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The riots in Southport weren’t just caused by online misinformation campaigns, they were also fueled by the widespread prevalence of Islamophobia in mainstream society.
My latest for
@politico
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Never has genocidal intent and execution been so clear and yet Western leaders remain silent. They too are complicit.
Likud MP calls for Gaza to be 'erased from the face of the earth'
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A group of 4 men just tried to break into my house w/ a sledgehammer. It’s been almost 2 hrs since I called
@metpoliceuk
& not a single police officer has arrived. Do cops no longer care? Where are our taxes going? Where’s the accountability? No wonder criminals are running wild.
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"The professor said that he will not allow a student with a headscarf to attend the class, just as he would not allow a neo-Nazi wearing a swastika. He shouted at me, saying ‘you are an Islamofascist’, & that he will report me to the directorate."
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Islamophobia is central to the Hindu nationalist movement as it seeks to re-make India into a Hindu-only nation. Where does this leave the country's 200 million Muslims?
Is a genocide underway?
Read my latest for
@bridgeinit
:
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"The pictures only show 5% of what happened to us." No one was held accountable. This is what American "democracy" does. These are American values.
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Some of the most anti-Muslim content I've seen on here has been from accounts in India.
With Hindu nationalism's popularity and growth comes the mainstreaming and normalization of Islamophobia.
The genocide of Muslims in India is a dangerous reality:
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Eid Mubarak, everyone! May Allah accept all of our fasts and prayer.
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"I saw them take 14yr-old girls to 80yr-old women for interrogation. They would return w/ bruises on their bodies, their heads swollen. I feel like I'm in there right now, there in the cell. I will nvr forget this as long as I live. They destroyed my life"
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A review of
#Islamophobia
in 2020:
The
#COVID19
pandemic exacerbated Islamophobia around the globe. From
#India
to the U.K.,
#Muslims
were accused of spreading the virus & evading lockdown orders.
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[Thread] Throughout my research on
#Islamophobia
, one of the most common tactics by anti-Muslim figures is to smear politically active Muslims/Muslim orgs, who are critical of govt policy, as "
#Islamist
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Maybe if y’all retweet this enough, the
@metpoliceuk
will give a damn. I have heard others in the area who’ve been targeted in recent days. With the police virtually missing, I’m not surprised these criminals have zero fear.
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3 hours now since 4 men broke our front door with a sledgehammer & still no police on the scene. This is appalling. Literally been targeted, the attackers had a weapon, could have been seriously injured or killed, &
@metpoliceuk
doesn’t have a care in the world.
@BBCNews
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It is, perhaps, the 1st occasion in the history of independent
#India
tht a suspect facing terror charges has been asked to contest elections by the ruling party (
#BJP
) & has been endorsed by none other than the PM himself.
#IndianElections2019
@RanaAyyub
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MY GOD. These congressional representatives should be fucking ashamed of themselves. They are attacking Dr. Abu-Salha (whose 3 children were murdered by a
#Whitenationalist
), asking him if Islam teaches Muslims to hate Jews. This is despicable.
#hatecrimehearing
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I can't help but notice the prevalence of post-9/11 "war on terror" discourse being spewed by the
#BJP
.
Here they are calling an incredibly talented
#Muslim
journalist,
@RanaAyyub
, a "jihadi." An Islamized slur intended to equate her to
#terrorism
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9 hours later and still nothing from the
@metpoliceuk
. No one has contacted me to update me on anything. How do I file a complaint? How do we hold the authorities accountable? This is a joke.
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The language of defining
#Muslims
as "extremists" with an ideological predisposition to
#terrorism
, is used by the leaders of the 2 most populous countries in the world:
#India
and
#China
. The dangers of this cannot be underscored enough.
My latest:
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A supposed Muslim-led & Islam-centered media organization out here platforming views that defend an individual who publically calls for violence against women is beyond sickening.
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@MPIainDS
I’m within your constituency. What are you going to do to make us feel safe? It’s now been over two hours since the incident and still no person of authority has arrived at our home.
@metpoliceuk
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For those wanting a thorough overview of
#NarendraModi
's politics & his long history of fomenting anti-Muslim hatred in
#India
, check out this long profile by
@NewYorker
featuring an interview with the brilliant
@RanaAyyub
.
#Delhiviolence
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Can someone explain why I’m chasing the
@metpoliceuk
when my family and I have been the VICTIMS of a violent attack?
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#Myanmar
forces murdered at least 10,000
#Rohingya
. As a result of the ethnic cleansing, 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to
#Bangladesh
. Aid agencies hve documented 18,000 incidences of
#rape
. Where's the outrage from the intl community?
@cjwerleman
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“
#Islamophobia
has reached its peak in
#India
with the increasing rise of
#coronavirus
crisis. This is not just a primordial reaction of society, but a very well planned and finely executed political project.” -
@ashoswai
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We’ve approached four hours now and still nothing. Called
@metpoliceuk
again & they said there’s still no available units.
