Thread by @aliamjadrizvi

What's @TwitterSupport doing?

@YasMohammedxx, Egyptian-Canadian secular activist who once escaped a forced marriage w an AlQaeda member—SUSPENDED

@ArminNavabi, Iranian secular atheist human rights activist—SUSPENDED

Are only Jews/Christians allowed to be atheists, Twitter?

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@TwitterSupport @YasMohammedxx @ArminNavabi @RichardDawkins @SarahTheHaider @ExmuslimsOrg @MoTheAtheist @MaryamNamazie @MaajidNawaz @AmericanAtheist @FFRF The Twitter account for our podcast, @SecularJihadist — which has promoted LIBERAL, SECULAR voices across the Muslim world, often persecuted and silenced — also suspended.

For @TwitterSupport, talk liberalism and secularism only if you're white and named Richard or Sam.

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@TwitterSupport @YasMohammedxx @ArminNavabi @RichardDawkins @SarahTheHaider @ExmuslimsOrg @MoTheAtheist @MaryamNamazie @MaajidNawaz @AmericanAtheist @FFRF @SecularJihadist But if you stand up for say, LGBTQ+ rights in a country like Iran where gays are hung from cranes (as @ArminNavabi has done), @TwitterSupport will deem you suspendable.

So liberals who want equality and freedom are OK to you—as long as they're not Muslim??

THAT'S bigotry.

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@TwitterSupport @YasMohammedxx @ArminNavabi @RichardDawkins @SarahTheHaider @ExmuslimsOrg @MoTheAtheist @MaryamNamazie @MaajidNawaz @AmericanAtheist @FFRF @SecularJihadist .@TwitterSupport, please confront your colonial/white guilt, sort out your algorithms, and stop siding with all of these theocratic, oppressive regimes that silence voices like Armin's and Yasmine's every day.

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