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[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

using the passive “dead” and the active “killed” in the SAME HEADLINE is absolutely diabolical

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

This is the best one by far. Shoutout to the mosque uncle who not only went into baby formula procurement hyperdrive, he also got mad at the negligent partner, didn’t flinch when she corrected him to explain she wasn’t Muslim, and arranged delivery because he wouldn’t let her take a bus to pick up the baby milk.

[Yasin Abdel Magid Mekkawy al-Hashimi @yasinabdelmagid]

This entire post is based on misunderstandings of Islamic law, scripture, and terminology. Let’s clarify each point with what the Qur’an and classical jurists actually say—rather than 15-second TikTok clichés:

1. “A woman’s testimony is half of a man’s.”

This is not a universal rule in Islam.
The Qur’anic verse (2:282) refers specifically to a commercial contract dispute in 7th-century Arabia—an environment where women had little exposure to business transactions.
In Islamic law:
•A woman’s testimony = a man’s in all criminal cases,
•= a man’s in marriage, divorce, custody, property, and inheritance disputes,
•and is required exclusively in cases where men cannot testify (e.g., childbirth).

Context-specific ≠ ontological inferiority.

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2. “Islam lets a man hit his wife.”

Another mistranslation.
The word “waḍribūhunna” (4:34) does NOT mean “hit” in classical Arabic in this context.
All four Sunni madhāhib agree that:
•It prohibits harm, bruising, humiliation, or force,
•And most jurists interpret it as symbolic,
•While scholars like Ibn ʿAbbās and al-Ṭabarī said it means “separate from her”,
•And the Prophet ﷺ said: “Do not strike the female servants of Allah.” (Abu Dawud)

He never struck a woman and condemned those who did.

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3. “Why romanticize the hijab?”

Hijab is not about male control.
It is a religious symbol of dignity, chosen by millions of women—scholars, activists, doctors—across the world.
Western culture romanticizes:
•bikinis,
•miniskirts,
•cosmetic surgery,
•sexualization for profit…

Why is a woman’s modesty the one expression that threatens people?

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4. “Islam treats women like property.”

Islam was the first civilization in history to give women:
•the right to own property,
•the right to initiate divorce,
•the right to inherit,
•the right to education,
•the right to keep their maiden name,
•the right to refuse a marriage,
•financial maintenance without obligation to work.

Compare that to Europe, where:
•Women could not own property until the late 19th century,
•Wife-beating was legal until 1879,
•Marital rape was legal until the 1990s.

But Islam is “oppressive”?

If the best arguments against Islam come from misunderstandings, mistranslations, and TikTok rants… what does that say about the strength of the criticisms?

[Barbie 🎀 Agitprop @BarbieAgitprop]

Ben Shapiro will say with a straight face that Israel has a claim to Palestinian land based on some shit from 3000 years ago and then tell people they aren't entitled to live in the city they were born in

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This should be a massive scandal.

Dutch police concluded that violent Maccabi hooligans were closely linked to the IDF - and determined to cause "serious violence".

Your government lied to you.

Your media lied to you.

And they smeared Birmingham to defend Israeli hooligans!

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

Sky News has not mentioned the name of a SINGLE Palestinian hostage - despite 2000 being released vs 20 Israeli hostages!

Not a SINGLE word for the 1000s of Palestinian hostages that have limbs missing, blinded (literal) by abuse & tortured to death….

Your racism is sickening!

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The @OxfordUnion removed a portion of my speech for referencing booby-trapped toys left by Israelis for Lebanese children in the 80s. They claimed I was inciting to violence by stating well-documented facts. Here, it seems zionist demons are still up to their old tricks.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Israel’s defense minister says the bombing will continue after they get their hostages back. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

[Jordan Davies @jordandavies09]

They’ve all been cowards there. Niko has been voted because he’s an outsider and he’s not in their celebrity world. Nothing to do with the game #traitors #celebritytraitors

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

A mosque set alight with people inside isn't treated as terrorism, but people dismantling an Israeli weapons factory is.

[Bilal Abdul Kareem @BilalKareem]

Mainstream media is doing its best to make sure you don’t see these images. Share!

[Thomas "Lesley" Crocwell @lesthecroc]

Oh how the times change

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

1) This is based on conflating Israel with Jewish people.

2) The anti-Palestinian racism in all of this is utterly shameless.

Yesterday, Israel killed dozens of Palestinians, as it does every day.

They never talk about respecting the grief of British Palestinians.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A hero.

He's a young Israeli refusenik who was imprisoned for refusing to serve in Israel's genocidal army.

He's now broken into Gaza - in an attempt to break Israel's genocidal siege.

History remembers people like Itamar as moral titans.

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

This is wrong. Locking down A&E of all hospitals in Manchester because 4 Jews are horrifically attacked at 1 synagogue is disproportionate exceptionalism & gross disservice to thousands of residents the A&E serves which is already under extreme pressure. No lockdown at Southport murders or when Imam knifed last week or Muslims are attacked or Black ppl are stabbed or driver in Liverpool drives through parade etc etc

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Not only are the two men in the pictures not the same, and not Hamas, but one of them is a globally famous British politician called George Galloway!

The shameless and public dishonesty of the Israeli government is a sight to behold.

But then again, they hired @EylonALevy so…

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is genuinely very frightening.

Israel are now describing the flotilla as terrorists.

And we know what Israel do to civilians they brand as 'terrorists'.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

They've spent two years flying spy planes for the IOF, sending weapons and even trying to justify war crimes.

Now they'll "recognise" what's left of it.

[cyn⁴ 💛 @DPRyoongi]

people have been asking y'all to boycott Disney for their ties to the genocide in gaza and no one listened.

a white man gets fired and suddenly, everyone is coming together to bring disney down?? this is how i know y'all don't give a fuck about black and brown lives.