#Islamophobia

[cavalierzee]

Heroic Palestinian Paramedics

These Hero Palestinian paramedics were carriers of The World’s Moral Compass, then executed in cold blood by ISraeli soldiers with full US backing in another cowardly attack on all humanity. Celebrate their heroism with increased solidarity for a Free Palestine. Dr. Mads Here they are, through the eyes of the people who loved them: Know their Names: The Gaza Red Crescent paramedics Israel attacked https://aje.io/ts3ai5

The quiet one: Ashraf Abu Labda With his glasses and serious face, Ashraf was always a reassuring presence for his colleagues. The 32-year-old medic had started volunteering with the PRCS in 2021. He quickly integrated into the PRCS community, making sure that all his colleagues had a meal for iftar during Ramadan. He would either cook it himself at the Red Crescent centre or bring some of his family’s food from home to share. In September 2023, he got married, and one month later, Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza. When he was killed, he left behind his wife and their two-month-old baby girl, Wiam.

The family man: Ezzeddin Shaath Ezzeddin was 51 when Israeli soldiers killed him, and a father to six children. The dedicated family man had a great sense of humour, but the war on Gaza stripped that away from him as he gradually stopped laughing. He joined the PRCS in 2000, and four years later, he married Nivine, with whom he had four boys and two girls. At work, he remained a sort of caregiver, making sure his colleagues got at least a little rest every night and something to eat. His motto about rescue work was: “If it is written, we’ll make it back [from a mission], and if we don’t make it back, that’s our destiny,” his colleague Ibrahim Abu al-Kass told Al Jazeera.

The miracle worker: Mohamed Bahloul A seven-year veteran of the Red Crescent, 36-year-old Mohamed loved his work, as any of his colleagues would tell you. During crises, he would stay at the Red Crescent centre, only going home to see his wife and six children once a week. His children ranged in age from three months to 11 years old at the time Israel killed Mohamed. Bereaved and confused, the children are clinging to the thought that their father died on a humanitarian mission, making him a “martyr”. His colleagues remember him for just figuring things out, Abu al-Kass said. If ever Mohamed heard of a family that was being displaced and needed help, he would make it happen. Since he himself couldn’t use ambulances to move people’s belongings, he would sweet-talk his family and friends until he found transport and shelter for those who were displaced.

The rescuers: Mustafa Khafaga and Mohamed al-Heila Mustafa was 50 with a 15-year-old son, and Mohamed was 23 and single, but when they got together, their antics were legendary. “One rainy day, those two were walking along when they saw an elderly woman trying to cross the road, but it was too wet and slippery,” Abu al-Kass said. “So they looked at each other. One said: ‘So, are we partners or what? No matter what the mission is?’ and the other said: ‘Of course we are!’” They went and got a chair and brought it up to the woman, asked her to sit down, and then lifted the chair and walked her carefully across the road, beaming the entire time. “They were carrying her like she was a bride,” Abu al-Kass continued. The elated woman was laughing and cheering, he added, and sent loving prayers after her two rescuers.

The photographer: Raed el-Sharif Raed, 25, loved taking pictures. Silly ones, serious ones, casual ones, posed ones. And he hoped that one day the world would see his images and he would be able to convey the suffering of his people through his work. He began volunteering with the PRCS in 2018, when he was 18, during the Great March of Return protests. Israel killed 214 protesters, including 46 children, during these demonstrations, and injured 36,100, including nearly 8,800 children. The youngest out of five siblings, Raed wasn’t married yet, although his family had been hoping he could get married after the war. But that didn’t happen. Raed’s father recounts a harrowing nine-day wait to find out what happened to his youngest child, fighting to hold back the certainty that he had been executed along with his colleagues.

The good grandson: Refaat Radwa Twenty-four-year-old Refaat was a gentle soul, Abu al-Kass told Al Jazeera. “He especially made sure to help any elderly woman he came across. If he saw such a woman standing in line to collect her medicine from the hospital pharmacy, he would ask her to sit down and go fetch the medicines for her. “It was like he sought out the prayers these gentle women would say for him when he helped them. He would bring them what they needed, then would bid them farewell so tenderly that anyone watching would think she was his grandmother.”

The daring one: Saleh Muammar Saleh, 42, liked to help. On that, everyone agrees. His brother Hussein told Al Jazeera that Saleh also loved his work, rushing back as soon as he recovered from surgery in 2024. Last February, Hussein explained, Saleh had been on a mission to help wounded people when Israeli forces had opened fire on the medics, despite having been informed that they would be there. Saleh was badly injured in the shoulder and chest, and ended up having to spend time in hospital for surgery and recovery, after which he went straight back to work. That was his bravery, Abu al-Kass commented. “He was dedicated to helping, and used to say that wherever people were crying out for help, that’s where we should be, to respond to them.”

