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22 year old Muzzie LDN dude currently living in SUOMI!
If you ask me:
what is your nationality?
where do you live?
where are you from?
and where were you born?
you get 4 different countries
1st generation refugee but Palestinian by choice.
Part of the ummah since Tupac shakur's 19th birthday & I legit have no clue where life is taking me.
CONTENT: complaining about shit, music(mostly M.I.A), Loling at imaginary things like "reverse racism" and "misandry", palestine, Islam and news
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"
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fun fact: iraq, pakistan, afghanistan and saudi arabia have a higher percentage of women in the government than the us & the uk
another fun fact: white people tend to get very angry when you point this out to them
Muslim women who choose to wear the Hijab but are also Athletes of the fiercest kind.
Hijab is not a disability.
Many people equate the Hijab with being oppressed. But do these women look oppressed to you?
my mom told my aunt to leave her house this summer because she saw the hijab as a thing of oppression and not at the fact that these women were kicking some ass in their sports.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009. The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki.
“jihadist language”
“muslim appearance”
BBC being racist as per usual
bourgeois broadcasting corporation
riding your man like
right in the fucking childhood
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How you going to tell me to forgot about colonization when my grandfather and step-grandfather lived and worked under French rule?
same with my grandparents in yemen, british rule smh.
my grandfather and everyone before him under british rule
I’d honestly say we’re still being colonized. The thing about colonialism is that it always adapts to its time period, and is presented in a relatively acceptable way to the masses.
It’s just much easier and more lucrative to prop up puppet governments and integrate our economies in ways that benefit primarily our colonizers. As an example, the West’s monopoly on Arab Gulf states oil.
What do you do when a man is killed in the streets where you live? According to some wonderful humans, you call for the mass slaughter of all those who practice the same religion that the killers may practice!
Well this is horrifically offensive.
I’ve been harping on this subject a lot lately, but I feel like somebody has to. The fact that Khan has been changed to a white man is quietly being accepted, and the performance lauded. I’ve seen people trying to say JJ did a good thing by taking color out of the equation, and that they are tired of POC being cast as the villains.
Do people not realize the history that was made when Khan appeared on network television? Let’s look at what was going on around the time Khan made his debut on network TV.
- August 28, 1963: 20,000 blacks and whites gather at the Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches against racism; among them is Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream.”
- June 12, 1963: Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers is gunned down outside of his home. His killer is not convicted until the year 1994.
- Summer 1964: The Mississippi Summer Freedom Project begins; civil rights workers help blacks register to vote. 3 are killed and many black churches and homes are burned in retaliation.
- August 4, 1964: Civil rights workers James E. Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.
- March 7, 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. leads a 54-mile march to support black voter registration. They marched from Selma to Montgomery.
- June 12, 1967:Banning interracial marriage is ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court.
- July 1967: More race riots occur in Detroit and New York; they are the worst riots in US history and result in 43 Detroit deaths.
- April 4, 1968: While outside his home, Martin Luther King Jr. is murdered by James Earl Ray; riots broke out in 125 cities in response.
“Space Seed” premiered on television in February of 1967, right smack dab in the middle of all this. Before Khan, Star Trek included a black woman, and Asian man, and a Russian character as main parts of the crew on the Enterprise. All three had vitals roles on the ship, and Captain Kirk looked to them for answers, and trusted them to help him complete his mission.
Do you not realize how huge this was? This was something people had never seen before, and to date, still don’t see it all that often. This broke the ground for so many of the actors and actresses we all know and love. This was history being made.
Then came Khan. While Ricardo Montalban was not a man of Indian descent, he was still a man of color. He was a man of color, playing a character that rivaled Captain Kirk. He was a character that commanded respect and admiration from those around him, because he was smart, cunning, charismatic, and powerful.
Khan Noonien Singh was a man that could out think and out muscle any person on the Enterprise. To state it more simply, a man of color was more powerful and more intelligent than all the other men and women aboard the Enterprise. Without Marla McGivers help, Kirk would not have been able to stop him.
A man of color would have defeated the crew of the Enterprise were it not for a guilty conscience and the use of a club. Khan’s strength could have easily overpowered Kirk’s, and it would have, had he not hit him over the head with a heavy tool.
This is what makes Khan more than the stereotypical POC villain. Khan is super human. He is created to be stronger, faster, smarter and better than a normal human being. He rises above the stereotype because he is BETTER than all aboard the Enterprise.
On top of that, a white woman falls in love with a man of color. In 1967. She gives up everything she’s known to be with him. The fact that Khan was a POC, and he was far more powerful and far more capable than all the others makes him stand apart from your stereotypical role POC are given when they play the part of the villain.Khan is an icon of television for being a groundbreaking character in the middle of our Civil Rights movement, just like Uhura and Sulu are.
Would you be okay if someone changed the race of Uhura or Sulu? I can’t see how you could be. There would be outrage from here to the moon if anyone tried to cast either of them as anything other than an Asian man, and an African American woman.
Yet with Khan, because he’s the villain, people think it’s okay to erase what he was because of what we’ve gone through over the past decade or so. Don’t you see? It’s because of that that Khan should have been cast as a man of Indian descent, as his biography clearly states he is. I know Ricardo was not Indian, as I’ve stated before, but back then getting POC on TV in roles that were main parts of the story wasn’t as easy as it is now. That’s why this is even more inexcusable. There is nothing to stop Paramount or JJ Abrams from casting any person from any ethnicity on the planet, and they chose to take one of the most iconic roles that belonged to POC, and give it to a white man.
It’s like taking the history of Star Trek, taking all the things it did to pave the way for so many people by refusing to stick to what was accepted, and throwing it in the mud. Everything about Star Trek was promoting acceptance of those different than ourselves, whether those people were green skinned aliens, or African American, or Asian.
Look at all the POC on TV or in movies today. Who do you think started the path to stardom for them? Who do you think started chipping away at those barriers that would have prevented them from becoming big name stars in the media?
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Gene Roddenberry, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Ricardo Montalban.
Now, after reading all of this, if you can look me in the eye and still tell me you see nothing wrong with the fact that a white man is playing the role of Khan, well then, I guess that’s the opinion you’re going to stay with.But my hope is that maybe, just maybe, you can see why there are people out there who are so upset, and why the silent acceptance of this casting choice needs to be stopped.
Stay safe for the next couple of weeks after what happened today, there will be so much more anger towards us. I ask every brother to look out for our sisters, even if you do not know them look out for them they need our help in this time.
To the man who attacked the British soldier with a knife saying it is “an eye for an eye” saying you were on some sort of jihad, I hope you realise you have endangered us all due to your stupidness. To add to this our Beloved Prophet (sawa) would not condone you hacking an unarmed man to death, no matter if he is a soldier or not.
Please stay safe, and if any of you are in the Wales area and you don’t feel safe just let me know I will make arrangements for you Insha’Allah.
May Allah (swt) watch over us all in the weeks to come. Ameen
Body Count by Religion- has Islam historically been the cause of most world violence and conflict?
Results of a study done by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute in Amman, Jordan- on the death toll for both violence in general and specifically, genocide (from 0-2008 BCE).
The study found that Muslim societies/governments were responsible for less than 6% of violence in general historically, and less than 8% of genocides historically.
and they say we’re the terrorists… smh
In March, Colorado came close to becoming the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, but the bill failed after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a possible veto. A few months later, Coloradoâs death penalty is still firmly in place, and the state is poised to complete what would be only the […]
im still laughing at this
