Thread by @monaeltahawy

In 2016, my feminist sister & comrade @AhNidzara took me to #Srebrenica where Bosnian Serb forces systematically murdered 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men & boys in the worst crime of the Bosnian war. It remains the only massacre on European soil since World War II to be ruled a genocide

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/759395239303884805

As many have pointed out, media coverage and political statements around #UkraineRussiaWar remind us that sympathy and support during war is never equal: it depends on how you look and how you pray and is undergirded by white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and Islamophobia.

All of Europe—the entire world—knew of the horrors that Bosnian Muslims were being subjected to right there in Europe. But they were the “wrong” kind of “blonde and blue eyed” and “civilized” Europeans.

It is imperative that we say that now and that we remember that now, in case anyone out there says "now is not the time."

It is always the time to point out injustices and bigotries.