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A ‘War on Error’ against radical anti-Islam

Given how many New Atheists, Christian fundamentalists and neo-cons share a distorted view of Islam and Muslims, it’s high time for a War on Error

The clash within civilisations

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the clash of civilizations theory, but Samuel P Huntington was wrong.

hossam bahgat حسام بهجت

@hossambahgat

Today marks 7 years since Egyptian authorities froze all my assets and suspended my only bank account “pending investigations” into my human rights work in 2016. Keep cozying up to Sisi don’t mind me

08:21 · March 18, 2023 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

It's good that the International Criminal Court is standing up to the murderous excesses of Vladimir Putin. But if the ICC is to become truly just and truly credible it must also stand up to western war criminals, such as George W Bush and Tony Blair. bbc.com/news/world-eur…

20:09 · March 17, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

A narcissist's preferred pronouns are I/my.

20:04 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

The mother of Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci's was a freed Circassian slave, according to an Italian scholar who says he has uncovered the document that liberated her. nbcnews.com/news/world/leo…

16:42 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Our latest report reveals how most carbon market standards are undermining the rights of local and indigenous communities by providing them with little to no recourse for voicing their grievances related to climate projects. twitter.com/CarbonMrktWatc…

10:23 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

In addition to the culling at Twitter, Meta has announced 21,000 layoffs since November. And the full destructive potential of AI has not yet been unleashed. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/tec…

08:11 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Whenever someone expresses concern about how automation is irreplaceably annihilating jobs, optimists point to the job creation potential of the 'knowledge economy'. But even the tech sector is shedding jobs like they were an uncomfortable skin.

08:11 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

The cruel irony of the British government's 'Stop the boats' policy is that neither PM Rishi Sunak nor Home Secretary Suella Braverman would be in the UK today had their parents faced similar restrictions when they immigated. Talk about a monumental failure of empathy.

16:33 · March 12, 2023

Rula Jebreal

@rulajebreal

Italy’s fascists are emboldened: death threats are skyrocketing against journalists + opposition. This death threat against Italy’s first Jewish opposition leader, Elly Schlein, appeared in Viterbo next to a Swastika: “Your face is already a macabre destiny.” It began with words! pic.twitter.com/ds6YGyc9C6

20:33 · March 10, 2023 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Doctored reality. It's fascinating how the word doctor went from referring to a religious scholar or church father in medieval times to refer primarily to a practitioner of medicine today. That's what I call the secularisation of language.

19:26 · March 10, 2023

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