Israeli strikes on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza have killed two people, including a 15-year-old girl, and injured dozens.
The attacks came a day after an Israeli strike in central Gaza killed three Palestinians police officers travelling in a vehicle.
Two Muslim men pulled an elderly couple and their grandson from a burning house in Leeds last Friday.
You probably didn’t hear about it.
Mohsin Qayyum. 22.
Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal. 20.
Both from Bradford.
They drove past the garden. They saw the fire. They ran straight in.
Sheila Robinson, the grandmother who was trapped inside, posted on social media:
"My family and I will be forever grateful to these young men."
Her granddaughter Kayla wrote:
"Drove past the garden, seen it, and ran straight in and made sure everyone was okay without a second thought."
Everyone got out. The house can be replaced. The family is alive.
Every outlet that covered it called them heroes.
They deserved every word.
But not one headline told you they were Muslim men.
We have seen this before.
Two weeks ago, a teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife in his Manchester classroom.
Maysum Abdullah. 27. Science teacher.
LBC named him a hero. So did the Independent, the Manchester Evening News, the Mirror, the Sun.
He ran towards the blade.
A hero in every paper. A Muslim man in none of them.
This is the pattern.
When a Muslim name appears in a crime, the faith leads the headline.
When a Muslim name appears in a rescue, it vanishes from the page.
Now look at who that erasure clears the path for.
Bradford, the same district these men come from, is now led by Reform as its largest party.
One of their candidates, Daniel Devaney, topped the poll in his ward after writing on Facebook that Muslims were "pure scum" and that he wanted to "blast [them] off the face of the earth."
He was not deselected. He was not suspended. He was elected.
They are loud about our religion when they want to call it a threat.
They are silent when that same religion sends two young men running into a fire.
The book they want to criticise is the same book that commands us to save a life.
"Whoever saves one life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind."
— Qur'an 5:32
Qayyum and Iqbal lived that verse on a Friday in Leeds.
Abdullah lived it in a Manchester classroom.
And the headlines recorded the act, but erased the faith that drove it.
When we are the suspect, our religion is the whole story.
When we are the rescuer, it is not worth a line.
Their names are Maysum Abdullah, Mohsin Qayyum, and Mohammed Yusuf Iqbal.
Muslim men.
Say both.
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I have been wearing the niqab for 8 years, since age of 15 and it has given me dignity, respect, and inner strength.
To the women who removed their niqab and abaya thinking it is liberation: no, it's not.
It is a test of your nafs and how well you respond to Allah's command.
Remember those horrific pictures of Jews liberated from Auschwitz?
This isn't one.
This is a Palestinian man released after 26 months of Israeli "administrative detention." No charge. No trial. No legal rights.
"Never again" sounds noble. It just turns out it was never meant to apply to everyone.
The Israeli government currently holds roughly 3,500 Palestinians under this system, and has issued more than 100,000 such detention orders since 1967.
October 7th wasn't the start of this. It was a reaction to it.
Why don't we hear anything about this?
⚡️Gaza sources:
Moments ago, 5 injured Palestinians, including children, arrived at Nasser hospital after an Israeli bombing targeted a tent sheltering displaced families in the Industrial Area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Imagine if 8,000 Israeli Jews were missing to this day.
We’d get minute-by-minute updates on their status. We’d know the names of all 8,000 of them.
But because they are Palestinian …. mainstream media is totally indifferent …. they have been completely forgotten.
Uzbek Muslim charged for posting video of his child reciting Quran on social media
An Uzbek Muslim father was charged and fined for posting a video of his child reciting the Holy Quran on social media.
“I posted a video of my own child reading the Quran on my Instagram page. It turns out that reading the Quran and spreading religious matters is a crime here (Uzbekistan).
If you come out as an LGBTQ member, it's called democracy.
Beer festivals can happen freely.
But if you read the Quran, it's a crime.
Does this specific code, this specific article, only apply to Muslims and those who read the Quran?
For example, can a person belonging to the Russian nation read the Bible?
Or let's say, does it also affect Jews who read their Torah?
Personally, I have never seen anyone other than a Muslim being tried under this article.”
This Uzbek father was charged for “illegal production, storage, import, or distribution of religious materials.”
You cannot keep blaming your upbringing for your whole life.
You’re an adult now, you’ve got intellect, and you can learn and adapt. You can change things, fix what’s not working, and improve yourself if you actually decide to do it.
The person who performs Fajr has no idea how many calamities, problems, difficulties, and worries he has protected himself from on that day just by praying Fajr.
And the one who misses Fajr has no idea how many blessings, fortune, and goodness he has deprived himself of.
The first step to a beautiful marriage is respect:
Expect less, respect more.
The second is tolerance:
If you tolerate, you will never hate.
The third is appreciation.
Show appreciation, it will strengthen affection.
May Allah reward every student that sacrifices their warm bed to come out in this weather at the time of Tahajjud to learn the Qur'an.. Even though some of them don't learn their work, which doesn't make sense coz why you leaving your bed if. OK nvm. I'm getting carried away.
🚨Footage reveals a mass grave at Nasser Hospital in Gaza containing victims killed by the Israeli army after the hospital was devastated during Israel’s assault.