Epictitus 🐥

Opinionated from outer space but fully down to Earth 🌎 Retweets are not endorsements - International Strategy - Foreign Policy - DIT UK

[Epictitus 🐥 @Epictetus_2]

No matter what cards I'm dealt with I never fold...

[SNEAKO @sneako]

Allah is truly the best of planners

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Pakistan has always had a connection to football, from making World Cup footballs in Sialkot to finally lifting a trophy of its own.

As the world watches the biggest tournament in the game, Pakistan is writing its own football history.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

When the perpetrator is a white Christian man and the victim is a brown Sikh woman, funny how all of those details are left out of western media headlines.

[🇯🇲𝕋𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕒 𝔻𝕒 𝕌𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖🫡 @ICtrlUFranLol]

Theres an epidemic in Britain thats on the raise, and that’s Far right nationalism/racism and violence.

Black and Brown people, We all need to look out for one another.

Rest in Peace Kirandeep Kaur 🕊️

[SNEAKO @sneako]

Simplicity

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Yesterday a 14 year old was arrested for plotting to attack 2 mosques in London.

On the weekend, 12 people were arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot against thousands of Muslims in Suffolk at a prayer gathering.

Far-right extremism is out of control in the UK.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is the first time I've heard about this. No wall-to-wall media coverage

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

What’s his crime?

Not being the right color and trying to eat his lunch in a park.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is the moment Sheila Robinson was able to thank Mohsin Qayyum and Muhammed Yusuf Iqbal, who saved her and her grandson when a fire broke out.

[zak @JimmmyEricson]

Brown guys go for a walk in the park and racists just chatting utter bullshit saying they looking for kids to rape.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Warren Buffet: "I can end the deficit in five minutes. You juts pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection."

[⛔️ محمد واموسي @ouamoussi]

⛔️ رياض محرز مهاجم منتخب الجزائر يرد على الجدل بشأن هدفه الثالث في شباك النمسا الذي يخرق الاتفاق بين الفريقين لإنهاء المباراة 2-2 :

- "كان عليّ أن أحترم قواعد اللعبة، والتسجيل في شباك النمسا، وأعلم أنه موقف محرج"

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"We don't talk about how China actually, on some of these goals, again hunger, poverty, climate action, is literally number one in the world in terms of real action – and not just talk."

@AyoCaesar in conversation with top economist, Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM), discussing whether her theory of mission-oriented economics is the same as China's.

Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

[Majid🎒 @Majid5963]

نوآ:
"چرا تیم‌های آفریقایی و خاورمیانه‌ای باید جواب کارهای دولت‌هاشون رو بدن، ولی تیم‌های اروپایی نه؟
دم تیم ایران گرم؛ اومدن فقط فوتبال بازی کنن. هر روز برای بازی پرواز می‌کردن، هر بار هم ساعت‌ها توی گمرک و بازرسی معطل می‌شدن، ولی با احترام رفتار کردن و کاملاً حرفه‌ای و منصفانه بازی کردن.
با این حال، بعد از هر بازی به‌جای اینکه درباره فوتبال ازشون سؤال کنن، مدام می‌خواستن بکشنشون وسط بحث‌های سیاسی؛ مثلاً می‌پرسیدن نظرت درباره اتفاقات تنگه هرمز چیه. خب طرف هم می‌گه: داداش، من فوتبالیستم، نه سیاستمدار."

[MW @muslim_world]

This is what British author Karen Armstrong who wrote three books about Islam says...

[Epictitus 🐥 @Epictetus_2]

@PolitlcsUK The fact this was law in the first place is effed up

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Rough sleeping will be decriminalised tomorrow as the Government repeals the 1824 Vagrancy Act

It means police won’t be able to move on homeless people sleeping or begging on the streets

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

A Muslim family's home was smashed in Walsall this week.

Their car too. Their children were inside.

They reported it.

One family. No response.

It is not the first time this town has been the address.

Last October, a Sikh woman was followed home from the bus in Walsall. A man forced his way in. He raped her, repeatedly calling her an effing Muslim bitch.

She told him she was not Muslim. It did not matter. The hostility doesn't check. It sees a face and decides.

John Ashby. Jailed for life.

This week, in Parliament, @ShockatAdam stood up and named it.

He told the House his children are kicking every ball of England's World Cup campaign — and that as a Muslim parent, he is afraid for their safety in this country.

He listed why.

The Sikh woman in Walsall, raped as an "effing Muslim bitch." No condemnation from a Minister at the despatch box.

The Unite the Kingdom march openly calling for Muslims to be expelled. No ministerial statement.

Five Muslim men stabbed on the streets of Edinburgh. No statement. No COBRA. No solidarity.

Then he asked: "What does this silence say to my children?"

The Prime Minister said he wants his children to feel safe, and that an attack on one is an attack on all.

He did not name Walsall. He did not name Edinburgh. He did not name the march.

He did not say the word.

Now look at what this country does when it decides a threat is real.

29 April 2026. Two Jewish men stabbed in Golders Green.

COBRA convened the same day.
The Prime Minister visited the scene.
Threat level raised to severe.
A 100-officer task force deployed.

This was the right response. It was correct. The threat was real. Antisemitism is real. The state moved.

In Walsall, a family's home and car were destroyed with their children inside.

No COBRA. No statement. No task force. No one will even name it.

We are not asking for less protection for anyone.

We are asking for the same.

So when the children in that house ask if they are safe, there is an answer.

@WMPolice

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[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Tell me again how Iran was not cheated.

[Ava Brooks @ViralMindLive]

🚨 Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the VAR decision that denied Iran a last-minute victory against Egypt:

🗣️ "This is exactly why people are losing faith in VAR. We were told it was there to eliminate obvious mistakes, but somehow it continues to create bigger controversies on the biggest stage in football. This is simply unacceptable."

"I've watched the replay over and over again, and I still don't understand how anyone could have called that offside. If you're going to disallow a goal that could decide the World Cup for a nation, you'd better be 100% sure and not guess behind a screen. Millions of Iranians celebrated what they thought was a historic moment, only for a bunch of officials to erase it in seconds. You didn't just deny a goal; you stole a nation's dream."

"The referee and the VAR officials must be held accountable for decisions like this. You can't hide behind technology when technology is being misused. This isn't justice; this is incompetence." "The World Cup is held once every four years. Players sacrifice everything to get here, fans travel across the globe, and then one shocking decision destroys months of hard work. This is unforgivable."

"If this is the standard of refereeing in football's biggest tournament, something serious is broken. Football deserves better, players deserve better, and above all, fans deserve much better than this."

#iran #egypt