Okay so b/c this popped up (and I love doing Nerd Deep Dives Into The Weeds) — for an overview of why it’s actually problematic and (likely unintentional, but still) racist to argue that white people using “inshallah” is cultural appropriation bsky.app/profile/msen...
The Provost / سيدة الفتنة🧵 Quick Thread! 🧵 Orientalism, Islamophobia, and 'inshallah' -- how language translation today both reflects, and continues to transmit, the anti-Muslim stereotypes inherent to Western imperial logic and colonial domination in the so-called Middle East. 1/12