Management Consultant, Media Spokesperson for
@MuslimCouncil
, Board member of
@rightssecurity
, Grassroots activist. Views my own. RTs not endorsements
Baroness Foster falsely accused a Muslim student, Ms Gorgianehon, of antisemitism over an octopus mascot on University Challenge (note: the others weren't accused)
Foster tried to get Gorgianehon expelled from Oxford
She's now been forced to pay *significant compensation*
Good
Rahman Lowe secure significant compensation from Baroness (
@jfoster2019
) who falsely accused University Challenge student of antisemitism over Blue Octopus mascot
@BBCNews
. Great work from our
@ZillRah7
and Zac Sammour of
@11KBW
More than 500 people have died in Gaza after Israel launched massive retaliatory air strikes, according to Gaza's health ministry
More than 700 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its attacks on Saturday
Follow the latest ⬇️
The Editor of the Jewish Chronicle has tried to get away with secretly deleting his misleading post, without an apology and without acknowledging his mistake
But screenshots exist 👇🏾
This is a Shia religious procession for Imam Husayn on Ashura day in 2021.
This is not from 2023, is not a political protest, and has nothing to do with Israel or Gaza
Not sure why the editor of the UK’s Jewish Chronicle seems so obsessed with fear-mongering about Muslims.
The Home Secretary is treading on dangerous ground here.
A peaceful demonstration is being slurred as "an intimidating mob" and a chant heard at the rally is being mischaracterised.
This is not okay. Thread.
Last weekend an intimidating mob marched through London chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” - a slogan that is widely understood as a demand for the destruction of Israel. Attempts to pretend otherwise are disingenuous. 1/3
Just remember how goalposts change.
Initially, the Israeli military claimed the hospital was Hamas' command centre. That appears to have been a lie.
Now the unverified claim is that multiple hostages were taken to al-Shifa hospital.
Don't forget. Don't be fooled.
BREAKING: IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari says Hamas took multiple hostages to al Shifa hospital
They "used the hospital as a human shield shelter to Hamas terrorists", he says.
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In response to the concerns of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party raised by
@MuslimCouncil
, Mr Boris Johnson said: "...if anybody is done for Islamophobia or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce"
Let's test that, shall we?
A non-exhaustive comparison of the response by President Trump to terror attacks depending on whether the perpetrator(s) or victims are Muslim
#disappointing
Just remember the rules:
When the Israeli ambassador uses the phrase "from the river to the sea", it can be published as a reasonable view in a national newspaper
When Palestinian supporters use the same phrase, it is called "genocide" by a national newspaper
Got it
The wife of Chris Froome, the former Team GB cyclist, said that there were “no innocent Gazans” and called Muslims a “drain on society” in an outburst on social media on Monday.
How hate & blame spreads: two angles on the same mosque (Noorul Islam Masjid on Audley Range, Blackburn).
The first one to make people think there’s no social distancing, shared 100s of times
The second from the cctv from the mosque
Truly awful by
@bbc
A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die"
She never mentioned Hamas yet BBC translation says: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared..We love them very much"
A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."
She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet
@BBC
translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."
Some people doubt the scale of Islamophobia in the media, claim it is limited to certain views of Katie Hopkins, Rod Liddle and Melanie Phillips, and believe the far-right attitudes come from extreme rather than mainstream sources. This thread aims to challenge such assumptions.
Come on
@SkyNews
, the story is not that Trump attacks Khan - it's that he quote-tweets the vile Katie Hopkins & her virulent Islamophobia.
This should not be difficult.
What a disgusting & shameful front page.
100,000s march peacefully. Only 9 arrests. And you call it a "jihadi hate mob".
Worse you talk about a call to act because protestors shout the religious phrase "Allahu Akbar"
This type of racist headline incites violence. Unacceptable
As a number of Muslims leave the Labour Party due to its stance on international law and collective punishment of Palestinians, they are apparently dehumanised and called "fleas" by a Labour source
Really disgusting
The President of the USA praised Katie Hopkins, quote tweeted her and RTed her.
