Huthaifa | حذيفة

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Huthaifa | حذيفة

@Shack_Rat

Muslim | Palestinian | American “Allah’s Will always prevails, but most people do not know.” — Qur’an 12:21

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·2d

“Ilhan and several others joined virtually because it was after they stopped letting folks in.” Like, why would you brazenly lie like this?

Ruwa Romman@ruwaromman

@Shack_Rat Ilhan and several others joined virtually because it was after they stopped letting folks in. They were not inside the convention center. If you’re gonna insult me at least be honest.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·2d

Ruwa, I’m not sure why you replied as though nobody else has access to the internet. Ilhan Omar literally went outside and joined the sit-in in person. And she, like AOC, had the ability to move in and out freely because she’s a sitting member of Congress, not an attendee waiting outside for credentials. But even setting that aside entirely, it still doesn’t change the larger point I was making. You had delegates denied even a symbolic speaking slot for Palestinians at the DNC, sitting outside in protest after being shut out, while celebrating virtual solidarity from Democratic politicians who remained fully committed to the very political structure that had just rejected your demands. That was the contradiction. And the fact that you still can’t see how politically humiliating that looked is precisely the reason the movement ended up where it did.

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Ruwa Romman@ruwaromman·2d

@Shack_Rat Ilhan and several others joined virtually because it was after they stopped letting folks in. They were not inside the convention center. If you’re gonna insult me at least be honest.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·2d

When Ruwa Romman and the Uncommitted delegation were denied a speaking slot at the DNC, they staged a sit-in outside the convention center in protest. Then they tweeted out, almost triumphantly, that AOC had “joined” the sit-in through FaceTime. Understand how ridiculous this was: AOC was not in another state. She was not stuck somewhere else. She was *inside* the very building they were protesting outside of. So while Uncommitted delegates sat outside after being denied even a symbolic speaking slot for Palestinians, they were celebrating a FaceTime call from a Democratic congresswoman comfortably sitting inside the convention they supposedly came there to confront. That image alone summarized the trajectory of the movement better than any political analysis ever could. And now to see Ruwa fawning over and thanking the very person who symbolically validated that humiliation, I’m reminded of the words of Al-Mutanabbi: “He who cheapens himself finds disgrace easy to bear. The dead feel no pain from their injuries.”

Ruwa Romman@ruwaromman

Second, on the endorsement itself. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken about this, but in 2024, I met the congresswoman for the first time ever at the DNC. A bunch of us had spent the night outside the center hoping for *most importantly policy concessions* but at least a symbolic gesture of *any* Palestinian speaker. Once my name was out there, we were immediately flooded. For context, as state legislators in Georgia we are part time, don’t have staff outside of one admin who 8 of us share, and anyone we can fundraise to bring on. AOC’s team reached out to me directly to help. I didn’t even know what to ask for. That entire period was beyond overwhelming. When she and I finally met, it was just so she can check in on me. Her team pushed for a Palestinian speaker hard. A week later, her team sent out a fundraising email for us so we can have a little security and more staff support. Again, we didn’t ask. They just helped. I’m not naive. They could’ve used me considering the discourse at the time. They didn’t. They quietly worked to help. That matters especially because they’ll tell you I have been very honest about all the discourse around the genocide. They came to Georgia to talk data centers btw. No rallies. No press. But because of my amazing team and the work they’ve put in, her team made clear an endorsement is on the table, and we were ecstatic.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·3d

This is a good time to remind everyone that, like Ruwa Romman has done and continues to do now, the leadership of the Uncommitted movement, under the guidance of Waleed Shahid, folded the movement right back into Democratic Party containment for $400,000. And naturally, people in Dearborn started asking questions after watching organizers beg the community to crowdfund $50K for billboards and ask speakers to pay their own way to events, only for hundreds of thousands of dollars tied to pro-Harris efforts to suddenly appear around the same leadership circle. People sacrificed time, money, credibility, and relationships believing this was an actual red line over Gaza, not another operation designed to emotionally exhaust the community before funneling it back into loyalty to the same party responsible for enabling the slaughter in the first place. And had it not been for the Abandon Harris movement standing firm and refusing to cede a single inch, Ruwa Romman, Waleed Shahid, and the rest of that duplicitous Uncommitted leadership likely would have succeeded.

