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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

5 months

Took me almost 10 years to write this—and it's out in paperback today! BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR available everywhere now.

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Omer Aziz

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1 year

The late, great Congressman John R. Lewis, who marched with Dr. King and served in Congress for 33 years. I'm proud to say the late Congressman John R. Lewis appears in the pages of BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR. Out April 4.

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Brown Boy in Barcelona

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Hi, my name is Omer Aziz. Today, my first book, BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR is out! It's an honest story about race, class, and family—and the realities of the world from the eyes of a kid who grew up in the shadows of 9/11 and then fell in love with books. But the questions remained.

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"I think this Administration has been worse for Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims than the Trump Administration," Rashid Khalidi tells me, in the latest episode of the Minority Views Podcast, dropping tomorrow. Says he will not vote for Joe Biden.

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King Charles III, the Sovereign of over 150 million people, is also in BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR. Book coming Tuesday.

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen thinks you should read this book. It won't solve our economic crises, but will make for an interesting and thought-provoking read. You can pre-order BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR below, or at your local

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From Scarborough public schools, to Yale and Harvard, to a bookstore near you, tomorrow. BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR.

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KKK holding rallies. Hate crimes surging. White nationalists hailing Trump in DC. And yet pundits are still asking “Was this about race?"

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6 years

If any white man in the world says 'Give me liberty or give me death,' the entire white world applauds. When a Palestinian says *exactly* the same thing, he is judged a criminal, and treated like one, & everything possible is done to make an example of this bad Terrorist. #Gaza

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9 years

My four-hour debate with @SamHarrisOrg was shamelessly censored by that denizen of civilization. Here’s my take:

My secret debate with Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism & free-speech...

When I wrote an essay critical of the famous atheist, he asked me to debate the issues. Now he refuses to air it

www.salon.com

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Over 42,000 Canadians died in the Second World War. Some of the worst casualties sustained were in fighting Nazi Germany. Honoring a Nazi veteran in Canada's Parliament is unconscionable. An insult to Jews, and to Canada. Does no one ask questions in government anymore?

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Sad to see the normalization of hatred towards Palestinians. Racist stereotypes. Genocidal threats. Calls for extermination. All in the open. We're being primed to quietly accept the mass slaughter of Brown people. It's racist and it's wrong—and we'll one day be ashamed of it.

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1. There's a temptation to be provocative and write headlines that will grab attention even if they are misleading or reinforce negative stereotypes about a minority group. This one (since changed) was patently Islamophobic, framing the problem of Muslim children as time-bombs.

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Ran into Dr. Evil.

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Up on the newsletter now. Excerpt from @globeandmail piece. BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR coming Tuesday.

My Scarborough

The neighbourhood I grew up in was diverse and full of working-class pride, but all that its critics could see was crime and isolation

www.notesfromthemargins.com

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6 years

The Best Response Ever to my @nytimes piece comes from @SamHarrisOrg , who tells his listeners I've been "lying extravagantly." Sam: I brought you up because one of your fans sent me a death threat. If you ever want to have a real conversation about Islam, I am right here.

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Tomorrow.

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I wrote about how Pakistan is on the brink of failure and possible civil war—and spoke to Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, about the unfolding chaos. "We are headed for the abyss," @ImranKhanPTI told me. Read here:

Opinion: The West cannot let Pakistan’s democracy wither

Protesters have taken to the streets to oppose Pakistan’s powerful military establishment, in the wake of the May arrest of Imran Khan, the popular former prime minister

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Omer Aziz

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2 years

Thank you @AppleBooks for selecting BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR as one of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2023! Coming to you April 4.

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Omer Aziz

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1 month

The Canadian Dream is on life support. My latest in the @globeandmail :

Opinion: The Canadian dream is on life support

The social situation deteriorates. The housing shortage is chronic. Economic stagnation is severe. The political crisis may be even worse

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Omer Aziz

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8 months

The youngest US soldier killed in Jordan, Breonna Moffett, had just celebrated her 23rd birthday. She was 9 months old when 9/11 happened. Yet she paid for this war with her life. And to think there are still neocons in both parties who want even more war and more death.

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Omer Aziz

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5 years

The passage below is *morally obscene* by any measure. The fact that Harris has wormed his way into the mainstream while writing garbage like this is telling of our public discourse. And no, fanboys, the below is not "nuance." It's ahistorical nonsense disguised as analysis.2/

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. @SadiqKhan is not *just* a Muslim, he is also a progressive human rights lawyer, born to the working-class. Saluting you from America.

