Dr. Rizwaan Sabir
@RizwaanSabir
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology & International Relations. Author of: "The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam & the Security State" (Pluto Press). Own views
Joined June 2011
Given how central racism & Islamophobia are to US foreign and security policy, this former advisor to the @StateDept and @WhiteHouse named Stuart Seldowitz is totally on message in this disgraceful, Islamophobic tirade targeted at a defenceless food vendor
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Turns out the anti-religion dude isn’t anti-religion. He’s just anti-Muslim.
"If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Christianity every single time.". Self-proclaimed 'cultural Christian', ＠RichardDawkins, tells @RachelSJohnson he's 'slightly horrified' to hear Ramadan lights were hung on Oxford Street rather than Easter lights.
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It took the death of 7 white people to do what the genocide of more than 30,000 Palestinians couldn’t.
Our front page tomorrow @Independent . ‘The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force Israel to end its war. It has to stop.’ . #TomorrowsPapersToday
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A double-agent working for Canadian intelligence & ISIS is reported to have smuggled #ShamimaBegum & her 2 friends from Bethnal Green into Syria. The UK then conspired to cover-up Canada’s role in their recruitment & trafficking. Yes, you read that right!
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Solidarity with @Lowkey0nline who's facing sustained attacks by Israeli lobby groups who are trying to get his music cancelled on Spotify. Keep spitting the truth, brother. #LongLivePalestine
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@RadioDaveUK @LBC Thanks for the invite, Dave. Since LBC employs Katie Hopkins, who's calling for the genocide of Muslims, I wont be able to contribute to LBC.
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Turns out Britain is pretty dysfunctional without immigrants taking our jobs.
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Well done to the British Muslims who attended this Iftar and gave Keir Starmer a shameless photo opportunity whilst Gaza is intentionally starved as part of an on-going #genocide.
Honoured to receive such hospitality and generosity at an iftar this week during the holy month of Ramadan. It was a pleasure to pay tribute to the enormous contribution British Muslims make to our national life.
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The UK’s Home Office asylum application form isn’t even hiding how it’s surveilling the religious make-up of the Muslim community based on half-baked Orientalist understandings of Islamic theology. Such things get past quality control when #Islamophobia is mixed with incompetence
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Britain in 2017 is a place where Muslims get stopped & searched because they chose one too many layers of clothing on the one day it's sunny
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Hey Siri - show me an example of broadsheet Orientalism.
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A hacker found the FBI’s secret “No-Fly-List” list on an unsecured airline company server, and leaked it to the web. Now, a report from @CAIRNational shows that the list, which has with over 1.5 million names, is almost exclusively made up of Muslims.
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You’d have to give up your full time job and go into permanent therapy if you watched the unfiltered footage of what your Zionist hosts are doing to the Palestinians, Giles.
Went to private IDF screening of unfiltered footage of 7th October earlier tonight. Seen things that I can never unsee. No words. But I am going to have to try and find some. Too much even to cry. Body still shaking.
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And yet, racism and Islamophobia are rife in every sphere and institution of British society.
The UK now has a Hindu prime minister of Indian descent and a Muslim mayor of London of Pakistani descent.
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“Mr. Seldowitz is a three-time winner of the State Department's Superior Honor Award”. Nice work @StateDept.
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The Times front page covering the #FinsburyParkAttack vs. the London Bridge attack. I'll just leave this here for ya'll.
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Today marks 9 years since my false arrest & detention under the Terrorism Act for possessing a document downloaded from a US govt website.
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MPs from the @LabourParty who are standing for re-election couldn’t even be bothered to draft their own tweet calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza. That��s how sincere they are about this whole issue.
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It felt like a punch in the gut but before i could even register the pain, it was already too late. I was placed under arrest & taken into custody for suspected terrorism. A warrant was issued to search my home, and i was interrogated on a daily basis by counterterrorism police.
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So, the question for the Home Secretary @pritipatel is: will you be restoring Shamima Begum’s citizenship given the UK & Canada were jointly involved in the trafficking of 3 British children to an active war-zone for the purpose of intel. gathering & surveillance? (@BorisJohnson).
