"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Just to be clear on what the right’s ‘rules’ are: you can run around with a long gun in the streets and even kill people with it, but if you have a knife in your car, you can be shot 7 times in the back?
Am I missing something?
Oh wait, I am: former is white, latter is black.
Please, when you have a few minutes, take some time to read this first-hand account of a Uighur teacher who describes what she witnessed in a Chinese concentration camp:
https://t.co/pL7EgdfOCF
We are seeing Nazi tactics all over again, and the world ignores.
Allah help them.
Israeli drones hovering over our heads is a constant reminder that they can kill anyone, anytime. Now we get 4 hrs of elect per day since the power plant had to shut down after Israel halted the entry of fuel. It’s all dark and hot here. Turn our lights back on...Open up Gaza.
A picture of my son crying asking me where his mom and sister are when I am pulled away from my wife for another secondary screening and private interrogation at customs upon returning home.
Our grantee @CMC_Cambridge is celebrating 10 years of training scholars, producing academic research, and developing educational programs for the community. Learn more in this video: https://t.co/GXhzl63gqK
Its quite possible Mehdi Hasan is the best journalist in the world right now. Meticulous research, forensic knowledge, ability to actually react to questionable answers.
Really exposes how poor the vast majority of the rest of the journalistic pool are right now.
Join CMC & Sa’adah on Saturday 9 March in Cambridge for the launch of Haroon Sugich’s latest book, Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and The Road to Redemption, to explore the concept of ‘tawba’. For more information & registration: https://t.co/frRmU2rlJs
Spaces are limited!
So, here’s how I interview a variety of Trump supporters and surrogates - from Gen. Michael Flynn to Art Laffer to Steve Rogers, and others - a new, short @ajupfront highlights video:
“The ummah grows with the blood of the martyrs, men and women who give their lives for Allah.”
Imagine the response if a major Muslim leader or cleric tweeted that 😂
Let’s be clear - if Obama had said about Kim “And then we fell in love” - it would have probably become the defining line of his presidency & he would have been slammed by the GOP & the media for months, if not years. Trump’s bizarre line tonight will be forgotten by tomorrow (!)