“I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me.”
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil speaking before she was killed by Israel.
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This should be a MAJOR story. Someone shot a bullet at Sabah Mooswi, a Muslim organizer with Dallas Shias for Justice & Palestinian Youth Movement. The bullet went through her car & into her child’s car seat as she was leaving a protest.
"What have the Muslims ever given us?"
Well, apart from algebra, hospitals, universities, paper manufacturing, modern optics, surgical instruments, astronomical tables, navigational advances, Arabic numerals, public libraries, pharmacology, coffee, family morality, prophetic theology, and of course the preservation and development of Greek philosophy that sparked the Renaissance...
...what have the Muslims ever given us?
40-year old Khalil Jamil Al-Masri. There’s a video circulating online that I don’t want to share that shows his gruesome headshot murder by an Israeli quadcopter as he sat in a cafe. Israel’s entire existence is predicated on eliminating him and hundreds of thousands like him.
Kikuyu Tribalists are now saying and trying to convince Kenyans that paying with cash and mpesa withdrawal is illegal and tax evasion. Why does CBK print notes if using them to buy a boxer in Eastleigh is tax evasion?
John Cleese was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and original comedians of his generation, and would have been remembered as a legend of intelligent wit and original script had he simply not devolved to be so full of hate recently.
Sadly, as he reaches his ninth decade and hence in what is most likely the last years of his life (and perhaps his age is an excuse...), he has become a bitter xenophobe spouting the most crass anti-Muslim stereotypes and regurgitating the worst caricatures of our faith that the Far Right can come up with. For the last few months, he has been on a literal crusade against Islam, and seems to refuse any sensible engagement with Muslims online or in person.
But Cleese is (or was) too intelligent to believe such lies; a simple dialogue or search would clear up these misconceptions. It's obvious his emotions have gotten the better of his intelligence.
To answer this simple garbling of facts:
No one is saying that the early Islamic empires expanded through friendly persuasion alone; they politically expanded through military conquest, just as virtually every major empire in history did. The more relevant question is whether people were converted by force. On that point, the historical evidence is quite clear. Egypt, Persia, and other regions remained largely non-Muslim for centuries after conquest, while the world's largest Muslim populations today—such as Indonesia—became Muslim without invading armies. So the historical record points to a distinction between the spread of Muslim political rule and the spread of the Islamic faith itself. Any fair assessment should recognize both.
More importantly, are you willing to apply your critique to your own civilization? Have you forgotten Britain's colonial history, and its boast of having an empire on which the sun never set, controlling over a quarter of the earth's population, subjugating hundreds of millions of peoples and fleecing the economies of many civilizations by force? Not to mention the entire mess of the modern Middle East...of which the lion's share is the direct fault of Britain with its Sykes-Picot agreement and Balfour Declaration?
All civilizations acted with a level of political force to protect their interests, but some left greater and more noble legacies than others.
Withdrawing from an Mpesa agent - Not illegal
Buying goods in cash - Not illegal
If whatever they're doing is not illegal, hii conversation mnafaa kupeleka KRA, sio Eastleigh.
I never knew withdrawing from a registered Mpesa agent was illegal? 😂 If you can’t withdraw your cash or do shopping with cash on hand then kindly don’t go to EASTLEIGH. It’s that simple
We are not shocked that after the Somali referee was denied entry into the United States, the next convenient story is now trying to link him to Al Shabaab.
This is the same old script powerful countries use whenever they need to justify humiliation, discrimination, exclusion or violence against people they have already decided to punish.
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when America needed a war, and Libya was presented as a humanitarian rescue before the bombs fell and the country collapsed into chaos.
Whenever they need public sympathy for a questionable decision, they first manufacture a security cloud using words like terrorist, extremist, threat, militant links and national security concern.
Those labels are designed to make ordinary people stop asking questions, because once someone is branded a security risk, many people assume there must be something hidden.
If there is real evidence against the referee, let them produce it openly and allow the world to examine it instead of hiding behind vague border language.
If there is no evidence, then they should stop using security propaganda to cover a broken, humiliating and discriminatory visa system that treats Africans like suspects.
Africa has watched this movie before, and every time the powerful side needs an excuse, the script somehow ends with fear being manufactured.