Shaik Zakeer Hussain

[Sarcastic. @Sarcaztick]

Khan Sir rose to fame by catering to Hindutva sentiments, mocking Muslims, and embracing sensationalism.

Shortcuts may bring quick fame, but they rarely build lasting respect.

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Read this superb bit of ground reporting by @tabassum_b to understand just how many levels of discrimination poor Muslims suffer in today's India.

Why parents from Bihar’s poorest district send children to madrasas hundreds of miles away

https://t.co/ukK8LAGHbh

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

As more psychological phenomena become mainstream, from attachment language to trauma responses, from parasocial bonds to digital burnout, we are collectively learning to name our inner worlds with more clarity.

https://t.co/oTT0VdKwFr

Zulekha Shakoor Rajani ✍️

[Shaik Zakeer Hussain @Zaknetic]

From Muhammad Ali to Malcolm X to #ZohranMamdani, the deliberate distortion of Muslim names shows how Islamophobia and power intersect to deny identity, dignity, and belonging.

I write for @MuslimMatters.

https://t.co/vITEtsMikP

[Barakah Insider @BarakahInsider]

Worried about Big Tech owning your data and values?

@ThauraAI, built by two Syrian brothers, isn’t aiming to be a “better ChatGPT”; it’s a privacy-first, values-driven alternative.

https://t.co/xDEraZNX36

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The First Indian Muslims

We often think of the Muhammad Ghori's 'Islamic invasions' in the 12th century as the start of the Muslim presence in India. Yet by this time, Muslims had already been an integral part of Indian society for almost four hundred years.

Indeed India's earliest Islamic heritage was often patronised by dynasties that we associate with a 'pure' Hindu past.

[Fred Björn @Jawnmard1]

“Do not occupy the present with the preoccupations of the past and the future. Abdullah ibn Yahya reports that Yahya ibn Mu'adh said, ‘To worry about the affairs of the past and to be preoccupied with the affairs of the future takes the blessing out of life.’”

— Sufi master Sulamī, Kitāb al-Futuwwa

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Sulami, Book of Sufi Chivalry: Futuwwah

#tasawwuf
#sufism

[Muhammad Jalal @jalalayn]

Israel is sick. To its core.

[Dr Asim Qureshi 🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🕊️ @AsimCP]

In solidarity with Haya Adam from @soaslibzone, I promised I would 🔥 my Masters certificate from @SOAS if she was expelled.

They have chosen to unfairly punish her, so I don’t want to be associated with a uni that markets decoloniality while punishing those who practice it.

[القرآن @Quranconnect_]

If there’s one video that I’ll never delete, it might be this🥺❤️

[Anwar Ibrahim @anwaribrahim]

A CALL TO CONSCIENCE: AN APPEAL TO THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD

The tragedy unfolding in Gaza is a test of our shared humanity. Entire families are being murdered. Children — even babies — have been killed. Others are wasting away from hunger. This appalling disregard for human life and dignity must end, for it is a violation of the most basic moral code.

Malaysia calls on all world leaders to act with urgency. Every government that believes in international law, every nation that claims to value human life, must speak with one voice.

In this regard, I urge all those with influence over Israel to find the courage to act decisively. I especially appeal to US President Donald Trump to use that influence to press for an immediate end to the killing, stop the indiscriminate bombings, and ensure that humanitarian aid reaches those in need without obstruction.

This is the hour for moral leadership. This is the time to uphold the values we claim to defend.

Malaysia stands ready to work with all nations—North and South, East and West—to bring relief to Gaza, and to restore the basic principles of humanity. Let us not be remembered as those who stood by. Let us be guided by our conscience, to answer suffering with compassion, and to pursue peace for the sake of our humanity.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Talks to address Iran’s nuclear program were planned for Sunday. Instead Netanyahu launched illegal strikes on Iran, killing a top ceasefire negotiator, undermining U.S. diplomatic efforts & putting countless innocent lives at risk. We can’t be dragged into another Netanyahu war.

[Shaik Zakeer Hussain @Zaknetic]

@MuftiARM Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.

[Shaik Zakeer Hussain @Zaknetic]

@jalalayn Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. May Allah grant her jannatul firdaus.

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

After 21 Years of Da'wah, His Parents Finally Accepts Islam...

[Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری @yusufpore]

A recently released historical-fiction, purportedly depicting the life of the 17th century Maratha king Sambhāji, seeks to fill the void of real heroes in the Hindutva pantheon.

So far, the Sangh Syndicate has employed 3 ways in which to recreate historical respectability, for themselves.

1. By inventing completely new characters and creating an identity and provenance around them.

2. By appropriating other, renowned historical figures, and repackaging them with a Hindutva identity and branding.

3. By depicting anyone useful for the othering of Muslim identities as a forerunner to the Sangh.

This latest larp continues this attempt by trying very hard to restore a carefully rebranded credibility to a figure being popularised as Chhaava (cub), presumably as a worthy successor to a worthier father.

Two historiographical sources cited below in this short thread dispel the notion of any heroism this film may have sought to resurrect for its subject.
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[Abu bakar @abbkar_ai]

This is how Senegalese celebrate their daughter who took the first position in the International Qur'ān Recitation Competition.

[The Thinking Muslim Podcast @thinking_muslim]

“It's not Salahuddin we should be waiting for, it's ourselves.” Read Muhammad Jalal’s piece on Trump’s Riviera here: https://t.co/m7ouFz77yy

Alternatively you can watch the video version here: https://t.co/nIQ5DVLlpX

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Clive Stafford Smith @CliveSSmith]

On-going reporting in Texas of the sexual abuse of Aafia Siddiqui & denial of @omarsuleiman's right to access to provide her with spiritual solace https://t.co/bVrRttbXVD @Aafiamovement @mariakari1414 @FowziaSiddiqui