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@PureGym
- I have just cancelled my membership, I know of many others cancelling their membership today and many who will be cancelling and boycotting once word spreads.
Palestinians have done everything to appeal to your humanity. Children did press conferences asking to live. Doctors did press conferences surrounded by body bags.
Journalists showed countless mangled bodies and the best you can do is call for a “humanitarian pause”?
Alhamdulilah, after 7 years I’ve passed my final exams and got my hospital job! Considering the health issues I’ve had due to the toll of fighting racism and islamophobia during this degree and struggled with personal trials I’m blessed to finally be Dr Ayo Olatunji MBBS BSc 💪🏾
I’ll never forget my first Ramadan and no one told me how to eat for suhoor (😒) and I ended up having fried chicken + chips with a fizzy drink 10mins before fajr. Best believe 10mins after fajr I was licking my lips and trying to use my own saliva for moisture and hydration 😂.
So on Monday evening, my wife was brought to
@uclh
hospital by an ambulance after an NHS 111 referral and was left for 2 hours with 10/10 abdominal pain that was so bad she was gasping for her breath and rolling around.
Whilst Muslims do “hijrah” to Dubai/UAE mostly for financial gains, the UAE is funding the starving and killing of our Sudanese brothers & sisters. “It’s nothing to do with us” -you can’t migrate to another country in this way and ignore injustices happening right in front of you
I don’t think it’s possible to put into words how evil & corrupt you have to be to destroy healthcare facilities for a community that is already so vulnerable and run down. At this point everyone who chooses to turn a blind eye to what Israel does is complicit and enables this.
As an alumnus you disgust me UCL.
Still no statements of acknowledgement or remembrance for Dr Refaat Alareer your alumnus, his family and Palestinians as a whole.
The message you send out is non-white lives aren’t worth commemorating. Done like true eugenicists.
UCL is shocked and saddened by the tragedy which happened at
@unikarlova
in Prague, one of
@UCLSSEES
closest partners.
We offer our deepest condolences to everyone within the Charles University community.
Our thoughts are with all those affected.
My family and I have been treated disgustingly by NHS staff this evening. There are so many cases of Black/PoC and/or Muslim patients being treated like animals, or as subhuman and being neglected by so called “healthcare professionals”.
Malcolm X converted to orthodox Sunni Islam after constant reflection, journeying & seeking truth & justice.
We should remember that he was assassinated 58yrs ago today, due to challenging the authority of Nation of Islam Leader - Elijah Muhammad, who exploited vulnerable women
Any PoC + Black students who don’t get the
#AlevelResults
you wanted and still want to do medicine send me a DM if you need a confidence boost and a rough plan of other routes into med. I’ve done this with dozens of students so I’m experienced. And please don’t despair!
Why have you posted this shortly after being accused of leveraging your social media dawah status & reputation to prey on vulnerable single mothers by trying to get them to agree to temporary secret marriages to satisfy your sexual urges?
The sister in question has proof as well
Structural Islamophobia dressed up as “robust yet respectful secularism”
A Muslim pupil taking 5mins out to pray on their break is not divisive or “identity politics”
The idea of a Muslim pupils practicing the basic tenets of their faith is what bothers those like Katharine
Been seeing a lot of Muslim women speak about how they’re getting worse PMS during Ramadan. There’s a study published on how fasting as well as stress + lifestyle changes can change your cycle and the intensity of symptoms + pain during and around your period.
Why do Muslim orgs and mosques feel the need to drop statements of bootlicking commemorations for an active symbol of slavery, imperialism and genocide? And no she wasn’t apolitical, please stop that talk.
Red pill Muslim grifters will have you thinking that exploiting and disparaging Muslim women is a central tenet of Islam.
And that defending and protecting women is antithetical to Islam and masculinity.
Stop falling for this and absorbing this.
A lot of dolled up, attention-hungry, masculine mutabarrajas think they can 'expose' good men
Then you get the ogre-looking brown pickme boys agreeing
But respect and honour is bestowed by Him.
If your heart and intentions are clean, then the haqq will prevail.
Always verify.
Alhamdulilah passed my 5th medicine year exams! I don’t usually tweet this stuff but it’s been an extremely difficult year, literally got more and more burnt out as the weeks passed. I moved rooms/accom 6 times in 7months and yeah it’s just been long but final year here I come 💪🏿
@TheSunnahGuy
Abu Hurairah narrated The Prophet [SAW] said: "The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the people are safe…”
If youre really the “sunnah” guy youd be following the above & would know insulting half the population (women) saying they age like “milk” is unacceptable
Muslims who attended the Iftar event with MPs in the same Parliament that has been supporting genocide for the last few months, smiling in photo ops and then posting it on here - you have no shame. The message is clear Palestinian bloodshed means less than your careerism.
