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My book cover is finally here!!!
British Bangladesh Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language
Cover done by the talented by Waheeda Rahman-Mair
Pre-order is now available:
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Very very courageous and brave of Indian Muslims gathering in these large numbers to protest for the liberation of Palestine while fighting the ongoing Islamophobia in India. Beautiful solidarity ♥️
🚨𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Muslims gathered for Gaza in the Kerala region of
#India
.
🇵🇸🇮🇳
#Gaza
#Hamas
#Palestine
#Israel
#Gazabombing
#starlinkforgaza
#غزة_الآن
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No idea why PureGym is even on this panel but it’s time to boycott them. Cancel your memberships. Tell your friends and family.
“We should support… the Israeli government in being able to defend themselves”
CEO of PureGym Humphrey Cobbold says Palestinian people “deserve more protection than they are getting” but to remember Hamas are a “prescribed terrorist organisation”
#bbcqt
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That video of Starmer talking about deporting Bangladeshis is going viral in many group chats. His own ward, Holborn and St Pancras, has a significant Bengali community. In Camden it’s at 6.8%. I need you all to come out and teach him a lesson: don’t vote Labour.
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I’m astounded at how little coverage there is of what is unfolding in Leicester.
Just a small minority of Hindu extremists in
#Leicester
who are causing trouble & taunting the Muslims did u say? They’re out in their hundreds then play victim online afterwards. The police told Muslims it was all under control but clearly NOT! This is the reality on the ground.
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What’s the first sign that your area is being gentrified?
I’ll go first!
It’s when cafes/restaurants start popping up and they do not serve halal meat even when there is a significant Muslim community in that area.
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I felt terrified for Muslims in Southport yday. No one can *ever* tell Muslims that our fears are just a figment of our imagination. Islamophobia has always been facilitated by politicians’ dog-whistle politics who’re never held accountable.
Sunrise in Southport. A scene of devastation surrounding the mosque on St Luke’s Road after an angry mob attacked police last night. Bricks, bottles, fireworks sit alongside bits of a burnt out police vehicle - metal melted in the heat.
@GMB
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After the UK, Italy has the largest Bengali community in Europe. Seeing the result of the elections makes me worried for what could happen to them. I know many migrated to the UK and this is most visible via the Italian-Bengali cafes dotted around East London.
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You know what’s really infuriating me w/ this last min lockdown rule for people (ie Muslims) up North is not only seeing the use of racially-coded lang but also these blatantly racialised images of, mostly women, in hijabs, niqabs, shalwar kameezes,etc. The utter incompetence smh
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Our masjids in Luton (and elsewhere) need to hold AGMs asap and agree to NEVER allow a single councillor or MP back into our masjids. They take you all for granted. They grovel for your votes but will never represent your political outlooks.
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That very specific patronising and condescending tone of voice is all too familiar.
Multiple failures by West Midlands Police officers "materially contributed" to the deaths of a woman and her mother, an inquest found.
Raneem Oudeh made a desperate 999 call before being murdered by her estranged husband
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The posturing, the aggression & the classic attempt to use the Muslim woman’s body as the site to conduct a litmus test ON Muslims to measure how ‘progressive’ we really are is getting tiresome. There was abs no need for the aggression and she clearly did 0 research. 🗑🗑🗑
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Finding it disingenuous how people are interpreting the events unfolding in Leicester as Pakistanis (read:Muslims) vs Indians (read:Hindus) when it is home to the largest Indian Muslim community in Britain.
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Really concerned about how schools are aggressively responding to young (mostly) Muslim students for their solidarity w/ Palestine. This is possible because this is the purpose of Prevent: to quash dissent by EVERY legal means possible.
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Not the first time a Muslim man who has ‘liked my work’ turns around & reminds me I am not a hijab-wearing woman therefore should keep quiet. Another eg of how little regard there is for Muslim women all in the name of defending someone accused of rape & cse. Sigh.
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“Hamas-run”
The possibility of sympathising with Palestinians is mitigated by this qualifier. We aren’t supposed to see them as human, therefore sympathise, because they have been taken out of the human fold.
