Zubair Ranja

Medic. Retweets are not endorsements.

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

@LegacySiu Mesut Ozil when he still was with that German club.

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

@UtdChapters Ozil

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

As the time of Hajj ends, I want to wish Eid Mubarak to all Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha in the UK and around the world.

[Inside the Haramain @insharifain]

Masjid Al Haram

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

@Muddassar04 @correction7474 So if some people miss the prayer with the imam, they may pray together in congregation, following the hadith of Abu Sa‘id, and seeking the virtue of praying in congregation. We do not know of any evidence for those who dislike and disallow that."(Al-Awsat  4/248).
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[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

@Muddassar04 @correction7474 “And the hadith of Abu Sa‘id [according to which a man came when the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) had already prayed, so he said: “Will anyone be charitable towards this man and pray with him?”] is proven.
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[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

@ManCity @okx Are they still being “humbled”

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

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[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Junior doctors in England, thank you for voting in the referendum and making your voices heard. The votes are tallied and 65.97% of you voted to ACCEPT the Government���s offer.

Your committee met this evening to ratify the result. We’ll be in touch soon about what happens next.

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

🎤 I’m honoured to be speaking at Acute & General Medicine 2024. https://t.co/wDrkGkbN66

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Unbelievable experience on our flight back from LGW yesterday on @airtransat.
As she was collecting trash from passengers, a flight attendant looked at the empty fruit cup that my hijab-wearing daughter handed to her and then said “what is this? Where did you get this?”.

Confused, my daughter turned to me. I said, “it was fruit we brought with us on the plane”. She then said, you took this from the back didn’t you! This was mine. You got it from the back of the plane. You took this”. Shocked and speechless, I said, “are you seriously accusing us of stealing your fruit cup? Is this some sort of joke?”. She insisted her fruit cup was taken by a passenger and she was looking for the person who took it. This was all done very publicly and loudly.

I immediately stood up and went to the front of the plane to speak with the crew director. As this incident was public and another flight attendant witnessed it, I was profusely apologised to by the other crew members and the director and encouraged to file an official complaint with Air Transat. They thanked me for my grace in not making a scene and addressing them privately. Shaken by it all but reassured by the crew’s response, I let the matter rest.

A few hours later, as we landed and the seatbelt sign was turned off, I immediately got up to stand next to my young children in the aisle one row ahead, so they are not alone. A white man who was sitting with his two daughters in the row in front of us started to hurl abuse at me for “cutting the line”. One of the things he said, aside from the ongoing foul swearing – “why don’t you go steal some fruit?”. He then told us to “go back where you came from”.

The reason why I am telling this story is to highlight the power and harmful impact of the actions of that flight attendant towards a Muslim woman. Even though she was wrong, and the entire crew apologized, 1. She demonised and criminalized a hijab-wearing young Muslim woman publicly and 2. This very public false accusation and disrespect emboldened the racist man sitting in front of us to insult and abuse us even further.

False public allegations, even if they are taken back or apologised for cause irreparable damage to those being targeted. Especially those who are racialised and marginalized in society.

Out of pure exhaustion from a very long and draining trip, I probably wouldn’t have filed a complaint with @airtransat. But the racist ripple effect of that awful interaction serves as a reminder of the far reaching impacts of public statements and interactions that demonize those from already stigmatized identities.

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

@Olympics Congratulations to Arshad Nadeem and Pakistan, history in the making, first gold medal 🥇 in athletics.

[Zubair Ranja @zranja]

What a feat by this man, not only gold medal 🥇 but also the Olympic record broken!

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

Believe it, Nadeem.
You just became Pakistan's first ever athletics Olympic champion. 🇵🇰🥹

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

Pride of Pakistan. 🇵🇰

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

This is not protest, it is pure violence.

We will have a standing army of public duty officers.

We will ramp up criminal justice.

We will apply criminal law online as well as offline.

We will not tolerate attacks on mosques or on Muslim communities.

[Humberside Police @Humberbeat]

We are aware of a video circulating online which shows groups targeting a man in a silver coloured BMW during the disorder in Hull yesterday, Saturday 3 August.

Read more: https://t.co/my0m1yibJg

[LBC @LBC]

'I'm normally a staunch defender of the police but I've thought long and hard about this. There is no context. This man is completely out of control.'

@NickFerrariLBC reacts to the footage of police kicking and stamping on a man's head at Manchester Airport.