your strategies and not in your expectations. So again, for Muslims in America, look, you have extremely wealthy, extremely important, extremely influential brothers across the ocean. If you're connected with them, instead of continuously declaring how not connected you are to them, instead of constantly vilifying them, you could build a bridge to them. Yes, I'm talking about the Gulf Countries, the gulf governments, and wealthy investors.

Every Muslim community in the West in America should be a landing place for international Muslim capital. But the only time you think about money from The Gulf is when you need a donation for your masjid or for your school. But you should be developing business relationships, investment relationships. Every Muslim community in America should have at least one realty farm targeting international property investment from the Khaleid, from Turkey, from Malaysia, from Brunei. Every Muslim community in The US should have at least one or two or more people, headhunters, talent scouts, brokers to try to connect local startups and entrepreneurs with international Muslim investors.

The Muslim community in the West in America should position themselves as middlemen to connect domestic projects, domestic properties with Muslim investors internationally, globally. It's like you have a rich uncle, but the only time you ever get in touch with him, is when you need charity. When what he's looking for is some sort of profitable enterprise to invest in so that the two of you can do business together, And then maybe you won't need charity anymore. But you're like that hippie nephew who hates his rich uncle for being a capitalist pig. You've insisted on an antagonistic relationship with him, and this is just self defeating.

It's self defeating. No matter how allegedly important the Muslim vote might be, even if you're 10,000,000, you're never going to be as important as the geopolitical and economic entities, the states of the Muslim world. So if you over there in America, are positioned as representatives and as brokers of these much more important, much more powerful, and much richer interests, where you'll amplify your own status in that country immeasurably. Every so called minority group in America, who remains connected to the countries and to the regions that they came from originally, from the community that they came from internationally, whether that's the the Indians or the Chinese or the Mexicans or the Filipinos, well it amplifies their importance domestically. These communities know about each other, I mean the one the one abroad and the one domestically, They know about each other.

They work with each other. They advocate for each other. I mean, when, Filipino health workers were being worked to the bone during COVID, who intervened on their behalf? Well, the government of the Philippines, regardless of whether those Filipino health workers were citizens of America or citizens of The Philippines. China has backed up Chinese Americans.

India has backed up Indian Americans, and the same with Mexicans. These communities know that they have a connection to and have support from, the countries of their heritage, again, regardless of their citizenship, and we don't even need to get nothing connection between Jewish Americans and Israel. I mean, that particular case, the support and the backing are mostly going in the reverse, with the domestic population being the ones who are backing up Israel. But either way, if you're a so called minority group in America, you need to connect yourself with your people overseas. And for the Muslims, that's nearly 2,000,000,000 people, and some of the most important, the most vital, the most strategic, and the most powerful countries in the world.

But you're not building any bridges. You're only interested in building bridges, with the Democrats, building bridges with the Republicans, and I'm telling you, that is going to get you nowhere. Look, The US is going to need foreign investment over the next few years. The actual great reset is this, America needs to try to become a manufacturing economy again. Trump's tariff plan is precisely for this purpose, to try to force American companies to onshore production.

That's gonna come with a lot of repercussions. Inflation will rise, the value of the dollar will decline, more countries are gonna de dollarize, wages will decline, the money supply will be reduced, and the economy is going to need injections of capital from overseas. So industrial properties, commercial real estate, emerging suburban areas, warehousing, logistic facilities, storage facilities, and so on, not to mention, factories. All of these things, all of these properties could be incredibly attractive to international Muslim investors. So Muslim communities in America should be the main port of call for these types of investors.

You should be brokers, get connected because the more isolated America becomes, the more power you will have by being connected to the global ummah. Then you won't have to care one way or the other who wins an election because you won't be dependent, your power won't be dependent on anyone except for your own community.