Appalling, appalling coverage.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun.
BREAKING: Hamas-run 🇵🇸 Palestinian health ministry says over 500 people have been killed in strike on the Baptist Hospital in Gaza
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I mean, let’s he honest here: it is also to do with a shared religion. From the pictures I remember of Bosnians on our screens, they too were blonde and blue-eyed but they were Muslim. This is how the process of racialising occurs, conjuring images of who is un/worthy.
@biryaniforone
@BBC
Here you go. I honestly shouldn’t be shocked but how did the presenter not even challenge this?
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Anyone else notice how highly gentrified areas like Brick Lane/Hoxton/Shoreditch/Spitalfields have all these quirky restaurants and cafes but they don't serve anything halal?
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One of the most well known and iconic Beigel shops on Brick Lane has been shut down and nobody knows why. It’s been there since 1855.
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I admire how the tradition of langar appears at protests. We saw it with the farmers protests in India too. Beautiful way to express solidarity ♥️
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The Manchester Airport clip has brought out some nasty racists. People telling on themselves and how utterly clueless they are about police brutality inflicted on the Asian community. This has been the case for decades but many people’s racial composition of such understandings..
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You know what’s a specific love language? Bengali aunties gifting you fruits and veg they have grown in their garden, wrapped neatly into a carrier bag. For eg, giving you lao (gourd), pumpkin, naga, etc. ♥️
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If anyone remembers the 2001 clashes in the northern towns, you’ll remember how the Hindu & Sikh communities’ orgs came out putting out similar statements to the one below. The desperation to not be associated w/ Muslims still continues.
And lols @ playing the model minority.
𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐔𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭
INSIGHT UK strongly objects to the use of the term "Asian" to describe the individuals involved in the recent Manchester airport incident.
The individuals in question were
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Because I expressed the view that calling someone a coconut is NOT racist, I am now being met with actual racism. And white people telling me what constitutes it.
Fyi, remember racism is also never about accuracy.
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Every time I hear white monolinguals expressing their ‘fears’ about not hearing English on the streets, I’m reminded of
@shailjapatel
’s poem from Migritude
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I'm convinced Biden incorporated every marginalised identity into his gov to use as a veneer for the state violence they're about to unleash. Their sheer presence means critique of policy will be seen as personal attacks - an inevitable consequence of 'representation politics'.
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And all those Bengali Labour politicians coming out yapping about the contributions made by the comm: you’re a part of the problem. No need to indulge the racism that is othering, by leaning on the very othering to humanise us. You all need to some serious political education.
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The number of videos I have seen like this from Liverpool and Sunderland where mosques and Muslims are being targeted is frightening. The entire media and political machinery is responsible for these unfolding scenes.
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Today, Shamima Begum’s citizenship appeal begins. The past few years we have seen some of the worst debates possible about her and disfiguring her into an imagined monster, making it easier to absolve the UK’s responsibility towards her.
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I went to Blank Street Coffee recently. After my visit, a friend informed me it’s a private equity vehicle owned by “Left Lane Capital, a Brooklyn based venture capital firm with investments across North America, Europe and Israel”
Time to boycott. Stop buying from there.
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My latest 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
“The BBC’s choice of that clip to promote the interview is also part of the problem; it taps into people’s fears of Muslims and Islam, how Muslims allegedly treat “their women”, and the constant association with backwardness.”
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Something very jarring & terrifying about having the very people who were w/in our grand/parents’ lifetime colonised, brutalised & humiliated, are now sitting in positions of power & authority determining the fate of asylum seekers who have every right to be in the UK. Shameful.
BREAKING NEWS: The Court of Appeal rules that the first deportation flight taking asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda can go ahead tomorrow.
Latest:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Let’s have a chat, Dave.
