So, I opened the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC last night with a monologue outlining the *five* main unanswered questions I'd like the House select committee on January 6th to get to the bottom of.

Please do watch & share:
1. Were certain GOP members of Congress involved in organizing the January 6th rally, as claimed by far-right pro-Trump activist Ali Alexander?
2. Were certain GOP members of Congress in contact with insurrectionists, or militias involved in the insurrection, and even giving them tours beforehand?
3. Why did the National Guard take 3 hours to turn up on January 6th and who blocked their urgent deployment and why?
4. Why was the Capitol Police so unprepared for an attack they'd been warned about in the days leading up to 1/6 and why were they told not to use their most aggressive tactics in response?
5. What did the President know and when did he know it? We need to know what Trump was saying and doing on January 6th and in the run-up to the rally.
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7 Jul
To get in the mood for today:
To get more in the mood:
To get EVEN more in the mood - Barnsey rapping, Italia 90:
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10 Jun
Salams @Ed_Husain, it's been a while but I just read this and the opening sentence is pretty offensive and insulting, given there are Muslim political prisoners in Dubai and Muslims were pogromed in Delhi just last year.
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Also, you suggest "radical Muslims" should leave Britain if they don't like it but, per your logic, if you don't like British cities and towns like Derby or Doncaster, maybe you should be the one leaving the UK, for India or Dubai. Good luck with Modi.
thejc.com/comment/the-ev…
I'll be honest, @Ed_Husain, I'm also personally insulted by your suggestion that those of us Muslims who are republicans and democrats and not monarchists and don't 'pray' for the Queen are somehow unpatriotic or unBritish. That's BNP-type language tbh.
thejc.com/comment/the-ev…
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10 Jun
To be clear, Omar was referring to two specific ICC investigations involving the US & the Taliban in Afghanistan & Israel & Hamas in Gaza.

Maybe these House Democrats should read beyond the Fox/Daily Mail headlines & faux outrage & not help incite more hate against Omar.
House Democrats lining up to suggest their colleague @ilhanmn of supporting or giving cover for terrorist groups are not just willfully misrepresenting her remarks, but engaging in clear Islamophobic tropes and sadly helping to once again increase murderous threats against her.
Muslim Americans are fed up of constantly being accused of supporting terrorism - including by liberals and Democrats! - when they/we simply make factual points about international law or foreign policies or war crimes.

It’s cynical, dehumanizing, and, yes bigoted.
Read 5 tweets
21 May
This is the kind of crap I've been dealing with for the past 24 hours.

As a Muslim journalist, criticize Israel and you get called antisemitic.

But also as a Muslim journalist, criticize antisemitic tropes and you get called a 'sellout' and a 'Zionist apologist' etc etc.
This isn't actually that hard or complicated:

1) Criticism of Israel, a country, and/or Zionism, a political ideology, isn't in and of itself antisemitic.

2) Criticism of Israel and Zionism can sometimes be antisemitic.

Both these statements can be true.
Btw, much of the trolling & abuse I've had on here over the past 24 hours has had little to do with Israel/Palestinians. This tweet is a reminder that it's all to do with *Pakistan* & a lot of nationalists not liking anyone criticizing their government:
Read 7 tweets
21 May
Also the entire defense of the Pakistani FM’s comments about Israel ‘controlling’ the media with its ‘deep pockets’ is to pretend he didn’t say those words and invent a totally different set of words to then defend and demand I agree or disagree with. Tells you everything tbh.
If you want to claim the media is biased towards Israel, or that pro Israel organizations lobby the media successfully, or Israel has political influence in Western capitals, that’s all fine and legitimate. But claiming Israel ‘controls’ the media with its ‘deep pockets’ isn’t.
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30 Apr
Josh Duggar is in multiple smiling images and pictures with almost every top Republican politician you can think of.

If he was a Democrat, and they were Democratic politicians in the pix, what do you think Fox News and Breitbart etc would be doing with those images?
#onaloop
The fact that one side in the so-called culture war has a propaganda media arm with few ethics & astonishing message discipline, & one side doesn't, explains much of what's going on in America right now.

Asymmetric conflict. Asymmetric polarization. Asymmetric 'media' coverage.
E.g. if a guy charged of possessing child pornography was photographed with Ilhan Omar and AOC, multiple elected Republicans would be sharing those images on Twitter right now.

How many elected Dems are sharing images of Duggar with Rubio, Cruz, Huckabee, Santorum, Jeb Bush etc?
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