"I privately explained that, because of views she has publicly and repeatedly expressed regarding Israel and Palestine, I did not feel comfortable personally promoting her involvement."
Northern Irish actor Gerard McCarthy will leave a London play because Dame Maureen Lipman was cast.
Lipman, 80, is Jewish and has a prolific acting career spanning nearly 6 decades in British theater and television. She has also been a vocal supporter of Israel and opponent of rising antisemitism.
I guess McCarthy realized they could get more attention by bowing out "to help Palestinians" than they ever would by acting next to such a star ⭐
@ahmedi07763717@PortalWarszaws1 Sorry, aber ich verstehe es komplett, dass er nicht von seiner Frau getrennt werden wollte und dann noch nicht mal mit Vorwarnung oder einem einfachen "Servus" zurück!
Das Verhalten einfach unmöglich vom Bergführer und am Ende sogar kriminell!
#NEPAL: This is incredible. 1,643 children survived because one headmaster acted fast when disaster was already on the way.
He received a warning that a village upstream had been swept away by the river. He immediately rang the school bell and moved the children and teachers to higher ground.
School buses were on the way to school, He called the bus drivers and told them: "Don't come here. Go back."
One school bus was already on its way. The headmaster saw it approaching the bridge and told the driver to turn back. The bus reached safety just before the bridge collapsed.
Then the flood hit the school. The entire three-storey school was washed away. It completely vanished. Not even a trace was left behind.
But all 1,643 children survived.
47 year old Rajendra Dadabi a teacher who became a hero when it mattered most. One man's quick thinking saved 1,643 lives.
@ItzBlondiebitch So, you're also German? Maybe you should know that some of your answers are criminal in Germany!
If you live in Ireland, just stay there! We don't need your antisemitic ass here!
The Persecution That Doesn’t Make the Headlines
I am a Muslim convert to Christianity. I lived for 15 years as a Christian believer in Morocco, much of that time in what we called the underground church.
Listen carefully, because this is what “moderate Islam” looked like for us:
Morocco is considered one of the most moderate Muslim countries. That is true compared with Mauritania and Libya, where converts from Islam face the death penalty, or Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Pakistan, where converts face imprisonment, torture, intimidation, or severe persecution.
But here is the reality of “moderate” Morocco.
We gathered secretly in homes every Sunday because churches were for foreign Christians, not Moroccan converts. We sang in low voices so the neighbors would not hear us. We arrived two at a time to avoid suspicion. If anyone asked, we pretended it was simply a gathering of family and friends.
We baptized converts in bathtubs.
I was baptized in a bathtub myself. A missionary and a few Moroccan Christians were the only people present.
We kept our house churches small, usually fewer than twenty people. When they became too large, we split them. Christmas and a few special occasions were exceptions.
Police raided Christian gatherings, confiscated Christian materials, dragged believers to police stations, interrogated them, threatened them, and humiliated them with vulgar language.
Our children had to go to school and study Islam and memorize the Quran even though their parents were Christians.
We could not freely give our children Christian names. The government did not need to write “Christian names are forbidden” in bold letters. The authorities simply refused to register them.
Our marriages were treated as Islamic marriages under Sharia because the Moroccan state refused to recognize us for what we actually were: Moroccan Christians.
A Moroccan Christian woman could not simply marry a foreign Christian man as a Christian. He had to establish before the authorities that he was Muslim because, according to the government, she was still a Muslim.
The state decided our religion for us.
Even death did not end it.
When a Moroccan Christian died, he was buried in a Muslim cemetery under Islamic rituals because the government still considered him Muslim. I remember one Moroccan Christian who died in Tangier. We had to do the impossible to get his body to Ceuta so he could receive a Christian funeral.
Imagine having to smuggle your religious identity across a border just to be buried according to your own faith.
We could not establish our own legal Moroccan churches. We could not get permission to build even one church for Moroccan converts. Our house churches were illegal gatherings. We lived at the mercy of the police. Any meeting could be raided. Any neighbor could report us.
