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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

18 Nov, 11 tweets, 4 min read

Most of you have heard of Crystal Mason, the Black Texas woman sentenced to 5 years prison for inadvertently voting. Her vote never counted, but she was sentenced anyway.

Meanwhile white MAGA voters are getting off w/wrist slaps.

A thread on the systemic racism behind this:

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Donald Hartle, a white man, voted on behalf of his dead wife for Trump. He then lied to investigators, went on a propaganda GOP funded campaign to claim mass voter fraud, & finally got caught.

Donald got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison
8newsnow.com/news/local-new…

/2

Terry Lynne Rote, a white Iowa woman, deliberately voted for Trump twice with two absentee ballots.

Terry got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
desmoinesregister.com/story/news/cri…

/3

Bruce Barton, a white Pennsylvania man, voted for Trump twice by voting on behalf of his dead mother.

Bruce got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison

thehill.com/regulation/cou…

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Judge Russ Casey, a white GOP judge in the *same Texas county* as Crystal Mason, committed voter fraud with fake signatures. Casey was also formerly accused of sexual assault.

Judge Casey got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
newsweek.com/judge-gets-pro…

/5

Paul Parana, a Michigan man, committed voter fraud by voting on behalf of his daughter by forging her signature.

Paul got zero prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

/6

The 17-year-old son of GOP VA Gov-elect Glenn Youngkin tried to fraudulently vote twice. Not once. But twice. Youngkin said “election security was his top priority.”

His son got ZERO prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

/7

Jenna Ryan, a white texan GOP woman, flew on a private jet to the Capitol to partake in the violent insurrection to overthrow our democracy.

Jenna got 60 days jail.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
wusa9.com/article/news/n…

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Jacob Chansley, the white MAGA extremist QAnon Shamon, partook in the violent Capitol insurrection to overthrow our democracy.

Jacob got 3 years 5 months in prison.

Crystal Mason got 5 years prison.
npr.org/2021/11/17/105…

/9

I could go on but hopefully you get two key takeaways from this thread:

1) Our elections are secure & GOP claims off mass voter fraud are projection of their own MAGA base who seem to exclusively dominate voter fraud. Don't fall for GOP propaganda.

And two

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2) Its an outrage that Crystal Mason suffers 5 years in prison as insurrectionists, fraudsters, & white supremacists get wrist slaps.

Don’t let systemic racism win. Black white & brown—let's stand united against this injustice. That’s how we form a more perfect union.☮️

11/11

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A quick thread for Virginia conservatives (and progressives) as we approach Election Day, and why you should vote for @TerryMcAuliffe for Governor.

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If you're one of the now 500,000+ Virginians who have life saving healthcare access due to expanded Medicaid, Democrats did that.

If you're one of 50,000 Virginians suffering from drug/alcohol addiction but now have affordable treatment due to Medicaid, Democrats did that.

/2

If you're one of 781,000 Virginians who need insulin to live, and are grateful that insulin is capped at $50 a month instead of $700 a month, Democrats did that.

The GOP could have done this at any time they were in power, but they didn't. Democrats did.

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@QasimRashid

12 Sep

Unpopular opinion but if even after 20 years you think the week after 9/11 was a week of unity, you haven't been paying attention to the BIPOC & Muslims in your life who feared for our safety & suffered a massive spike in hate crimes for something we had nothing to do with.

The myth of "unity" means ignoring The Patriot Act, NYPD warrantless spying on Muslims, dozens of states who tried to pass "anti-Shariah" bills, Gitmo, torture, drone strikes, & the Muslim Ban—all which denied the justice our Constitution promises.

These are all connected.

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The "unity" was if you unquestionably supported what George W called "a crusade." Otherwise, you were unpatriotic. "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists," W famously said—whitewashing objections to killing of hundreds of thousands of Afghan & Iraqi civilians.

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@QasimRashid

1 Sep

Sharia Law is trending b/c people think the Texas abortion ban is what Sharia teaches. No, Texas GOP extremism is 100% home grown extremism. Don't blame Sharia.

Let me disabuse y'all of this offensive & harmful ignorance, w/knowledge on what Sharia actually is.

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Sharia is the law of the Qur’an and literally means “A path to life giving water.”

In fact, the word Yarrah (i.e. the root of the Hebrew word Torah) means precisely the same thing. Therefore, Shariah is actually ingrained in Abrahamic tradition.

There's 5 parts to know...

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adab (behavior, morals & manners)
ibadah (ritual worship)
i’tiqadat (beliefs)
mu’amalat (transactions & contracts)
‘uqubat (punishments)

Shariah forbids that it be imposed on any unwilling person. Meaning, Sharia mandates separation of religion & state.

You read that right

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

20 May

This is such a dangerous misrepresentation of history. It creates anti-Muslim hate & antisemitic hate—not to mention the complete erasure of Palestinian Christians.

So much to unpack but let me address this lie of "thousands of years of Arabs raping/murdering Jews."

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622: Muhammad(sa) signs Constitution of Medina w/Jews of Medina. A secular constitution it declares:
•Article 17: No Jew shall be wronged for being a Jew
•Article 18: The enemies of the Jews who follow [Muslims] will NOT be helped

Prophet Muhammad(sa) condemned antisemitism
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623: Qur'an Ch 22:40-41 is revealed, permitting Muslims to fight in self defense to protect Universal Religious Freedom, specifically commanding Muslims to protect "Synagogues, Temples, Churches, & Mosques" from attack.

Prophet Muhammad(sa) actively defended Jews from attack

/3

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

19 May

@MuslimAdvocates

3 years ago an extremist threatened to murder me for my faith as a Muslim. The FBI subpoenaed me to testify against him in Federal Court & the jury convicted him

But now—he’s appealing. So I've lawyered up w/ @MuslimAdvocates to sue him.

A thread story of hope over hate.

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Let me back up. My family faces immense persecution in Pakistan b/c of our faith as Ahmadi Muslims.

In 1997 police nearly tortured one of my cousins to death for his faith. In 1995 another cousin was lynched, murdered w/a noose around his neck & dragged through the streets.

/2

So, a death threat from an extremist to literally lynch me for my faith as a Muslim was horrifying deja vu

I reported the threat to Twitter who agreed it violated their TOS. They suspended him. Then a day later his account was unsuspended—after which he sent me MORE threats

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