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Sylvia Chan-Malik

@schanmalik

3 years

dear high school english teachers: w/love, PLEASE STOP telling your students that using “I” in their writing is always a bad thing. this serves them badly in college & every type of practical writing they will do in their lives.

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Always remember: Malcolm X BELIEVED women. It cost him everything to do so--his position in the NOI; his relationship with Elijah Muhammad, a man he saw as a father figure; and in some ways, his entire life, a whole life spent with Betty and his 6 daughters. #MalcolmX

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as an asian american, with my whole chest: @AndrewYang is complete trash.

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As the #MontereyPark shooter was a 72-year-old man, an observation about how some Asian American elders consume media lately: Unlike the past, when they mostly read Asian-language newspapers/watched TV news, many now get their info from YouTube. (1/6)

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2 years

academia attracts so many brilliant yet deeply wounded people. i wish we as a profession didn't enable & encourage their toxic behavior. theory can't heal, nor external validation. i hate how the study of so much i find beautiful is done by people who hurt others so much.

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11 months

Destroying fruit trees is prohibited by Jewish (& Islamic) law. "War is a struggle between people, but the destruction of trees is an assault on the very preconditions of life. Scorched earth conquest is a stratagem of the hopeless...to inflict destruction at all costs."

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Such a beautiful & utterly wise hadith: “Whoever among you wakes up secure in their property, healthy in their body, and with food for the day, it is as if they were given the entire world.”

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4 years

Since COVID-19, my husband is extra worried about me when I go outside. Because I'm Asian. My husband is Black. We've been married almost 20 years. I study race for a living. But I never really knew, until I saw it up close, the unwavering consistency of of anti-Black racism.

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1 year

James Baldwin, "Open Letter to the Born Again" (1983)

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3 years

In the month, you will see a lot of media stories about the “legacies of 9/11.” Please engage these critically, w/a keen eye on how Muslims are framed, by both “liberal” and “conservative” media. With specific regards to US Muslim communities:

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1/3 of the world's Muslims are in Africa. The history of Islam in the US was made by Black people. The most well-known, influential GLOBAL Muslim figures are Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali. Talking "anti-Muslim racism" or "Islamophobia" w/o engaging blackness/Africa is unacceptable.

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4 years

a small reminder: yes, 68 million people voted for Trump. but that is not “half” the population of the US. total pop is almost 330 mil. so 68 mil is only 20% of total pop. they are completely outnumbered. and that’s why they are acting out the way the are.

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If you’re writing a book about “American Muslims” & you leave out Black American Muslims & don’t deal with racial or class difference & you’re really just writing about 1st/2nd gen SA/Arab Muslims, then don’t say you are writing a book about American Muslims. Bec you’re not.🤷🏻‍♀️

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6 months

The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers was vandalized this morning, the day of Eid Al-Fitr—windows smashed, equipment destroyed, artwork smashed, Quran desecrated, & a Palestinian flag stolen. We will hold press conference tomorrow, Th 4/11 at 11am ET.

Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University vandalized during Eid al-Fitr

The Center for Islamic Life said in a statement on its Facebook page that the incident was "undoubtedly fueled by Islamophobia" and is "clearly a hate crime."

abc7ny.com

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1 year

She should’ve recited Al-Fatiha.😂😂😂

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5 years

A short piece I wrote on the Black Muslim Psychology Conference, Ilhan Omar, Black Islam, and the politics of white nationalism. I don't like the title & I told them to capitalize Black, but that's how it goes sometimes, I suppose.😐 #BMPC #IlhanOmar

How Ilhan Omar symbolises the struggle of Black American Muslims

Omar's tremendous impact on US political discourse stands as a testament to the enduring legacies of Black American Islam

www.middleeasteye.net

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I completely hear what you are saying. But 9/11 didn't CREATE these frameworks. "Homeland security"/ "domestic War on Terror" were built upon/enabled by existing programs like COINTELPRO, "law and order" ideologies rooted in silencing Black--in may cases, Black Muslim, dissent.

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Anti-Muslim hate didn't begin on 9/11 but it created the structural & institutional framework for our communities to surveilled, spied on, profiled, tortured, entrapped. On the ground, we were spat on, mosques were burnt down, children were bullied and our women were harassed.

