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@doesntagree
“The political, the economic philosophy of Black Nationalism only means that we have to become involved in a program of re-education to educate our people into the importance of knowing that when you spend your dollar out of the community in which you live, the community in which you spend your money becomes richer and richer; the community out of which you take your money becomes poorer and poorer.”
https://gumroad.com/l/MalcolmX
A Canadian choir sang “ta la al badru alayna” - the song sung to welcome the Prophet (pbuh) in to madina after his own migration, as the first batch of refugees (over 200) arrived into Canada…
On the other hand we have David Cameron :| is allowing in 6…
Credit to channel 4 news
Shaker Aamer, from the US troops to Gitmo
Bound ankle to wrist and left to writhe in agony... his head slammed repeatedly against concrete walls… subjected to cruel psychological games by his captors: Shaker Aamer's suffering began before he even set foot in Cuba. In some of the most painful testimony he has given to The Mail on Sunday, Aamer tells here of the torture meted out to him at his first prison – the US's Bagram air base near Kabul – under the noses of British intelligence officers. And to those who still question whether he is truly innocent – despite the US with all its limitless resources emphatically clearing him – he gives a vivid account of how he came to fall into the hands of America… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3357709/Journey-torture-Aamer-tells-went-working-army-savagely-abused-American-base-noses-British-intelligence-officers.html
Remember when I blindly hated Russel Brand? I fucked up.
“They’re in a better position to judge than I am.”
I think this is how most open minded people who value communication, connection, and are willing to learn from others think.
…Did… Did Russel Brand just explain how to react to being called out on something?
Huh.
Paris and Poppies: Opinions
What happened yesterday was evidently abhorrent and disgusting, the acts of murder that spread over Paris’ starred night was something that caught everyone off-guard. Francois Hollande, the president of France was witnessed to have been attending the football match taking place between France and Germany at the State De France stadium, during which an explosion was heard[1], the game was played out to the end 2-0 to France, following the game when the threat became known fans poured onto the pitch and were subsequently evacuated.
The repercussions of yesterday’s events will be unfathomable and uncountable, firstly for the victims of the attacks and their families, secondly for those migrants currently situated in Europe, the hostility and vilification they have already received is uncanny however following yesterday’s onslaught, the Calais camp was set on fire, thankfully no one was injured according to one report.[2]
However, there is a third demographic that would come under fire that has an ongoing history being abused in such situations- Muslims in general; especially those that proclaim and express their faith openly, the very group that the perpetrators claim to represent. Shaykh Yasir Qadhi rightly listed several problems that would arise as a result of yesterday’s attack[3];
‘1) Increase the resolve of these powers to send even more military might and aid against innocent Muslims around the world 2) Bring about an increase in hate crimes against Muslims in Western lands 3) Increase the paranoia of Islamophobia around the globe 4) Ease the introduction of more and more draconian legislation that unfairly targets Muslims, under the guise of ‘safety from terrorists’ 5) Curb more and more speech and dissent that is technically legal 6) Turn the tide against accepting Muslim refugees from Syria and other war-torn zones …and many, many, many more harms.’
The evidence of islamophobia undeniable- the frequency of the attacks is becoming hard to swallow, to the degree that several organisations are now documenting any hate crimes towards Muslims that do occur.[4] Thankfully legislation has been introduced that gives hate crimes against Muslims their own category in order to establish the extent of the racism in the UK.[5],[6] Considering all of this, the media’s role to create the increasingly inhospitable conditions is evident.
ISIS claimed responsibility for attacks explaining that they were in response to the coalition airstrike campaign. They clarified that France among other countries participating in the bombing would ‘remain at the top of Islamic State’s list of targets’.[7] Yet this begs the question- who’s to blame for ISIS? Is it simply a case of fanatical Muslims that hope for world domination? Surely, such a complex prominent problem cannot be boiled down to something so simple? The unfortunate reality is that those providing information to our government regarding counter-terrorism strategies believe so; as a result the government has spent millions of pounds of the taxpayer’s money creating schemes that will miss their mark due the foundational concepts that they rely on being completely false. The Prevent program was formulated and developed in the face of countless accounts of terrorism experts and academic evidence rebutting the ‘conveyor-belt theory’.[8]
Something that is often heard in the debate of terrorism is that the West’s foreign policy is one of the main factors that has been cited in these situations, the perpetrators almost always cite political reasons rather than religious reasons i.e. Boston bombers, Woolwich attack. Anyone that lives beyond the vacuum of their own lifespan and reads history will understand nothing will ever happen spontaneously on the stage of world affairs. (An important clarification to be made, explaining the causes of something is not the same as justifying it). However, this has been over mentioned and apparently explained away; however recently, both Tony Blair and Barack Obama agree that ISIS exist only because of the Iraq war.[9],[10] The war on terror is often dressed in patriotism, liberal values and poppies, we become blind sighted, condemning others’ acts of violence whilst justifying our own only realise our mistakes several years later, often after many casualties.