الكسندرا ميراي@LexiAIexander

The Democrats are going to recruit every Palestinian-American who is for sale. Palestine is their problem issue that cost them the last election, so now they're making sure that in a couple of years from now they have Palestinian Democrats telling you not to worry about Palestine

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·3d

Pay close attention to what’s happening. A lot of the people branding themselves as the “anti-genocide left” are really just establishment liberal-leftists trying to muddy the waters with strawmen the moment their favorite Democratic politician gets criticized. Liberals said the exact same thing during force-the-vote debates, Gaza protests, and every attempt to pressure Democrats from the left: “Don’t criticize the team because Republicans are worse.” Nobody’s arguing MTG is ideologically better than AOC overall. That’s the strawman. The point is much narrower, and much more embarrassing for Democrats: on certain Israel votes, a Republican with a horrific worldview was willing to cross the line and oppose weapons transfers while self-described progressives voted present, voted no, or hid behind procedural excuses. If your entire response boils down to “but she’s MAGA,” then you’re not actually engaging with the criticism. You’re trying to emotionally short-circuit it. Nobody’s praising MTG because they secretly became right-wing. They’re pointing out that when even someone like MTG can occasionally land to the left of Democrats on a specific issue, it exposes just how morally and politically bankrupt Democratic leadership has become on Palestine.

Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_

Kyle Kulinski: “If you’re talking more positively about Marjorie Taylor Green than AOC, you’ve just lost the plot. AOC votes how you would want her to vote way more often than MTG does. You can give MTG more credit, but then you’re just a fucking useful idiot for MAGA fascists”

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·3d

@KaoticLeftist Were you in a coma when MTG introduced legislation to block weapons transfers to Israel while AOC was still defending Iron Dome funding?

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Jackie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌹@KaoticLeftist·3d

Marjorie Taylor Green would have a worst record on Palestine than Nancy Pelosi if she was a Democrat or even still in Congress. (She quit like a coward) You’re either stupid or a liar if you think she’s actually to the left of an AOC on this issue or any issue in general lmfao .

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·3d

1. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is seriously arguing that MTG is “better” than AOC in some universal sense. This is a strawman these people are deploying to run cover for politicians they’re emotionally invested in. 2. Reducing politics to a spreadsheet of “legislative achievements” is exactly how people excuse politicians who say the right things publicly while protecting the same system in practice. Here’s the actual criticism: AOC endorsed and stood by Biden, then Harris, as Gaza was being destroyed. She got on stage and repeated the fiction that the Biden-Harris administration was “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” while continuing to arm Israel. She also voted to continue weapons transfers under the sanitized label of “defensive aid.” That’s what people are condemning. Not some imaginary argument that MTG is secretly the superior politician.

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Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·4d

Hasan Piker: “If you make an honest assessment of every legislative achievement AOC has done in her career and then compare it to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s track record and you still think Marjorie Taylor Greene is actually better than AOC, you’re genuinely a dumb person”

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·4d

The disingenuousness of this tweet is only amplified by the fact that someone speaking this way has a Palestinian flag in their bio. 1. AOC endorsed Biden while Gaza was being destroyed in real time, and she didn’t meaningfully break with him until the political cost of staying silent had already shifted. By then, Biden was already on his way out and the election dynamics had changed entirely. 2. The Trump campaign’s own research found that persuadable voters were about six times more likely than other battleground-state voters to be motivated by their views on Israel’s war in Gaza. In response, the campaign ramped up its anti-war rhetoric during the final stretch of the election. This tweet from AOC came within that broader political shift. 3. People are not “purity testing” her by pointing this out. They’re recognizing a pattern: delayed criticism, carefully calibrated rhetoric, and symbolic gestures that consistently lagged behind public outrage. That’s why many people stopped seeing her position as principled and started seeing it as reactive. And no amount of gaslighting from self-appointed “allies” will erase the fact that even figures as reprehensible as Alex Jones were publicly calling this a genocide before AOC was willing to. That alone should tell you how far behind the curve she was. At some point, people need to stop treating every overdue statement as courage. Much of what she’s done on Gaza since October 7 has felt less like moral leadership and more like reputation management after the political winds had already shifted.

