Tatiana Nassour
It’s rare to see someone call out sectarianism clearly without watering it down, and that’s why part of me respected Tatiana speaking on the whole Ayah Charaf situation. Growing up Shia in a predominantly Sunni Muslim suburb no one like me, I dealt with a lot of exclusion and hostility that people love pretending doesn’t exist. Anti Shia rhetoric was loud and barely challenged especially online since as far back as i remember but with recent events conversations are finally changing and people are speaking out. In college I was excluded from my MSA, called a whore and behind my back had a group of men who said I deserved to be SA’d and my hijab is fake by women who don’t even wear hijab. A Shia professor was hated just as much by Sunni students as Zionist students. All by people who knew nothing about me!
But if we’re finally speaking up about sectarianism, the energy can’t disappear depending on who’s doing it. Idk why some people have certain energy for women but not men. It’s hard to take the outrage seriously when someone will publicly call out one person while staying close to people openly known for anti-Shia rhetoric and calling Shias kuffar. When her and her dayane are besties with Shia phobe. And at the point I’m more than positive they know. At that point it stops being about principles and starts being about selective accountability.