@BBCNews
@Channel4News
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I've been observing the rise of Hindu nationalism in India for the past couple of years & I'm afraid the situation is headed towards mass violence targeting the country's Muslims and other minority populations.
In the heart of Delhi, raising Nazi-style salutes, hundreds vow: “We all pledge, that until our last breath, we will make India a Hindu nation. We will fight and die and, if required, kill.” Fascism is risen in India, and the world turns blind eyes.
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Where most see crisis, others see an opportunity, & one that shouldn't go to waste. Demonising an already otherised cultural, religious or ethnic group remains a powerful weapon for those who profit from fear & uncertainty.
@cjwerleman
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They could have even caught these people if someone showed up fast enough. We have CCTV footage of the car (sadly can’t read the number plate) and can see which direction they drove off in.
@metpoliceuk
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The 2 BJP officials faced no action when their comments had first been flagged over a week ago by Muslims & activists in India.
Instead, there had been calls by BJP supporters for the arrest of the journalist who called out the anti-Muslim comments on SM
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Notice how he raves about killing Muslims overseas, like being a murderer is something to be proud of. Who taught him to hate? This is what white supremacy does. This is also why we must include imperialism & the “War on Terror” in our analysis of
#Islamophobia
today.
"God damn fucking Arabs, I've been killing their kind for two years. Actually, I've been killing his kind for almost 20 years!"
When Muslims aren't being profiled by police, they're attacked at their mosques, discriminated against in the workplace, and assaulted like this..
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.
@RanaAyyub
is a fearless & inspiring journalist who's investigative work includes a book, "Gujarat files," abt the 2002 massacre of Muslims in
#Gujarat
under
#Modi
. Here, she discusses the emotional toll of living in fear of assassination.
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A thread on
#prageru
, a right-wing org that pretends to be a university, producing animated videos pumping out right-wing propaganda and conspiracy theories.
Chances are you that you’ve come across
#PragerU
's 5 min animated videos promoting right-wing viewpoints on political &social issues. The lecture-style videos have been narrated by the whos-who of the RW incl. Ben Shapiro, Dinesh D’Souza, & Charlie Kirk.
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Deeply disturbing dvlpment coming from the far-right Austrian govt, as it releases a new "Islam map" showing the location of
#mosques
& associations around the country.
This is dangerous lvls of govt surveillance & marks the population as a threat
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"A few days after Paludan’s burning of the Qur'an, the Swedish authorities helped prevent a burning of the Torah outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm.
Does
#Islamophobia
explain the double standard?"
A very important rd by
@omarsuleiman504
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“Initially, they came for our dietary habits, now the azaan,”
@RanaAyyub
, an Indian Muslim journalist and author, told me. “Everyday you wake up and it’s like, ‘Okay, what part of our identity are you going to attack today?’”
Must rd by
@YasmeenSerhan
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In India, Twitter has banned accounts critical of the Govt at its request, particularly those that report anti-Muslim hate crimes.
This includes
@cjwerleman
,
@RanaAyyub
,
@M_A_Thakur
, &
@zoo_bear
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Adityanath’s talent for stoking communal polarization while hiding behind a market-friendly facade is right out of the
#Modi
playbook, & many see him as the leader who could carry the torch to establish Hindu supremacy in
#India
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@RanaAyyub
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@igotsour
also when your mom calls him asking him to pick up one cantaloupe & a bottle of milk, & he brings home 4 cantaloupes, 3 heads of lettuce, a box of mangoes, & 5 bottles of milk because he's a brown dad.
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#Quilliam
styled itself as a "think-tank" but served to only amplify & promote pseudo-science such as CVE & anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. It received millions from right-wing groups & worked with the state to criminalize Muslim communities
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Today, Indian Muslims face a dual-threat:
#COVID
&
#Islamophobia
.
Anti-
#Muslim
racism is a feature of
#Modi
's govt, whose supporters are accusing Muslims of spreading the virus, resulting in widespread discrimination & harassment.
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If Bollywood continues this aggressive descent into nationalism and hate, it will have blood on its hands. No box office record will be able to change that.
@RanaAyyub
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The US imprisoned 22
#Uyghurs
in
#Guantanamo
for years. All hve been released now but hve had to watch as China's propaganda organs have deployed their own existence, & claims made by Washington abt ETIM, as justification for Beijing's genocide of Uighurs
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Genocide isn't an event, it's a process. In India, the BJP-led Hindu nationalist govt is leading this process, with discriminatory policies criminalizing Muslim expression, promotion of conspiracy theories, & support for mass violence targeting Muslims.
#IndianMuslimGenocideAlert
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"I tried to fight him. 'Don't take my hijab,' you know? So he threw me on the floor then he beat me like an animal."
