^tbh the more I think about it his vision wasn't very clear. he just embraced his own version of singular Muslim (not Arab, an important difference) struggle w/o any regard to nuance or the internal differences and struggles of the Muslim world. hence such oddities as records dedicated to groups that hate each other (Hamas + Fatah, Iranian regime + Sunni militants, etc) possibly even more than Israel/The West. also - another irony - his view of Islam is very orientalist, just with romanticized jihad in the place of the traditional stereotypes, to the exclusion of nearly all other Muslim culture, not to mention theology. and he was anti-all opponents of any Islamic struggle, even struggles that many Muslims themselves would not support. these are views that I'd argue, even w/o into the question of anti-Semitism, do no favors to Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims, . having said all that, I wholly agree art is under no obligation to present a coherent vision, political, ethical or otherwise. I do find something particularly objectionable in a man fervently espousing a distorted version of causes he seems to have taken no time to truly understand, but that shouldn't bear on people liking his music. I like plenty of art while rejecting part or all of its politics. I just wanted to be clear that when people say "muslimgauze is just misunderstood" or he's being slandered, they're wrong.
undoubtedly he is an interesting character. I wonder what he would have made of Iraq - would he have dedicated records to both Zarqawi and Muqtada al-Sadr even as they dragged into it a vicious civil war? or Syria? of course we'll never know.