With both sides of this conflict considerably at fault, the unfortunate reality is that the victims are often civilians, both directly and indirectly; both non-Muslim and Muslims. As you probably wouldn’t have heard, 43 were killed in suicide bombings in Lebanon on Thursday but there was little to be heard about that. [11]
My condolences are with yesterday’s victims of the terrorism.
My prayers are with those who will have to ‘pay for a crime they did not commit’, tomorrow.
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[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/nov/13/explosion-france-germany-football-paris-video
[2] https://www.rt.com/news/321967-calais-refugee-camp-fire/
[3] https://www.facebook.com/yasir.qadhi/posts/10153446102358300
[4] See DOAM at http://www.doamuslims.org/ and MEND at http://mend.org.uk/
[5]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/anti-muslim-hate-crimes-to-get-own-category-bringing-islamophobia-in-line-with-anti-semitism-a6691811.html
[6] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/13/police-must-record-anti-muslim-hate-crimes
[7] http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-paris-attacks-105251415.html
[8]http://www.claystone.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Claystone-rethinking-radicalisation.pdf
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a01Rg2g2Z8&ab_channel=VICENews
[10] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/25/tony-blair-sorry-iraq-war-mistakes-admits-conflict-role-in-rise-of-isis
[11] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/12/beirut-bombings-kill-at-least-20-lebanon
It is obvious that the maturation of western Muslims has not quite reached the stage where they might answer complex questions as a community, not only because of simplistic thinking amongst many groups but also due to the inability of many to comprehend what it means to be godly in western modernity. But rather than sit by idly, we in the middle must, in the least, initiate the process that leads to the situation where we are able to meaningfully engage with complex solutions that progress the faith and where believers serve as helpers to the cause of God. To begin we must look inwards and ask ourselves: why are we even having this discussion?
Ok people! Big news Jeremy Corbyn managed to reign in a landslide victory of 59.5%, biggest party won in UK history! The next candidate came in at around 20%. I think this Elmo choke slam is an appropriate depiction of exactly what took place. In other much scarier news, Donald Trump has no idea who he is. #JeremyCorbyn #JC
I'll be uploading some info graphs in relation to the refugee crisis... Keep an eye out later today #refugeeswelcome #AylanKurdi
After all that hype, David Cameron's scheme for the refugee crisis boiled down to this: -The UK will take around 20,000 refugees -Orphans are the priority -Some refugees won't arrive until 2020 -May be deported after 5 years or at the age of 18 -No target had been set for this year -The UK will welcome around 12 refugees a day -Many have criticised David Cameron, including the Archbishop, saying that his response isn't good enough not appropriate. Perhaps my previous post was true after all. #syria #uk #refugee #AylanKurdi Source: The Independant
Currently we're all looking for answers about why the gulf countries aren't accepting Syrian refugees especially since the Saudi government has banned families from adopting Syrian children, Fahad al-Shelaimi (a colonel, former UN diplomat and President of the Gulf Security and Peace Forum) has some answers for us, "[the gulf countries]... are too valuable to accept refugees... it would cost too much. In the end, we can't accept people different to us" :| No words #Syria #Refugee #AylanKurdi
you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land…
from “Home” by Warsan Shire (via dreamsister)
Illustration about Native American boys who have to cut off their braids to follow school dress codes.
And black people have the same issue when it comes to finding jobs/careers.
