Men: “When girls go out wearing tiny, tight, skimpy outfits… they could choose something less provocative, so they’re basically asking for it.”
So by that logic, if I see you out in public without protective headgear, does that give me the right to smash your head? I mean, you chose not to protect yourself, right?
That’s how absurd that reasoning sounds when you apply it anywhere else.
Forensic labs have a chemical test that tells whether blood at a crime scene came from a wound or from a period. Period blood fails it. They're two different fluids. Nearly half the proteins in menstrual blood don't exist in the blood running through your veins.
Only about a third of what gets shed during a period is actually blood. The rest is uterine tissue, mucus, and vaginal fluid. And the blood portion itself doesn't clot. The protein that normally handles clotting is missing, and the fluid carries other enzymes that break apart any clot trying to form.
Composition varies a lot between women. The total is around 36% blood on average, but a 1985 study of 28 volunteers measured individuals ranging from 1.6% to 81.7%. The rest is the shed uterine lining, mucus from the cervix, and fluid from the vaginal walls.
In 2007, researchers found stem cells in menstrual fluid. Adult stem cells, collected from the lining the uterus sheds each month. They grow faster in the lab than bone marrow stem cells, survive 68 rounds of division without developing genetic errors, and can be turned into neurons, heart cells, cartilage, bone, or pancreatic cells.
Clinical work followed. In 2020, a trial in China gave these stem cells to 26 severely ill COVID patients and used 18 others as a comparison. Mortality in the treated group was 7.69%. In the comparison group: 33.33%. A late-stage trial at Iran's Avicenna Research Institute completed a study using them to try to restore fertility in women whose ovaries were barely producing eggs. In January 2024, the FDA cleared Qvin's Q-Pad, a device that runs the standard diabetes blood-sugar test (HbA1c) on period blood instead of a needle draw. The readings line up with traditional blood tests almost identically.
Menstruation itself is rare in the animal kingdom. About 98% of mammal species don't menstruate. At all. They reabsorb the uterine lining each cycle instead of shedding it. Only primates, a few bat species, the elephant shrew, and one kind of spiny mouse actually bleed. And this trait evolved independently three separate times in different branches of the mammal family tree.
The leading theory for why: the uterus lining acts as a screening layer. Somewhere between 30 and 60% of human embryos get discarded before a pregnancy is even recognized, often because of genetic errors, and menstruation appears to be the body's way of doing that filtering.
It’s fine for the US to close Cuba’s and Venezuela’s waters, and it’s fine for Israel to close Gaza’s waters, but if Iran blocks the countries that waged war against it from the Strait Of Hormuz, that’s unacceptable?
The UN couldn't do it. NATO didn't try. China stayed quiet. Pakistan walked into the most dangerous standoff since the Cold War and said: we have a plan. The world is now waiting on the Islamabad Accord. No more questions about Pakistan's relevance. It's going to be blockbuster.
As a child, I wondered why Allah created jahanam if He is Ar-Raheem. Now after seeing the cruelty if this world I understand that His mercy is infinite, but so is His justice
When Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in year 1998, the economy was in dire straits. Pakistan was down to only $600 million in foreign exchange reserves against an outstanding foreign debt of $38 billion. Pakistan would have defaulted under the economic sanctions imposed by the US before the Saudis chipped in.
To ease the economic pressure, Saudi Arabia agreed to a three year plan to accept deferred oil payments from Pakistan in 1998.
According to a western diplomat, the Saudis after three years of deferred payments practically wrote off the payments.
In 1998, according to Guardian when the Saudis bailed out Pakistan, oil prices had fallen to $10 a barrel and “the Saudis had an unprecedented budget deficit and even had to borrow money”
Prince Turki bin Faisal once described the relations between Pak and KSA as “probably one of the closest relationships in the world between any two countries”.
Men have the same rights no matter where they go in the world. A woman's rights depends on the country she lives in or the religion she follows.
Read again.
Spain & Italy - two non muslim countries - did not allow their airspace to be used to bomb Iran.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan - alleged Muslim countries - allowed thier land & airspace to be used to bomb Iran - a Muslim country.
Never forget that.