Lady B• @UAL alumni @LSE • Social/Political Analyst • Foreign policy• Seen on 📺🗞 • Founder @runracismout • My Opinions
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This PROUD British Pakistani Muslim just landed herself ANOTHER TV show in the UK. Through hard work and perseverance.
I will never let hate win. Ever. This is why extremist Hindutva Indians, racists and Islamophobes dislike me.
While they cry, we'll keep winning.
Alhamdulillah 🙏🏽
Turns out the "Sharia-compliant, interest-free" student finance is not in fact "Sharia-compliant" or "interest-free". 😂🤣
I swear the Government thinks British Muslims are stupid.
Changing the words "repayments" to "contributions" and "loan" to "alternative payment" is doing a lot of heavy Sharia lifting.
All the media outrage over basically nothing.
Carl, you keep presenting your personal belief that only people with English ancestry can be English as though it's some immutable law of the universe. It isn't.
You're essentially saying that only your "tribe" gets to decide who belongs. That's not an objective fact, it's YOUR definition of Englishness.
And telling people that they can never belong because of their ancestry doesn't make you the guardian of English identity.
And the repeated attempts to intimidate or browbeat people into accepting your definition don't make your argument any more convincing.
It just makes the racial exclusion in your argument rather difficult to miss.
You cannot change your ethnicity. Someone with no English ethnicity will never become English. This is a fact of life; it is as neutral as any observation about the universe.
People didn't think they needed permission to be Indian or Algerian, either, but when the power of the state that put them in those countries receded, they left very swiftly because the reality is that the nature of tribal belonging is unspoken, felt, and very real.
If you have to say it, it probably isn't true, and that you are saying it is a confession. You can make statements like "I, a Pakistani woman, possess Englishness beyond the authority of the English people", but that won't make it true and you can't speak this into existence. No amount of legislation can make it so, and that this is the topic of conversation, as I said earlier, reveals the precariousness of your position.
I'm not trying to be rude, and there are many ways by which you could modulate your claim in order to respect the English people so that you do not drive up these hackles, but you seem to want to deliberately provoke so that it takes on the aspect of a shit-test.
Don't be surprised when this all backfires because of your lack of respect. The tribe decides if you belong or not, it isn't something you can demand or dictate.
I'm surprised this wasn't discussed and implemented sooner.
White people do not have exclusive ownership of Englishness.
England belongs to its people and its people aren't defined by one skin colour.
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham suggests he will back Lib Dem proposals to add "Black English" and "Asian English" as options on the census
#PMQs
There's been some Muslims having a go at Abdul El-Sayed for attending a Diwali celebration, because they believe it's religiously impermissible.
Personally, if I were an elected Muslim politician representing a multi-faith, multicultural constituency, I would attend different communities' festivals and events as a gesture of courtesy, respect and solidarity.
That doesn't mean I'm participating in their worship or adopting their beliefs.
Islam teaches me to treat people of different faiths with justice, kindness and good character.
I can be a Muslim and still say "Happy Diwali" to my Hindu constituents and friends. Just as I would say "Merry Christmas".
That's not compromising my faith. It's showing my neighbours courtesy.
So are "racism", "antisemitism", "sexism", "misogyny". Someone had to make up the words before we could use them to describe the prejudice they identify.
Congratulations on discovering how language works 🤡
I'm sorry, what? Is Rubio saying what I think he's saying?
Collective punishment to win a failing US war against Iran.
The word "sharia" clearly frightens Matt Goodwin so much that he has to invent a fantasy about a "two-tier" society.
It isn't a Muslim only loan. Anyone eligible can use it.
If you're going to criticise the policy, atleast criticise the policy that actually exists. 😂
You must know by now that the Labour Party is a party that prioritises Israel's interests over human suffering.
The videos and carefully-worded condemnations are for optics, nothing more.
They'll push right up to the acceptable line but they're not prepared to cross it if it means seriously upsetting Israel.
Palestine doesn't need politicians performing concern for the cameras.
It needs politicians with a backbone.
Labour isn't it.
Sanction Israel now. End all arm sales and expel Israeli ambassadors from the UK, until this rogue state complies. Cut this parasite off entirely while they continue to disregard international law.
Words mean nothing at this point into such evil.
France supported Israel's aggression in Iran that has killed thousands of human beings and damaged vital infrastructure.
But "oh no, not our fridges".
Honestly, the geopolitical priorities are sending me.
France accuses Iran of being behind cyber-attacks that affected supermarket fridges and freezers bbc.in/4et2Nhf
There are many things to criticise about Dubai, but this isn't one of them.
Posting a video of a child online -in any capacity - without the consent of their parent or guardian should absolutely be illegal.
Protect children. Full stop.
Obviously. Much of Israeli society is normalised extremism, sponsored by the state.
One sick creature replaced by another.
Gadi Eisenkot was heard saying how Netanyahu didn’t go far enough.
Expect more evil.
Israel’s opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot, the man officially tasked with trying to form the country’s next government, has said that he is open to including PM Benjamin Netanyahu in his coalition lineup.
🔗 : aje.news/ho7x9j