TW: rape
“Am I a bad person? Because the more you didn’t like it, the more I enjoyed it. I fucking loved how much you hated it. It turned me on. Why am I like that? Why?” - AT.
The Muslims that continue to defend AT despite the above and much more are morally corrupt.
Andrew Tate texted a woman "I love raping you" and described strangling her in an audio she shared with UK police. The police told her there was "an ounce of doubt" that prevented them from prosecuting him.
Let’s translate our frustrations into actions to hold
@JuliaHB1
accountable for her abhorrent racism and Islamophobia, people like her think they’re untouchable. Send an official complaint on the link below.
This is draconian, fascist and racist policing, people are coming to march against the genocide of Palestinians and you are threatening them with arrest if they don’t march the way you want them march? What an embarrassing and pathetic organisation.
@alaztekiyyah
If the pregnant woman has gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension/pre eclampsia, hyperemesis or some other health issues on top of the pregnancy, fasting would likely not be in their best interest esp with having to take critical meds. Just thought I’d add that context!
This crosses my mind often. Palestinian doctors showed outward support for striking junior doctors and improvement in UK health provision. However, UK medical/healthcare orgs have ignored or been “neutral” on the genocide of Palestinians in order to appease Zionists. Shameful.
Some advice great advice I was told in a Ramadan circle a couple of years ago. “If you’re overwhelmed during Ramadan due to many personal difficulties, don’t set yourself lofty goals you can’t reach set standards you do not fall below”.
Will be cancelling my
@PureGym
membership ASAP!
I won’t be giving money to a company run by CEO who essentially says we should be supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Israel isn’t defending itself, it is committing genocide. What even was the need for him to say this?
“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
In my 6 years involved in the student movement as a BME students officer, working in the NUS & as a VP of student affairs in the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, I’ve seen countless Black, Brown & Muslim students smeared & maligned under the guise of fighting antisemitism
As a convert I will never understand why we follow another country for moon sightings when we can do it here, to avoid all of this confusion and disunity. Anyways it is what it is.
Over 330 (& counting) UK healthcare professionals have signed an open letter in response to the Israel statement by
@DHSCgovuk
in light of the humanitarian crises afflicting Palestinians & Israel’s targeting of healthcare staff. Full statement + link to sign is in the thread ⬇️
Some of you need to think twice before the next time you quote Malcom X, a man who stood up for women against the most revered figure in his community/movement to the point it cost him his life. That is his legacy.
This is highly irresponsible, there’s an overwhelming amount of rape + sexual abuse allegations levelled at Fatih, meaning he poses a very serious risk to women. This isn’t about cancel culture/not having husn al dhan, it’s about protecting the vulnerable and not being spineless
We will definitely be putting in a formal complaint, and will be following this up, it is imperative we do so. However we felt it was important this was shared to that it is known that institutional racism and Islamophobia is alive and well in the NHS.
People are very quick to protect zionists and their racist settler colonial project and ideology but when Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed, beaten, pushed out of their homes and killed it’s either “there’s two sides to this!” or silence.
Things must change. Also I have most of this on video, including the nurse saying she did not believe my wife and also have the part where I was forcibly removed on video/audio and this will be used as evidence.
Hadn’t taken the shahadah yet, but when I first listened to and read Surah Baqara and the only way I can describe it was that the Surah pierced my soul like an arrow and just connected with me. And then it was like well I guess I’m going to be Muslim then 🤷🏾♂️
So as a doctor and paediatrician youre saying a ceasefire - the stopping of chemical attacks & continuous bombing of Palestinians inc children (2700+ children killed), is unconscionable? Yeah you shouldn’t be allowed to treat any child. Your words facilitate genocide
@RCPCHtweets
A ceasefire is a win for Hamas. You can dress it up however you like, but it's a fact
That doesn't mean aid shouldn't get to those in need and doesn't abrogate the responsibility of Israel to prosecute the war in accordance with applicable laws, but a ceasefire is unconscionable
Let’s be clear, everyone using vague language to describe the racist Zionist oppression of Palestinians, know it isn’t about “two sides”, they know it’s not a “conflict”, they know it’s not about “clashes”, they just want to protect their own selfish interests.
My wife is a Black visibly Muslim woman. There are various studies showing how Black women are perceived to have higher thresholds and are simply just left to deal with their pain, as “they can handle it”.
