Here’s What Muslim Twitter Has to Say About Ill Muslims
by Selina Bakkar in Culture & Lifestyle on 24th July, 2018
Established in 2014, Ill Muslims founders Rummi Khan and Sadaf Javaid sought to create a space for Muslim creatives in the USA. Their events looked to surface the work of Muslim creatives. A recent video by NOW THIS was deemed problematic by many on Muslim Twitter after it referred to Muslims as ‘Arabs and South Asians’. Many also took issue with the presence of a DJ, music and lack of prayer spaces. Some even noticed that the man in the NOW THIS video was in fact Kanye West…
https://twitter.com/brownaandlovely/status/1021381473507692544
Kanye West also made an appearance in the video.
Oh, today we're hating on #IllMuslims? Sign me up. I've been done with their corny faux-clubbing attempt at being white millennials for years.
— Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) July 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/anotherarabgorl/status/1021265772973305859
https://twitter.com/LebanonDon16/status/1021537077471662080
After further review, the recent hate on #IllMuslims was due to an interview where the co-founders said dumb things.
Not because the idea itself is obnoxious, pseudo-Islamic, and detrimental to our community's spiritual and social health.
Makes sense.
— Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) July 23, 2018
Just heard about #illMuslims and it's not something I would go to but I don't see why people criticizing it without giving solutions. We are all part of one ummah.
Like it or not they are our brothers and sisters. We should advise to make it better for them.
— Aarif 🇵🇸 (@ArifA59521694) July 23, 2018
.@QuilliamOrg #illMuslims More of a reason to showcase that no single voice speaks for all Muslim Americans. Don’t let anyone corner people to tell you otherwise. More diverse voices needed. Privleage isn’t just “white” and my fellow Muslims have issues too. Erasure is real!
— MuhammadFraser-Rahim, Ph.D. (@mfraserrahim) July 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/its_fayhad/status/1021409966077423618
https://twitter.com/LilBubly/status/1020853056290918400
https://twitter.com/adeerxasan/status/1021230127206813698
Sup guys just finished putting my thinning hair into a man bun and sliding into my floral patterned buttoned shirt. Bout to button it all the way to the top, put on my round glasses and step out. Got like 5 Malcom X quotes memorized. Get ready bitches, I’m coming to illmuslims
— Saif (@LowkeySaif0) July 23, 2018
How are you engaging with and giving Black Muslims a platform or space in an area that low key appropriates blackness? You’ve characterized Muslims as Arab and South Asians, I’m sure unintentionally, but you’ve erased entire populations so how will you reconcile and be inclusive?
— Like the Country (@lakeniamarcia) July 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/ruqaiya_h/status/1020975197279662080
https://twitter.com/_leelaw/status/1020814759845822465
https://twitter.com/AnonyMousey/status/1021120441077809152
https://twitter.com/Frank_Sriracha_/status/1021415855144435713
https://twitter.com/yqxif/status/1020894642039029760
This is why organisations like @BlackMuslimPsyc @thelight99 & @MuslimARC are very important.
Social club illMuslims criticised for lack of black Muslims and ‘non-Islamic’ ways by @FaimaBakar https://t.co/tTBZROV4qg
— Habeeb Akande (@Habeeb_Akande) July 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/AminaTheArtist/status/1021074696970883073
I feel like some of us are missing the point that “illmuslims” are promoting and producing an event that is 99% antithetical to Islamic principles and conduct anyway…
You think they care about colour? They don’t even consider the Dīn.
— ould tarique (@Internalstrife) July 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/VocalFriez/status/1021772240654761984
Selina Bakkar
I'm a simply striving to be better and improve in different areas of my life through more self awareness, experiences and learning more about the deen. You'll find me talking about community, connection, planting & growing, seeking the truth in an age of propaganda and misinformation. This year I want to document more to do with food heritage and history so watch this space or reach out. Have a listen to the Amaliah Voices podcast where I talk passionately about Islam, nature, motherhooding and back home. Link in bio peeps. To join the Amaliah Writer Community email me at selina@amaliah.com IG: SelinaBakkar
