Brussels was bombed today (March 22) in a series of attacks on a metro stop and the city’s international airport. The attacks on the Belgian capital left 30 people dead and more than 230 injured, according to The Guardian. Middle Eastern terrorist group ISIS is claiming responsibility for the bombings.
Talib Kweli took to Twitter after the news broke to have conversations with users about modern-day terrorism and to dispel the stereotypes that all Muslim people are violent. He says that on American soil, the White supremacist Ku Klux Klan is just as dangerous as ISIS.
“The 1st anti terrorist laws in this country were written cuz of KKK,” Kweli says in a series of posts directed towards a user named Matt Greer. “KKK defines terrorist organization.”
The rapper analyzes history and says that the group was responsible for acts of terrorist dating back to the Civil War, but is still relevant today as evidenced by the recent rally in Anaheim, California and other attacks by White Supremacist groups. Kweli says that the KKK’s influence runs deeper than appearances at a public rally.
“The KKK have infiltrated the FBI,” he says to Greer, who suggests that people should be aware of the official definition of the KKK by the federal government. “FBI participates in killing black leaders. I don’t need their definition.”
In regards to ISIS, Kweli says that terrorism transcends race, creed or religious affiliation and suggests that Christians can be equally capable of terrorism as Muslims. He shares photos of Scripture seemingly advocating for slavery, a chart showing recent killings done by Muslims and non-muslims and a photo of the KKK standing in front of a banner that says “Jesus Saves.” Kweli makes it clear that he is not blasting a specific religion.
“If you read my tweets as anti any religion over the other, your mind is warped by dogma,” he says.
View some of Talib Kweli’s tweets below:
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Man, shut the fuck up with yo racist bullshit.
moment out Egyptian
this guy is OBSESSED with talking about white people. on the daily. you can empower your people without talking about white ppl 200 times a day.. bc if thats the case then bloods are domestic terrorists in black community as well as the crips.
id put a year worth of paychecks betting that He has multiple worldstar accounts and spams that comment section with racism.
you can throw anything in and Talib will take it as a race issue, what the fuck does terrorist attacks in Belgium have to do with FBI killing black leaders? i mean get a life, you got a family, kids, a so called career… why you on twitter 24/7 posting bullshit? matter of fact you are the problem, people like you turn everything into a race issue, aint nobody tryna kill your leaders you stupid corny dumbfuck, get in the lab and make something decent, your last album sucked… youre a musician, not a muhfuckin politician or superhero, you aint Malcolm X, you make people cringe by readin your stupid Immortal Shitnique type theories… stop
I don’t know the bible but if those verses are truly from the bible it IS disgraceful and under-discussed!
So ISIS bombs a mall and an airport, and Talib wants to point out that the KKK are terrorists. Did this fucktard bang his head or some shit? He used to seem so intelligent. The reality is he’s just a “homer”…his team is the best and everybody else are pieces of shit. Intsead of denouncing the violence in the name of his religion he wants to point out other religion’s faults, instead denouncing his community’s ills he wants to blame everyone else…he’s a fuckin moron
strange that its not allowed to speak about the bible if you dont share their opinion. the whole document is full of promoting violance, r@pe and murder and it is racist towards other religions, other races and woman. for those who dont like to read long books (which are the most i guess) i would suggest that you pick any single page out of the blue to find out that the above stated is true. u dont have to read the whole crap to get an idea.
I was the one who was having a twitter argument with Talib earlier.
Let’s get the context here: Talib and some of his followers were attempting to downplay Islamic extremism and it’s ever growing danger in the west (I am NOT meaning North America). The argument quickly shifted from him attempting to bring up “mass shootings” and isolated gun violence to that being a bigger issue in America than Islamic terrorism. Which, I don’t disagree with…I just don’t know who the hell he was directing this at. or who brought it up. That’s when the discussion led into “KKK are a terrorist group” – which today, they are classified as a HATE group, not a domestic terrorist group. Well, that was his deflection, and his 100 tweet rant about conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo and how the KKK has cloaked themselves as supreme leaders and hold power over the US still.
I have no issue with someone discussing gun violence today in America. I don’t mind us addressing mass shootings. But it is NOWHERE NEAR the problem Islam is that has been an issue for CENTURIES. While North America, as of now, is not threatened directly by Islam, us having a lenient stance on Muslims as a whole CAN become our problem like it is for Europe.
I figured this would pop up somewhere on a news site, so I just wanted to give full context if people don’t want scroll through the thousands of links and deflection arguments he created.
glad to hear your side of it. and you shouldnt expect much out of talib bec obv hes great at using the race card for evrything..even the daily murders of black on black violence is somehow white mens fault..not the fact the fathers left, not the fact they ahve no support system..but bc white men lol.. and when you do call them out on their bullshit its always deflective ‘well the white man this..the white man that’
theres 0 accountability within the black community and thats why they will never thrive and always be the race thats lowest on the totem pole
talib is a black power race baiter.
in any case, you’re right. people go on about how ‘but look what christianity did in the past! look at the wbc!’ but conveniently ignore the fact that this dirty muslim shit is happening today, they’re blowing people up not picketing a fucking funeral
And black lives matter foundation fits about the same bill favor one race? Check. Make ridiculous demands of other races to better yours? Check. Take advantage of politics and the economy to enforce your personal agenda of only 30% of this country rather than everyone regardless of how many people are expected to suffer and change there MODERN lives regardless also of what it would do to the entire country not just 1 race? Check check check sounds pretty terroristic to me shut down the government and establishments and threaten people when you dont get exactly what you want for your people pretty selfish ignorant and terroristic if you ask me…
The intelligent Kweli forgot to mention that the arabs enslaved more blacks than the white man.