A lot of respect for Kwajo but its unwise to rehabilitate Gove’s image like this considering his voting and policymaking record. This is what he should be judged on instead of centring his political record on interactions and promises made to an individual.
People will have their own views on Michael Gove but I think it’s fair to give you an idea of what he’d been doing behind the scenes for Housing over the last few months to demonstrate how serious this decision really is by BJ🧵
The question is what do we do when the teachers are racist or discriminatory? This needs to be taken into account because many teachers downgrade PoC and Black students, putting limits on their potential because they aren’t one their “star pupils”.
I was treated like a criminal and treated like an aggressor, both racist stereotypes I as a black Muslim man constantly have reinforced on me, despite this being the very hospital I do my placements at and despite it being the very hospital I worked during the second wave.
Muslims discrediting VICEs journalism & accuracy now a voicenote came out of AT boasting about rape should also discount VICE’s documentary on the Uyghur Muslims then - they were one of the first & only media outlets taking Uyghur oppression seriously whilst others denied it
A reminder that Chris Kaba was a Muslim and he was in the process of a spiritual transformation before the police assassinated him. They cut his journey short. May Allah grant him the highest levels of paradise.
Some of these students have also been running hateful election campaigns full of Islamophobia against Muslims on university campuses and a lot of Students Unions and Universities have done nothing about it
With Ramadan 2 weeks away please reach out to reverts and Muslims who are living alone for in person iftars if you can. Restrictions aren’t as tight this year and last Ramadan without having the community would have taken its toll. InshaAllah this Ramadan is better than the last.
اللهمَ اجْعَلْنِى خَيْرًا مِمَّا يَظُنُّونَ وَاغْفِرْ لِى مَا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ وَلَا تُؤَاخِذْنِى بِمَا يَقُولُون
O Allah, make me better than what they think of me, and forgive me for what they do not know about me, and do not take me to account for what they say about me
As a doctor working in a dementia ward (and have been assaulted multiple times by patients) I fully agree with this thread. Dementia is not an easy disease to manage within patients, many families badly want their loved ones at home but it just isn’t safe.
Sunak isnt Muslim. He has brown skin and is of south Asian descent. How is he living proof Islamophobia isnt a problem within the Tories? This is the issue with a definition of Islamophobia that primarily centres racism. Being “brown”/south Asian is seen as synonymous with Muslim
Bridget Phillipson, "The comments from Lee Anderson were racist, Islamophobic, they were highly offensive, it's completely unacceptable"
Kay Burley, "Isn't Rishi Sunak living proof that the party does not have a problem with Islamophobia?"
BP, "We want to see a diverse society.
Muslim women are seen as oppressed, weak and insignificant. And that she was treated as if she insignificant and subhuman and not deserving of care. She is now traumatised and does not want to set a foot back into UCLH.
Whether you’re a patient, doctor, healthcare worker or medical student you will experience it. In the case of patients, this can deter them from accessing care for serious and life threatening conditions and ultimately it can kill.
.
@ucl
do you plan to say or do anything about the killing of your Palestinian alumnus Refaat Alareer by Israel? Especially considering the institution’s relationship with eugenics, which has heavily contributed ideologically to Israel’s dehumanisation and genocide of Palestinians
Late graduation post (as I got covid after the ceremony)
Alhamdulilah x100
May Allah bless all the friends, family and loved ones (esp my wife (this degree is for both of us)) for helping me get through this ordeal 😂
1st day on the job tomorrow as Dr Ayo Olatunji MBBS BSc 💪🏿
There are countless stories of Black, PoC and Muslim patients going through experiences like this. Being reduced to racist and islamophobic stereotypes. And being ignored, neglected, or profiled.
As a doctor working in obstetrics, postpartum bleeding is generally straightforward to manage with attentive well resourced care. Israel has deprived Palestinian mothers of that leaving removal of their uterus as the only way to stop the bleeding -theyll never have children again
“Some women experience postpartum bleeding and we can’t manage it… we’ve preformed hysterectomies on women who could have been saved. But to save blood, we’ve made the decision to remove uterus to increase the chances of not losing the patient.”
#Gaza
Let us be clear.
@ShaimaDallali
has endured a coordinated political lynching by the racist and islamophobic Zionist lobby and
@nusuk
board and its officers stood by and enabled this. Disgusting.
The 232 MPs who abstained. We see you, you cannot hide, an abstention is as good as a vote against a ceasefire. You voted to protect your career instead of lives and now many like myself will work tirelessly to end your careers as MPs at the next GE. You reap what you sow.