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After 4-years of writing, I can finally share details of my book with @PlutoPress that hits bookshelves in the USA & UK on 20th March. I pray the pages, which are imbued with vulnerability and hope, give readers understanding, empowerment, and strength.
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If you’re angry at this, you should see how the Israelis treat people entering and leaving the #apartheid state, Jake.
This appears to be how Britain treats survivors of the Hamas atrocities when they try to enter the country
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Hello @metpoliceuk and @BTP,. I believe a clear-cut death threat is being made here in this video by this woman on the London tube network. Can you explain what your officers are doing to identify her and respond to this incident?. Thanks. (Cc @MayorofLondon).
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@StateDept “Stuart Seldowitz, former Director of the National Security Council under President @BarackObama and former diplomat for the U.S. @StateDept serving during five presidencies, is our Foreign Affairs Chair”.
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Turkish media broke the story in 2015 & it was reported by @CBSNews who said the spy was detained by the Turks & told them that he worked for Canadian intel but the story died (thanks in-part to a talking-head who claimed it was Turkey playing politics!)
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Just imagine if someone wrote a column saying there wasn’t enough anti-semitism in a political party and explicitly suggested that more anti-semitism was needed.
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UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s claim in a Daily Mail op-ed that child grooming gangs were all Pakistani men was false, the press regulator IPSO has ruled. Turns out Braverman is a racist and a liar.
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Braverman & her racist mates at @GBNEWS went to Cambridge University to ignite an argument that they’d record and use to construct the pro-Palestinian students as a trouble making, angry mob. The students didn’t take the bait and gave @SuellaBraverman what she deserves: silence.
Suella Braverman and GB News attempting to speak to protesters at Cambridge pro-Palestine encampment. Protesters have been told not to engage.
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As Israeli bombs reign down on #Palestine, this lioness, without a tremble in her voice, recites:. “Glory be to Allah, Praise be to Allah. There is no God but Allah. There is no support and no power except Allah”. She has more courage then the governments of the world combined.
Gaza’s children comfort themselves with prayer during bombings, God is their only shelter.
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"We have a growing number of young people in this country who do not subscribe to British values" - @Nigel_Farage. "Are we talking about Jews here?" - @TrevorPTweets. "We are" - @Nigel_Farage .
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I tweeted the definition of #genocide in Oct 2023 & was reported by the Dept. for Education (a UK gov’t department) & investigated by my university. Here a Zionist academic is abusing a young woman with cameras rolling without an iota of fear. Let’s see what @uaustinorg & @ASU do.
What noble and courageous behavior from this former IDF soldier Sammy Ben, and this professor at the "University of Austin" Jonathan Yudelman: really impressive use of physical intimidation and force against these women for their political views:.
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Today marks 16 years since my arrest & detention for suspected terrorism by counterterrorism police for having a text obtained from a US gov't website for my research on terrorism. Whilst in custody, police used my pro-Palestinian activism on campus to judge if I was a terrorist.
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So, this isn’t “breaking”. The UK & Canada kept quiet b/c they are complicit, and the journalist kept quiet to use this news to promote a book. As @AzadehMoaveni, who’s written a great book on this topic said today: “this is state/media collaboration in the trafficking of girls”.
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The armed Palestinian resistance is a symptom; not a problem. The problem is a settler-colonial apartheid system. Incisive analysis, as usual, from @4Noura.
“If Hamas were to disappear Palestinians would still remain under subjugation and oppression” argues @4noura. “Even if everything today were to stop & there were an end to escalation, Palestinians would still be enduring violence. Children would still not be able to live freely.”
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The editor at @TheAtlantic - Jeff Goldberg - who approved the below piece by @gcaw served in the Israeli occupation army as a prison guard “inflicting punishment on Palestinian detainees”. You see why the piece made it to print in the midst of a genocide?
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17-year-old #AhedTamimi's secret-trial by a military court, from which the media & journalists are banned, has started today. This is what 'justice' in a settler-colonial 'democracy' looks like.
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ⓘ This claim is disputed.
America is so much better than what we’re seeing today.
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Yes, carrying a knife & driving your van into an Indian restaurant where Muslims are thought to work is “dangerous driving”, not attempted/conspiracy to murder for political reasons (i.e., “terrorism”) but the completely non-political category of “dangerous driving”.