She has now been permanently banned for "violations of our hateful conduct policy"
This is the leader of the USA in 2020.
The pro-Israel rally had 1% (?) of the attendance of yesterday, yet had:
1. Tommy Robinson attending (plus fans)
2. Tzipi Hovotely on stage speaking
3. One participant screaming: "there will never be Palestine. It's our country. My f***ing country"
Let's see how it's covered
The Jewish Chronicle's editors know Muslims are fearful, as many in the Islamophobic far right feel emboldened.
Yet they choose now to publish this vile piece from the awful Melanie Phillips - as Islamophobia is on the rise.
Shameful.
This is appalling race baiting from The Telegraph (top story on its front page) & Mail Online (one of its top 10 news stories)
By claiming a mere 30 corinavirus cases from Pakistan are *half of UK's imported infections" & giving it such prominence, they know what they are doing
Thank you,
@MailOnline
&
@Daily_Express
!
“From the river to the sea…” is a call for the annihilation of the world’s only Jewish state. It is an anti-Jewish, anti-Israel genocidal slur and more must be done to stop it.
Truly unbelievable Ben Shapiro is on BBC's Politics Live. He believes most Muslims are radical, is a vile racist about Arabs & his Twitter was visited by the far-right Quebec terrorist 93 times in the month before the shooting
Vile Islamophobia clearly not a barrier for being on
As editor, Fraser Nelson bears ultimate responsibility for the vile racism & Islamophobia that is pouring out of the Spectator (the latest by Rod Liddle published today).
He is complicit & must not be allowed to dodge responsibility.
Chief Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Dominic Cummings has a new advisor Andrew Sabisky
Here is Sabisky:
1 Openly advocating eugenics
2 Speaking at a white nationalist eugenics conference, later shut down by UCL
H/t
@dmk1793
In Canada, 4 Muslims were murdered in a hit a run, targeted for their Muslimness.
#Islamophobia
is an issue not treated with the seriousness it deserves.
Sorry, Douglas Murray, you can't get away with trying to distance yourself from Trump now.
We will not forget how you - and your ilk - propagandised for Trump & made excuses for him
With your history of alignment with some of the worst figures around, we see you.
Appears that
@guardian
has now secretly corrected its article without an apology or an acknowledgement of its error
Really poor
Vital to understand *why* this happened & what can be done to prevent Palestinians being treated as inferior in the future
Really poor from the
@guardian
and can't see any justification for treating Palestinian children different from Israeli children
(other than somehow parroting Israeli propaganda that Palestinian children aren't really children)
Do better
Melanie Phillips - who featured in the manifesto by the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, and who is renowned for disgusting pieces on Muslims - is chosen by The Times to write a piece entitled "Britain is losing the fight against extremism"
No,
@MetroUK
, the tower didn't just explode. This *residential block* was *intentionally* destroyed by an Israeli air strike.
Missing out information is seriously misleading & awful journalism
When you see this hateful vile bigotry from Kelvin MacKenzie, let's remember he was the editor of a national newspaper (The Sun), publishing stories read by millions.
Islamophobia is rampant & normalised amongst many sections of the media (including editors & decision makers)
How does
@SkyNews
justify this disparity in headlines?
Why is support for security for Muslim institutions not framed in the same way as support for security for Jewish institutions?
Really unacceptable.
Dabirul Islam Choudhury, a 100-year-old man, raised more than £60,000 for coronavirus victims by walking 100 laps of his garden while fasting in Ramadan.
He was inspired by war veteran Colonel Tom Moore who raised £32 million for the NHS.
This is a really important point
The normalisation of being able to say "don't worry about those pesky Muslims - you don't need their votes" is deeply disturbing
It speaks to a psyche that rarely (if ever) would be applied to others
Disgusting from the editor of the Jewish News, Richard Ferrer, in the Express today.
