This video made me cry! Thank you Miss Aisha & every single undervalued and underpayed teaching Assistant, without you the basic necessity of receiving an education would be impossible for students with learning difficulties to access.
I came to Manchester for
#CPC19
. I had every intention of proudly representing millions of students across our country. However, as President of
@nusuk
and a Muslim woman I cannot in good conscience participate in a Conference that openly denies the existence of Islamophobia.
Today, I have formally taken up the role of President of the National Union of Students. At a time when we are seeing a rise in people powered politics, I'm excited for
@nusuk
to harness the energy of 7 million students to build a better world.
Somali sisters really showed up and showed out for our little sister around the world!
They can try to hold us down, but still, like air, we’ll rise!!
#JusticeForShukriAbdi
A brother who took his mum to umrah got into a serious accident and now needs to be airlifted back to the states.
Please donate what you can,
May Allah swt reward him for his efforts.
إِنَّا للهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ
Zakariya, The Brother who had the very serious accident in Saudi has returned to his maker.
He took his mother to Umrah before he passed, May his rewards weigh heavy for him on the day of judgement.
May Allah swt ease the family pain❤️
Still deeping the fact that our brother went on national television, included Islamophobia, Anti-blackness and state surveillance in his set. And got a Golden Buzzer!! I swear to god if we don’t make sure he wins, we ain’t shit!
#BGT
🎉 Honoured to have been elected as Vice President of European Students’ Union.
In these challenging times where our Govts have failed, the Climate Crisis rages on, people are lose their lives trying to reach safety, Organised & Unified action is more crucial than ever before!✊🏾
Today marks the 4th anniversary of Shukri Abdi’s death,
Shukri’s was born and raised in a refugee camp until her family came to the UK as refugees in 2017. They were settled in bury. This was supposed to be the safety and stability they need to start their lives.
You can't deny my own lived experiences, and the racism faced by Muslims from the far-right, parts of our media and in communities across our country daily. You can't hide from this deep and horrific problem. For this reason I have withdrawn from all engagements at
#CPC19
.
My heart goes out to all the businesses and families impacted by the fires in
#Hargeisa
, it’s time like these the diaspora needs to help our beautiful Hargeisa rebuild! Please share any fundraiser for our people!!!
Yesterday, I was horrified to see reports of what was sickening Islamophobia arising from an official Tory Party fringe entitled ‘Challenging Islamophobia’. Here, panelists denied the existence of anti-Muslim bigotry and toasted to their being labelled ‘Islamophobe of the Year’.
A Muslim Tory Party member was forced to ask whether the panel was setup to ‘promote Islamophobia rather than challenge it’. With anti-Muslim hate crimes soaring, for such dangerous rhetoric to be spread at the Conference of our governing Party is abhorrent; it must be condemned.
Chunkz getting more vile racist slander than KSI from the South Asian community is clearest indication you need to understand the Anti-blackness in the Muslim community
You can’t claim racism then Uno Reverse it
By Discrediting a Black man’s success and claiming ya’ll made him.
Nabil Abdulrashid already won the day he stepped on that stage, he brought every single one of us through with him. Proud doesn’t even cut it and i know he’s gonna keep winning for every single one of us!
Keep your head up Naija king, the journeys only just begun! 👏🏾❤️
The more we hear about Shukri, how her life is insignificant to the police, to the school, the more anger and absolute rage comes over me. Shukri was my little sister, and your little sister and we can’t let her death be forgotten and pass in Silence.
#JusticeForShukri
Today, my term as President of the NUS comes to an end.
From Climate Strikes, Brexit to GE & Covid, its been the WILDEST ride. The last few years have been simultaneously the best & worst years of my life. Grateful for friends made & lessons learned.
@Larissa_Ken
over to you ✊🏿
📢Students📢 from 25 Nov to 4 Dec your lecturers & staff will be striking. They don't want to but Universities are overworking & underpaying our staff with pensions under threat. Their working conditions are our learning conditions. In solidarity, see you on the picket lines ✊🏾
Shukri Abdi's Inquest recommenced today, this summer we took to streets across the globe and shouted her name. We took a pledge to stand by her until justice is served!
