The West was incensed when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.
Crickets as Israel blows up a UNESCO heritage site in Lebanon.
Hamas handed Israel 66 boxes each one containing the skull of a hostage
They then returned the bodies of female hostages cut open with their organs removed
Wait that was actually the IDF not Hamas
Let me know if you still feel as sick and enraged as you did 10 seconds ago
So Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, throw gasoline through a window onto a baby, nearly burning the young child alive, and beat a pregnant woman with stones.
Zero Western media coverage.
The complicity runs so deep...
I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.
I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.
I was looking for my family.
My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.
I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.
I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.
Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.
It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.
The realization stayed with me.
Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.
I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.
It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.
Karen Armstrong says:
“We never read that Christ ever laughed, but we often find Muhammad smiling and joking with those close to him. We see him playing with children, disagreeing with his wives, weeping bitterly over the death of one of his companions, and proudly showing off his newborn son like any doting father. If we could look at Muhammad as we look at other great historical figures, we would surely see him as one of the greatest geniuses history has ever known.”
— Karen Armstrong, Prophet Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet (1991).
İslam tarihi açısından büyük bir keşif:
Medine bölgesinde yapılan arkeolojik kazılarda, İhlas Süresinden ayetler bulunmuş. Ve tarihlenmesi Kur’an’ın Hz. Osman döneminde bir araya getirilmesinden öncesine dayanıyor.
Yani Kur’an’ın metninin değişmediğini gösteren önemli bir buluntu.
Ayrıca Hz. Ömer’in halifeliğine dair de pek çok yazıt var.
“Allah Ömer ibn Hattab’ın bu dünyada ve sonrakinde dostudur”
A striking archaeological discovery announced by the Saudi Heritage Commission consists of a rare historical inscription that reads:
"Allah is the guardian of Umar ibn al Khattab in this world & the Hereafter, & there is no god but Allah."
Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allah.
The same Israelis yelling "there are no innocents in Gaza b/c they voted for KHAMAS" are the ones now saying "Ben Gvir doesn't represent us, we're innocent!"
Who voted Ben Gvir into office then?
Yes, the Ben-Gvir video is disgraceful. But that's not the issue. The (obvious) issue is that if that's how nonviolent European protesters are treated in public, any person with a brain can imagine how Palestinians are treated behind closed doors. *That* is the real scandal.
Israeli soldiers in their own words:
‘He grabbed a woman, young & good looking, went into a house, prepared a bedroom and wanted to f*** her.’
‘The girl came back half dead, like a rag.’
This is the barbarism that created Israel. And now your tax dollars go towards arming it.
Public, shameless, and blatant about their intent to wipe out their neighbors. Imagine any other entity or state saying this out loud about anyone else.