MISSING:

The child whisperer: Assaad al-Nassasra Assaad always showed endless patience for negotiating with kids, Abu al-Kass said. Whenever he saw children playing in the street, he would get to wheeling and dealing, offering them candy to get off the road and go play somewhere safe. The kids quickly figured him out, though, and would be playing in the street again the next time, giggling and saying: “We tricked you!” But Assaad never minded, and simply kept handing over sweets. His body wasn’t among those found when an international mission went to search for the missing emergency workers. He was captured, bound and taken away, according to the one surviving witness, Munther Abed. The 47-year-old father of six last spoke to his family the evening he disappeared, telling them he was on his way to PRCS headquarters to have iftar with his colleagues, according to his son Mohamed. When they tried to call him around suhoor time, he didn’t respond, and they found out from headquarters that nobody could reach him or the other emergency workers. He had always warned his family that whenever he headed out on a mission, he may not make it back, his son said. But as Assaad continued his rescue work for PRCS, they had always tried to avoid thinking about that.

Refaat Radwan recorded his last mission and his own final breaths. He was filming from the third ambulance in a convoy, which included a fire truck, that had gone out to find a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance that had lost contact with its base. All the vehicles in the convoy were clearly marked, with emergency lights flashing. In the video, the crew members see the missing ambulance by the side of the road and approach, muttering prayers for their colleagues’ safety. Then a voice says: “They’re scattered on the ground! Look, look!” and Refaat runs out of his ambulance with other medics to check on the fallen aid workers. Then the sound of bullets rings out as Israeli soldiers shoot at uniformed medics who were running to assist the medics they had already killed. Refaat was hit. In his final moments, he prayed and called repeatedly to his mother to forgive him - for choosing the path of a paramedic, putting himself in harm’s way. Israeli soldiers killed eight PRCS workers that night, as well as six workers from the Palestinian Civil Defence who had gone out on the same mission. A ninth paramedic, Assaad al-Nassasra, was captured.

Dr. Mads Gilbert

[spot-the-antisemitism]

I hope you burn in Gehenna actually

“This Palestinian woman who just turned 18 is unpacking her bigotry in way that makes me uncomfortable so I want a jew to publically shame her”

That would drive her back into antisemitism. I am sick and tired of assuming good faith. I am sick and tired of you being fucking creeps about a teenager.

I am now presuming you not in good faith you are uncomfortable about Palestinians who don’t hate Jews and want to restore the “natural order of things” so you can kills jews in their name

I hope you suffer.

Any receipts on Juju will get YOU publically shamed for daring to even think about it

[byjove]

I think maybe the most ironic part of the white supremacist “Muslims are taking over Europe, save European culture and its people!” rhetoric is that they’ve been saying it for the past 1,300 years. No exaggeration. This is something they’ve been fearmongering about since the 8th century.

[heritageposts]

twitter link to the video (in it, you can hear these fascists loudly screaming "are they white?" and "they're white, they're white! they're english!" before letting the cars pass).

remember how the american and british press stirred up an absolute panic about the non-violent, pro-palestine campus protests? how they endlessly slandered the students as antisemitic extremists, creating justification for the violent police crackdown that would soon follow?

compare that now to how they're covering (or not covering) the fascist pogroms in the UK, where, for the past few days, violent white supremacists mobs have been terrorizing muslims, migrants and other non-white communities, forming mobs to intimidate and violently attack anyone they perceive as non-white and non-British.

the hotel shown in the video above is now the second hotel housing asylum seekers that these fascist mobs have attempted to set fire to, and yet, the harshest words the majority of the UK press is willing to use to describe them, are "far-right rioters, "anti-immigration protesters" or, if you're the BBC, just "protesters."

here's from skynews (UK), with the almost comical framing of "anti-fascists (left)" vs. "people protesting"

again, if you compare that to the headlines they were running during the campus protests...

this goes beyond some racist "bias" in their reporting: you can draw a direct link here between the UK media's coverage of palestine, and the fascist mobs willing to burn asylum seekers alive.

obviously there are other factors at play, but the genocide denial, the portrayal of arabs and muslims as terrorists and antisemites (which again, gets projected onto britain's migrant population and asylum seekers as a whole), the overall dehumanization and othering of the palestinian people — all of this has been feeding into, and stoking up, the racism and islamophobia that's now boiling over, and erupting into nakedly fascist violence.