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liz 🇵🇸@lizatliz·4d

She tweeted this one month before the election, and still ‘Marxists’ are in my mentions saying Dixie Marge ‘outflanked’ her. Not really sure what kind of hair shirt she’s supposed to wear for these ‘leftists’ who love MTG but something tells me the goal posts will move again

one dozen rats at a keyboard@PanasonicDX4500

“apologizing” might be strong but I do think AOC does have to in some way acknowledge that the Biden administration was never serious or honest about working for a ceasefire if she wants to consolidate the Left in 2028

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·4d

Mehdi, no matter how you try to frame this, you’re not going to distract from the fact that, on Gaza, the gap between you and someone like Tucker Carlson is far smaller than you’d probably like to admit. And the irony here is that MTG, despite her long history of anti-Muslim rhetoric and pro-Israel politics, has at times ended up to the left of AOC on Gaza specifically, at least in terms of opposing unconditional military support and escalation. And this is coming from a Muslim Palestinian who actually lived through the post-9/11 Islamophobia that people like Tucker helped normalize, back when you were still trying to build your career by pitching yourself to outlets like the Daily Mail.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan

@MargBarAmerica @AOC Why is AOC being asked to apologize for a single remark at the DNC while MTG doesn’t have to apologize for a long history of anti-Muslim, pro-Israel voting and statements?

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·24 Nis

سخّروا كل وسائل التكنولوجيا التي بأيديهم ليعثروا عليك، فإذا بك بين أهلك وناسك طوال هذا الوقت؛ جائعًا كما جاعوا، ومهجّرًا كما هُجّروا، ومكسور الخاطر كما انكسرت خواطرهم. والله لو أنهم بحثوا عنك في قلوبنا، لوجدوك ساكنًا فيها. ولو دفنوك تحت أعيننا، لبقي قبرك رطبًا من سيل الدموع التي لم تجف عليك، وعلى كل روحٍ رحلت معك. ولو نبشوا قبورنا يومًا واستخرجوا عظامنا، لوجدوها متحجّرة من ندمٍ لا يفارقنا لأننا رضينا بهذا الضعف، ووقفنا عاجزين يوم ناديتمونا مستغيثين. رحمك الله يا حبيبنا، ورحم كل من ماتوا وهم ينتظرون نجدةً لم تأتِ، لأننا كنا في سباتٍ عميق، حتى أيقظتمونا بدمائكم يوم السابع من أكتوبر.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·23 Nis

The photo and video I’m referring to that have been making the rounds on Telegram:

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·23 Nis

Every time Huthaifa Al-Kahlout’s son shares a photo or video of his father, it stays with me. Whether it’s the image of him thin and frail before he was killed, or the video from today showing Abu Obeida and his children displaced on a donkey cart like everyone else around them, something about it lingers long after you see it. And each time, I think back to the testimony Huthaifa’s son shared from one of their neighbors after he saw that most recent frail photo of Abu Obeida, where he said: “I saw him once in the streets of Gaza City during the famine, and I believe this photo was taken after he had begun to regain some of his health, as though life had started to return to his features. That day, I saw him thin and pale-faced, his bones showing through his features, telling the story of long hunger and deprivation. By God, I saw him disheveled and covered in dust, walking through the streets of the city like any man worn down by the road. I greeted my neighbor, Abu Ibrahim, and he returned the greeting before continuing on his way in heavy silence. Then I remembered what is often said: that they are immersed in comfort while their people starve, and that they enjoy the pleasures of life while the rest of the people are deprived of them. But the truth was clearer than all those claims. It was written on his frail, exhausted, weary body: That they starved before the people starved, were deprived before the people were deprived, and were denied before the people were denied. And after I watched his final speech, I felt the sincerity and weight of his words when he said: ‘You will be our opponents before Allah.’ So I said to myself: ‘Woe to a nation whose opponents on the Day of Judgment are men such as these.’” May Allah have mercy on Huthaifa Al-Kahlout and all of our martyrs. May He accept their hunger, their pain, their patience, and every tear they concealed from the world. May Allah expose every oppressor, disgrace every liar, and make truth clear no matter how fiercely they try to bury it. And may He have mercy on us for our inability and our weakness, forgive us for what we failed to do, and not make us among those included in his final condemnation when he said: “You will be our opponents before Allah.”

