Assoc. Prof. of American Studies & WGSS @Rutgers/Author of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam. Mom. Gardener. Views only mine.
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I am both terrified and thrilled to be writing the story of Islam and Muslims in the United States at this moment.
Thank you to @sarahkkhalil, @CalligraphLit, and @beckysaletan (it’s coming along).
Forthcoming 2026 (27?). Insha’Allah.
A reminder that Columbus was a monster, who was sent back to Spain in chains for his heinous crimes, including an order to cut a woman's tongue out after forcibly parading her around naked on a mule.
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Utterly disgusted by @RutgersU Engineering School's decision to cancel the commencement speech from distinguished alum @RamiElghandour. The level of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, & anti-Palestinian racism on college campuses is unchecked & out of control.
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Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.
to our sniveling, pathetic democratic "leaders": FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
Exactly. This is the result of decades of anti-Iran propaganda and Islamophobia that has rotted American institutions from the inside out.
Professor @bikrumsinghgill reminded me: Trump can existentially threaten an entire civilisation. And the fact that the US is not experiencing of a crisis of legitimacy in this moment. With no mass mobilisation and direct action against the sitting p*dophile and administration, is due to the years of demonisation and delegitimisation of The Islamic Republic. For every academic and leftist social commentator who said “regime” and “supported the people” you contributed to this. You have a direct hand in reproducing the logic that now allows for the president to threaten mass extinction of a people. We won’t forget.
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Trump: “I’m going to commit a genocide”
Democrats: “Did you get congressional approval first?”
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It’s incredible how absent Democratic Party leadership is in the face of Trump blowing up the entire fucking world.
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We should work toward nuclear disarmament in the entire world, but it should start with disarming the two nations that pose the most serious threat to global peace: Israel and the United States.
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After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide.
It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.
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Even if Trump is "bluffing," the US may never come back from this. Whether you voted for him or not, the rest of the world sees this guy as our collective will. To everyone else, we are a landmass teeming with viciousness. We have a very high bar to prove that's not true.
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"a whole civilization will die" and "less radicalized minds" in the same paragraph is the most American thing ever
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I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.
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The war mongering pedophiles that brought you genocide in Gaza and the most scandalous files of abuse in history are now embroiling the world in a war to distract you in the name of “preserving freedom.”
Bombing a girls elementary school and killing over 30 young children is scratching the surface for these monsters. Truly sickening.
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Have heard from an Iranian friend that her partner in Teheran has sent her a message. He is a leftist and is telling her that the US/Israelis are targeting a number of known leftists homes in Teheran and elsewhere in an attempt to make sure there's no opposition to their favoured candidate once they destroy the regime. What this reveals is the degree of penetration by Mossad in Iran. What it also means is that this is not going to be an easy occupation for the US and its Israeli buddies.
Does anyone have contacts at Masjid Al-Ansar in Miami that they would be willing to share? Would love to speak to someone about the mosque's history and evolution since the 1960s.
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