Ahmed Anwar Allawati

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[Ahmed Anwar Allawati @Ahmed_Anwar]

@NishiiTerumi ででょうね！

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This sounds completely unreal but I double checked and it's true: the Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday due to a Hindu sect that demanded that all women "make themselves invisible" so their 93-year-old guru wouldn't have to see them.

The sect in question is BAPS - "Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha," which roughly translates to "the organization of Swaminarayan followers who believe in Akshar Purushottam, based in Bochasan" (a village in Gujarat).

It's a very wealthy organization with deep ties to Modi's BJP (Modi is himself from Gujarat), known for building mega-temples around the world and whose doctrine demands absolute obedience to a living guru as the sole path to God.

It's not their first controversy: in 2021, the FBI raided their massive New Jersey temple after workers - mostly Dalits, India's lowest caste (the so-called "untouchables") - alleged they'd been lured to the US on fake religious visas, had their passports confiscated, and were forced to work 13-hour days for about $1 an hour, confined to a guarded compound (see https://t.co/kTNzdZWtoe).

Long story short, they just opened a new mega-temple in France (the website: https://t.co/4g6HW9bBPy) - specifically in Bussy-Saint-Georges (30km away from Paris) - presented as "the biggest Hindu temple built in continental Europe in a traditional style" (https://t.co/exbFjzLe2k).

Their guru was there for the inauguration and, as you do, wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower while in France. But, thing is, his doctrine dictates that women must not be in his presence.

And here is where it gets unreal: when his entourage requested a private visit, the Eiffel Tower's management actually agreed to the terms and ordered all female employees - including subcontractors - to hide (https://t.co/Sm7yb5LMFq).

This was on Saturday and, France being France (in a good way), on Monday the women who'd been told to make themselves invisible made themselves very, very visible: the staff went on strike and shut down the Eiffel Tower.

So there you have it, unreal but true: the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the French Republic, is closed because a 93-year-old Hindu guru refuses to be in the presence of women.

(picture below the picture of their guru on his visit, taken from https://t.co/4FRKezWJvq)

[Josh Olson @joshuarolson]

In case you're wondering - no, Hassan is not worse than Steve Bannon or Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk. The reason they're all afraid to have him on is that the instant he opens his mouth, their base will know everything they've been saying about him is a lie.

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Brandon 🇵🇸 @Brandons__1]

Does anyone actually believe that Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, Hasan Piker & Mark Ruffalo....

Are the BAD GUYS and Israel are the good guys 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Cetra ☫ @313_Luvr]

Mum: Don’t get political during the sleepover

5 minutes in:

[Noah @antibearthesis]

How boomers feel after they:

- Bought a house for $12k
- Sold it 30 years later for $2 million
- Got hired without having a college degree
- Retired right before AI takes everyone's job

[Jessica Jung Updates Potomac @viviisms2]

@Jr7Ml على كيففف ابوك؟؟؟؟😭😭😭 كل اللغات تاخذ كلمات من الانقليزي و كل الدول عندها ناس تعرف لغتين او اكثر مو بس العرب انت ما تعرف يمكن لانك ما تعرف ثقافات الدول الشعوب الثانيه بس يلا عوافي

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

If anyone still has doubts about who really has influence over America, read this again.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Funny how Zionists will boycott an artist because they heard someone say Free Palestine at a concert but then turn around and call you antisemitic if you boycott Israel for committing a whole genocide.

[Gary @plzbepatient]

New favorite genre just dropped

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Indigenous people don’t do this.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

*bombs school*: it was an accident
*bombs hospital*: it was an accident
*bombs wedding*: it was an accident
*bombs bridges*: it was an accident
*bombs fishermen*: it was an accident

at some point common sense has to kick in and people realize our government is doing terrorism, on purpose.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

It’s crazy how bombing hospitals was a war crime until Israel did it over and over again. Now it’s barely a news story.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

For people wondering where this is coming from, this is because Abdul Hadi Awang - president of PAS (largest political party in Malaysia by federal seats) - threw a bombshell during a speech at his annual party congress.

He revealed that - back in 2014, around the time of Obama's visit to Malaysia - PAS party leaders were invited at the US embassy and "were informed about the possibility of toppling the government and taking over the administration" and that "the US was prepared to assist the effort"(https://t.co/94bstyTsjZ)

The US is officially denying it 👇

As Otto von Bismarck famously said: "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied" 😉

[Pharmacist Eprox ☪️ 🇪🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @epr0x]

Non-Arabs will never know how funny this tweet is.

[𝗫𝗮𝘃𝗲 🇦🇺 @WonderbreadMMA]

From this point forward we call him Adesanya

Free Palestine 🇵🇸