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Omer Aziz

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1 year

American voters don’t necessarily care about the specifics of foreign policy. What’s important — and what voters do care about — is what the nation represents. Here, Biden has both a narrative problem and potentially a substantive one.

Liberals need a clearer foreign policy - The Boston Globe

Biden and the Republicans have very different views of America’s role in the world. But the president’s stance may be harder to explain to voters.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Omer Aziz

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3 years

Islamophobia begins with ideas. It ends in violence. #londonattack

Opinion: Islamophobia begins with ideas. It always ends in violence

In the face of the latest tragedy, we must confront the bigotry that poisons our society

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Omer Aziz

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7 years

Trying to stay off Twitter to write, but want to say that @JustinTrudeau ’s embarrassing trip to India is further evidence that the Liberal government should hire & empower more staffers of color who understand the complexities of the world. Literally all this was avoidable. /1

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Omer Aziz

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I don't know if @SamHarrisOrg is a bigot or bad person. I do know--because his writings and opinions tell me--that he holds extremist and bigoted views, especially on Muslims. He's been able to get away with this mainstream pose because he doesn't have a name like "Illan Omar."4/

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Omer Aziz

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1 year

Over 2.5 million colonized Indians also fought for Britain in WWII. My great uncle was one of them. Served under the British Indian banner in the Battle for Rome against the Nazis. Honoring an SS soldier in Parliament is an insult to so many people. An apology should be given.

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Omer Aziz

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3 years

The ceasefire ends hostilities, but the occupation goes on. The chances of establishing a Palestinian state are just as grim as they were before the violence. And what lay ahead for both Israel and Palestine is a terrifying reality. My latest:

Palestine and the Questions Unasked

After the ceasefire, hard truths must be faced.

www.notesfromthemargins.com

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@omeraziz12

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Sam Harris? Anti-Semitic? I didn't know about this one. So I looked it up. Lo and behold, it comes directly from page 93 of "The End of Faith." 1/4

Mehdi Hasan

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Dear @SamHarrisOrg , you seem to think it's weird that I suggested you're anti-Semitic - but how else to describe someone who suggested the "truth" is that "Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves," as you did in The End of Faith? 7/

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Today, I heard an American commentator named @benshapiro say on the @BBC that Jews who aren't religious are somehow less Jewish. "Jews who voted for Obama cared about Judaism less than they did about other priorities." Really? 78% of Jews voted for Barack Obama in 2008.

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I'm sad that this piece by @mehdirhasan even needed to be written, but I am glad he wrote it. Christians and Muslims are brothers--regardless of what the jihadists, the clerics, and the fascists think.

When Christians Are Under Attack, Muslims and the Left Need to Defend Them

The lethal bombings in Sri Lanka remind us that from the Middle East to parts of Asia and Africa, Christians face violence and repression.

theintercept.com

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Omer Aziz

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9 years

. @SamHarrisOrg Why don’t you do what any intellectual would do and release the full podcast? Hitchens would be ashamed of your duplicity.

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Omer Aziz

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6 years

If you're a hardliner in the Iranian regime who hates the United States, wants Iran to have multiple nuclear bombs, seeks war with Israel, desires to colonize the Middle East, opposes President Rouhani and FM Zarif, well, today is your lucky day. #JCPOA #IranDeal

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7 years

Proud to share my story, and the story of the world I come out of, in today's @nytimes : @nytopinion

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1 year

This Thursday. Exclusively on the Minority Views Podcast. @realBobWoodward and I talk about journalism—and everything else. BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR out April 4.

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11. This is the reality that all Muslim kids raised in the West have to confront as they come of age. Collective guilt and responsibility. They are time-bombs, invaders, potential criminals. Conservatives want them banned; liberals are okay to just question their mental state.

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This is Harris's whole game. Take an ideologically extreme (and ill-informed) position so courageously, and then immediately retreat to the moderate position when attacked. He is literally parroting the fascist position here. And yes, this is anti-Semitic. 3/

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Omer Aziz

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Five years ago, I began writing a book on identity and belonging, unsure where it would take me. That book became a memoir about race, class, family, religion, and the West. I'm so excited to announce that BROWN BOY: A Memoir is almost here. 04/2023

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I wrote about how Yale produced this generation of radical conservatives, in the @BostonGlobe :

I saw how Yale produces radical conservatives - The Boston Globe

A right-wing insurgency took shape in New Haven despite the campus’s progressivism. Or maybe that was the cause.

www.bostonglobe.com

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7. Here's another NYT headline, this from a @NickKristof column. "Is Islam The Problem?" I don't know, is it? This taps right into the prejudices of people who *already think* Islam-as-a-faith is a problem. Framing the religion as the problem blames all Muslims for...being Muslim

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"That’s what we are. We are the inheritors of the scars of Empire, but also the spoils of Empire." - @rizmc . Beautiful profile in today's @NYTmag :

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The most important piece I've ever written. On the diverse, beautiful community that raised me. In the @globeandmail . Scarborough, this one's for you. Thank you for all the love —and the memories. I'll never forget.

