Furqan Shaikh
@furqanshaikh.bsky.social
I write about Religion, Philosophy, Politics, History, and Books. Medical Scientist, Aspiring Novelist, Muslim, Liberal, Pro-Palestine.
Thank you, Prime Minister Carney!
I applaud your leadership and Canada’s shining example.
Now let’s do what we can do get the aid-givers in and the warmongers out.
I applaud your leadership and Canada’s shining example.
Now let’s do what we can do get the aid-givers in and the warmongers out.
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Thank you, Prime Minister Carney!
I applaud your leadership and Canada’s shining example.
Now let’s do what we can do get the aid-givers in and the warmongers out.
I applaud your leadership and Canada’s shining example.
Now let’s do what we can do get the aid-givers in and the warmongers out.
Does he think admitting this now will help him sleep at night, rescue his reputation, or save his soul? Sorry, but none of the above.
In a reversal of his statements while working in the Biden administration, former State Department spokesperson Matt Miller now says he believes Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Does he think admitting this now will help him sleep at night, rescue his reputation, or save his soul? Sorry, but none of the above.
Once again, you can see Israel’s influence at the core of American politics.
The demands on Harvard centred on “combating antisemitism,” which is code for suppressing any criticism of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
If Americans don’t see it now, they never will.
The demands on Harvard centred on “combating antisemitism,” which is code for suppressing any criticism of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
If Americans don’t see it now, they never will.
On Friday night, the federal government sent Harvard a five-page fusillade of new demands that would reshape the school’s operations, admissions, hiring, faculty and student life.
It took less than 72 hours for Harvard to say no.
It took less than 72 hours for Harvard to say no.
Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump
The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands. Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Once again, you can see Israel’s influence at the core of American politics.
The demands on Harvard centred on “combating antisemitism,” which is code for suppressing any criticism of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
If Americans don’t see it now, they never will.
The demands on Harvard centred on “combating antisemitism,” which is code for suppressing any criticism of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
If Americans don’t see it now, they never will.
Why is the news still calling him “man mistakenly deported to El Salvador”? Doesn’t he have a name?
April 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Why is the news still calling him “man mistakenly deported to El Salvador”? Doesn’t he have a name?
Reposted by Furqan Shaikh
Israel insisted for twenty years that it wasn’t occupying Gaza.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
March 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Israel insisted for twenty years that it wasn’t occupying Gaza.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
Look who just earned my vote.
April 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Look who just earned my vote.
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The US waited until its target entered a building full of innocent civilians and then bombed the entire building.
Where have we seen that before?
Where have we seen that before?
March 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The US waited until its target entered a building full of innocent civilians and then bombed the entire building.
Where have we seen that before?
Where have we seen that before?
Remember when “Israel doesn’t bomb hospitals” was a thing Israelis said with stubborn pride, even against all evidence to the contrary?
They’re not even pretending at morality anymore.
They’re not even pretending at morality anymore.
Video captured the moment Israeli forces blew up Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and an adjacent medical school over what the military claims was a Hamas presence.
March 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Remember when “Israel doesn’t bomb hospitals” was a thing Israelis said with stubborn pride, even against all evidence to the contrary?
They’re not even pretending at morality anymore.
They’re not even pretending at morality anymore.
50,000 is the number most often quoted as the number of people killed during the Crusader invasion of Jerusalem in 1099 AD.
We still remember that almost a thousand years later.
We still remember that almost a thousand years later.
The number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, has crossed 50,000 as Israel intensifies attacks inside the besieged enclave aje.io/35kgqd
March 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
50,000 is the number most often quoted as the number of people killed during the Crusader invasion of Jerusalem in 1099 AD.
We still remember that almost a thousand years later.
We still remember that almost a thousand years later.
I used to love Holocaust films. “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful” were among my favourite movies. But now I can’t watch them. I see them as propaganda pieces meant to manufacture support for a present-day genocide by evoking sympathy for the victims of a historical one.
March 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I used to love Holocaust films. “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful” were among my favourite movies. But now I can’t watch them. I see them as propaganda pieces meant to manufacture support for a present-day genocide by evoking sympathy for the victims of a historical one.
