Ever wonder what happens during cochlear implant surgery? 🦻
Here’s a look inside the OR as I walk through some of the key steps of cochlear implantation
🎥 Shared for educational purposes with written patient consent.
A Pakistani federal court decided this week to give custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim man who kidnapped, forcibly converted, raped and married her in August.
Maria Shahbaz’s parents were devastated at the ruling Tuesday, after the two-judge bench of the newly constituted Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) rejected her official birth record and disregarded earlier judicial findings that the marriage was illegal.
The ruling came in an atmosphere of intimidation as 150 male friends and family members of the rapist had arrived to the court to support him.

Justice Karim Khan Agha and Justice Syed Hassan Azhar Rizvi accepted Maria’s statement, which her parents and their attorney say was given under coercion, that she had converted to Islam and married 30-year-old Shehryar Ahmad of her own free will.
“We were hopeful that the court would consider the girl’s official birth document (B-Form) and the sessions court order confirming that the accused had contracted an illegal marriage with a minor,” her parent’s lawyer stated.
He also said the court had failed to consider that the girl had remained in the custody of the suspect for more than six months, increasing the probability of coercion.
“The judges should have taken into account that she was likely to give a statement in the accused’s favor under duress,” he said. “It is deeply disappointing that the court did not provide a safe and conducive environment for recording her testimony.”
The girl’s father said said his neighbor Ahmad had abducted his daughter when she stepped outside their home to go to a nearby shop.
Human rights advocates say such cases follow a recurring pattern in Pakistan, where girls, some as young as 10, are abducted, forcibly converted and sexually abused under the cover of Islamic “marriages.”
Victims are often pressured to record statements favoring their abductors, while courts frequently disregard documentary evidence of age and return the children to their alleged kidnappers as “legal wives.”
In Punjab, Maria’s home state, the legal minimum age of marriage for girls is 16.
At the national level, the Christian Marriage (Amendment) Act 2024 raised the marriageable age to 18 for Christians; however, if Christian girls convert to Islam, they are treated as Muslims under Sharia, which allows marriage at a younger age.
Canada is not Canada anymore. We want Justin Trudeau gone before he lets the rest of these jihadists waltz in and conquer the country.
They are burning effigies of Jews in Montreal.
On October 23, 1983, Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. military personnel, including 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers in a terrorist bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Minutes later, a second suicide bomber killed 58 French paratroopers. That attack remains to this day the single deadliest day for the U.S. Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Now, Israel has eliminated one of the key Hezbollah members behind that attack, Fu’ad Shukr.
Shukr was also responsible for the murder of twelve children in Majdal Shams on Saturday.
This is what justice looks like.
Hezbollah and Hamas’s leadership abuse and exploit civilians for their own gain. The world is a better place without them. We are now one step closer to freeing Gaza from Hamas, Lebanon from Hezbollah, and the Middle East from the tentacles of the Iranian regime.
Kill 26,000 people, execute children and women in Iran, forcibly displace 7 million Syrians, fund and plan the October 7th genocide in Israel, support terrorists in Yemen, Gaza and Iraq, and chant "death to America." Then, die in a helicopter crash, and the UN will stand for a minute of silence—not for your victims, but to mourn you. And then they expect us to trust the UN and ICC?
I just got an email from an Israeli student at @Columbia.
Don't listen to me. Listen to them:
"Dear Shai,
I am writing to you as a concerned Israeli student at Columbia University, along with 133 fellow Israeli students. On April 23rd at 8:00 AM, we addressed a letter to President Shafik, Co-Chair Shipman, and Co-Chair Greenwald, expressing our fears about our safety on campus and the critical need for immediate action. I have attached the letter for your reference. We are reaching out because we believe that our concerns are being neglected by the university administration, and we recognize the significant role that the media is playing in these recent events. We fear further escalation of violence on campus and want to ensure that our voices are heard and that preventive measures are taken to safeguard all students. We believe that increased media attention can help bring about the necessary changes and hold the university accountable for ensuring a safe environment for everyone.
We request that when posting the letter it is done anonymously, as we currently fear for our personal safety."
This is a story about a ray of sunshine. A story about the heroism of a young girl. A story of devotion. This is a story about Amit who served as an on-call paramedic at Kibbutz Be'eri. When terrorists began to infiltrate the kibbutz, Amit took her first aid kit and ran to the clinic to treat the wounded. She corresponded with her family members for hours, she begged for help and hoped that someone would come to save her and the wounded she treated, she did not run away, she did not hide, the terrorists fired an RPG at the clinic, she continued to save lives. For more than seven hours, Amit was locked in the clinic, together with a doctor and a nurse, they tried to treat the wounded who were besieged inside, the kibbutz's security team guarded the outside and fought the terrorists who tried to penetrate inside. The terrorists slowly approached them and wanted to occupy the clinic, but Amit did not give up any wounded, until the last moment. at one in the afternoon the terrorists managed to take control of the clinic, they threw dozens of grenades inside, Amit wrote to her family: "They are back, I don't think we will be able to survive this", and added: "Pray for us, be strong if something happens to me", "Mom I love you, think only good things about me", Her worried sister called, Amit answered and said that the terrorists had murdered everyone and shot her in the legs. She made an artery occlusion on herself and then a shot rang out and the call was cut off. The terrorists returned again and shot her in the head from a very short range and in her stomach. Her body was found two days later, Amit's sun disappeared. The terrorists did not come to her apartment in the kibbutz, and if she had stayed there, she might have stayed alive, but Amit did what she believed in, with infinite dedication, and it cost her her life. It's a story about courage. This is a story about the beautiful face of a Amit, who enlightened so many people around her, and about life, which was most sacred to her.
@dr_nikolaT @TMZ Oh funny 😂 because all Jews have big noses! I get it. Maybe we control all the money too and should probably be gassed in chambers…isn’t it weird you’re so obsessed with hating such a small group. You must have low self esteem dork
Kfir was 9 month-old when abducted from his home by Hamas. He is already 50 days in captivity.
Hamas is refusing to release him as part of the hostage release. They view him as a prized possession...
This is what you support by "Free Palestine 🇵🇸"
.@USC is forcing tenured Prof John Strauss to teach his classes remotely for the rest of the semester after a doctored video circulated that made it seem like he had wished death on all Palestinians. In actuality, Strauss said, “Hamas are murderers. That’s all they are. Every one should be killed, and I hope they all are.” The edited video, which went viral, was posted by vicious anti-Israel activist Tara Alami. To date, the university refused to support Strauss. WATCH the UNedited VIDEO
READ MORE about Tara Alami https://t.co/QkYenA3YD0
https://t.co/HDi7xckXEn
An “Innocent Palestinian civilian” on October 7th proudly tells how he slaughtered three Israeli family members. He describes that one of them begged for his life and was slaughtered, one was slaughtered in the bedroom, and the third in the bathroom.
Video footage shows Hamas, disguised as IDF soldiers, abducting an Arab citizen of Israel, humiliating and assaulting him - as he pleads for his life on October 7th.
It is still unclear if he is alive. We do know one thing, however: both Jews and Arabs are victims of Hamas.