ESSAY 6 — APPLIED HISTORY:
Sultan Abdulhamid II rejected Herzl's 1897 offer: Palestinian land in exchange for Ottoman debt relief.
He saw clearly. But structural forces were already moving against him.
What prophetic texts illuminate about the Ottoman collapse — and the Arab Spring.
Essay 6. 🔗
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Eight Analytical Essays — Volume II: Islamic Hermeneutics, Eschatology & Ethics of Transition (Essays 5–8), A rigorous Islamic scholarly framework for reading signs, history, and eschatology — and living with integrity during civilizational transition.
Bahrain facing problems. There are significant riots going on. Throwing Molotovs at cops and such. Bahrain is a 3/4 Shia population ruled over by a Sunni king and his minority tribal network. Some of you may remember the "Arab Spring" -- back then, they begged the Saudis for a
For sure, #Iran's current government is dangerous. They have killed thousands of their own citizens who #protest their policies. They attack neighbors and support #terrorism.
But Iran was already in its weakest state in decades. A few years ago we had a multilateral #nuclear control agreement with strong enforcement until the current #USA president abrogated the treaty.
With allies we could negotiate and sanction Iran's leader into oblivion. (Remember #ArabSpring?) We don't need a #war.
"When Twitter was still the “town square” and Facebook a humble “social network”, progressives had an advantage: from the #ArabSpring to #Occupy, voices excluded from mainstream media and politics could leverage online social networks and turn them into real-life ones, which at their most potent became protests that toppled regimes and held capitalism to account. The scattered masses became a networked collective, empowered to rise up against the powerful."
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