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5 Apr, 6 tweets, 5 min read
I will engulf myself in PTSD triggers to bring you this thread. I hope you care enough to bother scrolling through.

Women in #Iran, #Afghanistan, #Pakistan attacked w acid because of ‘improper’ hijab.

Look at their faces.

english.alarabiya.net/amp/News/middl…
A sixteen year old girl in #Canada is strangled to death by her father and her brother because she didn’t want to wear hijab.

Look at her sweet face. Sixteen years old. Killed by her father and brother. Over hijab. Hear that. Feel that.

cbc.ca/amp/1.4002891
Fifteen girls were left to burn to death in their school in #SaudiArabia because they weren’t wearing proper hijab.

arabnews.com/node/1660041
Women in #Iran serve long prison sentences over refusing to wear hijab. Here are just three.

en.radiofarda.com/amp/three-wome…
I can’t do this anymore. Please add to the thread as you see fit. Also, for those who care to look beyond the propaganda you’re fed by Islamists, see #FreeFromHijab
A woman in the #UK decides she doesn’t want to wear hijab. Records an hour long video where she just reads the hate, the rape and death threats to her and her family.

Then they tell you it’s a choice.

Choose to conform or choose to be attacked.

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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋ياسمين محمد Profile picture
13 Feb
Of course #NotAll, Nafiza 🙄

However Islam sanctions:

-beating of women (Quran 4:34)

-marital rape (Sahih Muslim 1436d)

-beating of children (Sunan Abu Dawud 495)

and other atrocities I endured by ppl who were following the edicts of their religion.

goodreads.com/en/book/show/4…
Many Muslims denounce the violence, homophobia, misogyny etc in their religion and choose to cherry pick those parts out. And that’s great. But the uncomfortable reality remains that ppl who want to engage in those acts have religious justification to support them.
This preamble from Bari before a talk w her and Ayaan is poignant. Apparently only some “women of color” speaking about our “authentic experiences” matter.
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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋ياسمين محمد Profile picture
7 Feb
Zero. The answer is zero. There are no female Imams in the UK. Just answer the question. Such a cringe and transparent commitment to dishonesty and obfuscation

Hopefully there are Muslim women willing to push back against the misogynistic edicts that prohibit women from the role
worldcrunch.com/culture-societ…
“I can't just leave my house and go shopping. If it wasn't for police protection I wouldn't be able to do my work at all. Without police protection you can't even voice your opinion, not even in #Germany."

google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.c…
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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋ياسمين محمد Profile picture
5 Feb
No. It is not absurd. Did you even take the 30 seconds to watch the video where @theWatcher3998 clarifies?

Hijab perpetuates victim blaming. It perpetuates slut shaming. Those are cornerstones of rape culture.

#HijabIsRapeCulture
#FreeFromHijab
#NoHijabDay
Examples of slut-shaming: the hijab perpetuates the toxic myth that women who wear it are good and clean and pure and women who do not are filthy whores.

#HijabIsRapeCulture ImageImage
The onus is constantly put on women —the victims—when a sexual assault happens. This is called victim blaming.

#HijabIsRapeCulture

womensmediacenter.com/women-under-si…
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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋ياسمين محمد Profile picture
5 Feb
Growing up steeped in fear taught me a very valuable lesson: don’t.

Take precautions, prepare for contingencies, be careful, be smart, but don’t live in fear. Live in power. If you’re not happy w your life, then change your life. Decide what you want, and then make it happen.
Sorry if that sounds trite-but it’s important to remember. We got bombarded w those msgs as GenX. It was in our movies and music and after school specials. The idea of grit and fight has been replaced w victimhood. One is active and powerful, the other is passive and powerless.
And here’s where the mob comes for me...I include this pandemic. Don’t live in fear of this virus. Wear a mask, keep your distance, wash your hands-but go out and feed squirrels in your local park. Have a snowman competition w your neighbors. Stop waiting to live again. Live now.
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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋ياسمين محمد Profile picture
5 Nov 20
FACT

Islam teaches:
-gay ppl should be killed
-ppl who leave Islam should be killed
-Muslims shouldn’t befriend nonMuslims
-Muslims should strive to spread Islam across the globe
-women are less intelligent than men

Also fact:
-many Muslims choose to ignore some of those edicts
When a Muslim tells you they’ve chosen to ignore one and you respond w Taqiyya! Liar! That’s not helpful. What would be helpful is to encourage and support them in their aim to reconcile their religious identity w living in 2020. It’s not perfect. But it’s still a positive step.
When Saudi Arabia denounces the terrorism in France (even though they are tyrants to their own ppl) I am happy about that. It’s a step. It’s a better step than the one chosen by Iran, Turkey, or Pakistan. I know there are still many steps to go.
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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋ياسمين محمد Profile picture
3 Nov 20
This is worth watching. Though I have a major criticism. There’s no such thing as Saudi Islam. It’s true that Mosques and schools funded by Saudi are more fundamentalist, but that’s because the books and scholars from SA are more direct and literal Islam.
dailymotion.com/video/x5m0n45
I’m definitely no fan of Saudi, but this documentary was totally unfair. They’re painting Saudis as these villains trying to spread some ideology w nefarious intent. No. They are simply funding the spread of Islam. Everything they were teaching is clearly taken from the religion.
As I outline in my book, our Mosque and Islamic school was run by an Imam from India. Things changed significantly when we got funding from Saudi. The Indian Imam was replaced w an Egyptian Imam w a wife in niqab. But it was not ‘Saudi’ ideology. It was just a more literal Islam.
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