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We may agree to disagree, without thinking less of each other!

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

BIG NEWS: I just signed and filed a discharge petition to force a floor vote on my legislation to permanently block Trump’s $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund for his January 6 private militia and family-sized Super Pardon.

I'm calling on all members of Congress to sign on. We can stop this self-dealing scheme and stand up for the taxpayers.

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

Ich bin im Iran aufgewachsen. Deshalb sehe ich Ashura nicht als harmlose Folklore.

Wenn Kinder schon im Grundschulalter stundenlang an Trauerprozessionen für imaginäre Gestalten teilnehmen, mit Ketten marschieren und von klein auf mit Märtyrertum, Blut und Leid sozialisiert werden, prägt das ihr Weltbild nicht gerade positiv oder lebensbejahend.

Die Prozession im Video ist noch eine zensierte Version. Gebt einmal „Ashura Lebanon“, „Ashura Pakistan“ oder „Ashura Bloody“ ein und schaut euch die unzensierten Selbstverletzungsrituale an, die im Nahen Osten veranstaltet werden.

Eine morbide Kultur, die Leiden sakralisiert und die Welt in absolute Kategorien von Gut und Böse aufteilt, fördert ein extremes Schwarz-Weiß-Denken statt Empathie und kritischem Denken.

Genau diese Symbolik wurde von der Islamischen Republik über Jahrzehnte hinweg genutzt, um Generationen für Opferbereitschaft, Märtyrertum und ideologischen Gehorsamkeit zu mobilisieren.

Um diese Rituale zu verstehen, muss man auch die islamische Eschatologie kennen.

Nach klassischen islamischen Überlieferungen kehrt Jesus, den Muslime ʿĪsā nennen, am Ende der Zeit zurück. Er zerbricht das Kreuz, tötet das Schwein und hebt die Jizya auf – die islamische Kopfsteuer, die historisch von nichtmuslimischen Schutzbefohlenen erhoben wurde –, weil nach dieser Vorstellung nur noch der wahre Glaube, der Islam, herrscht. In der Zwölferschia unterstützt Jesus zudem den Mahdi und betet hinter ihm – ein symbolischer Ausdruck dafür, dass der Mahdi die führende Gestalt der Endzeit ist.

Was die theologisch und kulturell mangelhaft gebildeten westlichen Steigbügelhalter der Islamisten – darunter häufig sogar Kirchenvertreter – ignorieren, ist, dass diese Eschatologie keine religiöse Koexistenz beschreibt, sondern den endgültigen Triumph des Islam über andere Religionen.

Nach den klassischen Überlieferungen endet die Geschichte nicht im Pluralismus, sondern in der suprematistischen Herrschaft des Islams.

Zusammen mit dem Märtyrerkult von Kerbela bildet diese Endzeiterwartung einen zentralen Bestandteil des religiösen Weltbildes, das die Islamische Republik seit Jahrzehnten politisch instrumentalisiert.

Zwar lehnen Sunniten Selbstgeißelungsrituale überwiegend ab; die grundlegende Endzeiterwartung – die Rückkehr Jesu, die Zurückweisung zentraler christlicher Glaubensvorstellungen und der endgültige Triumph des Islam – wird jedoch sowohl von Sunniten als auch von Schiiten geteilt. Die Unterschiede betreffen vor allem die Rolle des Mahdi. Beide Traditionen münden letztlich in die Vorstellung einer kompromisslosen islamischen Vorherrschaft.

Es ist ein dunkles Weltbild, das den Tod als Erlösung und Belohnung verklärt, während es das irdische Leben abwertet.

Nur wer hier widerspruchslos gehorcht und leidet, wird später belohnt.

Und genau darin liegt der destruktive Kern dieser Ideologie.

Am Ende müssen wir uns auch fragen: Wenn genau diese religiös-politischen Vorstellungen weiter gepflegt werden – warum suchen ihre Anhänger ausgerechnet im Westen Schutz? Vor wem fliehen sie eigentlich?

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

77 years of ‘genocide’ and the Palestinian population has grown from under 1 million to over 5 million.

Israel must be the most incompetent genocidal nation in history.

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

@talk_angels @PatrickCPresent Beeker is slow..

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

@DucksNPucks This trade justified Verbeek for me. Poehling was such a great fit and Q certainly sprung his potential.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

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And there’s still millions of Epstein files

[sylvie 😈 @SassyGirlBoss]

dear god, my president is a child rapist!

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

The post above is an example of Holocaust denial.

See our page debunking many deniers’ lies.

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Learn about strategies employed by Holocaust deniers to spread misinformation and falsehoods.

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Denial of the existence of gas chambers is a disgraceful assault on the memory of all those people: Jews, Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and all other victims. It is also a slap in the face to those prisoners who risked their lives to document and convey the truth about German crimes, as well as to the Survivors who still bear the trauma of their personal experiences.

Holocaust denial has nothing to do with the truth. It is a mendacious conspiracy theory. A dangerous & hideous carrier of antisemitism & hatred that hurts people. Deniers harass & insult the memory of the victims.

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

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[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

@AdamFly96727825 What do you think Thomas goes for by himself?

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

@AdamFly96727825 Laughing at mcqueen being traded... but who knows? 🤔

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[Better America Voters @KRDemocracy]

@FoxNews @TreyYingst

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: A massive civil war has reportedly emerged within the New York Times, with many journalists questioning the credibility of Kristof’s piece.

One NYT journalist stated: “I am sick of being embarrassed by the Opinion section.”

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

@PatrickCPresent @TheHockeyNews Welcome back!

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

@PatrickCPresent Will miss your work but most glad that everyone is ok.

[Ari @ariels123]

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[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

I cannot believe we have to do this.

The New York Times, the paper of record, just published an op-ed accusing the State of Israel of systematic sexual violence against Palestinian detainees, including the claim that Israel is training dogs to rape prisoners.

One of their sources is a man who left his job after multiple people, including minors, accused him of sending them threatening and sexual messages.

The other is Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a group whose chairman was sanctioned by Israel as a Hamas operative and who publicly called the testimonies of Israeli women raped on October 7th “fabricated lies.”

The Times is using the words of a man credibly accused of sexually harassing children, and an organization led by a man who denies the rape of Jewish women, to build a case that Israelis are sexual predators.

This is the most serious accusation you can level at a country. It demands the most serious sourcing. The Times decided the opinion section was good enough.

It is not good enough.

And spare me the crocodile tears. The same people who spent two years calling the rape victims of October 7th liars, who told us “believe women” had an asterisk when the women were Jewish, are about to share this op-ed with tears in their eyes. They never cared about sexual violence. They cared about who they could pin it on.

I do not want to spend my day writing about this. But when the largest newspaper in the world launders this against my people, silence is complicity.

@nytimes owes our community, and its readers, an apology.

[JL 🍉🍒🏖🇺🇦 @Pharmspice]

@theliamnissan They removed this picture when I posted it in the comments.

[Trover Maker @TroverMaker]

Twitter wouldn't let me repost this, unless i "quoted" it... shenanigans