Whilst we stood in congregation and prayed, duas were made for Palestine meanwhile the same mosque held shares in a weapons company that was facilitating the murder of the same Palestinians that dua was being made for
The mosque has blood on their hands
Absolutely despicable
Now that London Central mosque is giving statements, do they want to also let us know why they have shares in BAE systems who are arming Israel during the genocide in Gaza?
InshaAllah I’m able to be an attentive and caring doctor who is of benefit to patients. InshaAllah I am able to bring benefit to the communities I come from and represent. And may Allah reward all of those who helped me get here whether their efforts were big or small. Ameen.
A quick online search proves that
@ucl
Provost Michael Spence’s statement that “we do not issue statements about alumni deaths” is an outright lie and that exceptions can and have been made.
UCL President and Provost, Michael Spence, responded to my email saying they cannot issue a statement regarding Refaat’s death. What else is there to say?
Doing this today with LSE ISOC and did a similar talk with Kings ISOC on Friday. It’s positive to see the growing uptake on talks like this and iA more ISOCs and Muslim orgs follow suit.
She was then asked to change into a gown. These gowns expose the backside and as a hijab wearing Muslim woman she did not want her backside exposed. She asked nurses for alternatives and was told that she was “being difficult and creating a fuss/trouble”
During this whole time other healthcare workers including doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, watched (some of them gleefully as it was drama to them), walked by and did nothing, or pretended they hadn’t seen anything. No leadership or accountability from anyone. Disgusting.
Being a Black Muslim during Black History Month is an odd experience. It definitely feels like we are sidelined when it comes to discourses/events on Black History + Black experiences, when in reality Black Muslims and Islam have been intrinsic to the formation of Black identity
For context I am a medical student who has been on placement at UCLH and I have also worked as staff at UCLH during the second wave so I could have easily walked into the emergency dept and flouted the rules but
The metropolitan police need to be held accountable for their failings on Richard’s case and the way his mother was treated with utter contempt. The institutional racism displayed here utilises bureaucracy and “process” to cover the fact that they just did not care.
Black History Month is coming up and I’ll be running a workshop about how to effectively challenge anti-blackness in Muslim communities. I’ve ran this workshop several times so if your ISOC, org or group wants to host this please contact me via DM or email ayo22
@doctors
.org.uk
People need to stop going to african countries under the guise of charity to exploit and abuse orphans and other vulnerable children. It’s too commonplace. And people airing this out publicly shouldn’t be seen as dragging, its accountability.
Your police force have killed, maimed and traumatised Black people for decades refusing to change. The Met is institutionally racist and now you want to act as bastions against racism by criminalising and doxxing a British Asian teacher holding a harmless sign. You are hypocrites
Yesterday a woman attended a police station, after a picture on social media showed a placard depicting two politicians as coconuts.
The 36-year-old was interviewed under caution on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.
Thank you to all who have assisted.
In order to keep her company I stayed on the phone with her as she was crying with pain and I listened as she called out to nurses passing by and she was told repeatedly to wait and was continuously dismissed and was also shouted at
I even acknowledged that I understand everyone must be stressed due to the pandemic. I am also stressed but this does not warrant treating patients as punching bags for your frustration. Nothing ever warrants that.
Got 4hrs of exams tomorrow to finish this year off with, and it’s probably been the most stressful year of Med school and I’ve reached new levels of burn out so (my peers and) I would really appreciate your prayers.
My wife replied that she had been shouted at by one of the nurses and had not received any pain relief since she had been here. The head nurse replied “I don’t believe my colleague would have done that” - essentially saying that it never happened.
My questions were not answered and then the nurse went further to imply my wife was lying about the cannulation attempts saying she could only see 2 plasters on her hands so 5 attempts did not happen. Gaslighting and nitpicking at the details.
The nurse replied hands on hips “well 45mins is not a long time for us so you will just have to deal with that”. We were dumbfounded! Where was the apology where was the accountability? I asked her if you were in the patients position would accept such a reply?
Something I was told the other day which has stuck with me in regard to how so many people can see all these dead Palestinians murdered in horrific ways by Isreal and feel indifferent or that it is justified - “we live amongst monsters”. And that’s the only way to explain it.
At this point someone made a call to security. I asked repeatedly why this was being done and it was made to seem that I had barged my way in here and was being disruptive and aggressive. Despite the fact I hadn’t shouted at anyone, I hadn’t insulted anyone, I didnt abuse anyone.
