Maryam Amir – Nasheeds for children

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.