Josefa de Óbidos,Transverberation of Saint Teresa, c.1672
It depicts St. Teresa of Ávila experiencing a spiritual ecstasy known as transverberation, where an angel pierces her heart with a divine lance.
I'm an ex Muslim who grew up in Saudi Arabia and this is absolute bullshit. No one I ever knew was taught about conquest and takeover. This is pure fearmongering to spread hate.
What we were mostly taught is how to avoid sinning and how to pray correctly.
NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.
The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.
This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.