Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

You think it’s DANGEROUS to criticize Omar? Do you also thinks it’s DANGEROUS to criticize the president? Islam? What things are we allowed to criticize and what things are dangerous? Who will make the list? I believe criticisms should never be silenced-and I thought you did too.

Yasmine, that's not fair. Criticizing her is not the problem. The video our *President* tweeted to his 60 mil followers is highly edited, totally decontextualized, with a menacing soundtrack and 9/11 footage. That was not criticism, that was agitprop.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116817144006750209 …

What if someone did this to Maajid or Ayaan? Clipped out their words, then played them in such a fashion to elicit an emotional response. In fact, we know that's happened and its egregious and likely increases their security concerns. Except this time, its the President sharing.

Very fair point, but the difference between Ayaan/Maajid and Ilhan is the difference between intellectual honesty and manipulative ulterior motives

“difference between Ayaan/Maajid, & Ilhan is the difference between intellectual honesty & manipulative ulterior motives” If that’s what you believe, then you’re already on side. For it is precisely *this difference* that should prevent us from stooping to endorse such agitprop

When I say “I agree with Sarah” I base it on my reading of her thread, which is & reserves her right to be *critical* of Ilhan. As am I &always have been. But dishonest criticism is unhelpful (that’s subjective. So I’m expressing my subjective opinion here,in agreeing with Sarah)

I think dishonest criticisms are unhelpful too, but I disagree w Sarsour, AOC and Rashida Tlaib when they say that criticism of Ilhan=Racism, Islamophobia, incitement to violence etc. That’s the same tactic they use to shut down criticism of Islam. Thats what’s actually dangerous

Yep. But there’s no contradiction there Yasmine. Both overall thoughts (yours and Sarah’s) can be true. And I believe they are.