Umar Haroon

CU Boulder Alum | iOS Developer | Swift Student Challenge 2020 Winner | pilot

find me @ [email protected]

[Umar Haroon @umar__haroon]

Never posted these but did my first solo flight a few weeks ago 🥳🛩

[Robert Silverman @BobSaietta]

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast

And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @NoahShachtman
& me @WIRED https://t.co/K1cni5P9QC

[Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc]

Blatant war crimes. This is what our tax dollars are funding.

[Leyla @leylajmsh]

From a child’s last goodbye to his mother
to that mother’s last goodbye to her dead child.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.

He is waving goodbye to his mother.

[Nat Purser @NatPurser]

a muslim man becoming mayor of ny on the day dick cheney dies. what a world.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Mamdani: Yesterday, Andrew Cuomo laughed and agreed when a radio host said that I would cheer another 9/11.

Yesterday, Eric Adams said that we “can’t let our city become Europe.” He compared me to violent extremists, and he lied when he said that our movement seeks to burn churches and destroy communities.

The day before that, Curtis Sliwa slandered me from a debate stage when he claimed that I support global jihad.

And every day, Super PAC ads imply that I am a terrorist or mock the way I eat, push polls that ask New Yorkers questions like whether they support invented proposals to make halal mandatory, or political cartoons that represent my candidacy as an airplane hurtling towards the World Trade Center.

But I do not want to use this moment to speak to them any further. I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of this city.

I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab. 

I want to speak to the Muslim who works for our city—whether they teach in our schools or walk the beat for the NYPD, New Yorkers who all make daily sacrifices on behalf of this city, only to see their leaders spit in their face.

I want to speak to every child who grows up in New York marked as the Other, who is randomly selected in a way that rarely feels random, who feels that they carry a stain that can never be cleaned.

Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion. I will always remember the disdain I faced, the way my name could immediately become “Mohammad,” and how I could return to my city only to be asked in a double mirrored room at the airport if I had any plan of attacking it.

And since I was very young, I have known that I was spared the worst of it. I was never pressured to be an informant like classmates of mine. I have never had the word ‘terrorist’ spray-painted on my garage, as one of my aides has. My mosque has never been set on fire.

To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity. But indignity does not make us distinct—there are many who face it. It is the tolerance of that indignity that does.

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

How many people said, “All Hamas have to do to make this end is release the hostages”?

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

“He left behind a wife and kids” is unfortunately not an argument you can usually use for Palestinians bc Israel bombed them too

[missfalasteenia @missfalsteenia]

They can’t turn it off in Gaza.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

33% of the deaths in Gaza are children.

That's not a 'war'.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Unbelievable. The Holocaust museum LA *apologized* for sharing a general anti-genocide post, because it might be “misinterpreted” to include Palestinians.

Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from “never again,��� apparently their genocide is the exception.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Be clear on what Israel’s doing - they are silencing the eyewitnesses to genocide in Gaza. The doctors, the aid workers, the local journalists. While keeping foreign media out.
None of this is random. It’s calculated, targeted, ruthless.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

The world sees hospitals in Gaza being bombed and still turns a blind eye. Aren’t hospitals supposed to be protected by international law?

Photo taken by Dr. Mohammed Qudaih inside AlNasser Medical Complex that was bombed multiple times by the Israeli occupation criminal army

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

What’s worse? That the US is now blocking child amputees from Gaza from entering for medical treatment, or that the Trump administration made this sick decision after listening to an unhinged racist pro-Israel nutjob, who was once banned from Uber for abusing Muslim drivers?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Genocide

[Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza]

I thought “this picture can’t be real, let me do a reverse google image search”

It was.

It was reported by the UN, link in next tweet.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.

I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Social media may be the most important invention of the 21st century. I truly believe that before it, we were only slightly more informed about the true state of the world than farm animals.

Because this has literally been happening since 1948, but have you ever seen it on CNN?

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

A month ago, Diogo Jota died an a car accident. The whole world mourned him. His photos were everywhere.
Today Israel killed a soccer star while seeking aid.

No one will hear about him. No one will see his photo. No one will mourn him except for his family and friends.