Founder Cornerstone Global Associates; Chair Muslims Against Anti Semitism
@MAAS_UK
; Alumnus Imperial College, ex Senior Visiting fellow Kings & Harvard; per
The traditional Christmas Eve procession of the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Usually celebratory and accompanied by Christmas carols. This year it was silent and local Palestinian Christians carried banners supporting Gaza and calling for ceasefire
Omircon is now the dominant covid variant in South Africa, for at least 1 month. Covid deaths in South Africa have plummeted to lowest level since start of pandemic. Omicron is a blessing in disguise.
Qatar World Cup so far:
1. Invited extremist preacher banned from Britain to preach to Muslim fans 🇬🇧
2. Banned Jewish worship ✡️
3. Banned Kosher food
4. Banned beer 🍻
5. Banned one love armband 🏳️🌈
This is the most discriminatory event in the history of sport.
#WorldCup2022
In a few weeks, every woman in Afghanistan will be forced to wear this. They will not be allowed to go to school. That’s what Taliban taking over means for women. That’s what the US withdrawal will do to women
Hamas feels abandoned by Iran. It appears plan was for Hizbollah to get involved but US threats against Iran stopped that. The original Hamas plan hasn’t worked out not because of Israeli attacks (which Hamas would have predicted) but because Iran effectively betrayed them
People in the UK need to put things into perspective re PPE. I am in regular contact with people in Europe & over here & most in the rest of Europe are envious of the UK’s position. I’ve seen horrific footage from Europe. Don’t let the Left hijack the collective success of us all
The attacks on Jeremy Corbyn as a terrorist sympathiser by so-called 'moderates' have unfortunately legitimised a wider discourse of Islamophobia and racism. Here's the perfect example.
Whether the new Italian government lasts 1 day or 10 years, it is clear that the EU is at its end. It is a sinking Titanic and the sooner countries jump off, the greater their chances of survival. This clearly makes Britain the most viable European country
Qatar invites Indian extremist preacher Zakir Naik to preach at
@FIFAWorldCup
. Naik was banned from entering Britain in 2010 for his extremism preacher. He is now at the Qatar World Cup radicalising Muslim youth attending
#Qatar2022
#FIFAWorldCup
Calling to extend lockdown because of the Indian variant exposes lack of logic behind lockdowns. If vaccines aren’t going to work against this variant, what’s the point of the lockdown? It is more becoming about control and loss of perspective, and failure of public health policy
The abolition of the 45 p income tax rate made Britain more competitive than Frankfurt, Paris and other EU centres. The U turn removes that key competitive advantage.
A very pleasant ray of hope that has become rare in the Holy Land. Israeli Jews offering Palestinian Muslims sweets on an evening in Ramadan as Muslim worshippers head to Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. I understand this is outside Damascus Gate. Thank you!
Saving Afghanistan is a very low hanging fruit. Abandoning Afghanistan will be a lot more costly than staying. We literally have only a few hours left. Britain is doing all it can to inject sense into the US. But the silence from
@POTUS
and
@KamalaHarris
is deafening.
The UK now has the lowest threshold for the top income tax rate in any major economy. Even France is now more competitive than the U.K. for the highest earners. That’s anti growth and a sign of failure.
#budget2022
Extraordinary President Sisi live on TV effectively lecturing Blinken. Addressed him as “Jewish citizen…” said he grew up in a Cairo neighbourhood with Jewish neighbours who were never attacked in Egypt or Arab world like what happened in Europe…
I can’t say this enough times but hats off again to the positive professor
@ProfKarolSikora
for getting this right, unlike almost all others making predictions. Life indeed is getting back to normal at the schedule he predicted when things were so gloomy
Some laughed at my prediction at the end of March that we would start edging back to normality around the second week in May - it was right!
I think by August things will be virtually back to normal, perhaps sooner.
We should still prepare for the worst, but hope for the best!
I’ve heard this from 2 people, both infected with Omicron. They have fully recovered but travel Covid tests still show as positive. Apparently they may still show as positive for 90 days, meaning they can’t travel for 3 months. Testing for travel during Omicron should be scrapped
Covid is a new disease. No one can claim to be more of an expert than others. But only expert I trust more than others based on his track record during pandemic is
@ProfKarolSikora
. His 5 decades of medical expertise inc immunology makes his assessment well worth listening to
As an Arab and a Muslim, I consider
@OwenJones84
an Islamophobe and an Arabophobe. I also consider him an anti-Semite, of the extreme left-wing variety that is as dangerous as extreme far right. The
@guardian
is complicit in promoting his incitement.
This absolutely crazy!!! YouTube hosts videos of extremists but censors an interview with one of Britain’s top medical experts presumably because he is not scaremongering?!!’#
Disappointed to hear that Youtube has removed my interview with
@unherd
(no reasons given).
I thought it was a measured discussion. We need to have a balance, that involves listening to differing opinions and not banning them.
This censorship is a worrying development.