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·11 Nis

The funny thing about the “where are all the protesters that came out when Biden was president now that Trump is president” talk is that it’s often coming from people who didn’t utter a peep when the large-scale protests against police brutality that surged in 2020 largely faded after Biden-Harris took office, even though police-related killings didn’t disappear and, by several datasets, remained at some of the highest levels on record around 2023. The protests that happened in 2024 haven’t been replicated at the same scale since then largely because Biden-Harris crushed them so aggressively that the people targeted are still facing repercussions to this day, and liberals allowed it to happen because they assumed the Dems would still get another four years. By contrast, the protests that surged in 2020 faded even though the underlying issue persisted, because liberal support for those protests was tied less to police shootings themselves and more to who was in power at the time, something that was already proven when they rallied behind and elected a ticket led by the architect of the 1994 crime bill and a prosecutor who mocked the idea of building more schools and fewer prisons. And now those same people assume everyone else operates the same way. They project their own motivations and methodology onto others, because they can’t imagine that for some people the issue actually mattered more than who was in power.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·11 Nis

I saw this coming a mile away, and by “a mile away,” I mean four years ago.

MLS Moves@MLSMoves

When the 2026 World Cup was announced for the United States back in 2018, I told myself there was no way I’d miss it. I was going to be there in person, experiencing a World Cup on home soil and I know so many of you felt the exact same way. Fast forward to now, and the ticket prices are completely astronomical. Outrageously unaffordable. What was supposed to be the dream of a lifetime has been priced out of reach for regular fans like me. I’m going to miss watching my country host the biggest event in sports… something I may never get to experience again in my lifetime. Yes, they’re going to make money off this massive event on U.S. soil. But the greed has gone too far. It’s ruining the beautiful game and turning it into something only the wealthy can enjoy. A World Cup should be for everyone not just those who can drop thousands without blinking. This is an absolute shame.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·10 Nis

هاي الجملة كل مرة بسمعها بحس قلبي برجف وعيوني بتغرق بالدموع. النبي ﷺ، أعظم الخلق وأقربهم إلى قلوبنا، يُوصَف بثلاث كلمات تختصر معنى سيرته كلها: نبي، مجاهد، وشهيد. كأنها تذكير إن حبه مش بس كلام، بل طريق يُمشى، وتضحية تُعاش، وثبات حتى النهاية. الله يكتب لنا نمشي على خطاه بصدق، في كلامنا وأفعالنا وأخلاقنا، وبكل ما فينا، ويجمعنا فيه يومًا ما، مش بس كمحبّين من بعيد، بل كأتباع حاولوا بقدرهم يقتربوا منه، حتى نكون معه في أعلى درجات الجنة.