As has been explicitly noted in many pieces, we at the
#SaveBrickLane
campaign after organising on the ground for MONTHS can tell you we got over 7000+ objections submitted, collected 550+ signatures from LOCAL residents (majority of whom were Bengali)…
What if Bangladeshi east Londoners really like the new Truman Brewery scheme? What if the street's curry houses have long been in decline? What if anti-gentrification activists need to take a broader view?
@mrianleslie
@DAaronovitch
@sunny_hundal
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I am so excited to share that I have received my proofs for my upcoming book w/
@ManchesterUP
which’ll be published in the coming months!!! Got my 🖋️ready to go through the entire manuscript!
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Spent a week in Paris and was introduced to the ‘Whitechapel’, i.e. Bengali area, of Paris. It’s on Rue du Faubourg where you will find tons of Bengali shops, cafes, hair salons, money transfer/travel shops and restaurants! And a few tiny baskets operating as p/faan stands!
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If you ever find yourself in a class where you’re learning about dif argument/debating forms and come across strawman argument, then use this thread because it’s a perfect illustration of it.
But before you do, listen to the 8-part
#TrojanHorseAffair
podcast
@serial
The New York Times/Serial podcast The Trojan Horse Affair minimises child protection breaches, misogyny and homophobia to try to exonerate a man whose lifetime ban from education has been upheld by the courts.
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Code word: white children. This would obviously not include Shamima Begum.
"I don't think it's right to make political points with children."
Isabel Oakeshott says it's "absolutely grotesque" that a 15-year-old became the first person charged with an offence of "riot".
@IsabelOakeshott
|
@ThatAlexWoman
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Today marks 37 years since his murder
“Ahmed Iqbal Ullah was killed at the hands of a fellow school pupil in the playground of Burnage High School, Manchester, on 17 September 1986.
An inquiry concluded race was a key factor in the Bangladeshi's murder.”
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I’m so so very excited to announce that I was successful w/ my grant with the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust!!! Eeek! Will share further details re the project as it unfolds!
I’m thinking of applying for the Small Research Grant (£10k) with the British Academy. Anyone applied for it before? Do you have any tips/advice on the application process? What will make my application solid?
Would appreciate any help!
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicPublishing
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Imagine admitting you haven’t listened to the podcast yet you’re telling your audience to take it ‘with a pinch of salt’ based on inaccurate, straw man arguments by someone who ALSO hasn’t finished listening to the podcast. Aaah, the good old, fair British journalism, eh?
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We know this isn’t even about the abaya per se since they are targeting Muslim girls wearing wide legged trousers and oversized tops, long maxi dresses, and other loose outfits. At the very core, it’s simply about disguising salvation and coloniality behind ‘secularism’.
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Imagine seeing the vile racism and the first thing you think of as a counterargument is ‘but plz look at us, look at how much we have contributed 🫡👉🏾👈🏾🥺’
Pathetic.
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“Insurgency”, “sectarian politics”, “divisive” and so many other words used in the past few days to describe Muslims’ participation in politics is nothing short of dog-whistle politics.
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Palestine is exposing the sheer triviality of EDI. It was never embedded in anti-racism. It was simply cosplay. A cosplay for plastering racialised faces in places and then memorising the ‘right’ vocabulary. Our conversations on race need to urgently shift away from this framing.
***BIG ANNOUNCEMENT***
After lots of careful thought and consideration, I have decided that I will no longer be accepting any new bookings to keynote about Race & Equity. I have cancelled the vast majority of pre-booked events. I genuinely don’t believe I made a difference. 1/
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This is how Islamophobia is racialised. People are ASCRIBED Muslimness & it is coded onto specific bodies. Similar to the UK where the national imagination of who constitutes the Muslim is a S Asian even though there are Muslims from other backgrounds¬ all S Asians are Muslim.
Just a week after a 68-year-old Sikh was beaten to death, an elderly Sikh man has been attacked again in a New York hate crime.
Last weekend three men assaulted Lakhvir Singh (50) whilst he was stopped in traffic in Manhattan in his
@Uber
, telling him "go back to your country".
