Nathan Lean

cultural historian of religion | here: Islam and America | challenging Islamophobia | @georgetown alum | views mine.

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

Abraham died roughly 1,800 years before Jesus was born. So, you’re either exceptionally bad at math or exceptionally ignorant of history. Or, maybe both!

[MrWesford @Tsar_Martyr]

Abraham worshipped Jesus Christ

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

@RussellBarbro “Akbar” functions as a superlative, not a simple comparative. It refers to God’s greatness over everything in created order — not over other expressions of God in Judaism or Christianity. If you’re gonna challenge me, make sure your brain clocks in before your mouth does.

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

The God of Abraham is the *same* God in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and it doesn’t matter one bit that you don’t like that, or that you believe it’s not true. You don’t get to rewrite basic religious history.

[Operation Heal America @OperHealAmerica]

I don't care if Allah means "god" in Arabic.

Allah of the Koran is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jesus is not only Messiah, prophet, priest, and King, BUT GOD!

Beat that!😇

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: California Governor Gavin Newsom spared the lives of everyone on death row in the state, commuting the sentences of 548 prisoners. https://t.co/q8yvpYC7LK

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

Today’s research on Islam in America has me looking at plat maps from Newark in 1916. Noble Drew Ali once operated an “officer out of a home on School Street.

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

@WajahatAli LOL. You know when Asra Nomani is on the prowl, it's going to be garbage. What a joke.

[Eugene Robinson @Eugene_Robinson]

The Donald Trump era in American politics ended Tuesday. This was the most comprehensive repudiation of a U.S. political party since post-Watergate. There have been dark moments when I thought our nation was irretrievably lost. I was wrong. It feels like morning in America again.

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

يا حمارة، لو كان للجهل عرشٌ لكنتِ ملكته.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

I hope everyone is learning Arabic.

[Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc]

In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville.

More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter has been elected governor of Georgia.
https://t.co/BuHZUkBDWl

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Tonight is likely to be a rejection of @MikeRogersForMI. All my tweeting aside, I’ve known Mike & Kristi for 30+ years, I know how much it will hurt to lose. If that happens, I hope they accept this in the spirit in which this is offered: You deserve to be miserable after the appalling bigotry you’ve spread like napalm. Go away.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Haley Stevens and anti-Arab racism:

https://t.co/mmoBbsfPTx

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

@jkirchick @powellAtlantic @TheAtlantic You have absolutely no idea what an Islamist is, and it’s clear. This is racist garbage

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

This is complete bullshit. The origins of this term date back to the early 1900s, and it has long been used since then to describe very real prejudice towards Muslims. Organizations like @IDICenter put targets on the backs of Muslims by dismissing the violence that targets them and parroting this claptrap by @bulutuzay_. The term "anti-Semitism" has its flaws too — it refers to Semitic speakers, not just Jews — but no one with a brain would ever say it shouldn't be used to describe prejudice targeting that group.

[IDI @idicenter]

“Islamophobia” is a term propagated to protect Muslims from prejudice, but in reality, it was designed to shield Islam from scrutiny, let Islam infiltrate the West unchallenged, and cripple the West’s ability to defend the victims of Islam.

Read “Islamophobia:” How the West is abandoning the victims of Islam by @bulutuzay_

https://t.co/MyJ6gNss5c

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

I wrote about the Trump Administration's efforts to denaturalize Ilhan Omar, and what's at stake for all Americans. For @NewYorker

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

@MollyJongFast @hasanthehun Could he have received a Litigation Hold Notice?

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

This is straight up incitement and it’s fucking disgusting that @cspan is clipping and promoting it.

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

@tedcruz Somebody screenshot this post. If Piker wins his lawsuit against Scott Jennings, Cruz will be next.

[Nathan Lean @nathanlean]

@washingtonpost Let’s not pass this off as mere ignorance. It’s racist. And a great tragedy of our time is that so few voices of consequence have the courage to say so.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

“Arabs don’t produce literature” is really something you can only say if you’ve never had a moment’s contact with genuine civilization. A mind totally consumed by television and self-help books.

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

Fifteen years ago, Trump was demanding Obama show his birth certificate to prove he's American. Today, Trump and his allies make clear that proof of being American is not dependent on records, but on something else.