Dana Nawzar

We can’t prevent the hateful papers from doing what they are handsomely paid to do but we can respect people like Miqdad Versi and his colleagues at MCB who do endure the pain of representing a silenced vocie, voluntarily. Faith beats money. Love trumps hate.https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1180196334659362818 …

Whenever there is a crisis in Middle East, Iran moves Qassim Soleimani, Qatar moves Aljazeera and Saudi Twitter bots. That is why Iran wins on ground, Qatar wins narrative war and Saudi hashtags are trending worldwide.

Turkey was the first country in post-Ottoman Muslim majority countries where Islamophobia won and became institioonalised by CHP. It lasted over 80 years. Thus, making sure Islamophobia in Turkey is defeated for good is a major battle for all Middle East.

By the way, the trope about conservative women not being educated is expressed in a subtle way. While the issue wasn’t conservative women not gettng education but conservative women being barred from education thanks to CHP’s Turkey.

The head of main Turkish opposition secular CHP makes a rare admission that they were mistaken when they ‘turned hijab into a national priority’ and says they should have focused on making sure women get education. Not an apology & not sincere. But still, worth reflection!https://twitter.com/KararHaber/status/1180046715866488832 …

He has espcaped a war. He has seen the worst. But he has learnt a new language and set a business with a smile. But the lazyass Tommy Robinson fan whose hardest time was when mom gave him chip without potato accuses Muslims for his head going bold & being a useless jobless POS.https://twitter.com/RoznamaLifafa/status/1180111828443111424 …

Evet! Türkiye’deki iktidar’da kibir problemi vardır. O da iktidarda uzun kalmanın bir dezavantajıdır. Ama o kibrin alternatifi CHP’nin becerisizliği değil. CHP ülkeyi yoksul eder, sonrada genel başkan yoksul sıralarında durup ‘ben de sizin gibi açım’ karesini çeker.

Irak’ta bile, dört aydır memurların maaşlarını ödemeyen beceriksiz siyasetçiler bu tür boş eylemleri çok sever! Irak’ın milli geliri Türkiye gibi olsun da siyasetçiler VİP değil uzaya gitsin. Ama CHP anlamaz.

Bu tür polülizm ve ‘ben de sizin gibiyim’ çabaları tabi bütün demokrasilerde vardır. ABD başlan adayları bile ayni şeyi seçim kampanyası sırasında yapar. Ama hiç bir gazeteci, düşünür ya siyasetçi ‘devlet adamı böyle olmalı’ demez!

Evet! Siyasetçi ve devlet adamı havaalanı sıralarında bekleyip foto çeken değil havaalanını inşa eder! Tevazü güzel birşey ama devletin uluslararası mevkini yüceltmek daha da güzel. Ama popülizm her yerde aynı hikaye: boş kareleri çek, yanlış soruları sor.https://twitter.com/ismailsaymaz/status/1180035446564380672 …

Islam is like water. It can be the source of life or lethal based on who is using it. It also changes structures but also takes the shape of its container. This flexibility explains its diversity. Anyone who wants to kills flexibility of Islam or diversity of Muslims is mistaken.

Liberals and conservatives kill this dimension of Islam by their monolithic view of religion. Former in the name of progress and later in the name of presevation. Islam’s power is its perfect balance between expansion and contraction based on need.

The greatest thing about Muslim civilisation has been its diversity. Any revivalist movement that aspires uniformity in faith or ritual won’t go far. Islam isn’t a rigid religion -contrary to what Orientalists claim- its flexibility is an asset and no one should kill it.

Too much noise in Iraq and about Iraq. But Nibras’s sober analysis -sober is an understatement- is all you need to read. And this tweet in the thread tells it all. This is the chaos before order. Whose order? Night not be too difficult to guess.https://twitter.com/ImaraWaTijara/status/1179817455360847872 …

Those who are in hurry for the next moment will lose this one and may never get to the next. And when they get there, they hurry for the next. Life is now. Now is life. Result-oriented is only good on fake CVs but not in life.

That short statement has been my resort in times of despair. Yes, we may never get to see the fruit of what we do. We may never get ‘there’. Never reach the the destination. But all that don’t matter. What I should I do and not what will happen is the right question.