Islam Ashraf@mos_lm1911

والصلاة والسلام على نبينا المجاهد الشهيد

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·9 Nis

On the 78th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, and in light of what we're currently witnessing in Lebanon, as well as what has been unfolding in Gaza for nearly three years, the most important point in remembering that infamous massacre is this: in 1948, Deir Yassin chose neutrality. The village even reached a non-aggression understanding with nearby Zionist forces, believing that staying out of the conflict would spare it from violence. It did not; none of that saved them. Zionist militias attacked the village anyway, and the killings that followed were particularly brutal. Eyewitness accounts describe violence that shocked even observers at the time, and news of the massacre spread quickly, instilling fear in surrounding villages and contributing to wider displacement. In the Qur’an, Allah addresses the believers: “March forth whether it is easy or difficult for you, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the cause of Allah. That is best for you, if only you knew.” — Qur’an 9:41 The verse stands as both a rejection of passivity, as well as a call to act even when sacrifice is required, even when circumstances are unfavorable, and even when the outcome is uncertain. Faith, in this sense, isn't defined by conviction in comfortable moments, but by the willingness to move when standing still feels easier. Seventy-eight years later, the violence hasn't stopped, and neither has the belief that neutrality with regard to Israel is possible. Nor has the familiar, duplicitous “both-sides” language disappeared, the kind that attempts to equate the actions of an aggressor with the responses of those on the receiving end of that aggression. Deir Yassin exposes the flaw in that thinking, because neutrality assumes distance from violence; it assumes that if you don't take a side, you'll be spared. But when force is already being exercised, neutrality doesn't remove you from the equation; it simply leaves you unprepared when violence reaches you anyway. Life, in this sense, is like a moving walkway carrying you in a very specific direction. Some choose to stand still until it ends. Others choose to walk, moving ahead because they refuse to sit idly by and let events unfold around them. Only the deluded try to walk in the opposite direction, thinking they'll somehow escape where the walkway is headed. Neutrality, when it comes to Israel, is a myth. It's not a shield, and it's not a middle ground. Deir Yassin stands as a stark reminder that remaining still doesn't guarantee safety, because in the end, whether they chose to fight or remain neutral, the villagers of Deir Yassin faced the same violence. But there's a difference between meeting that violence with resistance and meeting it helplessly. There's a difference between dying while defending your sanctities and dying without having defended them at all. We ask Allah to protect the innocent, to expose falsehood, to unite the hearts of the believers, and to make us among those who act when action is required, not those who retreat into comfort and excuses. We ask Allah to accept the martyrs, heal the wounded, relieve the afflicted, and grant us sincerity, courage, and steadfastness when truth demands sacrifice.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·9 Nis

Alhamdulillah for the good news that Al-Aqsa will be reopened today, insha’Allah. But moments like this should also make us reflect on which Muslim institutions, especially those that present themselves as defenders of the Islamic tradition, remained silent during the closure of the third-holiest site in Islam. There are pretenders masquerading as defenders.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·7 Nis

You keep pointing fingers as if the party you urged everyone to vote for in 2024 didn’t help set the stage for the mess the world finds itself in right now, and as if the “vote blue no matter who” mindset you promote didn’t produce the kind of useless, impotent Democratic politicians who respond to the prospect of nuclear catastrophe with little more than tweets. Before you look for someone else to blame, hold up a mirror. Start there, and try a little accountability.

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Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·7 Nis

This 2024 election take on Trump didn’t age so well 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·7 Nis

@sohaib_2009 جزاك الله خيرًا. كلماتك تُعيد توجيه البوصلة نحو وحدة الصف، ووضوح الموقف، والعمل بما يرضي الله بعيدًا عن الجدل العقيم. نسأل الله أن يجعلنا من أهل البصيرة والثبات.

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صهيب الكحلوت l غزة@sohaib_2009·7 Nis

عقيدتنا عقيدة أهل السنة والجماعة، ومن مقتضياتها الولاء لله ولرسوله وللمؤمنين، والبراء من أهل الكفر والشرك من اليهود والنصارى وأعوانهم، ومن أثرها العملي رفع لواء الجـ.ـ.ـ.ـهـ.اد في سبيل الله حين تنتهك حرمات المسلمين، وتسلب قراراتهم ومقدراتهم، وتهان وتدنس مقدساتهم، فإن الذي شرف مكة، قال: "سبحان الذي أسرى بعبده من المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقصى"، وإن الذي فرض الصلاة والصيام والحج، فرض الجـ.ـ.ـ.ـهـ.اد..! فقوموا للعمل، ودعوا عنكم التنازع والجدل، ولا تنساقوا خلف شعارات فارغة من الأثر، فعدوُّ الأمة يعمل عدد أنفاسكم ليستهدف دينكم وأرضكم، ومن وسائله بث الفرقة والتنازع بينكم. فلنقُم كلنا، فالفرصة سانحة، وليختر كل منا صفه، إما تحت راية الأمة الواحدة، أو في صف المغضوب عليهم والضالين.

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Huthaifa | حذيفة@Shack_Rat·7 Nis

If Democrats had actually pushed back on the Biden–Harris administration’s blank-check support for the genocide in Gaza, like we’re now seeing from the likes of Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Alex freaking Jones in response to Trump’s genocidal tweet today, instead of tacitly or openly lining up behind it and censuring the one person in their party who dared to speak out, none of what’s happening now would be happening.

kev joon@never_oppressed

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

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