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Bismillah. Peace on Muhammad & his Family. We are a rationalist, spiritualist, supra-legalist academy for UNITY! in Islam and abroad. Y1 Principles of Islam Y2 Islamic Jurisprudence Y3 Islamic Phylosophy Y4 Islamic Mysticism unityhawza.world

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay
This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
World Food Program says it has no remaining Food Stocks in Gaza, as Israel keeps Crossings Closed
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World Food Program says it has no remaining Food Stocks in Gaza, as Israel keeps Crossings Closed
( Middle East Monitor ) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza, it said in a statement today. “Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the […]
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"EXCLUSIVE: Dem Voters Overwhelmingly Say US Should Cut Aid to Israel Until It Stops Attacking Civilians" From Palestine to economics, a new poll from Data for Progress and Zeteo shows likely Democratic primary voters prefer a more progressive approach.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dem Voters Overwhelming Say US Should Cut Aid to Israel Until It Stops Attacking Civilians
From Israel-Palestine to economic policy, polling from Data for Progress and Zeteo shows likely primary voters prefer a more progressive approach.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Pope Francis’s Enduring Legacy on Palestine and the Middle East
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Pope Francis’s Enduring Legacy on Palestine and the Middle East
By Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Marashi | – Braga, Portugal and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The world now grieves the loss of Pope Francis, a spiritual titan whose moral compass and unwavering voice for the marginalized reverberated far beyond the confines of Vatican walls. At the heart of his papacy […]
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
STOP BOMBING 🗣️ END THE SIEGE 🗣️ LET AID IN 🗣️ Children are starving to death! People are struggling to buy food in the blackmarket! STOP THE KILLING!
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you’re looking to read more Palestinian literature and include more Palestinian writers in your reading list, make sure you read Child of a Stolen Homeland. It’s a book of poetry written in honour of Indigenous Palestinian and wider native culture, life and history.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/04/2025
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A highly refreshing and intelligent take on #garcia and the #ms13 deportations to #elsalvador BY A MOTHER WHO LOST HER SON to MS-13: readtangle.com/otherposts/i...
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I Lost My Son to MS-13. I Still Oppose Trump’s Deportations.
By Rebekah Spicuglia On July 28, 2015, my 17-year-old son Oscar was walking through newly claimed MS-13 territory in a residential area of his hometown in Santa Maria, CA. Oscar was surrounded, attac...
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#MAGA is demonstrable evidence that #democracy can not be “1 person, 1 vote” but must be layered to reflect the median #intelligence level of society, either through IQ testing or academic degree level, and so forth.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“None of this is free. It costs money.” Today is Zeteo’s first birthday - a year since we officially launched! - and I make the case for why you should all become paid subscribers and support independent media. To subscribe: Zeteo.com/subscribe
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🤍🕌🕋🌙 Eid Mubarak for all Humankind!
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Wishing all a very blessed and prosperous Nawruz 🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯🇦🇿
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞
Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Bombing families in the middle of the night during Ramadan is a different type of evil.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Dear UNITY! Collective, 🤍💐 Celebrate birthday of Imām Hassan ع grandson of the Prophet ص and 5th righteous Caliph according to Ahl as-Sunnah, and 2nd Shi’a Imām. 🧠📗 Read more about famous, and lonely, history of Imām Hassan ع here: al-islam.org/person/imam-...
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Imam al-Hasan
Imam al-Ḥasan ibn Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (الحسن ابن علي ابن أبي طالب‎‎, 624–670 CE), commonly known as Hasan or Hassan, is the eldest son of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and of Ali, and the older brother to...
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Free Mahmoud Khalil
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 12/03/2025
The Trump Administration’s treatment of Mahmoud Khalil is inhumane and unconstitutional. Today, I was proud to join NYS Assemblymember Valdez, NYC Council Member Avilés, and 27 city, state, and federal officials to call for his immediate release.
Dear Secretary Noem,

On behalf of our communities, we urge you to immediately release Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia graduate student and lawful permanent U.S. resident, and return him to his home and family in New York City.

On the night of Saturday, March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and taken from his Columbia University apartment by DHS agents to an undisclosed location. In a statement on X, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the administration would be detaining Khalil, a green card holder, in connection to his alleged participation in pro-Palestinian protests. Khalil has been denied his Constitutional right to due process, and is being held without legal justification or evidence that he has violated any laws.The treatment of Mahmoud Khalil by the Department of Homeland Security is not only inhumane, it is a blatant violation of his legal rights. He has been separated illegally from his pregnant wife, who is a United States citizen, and detained without due process thousands of miles from home. We see these actions by the Trump administration for what they are—a flagrantly unconstitutional attempt to suppress free speech and incite fear.