The fight is far from over!
Keep the family in your duas
& keep SHOUTING her name!
#Justice4Shukri
How my little sis got a First class during a whole panoramic whilst being overworked as front line trainee nurse, I will never understand!
MASHAALLAH MASHAALLAH MASHAALLAH
To him we belong, and to him we shall return. Thank you for all the lovely messages. I was so lucky to be blessed with a father that was so intelligent, generous &hilarious. A father that taught me to see beyond any barrier and lived his dream everyday! Keep him in your prayers❤️
Exactly a year ago today, at this hour Allah swt took back my fathers soul.
This life is temporary and Death is the only thing guaranteed.
I pray we all do what we can in this world to serve us in the next.
And always keep all those who have passed sincerely in your duas!
As strike action hits our campuses again in the coming weeks you'll find students where we should be - on the picket lines & the frontline against the marketisation of our education system. Solidarity with
@ucu
members, we'll be updating members on the strikes in the coming days
BREAKING NEWS: UCU members at 74 universities to take 14 days of strikes in February and March. Union says it will also ballot for a fresh mandate to continue the action if disputes on
#USS
and
#FourFights
cannot be resolved. Full details here -
‘I just want to go to school and feel comfortable’ - Siham, 12yrs old.
Is it too much to ask for a little girl to be able to feel comfortable enough to fully participate in her education and be her truest form of herself?
@UxbridgeHighSch
??
Watch here: ↩️
It was an absolute honour to be invited to speak at Women March London today! Let's not forget why we march, why we stood in the rain shouting
#EnoughIsEnough
Let's not forget that we need to...
Organise,
Organise,
Organise!
Here is a snippet of my speech!
#TimesUp
✊
Dear Students,
Despite
@BorisJohnson
's attacks on democracy, his best efforts to silence us & disenfranchise our country's most vulnerable, the power to decide the outcome of the upcoming election lies with *us*
#RegisterToVote
My piece in the Indy ⬇️
When Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons speaks we listen!
We have contacts for the following
#Justice4Shukri
Protest happening on the 27th June!
- Manchester
- London
- Sheffield
- Liverpool
- Birmingham (25th*)
- Bristol
- Leicester
- Toronto
- Cardiff
RT & Share, if you know of others DM ASAP!
More information to follow!
It’s been 2yrs since my beloved father and best friend returned to his maker on Eid Al-Adha. As we celebrate today with our loved ones, please make sincere dua & prayers for those who are no longer here.
May Allah swt grant him the highest of heavens & reunite us in Jannah 🙏🏾
@nellarose
Nella, please be for real and jump on a flight to Italy already. The food is glorious, the sites are incredible and the air is filled with smug Italians who will treat you well as long as you look like a wealthy tourist 🥲 European anti-blackness has been permeating for a min!
As the President of the National of Union of Students who just so happens to be Muslim,I'd like to inform Mr Liddle that its not just Canterbury, but every constituency we'll be targeting this time around. Tell your Mosques, Colleges and Unis folks - its time to get out the vote!
I need Somalia to organise an International Youth conference for its diaspora, I’d even take a 6month sabbatical to Project Manage it. The amount of skills and opportunities that are being utilised elsewhere is insane.
Anyone know how we can make this happen? I’m dead serious.
Today I begin my mandate as the Vice President of the European Students Union. As the UK sever it’s ties to the European Union, its ever more crucial that students in Europe especially in British Universities don’t lose to international mobility.
Peaceful protesters being battered to their death. Is the west pretending like this isn’t happening? Or was it that brown lives never mattered?
@dehlipolice
#DehliBurning
It’s only when you feel like you have lost your everything. That’s when you truly appreciate what you had.
