February 2012
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Behind every picture there's a story
Remember that when you reblog a picture of a dead body
Remember that when you reblog a picture of the twin towers where over 3,000 human beings died
Remember that when you reblog a picture of a child holding a gun
Remember that when you reblog a picture of a human being in a war zone, a war that is forgotten by people, by the same people reblogging a picture of it
Remember that when you reblog...
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Britain leads dash to explore for oil in war-torn... →
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25th February, 2012
Government offers humanitarian aid and security assistance in the hope of a stake in country’s future energy industry.
Britain is involved in a secret high-stakes dash for oil in Somalia, with the government offering humanitarian aid and security assistance in the hope of a stake in the beleaguered country’s future energy industry.
Riven by two decades of...
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“No one questioned ‘who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Bosniak’ we were all...”
– Josip Broz Tito
(via mojadjevojka)
I’ve tried to abstain from adding my two cents on this but I just have to say that if we truly believe we were “one” as Tito himself claimed then the wars after his death would never have broken out. We tolerated each other during his rule,...
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Roma
The Roma have been persecuted & racially abused throughout both eastern, central & western Europe. The “problem” with Romas isn’t about which parts of Europe treats them the worst, it’s about basic human rights the Roma can’t enjoy because of racist Europeans.
The Roma have been killed by “Germans and their allies around 25 percent of all European...
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How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
mehreenkasana:
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can...
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“But an educated woman, I suppose, can’t resist the temptation to correct an...”
– Malcolm X, Autobiography (via thalamtnafsee)
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Bismillah.
Dear furture me, remember to read this when you feel like giving up, when ever those thoughts you dislike flow through your mind, when ever that happens remember this, read it & cheer up.
This life is a test
“And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient” [2:155]
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arsalan.: A rant about Quran burnings →
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Oh, those barbaric brown people, murdering our heroic soldiers over burnt pieces of paper! We shouldn’t have to apologize for their ignorance; I’m so sick of having to bend over backwards for these people who are always trying to kill us.
Comments like these always pop up after Quran burnings. And I don’t know if it stems from willful arrogance or actual ignorance, but I just can’t...
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FYI →
morgandria:
I see a lot of names come across my dashboard these days. And I’ve seen enough of one word to feel the need to say something.
Gypsy is a racist ethnic slur. G~ is not shorthand for ‘bohemian’, ‘wanderer’, ‘free-spirit’, or ‘fortuneteller’.
It is a vile word, applied as a pejorative term to the Roma people for generations.
Have a look at some other ethnic slurs it keeps company...
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~ انتفاضة: 23 February: World Chechnya Day →
intifadat:
On 23 February 1944, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush population to Central Asia. More than half of the 500,000 people who were to be forcibly transported died in transit or in massacres committed by Soviet troops. Those who survived the journey were left facing starvation and disease in the harsh winters of Siberia and Central Asia. Within days an...
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Daisy Khan and Fazeela Siddiqui: Training Afghani...
On Nov. 17, 1999, the world witnessed a horrific image: An Afghani woman named Zarmina was dragged through a soccer stadium and killed by the Taliban. As a Muslim woman, the outrage that I felt was indescribable. Islam teaches hope, mercy and love and in no way condones the violence depicted on my television that day. The outrage that I felt propelled me to do something. Therefore, in 2005 I...
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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Israelis Celebrate Death of Palestinian Children...
If these revelers of the death of children were Palestinian or Muslim you can rest assured that Islam would be blamed!
If one were to employ the cynical and faulty methodology of Islamophobes one could easily find verses in the Bible justifying their happiness with the tragic deaths of the Palestinian Children, “happy is he who dashes children on the stones.”
Israelis celebrate death of...
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Afghanistan: Seven Children and One 18 Year Old...
NATO says found Afghan children dead after air strike
By Rob Taylor and Mirwais Harooni
KABUL (Reuters) – NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they found the bodies of dead children after a coalition air strike that has enraged the Afghan government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area.
The air strike took place last Wednesday near...
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Being an immigrant
People used to ask me how I learned Danish & if I remember how it felt to learn a new language. I can’t remember & I still can’t. But I do remember my sister who was bullied in school because she didn’t know how to speak the language & I do remember how sad she was because she didn’t have any friends, because she was an immigrant & couldn’t speak the...
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WatchDR Congo: The forgotten war.
“The death toll from the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the highest ever attributed to war in Africa or anywhere since WWII. At least 3 to 4.7 million deaths have occured in the past 7 years. Aid agencies say that war-related hunger & disease continue to kill 1,000 people everyday.”
Please read A brief history of...
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