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I’m all for organising events & discussing the Partition, esp the 75th anniversary coming up this year. I just have one request: can people remember to include the Bengal? Otherwise, just state that you’re only interested in the Punjab side’s story only.
#Partitionat75
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The
#SaveBrickLane
coalition have been granted permission for Judicial Review by the High Court. The planning application will now be challenged at a hearing. We need your support to stop this development.
Please RT, share & donate whatever you can here:
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I am excited and delighted to share that my first book will be published this summer w/
@ManchesterUP
. It’s been 10+ years in the making. Huge thanks to my editor
@shannonkneis
and to Thomas Dark for commissioning it.
Can’t wait to share the book cover very soon!
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I can’t believe what I am reading. She has resigned. Omg. I never thought this was going to happen.
“Bangladesh Prime Minister resigns after deadly protests”
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This dubious and depoliticised representation logic is really the hill many are willing to die on & I just genuinely don’t get it. These pageants are toxic, regressive and participating in it while there’s ethnic cleansing going on outside is just pure 🗑🗑
It’s the representation for me 👑👏🏽
Congratulations to
@HarnaazSandhu03
for being crowned
#MissUniverse
2021!
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What concerns me is how this excellent performance does not translate to any meaningful material change? Brit-Bangladeshis are always the poorest demographic compared to any other group in most studies. Great to get the grades at GCSE level but then it remains stagnant.
Over the past two decades Bangladeshis in England have overtaken white Britons in their performance in the GCSE exams taken at age 16. No other ethnic group has improved as much
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Incredibly worrying developments
@LutonSixthForm
where the student council has been disbanded following a pro-Palestine demo org by students. A core demand is to cut ties w/ Leonardo locally who’re an arms company and have access to our schools/college in Luton.
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I honestly don’t know what it is about some South Asian groups in the UK who seem to be only invested in banal discussions around bhangra, our ‘culture’ in the most crudest of ways and a nod to Bollywood. There is no acuity of vision or imagination whatsoever.
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Well, if this isn’t relevant today. Enjoy it as much as I did!
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My naniji’s hand-stitched nakshi ketha/katha/kantha. This embroidered quilt is a common feature in many Bengali households and usually made by the women in the family over a period of months, even years ♥️
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Are there any good essays or papers on how some diaspora communities will advocate from a more left-leaning position while supporting more far-right policies/governments in their heritage country?
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I can’t imagine what it’s like to have ‘Jai Shri Ram’ being shouted at you from a mob of men wearing their saffron scarves but she is incredibly courageous. Kudos to her.
A lone Muslim girl on the way to her college in Karnataka, India is being heckled and harassed by a Hindu right-wing mob for wearing a hijab!
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Bangladeshi-Italians are the unseen victims of anti-migrant campaigners
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RESEARCH: A Case Study of Bangladeshis and Somalis in Tower Hamlets
Launching my new research project today! If you’re eligible to take part, then drop me an email on fatima.rajina
@dmu
.ac.uk
#AcademicTwitter
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Muslim women are treated like collateral damage by many, incl Muslim women. We raise very specific issues to do w/ Muslim men, the damage they’re causing, but apparently it ultimately boils down to women ‘emasculating’ men/boys, implying women are *still* responsible. Wild.
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I worked on this piece for a month now following the article by The Daily Tele**aph ‘tracking her down’ & showing photos of her in ‘western’ clothes. I’m working on a much longer piece about this and these are just some of my tentative thoughts.
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This is one of the most insane threads I have read! Highly unethical medical research was conducted on Punjabi women in the UK, causing them permanent health damage w/ zero consequences.
You can’t believe how kind the British are.
Every morning, a van pulls up outside your house in Coventry.
A friendly man brings you a freshly-baked flatbread to eat.
It’s just for you,not anyone else in your family.
Every afternoon he comes back to make sure you’ve eaten it.
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@meralhece
I’m not entirely sure you understand how patronising and dehumanising that tweet is. If you wanted to specifically reference *white* women, then that should have been added in.