Foreign Christians had churches.
Moroccan Christians had secrecy, whispers, living rooms, bathtubs, police interrogations, and fear.
And then Muslims lecture the West about “Islamophobia.”
Spare me.
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@zellieimani So true- Arabs stole Jewish land, suddenly became “Palestinian” in 1964 then claimed they were the indigenous people . It’s time to go back to Jordan and Egypt
To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.
I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.
Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.
Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.
I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.
And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk
@bauernhofkatze Wieso sollte man dabei nicht zufrieden sein? Verstehe den Post nicht ganz...
Bin gerade in Elternzeit (3 Jahre insgesamt) und war noch nie glücklicher in meinem Leben 🙋🏼♀🤷♀️
@RenateKuenast@SturmDaniel Sag mal... hat sich dein Ehemann auch eine neue Elite herangezüchtet mit deinen Stiefkindern? Und was ist mit deinen Nichten/Neffen? Auch herangezüchtete Elite?
Oder gilt das nur für Schwule 🤔?
@Greenwud2@OrangeManJr Dass du von Tod sprichst, ist ironisch... Willst du lieber, dass dein Kind oder ein anderes stirbt?
Lass dein Kind impfen, sodass es selbst oder ein anderes nicht Gefahr läuft durch verhinderbare Erkrankungen zu sterben.
Reicht das nicht als Motivation?
@Greenwud2 Ich bin sehr dankbar dafür, dass mein Kinderarzt alle nicht geimpften Kinder mit einem Jahr rausschmeißt! Die müssen nicht andere Kinder, die nicht geimpft werden können, weil sie zu jung oder krank sind, gefährden! Vor allem, wenn es um Masern geht, habe ich 0 % Toleranz!
Meanwhile in Dearborn, Muslims are reportedly demanding that churches stop ringing their bells on Sunday.
“This is a Muslim-majority city and you have to respect us. According to Sharia, church bells cannot be louder than our Islamic call to prayer.”
Do not give them an inch!
@PatzkeMarkus Eine Freundin musste in die Uniklinik in Köln und hatte ihr Neugeborenes dabei. Im Zimmer waren es bestimmt 35 Grad warm, nach ein paar Stunden war die Kleine total überhitzt. Im Zimmer gegenüber eine alte Frau, die aussah als würde sie gleich das Bewuastsein verlieren...
@ainyrockstar Ich werde das so machen 🙋🏼♀️
Am liebsten direkt hintereinander. Kein Job der Welt könnte könnte mich auch nur ann��hernd so glücklich machen.
Erschreckender Bericht einer Leiterin von Integrationskursen!
„Irgendwann verliert das Land sich selbst“
"In meiner Erfahrung sind etwa 40 bis 50 Prozent der Kursteilnehmer zwar physisch anwesend, aber ihnen fehlt jede Motivation. Einige verstehen sehr schnell, dass es möglich ist, zum Kurs zu gehen, die Teilnahme quittiert zu bekommen und sofort wieder nach Hause zu gehen, ohne Konsequenzen fürchten zu müssen. Jeder Teilnehmer darf 30 Prozent der Kurszeit fehlen, ohne dass etwas passiert. Erst bei längeren Fehlzeiten fragt das Jobcenter nach. Mehr passiert aber nicht: Der Kurs wird weiter finanziert, die Wohnung weiterbezahlt.
Auch wer die Prüfung nicht besteht, hat kein Problem – ihm wird einfach ein neuer Kurs angeboten. So können Migranten unzählige Monate in Integrationskursen verbringen, alle Jobangebote ablehnen, ohne auch nur einen Schritt aus dem eigenen Kreis herauszuwagen, in dem ausschließlich die eigene Muttersprache gesprochen wird.
Die Integrationskurse werden staatlich gefördert, liegen aber in den Händen von Trägern, die kein echtes Interesse an Integration haben. Deren Interesse liegt darin, Geld zu verdienen und weiter vom Staat finanziert zu werden."
https://t.co/YWoYjEIQM4