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.
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 🤲🏼
The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, #Iran is known as the #Pink#Mosque
It gets its name from rose-colored tiles covering mosque exterior & pink hue sunlight creates on interior when it shines through stained glass windows
Built in late 19th century during Qajar dynasty, the mosque is not just a place of worship, but a work of #art showing #beauty & #creativity of Islamic #architecture & #design.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) and a group of #farright House #Republicans want to revoke visas issued to Palestinians.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) introduced legislation on Thursday to ban Palestinians from the United States in an echo of former President Donald #Trump’s infamous “#Muslim ban.”
"What's next? Start passing out Brown Shirts for ICE?"
"Susan Sarandon has been dropped by UTA after she made controversial comments at a pro-#Palestine rally in New York on Nov. 17, Variety has confirmed.
Sarandon said at the rally, “There are a lot of people afraid of being #Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a #Muslim in this country.”
T-minus 12 hours until we've gone full #Jews run #Hollywood on the left. 🫤
I like nerding with notes, languages, philosophy, reading non-fic, #solarpunk, #Dimension20, exploring non-d&d #rpg systems, waterfalls, playlists, cats. I have an admin job that inspires me to pay attention to intersections of #tech, #climate, #gender, and #rights in the #globalSouth.
Roya Heshmati, a courageous Iranian woman, faced 74 lashes as punishment for not wearing a hijab. While enduring the flogging, she passionately chanted, "in the name of woman, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn." This exemplifies true feminism, showcasing the resilience of women as a formidable force against the radical Islamic regime in Iran.
Stunning. 34% of the population in Chinese prisons are #Uyghurs, who make up ~1-2% of the population.
China has a top-down strategy to, basically, criminalize an entire ethnic group and, with time, eliminate their unique cultural, religious, and social identity.
Partnering or working with the Chinese government means supporting these genocidal policies. That includes #climate & #environment groups, too.
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.”
We live in a world where the burning of a single Quran in Europe generates more outrage by so-called "leaders" in the #Islamic world than the destruction of thousands of #Mosques & the criminalization of nearly all #Muslim#Uyghurs religious & cultural expression in #China
In fact, these same "leaders" will praise the latter.
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.
The greatest potential threat of violence in the US comes from lone actors, who can be hard to detect because such people are typically not known… ahead of time.
Got my #book signed by the author today!! Definitely recommended. They're a great person too.
We have always been here: a #queer#muslim#memoir by Samra Habib
"It may seem positive that Islam is being discussed by former detractors beyond the prisms of #extremism and #terrorism, but this exchange is part of a growing trend of something more ominous that involves #ideological borrowing in both directions.
Conversely, conservative #male pundits in the West are hosting #Muslim voices on their #podcasts and #shows.
And while these #groups have historically been at loggerheads, the overlaps in their values are also clear in their opposition to #feminism and the #antisemitism that is rife in both #communities."
Have her visit a holocaust museum! - said 1,000 numbskull Jewish organzations.
"I said that #Jewish Americans, as the targets of rising #antisemitic hate, ‘are getting a taste of what it is like to be #Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence.’ This phrasing was a terrible mistake, as it implies that until recently #Jews have been strangers to persecution, when the opposite is true,” she added."
A western diplomat I recently met in #Indonesia mentioned how frustrated he gets that actions by individual residents
in their country, like burning a Quran (terrible, but ones that, in a democracy government cannot stop), cause mass protests & huge headaches for them around the world, while the widespread destruction of Mosques, criminalizing #Islam & closing ancient #Muslim shrines by the #Chinese government gets a pass.
It's just been revealed that #Labour MP for #Coventry South Zarah Sultana, is the most abused & threatened MP in the commons, receiving 68% more abuse & threats compared to the next MP.
However, she's an #Asian#Muslim & a vocal critic of the #UK's #Tory government's response to the #Israeli#turkey shoot in #Gaza, hence the huge increase in threats & abuse she's received since.
After 12 hours of silence, #Sunak said it was racist, but he's apologised so we should all move on. 😳
One of New York's Most Vital Colleges Is Targeting Muslim Students (www.thenation.com)
The Brooklyn College administration has repeatedly shown that it is willing to suppress Muslim and Palestinian speech on campus.