So on this blessed Friday, may we Thank Allahs swt not only for what we have, but for what we had too. Because SubhanAllah we have a million reasons to smile 😁❤️
Forever our Lord Mayor & a Somali king 🇸🇴,
A HUGE congrats to this incredible human that has spent every minute in his role inspirin a nation, questionin the status quo & being unapologetically Black&Muslim
I can’t wait to see you bring this energy to the European Union as MEP!
It is unacceptable that Shaima found out this way.
Its completely in line with how Muslim women are treated in the political arena, without a shred of thought for their care. I'm having lots of emotions today but one is for certain, I am not proud to be a former President today.
"Verily to him we belong, and verily to Him we shall return." 2:156
My Uncle just passed away after contracting COVID, leaving behind 3boys & wife, I ask you again for your sincere prayers. It was less then a month ago my grandfather passed away. Praying for sabr & strength ❤️
I love that two of our Muslim brothers didn’t get enraged by the Muslim Pro app selling our data, they just went give us two mins and whipped up an alternative! Allahumma Bariik, we need more people that come with solutions rather than a Twitter thread 🧵
↪️
@thepillarsapp
↩️
WHOOOP!!
Excited to announce that today, I’m starting a new role and joining a fierce team at
@GreenNewDealUK
, building up the
@buildbckbetter
campaign!
Alhamdulilah, bring on this new chapter of my life... even in these WILD corona times!
LETS SHAKE THINGS UP 🤪📣👏🏾
Imagine being arms length from vulnerable people who have left everything they know behind, risked their life in a dingy boat that’s over capacity and could capsize any second, to point at them on the news as if their not human.
That’s white supremacy... BBC’s forte!
"They're using a plastic container to try to bail out the boat"
Live on
#BBCBreakfast
@SimonJonesNews
found another migrant boat attempting to cross the Channel. The group say they're from Syria.
A young Black Muslim woman was racially and physically attacked on Friday 5pm, Elm row rd in Hampstead.
Is this what my sisters have to fear when they step out the house? She’s completely shaken up and living in fear!
SHARE & RT so he can be identified!
#PasToucheAMonHijab
#DontTouchMyHijab
The sheer anger in me, for my sisters who are being forced to sacrifice a part of themselves.
CAN NOT AND WILL NOT RUN!
I cant be unapologetically Muslim, if my sisters are being systematically targeted through islamaphobic policy!
And so it begins, 8days of consecutive striking! Solidarity with our university staff that will be striking in 60 universities across the country! Secure contracts, secure pensions and Fair pay is the basic standards, Our institutions need to pull a finger out and act!
@ucu
Yesterday I had £40 cash in my pocket,
Today I have £1,540,
What changed?
My aunt asked me to deposit her ayuuto in the Bank!
Trust the process,
Believe in the journey.
This morning I had £54 in cash in my wallet.
This evening I have £65 in cash.
I’m up £11
What changed?
I decided to take massive action and believe in myself
Congratulations to
@DrJoGrady
and all UCU activists who have poured their hearts into this achievement!
Students 🤝🏽 Workers. We work best when we unite together to fight for a fairer, more just education system.
...and I'll see you on the picket line! 💪🏾💃🏾
These kids are born in to ‘Israeli Apartheid’ a brutal occupation; they grow up with guns in their faces, raids, checkpoints and bombings. Their resilience is their only a form of survival & it should break our heart that this must be a child’s reality 😥
Halima’s story really got me reflecting, I don’t think non-hijabi’s can even begin to fathom what she is talking about. To be visibly Muslim is constantly feel like you are carrying a million others with you. Whilst we try so hard to open doors that were never even visible to us.
"In the words of Zamzam herself, she'll be shaking the door for her successors. And governments don't last forever. Expect to hear some rattling"
Grateful for the past,
Thankful for the present,
Excited for the future.
Link:
It’s
#WorldHijabDay
, a reminder that we continue to wear our hijabs proudly in the face of ignorance, hatred & injustice because if this cloth makes you uncomfortable, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Vanessa Nakate ended her speech with,
I hope you can prove us wrong,
I hope you can prove us wrong,
I hope you can prove us wrong,
And if you can’t, God help us all!
