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Jan 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Today marks #HolocaustMemorialDay, a day of remembrance for the millions of Jews, Roma, disabled people, and LGBT who were murdered due to their identity. A time to reflect on the horrors of our past and the subsequent genocides following the Holocaust.

hmd.org.uk/ceremony
With the rise in ethno-nationalism and hatred in both the UK and throughout the world, #HMD2022 serves as an apt way to come together and remind ourselves of what we owe to each other. We owe each other solidarity, standing up for one another against hatred.
Each year since being in the UK I have had the opportunity to stand with Holocaust survivors and bear witness to their stories as they stood witness to my own story too. These are not just fragments of our past. Genocide is not something to debate. It's not something to forget.
As Holocaust survivors get older and many say goodbye to this Earth, we owe it to them to carry their stories forward. One day, Bosnian genocide survivors will leave this world too and I hope there will be those willing to carry our stories forward too. #HMD2022
We are so much stronger together. We can choose to #LightTheDarkness and to be the light in the midst of the horrific hatred that has taken root in our society. Please join @HMD_UK's ceremony tonight and stand with us in reflection, remembrance and against hatred.

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Going back to this thread, in light of today's anniversary. Busuladzic was a fascist. He was an anti-semite who believed that Christians & Muslims should united against. He diluted Islam in the worst way possible and utilised it for hatred. Anyone defending him, pls block me.
This guy, too, was not some innocent Bosniak, but was in fact Albanian. He was responsible for the massacres of civilians both Albanians who stood against him as well as Serbs & Jews. He was reward the Iron Cross for his crimes by Nazi Germany.

Know your history.
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On #HolocaustMemorialDay it is not enough to simply say "We must never forget" or to say "Never Again", we must be active and enduring in our battle against anti-semitism, Islamophobia, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ethno-nationalism, & overall hatred.
The best way to honour the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and all genocides is to take action. I want to know how you will contribute to the fight against hatred and the global fight for human rights. #HolocaustRemembranceDay
I've mentioned before that I have fairly recently started talking to my daughter about the Holocaust and the Bosnian Genocide too. We started incorporating the Native American Genocide, Genocide against the Tutsis, the ongoing genocides happening currently in the world.
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Bosnia is proof that you can be secular, irreligious, and liberal Muslims and it won't really matter at all because you will still be the target of systematic Islamophobia and Islamophobic propaganda. So, justifying how "you're not like other Muslims" is fairly useless.
I'm not a very religiously adhering person but my DMs, emails, and mentions are constantly filled with hateful messages about how I'm an Islamic terrorist, jihadi, ISIS whore, & how I want to convert Christians. I'm not gonna scream about how no, actually I'm a cool Muslims.
It's not that they actually believe that Bosnia is filled with extremist Muslims ready to burst at the seems. They know that Bosnia is largely a secular country with the majority of Muslims being fairly liberal. They don't care b/c it doesn't suit their narrative.
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