Khurram Malik

Lead software engineer. Dad. Entrepreneur. Leeds, West Yorkshire

[Gabriel F Harris @geebereal99]

The Arabs had a rule of four.
Not four pillars. Not four seasons.
Four things to never do. Four to never let go. Four to run from.
Here's the full breakdown 🧵

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible.

Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible.

78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data.

This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide.

We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

[Dua_hub @dua_hub]

How to respect YOURSELF

• Stop begging people. [Muslim 1053a]
• Think before you talk. [Bukhari 6478]
• Let people think what they want. [88:22]
• Speak to Allah before you speak to people. [40:60]
• Hide your sins. [Bukhari 6069]
• Arrive on time. Leave on time. [4:103]
• Stop saying more than necessary. [Bukhari 6136]
• Don’t repeat more than needed. [Bukhari 95]
• Keep your promises. [5:1]
• You don’t need to laugh at everything. [Bukhari 6092]
• Don't ask for what wasn't offered.
[Bukhari 1471]
• Visit less where you’re not missed. [Bukhari 6416]
• Have haya'. [Muslim 36]
• Do istighfar before you react. [4:110]
• Change yourself before expecting change. [13:11]
• Control what you look at. [24:30-31]
• Never share your plans before they're done. [al-Kabir 16644]
• Eat only what is halal and pure. [2:168] • Always look your best. [Muslim 91a]
• Leave what doesn’t concern you. [Tirmidhi 2318]

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

[Idris @7signxx]

Do you know that in your heart there are four thieves who never sleep?

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[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

The Qur’an exposed the Number 1 mental health killer before psychology did.
1400 years before therapy was a trend, Allah diagnosed the root of most anxiety and depression! Subhan Allah.

[Iqbal Mohamed MP @iqbalmohamedMP]

It was a real pleasure to visit @DeltaManorCroft and hear about the 30+ teachers fasting and raising money for charity, meet the students, share my experience as an MP and answer some insightful and thought provoking questions.

Also a big thank you for the iftaar pack 😋.

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

To be clear, @ZohranKMamdani won not because he's from a Muslim background, but in spite of it.

His faith, his name, his ethnicity, all worked against him, and blatant anti-Muslim bigotry was used by his opponents in the most famous and heavily populated city in America (which also has the largest number of Jewish Americans as well).

The fact that a candidate who was relatively unknown a few months ago won with such an astounding margin shows that his simple message resonated with the people: the masses are tired of the career politicians who represent billionaires and super-PACs instead of your average working class folks. His win also demonstrates that bigotry and hatred, while still rampant, can be conquered.

But what is most relevant for us is that Mamdani's victory also represents a loss for key billionaire AIPAC supporters, and hence for the Zionist project. They tried every tactic to bring him down, and spent tens of millions of dollars, yet failed miserably. The genocide in Gaza cannot be ignored and is taking its toll, even in mayoral elections. The humiliating dance that American politicians must do for Israel as a prerequisite in order to get elected to office is embarrassingly cringeworthy and obviously problematic, and is turning more and more people away from those bought politicians.

I'm not in a position to celebrate the person who has won, as I do not live in New York, and his policies are yet to be seen. But I am in a position to celebrate another, more important, reality, which is the following:

The tide is shifting, and if even The Big Apple is sick of AIPAC and the Zionist lobby, and New Yorkers are willing to elect an obviously Muslim politician who humanizes Palestinians and refuses to dance to the tunes of Israel, then this is a sign that my fellow Americans really have moved on from their previous misunderstands, and that the control that the Lobby had is effectively over.

And for that reason, I can most definitely celebrate such a win!

[Yorkshire Prose @YorkshireProse]

One for allt racists 👀 Satire in case it int obvious 🤦‍♂️

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

Welcome to the #Weekend 🙌 #RibbleheadViaduct with the fell of Pen-y-ghent in the distance - taken yesterday.

After a bit of a wild night, most of us had a lovely sunny day across the #YorkshireDales 💙

📸 Wendy McDonnell

#PicOfTheDay #Ribblehead #Yorkshire #ThreePeaks

[.NET @dotnet]

Clean Architecture (aka Onion, Hexagonal, Ports-and-Adapters) organizes your code in a way that limits its dependencies on infrastructure concerns.

In this #dotNETConf session replay, we learn how to apply it to your #ASPNET Core apps. 🎥 https://t.co/KKCSfbIasf

[.NET @dotnet]

It’s here – and it’s blazing fast… Announcing .NET 7, the fastest .NET yet with new enhancements for .NET MAUI, #ASPNET Core, Cloud Native, ARM64, Performance improvements, and more. Learn more: https://t.co/kGinyOaLBQ

[Nirmal Purja MBE @nimsdai]

What’s your favourite quote from #14Peaks?

Stream #14Peaks this weekend on @Netflix – #no1 here we come!

[MR @MarcusRashford]

❤️

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Same people funding violent & illegal settlements in Palestine funded far right figures Tommy Robinson, Katie Hopkins & org behind Trump's Muslim Ban.

So, no surprise seeing Tommy turn up at pro-Israel demo yesterday.

Watch full film with @Lowkey0nline: https://t.co/VVx60tJwOH

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

1500 Palestinians face expulsion in #Jerusalem. 200 protesters have been injured. 9 children have been killed. Sanctions on South Africa helped free its black people - it’s time for sanctions on Israel to free Palestinians. Join the call. #SheikhJarrah https://t.co/f9R6LYljez

[Riz Ahmed @rizwanahmed]

Pakistani truck art

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

People don’t quit on their job.
They quit on their leader.

Great leaders build relationships.
Great leaders are consistent.
Great leaders set a great example.
Great leaders are in the hunt.
Great leaders are great students.

Either be a great leader or work for one.