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Been observing who has been commenting on this placard and it’s a lot of S Asian men (from what I’ve come across) who are bitter and resentful from times they were called it and are now equating it to being called a Pa*i. Have you all lost your fu**ing damn minds?!?!
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I so often see people invoking Malcolm X to project their ‘radical’ politics. Funny that. Those same men would NEVER do what he did. He left the NOI because EM abused women. Malcolm X stood by women, defended them and was hounded to his death because of this stance. Never forget.
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This interview really broke my heart. My parents have thick Bengali accents when they speak English & I’ve seen how people tried to belittle them & spoken down to until one of us siblings snatches that phone & we speak for them.
‘Eloquence’ isn’t a qualifier to access help.
Sending so much love and strength to Richard’s mum, Evidence - who has gone through what no parent should go through.
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Yawn.
The daughter of a south Indian immigrant, who eats idlis and dosas, just got sworn in as the vice-president of the United States.
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Sounds like racism was ‘THE’ factor here, not ‘A’ factor.
Met Police apologises to black schoolgirl, 15, who was stripsearched while menstruating after teachers smelt cannabis. In breach of guidelines, officers did not get appropriate adult to oversee + mother wasn't told. Review found that search was wrong + racism "likely a factor"
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The arrogance. The derision. It’s his mum who made living and working in Bangladesh unbearable. Going onto an Indian news channel and crying ‘they’re ungrateful’ is pathetic.
Former
#Bangladeshi
prime minister Sheikh Hasina's son
@sajeebwazed
to an Indian tv channel " We are tired of saving Bangladesh...Bangladesh is not our problem anymore and the people of Bangladesh are very very ungrateful...its their problem..not mine anymore"
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And Emma seems to have a deep dislike for women of colour because it was only just a few weeks ago she was exposed for her trash talk about
@kelechnekoff
.
Solidarity and love for
@ZaraM01
who handled herself w/ grace mA
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More on Italian-Bengalis in Tower Hamlets
“…but they are making their mark in the Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi community and beyond, opening coffee shops and forming their own welfare associations to help new arrivals.”
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I had one of the most insane conversations w/ a girlfriend this week. She told me how this random man slid into her DMs on ig, she blocked him and he decided to troll her but what he did was so wild.
So, a few hours pass and she gets around 25-30 friend requests.
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📣PUBLICATION DAY📣
The book is finally published!!!
Published today!
'British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The changing landscape of dress and language' by
@DrFRajina
📗
Draws on extensive interviews with the East End's British Bangladeshi Muslims to provide insights into how dress and language
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“Britain is pretty poor for a rich place. U.K. living standards & wages have fallen significantly behind those of Western Europe. By some measures, in fact,real wages in the U.K. are lower than they were 15 years ago, &will likely be even lower next year.”
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I have Brit Bengalis sharing how their baris (villages) are under water and how it’s their grand/parent (usually whoever’s the first to migrate to the UK) who built them, who sent the £. People’s whole life’s investment gone before their eyes.
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This year marks 30 years since the attempted murder of Quddus Ali in Tower Hamlets, East London, on 08.09.1993. He was walking down Commercial Road in Stepney, London, when eight white youths beat and kicked him into a four-month-long coma. He was left permanently brain damaged.
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This Sunday,
@nijjormanush
we have organised an impromptu rally and teach-in at Altab Ali Park at 2pm. If you want to learn more about what is unfolding in Bangladesh w/ the student movement, then come through!
#Bangladesh
#BangladeshStudentProtest
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We are witnessing an actual fetish developing here. Just look at the way she is spoken about in this thread, the juxtapositions and the use of proxies to reference her *finally* finding her ‘freedom’...🗑🗑🗑
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Shamima Begum seen in make-up and Western clothes as she seeks break with IS past.
Tracked down by the Telegraph, the one-time London schoolgirl declined to be interviewed, but agreed to pose for photographs.
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I have said it before about other areas where I spend most of my days. And by ‘anything halal’ I mean actual halal meat options.
Anyone else notice how highly gentrified areas like Brick Lane/Hoxton/Shoreditch/Spitalfields have all these quirky restaurants and cafes but they don't serve anything halal?
