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PhD student in History/Islamic law @Penn |thinking about itinerants & iconoclasts in the horn of africa-yaman-indian ocean|🎙 @IslamicHistoryX |Editor @IhyaJournal

📍Phila/MPLS | your hood
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@Ibn_Asad2
محمود أبو احمد
4 years
Muslim Pro by the looks of it
@shereeny
✧ 𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 ✧
4 years
who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?
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@Ibn_Asad2
محمود أبو احمد
5 years
I graduated Friday evening, my family celebrated. My grandmother passed away Saturday morning(الله يرحمها), my family grieved. We buried her today. If that doesn’t highlight the fluidity and uncertainty that is life, I don’t know what does. Please keep my family in your prayers.
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This guy gets it. 🐐
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محمود أبو احمد
4 years
Alhamdulilah, got married to my best friend today. Please keep us in your Dua’s.
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Boy:“Where will we go, where will we go? Mother, mother!” Mother: “The land of god is wide” “Sufficient for us is Allah, he is the best disposer of affairs” “O Allah, all praise is due to You alone, until you’re pleased. And all praise is due to you alone when you’re pleased”
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While fleeing #Rafah under Israeli fire The kid: “Where to go?” His mom: “Go ahead. The land of God is wide.”
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*defamatory article about a major Muslim led crowdfunding platform comes out* huh… I wonder who wrote it… *literal former IDF spokesperson guy*
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محمود أبو احمد
5 years
Ahh... death by terminal stage capitalism.
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9 months
What’s in the heart will always make its way to the mouth.
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An all-timer here.
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10 months
may Allah forgive and elevate the martyrs. may the eyes of cowards never find sleep.
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don’t look away. we are called to bear witness.
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7 months
I have a relative nicknamed Abdullahi “Philadelphia”, no connection to the city minus transiting there for 45 mins when he was coming to America.
@FredoZimbabwe
Ramadan Steve Harrington
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Somali nicknames are so awesome my dad has a friend named Ahmed Soviet cause his wife is from Bulgaria (they were never in the Soviet Union)
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4 years
on a serious note, this should be a wake up call to Muslims around the globe about how deeply embedded the state surveillance/security apparatus is in our daily lives, even in the most mundane of ways.
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Muslims have sighted the moon locally and gone with the word of their local scholars for centuries. Imagine before the advent of modern communications? How would a man in Saudi have gotten the word to people in Senegal, Malaysia, Bosnia?
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2 years
Mufti was absolutely spitting when he dropped this banger
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5 years
They want us to stay home and leave our places of worship. Best believe we’re pulling up to the masjids. They can’t take that from us.
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stop asking the police to operate ethically or rationally. That is neither their function nor their purpose.
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2 years
“Among the believers there are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah. Some have fulfilled their vow dying, and others await, unyielding to change” (Al-aḥzāb, 23)
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the mystery in question:
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Work from home destroys families. As a man you will lose all respect from your family if you’re home 24/7. Your kids will talk back, your wives will not listen. Being away creates mystery and demands respect. This is exactly why I spend hours at the caffe, to save my family.
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4 years
If you from the city then you know that the 3rd precinct was a monument to police terror, seeing it go was cathartic.
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محمود أبو احمد
3 years
Zakat negligence among young Muslim professionals is a major issue a lot of folks don’t seem to be talking about enough.
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10 months
an entire class of Muslim pundits, talking heads, media personalities and wannabe intellectual grifters spent 6-7 years seeking this losers approval. here are the fruits of your cursed labor
@jordanbpeterson
Dr Jordan B Peterson
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Give 'em hell @netanyahu Enough is enough
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9 months
Resign? they’re having a samosa vs. sambusa debate for the WH iftar in their slack affinity group rn
@azadessa
Azad Essa
9 months
So to be clear: there are 100+ Muslim political appointees in Biden's administration and not one has resigned yet?
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3 years
Pro Tip: give Sadaqah to those in your family who are most in need of it, you will be asked about them first and you x2 the reward for giving.
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Very excited to present my paper “The Dugsi: The Historical Development of Discipline & Devotion in the Somali Educational Paradigm” at #BMPC2019 . This paper was the product of a grueling year of writing, reading and field work and I’m blessed to be able to present it!
@BlackMuslimPsyc
BlackMuslimPsych
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Mohamud A. Mohamed is a #BMPC2019 Emerging Leader Awardee. He is also a 2018 DREL Fellow and Featured Presenter w/ his workshop "“The Dugsi: The Historical Development of Discipline & Devotion in the Somali Educational Paradigm” Register for #BMPC2019 :
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I’m about one rejection letter away from raising camels like my ancestors did
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4 years
May Allah bring peace to the family of Shukri Abdi, the pain her mother has endured can’t be put into words.
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Ramadan Pro Tip: you can give charity without dehumanizing the recipient.
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محمود أبو احمد
5 years
What Al-Shabab and other terror entities (ISIS, the kkk, Israel ) fail to grasp is that you can commit mass murder, destroy infrastructure, create chaos and instability on a mass scale. But you can’t kill ideas —You can’t kill the way people made us feel and the impact they leave
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محمود أبو احمد
4 years
folks who don’t live in Minneapolis, it’s probably best you keep quiet.