Man convicted of dangerous driving after telling police he was going to 'kill a Muslim'
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“It is prohibited to commit any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples”. Article 53, Geneva Convention. #Palestine.
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If this tweet referred to anti-western violence, it wouldn’t have been sent. If it were, it would break anti-terror laws. Journalists aren’t just revealing the horrors of the #Ukraine war. They’re also exposing the hypocrisy/double standards of our political and media systems.
Where to throw a Molotov cocktail. Guide for Ukrainian volunteers #Kyiv shows weak spots in Russian armour, viewing hatches and air inlets.
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Thank you for this, Mehdi. We all know it but it never hurts to re-emphasise how absurdly differential the treatment is by law enforcement depending on your colour and faith.
“As a white man, a white Christian, Anthony Quinn Warner gets a benefit of the doubt—has a certain privilege shall we say—that people who look like me, and with names like mine, never get.". My take on @MSNBC on the Nashville bomber & our double standards:.
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8 year old daughter of political Islamic ideologue, Anwar-al-Awlaki, one of the 30 people killed in a US military raid in #Yemen today.
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UK minister @michelledonelan has written (and published) a letter to an academic research institute (@UKRI_News) demanding 2 academics be investigated for their critique of Israel, including one academic who used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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#Islamophobia manifests itself in a variety of different sites across the world, and India is one of the worse sites for it.
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Hello @gmpolice. Can you please clarify why you have deleted your statement? . And, pursuant to S.1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please disclose a copy of the statement you have just deleted via email to me on R.Sabir@LJMU.ac.uk. Yours, Dr Rizwaan Sabir.
Thanks for this statement, @gmpolice. Can you please clarify how the peace was breached in this specific context? Thanks.
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🚨 It’s OUT.
After 4-years of writing, I can finally share details of my book with @PlutoPress that hits bookshelves in the USA & UK on 20th March. I pray the pages, which are imbued with vulnerability and hope, give readers understanding, empowerment, and strength.
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The govt haven’t failed to “explain” Prevent. Govt was clear that Prevent was about gathering background intel and then about “safeguarding” as a way of securing buy-in. If the govt has failed at anything, it’s duping Muslims into believing a harmful policy is there to help them.
Government has failed to explain its main counter-extremism programme Prevent to Muslims, leaving a vacuum "Islamists then dominated", says UK's social cohesion adviser. Listen to @BBCNickRobinson interview with Dame Sara Khan on #BBCPoliticalThinking
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An important @PlutoPress book written by Nadya Ali releases in May 2023. It examines how counterterrorism & immigration policy pressure Muslim/racialised people to reform their faith & behaviour to prove their #Britishness or risk being labelled 'extremists’. One to look out for.
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Watch this space for details of the book-launch, related events, and (pre) order the book here:
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The British-government manufactured counter-extremism propaganda outfit that was the Quilliam Foundation, which eventually took its operation to the USA and was bankrolled by neoconservatives, closes down.
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Singling out of Muslim critics of counterterrorism as “enablers of terrorism” isn’t merely a PR talking point. It enables the criminalisation, violence & trauma we experience in real terms; from the surveillance, profiling, arrests, & detentions to the disciplining under Prevent.
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If you've not heard much on the #Greenwich tube bomb suspect, Damon Smith from Devon, it's because he's not Muslim.
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This British Palestinian liberal MP knew about Hamas’s planned attack as much as #GMB host Richard Madeley knows about middle-aged white men planning abuse of their next child victim
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It doesn’t matter whether you think @TariqRamadan, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals of our time, is guilty or not. What matters is that he’s been held for 200+ days without due process & without the most basic of rights. #FreeTariqRamadan
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I recently got a hardcopy of this & re-read it. I was blown away by the clarity with which it shows how Prevent/de-radicalisation, anti-migration & bordering are all connected. It’s a detailed & readable text written with an anti-racist intent. A must read.
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Israel doesn’t want anybody with power or following to document its genocide against the Palestinians. Its why they keep murdering Al-Jazeera journalists, and their families and bombs AJ offices. #Palestine.
