Kenan Malik (@kenanmalik)

This is what bigotry really looks like.

5Pillars Verified account @5Pillarsuk 2d

The first American Muslim senator, Abdul El-Sayed, has attended a Diwali celebration.

Diwali is a major Hindu religious festival, commonly involving honouring "deities" such as Lakshmi and celebrating the return of Rama to Ayodhya.

Celebrations can include prayers and puja (acts of worship), including offerings to Hindu "deities."

Muslim scholars prohibit partaking in Diwali celebrations or even wishing Hindus "Happy Diwali" because Islam is built upon Tawheed — the absolute oneness of Allah — and the rejection of shirk, associating partners with Him.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik 23h

For some, fighting for democratic freedoms against a dictatorship is acceptable only if elections go on to produce the result you want. And not when you can use it to smear both those fighting for freedom and American politicians you despise.

Eitan Fischberger Verified account @EFischberger 3d

Speaking of the Muslim Brotherhood, on January 28, 2011 — the very day the Brotherhood officially joined the Egyptian revolution — Abdul El-Sayed urged Obama to back the demonstrators, calling them “freedom fighters"

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik 2d

Extraordinary story. And extraordinary what the justice system will do for you if you have money and influence

Dan Neidle Verified account @DanNeidle 4d

On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.

I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.

She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik 2d

“The assumption that the rights of workers need to be sacrificed in the name of being “business friendly”… is what needs to be challenged, not the still pitifully weak rights that workers now possess.” My @ObserverUK column: observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

observer.co.uk How the boss class persuaded us that workers’ rights are ... Warnings of a union storm coming for employers ignore ‘the class war from above’ that has made insecure, poorly paid jobs an endemic part of British working life

Kenan Malik @kenanmalik 3d

“The assumption that the rights of workers need to be sacrificed in the name of being “business friendly”… is what needs to be challenged, not the pitifully weak rights that workers now possess.” My @ObserverUK column, online today, in print tomorrow: observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

observer.co.uk How the boss class persuaded us that workers’ rights are ... Warnings of a union storm coming for employers ignore ‘the class war from above’ that has made insecure, poorly paid jobs an endemic part of British working life

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