He actually says "historic Islamic bloodlust, passed down through the generations from birth"
This must be retracted.
There's a reason
@realDonaldTrump
uses the image of Ilhan Omar as the first still of his video. And it's appalling.
The world will be a better place if impeachment is successful.
ICYMI Nadine Dorries, the new Culture Secretary has:
1. Shared tweets by Tommy Robinson
2. Asked Sadiq Khan about grooming gangs (what's it got to do with him?)
3. Said vote rigging is "commonplace" in Muslim communities
See thread for evidence 👇🏽👇🏽
Here is Nadine Dorries sharing from the far right Islamophobe "Tommy Robinson"
The tweet is still up and she hasn't apologised.
(Note: contents not available as Twitter deleted Tommy Robinson's account)
It has been a week.
There has been no apology.
There has not even been a response to our complaint.
Islamophobia is virulent and normalised in sections of our mainstream media. Astonishingly bad.
"By the very definition of being a Muslim you are going to be anti-Jewish."
Trevor Kavanagh's Islamophobia left unchallenged on
@TalkTV
.
Question for
@Ofcom
. Is this Islamophobia now acceptable speech on British TV?
This is astonishing. Any senior Labour official who tells media that Muslims are not voting Labour because Muslims support antisemitism, should be sacked.
No ifs, no buts.
Geert Wilders is not merely "anti-Islam" as described by the BBC, Reuters, LBC & The Telegraph
This implies he's just a critic of the teachings of Islam
Actually he's a hateful far-right Islamophobe who targets ordinary Muslims
Thread
My latest in the
@guardian
on the Conservatives turning a blind eye to Islamophobia in their Party despite the scale of the issue.
This thread will highlight some of the "monumental weight of evidence" of the problem.
Deeply shocked by events in Israel and Gaza over the last 48 hours & thoughts with the families of innocent civilians killed and affected by Hamas’ indiscriminate and abhorrent rocket attacks. UK fully supports vital role UN and Egypt have in securing a ceasefire.
NEW: Tory MP Bob Blackman was exposed sharing a platform with Katie Hopkins & David Vance
ICYMI he has a long history linked to Islamophobia inc RTing Tommy Robinson
@Conservatives
claim a "zero tolerance" policy: we know what that really means (thread)
Outrageous from the editor of the Jewish Chronicle
Here he says someone fairly critiquing the reliability of the Israeli military - which has been caught out lying on multiple occasions - is equivalent to saying "the Jews can't be trusted"
Awful
Seems like not a single Conservative MP* (/gvt/potential PM candidates) has spoken out after the Trump quote-tweeting Katie Hopkins using the Islamophobic term "Londonistan" & attacking Sadiq Khan
Many say I should expect this. Yet I am so hurt & disappointed
*Please correct me
Islamophobes attacked a bookshop.
A staff member said: "Books on Islamophobia were ridiculed and thrown around. They chanted about Muslims and paedophilia, and called us traitors."
One needn't wonder what coverage Muslims attacking a bookshop would get.
About 6:45 this evening Bookmarks Bookshop was attacked by about a dozen masked wearing fascists. They threatened staff and attempted to destroy books and other materials. Fortunately no staff were hurt. This is the true face of fascism. No Paseran!
As Tommy Robinson is convicted of stalking, let us not forget which current Conservative MPs have RTed him:
1. Nadine Dorries
2. Bob Blackman
3. Karl McCartney
No action has been taken against any of these MPs.
The Conservative Party doesn't seem to care
The decision not to launch an Islamophobia probe into the Conservative Party by the EHRC & to trust the Party, despite the scale of evidence, will elicit many questions in the coming days and weeks
Eight months pregnant Sana Muhammad was shot dead with a crossbow in front of her five children as she did the washing up at the family home in Ilford yesterday morning.