A second northern front with Hizbollah would have been an existential threat to Israel. That was the original Hamas Iran plan. It hasn’t materialised. Israel is no longer facing an existential threat
Purely my opinion - an optimistic prediction IF rules are strictly followed & no mutation.
Antibody test crucial - are 50% already infected?
13/04: Peak for NHS.
04/05: Crisis eases.
11/05: Gradual relaxation of distancing – herd immunity grows.
Hope is the best motivator!
Turkey makes Muslims ashamed to be Muslim, the UAE makes Muslims proud to be so. Turkey converts churches into mosques, the UAE builds synagogues, churches and mosques.
As a Palestinian, I am utterly disgusted by the Munich terrorist attack against Israeli Olympians, by the same lot who terrorised Jordan, including ordinary Palestinians there, 2 years earlier. No reason at all for Corbyn to stick his nose there and again hide behind Palestinians
By disclosing that
#Khashoggi
was publishing articles written by a Qatari civil servant, his credibility as a journalist is shattered. Like many Saudis were saying, he was not a journalist but an activist.
@washingtonpost
now says he was not even a writer.
Wonderful to see Royal Jordanian at Tel Aviv, the first Arab airline to fly to Israel using its own colours (Egypt used unbranded planes). Now joined by Etihad, Emirates, Gulf & Maroc. All peoples of the region should be able to travel within region, visa and trouble free
No other coronation in the world has ever seen such widespread representation of all faiths: Christians (Anglicans, Catholics, Orthodox, Copts and others), Muslims (Sunni and Shia), Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists & others, all united at the
#Coronation
Biden has avoided speaking to Sisi since Biden took office. Today, he called him. An hour later, Israel Gaza ceasefire. Whoever was advising Biden to avoid Sisi (pro Muslim Brotherhood elements close to admin) has a lot of egg on their face tonight
France chooses to make train signs in Chinese but not in Arabic - the language of over 6 million French citizens and residents. And they wonder why there’s no integration in France!
Nothing triggers Netanyahu apologists more than Palestinian Christians. They hate the fact that Palestinian Christians are at the heart of everything Palestinian & that Christmas is a national holiday in Palestine. As much as Netanyahu apologists try, it’s not Western vs Muslim
Afghan and Pakistani twitter is full of anti Harry tweets, calling him “crusader, terrorist, murderer”…is he really that stupid to boast about killing 25 Taliban?!
@SimonZieglerUK
Israel could have made massive and long term diplomatic wins which would have made it safer- and saved lives. For example, insisting on full peace with all Arab nations, Hamas to leave Gaza, bring UN forces (Jordanian and Egyptian) and install a civil administration in Gaza
When Prophet Mohammed saw the Jews of Medina observing Yom Kippur, he joined them by fasting. For the next 25 hours I will be joining our Jewish brethren for the 5 Yom Kippur prayers and will therefore be contactable only intermittently. Wishing all a Yom Tov.
#YomKippur
This would never happen in a second tier power. London tonight is the capital of the world and no city can even get close. For all the defeatists, stop demoralising the rest of us. The future is very bright
The virus is a real threat and we all have to take it seriously but we can't ignore the devastation caused by lockdowns.
This is not an argument for a fundamental shift in strategy, those debates have been had.
This article is my plea for more balance.
It is time to create an economic free zone that includes Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel and the PA, Jordan and the UAE. Others should be invited to join the new regional East Med/Gulf pact.
I fully stand with Greece. I come from a Muslim family from Jerusalem that fought with the Greeks during the Crusades, fought the Ottomans with the Greeks in the 18th century and now fully stand with Greece against this unacceptable bullying by Turkey
The British army is the world’s most professional, humane army that was fighting a just war in Afghanistan. For Harry to make such baseless, inflammatory claims demonstrates total ignorance. His personal family problems should be ignored but not him dragging the army into this
Trump was fun, sometimes scary and a bit mad, but it was mostly meaningless banter. Not my cup of tea but that’s what he was. Biden is harmful and deceitful.
Harry’s irresponsible statement about his time in Afghanistan and the way he said it is already causing a lot of damage. I hope the British Army disputes his claim- regardless of whether it has any ounce of truth in it.
Taliban are now giving statements out of Doha (via
@SkyNews
) Two months ago, Hamas was doing the same. Qatar has sadly become the centre of Islamic extremists…Totally unethical if
@FIFAWorldCup
2022 was held there. It would legitimate extremism in the eyes of Muslim youth
The U.K. did 1 million vaccines in 1 day. The US (5 times the population) is barely managing 1.6 m. The U.K. government success on the vaccinations is phenomenally world class. Don’t plunder it by imposing restrictions
This is unacceptable. PA president Abu Mazen has just justified the Holocaust. He just quoted historical figures allegedly saying anti Semitism in Europe was “the result of social behaviour of Jews”. This is a reprehensible and unacceptable statement.
I stand with
#Hellas
- let us all, Levantines, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Arabs, Armenians, Egyptians, Brits, Europeans, Persians, Turkish etc etc all express solidarity with Greece, the cradle of Western civilization
Wow. Lebanese MP just said on Sky Arabia that at parliamentary testimony, Lebanese director of customs said that he doesn’t know half of what passes through port...(that’s how Hizbollah is a state within a state).
