Ayesha A. SiddiqiVerified account

@AyeshaASiddiqi

writer, technically a “trend forecaster” ask for my email if you need it.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    15 Sep 2015

    please show some respect during this difficult time between birth and death

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    Apr 28

    A leaked Department of Homeland Security database confirms what many suspected: the U.S. government is actively trying to punish and intimidate people advocating for immigrant rights.

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    15 hours ago

    Some blamed the school, some blamed the people of Almondbury, some the council. Over several months we spoke to people inside and outside the story, to work out how refugees should be protected in potentially resentful and hostile host communities.

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    15 hours ago

    Scared of the backlash, Jamal and his sister stopped attending school for months. The stress of life in the UK has triggered a combination of health problems in Jamal’s father that have made him disabled and unable to work.

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    15 hours ago

    Jamal’s father installed CCTV cameras around the house. Jamal and his younger sister Farah didn’t go outside for days. “Shut your windows, close your doors,” police told them. “Don’t let anyone know you are inside.”

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    15 hours ago

    In the wake of the attack, Tommy Robinson used a common far-right tactic of pouncing on local stories to spread racial resentment, spreading lies that Jamal had attacked the white children himself alongside a sit-down video interview with the attacker, Bailey McLaren.

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    15 hours ago

    In Syria, “Christians and Muslims could co-exist happily”, said Jamal’s father. “I’ve only known racism here.”

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    15 hours ago

    We spoke to the family five months on, who want to keep their new home town a secret following death threats from Jamal’s bullies and far-right activist Tommy Robinson supporters.

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    15 hours ago

    You may remember the Syrian refugee Jamal – the video of him being attacked in a Huddersfield playground last year went viral. Having been chased out of town, he’s living in a new city and is still without a school to take his GCSEs.

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    This Syrian refugee has endured months of racist bullying in a school in Sheffield, the thugs already broke his arm and now mockingly waterboard him when they get a chance, name and shame these thugs,school and police have done little to help.
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  10. 16 hours ago

    and hardly an original one at that ! 🐇

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  11. 16 hours ago

    this isnt a 'trend forecast' as much as it's an observation of a pattern we've all already lived through

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  12. 16 hours ago

    Under current conditions this "replacement" won't reduce how much people work, or who does most of the work, but it will continue making working conditions more inhuman for those workers.

    "It’s inevitable that AI will replace humans in much of the workforce -- current predictions are saying 800,000 million jobs will be affected."
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  13. 16 hours ago

    most people are capable of a lot more kindness than they feel safe expressing

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    Apr 27

    BREAKING: Sheriff identifies suspect in fatal shooting at California synagogue as John Earnest, says he's also being investigated in mosque arson last month.

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    Apr 25

    My grandmother in 1949 when she was 27 years old walking into her igloo. She will be 87 in May.

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  16. Apr 27

    people: I’m baby me: ok I’m ayesha

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    Apr 26

    Trending Now: As elections reach fever pitch, young women in West Bengal get their palms hennaed with their favorite party symbols

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    Apr 26

    The American Tragedy: Veteran Rams Hindu Family, thinking they were Muslims, in Sunnyvale

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    Apr 26

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    Apr 26

    An Iraq-war veteran plowed his car into an Indian-American family in the Bay Area, possibly thinking they were Muslim. This story has barely made a ripple.

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