 So I was on a family holiday to Wales. This was a couple of years ago, maybe, and we just like got to a service station. And you know, if you've been on a family car journey and you're all like fucking trapped in there. And so like, you know, you explode out the car and you're like, I need to get a coffee. So I went to go get a coffee. I came back and my grandma, who was 78 at the time, on crutches, she's got a bit of a dicky leg, had been racially abused by some lads in a car who started shouting, G had at her and allowed her work by on this, that and the other. Now my grandmother is a Muslim, but she doesn't wear hijab. She doesn't even wear a Hamza the way I do. There are no outward signs of her Muslim-ness at all. So you've got two options, which is either number one, these boorish, thuggish, racist guys in a car had particularly refined halal detectors, or the language that they had to hand, which was one around signifiers of Islam could be applied to anyone who was brown enough and looked South Asian. So once upon a time, what they would have shouted was Paki, despite her not being Pakistani, what they might have shouted would be something like Wog, which was applied to both South Asians and Black people, whereas now the set of the signifier here you have is to do with Islam. So you can see that Islamophobic language is being mobilized and deployed at simply anyone who isn't white. And this isn't just something that you see in terms of street racism. Jean Charles de Menezes was not Muslim, but he was brown enough to die as one. And so I think that when we think about how Islam works as a floating signifier, is that it is remarkably sophisticated as a technology of governance, because it works in terms of security apparatus and constructing threats to the nation state, existential threats to civilization. But it also works absorbing the kind of racialized hierarchies around phenotype that have existed. What's a phenotype? Phenotype is like skin color, hair color, eye color, hair texture, that kind of stuff. It's a genetically inherited trait, right? Yeah, genetically inherited trait. And so we talk about like racial phenotypes, because you know, race is a social construct, I'm not blowing anyone's mind with that, right? So, you know, go check out Ash's old videos from our media. Yeah, no, this is how I started out is by talking about the history of racialization. So Islamophobia is dynamic enough to absorb all those things. If you remember when Lee Rigby was killed, and I think it was Nick Robinson who said that the murderers were of Muslim appearance while they were in Western dress. What was of Muslim appearance about them? And also they were they were Sub-Saharan. They were Nigerian, right? Yeah. So it's like West Africa, it's like the Mecca, you're talking, this is like six, seven, eight thousand miles, a long way, bro. So what he meant was not white. So of Muslim appearance just meant not white, placed in a context of an elevated security threat, which makes you think Muslim. So it obviously has a relationship to racialization. Also, and this is more of a historical tangent, if you want to go back to the scientific racist categories which are developed in the 19th century, there were social Darwinists who talked about homo-Islamicus, Islamic man. Wow. So there was actually a scientific bracket for Muslim. That's so stupid. It's really definitely. Because I mean Islam goes from like Borneo, Indonesia, all the way to West Africa. That's so stupid. Wow. It's half the planet. But so that's why I think that it is racism. And you know, in terms of like, you know, Muslims aren't a race, so Islamophobia can't be racist. Black people aren't a race either. Right? That's also, you know, a product of historical and social forces and they experience racism. I mean, I'll give you a concrete example of this. You gave them as well. I was arrested in 2011. And when I was picked up, this is, you know, I won't send traffic to a right-wing site that talks about it, but it's documented. If you want to look, you know, my former, my mother's name is Aaron Peters. That was her name after she got married. It's not my name. It's not my father's name. I made a name. And so when I was picked up by the police, finally, they got a spotter card, they recognized me at a Scottish eviction. I remember that day. God knows why I went to Scottish eviction after doing something silly, after breaking into a bank of the Weeby bin on a protest. Waving everyone in like Lady Bountiful. So they got me and they were like, what's your name? Who are you? And I eventually gave them my name, which at the time was Aaron Peters, which was my mother's married name. Bastani is my father's name. And they just didn't believe me. They did not believe that my name was Aaron Peters. And the guy who picked me up actually, the arresting officer was an Iranian British guy. And then his colleague was a white British guy. And they just, they honestly didn't believe me for about several hours. And they thought that when they were going to go to my house, it was going to be full of, by the way, this is a cancer terrorism unit, right? Doing Mickey Mouse protest stuff, as you've seen from spy cops time after time, complete misallocation of resources. You know, I'm not, Michael and I differ a lot from the sort of disband the police people on the left in terms of short term demands, very short term demand is getting rid of the TSG and really scaling down cancer terrorism around this stuff. But yeah, you know, they, they racialize, I would, I would, I would advance the vast majority of the people that they arrest as, as Muslims, they're racializing them as Muslims. Because that's how they make sense of, you know, perceived threats. And this thing racialization is a social process is not a biological one. And I think that's the thing that people miss is that we've seen the racialization of Muslims transform since 2001. We're in a strange position where we're not looking at that as a historical artifact, which exists, you know, decades and centuries in the past. This is something that we're living. And I'm sorry, but Twitter, you're just going to have to get on board with that.