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Bashir is a "sincere" Muslim, but he follows a contemporary Islamic movement called "Islamic Neo-Traditionalism" by mentioning saif.systems. The easier way to describe them is that they're devout conservative Sufi muslims who oppose Progressive Islam that supports LGBT and liberalism, but also oppose Salafism and Islamism, which they consider backward and lacking in spirituality and aesthetics. Western traditionalists and conservatives are attracted to them because they represent the Orientalist view of Islam before the 1970s Islamic Revival: conservative, traditional, and importantly, not rebellious, political, & have vitriolic hatred of the West like Islamists. Popular figures for this movement are Timothy Winter and Hamza Yusuf. On the internet, these same people are also shilling SAIF, which is an attempt for them to get in the good graces of the terminally online right-wingers, especially the esoterist and accelerationist ones.I think Bashir might be a barely concealed narcissist. I'm not trying to be an armchair psychologist and I could be wrong, but if you watch him closely, he seems to tick all the boxes of a controlling narcissist. I used to think the muslim shit was just an elaborate bit, because he keeps doing haram shit and having very poor knowledge of his own religion. However now I think he's just using being a muslim as an avenue to feed his narcissism with; getting attention and having authority etc. If you watch how he interacts with everybody it seems cut and dried. This dude will not last a week without having a huge meltdown once people catch on to this, this type of person can't handle their inner workings being exposed.
Basically, Bashir is a muslim version of the chronically online trad-Cath LARPer.
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