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Mona Eltahawy
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I am extremely worried about an attack on a mosque(s) on the scale of those in #ChristChurch here in the #US where anti-Muslim hate & Islamophobia have been growing for yrs. Trump has continued not invented it. An arsonist set my brother’s mosque in the Midwest on fire in 2012.
The arsonist struck on a Sunday just hours after my nieces and nephews had been at the mosque with other children for Sunday school.
Just a month ago in the #US: An Illinois man pleaded not guilty in the bombing of a mosque in #Minnesota, three weeks after two of his alleged accomplices pleaded guilty. usnews.com/news/best-stat…
Anti-mosque Activity in #USA via @ACLU: “In recent years, anti-Muslim sentiment has spiked. Although these sentiments manifest themselves in many ways, attacks on mosques directly take aim at religious freedom.” Below is a map highlighting anti-mosque incidents across since 2005.
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Mona Eltahawy
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To be clear: fuck Trump and the Islamophobia he peddles in BUT he did not create it. He is an inheritor of:
- GOP outright hatred & incitement vs Muslims
- Democrats’ cowardly use of the “good Muslim” card: “Muslims are in our armed forces & police”
In 2016 elections:
- Donald Trump was vowing to ban Muslims (which he did via Muslim Ban bs 6 countries)
- Clinton had Kizr Khan and his wife Ghazala Irshad at DNC - parents of a Muslim soldier who was killed in the US war in Iraq. ie Muslims are “good” and fight “our” wars.
Russ Feingold was the ONLY senator - Democrat or GOP - who in 2001 voted against the Patriot Act. Who cared about surveillance and all that shit when it was portrayed as targeting a bunch of brown Muslims, hey?
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Mona Eltahawy
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This is horrific: A witness says many people have been killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in the #NewZealand city of #Christchurch. apnews.com/76b0cafae9fe47… h/t @rerutled
It is Friday and if the #Christchurch Al Noor mosque shooting happened during Friday congregational prayers, then it would be full of worshippers. Len Peneha says he saw a man dressed in black enter and then heard dozens of shots, followed by people running from mosque in terror.
An eyewitness inside the mosque says he heard shots fired and says at four people were lying on the ground and "there was blood everywhere". radionz.co.nz/news/national/… #Christchurch
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Mona Eltahawy
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Senate passes resolution to end #US support for #Saudi-led war in #Yemen
The approval puts Congress on a collision course with Donald Trump in an unprecedented rebuke of his foreign policy. theguardian.com/us-news/2019/m…
“Lawmakers have never before invoked the decades-old War Powers Resolution to stop a foreign conflict, but they are poised to do just that in the bid to cut off US support for a war that has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe.”
The measure was co-sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders and the Utah Republican Mike Lee. Next, it will move to the Democratic-controlled House, where it is expected to pass. “The bottom line is that the United States should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic regime with an irresponsible foreign policy,” Sanders said on Wednesday from the Senate floor. He said a vote in favor of the measure would “begin the process of reclaiming our constitutional authority by ending United States involvement in a war that has not been authorized by Congress and is unconstitutional”.
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Dr. Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
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Throughout the day, I'm going to be tweeting articles/resources to educate about anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia because of what Muslims experience everyday and because we have your attention because of the the #NewZealandTerroristAttack #ChristchurchMosqueAttacks 1/N
Here's a piece that Thea Abu el-Haj and I recently wrote for @TheAssemblyJrnl (an #Openaccess journal): colorado.edu/journal/assemb… #Islamophobia #AntiMuslimRacism #NewZealandMosqueAttack 2/N
A number of excellent resources can be found in the #Islamophobia is #racism syllabus: islamophobiaisracism.wordpress.com 3/N
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#Christchurch 1/5 “We have been left speechless before such violence, which in order to complete its stubborn program of death, would not stop even at the threshold of a church ... Where, where is the world going? ... I repeat it again today: Where are we going?” -St John Paul II
#Christchurch 2/5 Pope John Paul was addressing the murder of St. Oscar Romero, whose martyrdom we will commemorate later this month. His words seem to apply to the barbaric attack in New Zealand, also an attack on a house of worship. They make us ask again, “Where are we going”
#Christchurch 3/5 Perhaps the most providential thing about this attack on our Muslim brothers and sisters is that it took place in a name called "ChristChurch," to help us see it not just as an attack on a Mosque, but an attack against the sacred, indeed, an attack against God.
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Every single decent media outlet, journalist should HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR WORDS!
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Wajahat Ali
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THREAD: Final comments on Ilhan Omar & AIPAC controversy: many Muslim Americans feel there's a double standard when it comes to them being singled out for critical comments of Israel. This doesn't excuse the use of anti-Semitism in any way, but there's a pattern here. 1/
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TheBridgeInitiative
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Our #ThursdayThoughts on #Islamophobia are about #Dawah. Read our thread & check our NEW factsheet on Dawah here: bridge.georgetown.edu/factsheet-dawa…
Dawah is an Arabic term w/ a range of meanings generally understood to signify an invitation (definitions here: tinyurl.com/ybbsp24u)
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