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i am overwhelmed by these videos of prayers at the encampments. i did undergrad & grad school at cal--have walked through sproul plaza 1000s of time--protested, ate, slept, chilled on the steps. this takes my breath away. 🧵

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what i know after 2 decades of studying race, racialization, & islam: like antiblackness, hatred of islam/muslims is foundational to western being, from the reconquista through the crusades to the war on terror. also, antiblack & anti-muslim hate are co-consituted/imbricated.

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Please Please PLEASE—esp on college campuses stop framing this as a “Jewish-Muslim” issue, or antisemitism/Islamophobia. This is ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM. While Islamophobia certainly is at play, Palestinians aren’t all Muslim, & they are specifically being targeted for violence.

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what is hard about being a first-gen academic (esp of working-class immigrants) is that your parents don't quite know what you do & how long it takes to do it. so many convos are like, "u r working again?" "why does it take so long to write a report (or an essay, or a book?)"

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3 years

Occasionally it just hits me: the overwhelming anti-Muslim racism of the Left, across the entire ideological spectrum, from centrist liberals to revolutionary communists. And how it is so deeply, deeply engrained in Left academic and activist discourses.

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4 years

On this blessed day of Eid al-Adha, as we honor the sacrifices & devotion of the prophet Abraham and Mother Hajar, let us also remember the life and legacy of Sister Betty Shabazz, who made her pilgrimage to Mecca a month after her husband's assassination, pregnant with twins.

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"I knew she was as faithful a servant of Allah as I was, and I knew that whatever happened, she was with me." Happy birthday, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. #MalcolmXDay

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4 years

Anti-blackness is a Muslim issue. #JacobBlake

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4 years

The father of #JacobBlake reciting Al Fatiha. Powerful. May Allah give him a full recovery.

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also, i despise this weird disembodied writing where students use “one” as their central pronoun. aren’t we over all this cartesian mind/body split stuff already??!?

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6 years

3 tropes make up the shape of anti-Muslim racism in the US: the radical Black Muslim (angry, violent), the Poor (veiled) Muslim woman (proves Islam’s backwardness and inferiority), & the Islamic Terrorist (always foreign). Combined, they produce the hatred directed at @IlhanMN .

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6 months

It's strange--I have never been as firm & steadfast in my faith as I've been this Ramadan. Everything is so utterly clear.

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3 years

no, they should not start every sentence with “i think.” but there is a way to use first person properly and effectively, so that the “i” forces writers to take responsibility for their ideas and statements.

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5 years

As a Muslim woman with a Ph.D in ethnic studies who wrote book about Black Muslim women, I find the critique of critical race theory by certain Muslim scholars utterly bizarre. I've never had any issues synthesizing/reconciling critiques of white supremacy w/ Islamic teachings.

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2 years

They watch video after video from their suggestions. As with all media bubbles, this produces an echo chamber, offering ideology disguised as news. This is exacerbated by language & cultural differences that already keep them from engaging a wider range of sources. (2/6)

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He listened to them & believed them; he could not excuse or bear it. Through it all, Betty was his rock, his equal: "The only person who knew (my pain) was my wife. I never would have dreamed that I would depend so much upon any woman for strength as I now leaned upon Betty...

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2 years

In any case, pay attention to the Asian language sources the people around you are engaging. It’s the freaking Wild West out there. (6/6)

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6 months

earthquake, torrential rains, solar eclipse in last 10 days of ramadan signs

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2 years

Malcolm X, on his return from Mecca: "Is white America really sorry for her crimes against the black people? Does white America have the capacity to repent--and to atone? Does the capacity to repent, to atone, exist in a majority, in 1/2, in even 1/3 of American white society?"

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It feels so much like post-9/11 right now: the bloodthirst, the drumbeat for war, the horror, the calls to denounce things we had nothing to do with, the hatred in people's eyes. All that caused was destruction, chaos, division. We never learn anything. Ya Allah.

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5 years

I am strong proponent of free speech. I am also a strong proponent of bringing speakers @RutgersU who model intellectual rigor & integrity, which our students deserve. This speaker has neither, as his record clearly shows. I wish someone had advised against it.

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5 years

As he writes in the Autobiography, he wasn't supposed to question the rumors. But he did: "I broke the rule that no Muslim is supposed to...I talked with three former secretaries to Mr. Muhammad. From their mouths, I heard their stories of who had fathered their children..."

