“Azerbaijan, shame, shame! Hands off our hijab!”
Muslim protesters rallied outside the Azerbaijani Embassy in London to condemn the country for imposing a hijab ban in schools.
The ban has forced young Muslim pupils to choose between their faith and their education. Reports also claim that some teachers who refused to abandon their modest dress were sacked.
The policy has sparked significant protests inside Azerbaijan.
Now it is official.
"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"
(UN Human Rights Council)
Just imagine for a moment if the Iranian president stood up at the UN, imagine if Ahmadinejad had come to the UNGA, and said: “Do I annihilate the Jewish state, and do it quickly? Do I drive Israel into hell?”
Imagine the Western and global and media response and outcry.
Ben Gvir is posting videos showing off the execution chamber where he will exterminate thousands of Palestinian hostages.
Imagine if Hitler broadcast videos of his gas chambers to gloat like this.
Hatred and bigotry against Muslims is reaching levels of insanity in America.
Our Masjid, @epicmasjid, offers free basic healthcare to anyone who walks in, and we fund it ourselves, while our doctors volunteer their time. Yet, even this act of basic humanity is turned around and used to weaponize anti-Muslim sentiment.
By the way, the existence of this clinic is in fact a manifestation of the very 'Shariah' that these people are trying to ban!
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 HOLY SHIT: Joe Kent just revealed the last thing Charlie Kirk said to him:
“The last time I saw Charlie Kirk on this Earth was in June, in the West Wing. He looked me in the eye and he said: 'Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran.'
And then he’s suddenly publicly assassinated and we’re not allowed to ask any questions about that? The investigation that I was a part of [with] the National Counterterrorism Center, we were stopped from continuing to investigate. But there was still a lot for us to look into that I can’t really get into.
We know, because of the text messages that have been made public, that Charlie was under a lot of pressure from a lot of pro-Israel donors.”
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
I don't even know what to write about this one.
What am I supposed to say? "Hey everybody, they're lying to us about this war"? Everyone already knows that. Even the people who support this war know all the justifications for it are lies.
They know Iran isn't building nukes.
They know Iran poses no threat to the United States.
They know all that bullshit about Iran cutting out women's wombs and murdering tens of thousands of protesters was evidence-free atrocity propaganda.
Nobody needs me to tell them these things. Nobody needs me to tell them that this war is going to kill a whole lot of innocent people and inflict unfathomable amounts of suffering upon our species, both directly during these attacks and indirectly in the chaos and instability ensuing thereafter. Everyone already knows this.
Everyone already knows this, and it's happening anyway. They're just doing whatever evil things they want to do, without the slightest regard for public opinion or consent.
They're just going right ahead with a military operation to topple Tehran, after decades of inertia for fear of the horrific consequences it would unleash.
They're just choking off Cuba using siege warfare, which previous presidents refused to do because it would be a monstrous act of war.
They just kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation, which previous administrations had refused to do because it's plainly against international law.
They just helped Israel turn Gaza into a gravel parking lot and are now building a giant dystopian tech surveillance encampment to imprison the survivors.
They just designated an American company a "supply chain risk to national security" for the first time ever because the AI firm Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its technology to operate autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens — an open admission that the Pentagon plans on using AI to run autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens.
There's an old Frank Zappa quote that's been popping into my head more and more lately:
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
We're seeing a lot more bricks lately.
That's all I can think to say right now.
You Know They're Lying About Iran
You’ve seen this all before. They run the same script over and over again. You know all the beats. The formula never changes.
Reading by Tim Foley.
In a world that grows numb to cruelty, be like Ahmed al-Ahmed, who ran toward danger to protect life.
That is Islam.
We mourn the victims of today’s attack in Australia and pray for safety and sanity everywhere.
May those who murder while cloaked in power or false righteousness leave no legacy worth repeating.