[kingchillmonger]

Nothing feels more satisfying than seeing a Hijabi get a gold medal in front of ALL OF FRANCE at the closing ceremony, I hope that is a slap in the face that is deserved for France’s Islamophobia.

[artcinemas]

We don’t talk about this Starbucks feminism enough.

[sissa-arrows]

France is attempting to deport a Palestinian man to GAZA.

He opened the francophone school of Gaza and taught French for about a decade. He had the opportunity to get a Master degree in French linguistic in France so he came in 2019. He has been studying hard and working and paying his taxes in France all while supporting financially his family in Gaza.

He just received an order to leave the country for not “blending in/fitting” in France. The guy is LEARNING French. He opened a fucking francophone school. He speaks French perfectly. He works and pays his taxes. That’s more than a lot of white people in France. But they consider that it’s not enough and they fucking want to deport him to Gaza. He said “They want to send me to get killed” and he is right that’s what France is trying to do.

Israel is bombing Gaza. They have been bombing Palestinians in Gaza for a whole month and France is trying to deport Palestinians who don’t have the French citizenship. And just like France did during the holocaust they also want to remove the French citizenship of Palestinians and Muslims in general so they can deport us.

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[cavalierzee]

Oh The Hypocrisy!

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[kvtnisseverdeen]

after 9/11, my mom had her hijab ripped off her head. muslim-american communities were shattered due to the american government suspecting every muslim in america of terrorism and subjecting them to interviews and even deportation. i was in school afraid to embrace my religion because islam was being equated to terrorism. i was bullied for being a muslim and constantly called a terrorist. and let's not forget the millions of muslims that were killed and displaced because of the war on terror. MILLIONS.

it took years for muslims to feel "normal" again. of course, we still felt the uncomfortable stares and the subtle islamophobia. but it was so subtle. we almost forgot it was there.

and now, we're back to straight-forward, blatant islamophobia:

a 6-year-old muslim palestinian boy was stabbed 26 times

rashida tlaib is being censured and her colleague openly said 'all of them’ when a democrat asked how many dead palestinians will be enough?

van jones said to take a stand against muslims at a pro-israel rally

there were 1,283 reports of anti-arab and anti-muslim bias since oct 7 which is a 216% percent increase from last year

pro palestinian protestors are being called terrorists and terrorist-supporters

celebrities like amy schumer, brett gelman, karlie kloss, noah schnapp + more are spreading lies and propoganda against muslims

this is why its so frustrating to me when celebs like noah schnapp and amy schumer are sitting in there million dollar penthouses saying they're "scared." no, you have nothing to be afraid of. the world governments are clearly standing with YOU and protecting YOU. muslim women wearing a hijab are scared. muslim mothers and fathers are scared. muslims that can't openly practice their faith are scared.

muslims have been suffering in their own countries AND in america. we've always been afraid. how can we not when a muslim child was stabbed 26 times, simply because he was muslim? how can we not when people are asking to take a stand against muslims? how can we not when a genocide is happening and no one is doing anything to stop it?

[tamlindain]

[odinsblog]

When the daughter of THE Martin Luther King Jr. tells you not to spread propaganda in his name, we think it’s best to just stop.

It’s time to cancel the Hollywood experiment that was Amy Schumer.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec Premier François Legault said Friday afternoon that he wants to ban praying in public and that he was considering using the notwithstanding clause to do so. The premier was giving an overview of the past year in Quebec City before lawmakers break until January when he made the announcement. He said he had instructed his team to look into ways to put the ban in place. "Seeing people praying in the streets, in public parks, is not something we want in Quebec," Legault said.

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[mysharona1987]

Bisan has literally won a Peabody for her reporting from Gaza during the last ten months. She’s most definitely not a terrorist.

Also, she is living through hell, barely surviving, and has even said in videos she considers her life essentially over, knows she’s going to die soon but considers it her duty to show these atrocities to the world with the time she has left.

She’s 24 year’s old.

But her being nominated for an Emmy is an outrage to many.

Debra Messing and Selma Blair, living in their mansions, are the most Karens that ever Karen’d here.

And Selma ain’t beating the Islamophobia and racism accusations anytime soon.

(Yes, Selma, we still remember the instagram rant.)

[sayruq]

[cavalierzee]

THIS DIDN’T START OCTOBER 7th!!!