Kiran

Contributor @TribuneBlogs @ePakistanToday ~ A Pakistani in Pardes ~ Team PTI in Australia

[Kiran @KiranW_]

In a major breakthrough we the insafians in #Australia have made our voices reach the Australian Parliament where MP Maria Vamvakinou called for "peaceful elections, for respect for the rule of law & for justice in Pakistan." She also mentioned ill-treatment of IK & #PTI members!

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@BajiPlease AGREED!!!

[Kiran @KiranW_]

May Kashmir get its true azadi. This world has not been kind to its people 💔

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@Real_MZubair @tinfoilhat79 Love the caption. So apt.

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@Form_45 @javerias N league is mostly full of brain dead uncultured creatures including their princess

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@darab_farooqui Always blow my mind whenever I read Indian menus. I mean even the thought of gobi manchurian... OMG 😭

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@zoo_bear LOL WTH

[Gowhar Geelani @GowharGeelani]

Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan should hang his head in shame. He is mocking real people who lost their eyesight either partially or completely. He is rubbing salt into their wounds by delivering murderous dialogues. He is mocking an entire race and their faith. Ajay is a disgrace!

[Mirza Waheed @MirzaWaheed]

An Indian film company has announced a film mocking scores of Kashmiri teenagers blinded by pellet guns in 2016. I wrote an essay on it at the time. Assuming people still read long form in the age of hate cinema.
https://t.co/UILQKZg2Zy

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.

You probably didn’t hear about it.

Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.

Both from Bradford.

They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.

Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:

"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."

Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:

"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."

Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.

Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.

They deserved every word.

But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.

We have seen this before.

Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.

Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.

LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.

He ran towards the blade.

A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.

This is the pattern.

When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.

When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.

Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.

Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.

One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."

He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.

They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.

They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.

The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.

"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32

Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.

Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.

And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.

When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.

When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.

Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.

Muslim men.

Say both.

Sources first comment.

Report: https://t.co/D9amGp2yxO
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Substack: https://t.co/9x6sqmwMge
IG: @islamophobiauk

[Waqas Habib Rana @waqas464]

As a Pakistani, please watch this video and be super proud of yourself. Pakistan is the best country! 🇵🇰

[Waqas Habib Rana @waqas464]

Proof. Pakistanis are amazing, most hospitable in the world.

[Waqas Habib Rana @waqas464]

Pakistanis are just amazing. So proud.

[A. Lukman @Islam435]

The most bombed countries in the last 50 years are all Muslim. But somehow Muslims are the terrorists?

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@Thecolistin @AdityaRajKaul Add burnol to the prescription

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Politicians posting “being a dad is the greatest joy” while killing fathers in Gaza

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@BasharatDar_R Ghee. Coconut oil. Mustard oil. Olive oil both extra virgin and refined.

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@Maq_one Here many of the 90s kids have grown up watching Bollywood but today's Bollywood sucks big time

[Kiran @KiranW_]

@alinashigri Indeed. Imagine how many of Indian journalists must be taking pills to handle their restlessness and anxiety... oh and well, let's not even think about Arnab Goswami LOL

[Alina Shigri @alinashigri]

Some more sleepless nights for our neighbours 😁