Religion gets widely blamed for creating, and perpetuating, an Us-Against-Them dynamic. I accept that critique. At the same time, is secularism free of dogma? Not necessarily...
Another terrible news from #France:
"Two #Muslim women are stabbed repeatedly under the Eiffel Tower by white female attackers shouting 'Dirty Arabs'"
The victims had only asked for the attackers' dogs, which scared their children, to be put on leash:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8861799/Paris-attack-Two-Muslim-woman-stabbed-Eiffel-Tower.html
[email protected]: How about @PeteButtigieg tickling the ivories alongside @ClaireLynchSong & @LeaGilmoreMusic as they belt out this new rendition of “America the beautiful”?👇🏽 (Add @firstdogsSB... on cowbells for texture.) H/T @kidizenship @Lis_Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiydluD0PyM
Wonderful to know that the @RoyalMail consistently delivers — and that government competence isn’t completely a thing of the past. Enjoy my book, fellow educators. Feel free to question. Happy to ... engage! @MissGwilliam @MissEvansRE @SPayneRE @RubyAli_ @RogersHistory @TMRSicons
Thankyou @TMRSicons for my book that arrived today, just in time for half term readin. I loved the talk from @IrshadManji & can’t wait to read this. Just today I was talking about getting students to genuinely listen to each other and respond rather than just listening to win.
It really can happen here.👇🏽
So must @MoralCourage.
Don't take democracy for granted. If you lose it, you might never get it back. #Vote
You’re never too busy to tell your mother why you’re too busy to call her. (Yes, you read that right.) She just wants to know you’re still alive — and, in this case, she’ll be proud of your ... @MoralCourage.👇🏽
Many destructive things have been normalized in our country recently. But in Belarus, they've normalized bravery. https://twitter.com/franakviacorka/status/1317499477746454533
Banned editions of my book, The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, can be downloaded free-of-charge here: ... https://irshadmanji.com/the-trouble-with-islam-today-banned-editions/. Please share with Arabic- and Urdu-speakers who need to know that they're not alone. #ParisBeheading
As a reformist Muslim and a devoted teacher of free expression, I can assure this man’s heinous murderer: You will not get the last word — on Islam or anything else. I, for one, will never sacrifice education at the altar of indoctrination. #parisbeheading https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1317175678022856704
As a reformist Muslim and a devoted teacher of free expression, I can assure this man’s heinous murderer: You will not get the last word — on Islam or anything else. I, for one, will never ... sacrifice education at the altar of indoctrination. #parisbeheading
The victim of a beheading in Paris was a history teacher at a middle school who had opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a police official has confirmed. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/man-decapitated-paris-suspect-shot-dead-police-reports/
Now for some good news. “I have been phone banking for Dems. Many registered Republicans are voting Blue this year...” May it be emblematic of what’s happening across America, not just in polls ... but in actual turnout (which is the only “poll” that matters). @Renew_Democracy
From chat in the @Renew_Democracy event right now: “my 30-something son knows a number of people his age who are not voting this year b/c Biden is not liberal enough. He says they want to burn the ... whole system down...” Extremism feeds extremism. Shared goal: maximal destruction.
👇🏽, with one amendment: Kids must be taught how to think *independently* — ie. to sniff out manipulation, since ideologues of the right and the left are only too happy to frame their ... indoctrination as “education,” online and off. @LetGrowOrg @HdxAcademy
💭 "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
- Margaret Mead
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#TuesdayTips #Quote #TeacherQuote #TeacherWisdom #Teachers #TeachersofTomorrow
‘Be warned: Think like us or risk humiliation, injury, or worse.’ - @LindseyGrahamSC. How... woke.
Lindsey Graham, facing a Black challenger: "If you're a young African American...you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative not liberal." #SCSen
Without “rank democracy” in these United States, there will be no liberty (by definition), no peace (see “no liberty”), and no “prospefity.” There will, however, be more perfidy. Is that ... what you meant, @SenMikeLee? #VOTE
Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.
Pence to Harris: “You’re entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.”
Wow. Just, um, wow. #VPDebate
This will be “epic civic.”👇🏽I’ve registered. You? @Renew_Democracy @MoralCourage
Join @Renew_Democracy on October 15th at 12 p.m. EST for a virtual event with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (ret.) and RDI Chairman & human rights activist, Garry Kasparov. Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy, will moderate. https://rdi.org/events/2020/9/24/how-does-democracy-die-vindman-event/
A Muslim’s dream come true. 👇🏽Mashallah! #PraiseGod #pigsarepeopletoo
This bacon🥓 is made without harming a single pig🐷!
https://chooseveg.com/blog/california-startup-plant-based-bacon-fungus/
As a judge for @kidizenship’s Fly *Your* Flag contest, I’m spending my afternoon reviewing creative, witty, and poignant designs for a brand new version of the Stars & Stripes, all submitted ... by teens & pre-teens who want to live in a better America. So do I. Let’s do this. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Translation: “Stay positive, Mr. President.” Interpret that as you will. #Putin
Putin message to Trump:
"I am confident that your vital energy, high spirits, and optimism will help you cope with the dangerous virus."
(Note: Putin was extremely careful to avoid exposure)
4.5 hours have passed since the news broke that the FBI stopped a group of domestic terrorists from kidnapping the Governor of Michigan, and still no word from @POTUS @realDonaldTrump.
Moral courage. #Fauci https://twitter.com/axios/status/1313476855471640576
Fauci's advice to young people:
"Would I rather be on the right side of the truth, or would I like to be asked back because I told somebody something that they wanted to hear?"
https://www.axios.com/anthony-fauci-advice-young-people-truth-893b2cb3-74b3-4eb5-b4e5-06b4f928340d.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100
Trump to moderator: “Can I be honest?”
Biden: “Try to be honest.” 👏🏽
Fascism doesn’t debate - that’s why it has to shout over you. #vote #Debates2020