Reposted by Furqan Shaikh
A Poem for Palestine 🧵
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
March 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
A Poem for Palestine 🧵
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
A Poem for Palestine 🧵
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
March 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
A Poem for Palestine 🧵
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
We sat as one, my child, my wife
In quiet joy, a peaceful life
Then came a sound, a heavy knock
The door swung wide, unasked, unlocked
A family walked in through our door
Set up their camp upon our floor
We stood in shock, unsure, afraid,
Yet kindness bid us let them stay
If you kill 440 people just to avoid a corruption trial, do you really need a corruption trial?
March 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
If you kill 440 people just to avoid a corruption trial, do you really need a corruption trial?
The Democrats’ approval rating is at a historical low.
Democrats, if your philosophy is “Rock bottom is a great foundation on which to build”… well, you’re almost there.
Democrats, if your philosophy is “Rock bottom is a great foundation on which to build”… well, you’re almost there.
March 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The Democrats’ approval rating is at a historical low.
Democrats, if your philosophy is “Rock bottom is a great foundation on which to build”… well, you’re almost there.
Democrats, if your philosophy is “Rock bottom is a great foundation on which to build”… well, you’re almost there.
ISIS burned one person and we rightly called them monsters.
Israel burns tens of thousands of people, mostly children, but if we dare call them monsters we are antisemitic terrorists who must be deported.
Israel burns tens of thousands of people, mostly children, but if we dare call them monsters we are antisemitic terrorists who must be deported.
March 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
ISIS burned one person and we rightly called them monsters.
Israel burns tens of thousands of people, mostly children, but if we dare call them monsters we are antisemitic terrorists who must be deported.
Israel burns tens of thousands of people, mostly children, but if we dare call them monsters we are antisemitic terrorists who must be deported.
Israel broke the ceasefire today. Bombs fell throughout Gaza. Hundreds died in one day. Tens of thousands more will die in the coming months. Millions will be displaced. The US will support the atrocities, and no one in the world will help.
The sense of powerlessness is suffocating.
The sense of powerlessness is suffocating.
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Israel broke the ceasefire today. Bombs fell throughout Gaza. Hundreds died in one day. Tens of thousands more will die in the coming months. Millions will be displaced. The US will support the atrocities, and no one in the world will help.
The sense of powerlessness is suffocating.
The sense of powerlessness is suffocating.
The 49th parallel is becoming the Berlin Wall of our time
March 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The 49th parallel is becoming the Berlin Wall of our time
Israel insisted for twenty years that it wasn’t occupying Gaza.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
March 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Israel insisted for twenty years that it wasn’t occupying Gaza.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
If you can turn off all the electricity, internet, food, water, medicine, and aid getting to a place at will, you’re occupying it.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Unless it’s for Palestinian rights, then you outta here.
March 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Unless it’s for Palestinian rights, then you outta here.
The top brass of government violated the constitution to disappear and deport a Palestinian for exercising his free speech, yet it’s the Zionists we must protect from feeling unsafe. We really are in the upside-down.
“Nobody can protect you. These are dangerous times.” Protests against the war in Gaza have forced Columbia University into a high-stakes balancing act between the demands of free speech and student safety. Following the arrest of a former student last week, the school was pushed from its high wire.
At Columbia, Tension Over Gaza Protests Hits Breaking Point Under Trump
There were protests, arrests, the departure of the school’s president. Then, a new administration arrived in Washington.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The top brass of government violated the constitution to disappear and deport a Palestinian for exercising his free speech, yet it’s the Zionists we must protect from feeling unsafe. We really are in the upside-down.
The United States of 2003 would have started a war to bring freedom and order to the United States of 2025.
March 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The United States of 2003 would have started a war to bring freedom and order to the United States of 2025.
Incredible. “No Other Land,” a documentary made by Palestinians and Israelis, wins the Oscar. For two minutes, 20 million Americans get to listen to some truth and humanity.
March 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Incredible. “No Other Land,” a documentary made by Palestinians and Israelis, wins the Oscar. For two minutes, 20 million Americans get to listen to some truth and humanity.
I feel bad for Nikola Tesla. He didn’t ask to be part of any of this.
March 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I feel bad for Nikola Tesla. He didn’t ask to be part of any of this.
The DSM-5 defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as involving a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with NPD often expect excessive recognition for their actions and may become resentful if they feel unappreciated.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The DSM-5 defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as involving a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with NPD often expect excessive recognition for their actions and may become resentful if they feel unappreciated.