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For example, my father sometimes watches “news” videos that are virulently anti-China, likely disseminated by Bannonite forces that exalt the US. Once he clicks on one, more appear, & then they are constantly in his suggestions. (3/6)

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2 years

There are so many ideologically-oriented Asian-language media outlets now producing this content. No presumptions about the shooter’s motives, but I think whatever (sick & twisted) ideologies he subscribed to, there’s probably videos out there that perpetrate & co-sign them.(5/6)

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3 years

Eid Mubarak!

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2 years

I would honestly like to know: why, in this day & age, do people still pronounce Muslim, MuZ-lim? And even scholars/“experts”??? Listened to an entire podcast yesterday where an author who’d written a whole book on an Islam-related topic said it that way (w/the Z). STOP IT.😫

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I’ve watched them with him. They are histrionic at times, & if you believed everything they said, you’d be plenty agitated and plenty mad. While I don’t know if everything they say is lies, I do know it’s certainly not “news.” (4/6)

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Our Rutgers-NB students have spoken. 80.42% voted for divestment from Israel. 77.81% voted to terminate our relationship from Tel Aviv University. Both measures passed with overwhelming majorities on all three @RutgersU campuses.

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1 year

This is my sister-in-law Tahira Malik. She runs a sober living home named Samad's House for women in drug addiction recovery in Milwaukee, WI, where OD deaths for 2023 are nearing 300. What a wonder to watch her journey. Samad is one of Allah's 99 names, meaning eternal refuge.

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4 years

Non-white POC: If you're not Black or Indigenous, any modicum of comfort or "freedom" you have, any "rights" you possess, are the DIRECT result of struggles, suffering, labor, toil, protests, insurrections, & radical-revolutionary actions of Black & Native peoples.

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Just because it doesn't happen to you, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. And it never, never, never ends. #JusticeForAhmaudArbery

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Ramadan Mubarak, everyone.♥️

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4 years

So YAY for me: my COVID test came back negative, I'm officially on leave for 2020-21, & I'll be an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow @Princeton in Spr '21, where I'll teach a course/deliver a public lecture titled "Islam in America: Race, Religion & Gender in the U.S. 😊❤️🤗

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any asian american woman can tell story after story of utterly disgusting ways she's been fetishized, demeaned, sexualized, & objectified her entire life. that's if they're LUCKY enough to have avoided actual violence. representations produce realities. (1/3)

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4 years

Yes. In light of the shootings in Atlanta, important to note that first exclusion law ever passed in the U.S. was the Page Act of 1875, which effectively banned entry of Asian (namely Chinese) women due to "lewdness and immorality," paving the way for 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

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I teach a course on race in legal history. I always teach Asian American history in that course because you cannot teach serious history of US law as an instrument of racial injustice without the history of Asian Americans...

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I don't claim naive notions of Islamic utopia, but why hasn't Malcolm X's proclamation of Islam as solution to U.S. racial problems been taken up more substantively by revolutionary (Black/3rd World) Left? We find wisdom in much of his late thinking but somehow leave that out.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: non-Black Muslims should engage race and ethnic studies scholars—not only religious leaders—if they actually want to understand what’s going on and what they need to do.

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4 years

Here are some suggested readings for non-Black Muslims (and anyone, really) on race/racism in the United States. This is simply a starting list for basic concepts, not comprehensive in any way. I believe most of these are available in PDF form online (a short thread)

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3 years

Yes, it would be good time to revisit the concepts of colonial feminism/feminism-as-imperialism/"the discourse of the veil, and to remember that Laura Bush told us in 2002 that we bombed Afghanistan so that Muslim women could fly kites and wear nail polish.

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A lot of people seem to think we were in Afghanistan for 20 years on behalf of women’s rights

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The BIPOC Faculty Caucus @RutgersU stands in strong solidarity with our friend and colleague, @ProfessorCrunk .

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@schanmalik

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Yes, and of course also his sister, Ella Collins, who took him in when he left Lansing for Boston, joined the NOI before him, and paid for his pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Black women were key to Malcolm X’s political development and intellectual growth, but they're often left out of his story

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love this encounter between bell hooks & thich nhat hanh, in which she tells him she is so angry & he replies: “hold onto your anger, & use it as compost for your garden.”🐛🌿🌻

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2 years

As a far-left Chinese Am whose family was destroyed by Mao's cleansing campaigns (grandma assassinated, grandpa exiled, 6 children separated), & a US Muslim in solidarity with Muslim Uyghurs, I never cease to be baffled by the hypocrisy of the US left regarding the Chinese state.

