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13 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
I haven't read a thread like this one in a long time. So much love, so much heartbreak, so much injustice. Please read it & share.
Abdulhadi Al Khawaja is Bahrain's most prominent human rights defender. This is a man who has dedicated his life to bringing freedom, human rights, and democracy in his country. He's serving his 10th year in prison. He went on a hunger strike last month.
The BICI report mentioned in the thread was an report that Bahrain's regime commissioned in 2011 to look into allegations of abuse. It ended up documenting horrific and systemic abuse. More about the report in this poignant thread:
I wonder what's a worse world - one where horrific injustices are committed in silence, or one where horrific injustices are fully investigated and uncovered, and then nothing happens. This is what happened with the BICI report
Why? Because the US & UK governments guaranteed its regime impunity. Remember this whenever you heart the liars lie about democracy and human rights.
Even as I tweet this, Bahraini activist @AMushaima is on the 19th day of his hunger strike outside the Bahraini embassy in London. His father is in prison and he's trying to save his life. The UK government is a close ally of his father's jailers.
We live for the day when Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, Hasan Mushaima, Abduljalil Al Singace, and all of their comrades can go home.

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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
10 Dec
How do we even define the word "Islamist" any more? The overuse of the word is quickly rendering it meaningless
To me, Islamism is a form of religious nationalism. Islamists are only Islamists if they believe in establishing a state in which Muslims have supremacy over non-Muslims; a state in which non-Muslims have curtailed rights by virtue of their identity
In this, I see Islamism as not very different from other forms of religious nationalism, including among Christians ("this is a White Christian Nation"); Jews (e.g. Bennett "I am proud of religious Zionism"); Hindutva, etc.
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7 Dec
Somehow our colonizers who have ethnically cleansed us, stole our land & homes, and continue to stand on our necks... are the victims, and we're the bad guys
The nuclear-armed state with 70 years of unqualified support from every major Western power and most world powers... are the victims, and we're the ones who have to be considerate towards their tanks and walls and sniper rifles
Which is just confirming the point of the thread he's replying to. They will *never* see us a human beings. The existence of the settler-colonial regime is more valuable to them than every single Palestinian life combined.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
4 Dec
Fuck you, @EmmanuelMacron.
Whenever they speak of humanist ideals, human rights, enlightenment values, democracy, or any other of their lies, just show them the finger, honestly. It's not even worth the conversation. It's really on us if we ever believe them.
This is the same piece of shit who was wondering what the "crisis of Islam" is. Our crisis is the dictators who you support, sell weapons to and shake hands with. I bet after he leaves politics he'll be making millions consulting for them too.
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18 Nov
Notes to the seeker. Most of the time when we love, we aren't in love with the thing itself - or the person themselves - but with a story we spun around them. In other words, we fell in love with an egotistical reflection of ourselves.
It is important to let go of the story in order to truly see the thing itself, or the person themselves. You may resist this, but it is important to get disillusioned of the story. It is only then that we find out what - or who - we were in love with.
If it is ego, then you should let it go. But if it is indeed true love, then submit to it regardless the cost. If it beckons, follow it regardless the path. If it speaks, believe it regardless the hurt. For it is both your trial and your salvation.
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14 Oct
When members of colonized people thank their colonizers and try desperately to follow in their footsteps in the hope that doing so will make them civilized... this is yet another effect of colonialism. It does not prove the colonizers right, it just shows how ugly colonialism is.
A good body of work to read on this would be Alfred Memmi's writings. Memmi was born a Tunisian Jew under French colonialism, and describes how Tunisian Jews were treated as "more European" than the native Muslims, but never equal to the French; and he analyzes their response.
Two good books by Albert* Memmi:
1. The Colonizer and the Colonized (non-fiction)
2. The Pillar of Salt (novel)
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13 Oct
"Nobody listened to us when we spoke
So we used the noise of gunpowder as our rhythm"
-- Algerian national anthem, lyrics written 1955
Colonizers ignore every call of justice, every call of liberty, every scream of pain... until the oppressed take up arms. Then, they call them terrorists and launch a devastating total war "against terrorism" and in defense of "civilization".
And then you have the "civilized world" stand on the side of the colonizers, decry "terrorism", and double down on all forms of support for that "war on terrorism", until the country - liberated or not - ends up a traumatized wasteland for generations.
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