"He threw me on the floor then he beat me like an animal... I said to myself, "I am going to die today for sure"'
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[Thread] I research
#Islamophobia
for a living & I can honestly tell you that the views of the gunman in the
#ChristChurch
#mosqueattack
are not & should not be excused as some "fringe" ideology.
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Douglas Murray has supported the great replacement conspiracy theory, claiming that Muslims and PoC are taking over Europe.
He has a LONG trackrecord of Islamophobia, once stated: “conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board"
Regular BBC contributor Douglas Murray: 'If the army will not be sent in then the public will have to sort this out themselves and it'll be very brutal. I don't want them to live here. I don't want them here. They came under false pretences.'
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"Fascism has arrived in the US, but from an unlikely source – a growing segment of the Indian migrant community, specifically those who have become radicalised by the far-right, ultranationalist political ideology of Hindutva."
@cjwerleman
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The report essentially blames
#Muslims
for their own deaths, holding them responsible for the pogrom, despite the fact the attacks were coordinated against them by Hindu-nationalist individs, w/ the support of police in many instances.
@cjwerleman
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Eid Mubarak, everyone!
Wishing you all a beautiful day filled with love and peace.
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The warning signs of
#genocide
in
#India
are clear. If we are truly committed to the promise of ‘never again’, we must act now.
@cjwerleman
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Stop using Islam & Islamic terms as your reference for all things bad. Many Muslim scholars permit
#abortion
especially in cases of rape, incest, & where the mother's life is at risk. This ruling is all on those white Christian men in
#Alabama
. Stop bringing my faith into it.
In Alabama is it is now more illegal to be a woman who aborts a child of rape than to be the man who raped her.
#StandUpToChristianShariaLaw
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Someone I've followed and learned so much from is
@RanaAyyub
. She's used her column in
@washingtonpost
, her Twitter, & her substack newsletter, to bring the grave human rights crisis to the world’s attention:
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Given
#Muslims
represent 25% of the world’s population, while also being major consumers of Chinese manufactured & owned products, the potential power they hold in regards to exacting economic pressure on
#China
is enormous.
@cjwerleman
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#EidMubarak
, everyone! May Allah accept our fasts & prayers from this holy month. I hope you have a wonderful Eid filled with love and laughter. Please stay safe & check in (call/txt) on each other during these chaotic times. May Allah guide us all to the right path.
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Completely disappointed with my senator
@MarkWarner
. You will no longer have my support. History will remember you as a person who promoted a torturer. Absolutely Shameful & Disgraceful.
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Amidst this coup, all I can think about is the
#Rohingya
community in
#Myanmar
. May Allah protect them.
The commander in chief of Myanmar’s armed services, Min Aung Hlaing, who has reportedly seized control of the country, has been under US sanction since December 2019. He was designated for serious human rights abuses committed against the Rohingya.
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Asra Nomani, who believes in racially-profiling
#Muslims
, supports Trump's
#MuslimBan
, & claims
#inshAllah
is a "red flag" for "extremist" behavior, is waging an online harassment campaign against
@LibyaLiberty
.
Somewhere along the way she forgot she values decency and hates name calling. 🤷🏽♀️ People change I guess. In a day.
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While
#Macron
positions himself as a centrist, he and his government employ the same rhetoric used by the far-right when it comes to
#Islam
&
#Muslims
.
My latest for
@bridgeinit
:
#SoutienCCIF
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In 2014, just 2.5% of
#IUD
’s in
#China
were fitted in
#Xinjiang
. However, that share rose to 80%.
This number is even more shocking when one takes into account that Xinjiang only makes up 1.8%t of China’s population.
#UighurGenocide
My latest:
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As the persecution of
#Muslims
in
#India
has gone from bad to worse,
@RanaAyyub
has used her column in
@washingtonpost
, her Twitter, & her substack newsletter, to bring the grave human rights crisis to the world’s attention:
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According to the Islamic Commission of Spain, there are 2.5 million Muslims in Spain, which is about 5.32 percent of the population. The number of converts, as per the commission, has increased to an estimated 10 times in the past three decades.
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"Show me a Hollywood A-list celebrity who has made a public stand against the banning of women’s Islamic clothing, including the burqa, veil & hijab, in France, Austria or Switzerland."
@cjwerleman
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In
#India
, it is the authorities themselves who remain the biggest proponents of
#Islamophobia
as there’s a national campaign to subjugate, criminalize, & even eliminate the country’s Muslims.
