Orli Millstein

#ContentStrategy at @DAC_Group. Pragmatist, optimist - equally inclined. I probably didn't listen to your voicemail. Views expressed are my own.

[Orli Millstein @OrliMillstein]

@AsraNomani @SusanSarandon So eloquently put, @AsraNomani! Thank you for using your voice to educate @SusanSarandon. Perhaps a good time for her to be reminded not to speak over minorities about their lived experiences - Muslim and Jewish alike..!

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

Hi there @SusanSarandon, this is my mom, my dad and me on the rail trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America.

First, your backstory: At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you just said, "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”

Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a Muslim in America:

✅🇺🇸 My dad didn’t have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries that use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves. In 1975, after getting his PhD at Rutgers, he was about to go to Libya — a Muslim country — led by a Muslim, Moammar Qhadafi, to work like a servant with a PhD for a wealthy dictator…but then the phone rang one day and I picked it up…

✅🇺🇸 It was West Virginia University calling, and my dad got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition. He got rejected first for tenure but being Muslim in America meant he got a right like everybody got — his right to appeal and guess what? He won and he became a full professor. That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights, like @DrZuhdiJasser has wished for his family in the Muslim nation of Syria, where a Muslim dictator destroys the lives of Muslims.

✅🇺🇸 My mom? Being Muslim in America meant she got to live FREE with the wind in her hair, like @AlinejadMasih fights for women in the Muslim nation of Iran to be able to enjoy.

✅🇺🇸 And what did living free mean for my mom as a Muslim in America? It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International. That is something that @miss9afi wished women could have had the right to do in the Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. But guess what? That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries.

✅🇺🇸 That summer my mom started her business, I got on a plane at Pittsburgh airport for Tahlequah, Oklahama, and I went away from home at 16 for a National Science Foundation camp — without a male chaperone, a right denied Muslim women and girls in Saudi for so long.

✅🇺🇸 In another “taste” of being Muslim in America? My family got a pathway to citizenship. You think the Muslim dictatorship of Qatar allows a pathway to citizenship for Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims? Hell no. The Muslim Al-Thani family just buys citizenship for Muslim soccer stars from countries in Africa to steal World Cup wins. But otherwise it treats non-Qatari Muslims like slaves. America? My family waited, took the test, studied the constitution and we are citizens — hallelujah!

✅🇺🇸 I’m going to fast forward because this is just a “taste” of what it means to be Muslim in America. In 2002, I fled Pakistan with a souvenir that could have gotten me imprisoned or killed: a baby growing inside of me, a wedding ring not upon my hand. Sharia law makes sex out of marriage a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The mullah’s tyranny. And even dare to be atheist like @YasMohammedxx? It’s also a crime punishable by death — in Muslim countries but not in America!

✅🇺🇸 Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby in safety and security, without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America — where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs.

This is a “taste” of life for a Muslim family in America. Please don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life — and freedoms — she offers Muslims like my family. Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country.

You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet. 🇺🇸

[Orli Millstein @OrliMillstein]

@HarrisFanaroff Not everything that’s hard for one family is hard for another. Some babies sleep, some don’t. Some babies have colic, some don’t. Some babies struggle to feed, others don’t. Whatever challenges you encounter, you’ll face them. The beauty and joy outweighs them all. 🪄

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@clhubes @LauraSkopec 😂😂😂 we did the same with the Mamaroo (Snoo knockoff)!

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@UberFacts Bad sisters 👌🏼

[Orli Millstein @OrliMillstein]

@UberFacts Fauda!

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Still on hold… 1hr 40 and counting….

[Orli Millstein @OrliMillstein]

@TELUSsupport - been on hold for 1 hour 20 mins +! Can someone please help answer a question? This wait time for custom support is bonkers!

[yael🦎 @birdhonks]

Someone said to me today that Jews can blend in by hiding their identity and that’s why we as Jews have white privilege. I guess my question is when did hiding one’s identity in order to avoid discrimination become a privilege?

[blogTO @blogTO]

On the plus side, Rogers customers aren’t receiving calls for air duct services today.

[Rori Picker Neiss @roripn]

Roe wasn’t the start of people having abortions. It was the start of people not dying from abortions.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

לשנה הבאה בירושלים

[Seth Mandel @SethAMandel]

She was a consensus star on the verge of inheriting David Marchese's interview slot at NY Mag. A month later she was an unperson in the industry after speaking out on antisemitism. @Eve_Barlow's story is important https://t.co/jslMeJjhWG

[Orli Millstein @OrliMillstein]

@celliottability ………$10/day daycare? …Bueller?

[Amy Albertson @theamyalbertson]

Debate if Jews are white all you want. Just remember who else was obsessed with racializing the Jewish people.

[Ben M Freeman - בן מ פרימן @BenMFreeman]

The notion that Israel keeps Palestinian children in cages is rooted in the idea that Israel is the worst country in the world, which is itself a modern manifestation of historic accusations of blood libel.

@AOC, we’ve seen it all before and we outlasted them too…

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

When someone says they "love freedom," they don't mean yours.

[Kat Guerin @katguerin]

Make Ottawa “boring” again

[Orli Millstein @OrliMillstein]

A highly complex issue well described in 2 mins. Thanks, @Baddiel!