This should be recognized for what it is: a terrorist attack rooted in Islamophobia. Anti-Muslim propaganda radicalized these teens into carrying out this atrocity. May Allah have mercy on the victims and preserve San Diego’s Muslim community. Āmīn.
Amin Abdullah.
He stood his ground so others could make it home safely.
When gunmen opened fire outside the Islamic Center of San Diego, Amin protected the community until his final moments. Police say his actions prevented the attack from becoming far worse.
Support Amin’s family with funeral costs, immediate household needs, education for his children, and long term financial stability.
May Allah accept him amongst the martyrs and grant patience to his loved ones. 🤲
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#aminabdullah
Brother Amin Abdullah was the guard at the mosque in San Diego for years. He was instrumental in stopping the shooters from reaching the children today. This was his final post on FB. On these holiest days, may Allah have mercy on him and accept him as a martyr. Ameen
Hands off the Flotilla.
I urge Mediterranean states to protect the civilian vessels that are trying to break Israel's genocidal siege on Gaza, and also do what the Global Sumud movement is trying to do:
-Break the siege.
- End complicity with Apartheid.
- Make justice happen.
I’m seeing this video circulating these day on X. Yes, it never gets old.
This is part of the interview I did in May 2025. I traveled to NYC for a pre-taped interview on MSNBC’s Weekend Primetime to discuss my Pulitzer Prize. I arrived ready to speak about my essays, my life in Gaza, and the mounting losses my wife and I had endured. However, the conversation didn’t start there. That was only the second question I was asked.
The months following that interview brought even deeper grief. In August 2025, my wife lost her father in an Israeli strike. Just a month later, Israel killed my second cousin along with his wife and their four young children, aged ten, six, four, and two.
Between October 2023 and May 2026, my wife and I lost over a hundred relatives.
And we are still asked to humanize our murderers.
And still, academic institutions and other bodies continue to penalize and condemn us simply for speaking out against these heinous crimes.
Shame on you! I will not bend, I will not bow, and I will not break.
#تحديثات |
أفادت مؤسسة “عدالة” بعد زيارة لمحاميها لمركز احتجاز “شيكما” أن ناشطي أسطول الصمود العالمي، تياغو أفيلا وسيف أبو كشك:
- يتعرضان لسوء معاملة وانتهاكات نفسية داخل العزل وتهديدات مباشرة بالقتل أو السجن الطويل خلال التحقيق.
- يخوض الناشطان إضرابًا عن الطعام لليوم السادس احتجاجًا على احتجازهما بعد اعتراضهما في المياه الدولية أثناء مهمة إنسانية لكسر حصار غزة.
- تشمل الانتهاكات إبقاء الزنازين مضاءة على مدار الساعة، ودرجات حرارة شديدة البرودة، وتعصيب الأعين حتى خلال الفحوصات الطبية.
- يركّز التحقيق على نشاط الأسطول، في مؤشر على محاولة تجريم العمل الإنساني.
نطالب بإطلاق سراحهم فورا ووضع حد لإرهاب الاحتلال
“If they can do this to us, they can do it to anyone.”
Believe it. We were stopped at sea—4,000 km from Israel.
Unarmed. Civilian. International waters.
If this is allowed, no one is safe.
Dal carcere, Thiago ha dettato questa lettera al suo avvocato:
“Cara Teresa,
mi dispiace non essere a casa con te in questo momento.
Purtroppo tuo padre, tua madre e tante persone in tutto il mondo hanno compreso il compito storico che abbiamo la responsabilità di portare a termine.
Oggi più di un milione di bambini stanno subendo un genocidio: vengono lasciati morire di fame, subiscono amputazioni senza anestesia e soffrono a causa di idee orribili e cariche di odio, pur non sapendo cosa siano il sionismo e l’imperialismo.
Sono certo che ti manco moltissimo; anche tutte le madri e i padri dei bambini palestinesi sentono terribilmente la loro mancanza e darebbero qualsiasi cosa per poter vivere una vita fatta di amore, felicità e gioia, quella che ogni essere umano merita, indipendentemente da razza, religione, etnia o qualsiasi altra caratteristica.
Il tuo mondo sarà più sicuro perché molti genitori hanno deciso di dare tutto per costruire un futuro migliore per te.
Spero che un giorno tu possa capire che, proprio perché ti amo così tanto, non c’era nulla di più pericoloso per te e per gli altri bambini che vivere in un mondo che accetta il genocidio.
Ti prego di ricordare tuo padre come la persona che ti cantava e suonava la chitarra per farti addormentare. E quando crescerai, la tua mamma ti dirà anche che tuo padre era un rivoluzionario e che, anche di fronte alle persone più terribili del mondo, Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu e Itamar Ben-Gvir, è rimasto saldo nella convinzione di costruire un mondo migliore.
Per favore, non dimenticare la Palestina.
Con tutto il mio amore,
Thiago Ávila”
Thiago Avila — a young Brazilian who refused to stay silent — has now joined three different flotillas to break the blockade on Gaza.
Each time, the price gets higher.
Last time, he left solitary confinement with severe skin diseases.
This time, he’s back behind bars — held in isolation alongside Saif Abu Keshk — facing physical and psychological abuse.
His “crime”?
Trying to bring hope to a besieged people.
Today, his detention is being extended through arbitrary court decisions.
Not because he’s guilty — but because he won’t give up.
This isn’t just his story.
It’s a test of our humanity.
Will the world stay silent… again?
#WeWillNotLeaveGazaAlone
#BreakTheBlockade
#FreeThiagoAvila
Thiago Á. & Saif A. have been kidnapped, mistreated, arbitrarily detained, to punish them and crush the growing solidarity movement against Israel's genocide in Palestine. Do not let it happen!
Demand their freedom and freedom for all Palestinian hostages!
#FreeThiago#FreeSaif
Brain scans are revealing early dementia-like changes in kids and teens from heavy screen use.
60 Minutes Australia reported toddlers spending just 2–3 hours daily on devices already show abnormal white matter development. Teens averaging 6–8 hours display widened brain ridges and thinning in key areas — patterns that mirror early Alzheimer’s.
Excessive screens appear to weaken neural pathways that normally strengthen through real-world movement, play, and face-to-face interaction.
We’re also seeing the first IQ drops in recorded history, plus a nearly 400% rise in early-onset dementia signs among 35–44 year olds. Correlation, not proven causation — but devices are the major new variable.
This is one of those reports that makes you rethink default habits. The convenience of screens is undeniable, but the potential long-term brain impacts on developing kids are hard to ignore.
We may be unintentionally running a massive experiment on the next generation’s cognitive health.
Are we underestimating the risks of heavy screen time, or is this concern overblown?
🚨HEARTBREAKING: A message from journalists who have become paralyzed and confined to wheelchairs on World Press Freedom Day, after being directly targeted by the Israeli army in Gaza‼️
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.
On the first day of the unprovoked US-Israeli War on Iran, the Pentagon launched a double-tap Tomahawk missile strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, obliterating the building and slaughtering 155 people — 120 of whom were small children
With the Trump administration still refusing to acknowledge its role in the worst US military massacre since My Lai, The Grayzone’s @wyattreed13 went to Minab to investigate the scene of the crime firsthand