Zahra Billoo

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Au revoir Paris. I couldn’t have planned to land in the City of Love as heartbroken as this weekend has made me, and while your croissants and macarons helped, my time here is coming to a close. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CAPAC: Glad to hear @HouseJudiciary will hold a hearing on the rise of white nationalism. Groups like @SAALTweets @MuslimAdvocates @CAI… — PolitiTweet.org

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Lets @LaunchGood via Help Release The Award Winning Documentary The Honest Struggle! https://t.co/MT1BGu16T7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @UpfrontKPFA: Today: “This is a challenging and terrifying trend that we need to stop before it becomes even more violent.” Listen to ou… — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you Assemblymember @DavidChiu. Appreciate your solidarity, now and always. #NewZealand — PolitiTweet.org

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Trying hard at this self-care thing. We need to be well in order to care for others. (@ Ladurée) on #Yelp https://t.co/DoDlsCdjNc — PolitiTweet.org

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This is beautiful, an incredible act of service to honor our martyrs. https://t.co/0HsT02Kxk9 #NewZealand #Christchurch — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Ismahan_M_A: Love to my #Maori family for all the beautiful moving #Haka they have gifted to us all. This brother right here moved us t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @democracynow: 🔊 Listen to today’s show on the #ChristchurchMassacre and Friday’s youth climate strike. https://t.co/hDc4MTOFiT — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RashidaTlaib: I was in my mid-20s when I first heard the name Rachel Corrie. She is uplifted every day that we continue to fight agains… — PolitiTweet.org

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Try as I might, I can’t look away from Mucad. — PolitiTweet.org

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God willing, Mucad is in Heaven now, in the care of the Prophet Ibrahim and his wife Sarah (may God be pleased with them). His parents will be reunited with him in the afterlife. Their pain in this life though, that is the human impact of Islamophobia and white nationalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eventually they got the news. Three year old Mucad joined the ranks of the martyrs. His death breaks the cycle of life as we are programmed to understand it. He will not bury his parents. His parents will bury him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Even one minute of searching sounds unbearable. Even one minute of fearing the worst but hoping for the best would be excruciating. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mucad was initially unaccounted for. His family searched for him at the masjid and then at the Christchurch hospital. I don’t know how long it took before they got the news, but even one minute of not knowing sounds like too much. — PolitiTweet.org

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And their parents? They live for these girls. Everything they do is in order to raise them as good Muslims and give them the best possible in deen and dunya. — PolitiTweet.org

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My nieces are also the light of our eyes. Their grandparents can’t get enough of them, their joy contagious when they see them. Fiasco and I call them all the time in hopes of earning the status as their life-long favorite phoopi. — PolitiTweet.org

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His last few moments consumed with fear and confusion in the commotion. — PolitiTweet.org

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I cannot begin to imagine his horror. He’d likely never seen or heard a gun before, let alone an assault rifle inside his beloved masjid. Did the sight of blood terrify him further? He likely frantically searched for his dad and brother. — PolitiTweet.org

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Try as I might, I can’t look away from Mucad. — PolitiTweet.org

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My nieces are old enough to be scared. They are shy in front of strangers and jump at loud sounds. They instinctively cling to their parents when they are sad, mad, or scared. — PolitiTweet.org

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On Friday though, Mucad went to the masjid for the last time. As he accompanied his father and brother to Jummah, a white nationalist, Islamophobic terrorist barged into the masjid, opening fire. His father was shot, his brother fled, and Mucad was lost in the panic that ensued. — PolitiTweet.org

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The masjid is where adults go to pray and kids go to play. — PolitiTweet.org

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My nieces go to the masjid every so often with my brother. When I spoke to them last week, we briefly mentioned the masjid. It’s where Baba goes. They, like me, will InshaAllah love the masjid from a very young age. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mucad went to the masjid for Jummah prayer with his brother and father. Too young to pray, he may have been sitting with them as they prayed. Maybe he made some noise. Maybe he climbed on top of them. Maybe he found other kids to play with. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have nieces this age. It’s a beautiful, joyous age. They’re more and more coherent in their rambling speech and their independent ideas and personalities are beginning to emerge. — PolitiTweet.org

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Please don’t look away. — PolitiTweet.org

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This beautiful child, this is Mucad Ibrahim. He was three years old. He is the youngest victim of the white nationalist, Islamophobic terror attacks in #NewZealand on Friday. https://t.co/EOvSbPkZzl — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SanaSaeed: Powerful, cathartic and pounds-in-your-heart haka dance honoring the 50 Muslims killed in the #ChristChurchMassacre https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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#Christchurch mosque shootings: Al Noor Mosque imam speaks for the first time, via @nzherald https://t.co/QAO2Zxl4DU #NewZealandMosqueAttack — PolitiTweet.org