BBC Question Time has failed Muslim communities again by ignoring the
#Christchurch
terrorist massacre of Muslims, as it ignored the Finsbury Park terrorist attack and Conservative Party Islamophobia
#disgusted
#bbcqt
Dear
@bbcquestiontime
-You've had Rod Liddle on more than any Muslim
-You ignored Finsbury Park terrorist attack where Makram Ali, a Muslim worshipper, was murdered
-You’ve ignored
#ToryIslamophobia
Please don’t ignore the
#Christchurch
terrorist attack this week
Truly shameful from the BBC.
To platform Melanie Phillips as an expert on racism, despite her having engaged in disgusting Islamophobia, played into far-right tropes & called Islamophobia a "fiction", is unacceptable
This should not be difficult!
Times columnist Melanie Phillips on Labour leadership contenders handling anti-Semitism
She says Keir Starmer will try, but won't succeed: "This is a problem that goes very deep, not just in Labour, but throughout progressive politics"
#PoliticsLive
Daily Mail apologise for 8 serious inaccuracies that undermine the fundamental premise of the hatchet job written by Andrew Malone about Muslim immigrants in Paris - after my complaint (6 months after the original article)
The Times published disgusting unabashed racism from Melanie Phillips then tries to cover it up by changing it without even a note saying so.
I wish I could say I am surprised. But this is yet another example of how a once well-respected paper has fallen.
Allison Pearson's "firm belief" in
@Telegraph
"only when Muslim girls are *allowed* to be educated..we may..see an end to the terrorist threat"
Reality: 25% of Muslim women aged 21-24 have degrees, vs. 22% of Muslim men of the same age
Islamophobic bigotry has poisoned her mind
Dear
@bbcquestiontime
-You've had Rod Liddle on more than any Muslim
-You ignored Finsbury Park terrorist attack where Makram Ali, a Muslim worshipper, was murdered
-You’ve ignored
#ToryIslamophobia
Please don’t ignore the
#Christchurch
terrorist attack this week
Appalling by our Prime Minister
After the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, where 1000s of Bosnian Muslims were massacred, Boris Johnson said (two years later): "But they weren't exactly angels, these Muslims"
This is truly unacceptable.
Truly appalling from
@KayBurley
on
@SkyNews
:
Lavery: "the man is a misogynist, the man is a racist, he has a track record of lying"
Burley: "he's not an anti-semite though, is he?"
Astonishing disregard for other forms of racism. Islamophobia just doesn't matter to so many.
Islamophobia in the UK press & by paid columnists at national newspapers is not unusual, but the silence to this racism from mainstream journalists as a whole (who class themselves as "anti-racist") is illustrative of what Muslims face.
Julie Burchill, who once I suppose was a well regarded journalist, has quite openly subjected me to Islamophobia on here. I'm a big girl - it's not going to upset me - but I do find it strange that none of her colleagues or friends in the industry seem to have a problem with it.
Disappointing to see BBC and Sky News lead with "Allahu Akbar" in their headline on the awful shooting in
#Strasbourg
vs. ITV and Al Jazeera who are being far more responsible.
This matters and it's wrong.
Karl McCartney has repeatedly retweeted "far-right propaganda" from the Islamophobic bigots Tommy Robinson & Katie Hopkins as uncovered by
@hopenothate
He is the Party candidate in Lincoln.
Is he out "first bounce"?
David Vance's vile racism is *finally* off Twitter. He has been suspended & driven to Parler
Congratulations to those who reported him & highlighted his racism & good that
@TwitterSupport
acted albeit very belatedly
(Although worth noting that the vile
@AltNewsMedia
remains!)
Appalling to see a DUP Member of Parliament
@ianpaisleymp
re-tweet such appalling
#Islamophobia
- it's not like he doesn't know who or what he was RT-ing. This party has a pact with the Conservative party - and what will happen? Nothing.
