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Topic Started: Dec 11 2015, 08:57 AM (190 Views)
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TWITTER ---------------------- Omid Safi To @jk_rowling, @realDonaldTrump is worse than Voldemort. Not trump we gotta get rid of, but structure of racism.
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Why it is not enough to say that @realDonaldTrump's anti-Muslim statements are "Un-American."
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Dec 11 2015, 09:01 AM
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[No mention of any possible role of Islam...]
Omid Safi December 2 at 1:40pm · Durham, NC ·
My thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families in the terrorist attack in SanBernadino. No one should have to go through this hell. And yet we have to say this: we need more, much more than thoughts and prayer. We need direction action to stop this madness.
Let us stop pretending that this is unexpected or unusual. There is now a mass shooting per day. This is everyday, everywhere in America--and no where else in the world.
The map below shows the number of shootings since Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn. Once we as a nation decided that the murder of 20 children and 6 teachers was not sufficient ground for an immediate intervention, it meant nothing else would move us to action.
God have mercy on a people who love guns more than human lives.
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America's gun obsession isn't natural. No other country shares our deadly fetish. Stand up to #NRA.
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Dec 11 2015, 09:13 AM
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Dr. Omid Safi December 2 at 5:43pm · Durham, NC ·
Take some time to mourn, pray, process grief for the shooting in #SanBernadino. Then, when you're ready to see why there is no action on this epidemic of gun violence, why we have politicians who just talk about #prayforSanBernardino (without undertaking any concrete action to curb this gun fetish), follow @igorvolsky on Twitter. He is documenting the amount of cash each politician who merely talks about "praying" for victims (w/o any action) has received from #NRA. Corrupt politics is deadly. Literally.
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Dr. Omid Safi December 7 at 5:10pm ·
Let's make it plain. This is no longer about policies on Muslims. What's at stake is nothing less than the future of the American experiment. It's the very idea of "we the people" making a "more perfect union." It should not be up to Muslims to counter Trump's xenophobia. It's up to all of us who are Americans to insist that there is a better way, a higher path, a way that a "we" that encompasses all of us.
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Dec 11 2015, 09:31 AM
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[a determined effort to link black Americans with Islam?]
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Dr. Omid Safi September 1 · I've been going back over the murder of Emmett Till, and the courageous response of his mother, Mamie Till. How all of this resonates in an age of Trayvon, Ferguson, Charleston, and Palestine. How much the advice of this grieving mother lays down the path that is still ahead for all of us. As Mamie said, this is indeed the Business of Us All. She didn't need to read Heschel to know this fundamental truth: Few are guilty, All are responsible. More than anything else, this is what inspires me: People like Mamie Till don't come out of the ground. There is always a *tradition*, a *community* that loves them, nurtures them, and produces them. May we be a part of such a tradition, forming such a community. Insha'allah.
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Dr. Omid Safi November 9 · So many lessons to learn from the Missouri football players strike. Solidarity is such a powerful model. There is a time to engage, there is a time to boycott. Wisdom comes from discerning the difference, and doing so with principles. There is even a time for hunger strike, as Jonathan Butler did. It takes extraordinary courage to do what the players did, and they had allies among the women on campus, allies among the coaches and white players. No, the boycott by itself did not solve racism on campus. But it is a powerful and vivid reminder that those in power have the greatest responsibility to address racism, sexism, and violence in our community. And yes, there are many lessons for us in the Muslim community to learn from this example.
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Thoughts and prayers with the people of Baltimore. Prayers with the ones who're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Prayers with the ones who're mourning years of being pushed around. Prayers with the police who honor the part about "to honor and serve." Prayers with the ones who are frightened tonight. Prayers with the clergy who are out marching. Prayers with the ones who seek to find a peace rooted in justice. Prayers with the ones who know that there's no going back, unless we all move forward. #FreddieGray #Baltimore #BlackLivesMatter
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Please join us tomorrow, Feb 20 & Saturday, Feb 21 for“The Legacy of Malcolm X: Afro-American Visionary, Muslim Activist.” Friday, Feb 20th | 2:00-5:00 PM | Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University Saturday, Feb 21st | 10:00am-5:30 pm | Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Global FedEx Center, UNC-Chapel Hill..

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Dr. Omid Safi November 25, 2014 · There's no hiding from suffering, but to stare it in the face, ponder, and then act out of love for all who suffer. It is the suffering of countless mothers like Michael Brown's, Leslie McSpadden (pictured here), that we have to face. And then to confront the system that structurally, institutionally, produce victim after victim. #blacklivesmatter #ferguson #michaelbrown
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Dec 11 2015, 09:37 AM
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Dr. Omid Safi January 15 · A lot of people have asked me about my response to the Duke decision to “reconsider” having the call to prayer (Adhan) issues from the Chapel. Here is my response: http://www.onbeing.org/…/unwavering-pluralism-and-the-…/7217
I am disappointed, because I’d like to think we are better than this. And by We I mean not just Duke, but America, all of us. We should be better than this. We at Duke are a leading education of higher learning in the world, with students/faculty/staff from all over the world. We are all citizens of Duke and call this place home. I want to believe we are better than this, better than being intimated and pressured.
We live in a world where some of us celebrate the existence of diversity and know that we are richer when we engage each other through and across our diversity. Others of us live in an imagined world where the very existence of religious and ethnic diversity is seen as a threat.
I know that there are many different readings of Islam, some of them generous and compassionate, and some of them the practice of Taliban and Al-Qaeda. I know that there are also different readings of Christianity. I’ve been blessed to be steeped in the radical prophetic Christianity of a Dr. King, and have known the love and friendship of my many Christian friends at Duke. I so wished that this could be a day to honor and highlight the generosity of Christian friends—including the office of Religious Life at Duke—in opening up the chapel to Muslims for the call to prayer. Sadly, I also know that there are different readings of Christianity (just like any other faith) which is vile, petty, insecure, and ultimately…. Weak. This is how I read Franklin Graham’s statements on FB: weak, inaccurate, and wrong not just on Islam, but wrong on Christianity, and wrong on America.
How else to account for a person who thinks Christianity is being excluded from the Duke campus? Have these folks ever set foot on the Duke Campus? Did they miss the Chapel that graces Duke’s campus? Or the cross that is on the Duke emblem? Or that the very design of the West campus that is shaped after the cross? Franklin Graham says: ““we as Christians are being marginalized.” Spare me. Spare me your delusional paranoia. Spare me the paranoia of a wealthy white male Christian who talks about being marginalized in America. You want to be marginalized? Try being an undocumented single Hispanic mother working multiple jobs. Try being an African America dad worrying about his teenage son when he goes out to buy Skittles and Sprite. Try being a Muslim locked up in Guantanamo for 13 years without recourse to legal rights. You might be lots of things Mr. Graham. I’ve got a few choice words to describe some of them. But being marginalized ain’t one of them.
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