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Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States
is calling on U.S. lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen,
who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit — or even just fly over — the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ongoing assault.
“Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step
by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and U.S.-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza…

CAIR Presses Congress to Confront Gaza Catastrophe After Senators Blocked From Entry
After senators were blocked from Gaza, CAIR says Congress can’t look away.

LIVE: Israel ‘burning the ground’ in Gaza City assault, thousands flee
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/16/live-israel-pounds-gaza-city-muslim-leaders-condemn-strike-on-qatar

LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza City; Muslim leaders condemn strike on Qatar
Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza City as Arab and Muslim nations denounce Israel’s attack on Doha.

ICE detained British journalist Sami Hamdi on October 26 at SFO; the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it was retaliation for his criticism of Israel (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice…

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice-detains-british-muslim-journalist-laura-loomer
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p1#a251027p1

Day 4: Adiba Jaigirdar
Thought I'd mix things up a bit in terms of intensity & genre. Jaigirdar has written several lovely sapphic teen romances that grapple with parental acceptance in Muslim Bengali immigrant culture, along with racism and other aspects of second generation immigrant life in Dublin.
I've discovered a few other Southeast Asian authors at my local library who will appear on this list, but I'm putting Jaigirdar first because of just how enjoyable her books are, and because I generally find queer romance to be more engaging than non-queer romance. Jaigirdar's characters are sympathetic and convincing, and their problems are both dramatic and a little funny. "Hani & Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating" is probably my favorite by Jaigirdar, but I also enjoyed "The Henna Wars" and "Rani Choudhury Must Die." "A Million to One" is a bit of a departure from her other books, as historical fiction with a heist plot, but it still engages with Irish culture, immigrants, and queer romance.
#20WomenAuthors

One for the 'personal names are more complicated than programmers realise' file https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/foreign-names-create-confusion-administration-identity-proof/105682156

Frustrated with failing ID checks, migrants change their names to fit Australian databases
Some migrants are changing names that do not fit standard Anglo-Saxon conventions, in order to avoid identity verification woes.

Roblox says it is investigating anti-Muslim 'brain rot' content on gaming platform
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/17/roblox-says-it-is-investigating-anti-muslim-brain-rot-content-on-gaming-platform/

Quoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion
New York faith leaders join 'No Kings' march against Trump administration agenda
Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing a T-shirt reading “Salam,” Arabic for peace. “God is called the compassionate and the merciful often in the Qura

Hussein RashidQuoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion
New York faith leaders join ‘No Kings’ march against Trump administration agenda Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing …

@…: Reform is spewing more lies. This time it’s using attacks against women as a cover for attacks on migrants. We can’t let it stand. Email Reform. #Goodlawproject

Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants
Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back it up. Reform MP Sarah Pochin suggested that migrants have a “warped view of their right to sexually assault women”. She claimed that men from “predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan” hold a “medieval view of women’s rights” and that “women are at risk of sexual assaul…

Trump taps Detroit entrepreneur Mark Savaya, who boosted Muslim turnout, as special envoy to Iraq (Greg Wehner/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-taps-detroit-entrepreneur-mark-savaya-who-boosted-muslim-turnout-special-envoy-iraq
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p56#a251019p56

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Zohran Mamdani branded a 'liar' over false claim his Muslim aunt was too scared to take the subway after 9/11 (Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15232379/zohran-mamdami-aunt-zehra-fuhi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p3#a251028p3

I expect this to happen to more countries in Europe. Stirring up anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim sentiments is a good and easy way to destabilize western democracies.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25414vg7lo

France suspects foreign intelligence over pigs heads left outside mosques
Foreign nationals are blamed for the incident, which has striking similarities with other recent provocations.

I guess the delay in the C. Kirk case is that the maga-klan is having trouble finding the right person to accuse. They want to find someone who is a trans immigrant homeless Muslim who mail-in voted for Biden.

Dutch far-right Wilders (Putin-Orbšn-Trump admirer) presents his repugnant, medieval party platform for the October elections here.
If we vote for him, we'll get young, blonde, blue-eyed, women. If we vote for the social-democrats, we'll get elderly, angry, ugly, Muslim ladies.
https://masto…

Erik Jonker (@ErikJonker@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Wilders wil aandacht en ophef creëren, toch vind ik dat we verontwaardigd moeten blijven over dit soort puur fascistische uitingen. #politiek #wilders #fascisme #pvv

“In August 2024, SubwayTakes was invited to interview Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. During Rahma's interview of Harris, Harris surprised Rahma when she diverted from the pre-approved take against removing shoes on airplanes to a "Bacon is a spice" take. This take offended Rahma's Muslim beliefs, causing Rahma to ask to do the pre-approved take. But, after being advised by a staffer, Harris moved to a pro-anchovies-on-pizza take. This caused Rahma to quickly end the video. Aft…

