Who is surprised? Roderic isn’t, as far as this tweet goes. It’s just the mixing of idealistic reasoning with Marxist reasoning to try to bring people to Marxism from Islam. It’s a method that communists call opportunism and claim, because of materialist philosophy, can only lead to incorrect interpretations and failure of socialist movements. Palestinians have material and religious reasons to resist, but the marxist analysis should focus on the material and how religion connects, not the other way

I also feel like it was said with a level of tongue in cheek facetiousness. Pointing to HAMAS’ use of religion as an ideological underpinning, and then saying “I’m recommend a book on the subject” and the book is the fucking Quran is… Very obviously a bit about Hakim’s tendency to recommend obscure theory books.