Hajisatoshi

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The Digital Muhajir

That shift in mindset changes the kind of Muslim that we need to be calling for. The enshittified subscription economy has trained people to live as tenants in every part of life. They rent access instead of actually owning, and they install (if they are allowed to), mindlessly scroll, pay with Riba based credit, and consume without ever asking what the system is doing in the background, who controls it, what is being extracted from them, or how quickly their access can be revoked. That is the current predicament we find ourselves in.

Digital Hijra requires a break from that passivity. It asks the Muslim to stop thinking like a consumer of permissioned platforms and start thinking like a custodian of the tools he relies on. Again, that does not mean everyone must become a super developer or github power user. It means that one should want, at a minimum, a greater degree of responsibility, intelligibility, and control over the systems that mediate one’s life. A Muslim should want digital property to be more like property in the physical world, where it is something he can actually possess and take responsibility for, not something he merely accesses on borrowed terms.

The Digital Muhajir

That shift in mindset changes the kind of Muslim that we need to be calling for. The enshittified subscription economy has trained people to live as tenants in every part of life. They rent access instead of actually owning, and they install (if they are allowed to), mindlessly scroll, pay with Riba based credit, and consume without ever asking what the system is doing in the background, who controls it, what is being extracted from them, or how quickly their access can be revoked. That is the current predicament we find ourselves in.

Digital Hijra requires a break from that passivity. It asks the Muslim to stop thinking like a consumer of permissioned platforms and start thinking like a custodian of the tools he relies on. Again, that does not mean everyone must become a super developer or github power user. It means that one should want, at a minimum, a greater degree of responsibility, intelligibility, and control over the systems that mediate one’s life. A Muslim should want digital property to be more like property in the physical world, where it is something he can actually possess and take responsibility for, not something he merely accesses on borrowed terms.

That shift in mindset changes the kind of Muslim that we need to be calling for. The enshittified subscription economy has trained people to live as tenants in every part of life. They rent access instead of actually owning, and they install (if they are allowed to), mindlessly scroll, pay with Riba based credit, and consume without ever asking what the system is doing in the background, who controls it, what is being extracted from them, or how quickly their access can be revoked. That is the current predicament we find ourselves in.

That shift in mindset changes the kind of Muslim that we need to be calling for. The enshittified subscription economy has trained people to live as tenants in every part of life. They rent access instead of actually owning, and they install (if they are allowed to), mindlessly scroll, pay with Riba based credit, and consume without ever asking what the system is doing in the background, who controls it, what is being extracted from them, or how quickly their access can be revoked. That is the current predicament we find ourselves in.