Al Jazeera are recording the names of every Palestinian killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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This took me 3 days to read; triggering multiple questions & reflections on the way, which I’m now thinking through. The discussion of “anti-knowledge” by @stamp is so important in understanding “terror expertise” & contemporary counterterrorism policy. An absolute gem of a book.
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“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless … foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation work”. Protocol II, Article 14, Geneva Conventions. #Palestine.
Watch: The Israeli occupation pours cement into the water springs in the Al-Hijrah area, south of Hebron, to block them and prevent Palestinians from using them in agriculture.
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Hi @LBC. If you could be so kind as to provide a little bit of detail in your tweet on the document and context to the arrest rather than this half-tweet, which reinforces a moral panic around Muslim kids, that'd be great. Thanks.
A 13-year-old boy from west London has been arrested on suspicion of sharing Islamist terrorist material.
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My arrest, I soon discovered, had nothing to do with planning violence. It was motivated by my possession of a document that I downloaded from a US government website (also available from bookshops & the library) to inform my postgraduate research on Al-Qaeda & political Islam.
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An important story demonstrating how the so-called “respected” right-wing broadsheets like @TheTimes are complicit in spreading the poison of “fake news”. A good day for media accountability and anti-Islamophobia.
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A concrete message from the UK government telling the world they stand shoulder to shoulder with the Apartheid regime of Israel that has no respect for human life or international law. #Palestine
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After a week in solitary confinement, I was released without charge but became a ‘subject of interest’. I was routinely stopped & searched at the roadside, including by armed officers, detained at the border, and surveilled as I researched counterterrorism policy in Westminster.
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Despite winning a legal case for my treatment, I began experiencing PTSD symptoms; some triggered by past memories & others by present-day realities. I tried to bury the emotions but they became more acute. And so, with great difficulty, i decided to write.
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What @Nus_Ghani’s case shows is that despite supporting almost every brutal Tory policy under the sun, you’ll find yourself being Islamophobically whipped if you identify as Muslim. Let this be a lesson to all assimilationists as well as those who appease Islamophobes & racists.
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Guess how the UK marked the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”?.
Delighted to join Foreign Secretary @trussliz and Foreign Minister @yairlapid and @TzipiHotovely for the signing of a new UK Israel 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 Strategic Partnership. Busy times for @ukinisrael and @IsraelinUK.
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For reasons unknown, @TerrorismPolice have deleted their tweet asking British people to share evidence & data on the violence in Israel. There seems to be a lot of deleting and corrections going on in reference to #Palestine nowadays. An interesting information environment.
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Credit to the Special Branch officer who stopped me under Schedule 7 a few years ago and asked: "do terrorists have human rights"? I've included this as an essay-question that my final-year students are asked to critically interrogate for their Human Rights module.
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Ian Rooke who stabbed Muslim surgeon entering a mosque found not guilty by a Manchester jury. Jury reportedly told that attacker hadn’t taken his medicine & how Muslim surgeon entering a Muslim-place of worship “was in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
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If Adil Ray should be charged for anything, it should be for perpetuating lazy stereotypes in order to pander to white audiences in Citizen Khan.
There are people in this country with national radio shows, seriously playing down the pandemic, encouraging people to ignore the rules and risk their lives. If I did that I’d probably accused of hating Britain and be charged with Islamist Terrorism. One rule for the privileged.
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Britain’s first racialised Prime Minister won zero votes from the public but will be paraded as a sign of Britain’s progressive, open-minded, non-racist, inclusive character. What a load of bollocks.
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I am also deeply grateful to Dr Omar Suleiman, Imran Khan QC, Dr Arun Kundnani, Lowkey, Dr Lisa Stampnitzky, and Professors Deepa Kumar, Richard Jackson, Karma Nabulsi, and Joe Sim for taking the time to write considered and generous endorsements for the book.
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This report once more reveals the troubling reality of the FBI's watchlist system, and the #Islamophobia that systemically dominates counter-#terrorism in the US and beyond which urgently needs dismantling. Read the @CAIRNational report here:
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Thank you @Channel4News & @MattFrei for inviting nobody to challenge or question the methodologically unsound, pseudo-scientific, authoritarian report trying to regulate & control ideas that can’t be empirically shown to cause terrorism. Great journalism.