Opinion: Scarborough made me who I am today. I love it. Why don’t you?

The neighbourhood I grew up in was diverse and full of working-class pride, but all that its critics could see was crime and isolation

www.theglobeandmail.com

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2 years

My full conversation with Noam Chomsky is now available online. Chomsky x Minority Views Podcast #6 On Propaganda and War and the Past and the Future.

Noam Chomsky on Propaganda, War, Fascism, Free Speech, and the Future...

Noam Chomsky joins the Minority Views Podcast with Omer Aziz to discuss free speech, authoritarianism, China, Israel, climate change, and other issues. Minor...

www.youtube.com

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The full piece on the Canadian dream being on life support—and the systemic political, economic, and social crises Canada is facing—is available to read here:

The Canadian Dream is on Life Support

Canada's future must be reclaimed and won soon, or lost for good.

www.notesfromthemargins.com

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Omer Aziz

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7 years

The Canadian press's response to the Khadr settlement has been deplorable. Canada was complicit in torture: #cdnpoli

We are all to blame for Omar Khadr’s mistreatment

To shift the moral blame for Khadr’s ordeal to the people’s representatives is to absolve the Canadian public from its own complacency.

www.thestar.com

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I wrote about neoliberalism, the elite, the new emerging economic order, and this party I went to in NYC—all in the @globeandmail . The bills for neoliberalism's excesses have come due.

Opinion: Last call for neoliberalism: What I saw at the party at the end of the world order

Over the past four decades, the world has become one big economy, under the belief that a free market would bring democratic freedom, too. But workers are angry about getting short shrift, and as...

www.theglobeandmail.com

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9 years

My last word on this whole @SamHarrisOrg controversy, with an open-ended invite to debate any day, any time.

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10 months

Thomas Paine was America's greatest Founding Father. He wrote the words that convinced Americans to take up independence, and was way ahead of his time on every major issue. I make the case in the @BostonGlobe :

Thomas Paine is overdue for recognition as America’s greatest Founding Father - The Boston Globe

Let's give him a proper memorial.

www.bostonglobe.com

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5 years

Champions.

Toronto Raptors

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5 years

No. 44 #WeTheNorth | @BarackObama

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The Harris horde will spin anything to defend their prophet. Reminds me of religious fundamentalists I’ve debated.

Michiel Sikma 🏳️‍🌈

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@omeraziz12 I commend you for having the constitution to deal with all these SH fans

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My letter to @TheAtlantic on Graeme Wood's piece about failing to make distinctions between genuine anti-Muslim bigots and their ideological enablers, like @SamHarrisOrg :

Letter: The Trouble With Staying Silent on Ideological Extremism

A commentator argues for a thorough probe of the ideological spectrum of Islamophobia.

www.theatlantic.com

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7 years

My take on Omar Khadr and the shame of the press (and much of the public) in ignoring or obscuring the full story:

Omar Khadr and the Shame of the Canadian Press | The Walrus

Anger over the settlement has never been about law or even policy. It’s about how we see the crimes of people who do not look like us

thewalrus.ca

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9. Here's another example of an old-time elite journalist projecting mental pathologies on Muslims. David Brooks was given column space to state that Egyptians "lack the mental ingredients" for democracy. Again: there is the framing of a whole population as mentally deranged.

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On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, for @NYMag . The war on terror, we were told, wasn’t a counterterrorism operation or a law-enforcement matter, but a battle of good versus evil. Twenty years later, it feels like evil won.

Bin Laden Won

How the terrorist mastermind drew the U.S. into a war with its own ideals.

nymag.com

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10. I could go on. There are thousands of examples of this kind of casual Islamophobia just creeping into ordinary use of language by people who ought to know better. Once a narrative frame is established, it is very difficult to break out of it. Muslims are bounded by it too.

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9 years

“Damage his brand” - In a single tweet, we have everything that’s wrong with the state of intellectualism.

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9 years

The number of “liberals” defending the censorship of a publicly-planned debate is remarkable. Free speech is ok till it invades their cult.

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I was detained by U.S. authorities last week. Here's what that experience was like:

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Stephen Miller: The most powerful and xenophobic White House official in many years. Here he is in a meeting. What kind of twisted mindset do you need to have to think America isn't punishing migrant children enough? A fascist mindset.

