@AlinejadMasih I lived 27years of my 28years without hijab and when I put on the hijab it was by choice not by force! Your story is true, my story is true but what is not ok is generalizing your story!
Muslims worldwide often face institutional discrimination, socio-economic exclusion, biased immigration policies & unwarranted surveillance & profiling.
This International Day to Combat Islamophobia, let’s re-commit to the equality, human rights & dignity of every person, no matter their faith.
On Friday, 24th October 2025, citizens across Sierra Leone are invited to join a Black Friday Procession in Freetown; a peaceful thousand-man march calling on the Government of Sierra Leone, to act urgently against the deadly Kush epidemic that is destroying the lives of our young people.
This event is non-partisan, peaceful, and civic in nature. It is open to all citizens, youth groups, religious leaders, professionals, artists, and community representatives who believe that Sierra Leone’s young people deserve protection, hope, and a future free from addiction. The march serves as an awakening call for national action and a reminder that the government’s duty to uphold the right to life under international law goes beyond refraining from killing, it includes protecting life through meaningful policies, rehabilitation, and prevention.
Participants are encouraged to wear black attire, symbolizing mourning for the countless lives lost to Kush and solidarity with families affected across the country. The march will also serve as a call for unity, compassion, and national responsibility in addressing what has become a grave public health emergency.
DETAILS FOR THE PROCESSION
Time: 9:00 AM
Route: From Upgun to Cotton Tree
WhatsApp +23272076849 for logistical support and coordination.
#BlackFridayAwakening #SaveOurYouth #KushAwakeningSL #EndKushNow #SaloneX
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Be Kind and do not take away the mercy of Allah from anyone! Someone out there might be struggling to get a relationship with their Creator and Salah is the one thing they’re holding on to. Takes like this makes them despair.
I want to share a heartwrenching piece of History with you.
You may have heard fragments of this before but this is the true story of the Mothers of Modern Gynecology.
It began with Anarcha.
Anarcha Westcott was a Black teenage girl, enslaved in Alabama, who became pregnant. After an excruciating and prolonged labor, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas. These are deep, agonizing tears between the birth canal, bladder, and rectum.
She leaked urine and feces constantly, living in relentless pain, stripped of dignity, isolated by shame, but instead of receiving care or compassion, Anarcha was turned into a subject of experimentation, by a doctor who is now referred to as the Father of Gynecology.
Dr. J. Marion Sims did not see a suffering girl, but a clinical opportunity. His goal wasn’t to heal Anarcha; it was to craft a surgical technique that could relieve white women who were beginning to suffer from similar complications.
Over the course of several years, Sims cut into Anarcha more than 30 times, without anesthesia, without consent, without mercy. He claimed Black people didn’t feel pain like white people and this lie was used to justify her torture.
Each time she cried out, restrained, fainted and conscious, he documented her agony but he never stopped.
When he finally succeeded with Anarcha’s broken body which had provided the "data" he needed, he moved on and used everything he learnt to develop techniques. White women received the perfected surgery, now performed with anesthesia, in sterile settings, with gentleness and care.
Even though Anarcha was discarded and her suffering never acknowledged, she wasn’t alone.
Two other enslaved women, Lucy and Betsey, were also used in Sims’ repeated experiments. Lucy nearly died from infection. Their bodies were turned into test sites.
Sims rose to fame. He founded the first women’s hospital in the United States. Statues were raised in his honor but Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey were erased.
For more than a century, they were left out of the textbooks. Their pain was the foundation of modern gynecology, yet their names were nowhere to be found.
Anarcha was not a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.
She is also the reason countless lives have been saved.
She is the foundation of modern gynecology. And her story is no longer invisible.
#WhatWhitePeopleDid #WWPD
#FaureMustGo#FreeTogo please if you are not seeing more tweets online from the Togolese,it's because their Internet has been cut and that's why those of us from other African countries must go hard for them rt please