Mastodon is wild, y'all really got white folks on this site calling Black and Indigenous people colonizers, yet wonder why this place can't keep Black folks.
Complain about it, and folks come at me, telling me that I should just find another instance. It’s #segregation in digital form, especially in light of the fact that I’ve been muted and blocked by at least one entire instance.
3/ #Twitter: I started on Twitter in 2009 as a quirky way to exchange ideas and fun with people all over the world, and to possibly promote my business. I never did gain much traction there with business although I made many friends, some of which I met IRL.
The potential for Twitter to be a space for progress became evident with the #ArabSpring in 2011, a thrilling time of getting actual eyewitness news from the ground in the moment it was happening. I loved Twitter through all that and so appreciated every voice speaking out. There had never been anything like that before.
Then the drama deescalated for a few years and I actually thought the site was dying — until 2016. That horrific candidacy anointed Twitter as its media of choice, and suddenly the site was on everyone’s mind again. It was shocking how quickly the site became hateful at that point, but it was also where a huge surge of #activism, especially with marginalized groups, had a space to respond and educate. I came to rely on Twitter for #gay, #Black, #disabled, #Indigenous, #Muslim, #trans voices. I learned a ton.
So that’s what I’ve missed most since I basically abandoned Twitter in November 2022. For the next few months, I established myself on TikTok and Mastodon and had to work hard to recreate some semblance of what I had been using Twitter for. Now, I do not miss Twitter at all. My account is still there so I can keep the name, but it’s dead in the water.
"#Senate Confirms First #Muslim American #Woman To Be A #Federal#Judge
Nusrat #Choudhury, a longtime civil rights attorney, squeaked through despite opposition from Republicans and Democrat Joe [Maserati] #Manchin.
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Nusrat Choudhury to a lifetime federal judgeship, putting the first-ever Muslim American woman on the federal bench."
Dozens of girls who turned up for school in France on Monday wearing abayas in defiance of a ban on the Muslim garment were sent home when they refused to remove them.
The abaya, an over-garment covering the body from shoulders to feet that some Muslim women wear, was banned in schools by the French government last month.
The government says the abaya constitutes a display of religious affiliation, banned at schools under a 2004 law.
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) – Sudan's paramilitary forces, which have been fighting the country's army for months, have announced a unilateral truce during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
The 1889 Emigration Pass for my Great Great Grandmother who left India to become an indentured labourer on a sugar cane plantation on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.
Indians were recruited for plantation work after the British 1833 Slavery Abolition Act freed most slaves in the British Empire.
My ancestor stayed in Trinidad at the end of her tenure. Many others did too, giving Trinidad and Tobago its unique population mix.
"HOW THE HINDU RIGHT-WING IN INDIA IS UNDERMINING MUSLIM IDENTITY THROUGH HERITAGE" by Maitri Dore.
"In service of the myth of a Hindu golden age, the Hindu right-wing is contorting historical facts and attempting to cleanse the built environment of Muslim heritage. Their meddlesomeness is proof of the pudding that heritage is more than simply brick and mortar. It is about the selection and use of these for political purposes. In this scheme then, architecture–by way of claims to mosques, and public space–through its renaming, are merely convenient props that hold up the cherry-picked narrative."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jumah-mosque
Ap. 10 % of Georgia’s population is #Muslim, and until 1951 there were 2 mosques in Tbilisi. Then the Blue Mosque was demolished by the Communist government. Seeing that the Shia community had nowhere to go, Jumah Mosque opened its doors to them, making it one of the only mosques in the world where the two sects worship together. Until 1996, a black curtain was used to divide the mosque between Sunnis and Shiites during prayer, but today, the two pray side by side. #TIL
Ismail al-Jazari, a #Muslim inventor from the 12th century is known as the "father of robotics" due to his groundbreaking work in the field of automata, which are self-operating machines.
Al Jazari gained fame for inventions, included: #robots programmed to provide guests with towels, programmable on-off switches for fountains, automated mechanical clocks & much more.
To celebrate #today’s #Muslim Feast of Sacrifice, known as #EidAlAdha, here is #art representing the Pilgrimage/ #Hajj to the Holy Kaaba — 1 of the 5 pillars of #Islam 🕋
🇮🇳 🇺🇸 #Modi State Visit | AP Headline: "Biden promotes human rights as Modi says 'absolutely no space for discrimination' during state visit"
Notably, the word "Muslim" doesn't appear until para 21, after a lotta yada yada about democracy, close ties and details of multibilliion-dollar investments in #India and the manufacture of US military hardware there.
"The World's Largest Democracy" isn't really any more, and MSM is content to gloss right over it.
Wishing all Muslims who observe, a peaceful, joyous, blessed ✨Eid al-Adha✨as well as a portion of the great vision, trust & sacrifice that occasioned this Feast 🤲🏼
https://www.baytalfann.com/post/the-kaaba-and-the-kiswah
Article on the black covering of the Kabaa. Fun fact for Germans: "Approximately 120kg of silver & gold threads that come from Germany are used to emboss the Quranic verses on the Kiswah. "
So part of the Kabaa is 'Made in Germany' 😁 #islam#muslim#hajj
A man tore up and burned a Koran outside Stockholm's central mosque on Wednesday, an event that risks angering Turkey as Sweden bids to join NATO, after Swedish police granted permission for the protest to take place.
Arqueta de Leire (Monasterio). Hoy en el Museo de Navarra.
Autores: Maestro Faray, Rasid, Jair, Sa Abada, Misbah.
Taller: Madinat Al-Zahira, Córdoba (España)
Año: 395 era musulmana / 1004-1005 D.C.
Material: Marfil y plata.
Técnica Tallado.
Medidas: 23,6 x 38,4 x 23,7 cm. #arte#art#pamplona#museos#historia#culture#photo#muslim #navarra
Based on an annotation in an Islamicate manuscript that was acquired in the Caribbean, in 1773, an enslaved West African person in Léogâne (Haiti) wrote an Arabic charm in the presence of Pierre DuSimitiere. The talismanic charm is “mostly comprised of several repeated verses from the Qurʾān [with] a few words in Soninke.”
This year the Christian anti-abortion group Campaign Life Coalition, organized a National Pride Flag Walk-Out Day on June 1 designed to target Pride month celebrations in public schools.
Sudan's RSF announce ceasefire for Eid al-Adha holiday (en.mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Jun. 27 (MNA) – Sudan's paramilitary forces, which have been fighting the country's army for months, have announced a unilateral truce during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Protesters burn Koran at Stockholm mosque on Eid holiday (www.reuters.com)
A man tore up and burned a Koran outside Stockholm's central mosque on Wednesday, an event that risks angering Turkey as Sweden bids to join NATO, after Swedish police granted permission for the protest to take place.