Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman

🇲🇾🇨🇦 Artist at @hersarongart, comms and writer at @friendscb. Tweets are my own and full of typos 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman @shazlin_r]

I never pass up an opportunity to catch up with @bgillesp, especially if I get to go on and on about #hersarong and my rad grandmother. Take a listen to my ramblings on @OneMarketLB ⤵️

[Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman @shazlin_r]

Writer friends, #DCA2022 $10,000 prize is now open. Submit your best essay by Dec 24 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Friends of Canadian Media @FriendsCndm]

The Dalton Camp Award $10,000 prize is now open! We're looking for the best essays on the link between democracy and Canadian media.

Learn more: https://t.co/LKnJsULVDG

#DCA2022 #cdnpoli

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

As an Honorary Witness of the TRC I committed to Survivors to calling out denials of genocide when I hear them

[NCCM @nccm]

In aftermath of threats at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, the IIT calls for the incident to be investigated as hate-motivated.

Read our full press release below:

[NCCM @nccm]

We are aware of yet another alleged assault on a Black Muslim Women in Edmonton.

We will be reaching out to the victim of this attack, and will have more to say soon.

https://t.co/i4XwxuVpa0

[Andrew Boozary MD @drandrewb]

.@Ginella_M is a national treasure.

[Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman @shazlin_r]

Your barbaric practices hotline was a cruel act of racial and faith-based hatred, @stephenharper. #OurLondonFamily

[Stephen Harper @stephenharper]

Canada is a place of tolerance and pluralism. Cruel acts of racial and faith based hatred must be unequivocally condemned by us all. Laureen and I join our fellow Canadians in praying for the Afzaal and Salman families during this unfathomably difficult time.

[Sarah K @StotheNtotheK]

Hours before one young male was sentenced for throwing a trailer hitch at a woman out for a walk because she was Indigenous, another young male ran down an entire family out for a walk because they were Muslim.

Canada is a place where it's not safe to walk unless you're white.

[Abdu Sharkawy @SharkawyMD]

This mural was made by 15 year old Yumna Afzaal. Her star was stolen by hate but the spirit of her inspiring words cannot be denied. It should be shared & never forgotten. This is what every Canadian should aspire to #OurLondonFamily

[Andrew Boozary MD @drandrewb]

when people ask how a 20- year old could do such a thing you don’t need to go back that far (2015) to when policies were targeting “barbaric cultural practices” in Canada as to why a 9-year old boy is waking up to this nightmare.

[Kamil Karamali @KamilKaramali]

Family of London attack victims has allowed us to share names:
• Salman Afzaal, 46 physiotherapist
• Madiha Salman, 44 PhD student in Civil engineering
• Yumna Salman, 15, grade 9 student
• Fayez Salman, 9
• Grandmother, 74, family 'pillar'

GoFundMe: https://t.co/tcHNjheEE3

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

Did you know that last month a man at a pro-Israel protest in Thornhill drove past a police barricade and threatened to run over pro-Palestinian counter protesters? Police pulled their guns on him. He has since received multiple charges. This has received almost 0 media coverage.

[Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman @shazlin_r]

The fact is that anti-Muslim hate is the rational outcome of constant demonizing/stereotyping/marginalization of Muslims by politicians, news media and in pop culture. #OurLondonFamily

[Shazlin “not Shaolin” Rahman @shazlin_r]

I’m officially retiring “Islamophobia” from my vocabulary. Time to stop pathologizing anti-Muslim hate and excusing it as an irrational fear of Islam. #OurLondonFamily

[seher shafiq | @heyitsseher.bsky.social @heyitsseher]

thinking of all the after-dinner walks i used to go on with my family and grandma, wearing home clothes (pakistani salwar kamiz)

as we enjoyed our evenings and the summer breeze, how many people looked upon us with hate, but just a touch shy of expressing it through violence?

[Haneen Al-Hassoun @haneenalhassoun]

4. Don't leave your sources without giving them mental health support resources. Make sure your journalism is trauma-informed.

[Haneen Al-Hassoun @haneenalhassoun]

3. Do not approach Muslim journalists in your newsroom asking them for sources without checking in with them first. This also applies to sources.

[Haneen Al-Hassoun @haneenalhassoun]

2. Speak to the communities affected by this. We don't want an entire story on what politicians have to say about this, particularly those who have denied the presence of Islamophobia in Canada or who have not addressed it in their ridings.

[Haneen Al-Hassoun @haneenalhassoun]

1. Do not give a platform to white folks talking about hate in Canada, debating whether this is terrorism or a hate crime. Muslims don't want not-so-hot, hot takes when people are suffering.