The adviser chosen to set up UK race inequality commission has cast doubt on the existence of institutional racism and condemned previous inquiries for fostering a “culture of grievance”
It's almost as if the government doesn't want this to succeed!
Passer-by Riyad El Hussani leapt from the platform to save Sir Robert who had been pushed onto the train tracks. The rescue finished with one minute until the next train. Crossley has been found guilty of two counts of attempted murder.
I really struggle with why journalists are not willing to name other journalists who are propagating hate. Who else will? Is it left to Muslims to fight this on our own? We deserve your support.
"There are loudmouth pundits and rabble-rousers one could name...."
This isn’t about lone killers and deranged individuals. This is a terrorist movement of white supremacism that draws strength from politicians at the highest level. My column on the Christchurch killings
*BREAKING*: It's hard to keep up - but yet another Conservative candidate is found to have a sick internet history including Islamophobia, as well as Holocaust denial and homophobia.
What will it take, for Islamophobia in the Conservative Party to be taken seriously?
Tomorrow’s front page exclusive: Scottish Tories forced to axe candidate after we uncover sick internet history of Holocaust denial, homophobia and Islamophobia. Shocking details only in tomorrow’s paper – must read
Pro-Israel lawyer faked vandalism attack at Scots home to frame the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
He has been slammed by legal watchdogs & fined.
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter talked about how solidarity with Palestinians led to some of their funding being pulled. But they dug their heels in and sent more delegations to Palestine.
Amazing
The Home Office review on "grooming gangs" finally published concludes:
1. “links between ethnicity and this form of offending” could not be proven
2. “Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) offenders are most commonly white"
It is truly appalling to see the BBC change its headline & the article's first line to spread Israeli propaganda rather than report news. It must do better.
Let's analyse the pro-Israel bias in this one story in a bit of detail.
Thread
No action taken when Labour member uses Nazi language about Muslims leaving the Party calling them "fleas"
Action taken when Labour MP says: “We won’t rest until we have justice, until all people, Israelis & Palestinians, between the river & the sea can live in peaceful liberty”
UPDATE: Senior Labour MP Andy McDonald has now been suspended over the ‘river to the sea’ speech
The decision comes after fast-paced internal discussions on Monday afternoon
This is a disgusting analogy.
100,000s of lives were lost in the Iran-Iraq war, started by a brutal dictator.
Your disdain for international law & the lives of those Muslims in the region, comes through in this tweet.
Awful.
Douglas, are you sure the "best" wasn't when you said “Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board”, called Islam an "opportunist infection", Muslims a "demographic time bomb", and that mosques should be “pulled down”?
Brilliant line-by-line take down of the Mail Online's article falsely claiming there were 300,000 illegal migrants in a town (St. Denis) that actually has a population of c.110k (2014 figures).
Nadiya Hussain: ‘The man recognised me and shouted, “Terrorist!”...My daughter [Maryam, ten] was in tears and absolutely terrified.'
The real Islamophobia faced by many British Muslims
Extremely serious: Not only did Priti Patel meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu while on holiday to Israel without disclosing to the FCO, she lied when she claimed that Boris Johnson had been informed
When remembering Navalny, it is important not to whitewash the parts of his past when he compared Muslims and immigrants to cockroaches.
His whole life has not been courageous. Some of it is disgusting too.
This is terrible news. As the fiercest advocate for Russian democracy, Alexei Navalny demonstrated incredible courage throughout his life.
My thoughts are with his wife and the people of Russia, for whom this is a huge tragedy.
What about Anjana Patel, the Conservative candidate in Brent North?
The Tories Knew About This Candidate's Anti-Muslim Tweet, But Let Her Stand Anyway.
Is she going to be out "first bounce"?
BREAKING: *Another* candidate from the Conservative Party (Flora Scarabello) has been suspended due to Islamophobia.
When will the Party acknowledge it has a real problem with Islamophobia?