^^^^ yes but it ain’t about us right now
this is actually really important and pardon me for doing the cliche reblogging with a caption thing but i want to talk about braids and just how significant they are
to native people (and of course i can’t talk about every native tribe as there are very specific sects and i only really am coming from the perspective of seneca) hair is extremely important as it represents the walking of the Sacred Path as the physical extension of thought and self, and holy men, women and two-spirits are identified through specific styles of dress and even if not holy, the hair shows what a person has participated in, their feelings, their age, whether they are married or not, whether they are in mourning and their tribe
my grandfather is seneca and he had to remove his braids at a very young age and it was an act of assimilation because his mother knew they had to try to be white in order to proceed and it’s a tool of oppression and humiliation to cut (or force to cut) a native american person’s hair for both religious and cultural preservationist reasons
my mom is half-seneca and her choice for me to not cut my hair until i was 13 and for it to be worn in traditional manner was because of this and when i cut my hair then, i cut it off at the base of my head for also this reason; i was diagnosed with depression and was going through therapy, i wanted my hair and my treatment to signify that i was becoming a new, better person– eventually i started dying my hair but that is for separate reasons of colour symbolism and it’s still an important thing to me
please do not invalidate the struggles of other POC, i understand that this happens and it’s horrific to not be able to wear your natural hair, these are also children whose culture and religion is being stripped away from them and they can’t even participate in something so important within their culture simply because of white patriarchal ideas of masculinity
^^THIS
American Indian children (especially plains ndns) were forced to attend boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their own language and had to cut off their hair and choose a “white” name from the bible. If you refused, the teacher would often ridicule you by ignoring you anytime you attempted to speak or participate in class, to the point of saying offensive, false things about your people to rile you up enough that you gave in and picked a white name so the teacher would let you speak and tell the truth. (This is shown in bury my heart at wounded knee). In fact, it is hard to trace records before the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries bc the govt considered the way native peoples often have several different names that they go by in different context and by different people to be too annoying to record them in a census, another reason they were forced to choose white names.
Being oppressed for your natural hair and the names you choose is a real thing other poc face and it’s wrong and it’s racist, but this specific post is about what it means to American Indians, and for them it was not only racist stereotyping, but forced assimilation and genocide of their cultures.
dude holy shit being ridiculed for not assimilating was the least of your worries in a residential school. i know people who were forced to kneel on sharp rocks in a corner for speaking a single word in their native language
some fun facts abt residential schools:
• people who went to residential schools were abused physically, sexually, verbally, and emotionally. my mushum went through all of these until he turned 18 and was allowed to leave
• boys were not allowed to wear their braids. period. the point of the residential schools was to ‘kill the indian in the child’ and you can google literal before-and-after images of students that the schools would distribute as a source of PRIDE
• the government would experiment on the students, starving them to see how long they could go without food before it seriously affected them. officially, over 6,000 native children died in residential schools. our government admits the number was likely much higher
• residential schools were literally hitler’s source of inspiration for concentration camps during world war II
• where im working right now, there are people in their 30s who were forced to attend residential schools
• the last residential school closed in 1996, one year after i was born, two hours away from where i live, twenty minutes from my family’s reserve
native assimilation has been the goal from the very start
Above is a banner from a Bayern Munich game. Bayern Munich are opening "training camps" for refugees, this will mean supplying refugees with food, enrolling them in German language classes and donating football equipment. What's more, at the club's next home game against FC Augsburg, players will enter holding the hands of one German child and one refugee, to symbolise the nationwide integration that the club hopes to encourage. Borussia Dortmund invited 220 migrants to watch a Europa League match last week. Germany is miles ahead of the UK when it comes to supporting the refugee crisis. #Germany #PremierLeague #AylanKurdi #Syria #refugee
The boy being carried above is in fact the body of a 3 year old Syrian called #AylanKurdi was found washed up on a European shore after having drowned with at least 8 others, including his mother and 5 year old brother. I think this puts the "migrant crisis" right in perspective. This is a humanitarian refugee crisis. David Cameron, in a statement yesterday said the 216 people that the UK had already housed was more than enough and that he'd do more to deal with ISIS instead. Over the same period, Germany has taken in over 10,000 Syrians and Sweden has managed close to 3000. #Syria #MigrantCrisis There are more stark chilling images available, tap the hashtag below. #AylanKurdi I can't really comment this round, I'm already feeling sick to my stomach this early in the morning. Make your own of this one guys. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon.
HELLO PEOPLE It's been a while since I last posted; This is a image from me to let you know I'm back and will be covering all kinds of things again so just keep an eye out, there BIG things on the horizon inshaAllah. Admit it; you watched the above video picture more than once. GOODNIGHT AND OUT #ZainsBack
Read part 1 if you're doing eid today. Read part 2 if you're doing eid tomorrow. Part 1; EID MUBARAK, hope everyone has a great day, try and stay happy. Ramadhan came to an end all too soon. Keep the good momentum going, but more than anything remember that are still in times of difficulty, those that have no choice but to continue fasting (due to lack of food) in our relative times of ease. Make duaa and thank Allah for all. Part 2; Read part 1 tomorrow...
InshaaaAllah!!!
