Nafe Anam

[Shahid Kamal Ahmad @shahidkamal]

I drove east into London on the A40 this afternoon. Light breeze, not too hot. London is always beautiful in the sunshine.

Drove past Uxbridge. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Drove past Greenford. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Drove past Acton. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Parked in Westfield. There is sun, no sign of rain, but the full rainbow of humanity is here indoors.

(They say they want their country back, but they actually want their empire back, the one their grandparents' generation lost. The Empire came home. And here we all are! )

The shop assistants everywhere were from every corner of the earth. The customers the same. Girls and boys, men and women, from every place in the world, peacefully going about their lives on a London Sunday in a cathedral to capitalism in Shepherds Bush.

No shouting. No swearing. No mugging. No knifing. No looting. No burning. Just the world in one city under a giant glass roof in peace.

Sometimes, you don't know how good you actually have it. When London is good, it's really bloody good.

Most places in England are good, most of the time. Most people in England are good, no matter what the forces that seek to divide us want us to believe.

I remember being broke and homeless 20 years ago this year, carrying my possessions in four bags and thanking God for my legs when I was deep in my material nadir.

You already have your country. I already have my country. Both can be true.

I don't want to take your job, unless I'm better at it. I don't want to put shariah in place over your head and in any case, the law in this country is about as close to shariah as I need. Why would I endanger that just to piss you off for some marginal gain? Think about it.

We can get along. We are not enemies. Those grifters are fooling you, scamming you, and they're thick. They think 1+1=Foreigners. Their sums don't add up. They get tax breaks. Do you? Work it out.

We aren't going anywhere and we won't roll over frightened like our parents did. We belong here. We ARE the British Empire. This is the legacy.

It's not us you want your country back from. It's the foreign papers, the con artists who took COVID money, the scum who bought our water, the financial institutions who gambled away our future and made us pay for their next round of bonuses in an endless era of austerity. We didn't freeze old people to death. We didn't make food banks necessary. Cameron and Co did all that. We're just easy targets. A distraction.

This is still a beautiful country. This is still a peaceful country. How about we find away to make it better for all of us:?

Isn't London beautiful in the sunshine?

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@afneil https://t.co/iorzN8R8KM

[Yasmin @YasminMogahed]

Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Mate

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

Jali is a beautiful characteristic of architectural decoration in Indo-Islamic & Mughal architecture

Meaning ‘gauze’ or ‘net’ in Urdu, Jali is a perforated stone or latticed screen with an ornamental pattern, featuring geometry or floral motifs

A thread on the art of jail…

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@cyrus101010 @MyriamFrancoisC @GleamingRazor Pre-eminent? JP writes like a first year undergrad.

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@AreWeRobots @GleamingRazor Peterson is a clinical psychologist. Not a philosopher

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@cla48000628 @HoopsSpalding @doctor_oxford @Bugsymaloned By increasing the number of employees to define a ‘small’ business. No other change.
“Regulatory exemptions are often granted for SMEs, which the EU defines at below 250 employees. However, we are free to take our own approach and exempt more businesses to those with under 500”

[Kieran Drew @ItsKieranDrew]

I've broken my neck.

My spine's twisted by 56 degrees.

And I’ve been diagnosed with a neurological disorder.

… all before the age of 20.

This lesson took 22 hours of surgery to learn, but you get it in 2 minutes:

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@aymankhwaja @The_NewArab Thank you @aymankhwaja, brilliantly written. The stats are shocking! We all must do more to rid ourselves of this madness…

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Shocking and so sad.

[Zeina Maasri @Zeinamaasri]

This is gorgeous: “In our dreams, there is no occupation, no anguish – our Palestine is beautiful and serene.” https://t.co/GuugQf4sjE

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@NannieMcFi @SouthCoastRed @Tobias_Ellwood Eh? If someone is found not guilty for murder does that mean no one else can be found guilty of murder?

Stop gas lighting the public and respect the rule of law (and our system of court by jury)

[Nafe Anam @nafeanam]

@tanjil_rashid_ @ftweekend @AkyolinEnglish @itsmetawseef @Ed_Husain “Heirs”. Indeed.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"It's been the greatest privilege of my life to bring you the news."

@jonsnowC4 signs off from Channel 4 News for the very last time after presenting the programme for 32 years.

[Mark Stone @Stone_SkyNews]

Palestinians say they are often humiliated by Israeli police/army. I’ve watched it too. From shoves to skunk water to stun grenades, ostensibly for ‘crowd control’.
Another video here. @MickyRosenfeld & @LTCJonathan say they investigate - we await results.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

If we’re lucky, the Israeli/Hamas ceasefire will hold. And then, as always, the outside world will once again forget about Gaza and the Palestinians.

[Na'amod @NaamodUK]

We are relieved by reports of a ceasefire, but it has come far too late and will mean little for as long as the occupation continues.

Now is the time to organise. Until all in Israel-Palestine live in freedom and dignity, violence will remain inevitable.

[Sayeeda Warsi @SayeedaWarsi]

My full speech @UKHouseofLords
To record , to bear witness and to say to future generations we knew, our governments knew what was happening- so we had no excuse when we failed to act.
#Israel #Palestine
#EndOccupation
https://t.co/rW0aytJI4n

[Sean Ninan @sean9n]

So my wife has been turned away and threatened with social services and a safeguarding referral at the vaccination centre for coming along with her baby.

Now unsurprisingly in tears.

This vaccine hesitancy amongst Asians really is a problem isn’t it?

[Mark Stone @Stone_SkyNews]

I saw a lot more instances of entirely unnecessary, provocative behavior by Israeli police/military today. At Damascus Gate (stun grenades thrown at peaceful Palestinian group), in Sheikh Jarrah (skunk water fired on Palestinian homes) & Bethlehem (volleys of tear gas)

[Sarah Joseph @SarahIJoseph]

This just about broke me.
It is from a father in Gaza.

Via Ayedz on IG.