Why are these patrols necessary? Which parts of London are being patrolled? And when it comes down to it who are the communities that are going to be “reassured”. Considering the Met’s racist and oppressive past and present it’s not Palestinian communities that’ll be reassured.
Also bear in mind she was not just waiting in the waiting room, she had been brought in by an ambulance and was had been admitted into the actual emergency department!
I’m going to write a proper thread on this at some point during the week. But tonight was another reminder as to how institutional racism and islamophobia in healthcare kills and traumatises.
Getting one of your Black officers to plead that we don’t march on armistice day for literal a armistice to stop a racist genocidal regime, is underhanded and pathetic. Especially when looking at the Met’s racist history of brutalising, traumatising and killing Black people.
I could hear her apologising and saying I know I’m causing your trouble but please could I get another gown to cover my back too, it was only until she begged that this was done.
The ambulance had tried to cannulate her whilst in the van 3 times and this left bruises and caused further panic and so she had this on top of her abdo pain. Her blood pressure was also very low and she was very dehydrated.
We cant keep overlooking David Miller’s views on Syria because he is outspoken on zionism and Islamophobia. Asking Syrians to just get over the slaughter of 100,000s of their people is abhorrent and inexcusable.
It’s crucial that all those with links to him do challenge this.
I’m so sorry but the reality is that in Syria it wasn’t Zionists who killed a million Syrians it was Assad, Iran & Russia therefore, Syrian’s main enemy is Assad, Iran & Russia.
Simple.
“Get over it” قال
Our murdered, disappeared & displaced family makes it difficult to “get
Eid Mubarak, may Allah accept our fasts and forgive our shortcomings.
May the hearts of those who lost loved ones in the last year be soothed.
May the Palestinians, Uyghurs, Rohingya, Yemenis, Kashmiris, Black communities and oppressed people all over the world be granted justice
Muslims should be careful of those in our communities that wear the OBE, CBE, MBE etc labels with pride, often these people are found within groups that participate in harmful political behaviour.
You don’t get “British Empire” added to your name without somehow serving it.
Short term we need to drastically increase support + donations for UK charity initiatives for those in poverty whilst continuing international efforts. Long term we need more robust campaigns against the structural issues + oppression that has brought UK Muslims to this position
We need to keep being clear that those who are still against a ceasefire are green lighting the continuation of this.
There’s no nuance or justification in saying no to a ceasefire.
45mins from arrival, whilst trying to comfort her on the phone, I heard her dismissed by nurses 3 times as she was told to wait and in that time period a nurse also walked off mid conversation whilst she was asking for pain relief.
Same said nurse also shouted at her and stormed off when she asked for painkillers again after waiting for 2hrs for them. This again increased the panic and distress she was in as those who were supposed to be caring for her belittled her, intimidated her and ignored her.
1hr 30mins in and still no pain relief - not even a paracetamol was offered. I had been on the phone this whole time and was listening to her in excruciating pain.
Again, no apology, no accountability, no signposting to complaints processes and still no pain relief!!!! I then asked why no pain relief had been administered, the answer was “because our protocol says we can’t offer pain relief until we’ve run some investigations”
What gives David Lammy, Keir Starmer and the rest of these politicians the right to say the “time has come” for a ceasefire. Have enough Palestinians been slaughtered now? Was there a massacre threshold that needed to be reached? - We must mobilise against them for the next GE.
The UN Security Council is voting once again.
Labour wants a resolution to pass.
To protect civilians.
To demand hostages are released.
To act as a stepping stone towards a sustainable ceasefire.
And to renew impetus towards a two-state solution.
The time has come.
The same Malcolm X that had his life taken from him because he protected and advocated for vulnerable women who had been taken advantage of by the head of the Nation of Islam. Your page does the direct opposite and is full of filth. Keep his name out of your stinking mouths.
I asked further, “what protocol? What investigations? You can’t even give a paracetamol? No co-codamol? You can’t give anything? And if this was the case why did no one explain this to her and why did nurses keep storming off?!”
I chose not to out of respect for the rules and did not want to throw my weight around. I also spoke to a doctor about what was happening and he said he would sort it out and give pain relief.
This is the same healthcare service I will end up working for. There is a real arrogance, spinelessness and soullessness in “healthcare professionals” such as these. So many of us have stories and experiences of our health being neglected and ignored it has to change.
@ShahinRahmanUK
If you believe this is a normal and acceptable thing to say in the context of sexual abuse/violence then you shouldn’t be an imam anymore. Despicable comment.