Sohail (So) Rahman

Emmy Nominated and RTS UK Winning News Anchor & Journalist also Senior Asia Correspondent for Al Jazeera English News. Own views.
Instagram: sohail_so_rahman

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

How does Five Homes Farage possibly persuade ordinary people he is on their side? Imagine being rich enough to own 5 homes outright - 4 of them purchased since 2020. Imagine the sheer brass neck of not even declaring to parliament where the cash to buy 3 of them came from 😳

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If this was any other country, it would be huge news, and most western governments would be loudly condemning it.

But it’s Israel so…

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​The United Nations has officially declared Gaza a genocide zone, stating that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants.

​It took them three full years to reach this conclusion.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨BREAKING | Zack Polanski says Greens will NOT work with Labour if Burnham continues to support Israel

Polanski said the genocide in Gaza is a "red line", and that any co-operation with Burnham would be impossible unless he admits Israel is committing genocide

(Via @Guardian)

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

A Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fan at the World Cup sees an 🇮🇱 flag & shouts for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸:

‘I was a nurse in Gaza 🇵🇸’
‘I volunteered’
‘I saw it for myself’
‘It is a genocide’

Refusing to be silenced 👏

A Flower of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.

You probably didn’t hear about it.

Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.

Both from Bradford.

They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.

Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:

"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."

Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:

"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."

Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.

Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.

They deserved every word.

But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.

We have seen this before.

Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.

Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.

LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.

He ran towards the blade.

A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.

This is the pattern.

When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.

When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.

Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.

Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.

One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."

He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.

They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.

They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.

The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.

"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32

Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.

Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.

And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.

When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.

When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.

Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.

Muslim men.

Say both.

Sources first comment.

Report: https://t.co/D9amGp2yxO
Keep us alive: https://t.co/Z8H0Flg44Y
Substack: https://t.co/9x6sqmwMge
IG: @islamophobiauk

[The Independent @Independent]

Nigel Farage has been referred to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over claims his cryptocurrency advocacy has benefited his billionaire backer, Christopher Harbone.

Read more: https://t.co/8N53ZbQnZm

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

It is powerful to see other arbitrarily sanctioned legal professionals acting against this outright persecution and full-on assault on int'l justice. I hope their ordeal will end sooner than mine.
I am proud my family pioneered all this, even if the cost is extremely high.

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

This makes sense. His show is unadulterated Israel propaganda.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is sick.

1) The UK government should be calling out Israel’s crimes against Palestinian children.

Not leaving it to diplomats no one listens to!

2) If the British state accepts Israel is committing these heinous crimes, why isn’t it taking the appropriate action?

3) They still both sides it! There is no ongoing onslaught against Israeli children, but listening to this, you’d think that there was

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

"I don't back away from the original decision. I think it gave 20 or so million people in Iraq hope of a better life and you just cannot walk away from that truth"

—Andy Burnham in 2010

By this time, a million Iraqis had been killed by the criminal British invasion he supported

"I'd be proud to follow Tony Blair's lead," he continued

Psychopath

[Yvonne Ridley 4 Glasgow @yvonneridley]

This is heartbreaking. Listen to this brave Jewish woman described how she & 55 others Jews were hounded out of @UKLabour by non Jewish Zionists. She describes her ordeal and you realise what a liar @Keir_Starmer is about @jeremycorbyn & antisemitism in Labour. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

You won't see this on News!!

"Israel is not our nation-state!.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict should not be associated with American Jews.

We are united against Zionism because we are Jews!

Zionism is the ANTITHESIS of Judaism!."

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Jo Cox was assassinated on our streets by a white supremacist terrorist radicalised by the toxic hate he heard daily.

Today Kemi badenoch brazenly called her fellow MPs “traitors” in Parliament, forcing the Speaker to call her to order for this disgrace.

This is reckless. This is classless. This is utterly mannerless. Utterly disgusting inflammatory garbage

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 ABSOLUTE BOMBSHELL: Famous Dr. Gabor Maté exposes horrific Zionist war crimes.

He confirms Israeli generals openly admit they are behaving exactly like Nazis in the West Bank!

He reveals Jewish scholars officially declare Israel is committing a brutal genocide in Gaza!

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

"A high court judge has just greenlit criminal proceedings against Rajiv Menon KC, one of the UK's most prominent human rights barristers...this unprecedented move has sent shockwaves through the legal profession and is actively terrifying junior defence lawyers."

Courts aren't just gagging defendants – now they're threatening independent lawyers with prison for reminding jurors that, when deciding on a case, they can use their conscience.

Justice Jeremy Johnson has continued with his attempt to have Rajiv Menon KC, the human rights barrister who represented one of the recently sentenced Filton 4, convicted of contempt of court.

Footage: @ranjanbalakumaran

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A UN commission has found that Israel is committing genocide through a "deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

The truth always comes out in the end — and we must never, ever let it be forgotten.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

A UN enquiry has concluded in a harrowing report released today that Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza by deliberately targeting children, adding to overwhelming evidence of systematic attacks on journalists and medical staff. The findings are compelling — a British doctor, Nizam Mamode, recently returned from Gaza corroborates the conclusion, stressing the importance of medical eyewitnesses given Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists and banning of foreign press.

https://t.co/ETdhCmHDBx

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: Art focused on Israel’s genocide in Palestine is set to be shown in Scotland after its exhibition south of the Border was cancelled

The exhibition had been due to be shown in London in May but it was cancelled after an intervention from UK Lawyers for Israel

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

Angela Rayner, the ‘soft left’ of @UKLabour

She didn’t sign the letter to enforce sanctions on Israel

Didn’t sign the letter to uphold ICC arrest warrants against Israeli war criminals

Didn’t sign the letter to suspend arms sales to Israel

She’s just another Israeli asset