Hizbollah has a long history of storing ammonium nitrate explosives around the world. In May 2020, Germany banned Hizbollah after the discovery of warehouses in southern Germany where Hizbollah stored tonnes of it. Similar in Kuwait (2015), Cyprus (2012) and Bolivia.
I am not Saudi and I have never lived in Saudi Arabia and I have 0 business in Saudi. My family, Khazraj tribe, left Medina over 1,400 years ago to Jerusalem. But As a Muslim I am unwaveringly pro-Saudi. Whenever Saudi Arabia is threatened, I personally feel threatened.
If Hizbollah is not disarmed, Lebanon will not recover. It is as simple as that. Last night would not have happened without Hizballah’s state within a state. No chance in the world Hizbollah didn’t know about the explosives. Blaming low level officials means Hizbollah has won
You can get your ISIS fighters, give them Turkish passports, send them to wherever, but it doesn’t change the fact that you are an extremist, deeply despised by all normal human beings.
The churches of Jerusalem- Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Armenian, Coptic, Lutheran all- accuse Israel of opening fire on the hungry Palestinians in Gaza. All the Christian churches standing up to Israeli lies in Gaza…enough is enough. Thank you 🙏
The first time Prophet Mohammed heard about Yom Kippur and that Jews fast, he decided to fast as well. The Prophet of Islam understood and taught that as Muslims we are an extension of the religion of Abraham and that Jews, Christians and Muslims are one family.
#YomKippur
Washington Post now basically a PR agency tweeting and writing articles in Arabic. Only reason it is doing this in Arabic is to attack Saudi Arabia.
@washingtonpost
does not have an Arabic audience and is now simply using Saudi to attack Trump.
@StephenKing
Qatar had legally binding agreements with FIFA on terms to host World Cup, inc the Ethics Code and sponsorship etc. Qatar breached almost everything in the agreements. Thousands of people died building those facilities and you patronise football fans by focusing on beer?
The King is Christian, the PM is Hindu, Home Secretary is Jewish and the mayor is Muslim. Only in London and only in Britain, the greatest and most diverse country in the world 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
This is an extremely dangerous response by
@UKLabour
to our Guardian letter- a fifth of us who signed this letter are Muslim, and yet Labour says of us because we called for people not to vote for Corbyn “Islamophobic”. Why bring Islamophobia?
#LabourAntisemitism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Turkish Conquest Is Not Occupation or Looting – It Is Spreading the Justice of Allah; If Anybody Wants to Stand against Us and Pay the Price, Let Them Come
Why do I trust Saudi Arabia over Turkey and Qatar? Because Saudi Arabia doesn’t pretend to be what it is not. It is honest & you can agree or not agree. But Turkey & Qatar lie through their teeth and fund the most brutal anti Semitic Islamists around the world, on par with Iran
This is horrific. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that several Palestinian prisoners (including children and elderly) taken from Gaza have died in Israeli custody. This is a war crime in the fullest sense of the word
Dear
@British_Airways
I’m on a superb flight from the UK to the UAE. You are still avoiding Israeli airspace & therefore extending the flight time by about 30 mins & lots of fuel. There are now direct flights between UAE & Israel and this “kink” on the road is no longer necessary
10 years ago, Jews in London felt safer than Jews in Dubai. Today, this has changed. Well done to Dubai for making yourself a city safe for Jews.
@SadiqKhan
- you really need to act: you made London unsafe, for Jews and everyone else.
Facts:
1. Khashoggi has died (RIP)
2. Saudi Arabia as a state is exonerated and 3. Saudi Arabia needs to reform systems and continue with ongoing reforms. Time to move on.
I have just received a call from Aljazeera English, the Qatari government owned media group, asking to interview me. I responded by saying that I do not engage with terror supporting groups like Aljazeera and refuse to be interviewed by them.
@AJEnglish
This is absolutely amazing. The UAE embassy in London tweets Chanukah wishes. May all those who celebrate, and those who do not, receive the miracle of Chanukah.
#Chanukah
Israel is now facing a war on 3 fronts. This is not local Palestinian planning. This is state-grade planning by Iran…there can be no doubt about this now
I've never seen such a coordinated attack against a country like Saudi Arabia in past few days, all based on a piece of fake news by an unnamed Turkish official via Qatari media. Islamist extremists want Saudi Arabia to fall, but this has created even greater unity amongst Saudis
Hello from the Israeli city of Jaffa, the most peaceful and cosmopolitan city on the Med. Hopefully one day Marseille will be as peaceful. Within meters of each others, Arab, Jewish & foreigners on the beach alongside worshippers in a mosques, churches & synagogues
I am reading in total disbelief the Qatari state school textbook, compulsory to all school kids this “4. Treachery & treason are characteristics of Jews in all times” (Gr 7 pg 92)The same state that wants to host fifa World Cup 2022
@FIFAcom
. Absolutely disgusting anti Semitism