Hahahahaha #sound
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNQGNrBM9aR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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7 likes, 0 comments - substance_recordstore on August 12, 2025: "THE SABRES OF PARADISE - ReIssues Remastered Reissues of the SABRESONIC (1993) & HAUNTED DANCEHALL (1994) albums by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Coming off the back of his work on the era-defining Screamadelica album by Primal Scream, not to mention groundbreaking remix work for the likes of New Order, My Bloody Valentine and the Happy Mondays, We…

Quoted in RNS about No Kings Rally and Religion
New York faith leaders join 'No Kings' march against Trump administration agenda Hussein Rashid, a Muslim scholar who teaches at Union Theological Seminary, addressed the crowd wearing a T-shirt reading “Salam,” Arabic for peace. “God is called the compassionate and the merciful often in the Quran. That is how we are meant to be in the world, compassionate and merciful,” he said.

During Barack Obama’s first term as president, the tea party rose to prominence.
By Obama’s second term, he was painted as an illegitimate president, often with racist undertones.
As many as 72 percent of Republicans expressed doubts about Obama’s citizenship, while a majority of Republicans believed that the president was a Muslim “deep down.”

The “who started it” question is pointless.
If you look for grievances, the past always has its share to pick from.

Charlie Kirk and America’s political collapse
A crackdown on free speech is inevitable if we blur the line between words and violence.

Trump-Supporting Muslim Mayor Halts English/Arabic Police Department Patch (Lowell Cauffiel/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/09/05/trump-supporting-muslim-mayor-halts-english-arabic-police-department-patch/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p122#a250905p122

Day 2 - Don’t believe what they say.
On social media, there was a hype about people trying disgusting foods, more specifically surströmming, the Swedish fermented fish. People were nearly dying, a new nuclear weapon was declared, and there were many likes on YouTube.
The same goes for how Malmö would be today: a Muslim city, more explosive than Baghdad, with extreem crimes and only falafel bars.
I don’t know where I am right now or where I spent my second day, but I am expe…

"Grillz on a hijabi": Intersectional Identities in Fostering Critical AI Literacy
Jaemarie Solyst, Chloe Fong, Faisal Nurdin, Rotem Landesman, R. Benjamin Shapiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06306

"Grillz on a hijabi": Intersectional Identities in Fostering Critical AI Literacy
As AI increasingly saturates our daily lives, it is crucial that youth develop skills to critically use and assess AI systems and envision better alternatives. We apply theories from culturally responsive computing to design and study a learning experience meant to support Black Muslim teen girls in developing critical literacy with generative AI (GenAI). We investigate fashion design as a culturally-rich, creative domain for youth to apply GenAI and then reflect on GenAI's socio-ethical aspect…

Since July 9, Ayman Soliman,
who served for years as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital,
has been held at the Butler County Jail in Ohio.
His arrest by Donald Trump’s quota-obsessed ICE, during a routine federal check-in,
sparked a local outcry, largely due to his well-established track record of comforting and working with the families of dying and severely ill children during his years at Cincinnati Children’s.

Jailed by Trump’s ICE, Children’s Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into ‘Solitary’
Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.

Hate crimes hit second largest record in 2024: FBI (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/hate-crimes-2024-black-antisemitism-muslim-fbi
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p105#a250805p105

Harvard Crimson on Closure of RPL
A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart.  The report on combating anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias raised concerns about the recent leadership changes within the program, referencing Rashid’s accusations of bias within the University.

Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Correction of the Holy Quran's Learners Using Deep Learning
Abdullah Abdelfattah, Mahmoud I. Khalil, Hazem Abbas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00094

Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Correction of the Holy Quran's Learners Using Deep Learning
Assessing spoken language is challenging, and quantifying pronunciation metrics for machine learning models is even harder. However, for the Holy Quran, this task is simplified by the rigorous recitation rules (tajweed) established by Muslim scholars, enabling highly effective assessment. Despite this advantage, the scarcity of high-quality annotated data remains a significant barrier. In this work, we bridge these gaps by introducing: (1) A 98% automated pipeline to produce high-quality Qura…

Harvard Crimson on Closure of RPL
A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart.
 The report on combating anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias raised concerns about the recent leadership changes within the program, referencing Rashid’s accusations of bias within the Univer

Harvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism
‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly. In a blistering resignation letter, Rashid accused Harvard of enabling anti-Muslim bias by failing to respond to “racist” and “false” statements against RPL by Harvard affiliates.

Hussein RashidHarvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism
‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly.…

Harvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism
‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension
In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly. In a blistering resignation letter, Rashid accused Harvard of enabling anti-Muslim bias by failing

Hussein RashidHarvard Crimson on Harvard’s Racism
‘A Campaign of Anti-Palestinian Racism’: HDS Students, Alumni Decry Program Suspension In January, RPL Associate Dean Diane L. Moore and Assistant Dean for RPL Hussein Rashid departed unexpectedly.…