🚨 It’s finally here!
We’re proud to release Digital Rights, Silent Voices: bit.ly/DigitalRightsReportMCL
📢 Let’s make tech accountable and equitable for all.

Join us on Instagram LIVE today at 12 PM ET for key takeaways of the report!
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📌 NEW REPORT: Launching TOMORROW!
Muslim Americans have long been the canary in the coal mine of digital repression.
📘 Our report bridges research, advocacy + lived experience to push for change.
#DigitalDissent #CivilLiberties #Islamophobia #DigitalJustice #EquitableTech

TOMORROW AT 12 PM ET:
Join us on IG LIVE as we breakdown MCL's NEW REPORT: Digital Voices, Silenced Rights:
Muslim American Experiences Online.
Don't miss this critical conversation with Sanaa Ansari-Khan and Niala Mohammad!

Digital repression is real.
📲 Muslim organizers, students, and creators are surveilled, shadowbanned, and censored for challenging the status quo.

Our new report uplifts Muslim digital experiences—and calls for an urgent reckoning with how tech is used to silence dissent.

What happens when digital platforms enable Islamophobia, while censoring Muslim voices that speak out against injustice?
Our upcoming report documents how these patterns of algorithmic bias, platform double standards, and state surveillance aren't accidental—they’re systemic.

Coming soon: A new digital rights report spotlighting how Muslim American activists are being surveilled, censored, and silenced online.
#DigitalRights #MuslimVoices #TechEquity #CivilLiberties #Surveillance

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We will connect together over a meal and think about how we can co-create spaces of change and sanctuary as we continue resisting the violence in these tumultuous times. We hope to see you there! Rsvp: bit.ly/CounterpublicCafe

Ramadan is a time for building relationships, community, and solidarity. In a country and world that feels increasingly unsafe for many of our communities, we invite you to join Muslim Counterpublics Lab at our annual iftar.

Join me this Friday, 2/28 @ Red Emma's in Baltimore at 7 PM, for a talk on my book "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror & the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" followed by a discussion w/ Dr. Sam Agarwal on how to abolish the national security state. Rsvp: bit.ly/IUPBookTalk

My new op-ed titled "Trump's Guantanamo plan invokes 'war on terror' to justify inhumane immigration policies," examines the weaponization and deployment of the construct of terrorism to justify the recent iteration of migrant detentions at the base. Read it here: bit.ly/DetentionAtGuantanamo

Our Counterpublic Cafe will include a viewing of the “The First Rainbow Coalition,” a documentary about the coalition spearheaded by Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton that included The Young Lords and the Young Patriots. Register: http://bit.ly/CounterpublicCafe

On Saturday, February 15th, we will be holding our first Counterpublic Cafe of the year, titled "Building Coalitions to Confront State Violence." This cafe will focus on renewing our commitments to each other and our communities to tackle the threat of U.S. state violence.

1) On Friday, February 14th 2025, we will host “A Muslim Kind of Love” - an evening to honor our community’s strength and joy. The event will include food, activities, a raffle, and most importantly, connection. Allies welcome too! Register: http://bit.ly/MuslimKindOfLove

We're excited to kick off our in-person programming in a couple of weeks with two events co-sponsored by Muslim Power Building Project @muslimpowerbuilding. Please join us as we build community and solidarity in the face of unrelenting state violence.

Finally, while this latest transfer brings the Guantanamo population down to 15 men, we must continue to push for the closure of the prison and the base, not just because of the brutal detention of the Muslim men housed there, but because of its use as a site for detaining and abusing migrants.

So the Guantanamo chapter, is far from over, for the men just transferred and the other survivors who have struggled for years and decades.

We are thrilled by the news that 11 Yemeni Guantanamo prisoners have been transferred to Oman, where they can hopefully start to build a new life. With that said, we know from working with survivors, however, that life after Guantanamo is full of trauma and struggles.

Join us in 30 mins at 12 PM EST for a conversation w/ Alka Pradhan, an expert in international law and defense counsel for Ammar Al-Baluchi & our ED, Dr. Maha Hilal on the legacy of Guantanamo and next steps in the fight for accountability and justice. Register: http://bit.ly/InjusticeAtGuantanamo

We will continue to fight for justice in this vein and articulate & demand our rights so loudly & relentlessly so that the state knows we will not settle for anything less.

#FreePalestine🇵🇸 #FreeCongo🇨🇩 #FreeSudan🇸🇩
#InternationalHumanRightsDay #HumanRightsDay2024 #HumanRights

That’s why on human rights day, we also take heed from Black revolutionary Assata Shakur, who reminded us that “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

Today, it is imperative to remember that human rights are not gifts from the state; they are inherent to every individual, existing beyond the boundaries of permission or power. Our struggle for justice is about claiming what is already ours.

We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, Sudan, the Congo & other communities around the world where ongoing genocides have rendered human rights obsolete by those in power, but who have shown us what the courage to defend these rights really looks like.

While we commemorate human rights day, it is not to uplift a system that was slated to benefit the powerful & the privileged from this framework’s conception, but to reassert our position that we will never let states decide who deserves rights or to adjudicate our humanity.

Every year on December 10th, states across the globe commemorate International Human Rights Day. Even though human rights are meant to be applied universally, we know that there are many communities across the globe who have had their rights consistently & systematically denied.