🚨A heartbreaking farewell to 10 year old Waleed Youssef Abu Jazar, who succumbed to injuries he sustained in an Israeli military strike in southern Gaza days ago.
Every single day, I find myself overwhelmed by the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the criminals expanding into the Westbank and Lebanon, the continued global indifference towards Sudan, the refugees among us who arise from the causes we claim dear to us that get virtually zero community support, the forgotten political prisoners left to languish in dungeons like graves beneath the earth, and the painful feeling that I am still not doing enough for any of them.
May Allah relieve the oppressed, free the imprisoned, and forgive our shortcomings.
Lebanese marine ecologist Mona Khalil, who was severely wounded after an Israeli strike hit her home near Tyre last week, has died, according to local reports https://t.co/OnTwrl9Qv5
Five Muslim men were chased through Edinburgh with a machete on Friday night.
Two of them were 22 years old.
They were walking through their own city. Sighthill. Then the west. Then Leith Walk.
By the end of the night, five were injured and three were in hospital.
Tonight they are lying in those beds wondering if they will be well enough for work on Monday.
The man who did it was pinned to the ground by police, still screaming.
"I'm protecting the country from these Muslim bastards raping our young daughters."
Ask where a man learns to say that out loud.
He didn't invent it.
Three days earlier, Rupert Lowe published a crowdfunded report claiming 250,000 white girls had been raped by Muslim gangs.
The number was everywhere. GB News. X. The front pages.
Then a man took it into the street on the end of a blade.
He needed one breath to name who he hated.
Watch how long it took everyone else.
The BBC first wrote "Islamophobic attacks." Then changed it to "anti-Muslim." The right word, quietly swapped.
Sky News: "appearing to target Muslims."
LBC kept the word. The only outlet that did. The same station that dropped Sangita Myska in 2024 after she refused to soften.
Then the politicians.
Manchester synagogue, October. John Swinney, same day: "Antisemitism is an evil we must confront." He named the faith. He named the community. That was right.
Edinburgh, his own capital. Swinney: "deeply concerned" by "these incidents." Not Muslim. Not Islamophobia.
The Prime Minister, almost a day late: "appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred."
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, a Muslim woman, the minister whose department decides what this country calls terrorism. Golders Green: "a vile act of terrorism." Edinburgh: "appears."
Even her.
Still no COBRA. The threat level has not moved. And not one of them will name the attacker's faith.
When the man with the blade is one of us, his religion leads the headline before the ambulance arrives.
When he comes for us, he is a bare-chested man with a weapon.
We have watched this before.
Maysum Abdullah took a knife to the neck shielding his pupils. A hero in every paper. A Muslim in none of them.
Mohammed Algasim, a Saudi student, stabbed to death in the neck in Cambridge. His name barely printed.
And it is not slowing down. In a single week, three mosques were attacked and an imam's home was firebombed. Batley. Blackburn. Bolton. Barely a ripple.
A man knew exactly who he hated and said it in one sentence.
The press could not print it without editing it. The politicians could not say it without softening it. The state would not lift a finger to escalate it.
The whole country saw what it was. Almost no one in power would say the word.
Hands held over their mouths.
Tonight, five Muslim men are in an Edinburgh hospital.
They were victims.
They were Muslim.
They prayed, they fasted, they practised the religion of Islam.
And every word of that was stripped from the page.
If they won’t say it. We will.
ISLAMOPHOBIA.
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“O you who believe! alcohol, gambling, idols, and fortune telling are dirty things from Satan's work.
Stay away from them so you can succeed.”
Q( 5:90-91)