Here’s a post from 2016 — shortly after my journey with Palestine began.
It was the moment I realised I hadn’t just been misled about Palestine…
I’d been misled about Islam and about Muslims as a whole.
Looking back, I feel deeply sorry — and honestly embarrassed — that I carried so much ignorance for so long.
These books marked the beginning of a profound awakening for me.
A shift I never expected, but one that changed my life.
I wasn’t a religious person — far from it — but I decided to actually learn about Islam.
And for anyone wanting to do the same, I can’t recommend enough getting a translation with commentary. It makes a world of difference.
Islam isn’t something you just skim or read casually.
It’s something you study, reflect on, and come to understand with an open heart.
Here’s a post from 2016 — shortly after my journey with Palestine began.
It was the moment I realised I hadn’t just been misled about Palestine…
I’d been misled about Islam and about Muslims as a whole.
Looking back, I feel deeply sorry — and honestly embarrassed — that I carried so much ignorance for so long.
These books marked the beginning of a profound awakening for me.
A shift I never expected, but one that changed my life.
I wasn’t a religious person — far from it — but I decided to actually learn about Islam.
And for anyone wanting to do the same, I can’t recommend enough getting a translation with commentary. It makes a world of difference.
Islam isn’t something you just skim or read casually.
It’s something you study, reflect on, and come to understand with an open heart.
يقترب منخفض جوي قاسٍ من قطاع غزة بدءًا من الليلة وتشتد حدته يوم الخميس، فيما لا يزال عشرات الآلاف من النازحين في خيامٍ مهترئة بلا مأوى يحميهم. وتفاقم نقص الخيام البديلة والأرضيات والبنية التحتية والملابس الشتوية معاناة العائلات، خاصة الأطفال، الذين يواجهون البرد والمياه والوحل دون الحد الأدنى من الأمان أو الإغاثة.
Pep Guardiola:
"The world has left Palestine alone. We’ve done absolutely nothing. They’re not at fault for being born there. We’ve all allowed them [Israel] to destroy an entire people."
"The damage is already done and it’s irreparable. I can't imagine a person in this world who could defend the massacres in Gaza."
"Our children could be there and murdered just for being born there. I have very little faith in leaders. They do whatever it takes to stay in power."
Martyr Leader Yahya Sinwar:
“Does the world expect us to be well-behaved victims while we are getting killed? For us to be slaughtered without making a noise?”
today is the one year anniversary of Sinwar's martyrdom. The genocidal Zionist death-cult had to call in reinforcements from the air and tanks as he kept fighting them off until the end. They then foolishly published the drone footage thinking it would humiliate him, show him as weak in his final moments, but instead it immortalized him. It showed that to the last, with an incapacitated arm and without any weapons, he still resisted, picking up a piece of wood and hurling it at the Zionist drone. A symbol of Palestinian resistance to genocide that will be emulated across the world and live on forever.
We have lost too many Journalists in Gaza.
This video of Saleh Al-Jafarawi and Anas Al-Sharif celebrating the first ceasefire breaks my heart.
May God have mercy on their souls 💔
❤️🩹One of the last videos of martyred journalist Saleh al-Jaafarawi shows him smiling as he helps children take turns to wear his press vest. “I’m raising the next generation,” he says. “Even if they target us, the children will take our place and continue this mission."
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This was Saleh, the dreamer, the one most of us never had the honor of seeing.
He had dreams like everyone else in Gaza. He was a ranked player in table tennis. He loved to sing and made songs before and during the genocide. He memorized all 600 pages of the Quran and loved Islam and he loved God. He was a Youtuber who started his journey on Youtube back in 2020 where he vlogged his life, added his songs, and showed the beauty of Gaza.
Saleh Aljafarawi, for 27 years of his life, lived under a brutal occupation whose only mission was to kill more Palestinians and steal more Palestinian land.
For two years, he starved with his people as he reported on limbless and bloody dead children, night and day. He ran towards airstrikes. He ran towards blood.
Saleh’s name in Arabic means “virtuous” and “righteous.” What a virtuous and righteous man this world has lost. He woke up millions of people to the ugliness of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and the greed and evil that runs our world.
He died telling the truth. Western journalists live to tell lies.
Palestine is bigger than just Palestine. Palestine is for every person who believes in freedom.
Saleh’s death will not be in vain. Glory be to the martyrs. Free Palestine. Free us all.
Videos are from Saleh’s Youtube Page