The administration's pattern of targeting the rights of students and immigrants to speak against injustice undermines democracy and makes everyone less safe. We're writing to urge his immediate release back to his family in New York City. We also call on the administration to remove ICE and DHS from our campuses. Finally, we urge Columbia University to cease any and all cooperation with immigration officials who violate our sanctuary city protections and put their students at risk.SignaturesSignatures
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
As we work to free Mahmoud Khalil, never forget that Gaza is without food, medicine or electricity. He was protesting the genocide of our people, a genocide Israel is continuing through starvation and strikes. Eyes still on Palestine.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinians student at Columbia. He was abducted from NYC to LOUISIANA and incarcerated by DHS and ICE because of his protest against genocide. He will need to literally fight the Trump administration so he needs help with his legal fees. chuffed.org/project/just...
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Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Entrance of the Blue Mosque in Isfahan, Iran 🇮🇷
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Natalie Kraneiß @kranatalie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My article on the library of the Sufi brotherhood al-Nāṣiriyya in Tamgrūt, a small village in the far south of Morocco, has finally been published. Founded in the 17th century, with more than 4,700 manuscripts still in place, it is a fascinating institution. Take a look! dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878...
Map of the Wādī Darʿa from 1879, with Tamgrūt at the bottom, made by French colonial officer Henry de Castries.The Building of Zāwiya Nāṣiriyya in Tamgrūt in 2021. Photo: Natalie Kraneiß
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 06/03/2025
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
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Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#California sale to #Denmark! #LFG☀️🏖️➡️🇩🇰🧀
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It’s seems like such a small thing to have just a few Spanish words displayed prominently on product packaging but in the current political environment it’s not.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When Never Again doesn't apply to everyone, it is merely fuel for racism, tribalism, and genocide.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The sudden flow of aid into Gaza proves that Israel was starving Gaza intentionally, and punitively preventing humanitarian relief. That is a war crime. www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-ea...
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UN reports arrival of 1st trucks carrying Gaza aid after cease-fire
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Sunday after a truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect, the United Nations said. 'First trucks of...
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Study your Derrida! In philosophy, there can be no reconstruction without deconstruction.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
'We won't give in to despair, and we will stay here': Palestinians choose to live in caves to defend their land against Israeli settlers. "Even if they destroy everything above ground, I'll live under it." www.newarab.com/features/pal...
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Palestinians choose to live in caves over leaving their land
Palestinians are resorting to living in caves instead of leaving their land to settlers, defying Israel's attempts to force them off the land of their ancestors
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“Israel considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Trump’s inauguration” — as if Israel wasn’t already almost completely restricting aid to Gaza with catastrophic results without Trump www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/m...
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Israel considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Trump’s inauguration | CNN
Israel is considering limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza after Donald Trump comes into office later this month in a bid to deprive Hamas of resources, according to an Israeli official familiar with the...
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 06/01/2025
holy shit we made it? we made it! yalla @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social let's go make videogame history launchgood.com/1948
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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy rationalist New Year 2025!
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
One year ago Palestinian pastor Rev Munther Isaac preached his “Christ in the Rubble” sermon from Bethlehem. 12 months of further destruction, death, hunger, and misery have shown that his words were no exaggeration (as some claimed at the time), but were true & even prophetic. Full transcript here👇
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Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament
Editor’s note: Below is a replay of the earlier livestream of “Christ in the Rubble” led by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac with the transcript of the talk provided directly below. We have requested copies of…
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#icymi #syria
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Zareena Grewal @zareenagrewal.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Been losing sleep over this vote because of he timing during finals but happy to report Yalies turned out in record numbers to demand Yale disclose and divest from Israel! #booksnotbombs yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/12...
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Yale students overwhelmingly pass divestment referendum
In a referendum administered by the Yale College Council, a sweeping majority of students voted for Yale to disclose its investments in military weapons manufacturers, divest from said manufacturers a...
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Prelapsarian Musing @prelapsarianmusing.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It’s certainly a good day whenever a ruthless dictator and a brutal regime fall. However, the jury is out on what Syria’s future will look like with the rebels in control. The lesson from Iraq is that a power vacuum will usher in violence and suffering for Syrians in the aftermath. 🙏🤞☮️
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Seeking Sakinah @seekingsakinah.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
For new Muslims, especially those in the US, there can be a lot of confusion regarding matters of fiqh. In an international jamaat at the masjid, one will notice differences in how the prayer is performed. It is therefore important to understand, appreciate, and acknowledge the validity of each.
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Seeking Sakinah @seekingsakinah.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A story that needs to be told. Over and over. "Dreams on a Pillow," a pseudo-3D video game experience about 1948 Nakba, needs our support to move from pre-production to production.
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fortunately, we’ve been blessed to create an academic platform outside Academia.
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Yes I am talking to you, US Americans 🇺🇸🚑 Rather than shameless keyboard laughing at CEOs that get revenged: Why aren’t you citizens grounding healthcare cooperatives and providing a constructive resolution to the healthcare crisis? Everyone: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_...
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Health insurance cooperative - Wikipedia
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UNITY! Hawza Academy. @unityhawza.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Recommend!
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