@maya276309 @TheCradleMedia Algeria population 1954 : 9,4M
Algeria population 1962 : 11,9M
+25% in 8 years. First genocide in History making the population growth
I wish if I had never spent any time or energy on politics in this world of hate & division.
I wish if I'd remained in the world of mathematics, engineering & poetry.
I chose none of this. All I did was get born on the wrong side of the apartheid fence for my life, my childhood & my loved ones to be stolen from me.
I count my age by how many Israeli wars I survived, how many times I almost died, how many times my family's been displaced... My earliest childhood memory is an airstrike, my second earliest memory is checkpoints, IDF soldiers, shouting, cursing, pointing guns at us... children!
My conversations with Gazans friends, even before Oct 7, are almost always about how their lives have been ruined & their future robbed from them. How they fight everyday the hardest they can to just live, but get crushed every time. How they are terrified of dying before ever having gotten one chance to experience living, just living!
My entire being is under assault. I have to maintain an encyclopedic memory of facts, dates, numbers, names, historical milestones, article headlines, page numbers in books, verbatim quotes at the tip of my head at all times, to fight the vilest of propaganda & the worst of racists, or else I'll be dehumanized & blamed for everything they've done to me.
I have to keep calm at all times, be a moderate, a peacenik, a pacifist, a perfect victim to earn the right to speak, to earn mere crumbs of sympathy, or else I'm a radical extremist who "deserves it"! (There's never such a thing as a perfect victim. A victim is a victim no matter what until the oppression done to them ceases).
I tell myself after this war, I'll either do a Gaza-centred Phd to spell everything in my head out on paper or I'll become an organic farmer & never look back at politics.
But I know, with Israel undeterred, coddled, flooded with arms, celebrated, & blinded with arrogance & a sense of invincibility, there will be another war & another one & another one...
Generations of us destroyed b/c of politics. The very thing I hate. The very thing imposed on me. They very I'm stuck with... until when?
@SubboorAhmad "in London, at a legitimate institution" is so ridiculous 😂😂, apparently the institution you're using is illegitimate, and Birmingham is not plausible unfortunately - too far for Mr Farina
@FatimaBarkatula 😂😂 They're acting like they've never adhered to anything that makes them do anything ever. The lengths they'll go to be hateful is ridiculous 😂
The tolerance boundary of secular and liberal power is manifest in its relationship with ethnic and religious minorities. They are only respectfully tolerated as secularised, ideologically dominated subcultures. Anything more is unacceptable. Boundless tolerance does not exist.
@FennellJW@FatimaBarkatula Not quite, the term secular does not necessarily exclude the freedom to practice ones religion. A school could offer a strictly secular education (as every state school does), but can also allow students to pray during their breaks, as is normative in workplaces in the Uk also.