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5 years

And you wonder why I was so pissed last year about the India trip, after what I saw from the inside. I've been silent about it, but this picture is shameful. It's the first real slip of the mask. Many people are going to be hurt and angry--and they have every right to be.

Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

7 years

Frankly, the Canadian left is terrible at talking about ethnic and racial diversity--genuine diversity, not tokenism--in a way the American left is not. We seem to be so self-righteous in our dealing with minorities that we forget that they aren’t just ethnic vote banks. /5

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. @benshapiro then said: "I believe if you're somebody who takes Judaism seriously that comes with certain ideological commitments." He means, right-wing political commitments. That is: religion fixes one's politics on the right. Chilling. He sounds like a Salafist here.

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2 years

The first review of Brown Boy is in! Honored to receive this starred review from @PublishersWkly , who called the book "a sterling portrait of personal revelation." Coming to you soon. Read below:

Brown Boy: A Memoir by Omer Aziz

“I was torn within myself, trying to be two people at once,” writes Aziz, a lawyer and former foreign policy adviser for Justin ...

www.publishersweekly.com

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I won't even get into what @benshapiro says about Muslims and Arabs because, frankly, it's sickening racism. Here are all the searches that the Quebec City shooter did in 2017 before killing 6 Muslims and injuring 19 others. Notice something?

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5. For years, anti-Muslim sentiment has gone unanswered in the mainstream press. Go back and look at the initial reactions to the Oklahoma City bombings of 1995. After the bombing, columnists at elite publications were already talking about bombing Muslims:

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9 years

@SamHarrisOrg Sure. Let me know when.

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6 years

My piece for the @nytimes on the massacre in New Zealand, and the link between ideas and violence.

Opinion | Our Brother, Our Executioner (Published 2019)

Racism begins with ideas. It ends with violence.

www.nytimes.com

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America is going to be be majority brown soon, too. By 2045, whites will comprise 49.7% of the population. There's no need to worry though: this just means better food, better literature, and a greater symphony of languages, art, and beauty.

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When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood up in the House of Commons on Monday and made the unprecedented allegation that “agents of the government of India” assassinated a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, I cannot say I was surprised. In 2017, I was the Policy Advisor in the

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"After all, how much more can I integrate? What more is it you want from us? To be white? To be you?"

Opinion | Oh, So Now I’m Bangladeshi? (Published 2016)

Britain is my home. But some of my compatriots have trouble with that.

www.nytimes.com

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Frankly, the Canadian left is terrible at talking about ethnic and racial diversity--genuine diversity, not tokenism--in a way the American left is not. We seem to be so self-righteous in our dealing with minorities that we forget that they aren’t just ethnic vote banks. /5

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To mark the start of Ramadan, I wrote about the history of coffee and the Eurocentrism that distorts how that story is told and written. From Ethiopia to the Sufis in Yemen, here is the Islamic history of coffee.

The Islamic History of Coffee

Why is there always one crucial historical fact left out of the story?

www.notesfromthemargins.com

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Set myself the goal of reading 52 books this year. Got it done. The full list + a piece on what reading means to me:

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This will be a #thread on my @jordanbpeterson piece from @Harpers . You can read the full piece here: 0/19

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Thank you to the @TorontoStar for including BROWN BOY on their 2023 most anticipated books list! Hometown pride. 31 books to put on your list for this winter and spring:

Deborah Dundas: 2023 Lookahead: 31 books I can’t wait to read this winter and spring

New books coming out in the first half of the year include exciting debut writers, old favourites and unexpected pleasures.

www.thestar.com

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I wrote about @JustinTrudeau , Canada's federal election, and the choice facing voters, especially those on the left. #Elxn44

Moral Perfection Can Wait

Justin Trudeau’s reelection bid forces the left to ask whether it prioritizes policy victories or ideological purity.

www.theatlantic.com

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On the assassination, India, Trudeau, and how we got here. My latest: 👇🏾

The Globe and Mail

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The real reasons Canada’s relationship with India is broken

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This identity-policing happens on the right. It's right-wingers who'll say something like "X is self-hating." You'll never hear Noam Chomsky talking about how a conservative Jew is not really a Jew. Same deal with Muslims: the religious/political right want identitarianism.

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@zackbeauchamp Biden kept all of Trump's Israel policies until last week—and took some even further. And Rashid Khalidi already addressed this weak argument that amounts to "But Trump is worse."

Omer Aziz

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"I think this Administration has been worse for Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims than the Trump Administration," Rashid Khalidi tells me, in the latest episode of the Minority Views Podcast, dropping tomorrow. Says he will not vote for Joe Biden.

