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Muslim women are caught between a rock & a hard place:

Rock: collective of racists and Islamophobes who are eager to demonize all Muslim men.

Hard place: Muslim community that is eager to defend all Muslim men.

Neither truly care about Muslim women.

Fuck the rock & hard place
Fuck the rock and fuck the hard place.

Why I started #MosqueMeToo

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Fuck the rock and hard place.

Why I started #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter

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Fuck the rock and hard place.

The story behind why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #WhyIBeatMyAssaulter:

Touch me without my consent and I will break your fucking hand.

🎥 @rerutled

I will never ally with Islamophobes and racists. But in the choice between “community” and Muslim women, I will always choose my sisters. #MosqueMeToo
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The arrest of the CNN crew in #Minneapolis is a direct result of Trump’s incitement against media - months & months of his “fake news” and “nasty questions” and other attacks against journalists must be blamed for this.

Journalists arrested live on TV in an ostensible democracy
Regimes arrest journalists to close eyes and ears to abuses of power.

Look around the world and see where journalists are arrested and why.

CNN’s Omar Jimenez asked “Why are you arresting me?”

Answer: so that we can do what what want, when we want, and not be held accountable.
Omar Jimenez and his crew have been released. They should never have been arrested in the first place.

Everything I said ☝🏽stands.

h/t @rerutled
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Resist and refuse words like “chaos” and “riot” about people demanding justice and an end to oppression.

During one of my CNN appearances in the early days of #Jan25 revolution, I insisted they stop using “Chaos in Egypt” as a chyron.

They changed it to “Uprising in Egypt.”
Words like “riot” and “chaos” are like “hysterical” when the latter is used to describe a woman’s justified frustration and rage against sexism and misogyny.

Those words shift judgement away from the oppressor to the oppressed.
Words matter.

Our right to justice and freedom from oppression matters.

Our insistence that oppressors and their actions be the focus of judgement matters.

Freedom matters.
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“It is not a riot, it is a revolt.”

Mass protest in #Louisville demanding justice for #BreonnaTaylor, a Black ER tech killed by police in her home in March.

The protest began after her boyfriend’s 911 phone call was made public Thursday.

#JusticeForBre
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“Somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend,” Kenneth Walker.

911 call from Breonna Taylor shooting.

#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor

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At least seven people were shot as protesters in Louisville demonstrated against the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in her home in March.

#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
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