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Radio silence from Western left organizations on the Chinese protests so far. The Western left has no infrastructure to mobilize in solidarity for the Chinese people they claim to care so much about through the age of US-China tensions.

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It’s wild that in a country where Christianity has been the driver & justification for the mass slaughter of native peoples AND chattel slavery that “liberals” still need to invoke Islam & Muslims as the bogeyman.🤷🏻‍♀️

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Project 2025 is not a game, it’s white Christian nationalism. It is the Sharia Law of the “Christian” crazy people who aren’t Christian at all but want to control every aspect of your life through their narrow and exclusionary interpretation of Christ’s egalitarian, inclusive,

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the main thing this pandemic has taught me is that there is literally nothing work-related that is worth losing my sh*t over, or inflicting stress/harm on others. things get done when they do, we take care of ourselves, & we just keep breathing.

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Observation: US Muslim male scholars trained in Islamic Studies are constantly asked to speak/cited as "experts" on Islam in the US, race & Islam, Islamophobia, & a host of issues that require training in US history & culture, sociology, political science, ethnic studies, etc.

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I'm teaching a one-day workshop as well as a 4-week course over Zoom on Race in America/Race & US Muslim communities directed at non-Black Muslims. There is a suggested donation, and majority of proceeds go to @MuslimARC and @MWFNational . DM if interested.

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4 years

The hardest thing to abstain from this #Ramadan will definitely be anger.

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2 years

I pray to God I’m wrong but does anyone else just feel like academia is a sinking ship?

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6 months

LOL my kid’s school scheduled “DEI Day” on Eid. It’s not really working, is it?

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I'm not surprised that this is from a seminary head, who clearly engages deeply w/ liberation theology as theory, method, & practice. If we're learning anything, it's that many have lost connection to their souls, & are devoid of any capacity for empathy, care, & human relation.

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Statement to students from President Serene Jones of Union Theological Seminary, affiliate of Columbia University regarding Columbia President Shafik’s ordered arrests of peaceful student protesters

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beware of shiny people online. social media shine is meaningless compared to the reputation you have with those who actually know you and work with you in real life.

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A reminder that Malcolm did not come back from Mecca as a proponent of integration and an uncritical "brotherhood" with whites. Don't ever let anyone tell you different.

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I feel my heart. I remember my breath. I am grateful for every iftar, my children, flowers, my bed. I see the warnings. I sense the evil around me. But God's presence & protection is so much greater. May Allah have mercy on us all.

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it's mind-boggling to me that universities will go & hire a WHOLE outside corporate DEI team instead of drawing on existing faculty who've been teaching race/racism at their own institutions for years, authored studies & books, & are recognized experts in their fields. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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If you are going to work on U.S. Muslims/Islam, you should probably: 1) Read the existing books about U.S. Muslims/Islam, 2) Know something about race/racism, & not just “post-9/11,” 3) Know something about Islam/Muslims, other than they’re “racialized.”

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the older i get, the more i write, the more i teach, the more students i train, THE MORE TIRED I GET OF ACADEMIC JARGON. you DON'T need to use it to "sound smart." you sound smart when your ideas are clear, concise, and illuminating. seriously. just stop it, everyone.

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As a professor, I’m horrified & disgusted that students @columbia calling for a ceasefire were attacked ON CAMPUS with illegal weapons by students who are former Israeli soldiers. The administration should take swift action to protect the victims.

Protesters allegedly sprayed with hazardous chemical at pro-Palestinian rally, nearly two dozen...

Protesters were allegedly sprayed with a hazardous chemical while attending a pro-Palestinian “divestment now” rally on Low Steps on Friday, according to nearly two dozen students who reported a foul...

www.columbiaspectator.com

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I wanted to share something Ruthie Gilmore shared w/ us at Rutgers on Mon. We think colleges are calling police, but in many cases, the POLICE ARE CALLING THEM. She reminded that police create their power THRU VIOLENCE. They’re OFFERING their services to increase their power.

