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Rhetor • Citizen • Fakir // Californian. Pakistani-American. Karachiite/Muhajir. Awadhi by culture. Nigerian by birth // Indigenous are those of us who remember
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iFaqeer @ifaqeer.bsky.social · Jan 24
Just concluded this conversation with @yasserlatifhamdani.bsky.social, discussing Birthright Citizenship--and discussing his hijrat from Pakistan:

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[en] Yasser Lateef Hamdani on Birthright Citizenship, Pakistan and Hijrat
YouTube video by iFaqeer
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ifaqeer.bsky.social
Comments on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @shahbbles.bsky.social ?
June 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
ad reason to say this recently:

Damned if we do; damned if we don’t.
So damn it, let’s just be ourselves.
June 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
“Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not a given. Even Canada is not a given.”
—Justin Trudeau
March 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Just created this @bitlyofficial.bsky.social link:

bit.ly/iFaqeerOnFaith

#Faith #Progressive #ProgressiveMuslim #ProgessiveIslam #Islam
iFaqeer on Faith - YouTube
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February 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Trump's original thoughts on the Holy Land:

www.npr.org/sections/the...
'I'd Like To See You Hold Back On Settlements,' Trump Tells Netanyahu
Recent remarks by senior White House officials had seemed to signal a possible shift in the long-held U.S. view that a two-state solution is integral to peace negotiations.
www.npr.org
February 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Uh… @faiz.bsky.social , is in the running to be Chair of the DNC? And we haven’t talked about it?
Why?
Maybe if he wore a “Hijab”, or was …
January 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Just concluded this conversation with @yasserlatifhamdani.bsky.social, discussing Birthright Citizenship--and discussing his hijrat from Pakistan:

youtube.com/live/dFwMRCf...
[en] Yasser Lateef Hamdani on Birthright Citizenship, Pakistan and Hijrat
YouTube video by iFaqeer
youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by iFaqeer
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Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up
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Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up
December 21, 2024 at 7:29 PM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Remember, Remember, Sola December
APS, Dhaka and plot
I see no reason; Why so much treason
Should ever be forgot
December 17, 2024 at 7:07 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
“The struggle between the USA and China is a fight between two capitalist powers”
—Dr Ayesha Siddiqa at Pakistan Progressive Forum online event

… more nuances 👇🏼

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December 16, 2024 at 7:15 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
"We fought alone. We dreamed alone. We were disappointed alone."
How many other places besides Palestine should we be paying attention to? It might even help the Palestinian cause and each other.
mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Dec 8
The scenes from Sednaya prison in Syria are shocking; people wandering into the light after decades in dark detention & torture.

I interviewed Omar Alshogre, a former Sednaya child prisoner, about his reaction to history being made in Syria this weekend.

Watch/share/subscribe:
‘We Fought Alone, We Dreamed Alone’: Former Syrian Prisoner on the Historic Fall of Bashar Al Assad
Syrian activist Omar Alshogre, who was tortured at Sednaya prison as a child, talks to Mehdi about this weekend’s astonishing events in Damascus.
zeteo.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:23 PM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
We Pakistanis have been waiting 40+ years with this joke from Moin Akhtar:

Syria ka basha mar gaya…politically speaking
December 9, 2024 at 4:44 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Am I allowed just one post of…

youtu.be/PzIeJGuudFY
"Yalla Er7al Ya Bashar": Song for FSA (Anti-Assad)
YouTube video by Canale Forces Libanaise et Kataëb
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December 8, 2024 at 6:50 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Thanks for the follow, @lassetur.bsky.social. Tell me more
December 2, 2024 at 5:31 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
No lies were told
November 29, 2024 at 10:20 PM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Well, hello, @lightgoesrogue.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 10:19 PM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Yup. Most of y’all didn’t speak up till they came for Gaza. Or for your cult. Or your object of cult adoration. Not even for your own hometowns or your parents’.
November 29, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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nfparacha.bsky.social
Reading into Politics. www.dawn.com/news/1874371
SMOKERS’ CORNER: READING INTO POLITICS
Across history, politicians and statesmen have often found inspiration and political strategies in books. However, the age of "leader-readers" now seems to be at an end.
www.dawn.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
This was the Pakistan that survived the Zia years. We were just coming out of that long night and tendrils of the life that had gone underground were starting to grow. From this came Vitals Signs, and Dil Dil Pakistan, and Junoon…

And this is still my favorite Bhangra:

youtu.be/hgeexGuXqWA
Jupiters : Saray Giday wichoon ( Punjabi song ) #Jupiters #Punjabi #BhangraNumber
YouTube video by A.S Collections
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November 23, 2024 at 3:54 AM
ifaqeer.bsky.social
Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is exactly the kind of “naqsh-e-kohan” Iqbal was talking about. A sign of brutal oppression. Created by a jabir dictator without a mandate from constitution, law, faith, or the Ummah.

The Allama’s recommendation:

“Mita do!”
November 18, 2024 at 11:12 PM