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Afroze
@afrozefz.bsky.social
· Feb 15
one of the most jarring things about this app is that you don't get notifications for engagement with retweets like hello IS ANYBODY THERE
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I wrote about why a new definition of Islamophobia won't bring the change British Muslims need, for the New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
A government-led definition of Islamophobia won’t save Muslims
The Starmer government’s attempt to define Islamophobia is worthless given it continues to criminalise politically outspoken Muslims, argues Afroze Zaidi.
www.newarab.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I wrote about why a new definition of Islamophobia won't bring the change British Muslims need, for the New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
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A definition is not a magic spell, though it can do useful work. Politicians could have got on with doing that work using the definition we already have if they really wanted to counter Islamophobia.
March 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A definition is not a magic spell, though it can do useful work. Politicians could have got on with doing that work using the definition we already have if they really wanted to counter Islamophobia.
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We have a good enough definition of Islamophobia already, defining Islamophobia is not the issue. The issue is continuously going on and on about how complex it is and convening more and more groups to re-define it in an endless loop rather than actually working to counter it.
March 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We have a good enough definition of Islamophobia already, defining Islamophobia is not the issue. The issue is continuously going on and on about how complex it is and convening more and more groups to re-define it in an endless loop rather than actually working to counter it.
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I think that this new working group is a deliberate attempt to roll back the work we have all been doing to understand the systemic, political, ontological, historiographical etc ways that Islamophobia manifests. I think we risk the same move following for other racisms too.
March 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I think that this new working group is a deliberate attempt to roll back the work we have all been doing to understand the systemic, political, ontological, historiographical etc ways that Islamophobia manifests. I think we risk the same move following for other racisms too.
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Someone who sees a demonstration against genocide as a threat doesn’t necessarily hate all Muslims, there may be Muslims (eg “moderate” / “liberal” / “apolitical” Muslims etc) who they like. But however many Muslims they don’t hate, they still perceive that threat because of Islamophobia.
March 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Someone who sees a demonstration against genocide as a threat doesn’t necessarily hate all Muslims, there may be Muslims (eg “moderate” / “liberal” / “apolitical” Muslims etc) who they like. But however many Muslims they don’t hate, they still perceive that threat because of Islamophobia.
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It will put back decades of work on racism, and it will also make eg the Islamophobic persecution of pro-Palestinian voices easier because it will make the very obvious structural operations of Islamophobia harder to demonstrate.
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It will put back decades of work on racism, and it will also make eg the Islamophobic persecution of pro-Palestinian voices easier because it will make the very obvious structural operations of Islamophobia harder to demonstrate.
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Something I think is missing from lots of discussions (and well brought out here) about Labour’s new plan to delay actually doing anything about Islamophobia is that to Islamophobia, like racism, is also structural. Calling it “hatred” will make it seem like it is only interpersonal.
I wrote about why a new definition of Islamophobia won't bring the change British Muslims need, for the New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
A government-led definition of Islamophobia won’t save Muslims
The Starmer government’s attempt to define Islamophobia is worthless given it continues to criminalise politically outspoken Muslims, argues Afroze Zaidi.
www.newarab.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Something I think is missing from lots of discussions (and well brought out here) about Labour’s new plan to delay actually doing anything about Islamophobia is that to Islamophobia, like racism, is also structural. Calling it “hatred” will make it seem like it is only interpersonal.
I wrote about why a new definition of Islamophobia won't bring the change British Muslims need, for the New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
A government-led definition of Islamophobia won’t save Muslims
The Starmer government’s attempt to define Islamophobia is worthless given it continues to criminalise politically outspoken Muslims, argues Afroze Zaidi.
www.newarab.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I wrote about why a new definition of Islamophobia won't bring the change British Muslims need, for the New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
Pls read/share; keen to hear thoughts as interaction on this platform is still limited for me
www.newarab.com/opinion/gove...
#Islamophobia #BritishMuslims
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The Starmer government’s attempt to define Islamophobia is worthless given it continues to criminalise politically outspoken Muslims, writes Afroze Zaidi ⬇
A government-led definition of Islamophobia won’t save Muslims
The Starmer government’s attempt to define Islamophobia is worthless given it continues to criminalise politically outspoken Muslims, argues Afroze Zaidi.
www.newarab.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The Starmer government’s attempt to define Islamophobia is worthless given it continues to criminalise politically outspoken Muslims, writes Afroze Zaidi ⬇
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“Vaccine fatigue” started back in 1998 with Andrew Wakefield’s MMR autism fraud boosted by our trashfire right wing media
March 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Vaccine fatigue” started back in 1998 with Andrew Wakefield’s MMR autism fraud boosted by our trashfire right wing media
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✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.
📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.
📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.
March 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.
📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.
📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.
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So often people seem to be objecting to an immigration system which they’ve made up in their own heads
March 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
So often people seem to be objecting to an immigration system which they’ve made up in their own heads
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J K Rowling might have badly written some popular wizard books but it’s important to remember she is really not very bright at all and only gets listened to because of said popular wizard books making her extremely rich.
March 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
J K Rowling might have badly written some popular wizard books but it’s important to remember she is really not very bright at all and only gets listened to because of said popular wizard books making her extremely rich.
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Will never forget the fawning treatment certain journalists in Westminster gave this guy when he was merely privately WhatsApping his vile opinions, rather than publishing them openly for everyone else to see
February 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Will never forget the fawning treatment certain journalists in Westminster gave this guy when he was merely privately WhatsApping his vile opinions, rather than publishing them openly for everyone else to see
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Just to be absolutely clear, Morgan McSweeney, the guy running the UK Labour Party in Government set out, in 2017, to ensure his own party, Labour, would not win the next General Election - because the party was too left wing for him.
Solomon Hughes on Twitter, screenshotting Pogrund and Maguire’s new book. Questions like “Who knew what, and when” and “Why isn’t this big news in 2025” are required here, are they not.
February 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Just to be absolutely clear, Morgan McSweeney, the guy running the UK Labour Party in Government set out, in 2017, to ensure his own party, Labour, would not win the next General Election - because the party was too left wing for him.
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See it
Say it
Sorted. ✨
Say it
Sorted. ✨
February 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
See it
Say it
Sorted. ✨
Say it
Sorted. ✨
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one of the most jarring things about this app is that you don't get notifications for engagement with retweets like hello IS ANYBODY THERE
February 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
one of the most jarring things about this app is that you don't get notifications for engagement with retweets like hello IS ANYBODY THERE
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Tough luck kids, Keir Starmer needs to create a lot of value for BAE Systems shareholders
February 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Tough luck kids, Keir Starmer needs to create a lot of value for BAE Systems shareholders
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Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.
February 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
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That famed Judeo-Christian English history in which Jews were expelled and then banned from openly living in the country for 350 years
February 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
That famed Judeo-Christian English history in which Jews were expelled and then banned from openly living in the country for 350 years
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fyi this means somebody deliberately added Russian state media either w/o comms approval or comms approved and is now backtracking
Um, who let him in the Oval Office? Not somewhere you just accidentally walk in.
February 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
fyi this means somebody deliberately added Russian state media either w/o comms approval or comms approved and is now backtracking
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