You'll never know how strong you are until strength is your only option."
From the heart of Gaza, these words become more true than ever. I am Bilal Abed Rabou, and I stand before you as a survivor of five wars, an academic student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer from the besieged Gaza Strip. I witnessed the devastating effects of these conditions firsthand
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"You'll never know how strong you are until strength is your only option."
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We were a family, living in peace, love and warmth. But everything changed when conflict and despair swept through our lives. Living in Gaza means confronting ongoing conflict, struggling against poverty and the lack of basic necessities to live. Life is very difficult, and even the simplest tasks seem impossible. Yet, despite all the chaos and pain, we remained grounded by the warmth of our love and the strength of our spirits.
Even six months ago, everything changed. Our once home turned into a mess and everything we cherished. Since then, we have been lost, clinging to a world of uncertainty and despair. We left our badly damaged home with only a few things. Since then, our lives have been threatened
with every passing minute.
But now, there is no longer a reason to stay in this place full of suffering, where we are deprived of even the most basic and important rights, education, security and peace.
Our hearts hurt because of all this injustice. We were willing to endure anything to keep our family together and provide comfort and care for our father in his time of need.
With each passing day, our despair grows and our burdens grow heavier. We need your help to break the cycle of suffering, rebuild our shattered dreams, pave the way to a better future, and reunite with our family. Your support is not just a lifeline; Rather, it is a beacon of hope in our darkest moments.
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"You'll never know how strong you are until strength is your only option."
… Mohammed Asfour needs your support for Help me to complete my
Feel free to use this the next time you’re watching something. This is just for fun and since there’s not much to relate from it’s hard for this to be completely accurate but I tried my best lol. I’m going off what has already aired and what I know will air. When there are more series out, I will update and make more !!!! <3
reminder that visibly religious people belong at pride. that person wearing a hijab is not a threat to you. that person wearing tzitzit and a kippah is not a threat to you. someone simply wearing an item that is culturally or religiously important to them is not a threat to you. however, your aggression upon seeing a religious person at pride is a threat to them.
anyway two nice jewish boys who fall in love at yeshiva and start their own independent queer minyan. two hijabi girls praying together after celebrating their one year anniversary at their favorite halal restaurant. a sikh trans girl showing her sikh trans guy friend how to properly wrap his rainbow turban for pride. a nonbinary hindu couple getting henna done for their wedding.
it's so disgusting how prostitution is treated as uwu fun sexy. one time i mentioned to my friend how in late medieval europe many cities had municipal brothels, and she thought it was.....cool? until i was like "yeah, and sometimes the women were not allowed to leave!"
another time i was visiting a roman archeological site along hadrian's wall and there was a tavern, with a tiny side room that prostitutes used to receive clients. the guide treated it lightheartedly, but the reality was that the tavern owner kept one or more slave women who were available to be raped by roman soldiers for a fee. i could not imagine the misery that that room had contained.
but yeah prostitution is somehow sticking it to the puritans or whatever.
I have a similar experience. My school specializes in ancient languages (we study Latin and Ancient Greek) and we traveled to Italy as a school trip. On one day, we went to Pompeii. For context, in Latin, a brothel is called "Lupanarium" from the word "Lupa" - female wolf, which was also used to refer to prostitutes, so it´s, quite literally, a roman equivalent of bitch. Therefore Lupanarium meaning "a place for/of bitches" (the word brothel has a similar etymology behind it, unsurprisingly). After the guide explained that to us, we went inside - it was terrible. It was a tiny hallway filled with these even tinier rooms that looked like cages that possessed no furniture besides a stone bed. Each room had a fresca over it with the imagery of the "service" the woman in the respective room "provided". There were maybe ten of these, it was like walking through a dog shelter where the men could pick what sort of "dog" they wanted. The guide went on to cheerily explain that many of the women were young girls who were sold by their own fathers who needed quick money/were in debt.
I was horrified as I listened to this, I was literally on the verge of tears and I just heard my male classmates laugh and make jokes about it.
I cannot imagine what sort of mental gymnastics people have to go through to think that this is somehow empowering. All I felt was the weight of the despair these women and girls had to go through.
Stop posting about the European Elections. It is so annoying no one cares
if you are european and of voting age, please please please go out (or online if your country offers it!) and vote this weekend! it is ESSENTIAL that we all use our right to vote, and we should make it our duty to do so!
queer rights, women's rights, and immigrants' rights are SEVERELY threatened if a right-wing alliance would be formed within the EU parliament. we cannot and should not stand for this!
if you are of voting age, please go out and vote! bring your mum, your dad, your brother, your sister, your friends, your neighbour! carpool together, get a little treat afterwards!! do it scared, do it angry, do it sad, do it nervous. but by god PLEASE do it!
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