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محمود أبو احمد
4 years
Minneapolis said “what curfew?”
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this hypocrite will pull out every stop to get you to vote for him in 2024. it was only yesterday he was invoking the words of our beloved Prophet to get your vote today he is facilitating the greatest evil, the genocide of the people of Gaza. we won’t forgive, we won’t forget
@thehill
The Hill
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Joe Biden speaks to Million Muslim Votes Summit: "Hadith from the Prophet Muhammad instructs, 'Whomever among you sees a wrong, let him change it with his hand. If he is not able, then with his tongue. If he is not able, then with his heart.'"
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There has never been a better time to tell your homie he can’t rap. Hang it up for the sake of Allah
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محمود أبو احمد
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If you eat digir I promise you don’t worry about the vaccine
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2 years
dugsi macalin’s across the world are trying to recreate that slap as we speak.
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محمود أبو احمد
3 years
We rocking with the Supreme Somali Moon Sighting Committee/The Brave Eight this year?
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محمود أبو احمد
10 months
getting emails to “be careful” about Palestine from senior academics in history/Islamic studies. named professors/chairs mind you. people who have status/nothing to fear. I ask that Allah never humiliates me as he has humiliated them. No check is worth the blood of the oppressed.
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there is no group of people more delusional and out of touch with reality than academics.
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The support of the Somali people for the Palestinian cause is deep rooted. During the Great Palestinian Revolt in 1936, Somalia’s leading anti-colonial scholar Sharif Mahamud Abd al-Rahman organized mass support and donations for the Palestinian cause.
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When you see these people remember that in Minnesota Andrew Luger, Michael Davis and their CVE sycophants handed down 30+ year sentences to Somali youth without a shred of concrete evidence.
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محمود أبو احمد
4 years
We ain’t forget about you Isak Aden, May Allah widen your grave and punish your killers.
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محمود أبو احمد
2 years
your ancestors were storming British/Italian garrisons, smoking them with outdated weapons and then composing hundreds of lines of poetry about it. you make tiktoks. isla yaab sxb
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محمود أبو احمد
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This is the new gold standard for how we should interact with politicians in our Mosques.
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Here is the PM inside about to speak and you can hear the crowd booing him there too. I have never seen him get this kind of reception.
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getting woken up for dugsi on saturday morning
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"You do not mean peace talks, you mean surrender ... that is the kind of conversation between the sword and the neck."
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I've been thinking a lot recently about the idea of eloquence as a form of deception. The Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ comes to mind: إنَّ مِنَ البَيان لَسِحرًا - أوْ إنَّ بَعْضَ البَيانِ سِحْر "Indeed there is magic in eloquence' -or- 'Indeed some eloquence is magic'."
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4 years
Jokes aside the majority of Minnesota’s Muslim community will be celebrating Eid tomorrow. Eid Mubarak !
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May Allah have mercy on Dolal Idd and grant his family patience.
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5 years
Everytime I go to a well attended Janazah I can’t help but think about all the times Muslims in our communities have been prayed over and buried alone. All of the reverts, elderly, young children and outsiders who have passed away with hardly any notice.
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محمود أبو احمد
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need that. expeditiously
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محمود أبو احمد
3 years
Prison. Immediately
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محمود أبو احمد
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All of that for a Level 1 security clearance, 6 roommates in a 2BD apt in Dupont circle and 36K after taxes.
@Shack_Rat
Huthaifa
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Just a reminder: while multiple people have resigned from the Biden administration, not a single Muslim has done so.
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Every time Khabib had McGregor in a hold I imagined he was whispering the Fatiha in his ear. TUFFF 😂😂
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محمود أبو احمد
3 years
the devil works hard but Ayaan Hirsi Ali works harder
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محمود أبو احمد
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There was so little of his body remaining that they had to bury him and three of his cousins in one grave.
@DabSquad_Slank
SLANK
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In 2011, Obama murdered 16 yr old American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki via drone strike while he was eating at a restaurant in Yemen.
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Imagine being so loud and yet so wrong.
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Soul crushing. May Allah have mercy on this poor baby and grant the grieving family patience.
@RegChapman
Reg Chapman
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Family of missing two year old girl in Edina being escorted by police to edge of pond. She has been missing since 5pm Monday.
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3 years
“Basto over Bariis” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Man, what a difficult year in this community. May Allah ease the pain of our aching hearts.
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محمود أبو احمد
4 years
did a thing with the coolest podcast out. we talked language theory, culture and Somali scholarship. let me know what you guys think @nomadichustle
@nomadichustle
Nomadic Hustle
4 years
Preserving the Somali Language and Heritage, Impact of colonialism on Somali history, The importance of Somali Academics and Scholars in taking control of our history and narrative | #NomadicHustle 19 w/ Mohamud Awil Mohamed @Ibn_Asad2 Full video:
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Details
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At this point I’m convinced some folks are more invested in maintaining an amicable (but ultimately false) sense of unity rather than doing the hard work of building communities that can effectively dismantle racism, prejudice and anti-blackness.