#COP26
📣SOMALI YOUTH ARE UNSTOPPABLE!
Last night was a movie, young Somali’s came together across the country and overseas to raise a whopping £170k for our home!
The intelligence, the creativity, the beauty, the banter, the heart, did I mention drip?
THEY HAVE IT ALL! MASHAALLAH ❤️
Somalia is trending because the diaspora came out in full force around the globe for the Somali national team! My TL is flooded and I absolutely love it
I had the pleasure of sitting with this Goat, Cabdulqaadir Cabdi “Shube”, a renowned poet and now the Director of national theatre in Xamaar.
This was his message to the diaspora.
He always gave me a tour of the new theatre.
We’ve had 12 govt reviews, 14 Acts of Parliament on HE since 1960 and still don’t have a coherent vision, strategy, or definition of what education is for.
It’s time for a transformational & radical system. Lifelong, funded, and accessible Education NOW!
Just requesting your endless prayers for my grandfather who died from COVID-19 last night in hospital after being hooked up to ventilator for the past few days.
It’s hard for me to fathom he went in for a foot operation 2 weeks ago and died after contracting COVID!
And ppl wonder why I shudder and instantly reply ’God forbid’ when someone asks me when I’m running to be an MP!
Public office for WoC is a daily battle, every single day is war & it is exhausting. Your damned if you do, your damned if you don’t. Yet we do, cause we must 😓❤️
"Education should be accessible, it should be free!"
Here’s a clip from my contribution to the debate surrounding the marketisation of our higher education sector.
#tuitionfees
#freeeducation
Yesterday, I really felt my fathers absence. Please keep him in your duas, he would’ve been so happy to see his son get married. May Allah swt widen is grave and rise him to the highest rank in heaven.
Today was so incredibly difficult for me, not because I usually celebrated Father’s Day. It’s was the stories of incredible dads, that reminded me of the king that raised me. And it makes me wonder what he was yet to teach me. Sending prayers to anyone who’s lost thier father! ❤️
إِنَّا للهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ
In this blessed last 10days of Ramadan my uncle,May Allah swt have mercy on his soul, passed away this morning. I ask you all to pray for him &his family in this difficult time.
Death is always a shock thou it’s the only thing guaranteed
🧵
#IWD
: I spent international Womens day with the most incredible woman in my life, my mother!
The Zamzam you all know, was carefully crafted by my hooyo. She never let me give up, she never let me make up excuses and she always taught me to stand up for what I believe in. 1/6
It sickens and angers me that the first text that I got from my friends and family after the election result, was to stay safe. Not be out too late, and to avoid travelling far alone. A genuine fear that I am not safe in my own home, and truth is I’m not.
How has the death of an innocent 19yr old girl fallen on deaf ears?!
Today’s headlines instead talking about loss of smell?!
AYA HACHEM was killed in broad day light!
IS HER LIFE MEANINGLESS?
IS HER BLOOD VALUELESS?
Imagine the coverage if it was a yt 19yo girl shot yesterday!
The European Union ruling that hijabs or any religious wear CAN be banned at works places is ludicrous. Don’t let anyone tell you, ‘this isn’t about the hijab’, when the decision directly stems off it.
To all my non black friends,
I, like every black sibling, is hurting.
We feel a pain & suffering that runs centuries deep, that you will never understand!
I don’t need a ‘Are you okay text’ I need you to read & develop critical consciousness especially in state violence!
Student Unions are run by students, society’s have the freedom to invite and disinvite who over they want, whenever they want! That in itself is freedom of speech, get yourself together Oxford!
We strongly disapprove of the decision by the UNWomen Oxford UK Society to disinvite Amber Rudd after she had been asked to speak.
Oxford is committed to freedom of speech & opposes no-platforming. We will be taking steps to ensure that this situation doesn't happen in future.
How have I just deeped,
#LoveIsBlind
is the most HALAAL way to find a partner! You technically don’t get to see your significant other until you are cuffed (basically Nikkah)! The west has been mocking arranged marriages for decades, but they just made a TV show on it!