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People really should stop doing threads on the ‘Islamic/Muslim World’ but then proceed to cover Arabic-speaking countries only. Just stop.Acknowledge your knowledge gap, say you don’t know and are not interested in other Islamic/Muslim societies.
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So many Muslims sharing their alphabet announcements are actually shameless. What is there to celebrate about having empire attached to your name? Ashol khobis okhol.
Maybe learn a thing or two from Benjamin Zephaniah:
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There’ll be Islamophobia like this deployed by various media outlets, using overt and covert language. The Muslim will be framed as the menace, the one who continuously requires interventions because of their so-called “backward” ways.
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The existence of the R*yal F*mily is one of the remnants of colonial nostalgia persevering.
That institution needs to be abolished.
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A reference to the Italian-Bengalis settling in East London, adding a new layer to Tower Hamlets’ already dynamic and eclectic histories.
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Forgive & forget appears a few too many times in this piece. The war is still within people’s living memory, there’s been no process of reconciliation, no reparation, no apology. I’ve sat & interviewed Bengalis who shared their traumas from the war.
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I wrote a short piece on Leicester for
@newlinesmag
“The Islamophobic sentiments on Leicester’s streets, fuelled by more than 20 years of “War on Terror” discourse, have exposed a violent side of a community usually projected as the model minority.”
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I delivered a lecture today at London Met Uni on South Asian organising with a specific focus on Bengalis. Special thanks to
@sofiaakel
for making this happen. We also met the legend Leila Hassan-Howe and got to hear her stories on organising w/ the Race Today Collective.
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Other similar images used in the past few weeks to discuss Leicester’s lockdown.
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@sarahditum
You seem totally at ease with replying to white women but not the women of colour? Why is that? Why are you okay with enabling racism?
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I’m not entirely sure when or how this happened but my tl is littered w/ MT nonsense again about who cooks when, obligations, rights, curses. I call it nonsense because it takes out love, tenderness & gentleness from marriage and posits it as some bizarre transactional exchange.
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My chapter in this book touches on how activists from across London came together to defend the Bengali community from racism and, most importantly, from the police violence many were enduring. The solidarity bw dif groups was organic and did not function as a market exchange.
These marches and demonstrations erupted following Altab Ali's death. This photo is from the march down Brick Lane in 1978.
The below pic was taken by Paul Trevor. You can find more of his work here:
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What I’ve noticed w/ this is how there’s still a level of gentleness&humanising employed to discuss that ‘it will take time’. I’ve never seen this extended to non-white groups who’re expected to ‘know’ asap. Ofc we know why this is: Europe(ans) needs racism to make its own image.
"Too many Muslims, too many people with different skin colours."
Andrea, a host for the Homes for Ukraine scheme, tells
@darshnasoni
how "shocked" she was at how difficult a Ukrainian refugee found adjusting to ethnic diversity and cultural values in the UK.
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@Nadine_Writes
Of course they avoided the *whispers* the r word! Yes, it was offensive.
Yes, it was offensive. Yes, it was unacceptable. AND it was racist.
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And also this 7-layered tea from Srimongol, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Everyone I know that goes to Bangladesh, visiting this place in Sylhet becomes a must!
See here:
22/ Bangladeshi Tandoori Chai
It’s made by taking iron tongs to place an earthen cup in a hot tandoor. When the cup is super-hot, it’s taken out and sweet milky chai is poured in, which sizzles & froths over. This chai is poured into another kulhad & served.
#InternationalTeaDay
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This is a documentary about Bengalis in the 90s in Camden, w/ a focus on Drummond Street (referred to as the Brick Lane of Camden), and a stone throw away from the Shurma Centre. These communities are still there and live in Starmer’s ward. Boot him out.
A short documentary looking at the lives of young men of Bangladeshi descent, who live on and around the Drummond Street (NW1) area of Camden, London.
Drummond Street is referred to as the Brick Lane of Camden.
#CamdenBengalis
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