Komal

I'm only here to avoid people on Facebook.

[Komal @ShakilKomal]

😭

[Yara Al-sharif @sub_allah]

A heartbreaking scene of a Palestinian child waiting for his mother to get up from bed, not knowing that she has passed away 💔

[John Cusack @johncusack]

If this doesn’t make you angry and ashamed - your a sick human being - every member of congress that supports this must go

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Every Single Child

[adiba @780613]

england may owe that sickly looking victorian boy their life

[Praise @tufpraise]

If a monkey or a penguin had done this, the internet would be overflowing with feelings of pity...

[⋆⁺₊⋆ jessica ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ 🍉 @ItsMrsRabbitToU]

Well now. Isn’t this interesting. So much for the patriarchy.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later.

I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it.

His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics."

The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages.

Here is the story almost nobody tells you.

He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it.

Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years.

Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science.

Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I

Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment."

That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance.

The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation.

He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes.

The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics.

The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught.

Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework.

Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham.

The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him.

He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

[AMANI @AmaniUniverse]

The entire international community must sound the alarm on this.

[MEHMET VEFA DAG -Cape Town Mayor Candidate @AFRICANDEMOC]

WORTH EXPOSING:
Her name is Limor Son-Har Melech, the Israeli MP who drafted the death penalty law targeting Palestinians.

Let’s grant her, her wish and make her more “famous!” Darkness deserves light exposure!

According to the MP, Israeli Jews do not commit acts of terrorism.

Limor Son-Har Melec, who wrote the death penalty law exclusively for Palestinians, defended Israeli terrorist Amiram Ben-Uliel, calling him a "holy man," for burning alive a Palestinian baby and his parents while they slept in their home in the occupied West Bank, while his accomplices chanted "Ali is on the grill."

Europeans fail to realize the extent of the hatred and genocidal mania present in some sectors of Israeli society.

Under the new death penalty law, Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuthi could be hanged, but not settlers who kill a Palestinian girl.
By John Edward

[Salyha 🇵🇸 @salyhaiftikhar]

Both the Gal Gadot and Dal Gadot can go to hell

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN. We must do everything possible to make sure this does not happen.

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

🚨Urgent | Immediate execution order for Palestinian hostages

Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya and thousands of Palestinian hostages including women and children are on an approved list for immediate execution.

Silence is not an option! Act now to save Palestinian hostages.

[ara🏁 @albonosainz]

completely speechless. they’re planning to kiII 9,000 people. nine thousand. innocent civilians. and they announced it publicly, no shame, with nobody in this world able to do anything about it. nine thousand lives

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Genocidal, apartheid psychopaths.
Supported, armed and cheered on by the West. Utterly shameful. The Hague will be busy…….. If we have an ounce of moral backbone.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

When the Knesset yesterday, passed the law approving the death penalty for Palestinians ONLY, they popped champagne bottles in the chamber as they applauded. You read that correctly.

Not your problem?
It’s complicated?
STILL SILENT?

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

People need to understand that Israeli officials wearing noose pins & popping champagne to celebrate the systematic extermination of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli torture camps is functionally no different from nazis gloating about their gas chambers.

Evil incarnate.

[mirza !! ⚢ مرزا @balochzandik]

Hey guys, instead of arguing over videogame translations maybe we can talk about how Israel is planning to murder over 9k innocent Palestinian prisoners TOMORROW??????

9k. 9000. Nine thousand. That's so many people. It's happening TOMORROW. Guys PLEASE

[Komal @ShakilKomal]

Still remember being mesmerised when I saw it at the cinema…….lives were changed

[𖤐 @MileyIsInspired]

when miley took off the hannah wig and started singing the best song ever made

[cosmic cowgirl 🪩🤠 @blockhim2026]

They each keep looking back to make sure the whole group is safe 😭

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

The false flag attack on the Jewish ambulances in Golders Green, London has backfired massively. Because now people are asking why Jews in London have separate ambulances.

And once they start digging they’ll find out they have special police vehicles too

Dear oh dear.