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academic ‣ scholar ‣ senior fellow ‣ fmr ⁍ 📚international affairs ▪ security ▪ religion • 🌍West & MENA

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    Mar 29

    “When the foolish one speaks, do not reply to him, for better than a response (to him) is silence; & if you speak to him you have aided him; & if you left him (with no reply) in extreme sadness he dies.”(al-Shafi'i's quote should be required reading when people sign into Twitter)

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    7 hours ago

    I’m seeing lots of wishful thinking about this meeting. There’s no political breakthrough here. It’s high level security coordination between the ruler of the West Bank and his Palestinian counterpart.

    This evening I met with PA President, Mahmoud Abbas. We discussed the implementation of economic and civilian measures, and emphasized the importance of deepening security coordination and preventing terror and violence - for the well-being of both Israelis and Palestinians.
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    Dec 26

    Desmond Tutu was so staunchly opposed to the mutually-beneficial apartheid regimes in South Africa and Israel that the spied on him when he visited California.

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    Dec 27

    On a topical issue : It wasn’t NATO seeking to go East - it was former Soviet satellites and republics wishing to go West.

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    Dec 27

    Important article.. cannot help.. wish we sent a foreign journalist or academic to US to go an whosesale essentialise and reduce American culture, identity, national myths, religions to explain ‘what really they want’ in genre we read on Islamic contexts

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    Dec 27
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    Indeed, Danny, but hostile to Palestinians, and Palestinian Christians are part of that society.

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  7. Dec 27

    My colleague & I wrote on this a couple of years ago. It's extraordinary how little the conversation has moved on since. The agency of Christians of the Arab world cannot be overridden in the name of promoting a side in American culture wars.

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  8. Dec 27

    Note to Western advocates of the Arab church - you can't simultaneously claim to back Palestinian Christians when they need solidarity, while you deny their own assessment of who is responsible for their difficulties. Palestinians writ large oppose the Israeli occupation.

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    Dec 27

    What a horrific article, whitewashing Israeli treatment of Palestinian Christians who like other Palestinians have suffered war crimes, foreign military occupation, ethnic cleansing, discrimination, theft of their land & water, destruction of their homes, arrest of their children

    "Every year at Christmas, some Christian prelate warns of the fate of Christians in the Holy Land. This year it was Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem Hosam Naoum." My response.
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    Dec 26

    It's rather extraordinary to see Desmond Tutu's most famous positions be recorded in obituaries like these... but somehow, his very open opposition (for decades) to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is absent. Odd, that.

    Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died at age 90, led a global campaign to end South Africa’s racist policies and helped in healing the nation’s wounds
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    Dec 27

    Don't think anyone seriously expected Biden to do otherwise. His campaign rhetoric about making Saudi Arabia a "pariah" was always inevitably going to be just that: rhetoric.

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    Dec 27

    As Western leaders pay tribute to Desmond Tutu, there's been silence from Israel. I checked with offices of Israeli prime minister, president, and foreign ministry. None had a statement. Tutu compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to apartheid in his native South Africa.

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    Dec 26

    If only all of us, and I include myself, had the moral courage to speak out against even our friends when they were doing wrong

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    Dec 26

    I think about how Archbishop Tutu came out of retirement to condemn his friend Aung San Suu Kyi during the genocide in Myanmar. That must have been hard but it showed the kind of moral courage he had

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  15. Dec 26

    It's rather extraordinary to see Desmond Tutu's most famous positions be recorded in obituaries like these... but somehow, his very open opposition (for decades) to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is absent. Odd, that.

    Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died at age 90, led a global campaign to end South Africa’s racist policies and helped in healing the nation’s wounds
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    Dec 26

    Although England is the only one of the UK's four nations not to be tightening restrictions after Christmas Day, it has the highest infection rate. In London, the worst-hit region, one in 20 people were thought to be carrying the infection last Sunday.

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    Dec 26

    'If your loved ones were trapped there, would you not be moved to act? Would you care for politics rather than safety in the face of such carnage?' - Desmond Tutu

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    Dec 26

    Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid veteran called South Africa's moral conscience, famously said: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" & applied this to today May he rest in peace and power

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    Dec 26

    “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights” RIP Tutu

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    Dec 26

    What tragic news to wake up to.. the world has lost a true giant.. Thank you sir for showing us faith in action, in kindness, in joy, in forgiving.. Rest now after a life time of service

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    Dec 25

    So, the guy who crushed Chechnya is now being praised for his tireless fight against Islamophobia. The surreal world of Imran Khan

    🇵🇰's Imran Khan praises 🇷🇺's Vladimir Putin for his remarks attacking Islamophobia A surprise twist in Russia-Pakistan relations, which have advanced on all fronts in 2021
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