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Beyond the explicit f @ckery of the New Atheists, this anti-Muslim sentiment is mostly implicit, expressed through ideological affiliations or omissions; i.e. support for anti-Muslim figures/orgs/policies, denying/ignoring Muslim persecution (e.g. in Xinjiang, Kashmir, Myanmar)

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well, that didn't take long for the democrats to start calling arabs & muslims traitors & idiots.

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3 years

DEI is not anti-racism.

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3 years

It’s taken me a while to realize that narcissists have different relationships with different people. That’s why someone who is cruel and abusive to you shines like a star in other peoples’ eyes. You’re not crazy or delusional, they’re manipulative and calculating.

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MY SUCCULENTS: a thread before the pandemic, i had no succulents. ok wait no, we had a half-dead aloe vera plant my husband had rescued from Lowe’s. but me, none. and I looked out yesterday & realized over the last 4 months, this happened:

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RIP Ahmad Jamal. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajyoon.

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In my book, "Being Muslim," I argue that the desire for SAFETY is central to US Muslim women's lives, how they have historically mobilized Islam as a means to counteract onslaughts of racist, patriarchal, & imperial violence. Rep. @IlhanMN stands as testament to this.

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Honest question: how are Muslims being harassed and/or abused by LGBTQ communities? Is it primarily "discursive violence," e.g. being called out on social media, deemed bigots, etc.? And if so, how does this translate into vulnerability and harm toward Muslim communities?

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"Indeed, how *can* white society atone for enslaving, for raping, for unmanning, for otherwise brutalizing millions of human beings, for centuries? What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of black people's labor, lives, true identities, culture, history?"

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4 years

he threw a sandwich. #CorneliusFredericks

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I can't stop crying 😭💔 Cornelius Fredericks, a 16 y/o black boy, was choked to death for throwing a sandwich on the floor at a youth center in Detroit, MI A nurse stood by and did nothing to resuscitate him or offer any medical assistance. SAY HIS NAME! BLACK LIVES MATTER!

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It's been a rough semester. Thank goodness for my students, who created some utterly amazing final projects for our Islam in/and America class. I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to share a few because they are remarkable & deserve to be celebrated. So here goes: (A THREAD)

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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2 years

"A desegregated cup of coffee, a theater, public toilets--the whole range of hypocritical 'integration'--these are not atonement."

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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From @SJPRutgersNB 's IG: "(This week, Rutgers students passed) 2 bills defining Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. In a crushing 15 to 3 vote, Rutgers Student Assembly (RUSA) became THE FIRST STUDENT ASSEMBLY to adopt a definition of anti-Palestinian racism."

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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Dr. @DebraMajeed 's work wholly shaped my own. I simply couldn't have theorized convergences bet Black/WOC & Islamic feminism in my work w/o her concept of "Muslim womanism." She was fierce, sharp, kind, & a trailblazer through & through. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun.

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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2 years

Taking an informal survey. What do you think are the most important sites in the history/story of Islam/Muslims in the US? (e.g. Sapelo Island, Detroit, Harlem)

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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3 years

(5) Note they (don’t) talk about how an entire generation of US Muslim youth have never known a world w/o War on Terror, & how this has done unspeakable damage to them, their communities, the nation. To me, this is THE story. But they don’t want (or don’t know how?) to cover it.

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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(4) While some Black Muslims are gaining visibility, the long history of Islam in Black American communities is still hardly mentioned, and when it is, is treated as an anomaly or afterthought, not the foundation of the faith in the US, as history has shown.

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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Dr. Claire Jean Kim published her groundbreaking article, "The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans" 24 years ago. In it, she lays out the entire playbook of how AsAms have been pitted against AfAms time & time again. Read it yourself here.

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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(1) Notice how Muslims are (still) mostly only legible through the logics of surveillance and security. Or how they embrace or reject “American values.” Or how they embrace or reject religiosity, & more specifically “traditional” Islam.

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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2 years

A gentle request to Muslims during Ramadan: PLEASE get your history from scholars of history, who actually work in archives, analyze sources, & fact check rigorously. I'm seeing so much harm wrought by errors of "religious" scholars about Islam's history in the U.S. & elsewhere.

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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4 years

Eid Mubarak, everyone!!!

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Sylvia Chan-Malik

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5 years

There is never a semester of teaching #TheAutobiographyOfMalcolmX (& I have taught it every year for more than a decade) where I do not utterly marvel at the moral, ethical, and spiritual integrity of this man.

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