Update: Facebook has restored it.

Facebook removed Simi Rahman’s post, so this time I’ll post the whole thing by way of an extra archive and a “fuck you” to Facebook.

Here:

Every Muslim humanist is asking themselves a question I first asked myself in September 2001.

How do you tell a radical Muslim from a moderate peace loving one?

And here is my train of thought.

The 9/11 hijackers reminded me of boys I had gone to school with in Dubai in the 80s and 90s. They were the same age, background, and modern enough to have listened to 80s pop and chased girls. Meaning that just like most young people in the Muslim world, we weren’t that … Read the rest