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🌏 WALASIA Khulan Khan نور اية 🌏

11 Sep, 12 tweets, 4 min read

Every year on this day I take a holiday for myself. You have no idea what Muslims have had to endure on this day. Or any Brown people period. I was forced on this day to assault/batter a man who attacked my taxi driver (he was a Sikh) for being “mooslem”. That was an ugly day...

@Complex

The propaganda on this day worked so quickly that within hours of the first tower strike the “ugly amerikkkans” were on the attack. I left the @Complex offices after KET & I watched the news online and saw the plane strike. I walked outside to hail a cab back to Brooklyn. ...

When I opened the cab door I saw the driver and his turban. He was to me clearly a Sikh. I did not give the greeting A Salaamu Alaikum. I began to ask if he would go to Brooklyn sometimes taxis would refuse the trip. Out of nowhere a large man a redneck came barreling toward us.

He hurled insults and expletives at my driver. I had gotten in but not yet shut the door. My driver looked at me in the rear view mirror. He was terrified. The man reached for him through the open window. I reacted in a flash. I jumped out the ajar door screaming for him to stop.

He turned toward me and I could see he wasn’t a human being. He was programmed and full of ignorance & the evil that only powerless guilt ridden whites carry. In a split second I lost My comportment my old self took over. I drew back my right shoulder and arm and I did it...

I bombed on him with my right fist putting all 222 pounds of my weight into it. The punch connected with his nose and eye as intended. He went down. I kicked him repeatedly with my Adidas, stomped his face, and jumped on his groin a few times for good measure. Then I yelled ...

For all who had gathered around to hear “he’s not a Muslim! But I am!” Got in the taxi shut the door and gave my Sikh driver my address on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn. My driver cried & thanked me. He said the man would’ve tried to kill him. That the news on the radio blamed Muslims

The man took me to my door. I hadn’t had a fight or even had to defend myself in decades. I felt sick from adrenaline and the dread of that day and the smoke and ash and hatred. My driver wouldn’t let me pay. I went inside and I cried for hours in my little windowless apartment.

My husband got in contact with me that week very worried because he wasn’t there. I told him don’t come to NY it’s dangerous. He told me as he’d told his mother and sister to stop wearing my headscarf or even a head wrap. His mother wore a beanie hat for years afterward. ...

@Complex

I was already traumatized by the events. @Complex forced us back to work immediately by 9/13 I was in the office trying to work while shellshocked. All these years later we still affected. I live in a small podunk town now & I won’t be going outside today. It’s not safe on 9/11.

@pambazuka

I wrote this years later for @pambazuka "The Terror of Isms: a primer on causing terror amongst the terrified." pambazuka.org/governance/ter… I ask that U read it on this day.

Me, I'm chillin hard today. I'm a Lady, putting my SELF first. ladiesfirstladiesfirst.substack.com

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🌏 WALASIA Khulan Khan نور اية 🌏

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