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The European Union doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians anymore and is now involved in collectively punishing everyone in #Palestine.
The European Union is suspending all payments to the Palestinians because of what Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi called the “scale of terror and brutality” during the Hamas attacks against Israel.
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Couples who oppress together, stay together.
Delighted to welcome Israel's Interior Minister .@Ayelet__Shaked to the @UKHomeOffice this afternoon. There are so many issues on which the UK and Israel can cooperate, not least in the global fight against terrorism, on which we stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel. 🇬🇧🇮🇱
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Fight France’s wars as a Muslim, and be tolerated. Be a Muslim in the rest of France, and face a French Inquisition.
"The tolerance that we find in the armed forces, we don’t find it outside." The French military carves out a place for Islam that is markedly different from other spheres of life in France.
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I want to thank @HichamYezza for re-opening past wounds to write such a thoughtful forward and the indomitable @AamerAnwar for writing a powerful afterword despite being inundated with the tiring task of defending and advocating for the powerless.
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The analysis by @CAIRNational shows that 98% of the listed names are Muslim. 350,000 entries on the list feature various spellings of: . ▪️Mohamed.▪️Ali, or .▪️Mahmoud
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So claiming that a brown person is a “coconut” is now a hate crime liable to police investigation? I’d certainly like to see the advice @CPSUK lawyers are going to give to the @MetPoliceUK to pursue a potential prosecution against this woman!.
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The CIA's use of photos of #Hajj to flaunt surveillance & AI capabilities is an egregious act. It not only tramples on Muslims' privacy, religious freedom & sensitivities but reveals the systemic suspicion of Islam harboured by Western security agencies.
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The Ind. Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) receives record number of complaints over The Sun's made up headline.
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British-Bangladeshi man made stateless on “national security” grounds using secret evidence has citizenship reinstated. “Why was I not arrested and questioned? Why have I been punished. without ever being shown a single piece of evidence against me?”
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What a despicable, spineless man.
Today the President spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, reaffirmed his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket attacks from Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza, and condemned these indiscriminate attacks against Israel.
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Straight out of the Indian hasbara playbook.
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At Westminster Magistrates today in solidarity with a man facing jail for challenging #Schedule7; one of the UK's most draconian terror laws
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The beauty of white privilege means that one day you can occupy the space of “Critical Terrorism Studies” and the day after, schmooze with the surveillance-state. Bravo.
We're supporting academics from UK universities to carry out research into national security challenges - from terrorism to cyber security. Meet one of our #GCHQFellows - Dr Harmonie Toros from @UniKent 👋. ⬇️.
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Your daily reminder that today’s Islamophobes are really just a rehash of 1930s anti-semites.
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Shock horror that the state-manufactured propaganda outfit that is the Quilliam Foundation is full of shit.
The Home Office's report on grooming gang characteristics said that Quilliam's much-reported 2017 research - which said 84% of convicted offenders were Asian - is "not suitable for drawing conclusions about ethnicity of group-based CSE offenders".
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Wait till you hear about the kids in #Gaza and what’s happening to the schools.
Jewish schoolchildren in north London are being told not to wear their blazers if they are afraid for their safety. No child in the UK, no matter of what faith or non, should ever be afraid to go to school. We must do more to protect the Jewish community.
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Chinese Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) is disgusting and despicable beyond words. Do feel free to let the @ChineseEmbInUS know how you feel. #Uyghurs
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White supremacy knows its history. That is why it fears those who it has colonised & oppressed. Great thread.
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9 years to the day, and by the grace of God, I'm still here. Thank you to all of you who offered support, solidarity & love. Thank you.
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Dear @LBC, can you please clarify the situation in reference to @SangitaMyska, please? What’s her current status at your organisation? Is she suspended or something else? Thanks.
Why are journalists not being allowed to robustly confront Israeli officials ? What is being ring fenced here exactly…?? @LBC reinstate @SangitaMyska and I hope her colleagues make themselves heard too.
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Solidarity with the courageous and brave @AzeemRafiq30. We may not be professional cricketers but we know the experiences of racism and Islamophobia you’re describing well. We feel and hear your pain. Stay strong.
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