@AudreyTruschke
@RanaAyyub
@AsimAli6
@raqib_naik
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[Thread]
#Islamophobia
in review:
For
#Rohingya
#Muslims
, 2020 was another yr in which the intl community failed to protect the persecuted minority. Refugees languished at sea, many died during these journeys, in search of safety only to be turned away
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More than a million
#Uighur
& other Turkic
#Muslim
minorities have been locked up. It's one of the biggest mass detentions in modern history. Richard Bilton uncovers the reality of surveillance & abuse inside hundreds of
#concentrationcamps
in
#Xinjiang
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[Thread]
#Islamophobia
in
#SriLanka
in 2020:
In Sri Lanka, like many other places, the
#COVID19
pandemic was used by authorities to further stigmatize Muslims, as Muslim religious practices were singled out as “super spreader events.”
@omarsuleiman504
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"I’ve written before about the power these films have to stir nationalist fervor & Islamophobic hatred. It’s now a proven formula. But the record-breaking success of “
#TheKashmirFiles
” has taken the propaganda to a genocidal level," warns
@RanaAyyub
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
#MaajidNawaz
is the Kim Kardashian (circa 2007) of the
#Islamophobia
industry. Desperate for attention, positioning himself to anything/anyone that will garner him publicity, & unabashedly self-absorbed.
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I didn’t do this for anyone but Allah, & I want it to stay that way. At the end of the day, I got on my knees & asked him for guidance, & this is where he put me. So I’m gonna stay the course, inshAllah (God willing).
A beautiful read.
@omarsuleiman504
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The most clearest, harmful, & deadly examples of
#Islamophobia
came from the state as demonstrated by
#China
’s campaign of
#genocide
targeting
#Uighur
Muslims and
#India
’s continuing marginalization of its Muslim citizens.
My latest for
@bridgeinit
:
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The market for
#Islamophobia
is booming and there’s no accountability or consequences for those in positions of power endangering the lives of British
#Muslim
citizens.
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Absolutely brilliant visual explanation of how 'counter-terrorism' in post-9/11 U.S. policy has become a code-word for targeting American
#Muslims
. The program tht most clearly illustrates this is
#CVE
.
@NaziaKaziTweets
@inkanuj
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.
@cjwerleman
:
#RupertMurdoch
media empire’s ubiquitous and round-the-clock dissemination of racist, nativist, hyper-nationalist, conspiratorial, & counter-factual propaganda & misinformation threatens the foundations of democracy.
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Many
#Muslim
immigrants from previously banned countries are still waiting to receive updates from the government on the status of their applications and to finally be reunited with their families.
@ashahshahani
@Donna_Farvard
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Indian Muslim journalist
@RanaAyyub
is not just reporting on India’s dangerous slide into authoritarianism and violent extremism, she is living it.
@carolecadwalla
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The UAE govt paid a Swiss private intelligence firm millions of dollars to taint perceived enemies.
The UAE-hired firm sought
#LorenzoVidino
to deliver a series of gossipy reports about the Muslim Brotherhood's reach.
Must rd from
@ddk_nyc
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France's forced undressing of Muslim girls & women is repulsive.
Dozens of French Muslim girls were refused entry on the first day of the school year because they failed to remove a piece of clothing that has been banned by the govt.
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.
@AyoCaesar
writes how
@BoozeAndFagz
used her (Ash Sarkar's) Muslim identity to single her out on social media. Burchill encouraged her followers to “wade in” & as a result, Sarkar experienced horrific lvls of online abuse, rape & death threats.
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Of the 40 men tht remain, their average age is 49, & their average length of imprisonment is 16 yrs. 28 of these remaining 40 men are forever prisoners, held in indefinite detention & charged w/ no crimes.
#GITMOdataproject
#GITMOinNumbers
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Right-wing Hindutva voices on social media are promoting a dangerous conspiracy theory accusing
#Muslims
in
#India
of devising a sinister plot, "Coronajihad," to spread the
#Coronavirus
. This is leading to violence & hostility against Indian Muslims.
#StopCOVIDIslamophobia
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"If we stand against one aggressor, we should stand against them all. Arguing for consistency on international issues is often condemned as “whataboutery”, but at its heart is the belief that all victims of injustice are of equal worth."
@OwenJones84
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The man who killed 6 Muslims as they prayed in a Quebec City mosque checked in on the Twitter account of Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of the conservative news site the Daily Wire, 93 times in the month leading up to the shooting.
Remind me again - who was the most searched person by the Quebec City mosque shooter?
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A German court on Wednesday rejected an application to silence the muezzin’s call from a
#mosque
in a small town after a legal dispute lasting five years.
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There is a moral discrepancy in claiming to be opposed to anti-Muslim bigotry domestically while easing the way for anti-Muslim violence abroad.
This moral discrepancy is most pronounced when it comes to the Palestinians.
Must rd by
@omarsuleiman504
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The message
#Trump
is sending is tht, if unflinching loyalty is displayed towards him, then both intl & domestic laws don’t apply – incl those which legislate against the murder of unarmed civilians/citizens, but particularly against
#Muslims
.
@cjwerleman
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