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What Trump’s Presidency Means to Muslims. Painful but necessary to write this: @NewRepublic #Election2016

What President Donald Trump Means for Muslims

In electing Trump, America has broken its sacred promise to us.

newrepublic.com

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My piece in the @nytimes on the @Raptors and the meaning of this Championship for the future of this country and the minority's place within it. #WeTheNorth was as much about the "We" as it was about the "North." An underdog moment.

Opinion | The Raptors Win, and Canada Learns to Swagger (Published 2019)

On Thursday night, “We the North” became more than just a slogan.

www.nytimes.com

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Had a great time talking with the Mayor of Cambridge, MA about the art of local government—and how cities can help working families. Thank you @MayorSiddiqui for the conversation! Episode 7 of the Minority Views Podcast live everywhere now.

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This book took some 6 years to write. I wrote about Scarborough and the immigrant community that raised me. I wrote about Paris and Yale Law School. I wrote about America. At each juncture, the book grapples with ideas of meritocracy, race, religion, and history.

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Paraphrase of James Baldwin. Applies equally to Palestinians asking for freedom for 70 years and being shot, killed, and tear-gassed every time they protest their own subjugation. Violence only breeds more terror.

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Did Steve Paikin's show! Thanks for having me. @TheAgenda Airs next Thursday. BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR in stores now.

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I grew up working-class. I grew up brown. I grew up Muslim. Neither of my parents had professional degrees. I was supposed to be a lost cause. And yet I'm here. I wanted to write the book that I needed when I was younger. BROWN BOY: A MEMOIR is that book.

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69% of Jews supported Obama in 2012. In all the other years, they've been consistently Democratic as well: 71% for Hillary Clinton in 2016, 76% for Kerry in 2004, 80% in favor of Bill Clinton in '92. So who's Judaism is @benshapiro policing, and why?

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

5 years

I wrote about 9/11 and memory for the @nytimes . #911Anniversary

Opinion | The World 9/11 Took From Us (Published 2019)

I’m still mourning the life I lived before I learned that I was different.

www.nytimes.com

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

7 years

This is not an argument of "diversity for diversity sake." It's that folks of color, and (in)visible minorities, offer a life perspective and policy insight and political awareness that is sorely needed. I know that minorities talk about all this in private. Never public./7

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

9 years

Laughing as I listen to @SamHarrisOrg ’s selective excerpts and edits from our debate. He’d do well as propaganda chief for any Arab despot.

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

1 year

Multiple storms, cities, and interruptions couldn't stop me. Got @mehdirhasan 's new book. It's a brilliant work on the art (and science and history) of argument, rhetoric, and public speaking. From one of the best journalists in the world. Highly recommend!

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

5 years

Right-wing Muslims. Right-Wing Hindus (Hindutva). Right-wing Christians, too. Policing their co-religionists' identity, viewing them as less pure, and willing to "take their badge" when it's suits their political interests. It's straight-up authoritarian.

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

7 years

Daily, I saw white staffers being promoted and given standing in a way that staffers/advisers of color were not. We are rightly talking about empowering women; what about minorities? The subtle racism at the top levels of the government is endemic, systemic, and unacknowledged./6

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

10 months

@mehdirhasan @MehdiHasanShow @peacock @MSNBC You did great work, Mehdi. Looking forward to watching your segments in 2024 and beyond.

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

5 years

Shapiro was asked about past comments he had made saying Jews who supported Obama "should turn their badge in" as Jews. Again: that would mean over two-thirds of the American Jewish population would have to "turn their badge in. Who else dislikes his metaphor?

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

8 years

Friend of the Paris jihadist Abdeslam saw him "watching IS videos, with a joint in one hand, and a beer in another".

Brussels attacks: Molenbeek's gangster jihadists

Poverty, petty crime, beer and cannabis - and a deep mistrust of the Belgian authorities - helped prepare ordinary losers in Brussels for a role as jihadists.

www.bbc.com

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

4 years

I lost my beloved grandmother to Covid-19. After a month of some painful reflections, I wanted to share this piece with the world, in the hopes that others, grieving alone, might feel some peace.

Grief in a Time of Separation

Rest in Peace: Adiba Aziz (1931 - 2020)

www.notesfromthemargins.com

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Omer Aziz

@omeraziz12

1 year

@DrJacobsRad Two wrongs don't make a right. Hatred is never the answer. Collective punishment is always wrong. So are genocidal threats. My values stay the same regardless of the ethnicity or color of the victims. How about yours?

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