Maryam Amir – Nasheeds for children
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The speaker discusses the use of police brutality in the United States, including the use of white supremacists to shoot black people and the termination of black men from Central America. The speaker also talks about the use of deadly weapons in the past, including the CIA and Israel's actions in Afghanistan. The speaker concludes that the current state of affairs is a total collapse, with white supremacy leading to a white-abouted culture and a "slivery of history".
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I've seen a few pro Palestinian creators make
videos on why Trump is better for Palestine
because there was no genocide under his
regime. They'd like to invite you to take
a step back to what did happen. There
were a number of black men and women
who were shot, who were murdered by police
under his administration. His response to the death
of George Floyd was to send out the
National Guard. When asked why so many black
Americans were the victims of police brutality, Trump
said that white people are shot by cops
more than black people. When this white supremacist
was in power, he separated
children from Central America who sought political asylum
with their families and put them in cages.
Trump had no system for documenting
which babies were with which families. Children died
in those cages. And until today, in 2024,
there are over a 1000 children who have
not been reunited with their families. Israel trains
American cops. Our system of police brutality,
Israel exports weapons to Congo and to Sudan.
The CIA and Israel made Honduras a spot
in the 19 seventies where when there was
an uprising, the poor people's uprising, because no
one had food, government alongside the CIA and
Israel were purchasing weapons and making it a
stronghold in Central America. In the seventies, Nicaragua
purchased
98%
of its military equipment from Israel. Israel sterilized
woman from Ethiopia. Every single one of our
liberations are intertwined, which is why when we
look towards a white passing Arab woman, and
she employs the same tactics that white supremacists
do to infantilize a black woman who did
not even need to give her the time
of space or day, whether or not the
intention
was to be racist
and whether or not
this sudden
fissure between
our movements
is manufactured,
the message it sends is like the white
supremacists,
black lives do not matter. Seeing a woman
who wasn't supportive
of children who are being slaughtered in Gaza.
I'm seeing a woman who is tired of
the support of her people's oppression
being conditional.
When I saw an Arab creator speak on
how black and Latino individuals,
I'm hearing an Arab creator who does not
understand the systems of oppression in the United
States, and Islam is an explicitly anti racist
religion. The Quran teaches us that when Satan
refused to bow down to Adam when god
commanded him, he said it was because god
created him to be better out of fire
than Adam out of clay. The prophet Muhammad,
peace be upon him, explicitly taught to antaracism.
And when 2 of his companions, Abuzar and
Bilal, god be pleased with both of them,
were speaking to one another. Abuzar said to
him one time when he was angry, you
son of a black woman. With being the
son of a black woman, that is beautiful.
But the way that he said it, the
framework he said it in offended Bilal. It
hurt him deeply. So he went to prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him. And the prophet
peace be upon him told Abu Lahr, you
still have some ignorance in you. For those
of you who are not Muslim, jahiliyah, ignorance
holds a very debased description. So Abu Lahr,
an immense remorse,
went to Bilal, put his face on the
floor, and told Bilal to step on his
face
because he wanted to be accountable.
He was asking for forgiveness. There's a reason
that in the Quran,
god calls us to be witnesses
for justice even if it's against our own
selves. This is a mural in Gaza
on George Floyd. This is a mural in
the West Bank. Do you see the apartheid
wall where Palestinians are only allowed to be
on a certain side of it? Leaders of
the black liberation move, Malcolm x met
with leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Movement. Our
liberation
has been intertwined.