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Men, we have to be hold ourselves and each other accountable. We have to be better, we have ALL been complicit in allowing this culture to fester in our communities.
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3 years
All the future CIA operatives in ARAB 1101
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5 years
Your mcm is looking for a khamiis at Karmel right now. Tragic. Do better ma
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being a 21st century qabil warrior is some real weak sauce tbh. your ancestors had 500 year blood feuds, camel raids, hundreds of miles of grazing territory to defend.
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محمود أبو احمد
5 years
This is troubling and deeply concerning rhetoric from Shaykh Said Rageh on many levels.
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4 years
white america really honestly believes that the plan is to implement “shariah law” in Minneapolis after disbanding the police... Welcome to the Midwestern Islamic Emirate of Minneapolis I guess.
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3 years
Shaqaale: How do you take you tea? Me: unethical, abti.
@azizfaarah
Aziz Faarah
3 years
No context Somali translations
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honestly... canadian somalis might be the most legit diaspora. good people wallahi
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محمود أبو احمد
3 years
Nearly four centuries after his death a Somali ʿĀlim gets his day in the sun. My new essay for @visitHMML on heritage, Somali Islamic manuscripts and what the future holds for us.
@visitHMML
HMML
3 years
Mohamud Awil Mohamed, a 2021 fellow with HMML’s Islamic cataloging team, shares the journey of his family's manuscripts in this story about Islamic manuscripts and the heritage of Somalia: #Somalia #CulturalPreservation #Manuscripts #DigitalPreservation
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Ilaahoow cuqdad naga ilaali
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Whether you celebrate today or tomorrow, may Allah accept our fast, reward us for our intentions and forgive us for our shortcomings. Eid Mubarak تقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الأعمال
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محمود أبو احمد
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What... you’ve never been to a family reunion?
@bubbaprog
Timothy Burke
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Cops are taking selfies with the terrorists.
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the “Move to Texas-Industrial Complex” collapsed in under 72 hours.
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they’re cooking up a whole new world of slurs in Paris rn
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What’s not to love about this guy, amirite? ✅2 tours in Iraq ✅Captain in the U.S. Army ✅Worked in “Detention Operations” ✅Department of Homeland Security ✅ICE
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Zahid Quraishi, a federal magistrate judge and the son of Pakistani immigrants, has become the first Muslim Federal District Court judge in U.S. history. He was confirmed by the Senate for a federal judgeship in New Jersey.
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Sorry for the wait, we finally got it together ⬇️
@IslamicHistoryX
Islamic History X Podcast
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After two years, hundreds of hours of research and writing and many late nights we are excited to finally launch The Islamic History X podcast this week In Sha Allah! 🎙🔊
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lil baadiyo boys 🥀 #EidMubrak #BlackOutEid
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The Midwestern Islamic Emirate of Minneapolis is here about a half century early, but we did it folks.
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@MusabvsMorgan can’t even pray Fajr without an NSA intern knowing when and where, this is something else fam
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Don’t let this make it to Somali parent WhatsApp
@CNN
CNN
5 years
Drinking very hot tea almost doubles the risk of cancer, a new study says
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3 years
Easy ratio by these nice Eedo’s selling the most elite tea.
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@sharghzadeh
شرق‌زده sharghzadeh
3 years
Three most elite teas in the world: Iraqi Chay, Iranian Chayi, and Adeni Shahi. We will not be taking any questions or rebuttals.
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Zionism is a death cult whose violence knows no borders. May Allah have mercy on him and grant his family ease.
@CAIRNational
CAIR National
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We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family's apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume. @cairchicago will hold a
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*hanging out with my dad and son* me: “aabo —” them:
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Sweden is entering a US level PR crisis
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You ever just think about how Hodan Nalayeh(رحمة الله عليها) dedicated her life to showcasing the beauty and honor of her home country, only to be murdered there?
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محمود أبو احمد
2 years
Qabyaalad: you would rather eat bakhti with your cousins, than eat halal with your neighbors
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محمود أبو احمد
6 years
Imagine pretending you’re not excited for Eid to seem edgy... that really ain’t it chief.
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محمود أبو احمد
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A Tribe Called Death
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محمود أبو احمد
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If this is how Somali twitter looks rn, imagine Somali FB?
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محمود أبو احمد
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This is what I envision at Somalis joints but dudes wanna give me 2/3 qudaar and 3 pieces of chicken suqaar. Yaab wallahi 🤦🏽‍♂️
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محمود أبو احمد
10 months
very difficult moral quandary here: who should I believe about the hospital bombing? a. volunteer director of embattled, impoverished, over-capacity hospital that has already been bombed this week b. zionist military mouthpiece
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If you read anything today, read this.
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محمود أبو احمد
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Peace to the people of Afghanistan. May Allah ease their affairs.
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3 years
No doubt Chauvin is a sacrifice to stifle the politics of abolition. We want em all not just this pig.
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محمود أبو احمد
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The Somaal Sultanate goes West (Midwest). We won man. Flawless geeljire victory.
@iamyesyouareno
iamyesyouareno
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“It’s just a conspiracy theory” Meanwhile:
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