Akachief

Wer anderen eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein. Dummheit schafft Freiheit

[The Gulag @WelcomeTheGulag]

Michael Parenti spent his life ripping the mask off propaganda

"The third world is not poor. It's plundered"

[Hooman Majd @hmajd]

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman quoting Shakespeare was not on my bingo card today.....

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with the Lebanese leader Saad Hariri in 2010 in Tehran, Hariri wanted to talk about the disarmament of Hezbollah.
Khamenei asked Hariri if he had read Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hariri had not.
Khamenei told him that the character Esmeralda always carried a knife or a dagger to protect herself. Esmeralda is wanted, just as Lebanon is, by everyone, including Israel.
Hezbollah, Khamenei said, is Esmeralda's dagger. Why would you want to remove it from her?

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

🚨REVEALED🚨 Secret night-time shipments are happening of High Explosives manufactured by a foreign arms company in an Australian government-owned facility — approved for export and headed ultimately to Israel to kill Palestinians.

Excellent reporting from @DaveMilbo for @shot_au:

“Australia is manufacturing the raw explosive that ends up inside the bombs falling on Gaza, on Lebanon, and on Iran. 

“Not the entirety of the bombs. Just the explosive bits. And even Penny Wong wouldn’t have the gall to argue that nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and RDX (known as cyclonite) are the “non-lethal parts” of a bomb. 

“Two factories, one in NSW, at Mulwala, and one in Victoria, in Benalla, manufacture the munitions that end up inside the shells, bullets, missiles and bombs used by the US-Israeli death machine in its expansionist, genocidal campaigns.”

https://t.co/jfccmy697Q

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

@cenkuygur @benshapiro One state solution, Palestine only

[Zaira⭐ @_zayeraw]

Indians are such a weird nation they support israel for killing human babies and scream their heads off watching cows slaughter.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Yusuf Ma Dexin, a Hui Chinese Hanafi-Maturidi scholar from Yunnan, was known for his expertise in Arabic and Persian languages and profound understanding of Islam. He was also known as Ma Fuchu in Chinese.

In 1841, Yusuf Ma embarked on the Hajj pilgrimage, his departure from China caused disruptions due to the First Opium War. He accompanied a contingent of Muslim merchants who traveled overland, crossing the Sipsong Panna and then a riverboat journey along the Irrawaddy River. They were allowed to embark on a vessel from Yangon, which took them to the Arabian Peninsula.

After performing Hajj and visiting holy cities of Makkah and Madina, Yusuf Ma remained in the Middle East for eight years. He studied at al-Azhar University in Cairo and explored the Ottoman Empire, visiting cities like Suez, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Cyprus, and Rhodes. He died in 1874.

© History of Hajj

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Good Job!

[MUSAFIR. @Peoplepower08]

Hey @PetaIndia, you hypocrites! Silent for years on India's daily animal torture & cruelty,
—
but loud when it fits your agenda?
ever posted THIS brutality? cowards!

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

There was no such thing as the “Byzantine empire.”

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Watch these two videos side by side:

In the first video, a Muslim Woman, travelling alone in a train from Silchar, Assam was abused, body shamed and insulted in a very deragotary way by common Hindus. Her bag was searched for meat items.

In the second video, MEA Secretary, Sibi George says,

"...We are one sixth of the total population of the world, but not one sixth of the problems of the world. We have a constitution which guarantees the fundamental rights of the people. We have equal rights for the women of our country, which is very important...We believe in equality, we believe in human rights...If anyone whose rights are violated, they have the right to go to court...We are proud to be a democracy..."

Haath kangan ko aarsi kya?
Padhe likhe ko Farsi kya!

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

This clown, Sibi George represented India at Norway today. Sit down, buffoon. Don't embarrass the name of India.🤬

[RT @RT_com]

ISRAELI REPORTER: Iran terror regime controls Hormuz… Trump said… US would have been in danger… you don't believe Trump?

TUCKER: I don't believe Trump…. pause before using phrase terror regime since you live in a country that just MURDERED thousands of children in Gaza

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

@HPhobiaWatch We have not talked on the phone.

[Usama ki Memes @Usamakimemes1]

Too late motherfucker

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Hezbollah vs IDF in the past few days.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

📍🇱🇧 NEW Hezbollah footage has dropped

[Lebanon_John @Lebanon_John]

Isaac newton's book on optics is almost entirely plagiarised from this guy

[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.